Midori Sato

Midori Sato’s oeuvre is characterized by their emotional and bold brush strokes, as well as their combinations of lines and surfaces in vivid colors such as purple, yellow, pink, orange and blue. Painting on the canvas without a preliminary sketch, the artist deliberately leaves traces of the accidental bleeding of the paint and white untouched areas so as to convey the vast and far-reaching expanse of space. Full of the multilayered, free-spirited charm that only painting can offer, her works indeed serve to deeply stimulate our senses.

Although closets are Sato’s signature motif, she also explores simple, fundamental motifs that have long fascinated many, such as dresses, shoes, carpets, flowers, and fruit. Following her admiration for these things as well as her own sensibilities, she sublimates these motifs into a unique, elegant, and contemporary world of work while moving back and forth between reality and imagination.

Midori Sato was born in 1984 in Aichi Prefecture. She graduated from Oil Painting Course, School of Art, Nagoya University of Arts in 2008, and studied at Ecole nationale des beaux arts de Dijion, France as an exchange student. She received M.F.A from Graduate School of Tokyo Zokei University in 2010. She studied in Paris as a recipient of the POLA Art Foundation award for overseas research in 2017.

Sato’s recent major solo exhibitions include “Diaphanous petals” (Pola Museum of Art, Atrium Gallery, 2019) and “FLOW” (Gana Art Bogwang, Seoul, Korea, 2023), as well as her participation in the 2023 exhibition “Interior Visions: From Bonnard to Tillmans and Contemporary Artists” (Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan) together with her partner Yuichiro Moriyama.