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Ataru Sato
Painter
Ataru Sato was born in Chiba Prefecture in 1986 and is currently based in Tokyo, Japan. In 2009, he graduated from the Advanced Art Course in the Department of Information Design, Faculty of Arts and Design at Kyoto University of Arts and Design. For Ataru Sato, drawing and painting are tools to chronicle and interpret the complexity of human life around him, exploring personal themes in strikingly honest and at times provocative imagery. He sees art as being created by people who are alive to express their lived experiences and has no aspiration to create art for art's sake, art that is novel, or art that seeks to be meaningful. In addition to his 2011 and 2015 solo exhibitions at Gallery Koyanagi, the artist has also held shows in cities such as New York and Brussels. The artist's major group exhibitions include "10000 Lives: The 8th Gwangju Biennale" (2010), "Yokohama Triennale 2011: OUR MAGIC HOUR - How Much of the World Can We Know?" (2011), "Inside" (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2014), "Interpretations, Tokyo" (Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019), "Dojima River Biennale 2019" (Osaka, 2019), "Yanbaru Art Festival" (Okinawa, 2023), and "LA MORSURE DES TERMITES" (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2023). Sato's works have been acquired by the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection and by Louis Vuitton Malletier.
WORKS
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First Love
2008 -
Adventure
2017 -
Gute Nacht
2020 -
24 Hours
2021 -
Over the burning rainbow
2023 -
Daily life
2023 -
Please make me happy
2024
