1943　　Born in Saitama Pref.Japan

1968　　Graduated from Tama Art University

1992　　Began teaching at Meisei University, Department of Japanese Culture (professor from
1993)

1997　　Became professor of printmaking at Musashino Art University

1999　　Died in Kanagawa

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024

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

 

2013
Yokota Shigeru Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Red, Canvas, Electricity…” Paris 1971-Tokyo 1994 + Prints, Kamakura, Japan

 

2011
Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan (’13)

 

2008-09
Print Work 1969-1979,Fuji Xerox Art Space, Japan

 

2006
Museum Hous Kasuya, Yokosuka, Japan

 

1999
SOKO Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

 

1988
IBM Gallery, Kawasaki, Japan

 

1986
Sairin Gallery, Yokohama (’88)

 

1982
Art Front Gallery, Tokyo

 

1979
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo (’87, ’89, ’92)

 

1978
Gallery Te, Tokyo

 

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
2024
Tectonic Shifts in Printing, Printmaking and Graphic Design 1957–1979, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

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
Katsuro Yoshida and Katsuhiko Narita: Colors, Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
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

 

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
Other Primary Structures, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

 

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

 

2001
Mono-ha: School of Things, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge/ Newlyn Art Gallery, United Kingdom

 

1998
Magnetic field of Contemporary Art―1998, Tsukuba Museum of Art/Central Park, Ibaraki, Japan

 

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
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
The 34th Annual Yasui Prize Exhibition, Sezon Musium of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

 

1990
Minimal Art, National Museum of Art , Osaka, Japan
The 26th Today’s Artists, Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohamama, Japan

 

1989
The 9th HARA ANNUAL, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
ART EXCITING ’89, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan

 

1988
Mono-ha, Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

 

1987
Art in Japan since 1969: Mono-ha and Post-Mono-ha, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo

 

1986
Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Le Japon des Avant-Gardes 1910-1970, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

 

1985
Trace of Contemporary Prints, Fukushima Prefectural Museum, Japan

 

1984
Contemporary Japanese Prints, Museum Of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
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

 

1978
The 4th Norwegian International Print Biennale, Norway

 

1975
The 11th International Biennale Exhibition of Prints, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

1974
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
Operation Vesuvio, Minami Gallery, Tokyo & Centro Gallery, Napoli, Italy
The 1st Contemporary Japanese Graphics Exhibition, London, U.K.

 

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 7th Paris Youth Biennale, Parc Floral de Paris

 

1970
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

 

 

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)