Katsuhiko Brian Sato // Japan
INSPIRATION: In 1994, I visited Bali. This trip inspired me to draw dark skinned woman. The idea of the dark-skin woman in these pieces came to me, when I looked up into the night sky which was full of stars, as I was listening to GAMURAN (Bali’s native music) in the darkness. That was the moment when I realized that world of imagination is the real world for me.
I see flowers as windows that represent places that are allow the entrance of symbols in into the world of imagination or non-reality that is so different from the “regular” world in which we live such a basic life. I prefer to work with acrylics as they seem to be the best medium in which I am able to project the image I wish to share with the world.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2010 Tower Records,Tower Books Tokyo/Japan
2010 Sakurazaka Art Gallery, Tokyo/Japan
2000 Lapnet Ship, Tokyo/Japan
1996 Kichijyouji Parco, Tokyo/Japan
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2010 4D7S Art Show, Sendai/Japan
2009 The Choice Awards, Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya/Japan
2008 Illustrative Zurich 08 at Messehallen Zürich (Halle 9) Zurich/Switzerland
The Choice Awards, Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya/Japan
2005 Pop Art under 1, 000, 000 at Gallery Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo/Japan
2003 The Haunted Dollhouse at Copro Nason Gallery LA / USA
Ed “Big Daddy “Roth Tribute Group Art Exhibition, at Copro Nason Gallery LA / USA
2002 Cannibal Flower Show at Gallery 835, LA / USA
2000 The Definitive Retrospective at Copro Nason Gallery, LA / USA
1997 The Choice Awards, Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya/Japan
1997 Urban art #5 at Shibuya Parco, Tokyo/Japan
1994 Christmas Exhibition at Gallery Sho Contemporary Art ,Tokyo/Japan
1993 Pop artist of present age of the United States, Germany, and Japan at Gallery Sho Contemporary Art ,Tokyo/Japan
AWARDS:
2008 The Choice Awards – Judge Noriyuki Kitsugi
2007 The Choice Awards – Judge Teruyuki Yumura
1996 The Choice Awards – Judge Tadanori Yokoo
PUBLICATIONS:
NUMBER , BURST ,SM SNIPER ,BARFOUT ,TV BROS
BACHELOR, BURST HIGH, TOKION, ILLUSTRATION,
TOKYO JOURNAL, HOT DOG PRESS COLOR ,STUDIO VOICE,
SAIZO,WIRED , BURNOUT, MP,
LAFORET HARAJUKU( XMAS LIVE POSTER)
FEATURES:
TOKION “In the land of Sato
BURST “Cocoa iro no Jidai ” (Life in times of the chocolate color)
Art ? Alternatives. No.9 (USA) “Life of Brian”
Tenjikan Tsuushin “From the place of the creation”
Liquitex “Liquitex Workshop”
CD COVERS:
ROLLY TERANISHI/JUNGLE BUDDA
AKIRA JINBO /PACIFICA
MAD 3/JUNGLE MUSIC FROM THE OUTER SPACE
ISIS/SUBMARINE TUNNEL
ISIS/KARAMAWARI
