(1936 - 1994)
Ado Sato was born in Yokohama in 1936, the son of painter Key Sato and opera singer Yoshiko Sato. He exhibited regularly in Japan during the early 1950s, and in 1954, won the Young Artists Prize at the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura. He studied aesthetics at Keiō University, Tokyo, obtaining his diploma in 1961. A year later he moved to Paris where his work was celebrated and exhibited at the Paris Biennale, followed by his participation in subsequent print biennales and exhibitions in St Paul de Vence, Paris and Avignon up to 1975. His first solo exhibition in London was held at the Hamilton Galleries, in Hanover Square, in January 1964. His work is represented in numerous public collections including Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; MoMA New York; MoMAK, the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura and Hayama; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and Yokohama Cultural Center. Ado Sato died in Tokyo in 1995. An exhibition of his graphic work was held at La Galerie des Modernistes in Paris in 2004.
