佐藤 令奈
Haruna SATO

Selected Works

A sense of unity
A sense of unity
Oil on Canvas
45.5×38cm
2012
A dull gaze
A dull gaze
Oil on Canvas
65.2×53cm
2012
Face
Face
Oil on Canvas
33.3×33.3cm
2013
Soft and warm
Soft and warm
Oil on Canvas
90.9×72.7cm
2013
For baby
For baby
Oil on Canvas
120×120cm
2013
Soft and warm
Soft and warm
Oil on Canvas
120×120cm
2013
Hope
Hope
Oil on Canvas
164×130cm
2013
Hope
Hope
Oil on Canvas
164×130cm
2013
Soft and warm
Soft and warm
Oil on Canvas
41×41cm
2016
Soft and warm
Soft and warm
Oil on Canvas
31.8×41cm
2018
Soft and warm
Soft and warm
Oil on Canvas
53×53cm
2018
Soft and warm
Soft and warm
Oil on Canvas
53×53cm
2018
Secret & pleasure
Secret & pleasure
μ-Ground, Colored pencils,Pastel,and Emboss on
Colored paper
24.2×30.3cm
2020
Secret & pleasure
Secret & pleasure
μ-Ground, Colored pencils,Pastel,and Emboss on
Colored paper
24.2×30.3cm
2020
Secret & pleasure
Secret & pleasure
μ-Ground, Colored pencils,Pastel,and Emboss on
Colored paper
24.2×30.3cm
2020
Me no car
Me no car
Oil on Canvas
72.7×91cm
2018
Mellow
Mellow
Oil on Canvas
65.2×53.2cm
2018
Mellow
Mellow
Oil on Canvas
65.2×53.2cm
2018
Study -Dürer
Study -Dürer
Oil on Canvas
41×31.8cm
2018
Study - Michelangeo
Study - Michelangeo
Oil on Canvas
14×18cm×2
2018
Study - Michelangeo
Study - Michelangeo
Oil on Canvas
14×18cm×2
2018
Gradual-Collectivity
Gradual-Collectivity
Acrylic, Pastel on Canvas
180×90cm
2018
Gradual-Collectivity
Gradual-Collectivity
Acrylic, Pastel on Canvas
180×90cm
2018
She decided...
She decided...
Acrylic, pastel on board
27.3×27.3cm
2018
R&I#1
R&I#1
Pastel on Paper
54.5×38.4cm
2018
They are chained as mountains
They are chained as mountains
Pastel on Paper
27.2×38.2cm
2018
R&I#2
R&I#2
Pastel on Paper
24.9×17.8cm
2018
R&I#3
R&I#3
Pastel on Paper
24×17.8cm
2018
Shanghai#2
Shanghai#2
Pastel, Coloured pencil on Paper
15.2×12.7cm
2018
Shanghai#3
Shanghai#3
Pastel, Coloured pencil on Paper
15.9×12cm
2018
Shanghai#4
Shanghai#4
Pastel, Coloured pencil on Paper
15.2×11.3cm
2018
Shanghai#5
Shanghai#5
Pastel, Acrylic on Paper
12.8×7.5cm×2
2018
Shanghai#6
Shanghai#6
Pastel, Coloured pencil on Paper
11×17.8cm
2018
B.E#1
B.E#1
Acrylic on Paper
10.4×23cm
2018
B.E#2
B.E#2
Acrylic on Paper
22.6×10.5cm
2018
B.E#3
B.E#3
Acrylic on Paper
22.7×10.4cm
2018
B.E#4
B.E#4
Acrylic on Paper
22.9×10.3cm
2018
B.E#5
B.E#5
Acrylic on Paper
23×10.4cm
2018

Bio

Haruna Sato is a painter who treats the canvas like human skin, and whose paintings make viewers want to reach out and touch them. Not confined to depictions of babies and human bodies, her works are “slightly but quite different” based on her own awareness and resolve about the limited but definite change in and diversity of subjects. Her art rests on unswerving, distinctive “material” and “value”, thanks to these traits, her works manage to convey a fleshy blurriness and moistness imbued with a vital force, however, the motifs may differ.

Sato begins making works by applying oil-based paint to hemp canvas as if tapping it on. This tapping technique leaves subtle indentations in the paint, to which several types of warm-color paint are successively applied in the same manner. She then shaves the painted surface with sandpaper, carefully bringing out various layers of hues hidden beneath. Through this process of tapping and sanding, which requires the use of the artist’s physical skills, the texture of the canvas gradually approaches that of human skin.

Sato has remained very active and made outstanding strides since her selection for the Tokyo Wonder Wall Award in 2009. Then, she won the Nanjing International Art Festival Grand Prix, the Artist Sponsorship Award from the KAMIYAMA Foundation, and other awards. Her activities are hardly confined to Japan, she also took part in international art fairs in Taipei, New York, India, Seoul, Tokyo, etc.; she continued to participate in the Nakanojo Biennale (in Gunma Prefecture, Japan) and stage an elaborate exhibit.

  • 1984 Born in Tokyo, Japan
    2008 BA ( Oil painting), Tama Art University 
    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    
  • Selected Solo Exhibitions

    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)  
    「 Joint East Asian Project -Haruna Sato- 」 (PHILIP KANG GALLERY, Seoul South/ Korea) 
    2008 「 Temperature of skin」 (Gallery Art Composition, Tokyo/ Japan)
  • Selected Group Exhibitions

    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 
    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 Fair

    2018 Art Taipei(Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei)
    2014 New City Art Fair( NewYork/ 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

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