Shiro Kuramata (Japanese, –1991)

Timeline

1934
Born in Tokyo

Exhibitions

2012–2013
Shiro Kuramata. Design Museum Gent, Gent, Belgium
2010–2012
The Essence of Things, Traveling exhibition: Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany; Design Museum, Gent, Belgium; Museum August Kestner, Hannover, Germany; Vitra Design Museums, Weil am Rhein
2011
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
2011
Shiro Kuramata and Ettore Sottsass. 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo, Japan
2011
Modern by Design. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
2010
Revisited. The Gallery Mourmans, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
2003
Moins et Plus. Musée d’art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, Franc
1999
Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France, October-December
1999
Österreichisches Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria January-March
1999
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, June – August
1996–1999
Shiro Kuramata 1934-1991. Traveling exhibition: Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, June-September
1998
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, New York, June-September
1998
Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Montreal, Canada, October-December
1997
Centro Cultural, Mexico City, Mexico, April-June
1997
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, August-December
1997
Designed for Delight. Alternative aspects of twentieth-century decorative arts. Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec, Canada; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
1995
Japan Today, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
1994
Collection: Chairs of the 20th Century, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
1994
Japanese Design—A Survey Since 1950, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1994
Images du Futur—’94 Japon, Old Port of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
1993
Electronic Surface—Liquid Structure, O Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1991
Il Dolce Stilnovo della Casa, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
1991
Design Connection—Shiro Kuramata Memorial, Porte de Versailles, Paris, France
1991
TAPIS, Galerie Yves Gastou, Paris, France
1991
Sealing of Dreams, Gallery MA, Tokyo, Japan
1990
Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy
1990
Il Palazzo and Six Designers, Gallery MA, Tokyo, Japan
1990
I Spiritelli, Museo Alchimia, Milan, Italy
1989
Memphis & Transavanguardia, Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Aoyama, Tokyo; Fukuyama Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1989
Uny Group. Bi ! Kujira, Yatai at World Design Exposition ’89, Nagoya, Japan
1989
Europalia 1989 Japan, Brussels, Belgium
1989
Shiro Kuramata, Galerie Yves Gastou, Paris, France
1988
Petits Architectures Nomades (Little Nomad Architecture), Galerie Yves Gastou, Paris, France
1988
KAGU Tokyo Designer’s Week ’88, Axis Gallery Annex, Tokyo, Japan
1988
Image Up Project Exhibition for Furniture from Shizuoka. Axis Gallery, Tokyo; Shizuoka Isetan Department Store, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
1988
Craft Council, Sydney, Australia
1988
In*Spiration Lighting Design Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan; Paris, France; Milan, Italy
1987
The 1987 Vitra International Exhibition, Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
1987
IDÉE Shiro Kuramata Exhibition, IDÉE Shop, Tokyo, Japan
1987
Milano Furniture Salon Exhibition, Zeus Hall, Milan, Italy
1987
Intellectual Interior, Shibuya PARCO Part 3, Space Part 3, Tokyo, Japan
1987
Exhibition Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Tokyo High School for the Arts, Tokyo High School for the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
1987
Memphis Vol. 8, Milan, Italy
1987
Shiro Kuramata Exhibition, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
1986
Kagu—Mobilier, The Royal Monastery of Fontainebleau, France
1986
Chairs, San Francisco Airport Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986
1910—1970 Japon des Avant-Gardes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1986
Cappellini Presents the Furniture by Shiro Kuramata, Museum of Milan, Milan, Italy
1986
Project K3, Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1986
Tokyo: Form and Spirit, Axis Gallery (1985), Walker Arts Center and other cities in the USA
1986
Shiro Kuramata, Galerie Yves Gastou, Paris, France
1985
Contemporary Landscape: From the Horizon of Postmodern Design, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1985
Tokyo: Its Shape and Substance Tokyo in Tokyo, A collaboration with Tadao Ando, Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1985
Time Piece, Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1985
Time Machine, Gallery 911, New York, NY
1985
Prints by Twenty Top International Artists, Laforet Museum Akasaka, Tokyo and Kyoto International Conference Hall, Japan
1985
A Panorama of Contemporary Art in Japan—Design of Daily Life, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
1985
Japan Creative Exhibition, Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
1985
Clock: Five Artists, Tokyo, Japan and New York, NY
1985
Shiro Kuramata Smal, Cassina Japan Showroom, Tokyo, Japan
1984
Japanese Designers—Tradition and the Present, Central Hall of the Soviet Artists Alliance, Moscow, Russia
1984
Phoenix / New Attitudes in Design, Queen’s Quay Terminal, Toronto, Canada
1983
From Spoons to Cities: One Hundred Designers at Work, Milan, Italy
1983
Memphis Vol. 4, Milan, Italy
1983
Tokyo International Lighting Design Competition 1983, Livina Yamagiwa, Tokyo, Japan
1983
Design Gallery Exhibition No. 302 Terrazzo Shiro Kuramata, Matsuya Ginza Design Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1982
Memphis Vol. 3, Milan, Italy
1982
Casa Italia—Memphis Group Exhibition, Seibu Department Store, Ikeukuro, Tokyo, Japan
1981
Memphis Vol. 2, Milan, Italy
1981
Small Small Exhibition, Ao Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1981
M.T.I. ‘Furniture by Architects,’ Cambridge, England
1981
Three Designers Exhibition, Ina Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1981
Metal Sculpture Exhibition, Mikimoto Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1981
Design Forum ’81, Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
1981
Lighting Exhibition, Mikimoto Hall,Tokyo, Japan
1981
System Monopoll, Matsuya Ginza Design Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1978
Design and Art of Modern Chairs, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
1978
MA Espace-Temps du Japon, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
1977
Isu (chair), Tokyo Designers Space, Tokyo, Japan
1977
Small Small Exhibition, Ao Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1977
Art Today ’77—Structure of Visuality, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1976
Wonderland, Ao Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1976
One Day One Show, Tokyo Designers Space, Tokyo, Japan
1975
Wall Paper Design by Ten Designers, Kawakichi, Tokyo, Japan
1975
Negation of Form, Kirony Interior In, Tokyo, Japan
1975
Akari (Light) Exhibition, Ao Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1975
Experiment Work, Matsuya Ginza Design Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1973
A Glimpse of Kuramata’s Work, Matsuya Ginza Design Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1972
The Modern Living Interior Exhibition, Maison du Meuble, Tokyo, Japan
1972
Tokyo International Lighting Design Competition 1972, Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
1972
Acrylic Lamps, Gallery Fujie, Tokyo, Japan
1971
The 11th São Paulo International Biennale. São Paulo, Brazil
1970
Seibu New Form Interiro Show IE No. 2, Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
1970
Good Design Exhibition ’70, Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
1970
Shaggy Art Exhibition, Detzi Building, Tokyo, Japan
1968
DESIGN FOR LIVING, Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

Public Collections

Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Toyama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Toyama City, Japan
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Vitra Design Museum, Basel, Switzerland
Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Fonds national d'art contemporain, France
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Kunstgewerbemuseum Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
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