The museums permanent collection includes works by Karel Appel, Alexander Calder, Buckminster Fuller, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Surasi Kusolwong, Aiko Miyawaki, Yasumasa Morimura, Daisuke Nakayama, Maruyama Ōkyo, Jackson Pollock, George Rickey, Mark Rothko, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jason Teraoka, Zhou Tiehai, Lee U-Fan, Andy Warhol, and Miwa Yanagi.
He has shown at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Union Gallery in London and Galerie Yvon Lambert in Paris.
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach, California), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Thailand (Bangkok) and the National Museum of Art in Mexico are among the public collections holding work by Minoru Ohira.
British Museum | Museum of Modern Art | Art Deco | Metropolitan Museum of Art | American Museum of Natural History | Art Institute of Chicago | Victoria and Albert Museum | Natural History Museum | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | National Gallery of Art | Honolulu Museum of Art | museum | Contemporary R&B | Whitney Museum of American Art | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | National Air and Space Museum | Brooklyn Museum | National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum | Art Nouveau | Royal College of Art | Walker Art Center | Hermitage Museum | National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame | art | Institute of Contemporary Arts | Glasgow School of Art | Museum of Contemporary Art | Field Museum of Natural History |
Sato’s photographs are held throughout the world in public and private museums including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Art Institute of Chicago; the Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art (Saitama, Japan); Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo); Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane); and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
His bright, large work has been exhibited at prestigious institutions internationally, including the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, the Japan Society, New York;,The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, Galerie Oko, Berlin, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, among others.