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”
Showing Nature the wonders of Nature,2016, Video
Why is the internet so slow
Why is the internet so slow
encounter;IMG38, 2016, video
Jungle is Massive, installation shot
Jungle is Massive, installation shot
Jungle is Massive, installation shot
Jungle is Massive, installation shot
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
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.
CV
EDUCATION
2016 Parsons the New School for Design / MFA Fine Arts / New York, USA
2004 University College Falmouth, Fine Art BA(HONS), UK
SOLO
2021 Nuimono / 2-16 / Okayama, JAPAN
2012 The sea of ice / BALANCE / Okayama, JAPAN
2012 white on white / ART GARDEN / Okayama, JAPAN
2011 who is it wears the mask / HARMAS GALLERY / Tokyo, JAPAN
2010 Ryota Sato Exhibition / S.V.A / Stroud, U.K
2007 Atomatics / Okayama Tenjinyama Cultural Plaza / Okayama, JAPAN
GROUP
2023 Signals From / Two-person exhibition with Shan Turner-Carroll / The Lock-up / Newcastle, Australia
2019 Immersion Grade / Two-person exhibition with Tegan Moor / VIVO Media Arts Centre / Vancouver, Canada
2017 Site After Sight / Two-person exhibition with American Artist / SLEEPCENTER / New York, USA
2017 Phantom Pains / Two-person exhibition with Tao Xian / Gallery 456 / New York, USA
2017 I-shi prize / Okayama city museum / Okayama, Japan
2017 Let me go, father / Gallery MC / New York, USA
2016 Black Sun Belows Under the White Sun / Fukiage Museum of Art / Okayama, Japan
2016 I Can Because you Do / Participant Inc / New York, USA
2016 #F*nked! / Kansas City Art Institute Dodge Painting Gallery / Kansas City Art Institute / Kansas, USA
2016 Okayama I shi Prize / Okayama Tenjinyama Cultural Plaza / Okayama, JAPAN
2016 Introduction / Trestle Gallery / Brooklyn, USA
2015 Let me show you my topia / Sawtooth ARI Gallery / Tasmania, Australia
2015 ATAVAST / Room service gallery / New York, USA
2015 In Between Abstraction / Bluewolf / New York, USA
2014 I shi prize / Okayama Prefectural Museum of Arts / Okayama, JAPAN
2012 Living Places / HARMAS GALLERY / Tokyo, JAPAN
2011 Art Now Okayama / Okayama Tenjinyama Cultural Plaza / Okayama, JAPAN
2011 Red Thread / Michael Tippet Centre Gallery,Bath Spa University / U.K
2011 Okayama I shi Prize / Okayama Tenjinyama Cultural Plaza / Okayama, JAPAN
2010 ULTRA 03 / SPIRAL / Tokyo, JAPAN
2010 10th S.I.C.F / SPIRAL / Tokyo, JAPAN
PRIZE / OTHER
2017 Artist in residence program / Vermont Studio Center / Vermont, USA
2011 I Shi Prize, Honorable Award
2010 Artist in residence program / S.V.A / U.K
2009 Artwork featured on the cover of the new edition of Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami.
CURATION
2019 My Favorite Things by Mensur Bojda / Gral Gallery / Skopje, Macedonia