Satoshi Kondo

Anton, China 1937

Painter, draftsman, sculptor and teacher. He studied painting and sculpture at the Asaigaika College of Fine Arts, in Nagoya (Japan) and at the Musashino College of Fine Arts, in Tokyo (Japan), between 1953 and 1960. Around 1957, he participated in happenings promoted in Tokyo to contest the conservative artistic trends of the time. In 1960, he moved to São Paulo, where four years later he joined the Austral Group of the Phases Movement, alongside Fernando Odriozola, Maria Carmen, Sara Avila and Yo Yoshitome. Participates in the 7th, 8th, 9th. and 10th International Biennial of São Paulo, between 1963 and 1969. In 1964, he participated in the exhibition of the Austral Group of the Phases Movement, at MAC / USP, and, in the following year, at the 4th Biennial of Young Artists in Paris, France. In 1994, he participated in the Bienal Brasil Século XX, at the Fundação Bienal. In 1997, he participated in the exhibition Phases: surrealism and contemporaneity - Grupo Austral and Cone Sul, at MAC / USP. In 1998, he received the Estadão Multicultural Award. He is vice-president of the Plastic Arts Commission of the Brazilian Society of Japanese Culture, and a member of the jury of the 29th Salão Bunkyo. In 2001, he is a member of the jury of the 1st Contemporary Figurative Painting Salon of the Brazilian Society of Japanese Culture, at the Japanese-Brazilian Art Museum. He is a sculpture teacher at Fundação Álvares Penteado, Faap.

• BIN Kondo. In: ENCICLOPÉDIA Itaú Cultural of Brazilian Art and Culture. São Paulo: Itaú Cultural, 2019. Available at: . Accessed: Aug. 14, 2019. Verbete da Encyclopedia.
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