Jirō Takamatsu was an influential artist, theorist, and teacher in 1960s and 1970s Japan. Takamatsu dominated Japanese artistic discourse during those years as a cofounder of the legendary and radical art collective Hi Red Center in 1963 and as a key figure in the development of Mono-Ha, literally translated as ‘School of Things'. Linking to Arte Povera and Post-Minimalism, Mono-Ha extolled the use of natural materials and objects, emphasizing the importance of materiality and the environment.
His work combined subversive and playful aspects of Dada and Surrealism with an idiosyncratic use of Minimalism’s refined visual language. Takamatsu worked in a range of mediums, including sculpture, photography, painting, drawing, and performance, and probed the material and metaphysical foundations of artistic practice.
Takamatsu is especially renowned for a lifelong exploration that resulted in the celebrated ‘Shadow Paintings'. Inspired by images of shadows in 19th-century Japanese painting and woodcuts as well as by real-life shadows cast on paper sliding-doors in domestic settings, Takamatsu’s Shadow Painting series (1964–98) investigated the formal underpinnings of painting through delicate depictions of shadows in enamel and acrylic.
Takamatsu has been the subject of major solo retrospectives in Japan; represented Japan at the Venice Biennale (1968); exhibited at the Paris Biennial (1969); Sao Paulo Biennial (1973); and Documenta Kassel (1977). His work has been included at group shows at the Guggenheim Museum (1971 and 1994); Centre Pompidou, Paris (1986); and Yokohoma Art Museum, Japan (1994).
Born 1936 in Tokyo, Japan. Lived and worked in Tokyo, Japan.
Died 1998 in Tokyo, Japan.
EDUCATION
1954-1958
Department of Oil, Painting Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2017
Jiro Takamatsu: The Temperature of Sculpture, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
Hi-Red Center: Through Photographs, Yukimo Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan and Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA
2016-2017
Jiro Takamatsu: From Shadow to Compound, Fergus McCaffrey, New York, NY
2016
Annual Project, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA
Jiro Takamatsu, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Jiro Takamatsu: Trajectory of Work, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2014-2015
Jiro Takamatsu: Mysteries, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
2013
Jiro Takamatsu, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2012
Smashing of Everything, Yumiko Chiba Associates / Viewing Room Shinjuku, Tokyo Japan
2011
Jiro Takamatsu, McCaffrey Fine Art, New York
Jiro Takamatsu Light and Shadow, Yumiko Chiba Associates / Viewing Room Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Jiro Takamatsu Words and Things, Refinement and Tautology, NADiff Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2010
Jiro Takamatsu Shadow Paintings, McCaffrey Fine Art, New York, USA
Jiro Takamatsu Early Works, Yumiko Chiba Associates / Viewing Room Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
2009
Point Line, Form of Absence, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
The Space, Yumiko Chiba Associates/ Viewing Room Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
2008
Photograph of Photograph, Yumiko Chiba Associates/ Viewing Room Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
Light and Shadow, Yumiko Chiba Associates/ Viewing Room Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
2006
Drawings of Shadows, Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
2004
Yusuke Nakahara Selects: Jiro Takamatsu, NADiff, Tokyo, Japan
Universe of His Thoughts, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Futuoka, Japan
2003
Jiro Takamatsu Works, Gallery Yume, Tokyo, Japan
Re-verification: Paintings of Jiro Takamatsu from his studio, Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2002
Jiro Takamatsu Exhibition, Viewing Room Yoyogi Garage/ Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan
2001
Wave, Series, Sculpture and Drawing, Jiro Takamatsu No.4, Viewing Room Yotsuya/ Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan
2000
1970s Three-dimensional Works and Others, Chiba City Museum of Art, Japan
Space in Two Dimensions, Viewing Room Yotsuya/ Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan
1999
Jiro Takamatsu Part Ⅰ：Early Drawings (before ‘Point' series), Viewing Room Yotsuya/ Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan
Jiro Takamatsu part Ⅱ：Oneness of Paper series (‘70s), Viewing Room Yotsuya/ Yumiko
Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan
Shadow Paintings and Drawings, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
1998
Jiro Takamatsu New Works, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997
Jiro Takamatsu Recent Works, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996
Space in Two Dimensions, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
Jiro Takamatsu Works, Gallery Yume, Tokyo
Jiro Takamatsu at Present, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan; Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1995
Space in Two Dimensions, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo
Tropical Zone, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1994
Origin, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Origin, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Aichi, Japan
String, Slack of Net (60s-70s), Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Oneness (70s), Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1993
Jiro Takamatsu Old Works, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Jiro Takamatsu Old Works, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992
Tropical Zone, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Jiro Takamatsu New Works, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1991
Jiro Takamatsu Exhibition, Yoshimitsu Hijikata Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1990
Andromeda 4 Series, AC&T Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Jiro Takamatsu Prints, Gallery Kuranuki, Osaka, Japan
Jiro Takamatsu New Paintings, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1989
Jiro Takamatsu Drawings, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1987
Jiro Takamatsu, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1986
Thinking Perceptions, The Contemporary Art Gallery (Seibu Department Store Ikebukuro), Tokyo, Japan
1984
Jiro Takamatsu Exhibition, Nii, Osaka, Japan
Painting and Woodblock Prints from Ancient Japanese Myths, Gallery White Avenue,Osaka, Japan
Jiro Takamatsu Exhibition, Suzukawa Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Drawings and Woodblock Prints, Galerie Humanite, Aichi, Japan
Jiro Takamatsu Exhibition, Shihou Gallery, Tokushima, Japan
Jiro Takamatsu, Institute Français du Japaon Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
1982
Jiro Takamatsu Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1980
Jiro Takamatsu Small Works from the Gallery Collection, Kaneko Art Gallery,Tokyo,Japan
Jiro Takamatsu Exhibition, Tachi Gallery, Ibaraki, Japan
1979
Exhibition of Jiro Takamatsu's newly-published picture book, Tokyo Gallery,Tokyo,Japan
1978
Jiro Takamatsu, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Jiro Takamatsu Color Drawings, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1976
Jiro Takamatsu Drawings, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Jiro Takamatsu, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1973
Jiro Takamatsu, Centro de Arte y Comunicacion (CAYC), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jiro Takamatsu, Oneness, on Paper, Chandler Coventry, Australia
1971
Jiro Takamatsu Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1970
Jiro Takamatsu 1961-70, Pinnar Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1969
Jiro Takamatsu, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1967
Jiro Takamatsu Exhibition, Naviglio 2- Galleria d'Arte, Milano, Italy
Jiro Takamatsu Exhibition, New Smith Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
1966
Identification, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1959
Jiro Takamatsu Exhibition, Gallery Hiroshi, Tokyo, Japan
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2020
Sculpture, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Minimalism: Space. Light. Object., The National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
2015
Galerie de L'Epoque, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography 1986-1979, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Geometries On and Off the Grid: Art from 1950 to the Present, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2014
4x4, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Study from the Human Body, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Other Primary Structures, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Artevida, Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Geometric Perspectives on Japanese Abstraction, Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
Image and Matter in Japanese Photography from the 1970s, Curated by Yumiko Chiba, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2013-2014
Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX
2013
Something interesting in your father's photos, isn't it?, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Tricks and Vision to Mono-ha, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Japan
4 Exhibitions from The Collection of Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan
Umi-Mori Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan; Jr Tower Planis Hall, Hokkaido, Japan; Himeji City Museum of Literature, Hyogo, Japan
Setagaya Literary Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Sumpu Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
2012-2013
The 70s in Japan, 1968-1982, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Best Selection - 100 Years of Modern Japanese Art: In celebration of the 60th Anniversary of The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, The National Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Art Meeting (III) Search for New Synesthesia, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
Now is the Time: Recent Acquisition, The Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, NY
Tokyo 1955 - 1970 New Advanced Guard, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Tama and the Present Time, Permanent Exhibition, Fuchu Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
Jiro Takamatsu, Kenichiro Ishiguro, Yoshihiro Suda, Gallery Kogure, Tokyo, Japan
Re:Quest, Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
2012-2014
The Heart of Succumb Not To The Rain, Kenji Miyazawa Universe of Poetry and Pictures, Daimaru Museum, Kyoto, Japan; Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan; Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan + A.B
2012
Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA; Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Independent, New York, NY
Art Osaka 2012 the 10th Anniversary Action and Abstraction Japanese Postwar Art, Gutai
Mono-ha Avangarde, Nakanoshima Design Museum, Osaka, Japan
The Artists of Mono-ha and Its Era, Rakusui-tei Museum of Art, Toyama, Japan
Collection: Focus on Mono-ha-Japanese Art of the‘70s, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2011-2012
The World of Ishiko Junzo: From Art via Manga to Kitsch, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2011
Akari, Yumiko Chiba Associates / Viewing Room Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Depicting the Uncanny: Tricks and Humor, The Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
To the 1970s Turning Point of Photography & Art Copying, Reflection, and Projection Period Ⅰ Choosing Photos: Checking Vision, Yumiko Chiba Associates / Viewing Room Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
2010
Shadows Works from the National Museums of Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
29ª Bienal de São Paulo Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brasil
MOT Collection Chronicle 1947-1963, Days of Independent Art Exhibitions, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Collection Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; World of Trick Art, Toyohashi City Museum Art and History, Aichi, Japan; Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido, Japan; Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo, Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan ; Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, Nagano, Japan; The Miyagi Museum of Art, Japan
2009
Where Light Comes Together With Other Light, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
At/Form Tamagawa 1964-2009: Contemporary Japanese Art from a Graphical Viewpoint, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The 5th Dazaifu Tenmangu Art Program Jiro Takamatsu/Ryudai Takano, Photograph of Photograph and Photograph, Dazaifu Tenmangu, Fukuoka, Japan
Masterworks from Japanese Art Museum Collections, The Japan Association of Art, Museum 25th Anniversary, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Japan
Visual Deception, Nagoya City art Museum, Aichi, Japan; The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
Permanent Display I, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Thickness of painting: Exhibition from the Museum, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Enokura, Nomura, Takamatsu: Photographs 1968-79, McCaffrey Fine Art, New York, NY
30 years of Fukuoka Art Museum: Collection/Connection, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
From Home to the Museum: Tanaka Tsuneko Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
Syuen A Treasured Article, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008-2009
Permanent Display Ⅱ, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Forest of Art: Japanese Artists of the Post-War, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
2008
The Masked Portrait, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Self / Other, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Permanent Display 1, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Collection 1 Hiroshima Mon Amour, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
20th Century Photography, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
2007-2008
The 30th Anniversary: Collection of the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2007
Living in the Material World: Things in Art of the 20th Century and Beyond, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Journey to the Fukuyama Museum of Art Collection, Searching for Beauty from Ryusei Kishida to Tadanori Yokoo, Kawagoe City Art Museum, Saitama, Japan
Exhibition of All Artists in Niigata City Art Museum Collection II Prints, A Dream Print Gallery 2nd Period, Stroll in the Labyrinth, Books of the Collected Poems with Pictures, And Series of Prints, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Surrealism and Art Image and Reality, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan; Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan; Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Views of Water: From Monet and Taikan to the Present, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
The Photograph: What You See & What You Don't, The University Art Museum, University of The Arts, Tokyo, Japan
What is Mono-ha?, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP , Beijing, China
The Latest Works of Japanese Modern Artists, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
The Suiboku Museum Toyama, Toyama, Japan
ANZAΪ: Personal Photo Archives 1970-2006, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2006
Tokyo－Berlin / Berlin－Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Art of Nerima 2006, Excellent Works from the Collection-100 works of the Century, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Permanent Display I, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
The World of Trick Art the Fun of Getting Tricked, Takasaki Museum of Art, Gunma, Japan
Exhibition of the Family Scene Study Families in Japan, The Museum of Modern Art,Ibaraki, Japan
20th Century Art Through the Eyes of a Collector Tomio Isahai: Labyrinths and Art Museums, Takasaki Musseum of Art, Gunma, Japan; The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan; The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2005-2006
ABC in Contemporary Art, Art is close to you, Fukui City Art Museum (Art Lab Fukui), Fukui, Niitsu Art Forum, Niigata, Japan; Yawatahama Citizens Gallery (Mecenat Yawatahama), Ehime, Japan; Shunan City Museum of Art and History, Yamaguchi, Japan
2004-2005
The 5th Anniversary of the Museum Opening: Fluxus Art into Life, Urawa Art Museum, Saitama, Japan
2005
Drifting Objects of Dreams: The Collection of Shuzo Takiguchi, Setagaya Art Museum,Tokyo, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
The Fascination of 20th Century Paintings, Toyohashi City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
The 50th Anniversary Exhibition of the Museum: Make an Art Textbook from the Museum Collection, NiigataCity Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Xerography and 70s Art Space by Fuji Xerox, Tokyo, Japan
Reconsidering Mono-ha, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Reading Art, The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan
Colorful Hot Spring, Hot Spring of Painting, Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2005-2006
ABC in Contemporary Art, Art is close to you, Fukui City Art Museum (Art Lab Fukui), Fukui, Niitsu
2004-2005
Traces: Body and Idea in Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Japan Art Forum, Niigata, Japan
2004
Birth of New Art, Post-War Art, Kagawa Prefectural Culture Hall, Japan
Remaking Modernism in Japan 1900-2000, The University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of The Arts, Tokyo, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
Portray People, Works from Nerima Art Museum Collection, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Shoroku Hatakeyama Collection, Yorozu Tetsugoro Memorial Museum of Art, Iwate, Japan
Kuma Museum of Art, Ehime, Japan
Locus of a Collection of a Businessman, Place for Post-war Japanese Art, Shunan City Museum of Art and History, Yamaguchi, Japan; Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Japan
Another History: Contemporary Japanese Art from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, The Museum of Modern Art Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan
Deceiving Space, Fifteen Patterns of Contemporary Perspective, Urawa Art Museum, Saitama
Permanent Display Ⅱ Special Exhibition Variety of Landscapes, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
2003
Modern Japanese Art from the Museum Collection, The National Museum of ModernArt, Tokyo, Japan
Come to See Art, Kagawa Prefectural Culture Hall, Japan
Eleven Japanese, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
About Drawing Sound of Paper and Outline of Thoughts, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Period of Pop, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
Jiro Takamatsu and Akira Shimizu Jiro / Takamatsu and His Era, Viewing Room Yoyogi Garage/ Yumiko Chiba Associates, Gallery Jugenmon, Tokyo, Japan
Invitation to Contemporary Art Exhibition of the Collection, Hirano Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
Project Exhibition from the Collection by Junior Curators, Strangely Beautiful, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Art in Nerima 2003:Print/Western painting/Antipainting Representation and Technique, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Permanent Display Ⅱ, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
2002
The Unfinished Century: Legacies of 20th century Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
About Western Painting from the Museum Collection, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Tracing Museum's Dream with Collections of Matsukata, Ohara and Yamamura, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Retrospective of the Museum of Contemporary Art Nagaoka Award 1964-1968 Museum and Young Passionate Artists, Streaked through those days,The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Art and Culture Hall, The Nagaoka Chamber of Commerce & Industry 1F, Niigata, Japan
Contemporary Prints Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
As a Historical Painting Trial to Crossing Genres of Japanese, Western and Contemporary Painting, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
The Best Exhibition, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Chat @ Museum/Picasso,Ryusei Kishida,Warhl etc., Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan
Art Recognizes Virtual Images Between Mona Lisa and Mammon, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
1960's Graphism, Printing Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Vitality in Modernism: Collection from Iwaki City Art Museum, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan
Permanent Display II, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata
Excellent Works from the Collection, II, Permanent Display for 2002, Part II, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
2001-2002
Reconsidered Modern Art in Japan the 50th Anniversary of Museum Opening, The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura & Hayama, Japan
Through a Collector's Eye: Japanese Art after 1945, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
2001
Small, Very Small Exhibition, Anatomy and Its Expressions, Fukui City Art Museum, Fukui,
Vision, Selected Works from the Collection, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Permanent Collection. Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Enlarged Exhibition from the Museum Collection Site of Thought, Iwaki City Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan
Shuzo Takiguchi Floatage in Dreams, Kenminkaikan Museum of Art, Toyama, Japan
Try, Letters Exhibition from the Collection of Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido Kushiro City Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan
Invitation to Contemporary Art Japanese Avant-garde in 1960s, Tottori Prefectural Museum, Japan
Permanent Display Ⅰ, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Permanent Display II, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
2000
Nine Artists of Post-War Art from the Museum Collection, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Art '60-'80, Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
Fifteen Springs to Commemorate the 15th Anniversary of Museum Opening, Project Exhibition and the Collection, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
A Hundred Years of Modern Prints, West and the East, Aioi Shinrin Museum of Art, Tokushima, Japan
Person Painting of the 20th Century from the Collection of the Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Kushiro City Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan
Department Store of Contemporary Art, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Another Door the 20th Century Artists' Books, Urawa Art Museum, Saitama, Japan
Art Adventure IV, Surprising Dreams! The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
The Exhibition for Children 2000: Learning in and through Art, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
To Draw, To Live Mitaka City Collection of Painting, Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Japanese Art in the 20th Century 100 Years Depicted by Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
MA Twenty Years On The University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
Recording on Contemporary Art By Shigeo Anzai 1970-1999, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Permanent Display I, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
1999-2006
The Modernity of Japanese Art, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
1999
Contemporary Japanese Art I, 1950s-1970s from the Collection,The 10th Anniversary of Museum Opening, Introducing Aquisitions, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Eyes Watching the Space, Enjoying Painting and Space, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Japanese Prints 1945-1999, Expressions and Anti-Expressions of the Times, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Against Educational Course of Contemporary Art, The 20th Anniversary of Museum Opening, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
NICAF TOKYO '99, The 6th International Contemporary Art Festival, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Listening to Kaoru Abe, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
1998-1999
Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979, The Museum of Contemporary Art at the Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria; Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
1998
Observation of People's Lives, Kariya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
Passionate Expressions from Works in the 1960s, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Making it Visible: Graphic Elements in 20th Century Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Aspects of Line, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Art Exhibition for Children '98, Looking with Eyes, Body and Heart. How I See It and Feel It, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Japan
1997-1998
Special Exhibition Portraits of Women, Faces in Japanese Contemporary Art in Japan, The 20th Anniversary of Museum Opening, The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1997
Contemporary Art Seen By A Collector, Yamamura Collection, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Special Exhibition, The 20th Century Prints from the Museum, Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan
1997 Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair V, Nagoya City Museum, Aichi, Japan
The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: from the Permanent Collection, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Japanese Art, 1960s First Phase: Japanese Summer 1960-64 I Don't Give a Damn Anymore!, Art Tower Mito/ Contemporary Art Gallery, Ibaraki, Japan
Gravity Axis of Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Special Exhibition Toward Light, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
1996-1997
Expressions of Colors Winter Color, Spring Color, Looking At Changing Seasons, Kariya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
1996
Japanese Art 1964 Revived, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
Introduction to Contemporary Art for Parents and Children, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Art in Tokyo Series No.8, Inside and Outside of Art, Why Viewpoints Crossed Over, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Post-war Art Avant-garde in 1960s, Kurashiki City Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
1996 Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair V, Nagoya City Museum, Aichi, Japan
Ten Years of Avant-garde Artists-Self-transformation and Sustainability Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
Special Exhibition Prints in 1970s, The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Excellent Works from Chiba City Collection, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, japan
Dialogue with Landscape Expressions of Nature Seen in the Collection, The 10th Anniversary of Museum Opening, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
How Women Have Been Depicted, The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
A Section of Post-War Art Yamamura Collection Loaned by Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Japan1970, Matiere et Perception: Le Mono-ha et la Recherche des Fondements de l'Art Musee d'Art Moderne Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France
1995
Matter and Perception 1970: Mono-ha and the Search for Fundamentals, The Museum of Fine Arts Gifu, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan; The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, JapanSmall Sculptures and Drawings for Sculpture, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Small Two Dimensional Plain Works by Artists, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Hyogo AID '95 by Art, Exhibition of Posters to Support Restoration after Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, Duo Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Mito Annual '95, Painting Container and Measure, Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Center, Ibaraki, Japan
A Panorama of Modern Japanese Prints, Part II from the Museum Collection, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
1995 Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Nagoya City Museum, Aichi, Japan
Japanese Culture: The Fifty Post-War Years, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Iwaki City Museum of Art Collection, From Post-War to the Present, Iwaki City Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan
Art in Tokyo Series No.7, About Lines Nonexistent Modernism, Invisible Realism, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
ASIANA: Contemporary Art from the Far East, Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, Venice, Italy
Small Sculptures, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Special Exhibition of the Collection, Development of Human Figures, The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan
Summer Show, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Invitation to Abstract Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Method of Contemporary Art 1 Collage, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary History Engraved Prints of the World in 50 Years after the War, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Japan
1994-1995
Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan; Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in Association with the Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, USA
Hiroshima A Message for the 21st Century, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art,
Daimaru Museum, Umeda, Osaka, Japan
Koriyama City Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Art Exhibition for Children '95 Light of Art, Art of Light, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan
Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1994
Permanent Display VI, New Aquisitions, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Art in Tokyo Series No.6, When KaradaTurns Into Art (Organs and Body become Substance), Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1994 Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Nagoya City Museum, Aichi, Japan
Introduction to Contemporary Art Easy to Understand Contemporary Art, Change in Art in the Post-War Period, Iwaki City Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan
Summer Selection Paper Work, Galerie Humanite, Tokyo, Japan
Self Portrait in Japan I Looking At Myself, Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1993-1994
Permanent Display V, Beyond the Mundane, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Collection of Mitaka City Vol.1, Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1993
1993 Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Nagoya City Museum, Aichi, Japan
Springtime Display- Permanent Collection, The Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Modern Japanese Art from the Museum Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Taikoh Collection, Foreseeing View...Reconstructed: to Commemorate the Opening of the Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Japan
Art in Tokyo Series No.5, Reproduction and Quotation, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1992
1992 Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Nagoya City Museum, Aichi, Japan
Diverse Aspects of Small Groups, Formation of Post-War Art, Part 1 Ushio Shinohara and the Times 1961-1969, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Universe of Books Container to Carry Poetic Sentiment, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan
New Drawings, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Art '92 Destination of Expressions IV Mitsukoshi Department Store, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan
Original Works for the Picture Books Part II, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
World of Contemporary Art from the Collection of Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Shimane Prefectural Museum, Japan
Adam and Eve, The 10th Anniversary of Museum Opening, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
1991
Painting of the Showa Period Post-War, Himeji City Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
Contemporary Art, USA and Japan from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art Shiga, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Family Museum '91, World of Children's Stories / Kenji Miyazawa, The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Japan
Line in Contemporary Art The Destination of Eyes and Hands, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Painting of the Showa Period, Part 3, Post-War Regeneration and Development, The 10th Anniversary of Museum Opening, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Japan
Japanese Anti Art: Now and Then, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Modernism and Beyond, The 20th Century Japanese Painting, The 3rd Anniversary of Museum Opening, The Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1990-1991
12 Avant-garde Artists of Postwar Japan, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
1990
A Section of 1960s Contemporary Art, Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair III, Nagoya Electricity Museum Building, Aichi, Japan
Pharmakon '90 Posters and Bags, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Pharmakon '90, Contemporary Art Exhibition Nippon Convention Center, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan
Art and Vision from Japanese Modern Art, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Japan
Permanent Display, Lines as the words of picture, Niigata City Museum, Niigata, Japan
1989-1990
Our All Time Favourites Western Style Art Masterworks of the Showa Period, Matsuya Ginza Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Mitsukoshi Hiroshima Gallery, Hiroshima, Japan; Daimaru Shinsaibashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1989
Painting and Letter, Painted Letters and Written Paintings, Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan
The Space: Material, Tension, Vacancy in Japanese Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Prints, Taipei, Taiwan
The Yamamura Collection Complete Works, Hyogo Ptectural The Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Japan
Himeji Shirotopia Expo '89, Art in Himeji Beautiful Castle, People and Time, Himeji City Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
1989 Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair, Nagoya Electricity Museum Building, Aichi, Japan
Art Today the Museum Collection, Iwaki City Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan
Print Works by Twelve Artists, Heineken Village, Tokyo, Japan
Painting & Relief, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Art of the Showa Period from the Museum Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Drawing as Itself, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
On Kawara Again and Against, ICA Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
1988-1989
Contemporary Japanese Art after 1945 Collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Hachinohe City Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan; Sumpu Museum, Shizuoka, Japan; Sogo Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
1988
Museum for Children and Parents '88, Looks So Real Realistic World, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan
Homage to Tomio Miki, 10th Anniversary of His Death, Galerie Tokoro, Tokyo, Japan
The 13th Original Works for Picture Books, Special Exhibition World of Kenji Miyazawa, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan
Paintings of the Twentieth Century to Commemorate the Museum Opening, Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
Contemporary Art 1988 by Eleven Artists Kahitsukan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan
Permanent Display Human Nature, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
1987
Icons in Contemporary Art Within Paper, Humans, Things and Time, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Housaku Saito and Japanese Pointillism, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Contemporary Painting of Japan from the Perspective of Avant-garde, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
1986-1989
Japon des Avant-gardes 1910-1970 (Japanese Avant-gardes), Le Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1986
The Frederick R.Weisman Foundation Collection of Art Laforet Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
Institute of Contemporary Arts Nagoya, Aichi, Japan; Navio Museum, Osaka, Japan; Sogo Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Original Works for the Picture Books, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Today's Watercolor '86, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The 14th Ryu Contemporary Art Sakaide Civic Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Art, The Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
Black and White in Art Today, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Kanagawa Art Dialogue for Peace, Okurayama Memorial Hall, Kanagawa, Japan
Culture of Water, Effects of Trees, Ishinomaki Culture Center, Hokkaido, Japan
December Exhibition by Twelve Artists, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
A Panorama of Modern Japanese Prints from the Museum Collection, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Reconstructions: Avantgarde Art in Japan 1945-1965, The Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1985- 1986
1985 Japanese Prints, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan
1985
Special Exhibition Series 1 ... from 1960s, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The 10th Anniversary of Museum Opening, Contemporary Sculpture in Japan, Wood Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Japan
Locus of Contemporary Prints; Post-war Prints by 43 Artists, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Conceptual Art, Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
Self-Portrait Today, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
10th Anniversary of New Building 40 Years of Japanese Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
Imaginary Monuments Vision, Dream, Image, Kaneko Art Gallery, with Contemporary Art-Anniversary of Gallery's Opening, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Group Show of Mitsuo Kano, Jiro Takamatsu, and Koichi Tanigawa, Galerie Humanite, Tokyo, Japan
Yamamura Collection Research Meeting, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
1984
Three Sculptors and Painters Koshimizu, Takamatsu, Miyawaki II, L'Institut franco-japonais de Tokyo, Japan
Japanese Contemporary Paintings; 1960-1980, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Original Works of New Picture Books: Jiro Takamatsu for Kenji Miyazawa's The Fourth Day of the Narcissus Month, and Ufan Lee for Miyazawa's Acorns and Wildcat, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The 3rd Tokyo Gallery Human Documents '84, '85, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
To Commemorate the Opening of Tsurui Yoseimura Hospital and Yoseimura Art Museum Sasaki Gallery, Hokkaido, Yoseimura Art Museum, Japan; Tsurui Yoseimura Hospital, Hokkaido, Japan
Trends of Contemporary Japanese Art 1970-1984; Its International Quality and Uniqueness, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
Artists To-day '84, Contemporary Expression of Faces, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
Diversified Contemporary Art, Sculpture and Prints Museum Collection and More, Iwaki City Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan
1983
Shape and Spirits in Wood Works, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
DADA in Japan: Japanische Avangarde 1920-1970 (Exhibition of documentary photos), Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
Now Frontier of Art, Isetan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Realism Now, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Trends of Japanese Art in the 1960s Departure for Diversity, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
1982
Modern Japanese Art Part 1 (1945); the 30th Anniversary Exhibition from the Museum Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Today's Illustration, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Japan
A Panorama of Contemporary Art in Japan Oil Painting, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Art of Miyagi from Museum Collection, Special Opening Exhibition Part 2, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Japan
1981-1982
The 1960s A Decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
1981
The world in Contemporary Prints 1955 - 1980, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan; Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Japan
New Art Collection of Iwaki City in 1980 15th Anniversary of Iwaki City, Iwaki Culture Center, Fukushima, Japan
Toyama Now '81 New Art Around the Pacific, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
A Scene of Contemporary Japanese Art 1st Anniversary of Museum Opening, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sandai, Japan
Japanese Contemporary Art, Japanese Art from 1970s, Korean Cultural Center's Art Hall, Seoul, Korea
Small Works, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Special Exhibition from The Gallery Collection, Tokyo Gallery, Japan
1980
Artists Today 2 Jiro Takamatsu Sadamasa Motonaga, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Form and Spirit in Japanese Art, The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Collages, Jiyugaoka Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Expressions with Paper, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
One Aspect of Contemporary Prints, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
Contemporary Asian Art Show II, 1st Anniversary of Museum Opening Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Small Works (New Works and Works from 1969s), Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1979
Japanese Abstract Art Blooming in 1960s, Galerie Humanite, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Course of Modern Japanese Art from Meiji, Taisho to Showa Period, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Japan; Kyoto Municipal Art Museum, Japan
Kusuo Shimizu and Artists, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Great Artists Series III Post-War Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura & Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan
Small Works, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
MA Space Time in Japan, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, The Smithsonian Institutions, National Museum of Design, New York, NY
1978
MA Espace Temps du Japon, Musee d'Arts Decoratifs Paris, France
Tokyo Gallery Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Testimony of Age; Paris Biennale '59-'73, Contemporary Art Where it is heading, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Shapes of Chairs from Design to Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
1977
Tokyo Gallery Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Five Contemporary Artists Drawing and Watercolor, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Painting and Photography from 1980 to Today, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany
Drawings by Five Artists, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Forms Today Architecture and Sculpture, Tokyo Central Annex, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Art in Japan Domestic Art and International Art, 5th Anniversary of Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan
Artists Today '77 The Richness of Painting, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
The 10th Japan Art Festival, Nihonbashi Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
1976
Seven Italian Artists and Seven Japanese Artists, Italian Cultural Institute Hall, Tokyo, Japan
1975
Modern Japanese Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
A Quarter Century of Contemporary Art 1970-1975, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan
View of Japanese Contemporary Art, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Gallery '76, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1974-1975
Japan in Louisiana, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst Humlebaek, Denmark; Goteborgs Konst Museum med Konsthallen, Sweden; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Hovikodden, Norway
1974
Aspect '74, Fukuoka Prefectural Culture Hall, Japan
Japan: Tradition and Modernism, Stadtlische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
The 11th Tokyo Biennale, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Japan
Fourth British International Print Biennale, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Nomura Multiple Art, Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
Today's Japanese Art '74, Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal and other locations, Canada
1973
The 11th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Twenty Years of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The 8th Japan Art Festival, Japan Exhibition, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Japan Art Festival, Moderna Galeria Ljubljana, Yugoslavia; Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
The Art of Surface: a Survey of Contemporary Japanese Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and other locations in Australia
The 12th Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Show windows by Contemporary Artists, Yamagiwa Show Window, Tokyo, Japan
Seibu Department Store Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
The 8th International Biennale of Prints, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
1972-1973
The 1st Contemporary Japanese Graphics Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, ICA, London, United Kingdom
1972
Development of Postwar Japanese Art: Figurative Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Japan Art Festival, Museo de Ciencias y Arte de la UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Birds Eye View of Japanese Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Exhibition of Parts, Shinanobashi Gallery Apron, Osaka, Japan
Vesuvius Project, Japan Version, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Galleria II Centro, Napoli, Italy
Catastrophe, Pinnar Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
La Galleria San Fedele, Milano, Italy
The 1st Contemporary Print Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, United Kingdom
Gohyo-kai (with "Juku" members), Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan
1971
6th Guggenheim International Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Words and Image, Pinnar Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Chronicle of Post-War Art, The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura & Hayama, Japan
Tokyo Gallery Exhibition 1971, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo/Pinnar Gallery, Tokyo/Saikodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The 10th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan: Humans and Nature, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Japan
Aichi Cultural Hall, Japan
Miyazaki Prefectural Museum of Nature and History, Japan
Sasebo Central Citizens Hall, Nagasaki, Japan
Fukuoka Prefectural Culture Hall, Japan
Beaupin Exhibition, Pinnar Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The 1st Anniversary Exhibition & 100th Anniversary of Mainichi Shimbun, Today's 100 People, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Prints, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
The 5th Japan Art Festival, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The 7th International Biennial Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1970-1971
Contemporary Japanese Art, Staempfi Gallery, New York, NY
1970
EXPO '70, Outdoor installation in Sunday Plaza, Osaka, Japan
The 10th Tokyo Biennale '70; Human and Materials, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Japan
Aichi Cultural Hall, Japan
Tokyo Gallery Human Documents '70, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Art Clock, Mitsukoshi Department Store, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan
August 1970; Aspects of New Japanese Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Open Atelier with Renjin Tajima and Chokichi Kawai at his residence, Tokyo, Japan
1969
The 9th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Part 2, Frontier of Contemporary Art Three-dimensional and Concept, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Japan
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Contemporary Art: Dialogue between the East and the West, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
The 1st International Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Hakone Open Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
Excellent Works of Contemporary Art, Exhibition to commemorate 100th Anniversary of Cultivation of Kushiro City, Marusan Tsuruya, Hokkaido, Japan
The 6th Paris Biennale, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris, France
Three dimensional Out and In, Ginza Tajima, Tokyo, Japan
Japanese Contemporary Art (Tour of ICA London exhibition), Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo/
Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1968-1969
Fluorescent Chrysanthemum, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom
1968
Preview exhibition of the 34th Venice Biennial Exhibits from Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Tricks and Vision, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The 34th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Mutual Influences between Japanese and Western Arts, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
The 5th Exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Art Nagaoka Award, Seibu Department Store Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan
1967-1968
The 2nd Japan Art Festival, Ilicai, Honolulu, HI; Maison Blanche Department Store, New Orleans, LA; The May Department Store, Cleveland, OH; Natural Gaz, Houston, TX; Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
1967
The 9th Tokyo Biennale '67, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Japan
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
Sasebo Central Citizens Hall, Nagasaki, Japan
Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Japan
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
The 2nd Preliminary Show of Japan Art Festival, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Inconvenience of Expressions, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The 5th Paris Biennale, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Object 67, Galerie Fels et Cie, Paris, France
Art in Wonderland, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
AN 10 Exhibition, New Smith Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
1966
New Generation of Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Portraits, Baikatei Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Trends in Contemporary Japanese painting and Sculpture, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Modern Art of Japan, Galleria d'Arte del Cavallino, Venice, Italy
The 10th Shell Art Award Exhibition, Shirakiya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Artists Today Exhibition 1966, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
From Space to Environment, Matsuya Department Store Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
1965
Big Fight, Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The 9th Shell Art Award Exhibition, Gallery Itoh, Tokyo, Japan
The 2nd Exhibition for the First Prize of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagaoka
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Niigata, Japan
Critical Art Exhibition, Part 2, Baikatei Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1964
Large Panorama Exhibition, Naiqua Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
OFF MUSEUM, Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Independent '64 Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
The 8th Shell Art Award Exhibition, Nihonbashi Shiraki-ya, Tokyo, Japan
1963
The 15th Yomiuri Independent, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
The 5th Mixer Plan, Shinjuku Daiichi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The 6th Mixer Plan, Miyata Naika, Tokyo, Japan
Room in Alibi, Naiqua Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Market Exhibition, NHK Studio, Tokyo, Japan
Naiqua Collection, Naiqua Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1962
The 14th Yomiuri Independent, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
Yamanote Line Festival, Yamanote Line and Platform, Japan
1961
The 13th Yomiuri Independent, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
1960
Group Exhibition of Artists in their 20s, Mitsukoshi Department Store Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan
1959
The 11th Yomiuri Independent, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
1958
The 10th Yomiuri Independent, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1957
The 5th Nippon Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan