Satoru Hoshino

Satoru Hoshino (b. 1945) is a Japanese artist born in 1945 in the Niigata Prefecture, Japan and graduated from Ritsumeikan University in 1971. He creates a range of works and has a common theme of exposing his “pinched” process in the surface of the clay.

Satoru Hoshino has been awarded several prizes in his native country, and has lectured and demonstrated in workshops throughout the world. His work is represented in many private and museum collections.

Museum Collections-

Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Japan; Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand; Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece; Bertoran Museum, Chateauroux, France; Crafts Gallery, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York; Faenza National Pottery Museum, Italy; Kyoto City Museum, Kyoto, Japan; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Musee Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland; Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan; Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; Newcastle Art Gallery, Australia; Power House Museum, Sydney, Australia; Province Museum Modern Kunst, Oostende, Belgium; Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred University, Alfred, New York; Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan; State Decorative Arts Institute, Switzerland; Takamatsu City Museum, Takamatsu, Japan; Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England; Yamaguchi Prefecture Museum of Art, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.