Ryota Sato

Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
Signals From, Two person show with Shan Turner-Carroll, The Lock-up, Newcastle, Australia, 2023 Photo: Ben Adams
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Nuimono exhibition, 2021, 2-16, Okayama, Japan
Nuimono exhibition, 2021, 2-16, Okayama, Japan
Nuimono exhibition, 2021, 2-16, Okayama, Japan
Nuimono exhibition, 2021, 2-16, Okayama, Japan
Nuimono exhibition, 2021, 2-16, Okayama, Japan
Nuimono exhibition, 2021, 2-16, Okayama, Japan
Nuimono exhibition, 2021, 2-16, Okayama, Japan
Nuimono exhibition, 2021, 2-16, Okayama, Japan
Nuimono exhibition, 2021, 2-16, Okayama, Japan
Nuimono exhibition, 2021, 2-16, Okayama, Japan
Nuimono exhibition, 2021, 2-16, Okayama, Japan
Nuimono exhibition, 2021, 2-16, Okayama, Japan
Nuimono exhibition, 2021, 2-16, Okayama, Japan
Nuimono exhibition, 2021, 2-16, Okayama, Japan
Nuimono exhibition, 2021, 2-16, Okayama, Japan
Nuimono exhibition, 2021, 2-16, Okayama, Japan
Nuimono exhibition, 2021, 2-16, Okayama, Japan
Nuimono exhibition, 2021, 2-16, Okayama, Japan
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Veil of Vision,2020, Video
Sound: Chris Murty
Installation shot from Immersion Grade with Tegan Moore at VIVO Media Arts Centre, 2019 Photo: Dennis Ha
Installation shot from Immersion Grade with Tegan Moore at VIVO Media Arts Centre, 2019 Photo: Dennis Ha
Installation shot from Immersion Grade with Tegan Moore at VIVO Media Arts Centre, 2019 Photo: Dennis Ha
Installation shot from Immersion Grade with Tegan Moore at VIVO Media Arts Centre, 2019 Photo: Dennis Ha
Installation shot from Immersion Grade with Tegan Moore at VIVO Media Arts Centre, 2019 Photo: Dennis Ha
Installation shot from Immersion Grade with Tegan Moore at VIVO Media Arts Centre, 2019 Photo: Dennis Ha
Installation shot from Immersion Grade with Tegan Moore at VIVO Media Arts Centre, 2019 Photo: Dennis Ha
Installation shot from Immersion Grade with Tegan Moore at VIVO Media Arts Centre, 2019 Photo: Dennis Ha
Installation shot from Immersion Grade with Tegan Moore at VIVO Media Arts Centre, 2019 Photo: Dennis Ha
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Teaching a Plant the Binary, 2017, mixed media, 87” x 82” x 90”
Teaching a Plant the Binary, 2017, mixed media, 87” x 82” x 90”
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Vid 1, 2017, mixed media, 41” x 26” x 20”
Vid 1, 2017, mixed media, 41” x 26” x 20”
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The Roots of My Mother, 2017, mixed media, 85” x 40”
The Roots of My Mother, 2017, mixed media, 85” x 40”
 
Untiled, 2017, Silkscreen mesh, spray paint, computer parts, 37” x 25”
Untiled, 2017, Silkscreen mesh, spray paint, computer parts, 37” x 25”
 
Why is the internet so slow, 2016, mixed media, 78” x 85” x 72”
Why is the internet so slow, 2016, mixed media, 78” x 85” x 72”
Why is the internet so slow, 2016, mixed media, 78” x 85” x 72”
Why is the internet so slow, 2016, mixed media, 78” x 85” x 72”
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Showing Nature the wonders of Nature,2016, Video
Why is the internet so slow
Why is the internet so slow
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encounter;IMG38, 2016, video
Jungle is Massive, installation shot
Jungle is Massive, installation shot
Jungle is Massive, installation shot
Jungle is Massive, installation shot
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Untitled, 2015, Printed paper, Metal bar, Metal lines, fluorescent light, power cable, 96” x 45” x 15”
Untitled, 2015, Printed paper, Metal bar, Metal lines, fluorescent light, power cable, 62” x 45” x 15”
Untitled, 2015, Printed paper, Metal bar, Metal lines, fluorescent light, power cable
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Mr I exhibition, 2024, installation shot
Mr I exhibition, 2024, installation shot
Mr I exhibition, 2024, installation shot
Mr I exhibition, 2024, installation shot
Mr I exhibition, 2024, installation shot
Mr I exhibition, 2024, installation shot
Mr I exhibition, 2024, installation shot
Mr I exhibition, 2024, installation shot
Mr I exhibition, 2024, installation shot
Mr I exhibition, 2024, installation shot
Mr I exhibition, 2024, installation shot
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ABOUT

Ryota Sato

Ryota Sato (b. 1980, Okayama, Japan) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work questions how perception, recognition, and systems of knowledge shape our understanding of the world.

His practice explores the slippages between nature and culture, subject and object, surface and depth. He is particularly interested in how technologies of vision—such as cameras, screens, and documentary forms—mediate our sense of what is real, alive, or significant. Through constructed situations and quiet absurdities, his works destabilize familiar modes of seeing and invite viewers to consider how meaning is performed, assigned, or withheld.

Observation, in Sato’s work, is never neutral. It is a charged act—one that does more than capture. To look is to reach across a threshold, to name, to awaken. A thing, once noticed and recognized, begins to shift—it acquires weight, presence, even a kind of life. Meaning does not sit within the object, but flickers into being in the quiet tension between seer and seen. In that space, perception becomes a gesture of creation.

In addition to his artistic practice, Sato is active as a freelance creative director, developing concept-driven projects that move fluidly between art, design, and media.

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