Haruna SATO | 佐藤 令奈

Biography

1984 Born in Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
2008 Completed undergraduate studies of oil painting, Faculty of Visual Arts at Tama Art University
2018 Enrolled student in Master of Oil painting and Printing course, Aichi Prefectual University of Fine Arts, Aichi Japan
 
Solo Exhibitions
 
2018 Story of Skin, Shun Art Gallery, Shanghai China
2017 Slightly but quite different, Gallery KIDO Press, Tokyo Japan
2012 BABIES, Gallery Bundo, Deagu, South Korea
2011 Baby, born from mother, Ginza MITUKOSHI, Tokyo Japan
2010 TOKYO WONDER WAL 2009, Tokyo Metropolitan Gaverment Building, Tokyo Japan
                「-body?-」, Gallery Art Composition, Tokyo Japan
                Joint East Asian Project – Haruna SATO, PHILIP KANG GALLERY, Seoul, South Korea
2008 Temperature of skin, Gallery Art Composition, Tokyo Japan 
 
Group Exhibitions

2018   Wakaba Luster，Blue Roof Museum，Sichuang China
2017 Nakanojo Biennial 2017, Nakanojo, Gunma Japan
2016 Break Zen-Ya, Spiral, Tokyo Japan
2015 Nakanojo Biennial 2015, Nakanojo, Gunma Japan 
2014 Secret of Skin, Léonard Foujita×Haruna Sato, Ginza MITUKOSHI, Tokyo Japan 　
2013 Body: Glimpses of Nature of Mind, Shun Art Gallery, Shanghai China 
2011 Group Show, MYRA GALLERIES, Miami USA
2010 Lost Generation -What we have left behind, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo Japan
2009 TOKYO WONDER WALL 2009 Public-Entry-Admission-Works Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Japan 
2008 TOKYO WANDER SEED 2008 Selected Works, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo Japan
 
Art Fairs
 
2018 Art Taipei, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei China
2014 New City Art Fair, New York USA 
2013 India Art Fair, Delhi India
2011 ART EXPO, New York USA
2010 Art Fair Tokyo 2010, Tokyo Japan
                KIAF2010, Seoul South Korea
2009 KIAF2009, Seoul South Korea
 
Awards
 
2018  The 5th Annual Scholarship Student, KAMIYAMA FOUNDATION Artist Sponsorship Program
2015 Admitted to Nanjing International Art Festival
2009  TOKYO WONDER WALL Prize
2008  Admitted to TOKYO WANDER SEED

Impression

About the artworks “Soft and Warm”
 
Since 2008, I’ve been continuously created the artworks of “Soft and Warm” series. Infant’s pure and flawless is recognized by the people all over the world, which is beyond the values, birth, life background and other factors, like spontaneous and uncontrollable sigh. The baby’s pure serene sleeping brings the society peaceful, warm and even vitality. I think it will not have any negative factors.
 
I hope my baby series creation is our bond, from which we can find common thoughts and feelings to the world.
 
Blood vessels under the skin that are partly hidden and partly visible have some kind of pathetic vulnerability; on the other hand, the life temperature was produced due to blood circulation operation. So to what extent these two opposite things existing inside the human body can coexist and share with each other?
 
I mainly express human behavior, fetish, relationship and sense of distance by depicting human body.
 
By Haruna SATO