Shiryu Morita (Japanese, 1912–1999)

Timeline

1912: Born in Toyooka, Japan
1939: won the Minister of Education award
1951: published the first issue of Bokubi, a publication devoted to sumi arts
1952: he started the Bokujin group, an association of calligraphic artists with whom he exhibited regularly
1954: his work was included in Japanese Calligraphy at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the same year in an exhibition of Japanese and American abstraction at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo
1953–1961: Morita lectured at Wakayama University

1990: ein Japanischer Schreibmeister took place at the Klingspor-Museum, Offenbach am Main, Germany
1970–1990: one man exhibition organised by the National Gallery of Canada that toured the world
1986: a retrospective of his work was held in Kyoto and Shiryu Morita
1965: Shiryu Morita at Olaf Hudtwalcker Gallery in Frankfurt (solo)
1964: Yamada Gallery in Kyoto (solo)
Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (and other venues) in Contemporary Japanes Painting
1963: he was in Tendency of Contemporary Japanese Painting at the National Museum of Modern Art in Sydney, Australia
Gallery, New York EXHIBITED New York, Mi Chou Gallery. Sho Modern Calligraphy
Mi Chou Gallery in New York (solo)
1962: Contemporary Japanese Plastic Arts at the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art
Morita helped organize Schrift und Bild, held the following year in Baden-Baden at the National Museum of Fine Arts, an exhibition that traveled to Amsterdam
1961: Sao Paulo Biennale
Carnegie International Exhibitions in Pittsburgh
1960: Japanese calligraphy in Freiburg, Germany
1959: Sao Paulo Biennale
1958: Carnegie International Exhibitions in Pittsburgh
Modern Abstract Japanese Calligraph, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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