Touch “To Spring” Ⅱ, 1998
oil, acrylic, graphite on canvas
Profile
1943 Born in Saitama Pref.Japan
1968 Graduated from Tama Art University
1973 Received a grant from Japanese Government to stay in England
1943 Commission work for Mural Painting at City Hall, Kamakura, Japan
1999 Died in Kanagawa
Biography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
Yoshida Katsuro: Touching Things, Landscapes, and the World, The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama/ The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2018
cut-off, Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
2017
SPACE23°C, Tokyo, Japan
2011
Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan (’13)
2010
Yokota Shigeru Gallery, Tokyo
2006
Museum Hous Kasuya, Yokosuka, Japan
1991
Yamanoue Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
1988
IBM Gallery, Kawasaki, Japan
1986
Sairin Gallery, Yokohama (’88)
1984
Gallery Konko, Kamakura, Japan
1982
Art Front Gallery, Tokyo
1981
Art in Gagasha, Saitama
1980
Soker-Kasman Gallery, San Francisco
Gallery Saienshi, Morioka, Japan
1979
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo (’87, ’89, ’92)
1978
Gallery Te, Tokyo
1977
Upstairs Gallery, San Francisco
1976
Jyujiya Gallery, Yamagata, Japan
NDA Gallery, Sapporo, Japan
1975
Gallery Coco, Kyoto (’83, ’89, ’90)
Ao Gallery, Tokyo (’77, ’85)
1973
Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo (’74, ’76)
1971
Shirota Gallery, Tokyo
Pinar Gallery, Tokyo
1969
Tamura Gallery, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
MOT Collection: Rewinding the Collection 2nd, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
In the door open? Tracing the 40-year history of MOMAS and its collection, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2021
Photographic Distance: Distance between World and Me measured by Blurred Pictures and Continuous Gradation, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
2019
DECODE / Events & Materials The Work of Art in the Age of Post-Industrial Society, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2017
Japanese conceptual photography from the 70′s, GALERIE CHRISTOPHE GAILLARD, Paris/GALERIE 1900-2000, Paris
Collection Exhibition 2017-Spring , The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
2015
MONO-HA, Fondazione Mudima, Milano, Italy
2014
Image and Matter in Japanese Photography from the 1970s, curated by Yumiko Chiba, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
40th Anniversary Exhibition Part 2 Turning Point of Japanese Art after World War II, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
Other Primary Structures, The Jewish Museum, USA, Upper East Side
2013
Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s, The Warehouse, Dallas
2012
Requiem for Sun: The Art of Mono-ha, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/ Gradstone Gallery, New York
2010
Drawing in the Dark, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Gallery 4)
2007
What is Mono-ha?, Tokyo Gallery and Beijing Tokyo Art Projects
2006
MOT Collection-Art after 1960, Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka
2005
Reconsidering Mono-ha, National Museum of Art, Osaka
2004
Traces: Body and idea in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Art, Osaka
2001
Mono-ha Collection, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
Mono-ha: School of Things, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge/ Newlyn Art Gallery, United Kingdom
1997
Gravity: Axis of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Art, Osaka
1995
Matter and Perception 1970: Mono-ha and the Search for Fundamentals, Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu/ Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art/ Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art/ The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
ASIANA: Contemporary Art from the Far East, Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, Venice
1994
Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art/ Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York/ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (~1995)
Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
1992
Boîts Ⅱ , Sairin Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Today’s Artists IV Yamamoto Masamichi/ Yoshida Katsuro, The Museum of Modern Art,Kamakura, Japan
1991
The Artists of Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Ing-mixing ’91, space 1-11-1, Tokyo
New Outlook ’91, Gallery Coco, Kyoto, Japan
Tama Vivan ’91, Seibu Seed Hall, Tokyo
1990
Exhibition of Contemporary “Folding Screen Picture”, Sairin Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
〈AKA & SHIRO + 1〉, Sairin Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Yokohama Art Show, Odessa East and West Museum, USSR
Minimal Art, National Museum of Art , Osaka, Japan
Ing-mixing ’90, space 1-11-1, Tokyo
Printed Art, Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan
The 26th Today’s Artists, Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohamama, Japan
1989
The 9th HARA ANNUAL, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Landscape”Yokohama”, Sairin Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
-ing theater ’89, space 1-11-1, Tokyo
ART EXCITING ’89, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
BIENNALE du dessin de l’estampe et du papier du Québec, Canada
Mono-ha, Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
1988
-ing theater, space 1-11-1, Tokyo
Haiku in Drawings, Gallery Gen, Tokyo
Yokohama city Exhibition, Yokohama & Shanghai Museum
1987
Drawing 1978, Gallery Coco, Kyoto, Japan
-ing theater, space 1-11-1, Tokyo
Art in Japan since 1969: Mono-ha and Post-Mono-ha, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo
1986
Japanese Art Today, Mandeville Gallery U.C.S.D., California
Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Exhibition of Aspects, Sairin Gallery, Yokohama
Le Japon des Avant-Gardes 1910-1970, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1985
The 2nd International Biennale Exhibition of prints in Taipei, Republic of China
Trace of Contemporary Prints, Fukushima Prefectural Museum, Japan
1984
The 8th British International Print Biennale, Bradford, U.K.
Contemporary Japanese Prints, Museum Of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Inter-Grafik ’84, Berlin, G.D.R
The 29th Annual Print Show, C.W.A.J., Tokyo
The 3rd Human Documents ’84/’85, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1983
Birgit Skiold and her Friends, Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo
1981
Contemporary Art of Japan, Seoul, Korea
Ten Artists Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan
1979
The 6th British International Print Biennale, Bradford, U.K.
1978
The 4th Norwegian International Print Biennale, Norway
Work on Paper, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1977
The 12th International Biennale Exhibition of Prints, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Contemporary Art of Japan, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
1976
The 5th British International Print Biennale, Bradford, U.K.
Ibiza Graphic ’76, Ibiza, Spain
1975
The 11th International Biennale Exhibition of Prints, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Japanese Prints 1975, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
1974
ARS ’74 Ateneum, Fine Art Academy of Finland
The 4th International Biennale Exhibition of Prints, Florence, Italy
The 5th International Biennale Exhibition of Prints, Cracow, Poland
Japan: Tradition und Gegenwart, Städtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
The 9th International Biennale Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo/ National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1973
The 8th Japan Art Festival, Tokyo Central Museum (traveled to America)
Japanese Prints Show, Oxford University Press, England
Graphics from Print Workshop-London, Boston University Art Gallery
1972
The 4th International Biennale Exhibition of Prints, Cracow, Poland
The 2nd International Biennale Exhibition of Prints, Seoul, Korea
Operation Vesuvio, Minami Gallery, Tokyo & Centro Gallery, Napoli, Italy
The 1st Contemporary Japanese Graphics Exhibition, London, U.K.
The 8th International Biennale Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo/ National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1971
The 10th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan: Man and Nature, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum/ Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art/ Aichi Prefectural Cultural Hall
The 9th International Biennale Exhibition of Prints, Ljubljana, Slovenija
The 4th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture, Ube, Japan
The 7th Paris Youth Biennale, Parc Floral de Paris
1970
L’exposition d’œuvre gravées, Galerie C.M. casse, Paris
Human Documents ’70, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
Trends in Contemporary Japanese Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
August 1970-Aspects of New Japanese Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Artist Today ’70, Yokohama Municipal Gallery
The 1st International Biennale Exhibition of Prints, Seoul, Korea-Awarded a Grand Prix
The 7th International Biennale Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1969
Trends in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1968
The 8th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
9 Visional Points, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
Selected Public Collection
The British Museum
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection
The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama (Japan)
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Japan)
The National Museum of Art, Osaka (Japan)
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (Japan)
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Japan)
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama (Japan)