Kyoko Sato

(b.1971) is a Japanese independent curator based in New York City. With Asahi Shimbun, an established Japanese daily newspaper affiliated to the New York Times, she planned and materialized the exhibition Ancient Queens and Goddesses: Treasures from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum and The Kobe City Museum, Japan in 2014. In 2017, she joined the roster of renowned international curators at WhiteBox in NY, organizing a major historical exhibition, EXODUS I, A Colossal World: Japanese Artists and New York, 1950s - Present (2018) including works by 55 multifarious, significant artists including Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Yayoi Kusama, Yoko Ono, Shigeko Kubota and Hiroshi Senju. She was also a part of solo exhibitions of Ukrainian Zinaida in 2018 and Ola Rondiak in 2019. In the past, she was a curator for Fermented Souls (Waterfall gallery, NY, 2015) celebrating 50th anniversary of normalized ties between Korea and Japan, supported by the UN Foundation, a charity photography exhibitions East Japan Earthquake Press Photo Exhibition (2011, the Nippon Club, the Asahi Shimbun, and FNAC in Spain) and Lessons from Recovery: the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 (2016, the Nippon Club), supported by Reconstruction Agency, the Permanent Mission of Japan to the US, Consulate General of Japan in New York and the Japan Foundation.