____Selected exhibitions

• Legacy: Facets of Island Modernism, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2001
• Satoru Abe: A Retrospective, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, 1998
• Satoru Abe: KOA Award Exhibition, Koa Gallery, Kapi‘olani Community College, Honolulu, 1997
• Artists/Hawai‘i, First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu, 1996
• Reflections: Japanese American Master Artists of Hawai‘i, Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i, 1996
• Solo exhibition, Tokyo Central Museum, 1986

Born in Honolulu in 1926, Satoru Abe studied at the Art Students League in New York, 1948–1950, and the Sculpture Center in New York, 1956–1969. In 1984 Abe was named a Living Treasure of Hawai‘i by the Honpa Honwanji Betsuin. He received a National Endowment for the Arts artist-in-residence grant, 1970, and a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1963.