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Born in Aichi, Japan
Lives and works in Yamagata, Japan
【Education】
2010 Received master’s degree at Tohoku University of Art and Design, Yamagata; specialized in culture and the arts, with a major in Nihonga
【Selected Solo Exhibitions】
2025 Art Central 2025 (MEDEL GALLERY SHU Booth, Hong Kong)
Tokuni Noroshi ga Mienikeri (S3 Gallery TOKYO, Tokyo)
Osaka International Art 2025 (MEDEL GALLERY SHU Booth, Osaka)
Eien no Niwa (Yoshino gallery, Yamagata)
Saori Doi: A Prayer for Today (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo)
2024 EQUAL (MEDEL GALLERY SHU, Tokyo)
JINGART Beijing 2024 (MJK Gallery Booth, Beijing SKP-S, Beijing)
MOTHER’S HAND (ARTDYNE, Tokyo)
2023 Project N 92 (Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo)
2022 Majo Minarai no Yoru (ARTDYNE, Tokyo)
2021 Carpe diem (Yoshino gallery, Yamagata)
2017 Saredo Utsukushiki Hibi (Zokyudo Gallery Collection, Kyoto)
2016 Curtain no Mukou (Gallery KAWANISHI, Ehime)
Troy (GALLERY HIRAWATA, Kanagawa)
13gatsu no Niwa (Important Cultural Properties of Japan Heishindo; Muryokoen Shakado, Yamagata)
2015 GARDEN (Gallery Wada, Tokyo)
Curtain no Oku (Zokyudo Gallery Collection, Kyoto)
2014 Watashi no Icon (Zokyudo Gallery Collection, Kyoto)
2013 Animal Parade (Sagae City Museum of Art, Yamagata)
2010 Saori Doi-ten (GALLERY HIRAWATA, Kanagawa)
【Selected Group Exhibitions】
2025 To a bright future the three of us: Saori Doi + Sayaka Hanafusa + Yuriko Asano (Gallery Ogata, Fukuoka)
2024 When the Wind Blows, Even Grass and Trees Speak (MJK Gallery; Wuhan SKP, Wuhan, China)
2023 Taipei Dangdai (Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C.))
2022 ART NAGOYA 2022 (ARTDYNE Booth, Nagoya Kanko Hotel, Aichi)
WHAT CAFE EXHIBITION: MA (WHAT CAFE, Tokyo)
IN THE LOOP (THE LOOP GALLERY, Tokyo)
2021 Zet Tai: Sho Tsuchida, Saori Doi (UNPEL GALLERY, Tokyo)
Chishigakuteki Genso to Chokusetsuteki Genzensei: Saori Doi, Nozomi Tanaka (G.ART FIELD, Tokyo)
FACE 2021 (Sompo Museum of Art, Tokyo)
META (Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Kanagawa, Continued in 2023, 2025)
2020 FACE 2020 (Sompo Museum of Art, Tokyo)
2019 Mari Akiba × Saori Doi (SUKIWA, Tokyo)
TOHOKU CALLING (The Sato Museum of Art, Tokyo)
Something Precious: Ah/Un (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo)
2018 Shin-Nihonga Kenkyu-kai (Daimaru Tokyo, Tokyo)
The 3rd Shin-nihonga Kenkyu-kai (Matsuzakaya Nagoya, Aichi)
2017 VOCA 2017 (The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo)
Shell Art Award 2017 (The National Art Center, Tokyo, continued in 2019)
2016 Art Fair Tokyo (Zokyudo Gallery Booth, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo)
The 2nd Shin-nihonga Kenkyu-kai (Matsuzakaya Nagoya, Aichi)
2014 Yamano kanata: Saori Doi, Koudai Makino  (Mogamigawa Museum of Art; Keiji Mashimo Memorial Museum, Yamagata)
2013 Fantasy Art Grand Prix Exhibition (Itochu SDGs Studio, Tokyo)
Watashi no Omamori: Saori Doi, Koudai Makino (Gallery MIMIQUE, Yamagata)
2012 Tohoku: Ugomeku Kodo (gallery COEXIST-TOKYO, Tokyo)
2011 Busan International Art Fair (South Korea)
2009 The 27th Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition (The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Through 2010)
【Public Collections】
Nichinan Art Museum (Tottori)
Dakota State University (SD, USA)
Tsuruoka Machinaka Kinema (Yamagata) *Wall painting
MISSION PARKOUR PARK TOKYO (Tokyo) *Wall painting
Tohoku University of Art and Design (Yamagata)
Kaisendo (Yamagata)
Takahashi Ryutaro Collection (Tokyo)
UESHIMA MUSEUM COLLECTION (Tokyo)
【Awards】
2021 The Yomiuri Shimbun Award at the FACE2021: Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Art Award
2014 Second Grand Prix at the 2nd Bijutsu Shinjin-shou debut-ten (Gallery Wada, Tokyo)
2008 Honorable Mention for the  graduate exhibition of Tohoku University of Art and Design (Yamagata)
Selected for Hoshino Shingo Prize, The 4th Triennial Competition in Toyohashi (Toyohashi City Museum of Art & History, Aichi)