Taisuke Sato
Photographer / Photography Researcher / MFA

Documentary
Conceptual
Street
Pictorial
Alternative
Photography Theory, Musculinity, Family Studies, Self-Reconstruction, Memories, and the Visualization of the Invisible.
After graduating from the College of Social Sciences at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, Taisuke Sato began his career as a corporate employee before transitioning into photography. He studied street photography under the guidance of New York-based photographer James Maher.
He holds an MFA in Photography and Image Making from Kyoto University of the Arts. While there, he studied photography theory, history, and research methodology under Toshiharu Ito (art historian and Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University of the Arts) and artistic theory under contemporary artist Mika Kan.
Sato participated in an artist residency in Sicily, Italy, where he studied alternative photographic processes with Salvo Veneziano, Dodo Veneziano, Eugenio Sinatra, and Giuseppe Sinatra. Since then, he has been deeply engaged in painterly photographic expressions using various alternative processes.
Solo Exhibitions 
2024　GALLERY APA, Nagoya, Japan, "Autumn Adolescence"
2022   GALLERY APA, Nagoya, Japan, “Non-Color-Coded People”
2021　Kyoto Museum of Photography, Kyoto, Japan, “KOUFUKURON"
Group Shows and Art Fairs
2025   KG+, Kyoto, Japan
2023   Paris Photography Prize Exhibition 2023, Paris, France
2023   FOTOZOFIO OFF LINE 2023, Arles, France
2023   GALLERY APA, Nagoya, Japan
2023   FOTOZOFIO OFF LINE 2023, Kyoto, Japan
2022　UNKNOWN ASIA 2022, Osaka, Japan
2022　GALLERY APA, Nagoya, Japan
2022　FOTOZOFIO OFF LINE. 2022, Kyoto, Japan
2022   Nadar Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2021　Espace Beaurepaire, Paris, France
2021　The Art Room, Venice, Italy
2021　Portrait Of Japan,  Tokyo, Japan
2021　Photoplace Gallery, Vermont, USA
2020   CASO Seaside Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Awards​​​​​​​
2025 
Encouragement Award of Graduate School of Kyoto University of the Arts "Tracing the Gaze"
2023
PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS 2023 / Book / Fine Art "KOUFUKURON - Eudaemonics" / Bronze
International Photography Awards 2023 / Film, Analog, Portrait / "In a dream" / *HM
Deeper Perspective Award 2023 / "KOUFUKURON - Eudaemonics" / HM
FOTOZOFIO 2023 "Street Life-style" and ”In a dream" Selected

2022
International Photography Awards 2022  / "A woman on the bridge" Selected
FOTOZOFIO 2022 "KOUFUKURON-Eudaemonics" Selected

2021
Tokyo International Foto Awards 2021
      People-Life Style "Street Life Style"/ HM
      People-Portrait "A woman in the rain" / HM
      Fine Art "The lonely world" / Official Selection
      Cityscapes "Monuments of human desire" / Official Selection
International Photography Awards 2021 
      Deeper Perspective "KOUFUKURON"/ HM
PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS 2021
      Portrait "Me, 2021"/ Bronze  
      Fine Art "Non-Color-Coded People"/ HM   
      Street Photography "Signature"/ HM 
      Street Photography "Such Japanese"/ HM
      Cityscapes "Monuments of Human Desire"/ HM  
IMA Portrait Of Japan 2021/  "Street Life Style" / Shortlist
PhotoPlace Gallery / Open Call 2021 "The Lonely World"/ Winner 
7th Fine Art Photography Awards / Conceptual "To Live"/ Nominee 
*HM Honorable Mention
Publication

KOUFUKURON - Eudaemonics  
Apr. 2023, Publisher : 89Books(Palermo, Italy), 56pages, ISBN 979-12-80423-34-4

Lecture
“Understanding Masculinity Through Family Photos”
Changing Men, General Incorporated Association​​​​​​​
Taisuke Sato Photography Studio
1103, 3-6-17, Marunouchi, Naka Ward
Nagoya City, Aichi, Japan 460-0002  


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