nendo / Oki Sato
Biography
- 1977
- Born in Toronto, Canada
- 2002
- M.A. in Architecture, Waseda University, Tokyo
Established "nendo" Tokyo office
- 2005
- Established "nendo" Milan office
- 2006
- Lecturer for Showa Women's University, Tokyo
"The 100 Most Respected Japanese" (Newsweek magazine)
- 2007
- "The Top 100 Small Japanese Companies" (Newsweek magazine)
- 2008
- Published "nendo" (daab)
- 2009
- Lecturer for Kuwasawa Design School, Tokyo
- 2010
- Published "nendo ghost stories" (Art Design Publishing)
A jury member of iF award
- 2011
- Published "kaminendo" (Art Design Publishing)
"Famous for 15 Years: The Wallpaper* 150" (Wallpaper* magazine)
- 2012
- Established "nendo" Singapore office
Lecturer for Waseda University, Tokyo
"Designer of the Year" (Wallpaper* magazine)
"Designer of the Year" (Elle Deco International Design Award)
Private Exhibitions
- 2006
- "bloomroom" Milan Design Week / Milan
"bloomroom" Istituto Europeo di Design / Madrid
- 2008
- "elastic diamond" Milan Design Week / Milan
"kuuki" Le Bain gallery / Tokyo
- 2009
- "ghost stories" Friedman Benda gallery / New York
"ghost stories" Museum of Arts and Design / New York
- 2010
- "chair garden" Antonia Jannone gallery / Milan
"thin black lines" Phillips de Pury at Saatchi gallery / London
"blurry white surfaces" Phillips de Pury / London
- 2011
- "dancing squares" Art Stage / Singapore
"textured transparencies" Antonia Jannone gallery / Milan
"textured transparencies" Agathe Helion & Clear gallery / Paris
"thin black lines + dancing squares" National Taiwan
Craft Research and Development Institute / Taichung
"visible structures" High museum of Art / Atlanta
"10 days 10 shelves" Carpenters Workshop gallery / London
"scatter shelf" Friedman Benda gallery / New York
"50 projects _ 25objects + 25spaces" AXIS gallery / Tokyo
- 2012
- "static bubbles" Carpenters Workshop gallery / Paris
"object dependencies" Pierre-Alain Challier gallery / Paris
Group Exhibitions
- 2003
- "monom factory" Living Design Center OZONE / Tokyo
- 2005
- "Shanghai Cool" Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art / Shanghai
- 2006
- "ArchiLab" Site des Subsistances Militaires / Orleans
"DuoHandles" Stilwerk / Berlin
- 2007
- "Power of Expression, Japan" National Art Center / Tokyo
"All light, All right" Hangaram Design Museum / Seoul
"Space for your future" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / Tokyo
- 2008
- "Design and the Elastic Mind" Museum of Modern Art / New York
"XXIst Century Man" 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT / Tokyo
"Foodesign" Triennale di Milano / Milan
- 2009
- "Extra Much" imm cologne / Cologne
"Hand of the Architect" Triennale di Milano / Milan
"Tokyo Fiber, SENESWARE" Triennale di Milano / Milan
"Second Nature" Rundetaarn / Copenhagen
"Delight" Maison & Objet / Paris
"Detour" MoMA Design Store / Tokyo
- 2010
- "13,798 grams of design" Lambretto Art Project / Milan
"International Kogei Triennale" 21st Century Museum of
Contemporary Art, Kanazawa / Kanazawa
"National design Triennial, Why Design Now?" Smithsonian Cooper-
Hewitt National Design Museum / New York
"KANSEI DESIGN SHOWCASE" 21st Century Museum of
Contemporary Art, Kanazawa / Kanazawa
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre / Hong Kong
- 2011
- "HAUTE TENSION" Maison & Objet / Paris
"Modern By Design" High Museum of Art / Atlanta
"Beijing International Design Triennial, REASON DESIGN
EMOTION" National Museum of China / Beijing
"Can you imagine?" MAXXI Museo Nazionale Delle Arti del XXI
Secolo / Rome
Collections
- Museum of Modern Art / New York
- Musee des Arts decoratifs / Paris
- Museum of Arts and Design / New York
- Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum / New York
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Montreal
- Design Museum Holon / Holon
- Israel Museum / Jerusalem
- High Museum of Art / Atlanta
- Victoria and Albert Museum / London
- Centre Pompidou / Paris
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Triennale Design Museum / Milan