Norie Sato

Norie Sato (born July 19, 1949) is an artist living in Seattle, Washington. She works in the field of public art using sculpture and various media–including glass, terrazzo, plastic film, stone, and metal–and often incorporating lighting effects, landscaping, mosaics, prints, and video. She frequently collaborates with architects, city planners, and other artists and specializes in integrating artwork and site specific design. Since that time she has lived and worked in Seattle and has been involved with public art.

Work Sato has managed, designed, and contributed artwork to urban infrastructure projects, parks, universities, aquatic centers, galleries, museums, transportation systems, airports, libraries, and other civic structures. She has worked extensively in light-rail public-art projects in Phoenix, Portland, Tempe, Salt Lake City,

Selected works Seattle Light Rail system at Columbia City station Romare Bearden Park in Charlotte, NC San Francisco International Airport Port of Portland headquarters in Oregon Palmer Human Development and Family Studies Building at Iowa State University Artwork for Chisholm Trail Parkway in Fort Worth Artwork for Waterfront Seattle's Union Street East-West Connector (in progress) She received the 1983 Betty Bowen award, the 1998 The National Terrazzo and Mosaic Association Honor Award, the 2013 Twining Humber Award from Washington State Artist Trust, the 2014 Public Art Network Leadership Award from Americans for the Arts,

Sato served on the Visual Arts Advisory Panel for the NEA in 1983. She is a former member of the Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Council.

She is a commissioner of the Seattle Design Commission.