78-5-B, 1978
color feltpen on photograph

1939 Born in Kobe, JAPAN
1962 Graduated from Kyoto City University of Fine Arts
1994 Died in Kobe

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017
In Search of Substantiality – Unifying the Absolute and the Relative, Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku, Tokyo

2014-15
Kazuyo Kinoshita Memorial Museum, Kobe

2005
Gallery Shimada, Kobe (’14, ’16)

2001
Art Gallery K, Kobe

1989
AD&A Gallery, Osaka (’91, ’92, ’94, ’96)

1982
Tor Road Gallery, Kobe (’84-’90)

1977
Contemporary Art Series : Self-Portrait ’77, Art Core Gallery, Kyoto

1981
Heidelberger Kunstverein, West Germany

1974
Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo (’75, ’76, ’78, ’80, ’82, ’83)

1972
galerie16, Kyoto (’73-’78, ’80, ’82, ’91)

1966
Wiener Gallery, Kobe, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
The Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art Inaugural Exhibition, 250 Years of Kyoto Art Masterpieces, From Edo to Today, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

2018
New Wave: Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1980s, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

2017
Becoming & Dissolving, ALICE BLACK, London, UK
Japanese conceptual photography from the 70′s, GALERIE CHRISTOPHE GAILLARD, Paris/ GALERIE 1900-2000, Paris

2016
Paris Photo 2016, Grand Palais, Paris, France

2015-16
For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/ Grey Art Gallery, NY/ Japan Society, NY

2008
Kazuyo Kinoshita and Nakata Jitsuro Collection, Gallery Shimada, Kobe

2006
Yoshimi Okuda and Kazuyo Kinoshita, Gallery Shimada, Kobe (’11)

1997
Recommendations for an ‘I’ Art – Why I Was Painted, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1994
Art in Kansai 1950′s-1970′s, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art,Kobe

1993
Video: A New World–The Potential of the Medium, O Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1992
Paintings Now – OSAKA ’92, Osaka Contemporary Art Center

1989
Das Foto als autonomes Bild Experimentelle Gestaltung 1839-1989, Bielefeld, Munich, West Germany

1988
“Artists Today”-Phases Multiple Movement-, organized by Hideki Nakamura, Yokohama Citizen Gallery

1987
5th Osaka Contemporary Art Fair ’87, Osaka Contemporary Art Center

1984
Hyogo Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe
International Experimental Art, Petofi Osarnok, Budapest, Hungary

1982
“Travaux sur Papier”, organized by Dany Bloch, Paris, France
Photography in Contemporary Art,” MOMAT and MOMAK

1978
“Art Now ’78″, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe
12th Tokyo Biennale, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

1977
8th International Young Artists Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Self-Portrait ’77: From the Present to the Present, Art Core Gallery, Kyoto
Hyogo Prefectural Art Festival, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe

1976
12th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (’77, ’79)

1974
“Photo/Art” Gallery Signum, Kyoto
“Video/Kyoto/1974″, Gallery Signum, Kyoto
“Signifying”, Language-Thing/with the manifestation of attitude, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Fine Arts

1972
Exhibition with Yoshimi Okuda, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo

1963
Kyoto Independents Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Fine Arts (’71-’85)

1960-66
Group Exhibitions, Kobe, Osaka Kyoto

Award
1989
13th Contemporary Art Exhibition o Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Awarded The prize of Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art

Selected Public Collection
Itami City Museum of Art (Japan)
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka (Japan)
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (Japan)
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (Japan)
The National Museum of Art, Osaka (Japan)
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art (Japan)
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Japan)
Learned Memorial Library in Doshisha University (Japan)
Nagoya City Art Museum (Japan)
Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City (Japan)
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art (Japan)
Fukuyama Museum of Art (Japan)
Wakayama Museum of Modern Art (Japan)
FLORIANE DE SAINT PIERRE & ASSOCIES (Japan)