Hiroshi Sato
Hiroshi Sato was the 2020 Martin Shallenberger Artist in Residence. His residency was January 6 – January 31, 2020 and exhibition was February 1 – June 14, 2020 (the exhibtion was extended from February 1 – March 29, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During his residency, Sato created Large Still Life, a triptych oil on canvas of Cheekwood mansion’s drawing room. In the rigth corner, Sato depicted Martin Shallenberger (namesake of Cheekwood’s artist-in-residence program).
Hiroshi Sato was born in Gamagori, Japan. From the age of three to fourteen Hiroshi Sato lived in Tanzania, East Africa. In that period his world could be separated into three places. The first was the inside of the house, filled with stories of my parents, books and movies from the west. The second was the outside world of an alternate culture and landscape. The third was the place he was supposedly from, Japan. It was a place that mostly existed as a pseudo fictional place in his head, confirmed to be real by brief visits to Japan once a year. Hiroshi Sato returned to Japan for high school, flipping the three places around. The pseudo fiction becoming the real and the real world becoming memory. The idea of culture and class as relative to location was cemented as a fundamental aspect of the human condition in his perception of humans. Hiroshi Sato is interested in depicting our mind as a self contained world interfacing with the external world. The goal is to frame the moments of our life where this idea reveals itself to the perceiver. He enrolled in the fine-arts program at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco, graduating with a Bachelors and Masters in Fine Art. Hiroshi Sato is focused on contemporary realist oil painting. He draws influence from past and present artists including Vermeer, Degas, Andrew Wyeth, Euan Uglow, Richard Diebenkorn, Edward Hopper and Chuck Close. Sato’s work shows his interest in geometric design principles of the old masters Hiroshi Sato’s work has been featured in various publications such as Fine Art Connoisseur, Juxtapoz Magazine, Visual Art Source and Art Business News Magazine. (www.hiroshisatoart.com)
Hiroshi Sato was born in Gamagori, Japan. From the age of three to fourteen Hiroshi Sato lived in Tanzania, East Africa. In that period his world could be separated into three places. The first was the inside of the house, filled with stories of my parents, books and movies from the west. The second was the outside world of an alternate culture and landscape. The third was the place he was supposedly from, Japan. It was a place that mostly existed as a pseudo fictional place in his head, confirmed to be real by brief visits to Japan once a year. Hiroshi Sato returned to Japan for high school, flipping the three places around. The pseudo fiction becoming the real and the real world becoming memory. The idea of culture and class as relative to location was cemented as a fundamental aspect of the human condition in his perception of humans. Hiroshi Sato is interested in depicting our mind as a self contained world interfacing with the external world. The goal is to frame the moments of our life where this idea reveals itself to the perceiver. He enrolled in the fine-arts program at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco, graduating with a Bachelors and Masters in Fine Art. Hiroshi Sato is focused on contemporary realist oil painting. He draws influence from past and present artists including Vermeer, Degas, Andrew Wyeth, Euan Uglow, Richard Diebenkorn, Edward Hopper and Chuck Close. Sato’s work shows his interest in geometric design principles of the old masters Hiroshi Sato’s work has been featured in various publications such as Fine Art Connoisseur, Juxtapoz Magazine, Visual Art Source and Art Business News Magazine. (www.hiroshisatoart.com)
(Japanese-American, 1987 – )
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