Born in 1990, Tokyo.
Koichi Sato is an artist based in Japan. Intrigued by how the desires of industrial society come into contact with non-human entities such as the natural environment and flora/fauna, he conducts fieldwork. In addition to his primary medium of video, he incorporates "non-visual elements" such as scent and sound into his installation works.

 

2019
MFA, Inter-Media Art, Tokyo University of the Arts

 
 

 
Solo Exhibition

2019
“Third Landscape”, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishikawa, Japan
2018
“Crepuscular Gardens”, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

 

Solo Exhibition (as a unit with Hideki Umezawa)

2022
“Echoes from Clouds”, People, Tokyo, Japan
“Chinsen: Mist from Artificial Lake”, NADiff Window Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2021
“Structures of Liquidity”, NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan

 

Solo Exhibition (as KANTO)

2025
“Water Museum”, Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Tokyo, Japan

 
 

 
Group Exhibition

2025
“Ambient Agency– dis/entangling force fields with awai”, Wilde Le Lieu, Paris, France
“L’Écologie des choses”, Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, France
2024
“DANCING WITH ALL: The Ecology of Empathy”, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishikawa, Japan
“ATAMI ART GRANT 2024”, Atami City, Shizuoka, Japan 
2023
“SUPERSENSIBLE”, Digital Art Center, Taiwan
“la chambre cocon”, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France
“Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023: Technology?”, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2022
“YAU TEN: Yurakucho Art Urbanism”, Yurakucho Building, Tokyo, Japan
2021
“Thailand Biennale Korat 2021”, Korat, Thailand
“Back Tokyo Forth”, Tokyo International Cruise Terminal, Tokyo, Japan
2019
“DESIRE: A Revision from the 20th Century to the Digital Age”, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
“Lively In-between”, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan

 
 

 
Screening/Event

2026
“Musashino: Nature beyond Vision”, Musashino Place, Tokyo, Japan (as KANTO)
2025
“Ambient Agency– dis/entangling force fields with awai”, Loughborough University, London, United Kingdom
“Echoes from Clouds Screening (Hanatsubaki SALON)”, Shiseido Hanatsubaki Hall, Tokyo, Japan

 
 

 
Artist in Residence

2025
Ibaraki Prefecture / Moriya City / ARCUS project: Artist in Residence Program 2025, Japan
2019
Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori: Artist in Residence, Japan

 
 

 
Collection

KADIST Foundation

 
 

 
Awards and Grants

2026
Kawamura Arts and Cultural Foundation, Socially Engaged Art Support Grant FY2026, Japan (as KANTO)
Tokyo Metropolis / Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture / Tokyo Photographic Art Museum / The Nikkei, Finalist, 3rd Commission Project, Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2026, Japan
2024
Tokyo Metropolis / Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, The 1st Tokyo Artist Accelerator Program (TAAP), Japan
2021
Pola Art Foundation, Grants in Support of Art-Related International Exchange, Japan
Arts Council Tokyo, International Project Support, Japan
2019
Mori Award, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
Art no Chikara Award, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
2018
The 12th shiseido art egg, Selected Artist, Shiseido Gallery, Japan