1945 Born in Mitsuke-city, Niigata, Japan
1971 Graduated in Ritsumeikan University
1974-1980 A member of Sodeisha group
1979 “The 5th Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition”, Surface Strata and Depth Ⅱ”, won the The Minister of Education Prize
1981 A member of International Ceramic Academy
1986 Lost Studio by landslide
1991-2003 Associate professor at the Environmental Design Department of Osaka Sangyo University, professor at the same university from 1998
1998 “The Suntory Prize ’98 – Challenges on Forms”, Ancient Wood-Land VIII”, won the Saji Encouragement Prize
[SOHO]
1974-1999 Gallery Iteza, Ban Art Gallery, Westbeth Gallery Kozuka etc. 41 times
1999 “Reincarnate/ Pre-Copernican Mud Ⅱ” Ariana Museum (Geneva, Switzerland)
2000 “Ancient Wood-Land” Province Museum of Modern Art (Ostend, Belgium)
2001 “Rain in Ancient Wood-Land” Victoria and Albert Museum (London, United Kingdom)
2002 “Satoru Hoshino/Retrospective Black Ware – Appeared Figure”
The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga (Shiga, Japan)
2006 “Beginning Form – met Spiral” Nancy Margolis Gallery (New York, USA)
“Beginning Form – Spiral” The Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art (New York, USA)
2007 “Beginning Form – Spiral 07” Gatov Gallery (California, USA)
2008 “Spring Snow” Frank Lloyd Gallery (California, USA)
“Beginning Form – met Spiral 08” New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum (New Taipei, Taiwan)
2009 “Beginning Form with Spiral – Spring Snow 09” Gallery De Witte Voet (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2010 “Spiral with Spring Snow” Fugui Taoyuan (New Taipei, Taiwan)
2011 “Spiral with Spring Snow” Museion No.1(Budapest, Hungary)
“Spiral with Spring Snow 11” ART AMSTERDAM by Gallery De Witte Voet (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2011 “Beginning Form – Spiral with Green 11” Academia Gallery, National Academy of Art Sofia (Sofia, Bulgaria)
[Group]
2003 “The Art of Earth – Clay Works of the New Century” The National Museum of Art, Osaka (Osaka, Japan)
2006 “2006 International Architectural Ceramic Exhibition” Clayarch Gimhae Museum (Ginhae, Korea)
“Toji: Japanese Ceramic Art – Tradition and Avant-garde Exhibition”
National Museum of Ceramics, Sevres (Paris, France)
2007 “Far East Meets West” Gallery Marianne Heller (Heidelberg, Germany)
2008 “Satoru & Kayoko Hoshino Ceramic Art Exhibition” The Museum of Arts and Crafts, Itami (Hyogo, Japan)
2009 “Material and Image – Akio Takamari & Satoru Hoshino” Witte Zaal, Sint Lucas Visual Art (Ghent, Belgium)
2010 “21st International Biennale of Vallauris” The Magnelli Museum, The Ceramics Museum (Vallauris, France)
“2010 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale” New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum (New Taipei, Taiwan)
2011 “Terra-Cotta, Primitive Future” Clayarch Gimhae (Gimhae, Korea)
2012 “Moon & Sun Hoshino Kayoko& Hoshino Satoru” Joan B Mirviss LTD (New York, USA)
2013 “Kayoko & Satoru Hoshino in Canberra” Watson Arts Center (Canberra, Australia)
2015 “Body and Matter – Kazuo Shiraga & Satoru Hoshino” Dominique Levy Gallery (New York, USA)
[Collections]
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto(Kyoto, Japan) / International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza(Faenza, Italy) / Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum(Yamaguchi, Japan) / The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama(Wakayama, Japan) / Victoria and Albert Museum(London, United Kingdom) / Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art(Kyoto Japan) / The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park(Shiga, Japan) / Powerhouse Museum(Sydney, Australia) / Province Museum of Modern Art(Ostend, Belgium) / The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga(Shiga, Japan) / Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu(Gifu, Japan) / Minneapolis Institute of Art(Minnesota, USA) / Crafts Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo(Tokyo, Japan) / The International Ceramics Studio(Kecskemet, Hungary) / The Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics (Leeuwarden, Netherland) / The National Museum, Wroclaw, Poland) / National Gallery of Australia(Canberra, Australia) / Hamilton Art Gallery(Victoria, Australia) etc.
[Commissions]
1993 “From Birth of Bubbles to Ancient Wood-Land, and to Peat Deposits”
Foyer, Mitsuke arts hall Arcadia (Niigata, Japan)
1996 “Pre-Copernican Mud” Kanda-machi Road in Gifu-city (Gifu, Japan)
“Surface Strata and Depth” Izumisao Cultural Center (Osaka, Japan)