Satoshi Dobara

Satoshi Dobara was born in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1959. He studied painting at the Art University of Kyoto, and in 1983/84, he was a resident professor at the same university. In 1986 he won a scholarship from the Italian government to study in Italy, and he came to Florence, where he still resides. Since 2002 also produced sculptures and terracotta made with the collaboration of the Master Mario Mariani of Impruneta (Florence). Recently he painted several “UNESCO World Heritage.” In a painting titled “Hiroshima-tricycle Ernesto Yusuke,” 2010 looms the Atomic Bomb Dome, And the picture became the symbol of the “Special Olympics Nippon Hiroshima.” At the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum sale the T-shirt with the same image. In August of 2012, this painting reported on a banner commemorating the Hiroshima atomic bomb that exposed the town of Campi Bisenzio (Florence). In November of the same year, gives a painting titled “Hiroshima tricycle Shin-cyan” (oil on canvas, 130x162cm) in the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital & Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital. In 2013 he painted for the city of Campi Bisenzio a certificate of Italian citizenship symbolic for foreign children born in Italy. In September of 2020 gives a painting titled “The dream of Gabriele d’Annunzio: Biplane SVA fly over the Miyajima” (oil on canvas, 130x162cm) in the Vittoriale degli Italiani (President Giordano Bruno Guerri), Gardone Riviera (Brescia), Italy.

Joint exhibitions:
1981- Concorso dell’arte del Comune di Kyoto
1985- “Senbatsuten” , Galleria provinciale di Kyoto
1986- Concorso d’Arte di Nihonkai, Museo d’arte moderna di Toyama
1991- “Aspetto dell’arte italiana”, Aurelio Stefanini Studio d’arte, Firenze
1993/2002-“ Misure uniche per una collezione”.
Pittura del secondo Novecento della Collezione Serafino Fiocchi
Il Polittico, Roma – Galleria Bianca Pilat, Milano – Aula Magna, Universita’ di Ancona – Atelier dell’Arco Amoroso, Ancona - Palazzo Tiranni Castracane in Cagli, Provincia di Pesaro e Urbino
1994- “40x40” Galleria Continua, San Gimignano(SI)
1995- “Il Giappone in Toscana”, Sala Brunelleschi, Palagio di Parte Guelfa, Firenze
2000- “Ex Voto per il millennio”- Certosa di Pisa, Calci(PI)
2001-“MAC 2001 Strangers in Itay”- Santa Maria Gualtieri, Pavia
2003/04- “Tra i segni del’900”, 2゜Mostra di disegni e grafica dalla raccolta di Serafino Fiocchi, Atelier dell’ Arco Amoroso, Ancona
2004-“Pacific Flora 2004/japan”, Shizuoka
2005/06- “L’eta’ nomade” Ex-mattatoio di Roma
2006-“GLOBALE AUSSTELLUNG NACHSONNE” Schloss Bartenstein, Germany
2013-“Kyoto-Firenze Firenze-Kyoto” Casa di Dante, Firenze
2013-Palazzo Coppini, Firenze
2015-Mirasaka Peace Art Museum, Hiroshima

Personal exhibitions:
1989-“Art in Castello”, Palazzo dei Prioli, Colle Val d’Elsa (SI)
1990- Café Local, Marburg, Germany
1991- “Bonkei”, Aurelio Stefanini Studio d’Arte, Firenze
1991- Castello Doria, Assessorato alla Cultura di Portovenere (SP)
1991/92- Palazzo Pretorio, Assessorato alla Cultura di Certaldo (FI)
1993- La piu’ bella Galleria d’Italia, Quarta edizione, ATTUALISSIMA.
Aurelio Stefanini Studio d’Arte, Fortezza da Basso, Firenze
1999-Gallery Daimaru (Shinsaibashi, Umeda, Kyoto, Kobe, Tokyo)
2004-Gallery Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo
2005-Gallery Daimaru (Kobe)
2006-Gallery Sogo (Hiroshima)
2007-Gallery Daimaru (Umeda Osaka)
2008-Gallery Fukuyama Tenmaya (Hiroshima)
2008-Gallery Daimaru, Tokyo
2009-Gallery Daimaru (Umeda Osaka)
2010-Gallery Mitsukoshi (Hiroshima)
2011-“World’s of Reality & Fantasy- Ryuzo Arase & Satoshi Dobara”
Mirasaka Peace Art Museum (Hiroshima)
2011- Gallery Mitsukoshi (Hiroshima)
2012-Gallery Mitsukoshi (Hiroshima)
2013- “Rocca Strozzi e non solo” Sala Biliardo Villa Rucellai, Campi Bisenzio (FI)
2013- “Satoshi Dobara 27+27 Hiroshima, Kyoto, Firenze”
Biblioteca comunale di lastra a Signa (FI)
2014-Gallery Mitsukoshi (Hiroshima)
2016-“Paesaggi e lo SVA”, ROMA TOKYO HANGAR MVSEVM,
Aeroporto di Thiene ”Arturo Ferrarin”, Vicenza,Italy　
Con patrocinio dall’Istituto Giapponese di cultura (Japan Foundation)
2017-Gallery Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo
-Gallery Hiroshima Mitsukoshi, Hiroshima
2022-Gallery Hiroshima Mitsukoshi, Hiroshima

Public Collection:
City Hall of Colle Val d’Elsa, Siena, Italy
Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital & Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital
Kindergarten Suzaka Futaba, Nagano
Vittoriale degli Italiani, Gardone Riviera, Brescia, Italy

Private Collection:
Eikokuya, Osaka
Marueido, Tokyo
Natsume Bijyutsu Ten, Tokyo
Hotel Kawashima, Hiroshima
Serafino Fiocchi, Ancona
Jacopo Boni, Firenze
Aurelio Stefanini, Firenze
Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Firenze
Michael Michaeledes, Londra