Tetsumi Kudo (Japanese, 1990)

Timeline

1935
Born in Osaka, Japan
1958
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
1962
Moves to Paris, France
1987
Returns to Japan
1990
Died in Tokyo, Japan

Exhibitions

2013
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2013
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; travels to: Aomori Museum of Art
2012
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, “Japan: 1955 – 1979,” curated by Doryun Chong, (catalogue)
2012
Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, “Réelle presence,”
2011
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands “Windflower, Perceptions of Nature,”
2011
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2010
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom, “Taster’s Choice,”
2010
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, “Tetsumi Kudo, Gardens and Cubes,”
2008
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, “Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis,”
2008
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, “Tetsumi Kudo,” June 20 – August 15, curated in collaboration with Joshua Mack
2008
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco. “Paul McCarthy’s Low Life Slow Life: Part 1.” Lower Gallery
2008
“No Images of Man,”Mitchell Algus Gering & López Gallery, New York, NY
2007
National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan, “Living in the Material Word ‘Things’ in Art of the 20th Century and Beyond”
2007
National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan, “Artistes étrangers à Paris 1900-2005 [Foreign Artists in Paris 1900-2005”, organized by the Centre Georges Pompidou
2007
La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France, “Tetsumi Kudo – La montagne que nous cherchons est dans la serre [The Mountain We Are Looking for Is in the Greenhouse],” February 17 - May 13, 2007 (catalogue)
2006
Neue National Galerie, Berlin, Germany, “Tokyo-Berlin/Berlin-Tokyo”
2005
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, “Drifting Objects of Dreams: The collection of Shyzo Takiguchi – Dialogues with his contemporary avant-garde artists”
2005
Centre Georges Pompidou, MNAM, Paris, France, “Big Bang (Salle Transgression)”
2004
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, “What is Art?”
2004
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, “Remarking Modernism in Japan 1900-2000”
2004
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, “Collection 1”
2004
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, “Mirrorical Returns: Marcel Duchamp & 20th Century Art”
2004
M. Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, “Tetsumi Kudo – Works of beginning 80’s by collection Hiroko Kudo”
2002
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan, “The unfinished Century: Legacies of 20th Century Art”
2002
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan, “The Dream of a Museum – 120 years of the concept of the bitjutsukan in Japan”
2001
Centre Georges Pompidou, MNAM, Paris, France, “Les années Pop [The Pop Years]”
2001
Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori, Japan, “Invitation to Contemporary Art, Avant-garde Japan [of the] 60’s”
2000
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, Dole, France, “Objecteurs-Artmakers”
2000
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, “Japanese Art in the 20th Century”
2000
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, “50 Years of Contemporary Art, Permanent Collections”
1999
Institut de Cultura, Barcelona, Spain, “Jardin de Éros”
1998
Art Plaza, Oita, Japan, “Neo-Dada Japan 1958-1998”
1998
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, “To and from Shuzo Takiguchi”
1998
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, “Out of Action: Between performance and the Object, 1949-1979,” curated by Paul Schimmel (catalogue)
1996
Kurashiki Museum of Modern Art, Kurashiki, Japan, “Art of Postwar 1960’s Avant-garde”
1995
Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, “Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years”, travels to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima City, Japan; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
1994
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, “Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky”
1994
Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, “L’Art japonais après 1945: Un cri vers le ciel [Japanese Art After 1945: A Cry Towards The Sky]”
1994
Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, “Quand le corps deviant art [When the Body Becomes Art]”
1994
Museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan, “Collection japonaise [Japanese Collection]”
1994
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, “Tetsumi Kudo – Contestation/Création,” travels to: Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan, “Tetsumi Kudo – Contestation/Création,” January 5 – February 5, 1995
1993
Museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan, “Collections permanents [Permanent Collection]”
1993
Centre Noirot, Arras, France, “Sept artistes japonais de Paris [Seven Japanese Artists From Paris]”
1993
Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, “Critique sociale et satire dans l’Art Moderne [Social Critique and Satire in Modern Art]”
1993
Sogestsu Art Center, Tokyo, Japan, “Une sélection dans les collections [A Selection from the Collection]”
1991
Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn, Holland, “Tetsumi Kudo, 1935 – 1990,” curated by Frits Becht, travels to: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
1989
FIAC, Paris, France, “Nouvelle écologie [New Ecology],” October 7 – 15, travels to: Galerie du Génie, Paris, France
1988
Art Forum Tanaka, Tokyo, Japan, “Une pièce de Tetsumi Kudo”
1986
Hirosaki City Museum, Aomori, Japan, “Parcours d’un artiste d’avant-garde japonais – L’esprit de Tetsumi Kudo [Path of a Japanese Avant-garde Artist – The Spirit of Tetsumi Kudo]”
1986
Kobayashi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, “Tetsumi Kudo”
1986
Galerie Gilbert Brownstone and Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris, France, “Parcours d’un artiste d’avant-garde”
1985
M. Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, “Tetsumi Kudo Folie – Désenchantement – Désir de sang, Dessins, objets, collages [Tetsumi Kudo Madness – Disenchantment – Desire of Blood, Drawings, Objects, Collages]”
1985
Galerie Brownstone, Paris, France, “Survivance de l’avant-garde [Survival of the Avant-garde]”
1984
Shibuya PARCO, Tokyo, Japan, “Objets universels Tetsumi Kudo et ses compagnons de débauche”
1984
Espace Niki, Tokyo, Japan, “Rentrée d’Anti-Art à Uëno – Tetsumi Kudo One Man Show”
1984
Espace Japon, Paris, France, “Le trou noir sacré, structure spirituelle des Japonais à la période Jomon”
1984
NAF Gallery, Kawaijuku, Nagoya, Japan, “Kamikaze de l’art à l’âge du bachotage et au présent”
1984
Okazaki Tamako Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, “Tetsumi Kudo – Vidéos de performances et aquarelles”
1984
Date Gallery, Okayama, Japan, “L’âme du Japon [The Soul of Japan]”
1984
Fujita Gallery, Hirosaki, Japan, “L’Érotisme de Tetsumi Kudo – Pièces récentes célébrant le nouvel an à Hirosaki-Mont Iwaki, trou noir et neige”
1983
Aomori Gallery, Aomori, Japan, “La structure de Jomon – Nouvelles pièces de Tetsumi Kudo [The Structure of Jomon – New pieces by Tetsumi Kudo]”
1983
Fujita Gallery, Hirosaki, Japan, “L’artiste contemporain de Tsugaru”
1983
16 Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, “La structure de Jomon – la structure du système Tennoh – la structure du Japon contemporain”
1983
Supplement Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, “La structure du système Tennoh”
1983
Atelier de l’artiste [Artist’s Studio], Paris, France, “Accrochage-Objets”
1982
Takagi Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, “From Paris (Tetsumi Kudo Part One)”
1982
Ginza Kaigakan, Tokyo, Japan, “Quelques activités par désœuvrement noble”
1982
16 Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, “En attendant une révélation sous une pluie de Chromosome héréditaires”
1982
UNAC, Tokyo, Japan, “Shikishi comme une institution”
1981
Galerie Jöllenbeck, Cologne, Germany, “Tetsumi Kudo – Objets et dessins”
1981
Sogetsu Museum, Tokyo, Japan, “Tetsumi Kudo”
1980
UNAC, Tokyo, Japan, “C’est une pièce de Tetsumi Kudo”
1979
Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture, Metz, France, “Méditation entre future et mémoire, 10 objets récents de Kudo [Meditation between Future and Memory, 10 Recent Objects by Kudo]”
1979
Galerie Bellechasse, Paris, France, “Vingt pièces rétrospectives de Kudo [Twenty Retrospective Works by Kudo]”
1979
Galerie Jade, Colmar, France, “Kudo”
1978
Galerie Antares, Munich, Germany, “Kudo”
1978
Galerie Bellechasse, Paris, France, “Méditation entre future et mémoire: Vingt objets récents de Kudo”
1978
Galerie Wunderland, Berlin, Germany, “Tetsumi Kudo en collaboration avec le département des programmes artistique du DAAD, Zeremonie: Meditation Buddha in Berlin”
1978
Galerie Diogenes, Berlin, Germany, “Zeremonie: For Meditation – Buddha in Berlin”
1978
Atelier de l’artiste [Artist’s studio], Berlin, Germany, “Zeremonie: For Meditation – Buddha in Berlin”
1977
Galerie Vallois, Paris, France, “Cages – multiples”
1977
Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, “Portrait de l’artiste dans la crise – cages – peintures à l’ordinateur [Portrait of the artist in crisis – cages – paintings by computer]”
1974
Galerie Valsecchi, Milan, Italy, “Kudo”
1973
Galerie Mathias Fels, Paris, France, “15 ans d’activité [15 Years of Activity]”
1973
Galerie Beaubourgs, Paris, France, “Greffes et Symbioses (musique expérimentale de Y. Tone)”
1972
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland, “Pollution – Cultivation – New Ecology – Your Portrait”
1971
Galerie Mathias Fels, Paris, “Pollution – Cultivation – Nouvelle écologie” (projection of film, “Le monument de la métamorphose, June 23)
1970
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, “Cultivation by Radioactivity,” April 17 – July 5, 1970 (catalogue)
1969
Gallery Ichibankan, Tokyo, “Exposition d’un jour”
1968
Mickery Gallery, Loenersloot, Holland, “Cultivation by Radioactivity in the Electronic circuit”, travels to: Technishe Hogeschool, Eindhoven, Holland, 1969
1968
Leger Gallery, Malmö, Sweden, “Kudo”
1967
Galerie Mathias Fels, Paris, France, “Kudo”
1966
M.E. Thelen Gallery, Essen, Germany, “Tetsumi Kudo”
1966
20 Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland, “Kudo”
1965
Galerie J, Paris, France, “Rien n’est laissé au hazard [Nothing Is Left to Chance]”
1961
Bungeishunju Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, “Philosophie de l’impuissance – Tableau de réparation d’impuissance et apparition du dôme de protection au point de saturation”, travels to: Hakuhou Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1959
Miami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, “Tetsumi Kudo”
1959
Bungeishunju Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, “Fluidité spirituelle et sa condensation, Peinture plane et peinture solide”
1958
Tenmaya Gallery, Okayama, Japan, “Tetsumi Kudo”
1957
Café Tabiji, Tokyo, Japan, “Enregistrement de l’onde spinale”
1957
Galerie Blanche, Tokyo, Japan, “Démonstration d’oeuvre [Presentation of the Work]”