Satoshi Ohno was born in 1980 in Gifu. He received B.A. from Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo in 2004, and currently lives and works in Yamanashi, Japan.
He is based in the foot of Mt. Fuji, which embraces ocean of trees. It’s a harsh environment where life and death are repeated, but is also like a cradle and mother’s body that gives birth and nurture various lives. Inspired by the environment, his self-portraits and paintings depicting primeval forests evoke sharp and inherent human senses that are vitalized by the natural pressures felt from the wilderness. His “Prism” series depicts geometrical and man-made beauty as a symbol of the human civilization, and the aggressive and violent progress of the post-modern worldwide capitalism, yet exploring something simply beautiful at the same time.
His major solo exhibitions include “Prism Violet” at The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Hawaii (2007), “PROPHET” (2009) “BYE BYE SUNSET” (2013) “Sleep in jungle.” (2020) at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, “Beautiful Dreaming.”(2015) at 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery.
He has participated in many museum group exhibitions including “STANCE or DISTANCE? –Connecting Myself to the World.” (Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan, 2015), “Art Scope 2012-2014 – Remains of Their Journeys” (Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2014), “The Way of Painting” (Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, 2014), and “REAL JAPANESQUE: The Unique World of Japanese Contemporary Art” (National Meseum of Art, Osaka, Japan, 2012), “VOCA 2010” (The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 2010), “Fukutake House 2009: Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial” (ex Nagayama school, Niigata, Japan, 2009), “THE ECHO” (an annex to ZAIM, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, 2008).
His work is included in the public collections such as The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan, and National Gallery of Victoria.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 | “Flowers that bloom and disappear, the intoxicating smell of honey and lukewarm bare feet.” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
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2020 | “Sleep in jungle.” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2015 | “Beautiful Dreaming.” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2013 | “BYE BYE SUNSET” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2009 | “PROPHET” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2008 | “PHYSICAL TREE” magical ART ROOM, Tokyo, Japan |
2007 | “Armory Show” [Art Fair: Solo Exhibition at Tomio Koyama Gallery booth] New York, NY “Prism Violet” The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Makiki Heights, Honolulu, HI |
2006 | “acid garden” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
Group Exhibitions
2024 | “KOSHIKI ART 2024” Koshiki Island, Kagoshima, Japan “Rokko Meets Art 2024 beyond” Rokko, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan |
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2022 | "Jinan International Biennale" Shandong Art Museum, Jinan, Shandong, China “Current Grasping at Clouds: Works from the Hara Museum and the Hara Rokuro Collections” Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Gunma, Japan |
2021 | "CADAN Roppongi presented by Audi” Roppongi Hills café/Space, Tokyo, Japan |
2020 | “Face” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “LONELYLONELY RonyoriShoko” KOMAGOME SOKO, Tokyo, Japan |
2019 | “Tomio Koyama Gallery: Works from the Gallery Artists and the Collection 4” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2018 | “Photographs by 7 Painters” soda, Kyoto, Japan “Satoshi Ohno Studio Exhibition” Satoshi Ohno Studio, Yamanashi, Japan “Visions of Exchange Mercedez-Benz Art Scope Award 2009-2017” Daimler Contemporary Berlin, Germany |
2017 | “Group exhibition” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2016 | “IRRECONCILABLE” aura gallery beijing, China “JAPAN 7” SILVERLENS, Manila, Philippines |
2015 | “STANCE or DISTANCE? –Connecting Myself to the World.” Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan “Come after Magic” aura gallery taipei, Taipei, Taiwan |
2014 | “Group exhibition by Tomio Koyama Gallery” TOLOT/heuristic SHINONOME, Tokyo, Japan “Takahashi Collection 2014 Mindfulness!” Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan “Big Small Wide and Tall - Selection from the Hara Museum Collection” Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan “The Way of Painting” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan “Art Scope 2012-2014 - Remains of Their Journeys” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan “Collection Ⅱ” National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan |
2013 | “The Storm for Art and Popular Culture” Nagoya Citizens' Gallery Yada, Aichi, Japan “Takahashi Collection: Mindfulness!” Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan [traveled to Sapporo Art Museum, Hokkaido, Japan] “Why not live for Art? II -9 collectors reveal their treasures” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2012 | “Crystal Chaos” CUBE 1, 2, 3, Tokyo, Japan “REAL JAPANESQUE: The Unique World of Japanese Contemporary Art” National Meseum of Art, Osaka, Japan “Power of Painting” NADiff A/P/A/R/T, Tokyo, Japan |
2011 | “Temporary Exhibition: Art in an Office” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan |
2010 | “Painting by Four Artists” Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto, Japan “It Must Be Your Sexy Way” curated by Yaji Huang, AKI Gallery, Taipei “VOCA 2010” The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan “Power of a Painting” island, Chiba, Japan “Self Portrait -Others as Myself” Takahashi Collection Hibiya, Tokyo, Japan “camaboco” Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo, Japan |
2009 | “Being Seeing Feeling -Selections from the Hara Museum Collection” Hara Museum Arc, Gunma, Japan “Selections from the Hara Museum Collection: What's interesting about Japanese contemporary art?” Hara Museum Arc, Gunma, Japan “Fukutake House 2009: Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial" ex Nagayama school, Niigata, Japan “Koshiki Art Exhibition” Koshikijima Art Project 2009, Koshikijima community center, Kagoshima, Japan “neoneo Part1 [boys]” TAKAHASHI COLLECTION Hibiya, Tokyo, Japan |
2008 | “Selections from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection” Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan “THE ECHO” an annex to ZAIM, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan |
2007 | “ritual” Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan |
2006 | “WORM HOLE” magical ARTROOM, Tokyo, Japan “a magical art life” Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan “au courant,” Cayman Island National Gallery, UK |
2005 | “Nyukasho” PRAHA project, Free Space PRAHA, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan |
2004 | “Koshiki Art Exhibition” Koshikijima Art Project 2004, Koshikijima community center, Kagoshima, Japan |
Public Collections
Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
The JAPIGOZZI Collection
National Gallery of Victoria
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Ryutaro Takahashi Collection
Sigg Collection
Terumo Corporation
Toyota Art Collection