Moved to Italy with a scholarship from the Italian government
1996
Research in Italy under POLA Art Foundation Grants Programs (-1997)
2008
Research in New York under Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists provided by the Agency for Cultural Affairs (-2009)
2011
Stayed and worked at Vermont Studio as a Fellow of the Japan-US Foundation Grant
Based in Milan, Italy
Education
1989
B.A., Tama Art University, Tokyo
1997
Diploma, Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, Italy
Solo Exhibitions
2024
"Sky Studys" Presentation of Artist in Residence Programme, MACC - Museum of Contemporary Art of Calasetta, Calasetta, South Sardinia, Italy
2023
"A Jurnye of Mandarin orange" Art Lob. Nagano Prefectural Art Museum, Nagano, Japan
"L'autre face de la lune" Tomio Koyama Gallery Tennousu, Tokyo, Japan
"The Other Side of the Hand" Morioka Shoten, Tokyo, Japan
2021
"Strange Loop" Curated by Matteo Inocenti, La Porteria, Florence, Italy
"Visto da qui" Umberto Di Marino, Naples, Italy
2020
"Forest ball" DaiMaruYu SDGs ACT5 x Tokyo Biennale 2020/2021, Shin-Yurakucho Building, Tokyo
"The earth is blue like a lemon" Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
"Strange Loop" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2017
”Satoshi Hirose - A Cosmology from Forest" 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"cote d'azur" B-Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"2001" Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
"day, day, day..." Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1999
"Project A.P.O." Sagacho Exhibit Space / sagacho bis, Tokyo, Japan
"Viaggio" Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
"Barcheggio" Murazzi del Po, Turin, Italy
1998
"Birth 2000" Gallery Mssohkan, Kobe, Hyougo, Japan
"Paradiso" Criterium 34, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
"Tra-mite" Hyperion Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
1997
"Lemon Project 03" The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
"Luce Rosa" Project for ATM, Milan, Italy
"Satoshi Hirose" Casa degli Artisti, Milan, Italy
1996
"Una Volta" Recent Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
"Per Piacere" Project room Il corridoio, Milan, Italy
"T2 Collection - Collecting? Connecting?", What Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"Igoku Tamaru: lives without borderies" Kinan Art Week 2024 Tanabe area, Shirahama area,Tanabe,Shirahama, Wakayama, Japan
"White" Spazio 21, Lodi, Milano, Italy
"Cosmologie" Spazio 21, Lodi, Milano, Italy
2023
"Mikankaku" Kinan Art Week 2023, Tanabe, Wakayama, Japan
"From the Palm of Your Hand to the Universe" Arts Maebashi 10th Anniversary Collection Exhibition, Arts Maebashi、Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Art collaboration with FREUDE by BMW, Yodobashi J6 Bild., Tokyo, Japan
"ZOMIA IN THE CLOUD" Pavilion Zomia for Thailand Biennale 2023, Chiang Rai, Thailand
2022
"Mikan mandala" Kinan Art Week 2022, All areas of Tanabe City, Tanabe, Wakayama, Japan
2021
"Festival Manazuru - Sculpted Stone "Manazuru whole area, Manazuru, Kanagawa, Japan
"Everybody Needs a Rock - Seeing the world through the eyes and hands" Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Nagaizumi, Shizuoka, Japan
"Limen" Curated by Angela Madisani, Villa Borletti, Origgio (Varese), Italy
"Altruism and Fluidity - Reborn-Art Festival 2021-22" Curated by Kenji Kubota, Former Kanheimaru Shoten, Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan
"Home Sweet Home" KORA – Centro del Contemporaneo, Courated by Paolo Mele, Alessandra Pioselli, Davide Quadrio and Claudio Zecchi, Castrignano de’ Greci (Lecce), Italy
"Un posto come un altro dove appendere il cappello" Curated by Enzo e Giosuè Di Marino, Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea "Osvaldo Licini", Ascoli Piceno, Italy
"Così fan tutti - Opera dalla collezione di Ernesto" Curated by Marianna Agliottone Villa Campolieto, Ercolano, Naples, Italy
2020
"Tokyo Biennale 2020/2021" Shin-Yurakucho Building, Tokyo, Japan
"Sagacho Exhibit Space 1983–2000 Fixed-Point Observation of Contemporary Art" The Museum of Modern
Art, Gunma, Takasaki, Japan
2019
"Passage to the Future in Toyokawa" Sakuragaoka Museum, Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan
"The Ecology of Expression: Remaking Our Relations with the world" Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
"Claritudo" Palazzo Visconti, Palazzo Vecchio, Brignano Gera d'Adda, (Bergamo), Italy
"Claritudo" Spazio San Celso - Basilica di San Celso, Milan, Italy
2018
"Spatium - Stanze del Contemporaneo" Palazzo Visconti, Palazzo Vecchio, Brignano Gera d'Adda, (Bergamo), Italy
"Processo alla Natura" Spazio Maria Calderara, Milan, Italy
2017
"Collection Exhibition" New Collection, Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
"Tomio Koyama Gallery: Works from the Gallery Artists and the Collection 2" 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Municipal Museum of Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Paraguayan-Japanese Center for Human Resource Development, Asuncion, Paraguay
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Arena 1 Gallery , Santa Monica, U.S.
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" New Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary)
2016
Foodscape - We are what we eat, Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Forest of Expression - Art as a communal act, Arts Maebashi, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" International Caravanserai of Culture of Ikuo Hirayama, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" The Japan Foundation, Arena 1 Gallery、 Santa Monica, U.S.A
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Americani Cultural Center, Kuwait, Kuwait
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Nepal Art Council, Kathmandu, Nepal
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum Shanghai, China
2015
"Book Space - Listening to the Murmurs" Gallery Fleur, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Chongquing China Three Gorges Museum, Chongquing, China
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Shenyang National University, Shenyang, China
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Shandong University of Art and Design Jinan, ,Jinan, China
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Vientiane Center, Vientiane Capital, Laos
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
2014
"La grande illusione" Gallery of Art, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy
"Mitsukoshi Ginza × Tomio Koyama Gallery art selction" Mitsukoshi Ginza 8F gallery, Tokyo
"Dark matter: invisible presence" Art Stage Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Palacio de Bellas Artes, Santo Domingo、Dominican Republic
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Malay Technology Museum, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Jeju Students Cultural Center, Jeju, South Korea
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Kyongpook National University Art Museum, Daegu, South Korea
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Public Information and Cultural Center, Embassy of Japan in Korea , Seoul, South Korea
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Seattle Center Pavilion, Seattle Center, Seattle, U.S.A
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Galeria Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2013
"On the planet: from collection" The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Nagaizumi, Shizuoka, Japan
"Why? Because life..." Umberto Di Marino, Naples, Italy
“ The Flower with the Color of Wind- dialogues for the future”Arts Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
“Cho-Kyoto 2013, Contemporary Art@Today's Machiya in Kyoto”Model House Exhibition Place, Kyoto, Japan
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Majorie Barrierck Museum, Las Vegas, United Stats
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Museo Nacional de "Arte Moderno" Guatemala City, Guatemala
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Museo Nacional de Antropología Dr. David J. Guzmán, San Salvador, El Salvador
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Palatul Parlamentului, aripa E4, intrarea prin Calea 13 Septembrie, Bucharest, Romania
2012
"Group show" Tomio Koyama Gallery Singapore, Singapore
“Beppu Contemporary Art Festival 2012 'Mixed Bathing World'” Around Beppu City, Beppu, Oita, Japan
(Hamawaki Row Houses: permanent exhibition as accommodation facility)
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Mykolas Zilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Dnipropetrovsk Art Museum, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Poltava Art Museum, Poltava, Ukraine
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, United States
2011
"FLOWER" Nihombashi Takashimaya X Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"My secret garden", Gardenhouse by Rye Nishizawa, Tokyo, Japan
"F for Fake" Complesso Monumentale del Belvedere di San Leucio, Caserta, Italy
"Four Dimensions - plastic vision of time and space" Banca Akros, Milan, Italy
"Art in Office" Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Aichi, Japan
"Cho-Kyoto” Shosei-en Garden(Higashihonganji), Kyoto
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz, Bolivia
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Centro Cultural Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Contemporary Art and Design Museum in San José, Costa Rica
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Contemporary Art Center, Quito, Ecuador
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" The Alhamra Art Gallery , Lahore, Pakistan
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Penang State Art Gallery, Malaysia
2010
"Contemporary Art Biennare of Fukushima 2010" Fukushima Prefectural Culture Center, Fukushima, Japan
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Galeri Shah Alam, Shah Alam, Malaysia
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Galleri Salihara, Jakarta, Indonesia
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Emmitan Gallery, Surabaya, Indonesia
Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan, Ho Chi Minh Museum in Hue, Hue, Viet Nam
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Labour Culture Palace of Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh, Viet Nam
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Hang Bai Exhibition House, Hanoi, Viet Nam
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" The Japan Foundation, New Delhi, India
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai, India
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta, India
2009
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" De la Salle University St.Benilde Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila, Philippines
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" The Japan Foundation, Toronto, Canada
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Centro Cultural Corp Banca, Caracas, Venezuela
2008
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Biblioteca Publica Virgilio Barco, Bogota, Colombia
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Eduardo Sivori Museum of Plastic Arts of the Bs.As.City Government, Buenos Aires, Argentina
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Contemporary Art Museum of the Faculty of Art, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
2007
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" SPINNEREI, Leipzig, Germany
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" European Design Institute in Madrid, Madrid, Spain
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Sala de Arte de CajaCanarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Haapsalu Culture Centre, Haapsalu, Estonia
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Museum of Contemporary Art RS, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" The Japan Culutral Institute、Cologne, Germany
2006
"Touching the Cosmos" The Vangi Sculpture garden Museum, Nagaizumi, Shizuoka, Japan
“Contemporary Art Biennale of Fukushima 2010” Fukushima Prefectural Culture Center, Fukushima, Japan
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris,Paris, France
2005
"A dot and a net" Saitama Modern Art Museum, Saitama, Japan
"No Place like a Home" Associazione Remo Gaibazzi, Parma, Italy
"Napoli Presente" Palazzo d’Arte, Naples, Italy
2004
"Officina Asia" Rete Emilia Romagna, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Galleria Comunale d'Arte, Cesena, Palazzo dell'Arengo, Rimini, Italy
"Why not live for you art? " Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Spaces for you - stepping out !" The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
"Exit Pistoia" Studio Allerruzio, Pistoia, Italy
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Istituto Giapponese di Cultura, Rome, Italy
"Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan" Sintra Modern Art Museum, Sintra, Portugal
2003
"Opening Exhibition", Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Sur-face: on the Threshold" Istituto Giapponese di Cultura, Rome, Italy
"Premio Fondazione Michetti" Fondazione Michetti, Francavilla al Mare, Italy
"Art as medicine" Art project at Osaka City University Hospital, Osaka, Japan
"Cross Section 2" De Nederlandsche Cacaofabriek, Heldmon, The Netherlands
"Luoghi d’affezione - Paesaggio-Passaggio", IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen, Belgium
"Take Art Collection 2003" Spiral/ Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2002
"Per una mobilita’ fenomenologica della forma" Galleria Pio Monti, Rome, Italy
"Real_interface: Swimming across Your Eyes" Space_Ima, Seoul, Korea
"Full Contact" Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporarea di Siracusa, Siracusa, Italy
"Beyond the blue - Claud Monet X Satoshi Hirose" Asahi Breweries Oyamazaki Villa Museum, Kyoto, Japan
"Architetture del Colore" Umberto Di Marino Arte Contemporanea, Giugliano (Naples), Italy
"Emotional Site" Saga-cho buldingd, Tokyo, Japan
2001
"Crossing spirit" TENT, Rotterdam Visual Art Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"Super future" Luigi Pecci Contemporary Art Center, Prato, Italy
"Neo Tokyo" Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
"Daunbacino" Link, Sassari, Italy
2000
"Periscopio 2000" Casina Roma, San Donato Milanese, Milan, Italy
"Tama vivant 2000" Tama Art University Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Percorsi dello spirito anno duemilla" EXMA, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Cagliari, Italy
"Più vasto del misurato 2000" Link, Sassari, Italy
"Weihnachten 2000" Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, Germany
1999
"L'immagine rinnovata" I sotterranei dell'arte, Monte Crasso, Switzerland
"Appesi ad un filo" En Plein Air Arte Contemporanea, Pinerolo (Turin), Italy
"Frame" Galleria Biagiotti Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
"Più vasto del misurato" Microbo Erotico Projectroom, Milan, Italy
1998
"Ende/ Neu" Recent Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
"Percorsi dello Spirito" Cittadella dei Musei, Cagliari, Italy
"Interni d'artista" Villa Arredamenti, Liscate, Melzo, Italy
1995
"Chiang Mai Social Installation" Chiang Mai City, Chiang Mai, Thailand
"Little Aperto" On the streets of venice, Venice, Italy