Hoshino Satoru 星野暁 b. 1945

Born in 1945, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

HOSHINO SATORU is an internationally recognized figure in the field after years of teaching as a guest artist or artist-in-residence at ceramic centers in locations as varied as Denmark, Belgium, Taiwan, Australia, and Hungary. At the start of his career, this Kyoto native worked for many years with the avant-garde, non-functional ceramic movement Sōdeisha. From the ancient tradition re-established by its founder, Yagi Kazuo, Satoru assumed the mantle of smoke-infused sculptural work (kokutō) that was not compromised by color or surface patterning, embodying fluidity and plasticity.
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HOSHINO SATORU, Undulating, conical white and copper-glazed vessel with narrow base and covered in pinched indentations, 2011
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Conical tapering hand-built vessel with finger-impressed curving ridges covered in thick copper green glaze hat turns matte white, 2022. Glazed stoneware, 17 1/2 x 13 3/4 x 13 7/8 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2025.751.

Public Collections
Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Japan

Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred University, NY

Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA

Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand

Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece

ClayArch Gimhae Museum, Gimhae City, South Korea

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia

International Ceramic Studio-Kecskemet, Kápolna, Hungary

John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL

Kerameikmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Kyoto City Museum, Japan

Long Beach Museum of Art, CA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA

Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN

Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland

Musée Bertrand, Châteauroux, France

Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, Italy

Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan

Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan

Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan

National Gallery of Australia, Australia

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

Newcastle Regional Museum, Australia

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA

Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

Portland Art Museum, OR

Power House Museum, Sydney, Australia

Province Museum Modern Kunst, Belgium

Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL

Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan

Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS

State Decorative Arts Institute, Zurich, Switzerland

Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan

Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

Walbrzych Museum, Poland

Yamaguchi Prefecture Museum of Art, Japan

Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan