Tokihiro Sato

♂ *1957 / Japan

Works

Solo exhibitions

Photo-Respiration: City Scape

Poetic Scape, Tokyo (JP)
25 Oct 2025 – 7 Dec 2025
Photo Respirations

Micheko Galerie, München (DE)
9 Sep 2017 – 21 Oct 2017
Presence or Absence

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
13 May 2014 – 13 Jul 2014
Trees

Haines Gallery, San Francisco (US)
2 Sep 2010 – 30 Oct 2010
Trees

Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York (US)
20 Mar 2010 – 8 May 2010
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Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York (US)
3 Dec 2005 – 28 Jan 2006
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (US)
15 Jan 2005 – 8 May 2005
Photographic Light Panels

Haines Gallery, San Francisco (US)
6 Jan 2005 – 26 Feb 2005
Museum Pieces

Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York (US)
7 Jun 2003 – 25 Jul 2003

Group

Past Lives: Performance Art through the Camera

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach (US)
1 Sep 2023 – 19 Nov 2023

with Marina Abramovic, Naoya Hatakeyama, ZHANG Huan, Nikki S. Lee, Ana Mendieta, Yasumasa Morimura
Light as Medium: The TOP Collection

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
2 Mar 2022 – 5 Jun 2022

with Ansel Adams, Laure Albin-Guillot, Anna Atkins, Paul Caponigro, Walter Chappell, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Susan Derges, Ei-Q, William Henry Fox Talbot, Emmet Gowin, Andre Kertesz, Man Ray …
Past and Present

Positionen japanischer Fotografie

Mönchehaus-Museum, Goslar (DE)
21 Mar 2021 – 4 Jul 2021

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Leiko Ikemura, Rinko Kawauchi, Daido Moriyama, Asako Narahashi, Mika Ninagawa, Lieko Shiga, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Shomei Tomatsu, Yutaka Takanashi, Miwa Yanagi
Time Present

Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection

PalaisPopulaire, Berlin (DE)
10 Jun 2020 – 8 Feb 2021

with Shirin Aliabadi, Kader Attia, Yto Barrada, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Zohra Bensemra, Mohamed Camara, Susan Derges, CAO Fei, Samuel Fosso, Andrea Galvani, Gauri Gill, Andreas Gursky …
Time Flows: Reflections by 5 Artists

Hara Museum Contemp Art, Tokyo (JP)
19 Sep 2020 – 11 Jan 2021

with Tomoki Imai, Tamotsu Kido, Lee Kit, Masaharu Sato
Painting with Light

Yossi Milo Gallery, New York (US)
17 Jan 2019 – 9 Mar 2019

with Marco Breuer, Christopher Bucklow, Richard Caldicott, Harry Callahan, Ellen Carey, Luuk de Haan, Susan Derges, Jessica Eaton, Bryan Graf, Sheree Hovsepian, Gottfried Jaeger, Aspen Mays …
Visions of Exchange

Mercedes-Benz Art Scope Award 2009-2017

Mercedes-Benz Museum, Berlin (DE)
2 Jun 2018 – 4 Nov 2018

with Taro Izumi, Meiro Koizumi, Benedikt Partenheimer, Menja Stevenson
Into the Woods: Trees in Photography

V&A Victoria & Albert Museum, London (GB)
18 Nov 2017 – 22 Apr 2018

with Ansel Adams, Samuel Bourne, Mark Edwards, Gustave Le Gray, Tal Shochat, Alfred Stieglitz, Awoiska van der Molen
Mercedes-Benz Art Scope 2015-2017: Wandering to Wonder

Hara Museum Contemp Art, Tokyo (JP)
27 May 2017 – 27 Aug 2017

with Taro Izumi, Menja Stevenson
Le bal － Part 1 － maestoso

Hommage à Etsuro ISHIHARA

Zeit Foto kunitachi, Tokyo (JP)
3 Sep 2016 – 5 Oct 2016

with Noe Aoki, Eugene Atget, Adolphe Braun, Takuya Chikushi, Robert Doisneau, Robert Frank, Luigi Ghirri, Miyuki Ichikawa, Andre Kertesz, Ihei Kimura, William Klein, Aki Lumi …
LUX: The Radiant Sea

Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York (US)
14 Jul 2016 – 19 Aug 2016

with Olivo Barbieri, Mary Ellen Bartley, Christopher Bucklow, Linda Connor, Tim Davis, Mitch Epstein, Roe Ethridge, Lee Friedlander, Bryan Graf, Jitka Hanzlova, CJ Heyliger, Mattew Jensen …
Time Present

Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection

National Gallery, Mumbai (IN)
21 Mar 2015 – 10 May 2015

with Kader Attia, Zohra Bensemra, Luigi Ghirri, Andreas Gursky, Siobhan Hapaska, Martin Liebscher, Julio Cesar Morales, Adrian Paci, Dayanita Singh
GOETHE'S CHAMBER

Haines Gallery, San Francisco (US)
8 Jan 2015 – 14 Mar 2015

with Linda Connor, Won Ju Lim , David Maisel
Time Present

Contemporary Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection

Singapore Art Museum , Singapore (SG)
3 Oct 2014 – 8 Feb 2015

with Shirin Aliabadi, Kader Attia, Yto Barrada, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Zohra Bensemra, Gerard Byrne, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Susan Derges, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Hassan & Hussein Essop, CAO Fei, Andreas Gursky …
Still Action!

1708 Gallery, Richmond VA (US)
19 Apr 2013 – 25 May 2013

with Kevin Cooley, Seba Kurtis, Geoffrey H. Short
The Eye of the Machine

Camera and Lens

Museum of Photography, Tôkyô (JP)
22 Sep 2012 – 18 Nov 2012

with Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, Taiji Matsue, Alexander Rodchenko, W. Eugene Smith, Risaku Suzuki, Weegee, Edward Weston, Iwao Yamawaki
Shared Space

Photography from 1987 and Beyond - PHOTOESPAÑA 2012

Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid (ES)
6 Jun 2012 – 22 Jul 2012

with Hans Aarsman, Olivo Barbieri, Wout Berger, Edward Burtynsky, Gregory Crewdson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Guenther Foerg, Ken Fandell, Ben Gest, Andreas Gursky, Jitka Hanzlova, Sze Tsung LEONG …
Recent Acquisitions: Photography

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach (US)
1 Oct 2011 – 1 Jan 2012

with Michal Chelbin, David Goldes, Jenny Holzer, Naomi Leshem, Ryan McGinley, J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere
The Pencil of Nature

Julie Saul Gallery, New York (US)
1 Jul 2010 – 20 Aug 2010

with Amy Adler, Sebastiaan Bremer, Marco Breuer, Sally Gall, Soo Kim, Vik Muniz, Nic Nicosia
Out of the Woods

Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York (US)
30 Jan 2010 – 6 Mar 2010

with Adam Fuss, Sarah Anne Johnson, Justine Kurland, Ryan McGinley, Laurel Nakadate
temporalscape

Haines Gallery, San Francisco (US)
10 Jun 2004 – 24 Jul 2004

with Linda Connor, John Divola, Kota Ezawa, Andy Goldsworthy, Dennis Oppenheim, Susan Silton, Joel Sternfeld

Events

ART WEEK TOKYO 2025

Japan Contemporary Art Platform in collaboration with Art Basel

Art Week Tokyo, Tokyo (JP)
5 Nov 2025 – 9 Nov 2025

with Bas Jan Ader, Yamamoto Atsushi, WANG Bing, Ross Birrell, Julian Charriere, Chim-Pom, Pedro Costa, Minoru Hirata, Miyako Ishiuchi, Kikuji Kawada, Lee Kit, Vik Muniz …
T3 Photo Asia

Tokyo Institut of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
11 Oct 2025 – 13 Oct 2025

with A Kassen , Liu Chen-Hsiang, Chen Chun-Lu, Lim Eung-Sik, Kenryou Gu, Maiko Haruki, Takashi Homma, Mao Ishikawa, Miyako Ishiuchi, Kim JeeMin, Lang Jingshan, Taro Karibe …
Luxembourg Art Week 2024

Luxembourg Art Week S.A., Luxembourg (LU)
22 Nov 2024 – 24 Nov 2024

with Ignasi Aballi, Sarfo Emmanuel Annor, Moritz Berg, Frederik Buyckx, Marta Djourina, Serge Ecker, David Hockney, Nicolai Howalt, Jean-Baptiste Huynh, Anna Krieps, Jacky Lecouturier, Hiroyuki Masuyama …
Paris Photo 2024 - Group show

Booth

Poetic Scape, Paris (FR)
7 Nov 2024 – 10 Nov 2024

with Mao Ishikawa, Hiroshi Nomura, Toshio Shibata, Yamagami Shimpei
Deutsche Bank Collection LIVE

Meet the Artist

PalaisPopulaire, Berlin (DE)