1. HIROSHI SATO
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Artist Biography
Hiroshi Sato was born September 1987 in Japan. From the age of three to
fourteen he spent his childhood in Tanzania. While there, he recognized
where he lived was not home, and where he called home was some place
he hardly ever knew. From a very young age, he understood he was not a
participant of his surroundings. Therefore, his role was of an observer. This
recognition and his exposure to alternate cultures, class, wealth, language
is his backdrop to his interest in perception and how it is explored in the
singular image.
He enrolled in the fine-arts program at the Academy of Art University, San
Francisco, graduating with a Bachelors and Masters in Fine Art.
Hiroshi Sato is focused on contemporary realist oil painting. He is best
known for paintings of figures in an interior environment. He draws
influence from past and present artists including Vermeer, Degas, Andrew
Wyeth, Euan Uglow, Hopper and Chuck Close. Sato’s work shows his
interest in geometric design principles of the old masters and is currently
exploring the simultaneous illusion of form and flatness in space. His goal
is to portray, and better understand our various states of consciousness
within ourselves through the visual medium.
Hiroshi Sato’s work has been featured in various publications such as
Fine Art Connoisseur, Juxtapoz Magazine, Visual Art Source and Art
Business News Magazine.

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Hiroshi Sato
Born Japan 1987
Education
2015 Academy of Art University, MFA Painting
2012 Academy of Art University, BFA Painting
2006 Atlanta College of Art, Foundations
Solo Exhibitions
2014 “Windows and Doors”, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, California
2013 “From Dissonance”, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, California
2012 “New Works”, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, California
Group Exhibitions
2016 “Urban Life”, Abend Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2016 “Edge of Realism”, Abend Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2016 “Landscape Group Show”, Abend Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2016 “Contemporary Figuration”, Abend Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2016 “artMRKT”, artMRKT, Fort Mason, San Francisco, California
2015 “Art Silicon Valley”, San Mateo Event Center, San Mateo, San Francisco,
California
2015 “Summer Group Show”, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, California
2015 “Academy of Art University Spring Show Exhibition”, San Francisco, California
2015 “artMRKT”, artMRKT, Fort Mason, San Francisco, California
2014 “Art Silicon Valley”, San Mateo Event Center, San Mateo, San Francisco,
California
2014 “artMRKT”, artMRKT, Fort Mason, San Francisco, California
2014 “Moving Exhibition”, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, California
2013 “Help to Build a School in Myanmar Charity Auction by Lumas”, Artnet Auctions
2013 “Academy of Art University Spring Show Exhibition”, San Francisco, California
2013 “artMRKT”, artMRKT, Fort Mason, San Francisco, California
2013 ”20th
Anniversary Exhibition”, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, California
2013 “Nudes”, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, California

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2012 “Outliers”, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, California
2011 “Outliers”, San Francisco Design Center, San Francisco, California
2011 “Small Works”, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, California
2011 “Benefit Silent Auction”, STUDIO Gallery, San Francisco, California
2011 “Academy of Art University Spring Show Exhibition”, San Francisco, California
Awards and Honors
2014 The Artist’s Magazine Annual Art Competition Finalist, Portraits and Figures,
“Changing Tide”
2014 The Artist’s Magazine Annual Art Competition Finalist, Portraits and Figures,
“Sun”
2014 International Artist Magazine People and Figures Finalist, “Closet”
2012 Academy of Art, Spring Show Figurative 2nd
place
Select Press
Visual Art Source, Review by DeWitt Cheng, November 2014
Juxtapoz Magazine, November 2014
The Artist’s Magazine, Annual Art Competition, December 2014
International Artist Magazine, Challenge #82, People and Figures, #98
August/September issue, 2014
Fine Art Connoisseur feature article in Fine Art Today Newsletter “Hiroshi
Sato: Painting and Optics” July 2013
Art Business News Magazine, Top 30 artist under 30, Fall 2013
Southwest Art Magazine, 21 under 31. September 2011.
Online Press
Vanderbild, December 2014
http://www.thevanderbild.com/collection/on-the-verge/#.VXtF2WD3oZJ
Juxtapoz Magazine, November 2014
http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/hiroshi-sato-windows-and-doors-hespe-
gallery-sf

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Visual Art Source, November 2014
Review by DeWitt Cheng
http://www.visualartsource.com/index.php?page=editorial&pcID=17&aID
=2520
Art Business by Alan Bamberger, November 2014
http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/110614.html
Broadwayworld, November 2013
http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwart/article/artnet-Auctions-and-
LUMAS-Present-LUMAS-Charity-Auction-20131128#
Art Business News, October 2013
http://artbusinessnews.com/2013/10/hiroshi-satos-underneath/
You Called It, September 2013
https://youcalledit.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/hiroshi-sato
Fine Art Connoisseur, July 2013
Painting and Optics write up by Jeffrey Carlson
http://www.fineartconnoisseur.com/Hiroshi-Sato--Painting-and-
Optics/16899429
Art Business by Alan Bamberger, August 2013
http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/080113.html
SF Art Enthusiast, April 2013
http://sfartenthusiast.com/2013/04/photo-feature-hespe-gallerys-20th-
anniversary-exhibition/
Art Business by Alan Bamberger, June 2012
http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/060712.html
Faena Aleph, April 2012
http://faenaaleph.com/articles/hiroshi-sato-a-future-icon-of-japanese-
painting/
Figurative Artist, March 2012
http://www.figurativeartist.org/hiroshi-sato-illusions-of-form/

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Representation
Abend Gallery, Denver, Colorado
Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, California
Lumas, Berlin, Germany
www.hiroshisatoart.com