Exhibitions

2014

Maekawa - The Gutai Works, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (solo)

Dominique Lévy, New York City, USA (solo)

Work with Cloth: Former Gutai Artists Today (Imai Norio, Horio Sadaharu, Maekawa Tsuyoshi), Gallery Takasebune, Ashiya, Japan

Tàpies, the Eye of the Artist, Fortuny Museum, Venice, Italy

Osaka's Cultural Golden Age: The Gutai Pinacotheca as a Grand Experiment, Osaka University General Sciences Museum, Osaka, Japan

Art Osaka 2013, Hotel Granvia, Osaka, Japan

Gutai: Splendid Playground (Gutai Card Box), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Whitestone Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

2013

LADS Gallery, Osaka, Japan (solo)

50 Years of Japanese Painting, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan

2012

Art Kyoto 2012, Hotel Monterey, Kyoto, Japan

Gutai: The Spirit of an Era, The National Art Center Tokyo, Japan

2011

Nul = 0, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

"Ge" Exhibition, Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

2010

Orie Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

LADS Gallery, Osaka, Japan (solo)

Ge" Exhibition, Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

2007

30 Years Collecting (30th anniversary exhibition), The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

2006

LADS Gallery, Osaka, Japan (solo)

2005

Gallery Blanche, Osaka, Japan (solo)

Gallery Yume, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

Fragrance Art, Ashiya, Japan (solo)

Hyogo International Painting Competition, Hyogo Prefectural Museum, Hyogo, Japan

58th Ashiya City Exhibition, City Museum of Art & History, Ashiya,Japan

Gutai Retrospective, Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan

57th Ashiya City Exhibition, City Museum of Art & History, Ashiya,Japan

Gutai After 1972 in Kyoto, Art Forum Jarfo, Kyoto, Japan

2004

New Year's Exhibition of Small Work, Gallery Yume, Tokyo, Japan

“Ge" Exhibition, Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

2003

Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

LADS Gallery, Osaka, Japan (solo)

“Ge" New Year's Exhibition of Small Work, Gallery Blanche, Osaka, Japan

56th Ashiya City Exhibition, City Museum of Art & History, Ashiya, Japan

Art Fair, Seoul, Korea

1960s Graphism, Printing Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Artists of Gutai, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan

55th Ashiya City Exhibition, City Museum of Art & History, Ashiya, Japan

2002

Gallery Yume, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

Gallery Blanche, Osaka, Japan (solo)

Inaugural Exhibition, Prefectural Museum, Hyogo, Japan

2001

Orie Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

Osaka Art Panorama, ATC Gallery, Osaka, Japan

54th Ashiya City Exhibition, City Museum of Art & History, Ashiya, Japan

Invitation to Contemporary Art: Japanese Avant-Garde since the 1960s, Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori

Osaka Art Panorama, ATC Gallery, Osaka, Japan

53rd Ashiya City Exhibition, City Museum of Art & History, Ashiya, Japan

Osaka Art: 21st Century Directions, Gallery Blanche, Osaka, Japan

2000

“Ge" New Year's Exhibition of Small Work, Gallery Blanche, Osaka, Japan

1999

Gutai, Jeu de Paume National Gallery, Paris, France

52nd Ashiya City Exhibition, City Museum of Art & History, Ashiya, Japan

"Ge" Exhibition, ABC Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1998

Yellow, LADS Gallery, Osaka, Japan

New Winds from Hira Part I, Hira Museum, Shiga, Japan

The Art of Candle Holders '97, Selvis Gallery, Osaka, Japan

50th Ashiya City Exhibition, City Museum of Art & History, Ashiya, Japan

“Ge" New Year's Exhibition of Small Work, Gallery Blanche, Osaka, Japan

1997

Gallery 17, Osaka, Japan (solo)

Gallery Yume, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

Gallery Arai, Nishinomiya, Japan (solo)

1996

Gallery 141, Osaka, Japan (solo)

LADS Gallery, Osaka, Japan (solo)

“Ge" New Year's Exhibition of Small Work, Gallery Blanche, Osaka, Japan

49th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

1995

Gallery Yume, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

Contemporary Prints: Shiraga Kazuo, Motonaga Sadamasa, Maekawa Tsuyoshi, Gallery Arai, Nishinomiya, Japan

"Ge" Exhibition, ABC Gallery, Osaka, Japan

The Art of Candle Holders '95, Kintetsu Dept. Store, Osaka, Japan

Contemporary Art Perspectives, Art Salon Daitobo, Nagoya, Japan

47th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

"Ge” New Year's Exhibition of Small Work, Gallery Blanche, Osaka, Japan

Gallery Yume, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

Great Prize of Honor Ten-Person Exhibition, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

1994

Gallery Yume, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

1993

Blancart, Kochi, Japan (solo)

Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

Gallery Yume, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

Gallery Zin, Urayasu, Chiba, Japan (solo)

Gallery Hanamitsu, Osaka, Japan (solo)

Contemporary Art Perspectives, ABC Gallery, Osaka, Japan

46th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

Osaka Triennale 1993, MyDome, Osaka, Japan

"Ge" Exhibition, ABC Gallery, Osaka, Japan

Challenge of Art After the War: Jiro Yoshihara and the Gutai Group, Prefectural Museum of Art, Ehime, Japan

The Art of Candle Holders '93, Yamaki Art, Osaka, Japan

Gutai 2 and Gutai 3, Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Hyogo, Japan

Contemporary Art Perspectives, Makurazaki, Kagoshima, Japan

Art Now, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Gutai, Prefectural Art Museum, Miyazaki, Japan

45th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

1992

Memories Gallery, Nagoya, Japan (solo)

Artists of the Gutai Art Association, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan

Los Angeles Art Fair, USA

Adventurers of Painting: Gutai, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

44th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

Art Now Nagoya '91, Art Salon Daitobo, Nagoya, Japan

Surging Momentum: Invitational Exhibition, Gallery Aunkan, Osaka, Japan

Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

Gallery Blanche, Osaka, Japan (solo)

Pontocho Gallery, Kyoto, Japan (solo)

1991

Gallery Kozuchi, Ashiya, Japan (solo)

Pontocho Gallery, Kyoto, Japan (solo)

Kinokuniya Gallery Exhibition: Maekawa Tsuyoshi & Katsuno Masanori, Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Contemporary Art and Patronage, ABC Gallery, Osaka, Japan

43rd Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

Osaka Triennale 1990, MyDome, Osaka, Japan

Memories Gallery, Nagoya, Japan (solo)

Gutai: The Avant-Garde Group Unfinished, Shoto Museum of Art, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

Gallery Zin, Urayasu, Chiba, Japan (solo)

Yamaki Art, Osaka, Japan (solo)

Pontocho Gallery, Kyoto, Japan (solo)

1990

Gallery Hanamitsu, Osaka, Japan (solo)

Atelier Nishinomiya, Nishinomiya, Japan (solo)

1989

Rare Yamamura Collection Exhibition, Prefectural Museum, Hyogo, Japan

"Ge" New Year's Exhibition of Small Work, Gallery Blanche, Osaka, Japan

Development of Stitching in Art, Nishida Gallery, Nara, Japan

42nd Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

Contemporary Design, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan

"Ge” Exhibition, ABC Gallery, Osaka, Japan

Paper Design, Fuji Gallery, Osaka, Japan

Frame Up, G/La Pola, Osaka, Japan

Contemporary Prints I, Hiramatsu Gallery, Osaka, Japan

"Ge" New Year's Exhibition of Small Work, Gallery Blanche, Osaka, Japan

"Ge" Exhibition, Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

Drawing, Cuore, Osaka, Japan

1988

Yamaki Art, Osaka, Japan (solo)

41st Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

Exhibition of Artists Recommended by the Gallery, Yokyo Art Hall, Tokyo, Japan

Contemporary Art Today, Gallery Blanche, Osaka, Japan

Pictorial Art Now Osaka '87, Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan

Contemporary Japanese Painting, Tokyo / Kyoto, Japan

The Material is the Design, Fuji Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1987

Ars Gallery, Osaka, Japan (solo)

Kachofugetsu, Cuore, Osaka, Japan

40th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

Paper and Cloth, Northfort, Osaka, Japan

9th Emba Prize Exhibition, Emba Museum of Chinese Modern Art, Ashiya, Japan

Trends in Contemporary Art: Onoda Minoru, Shinomiya Kinichi, Maekawa Tsuyoshi, Masui Hide, Gallery Emba, Kobe, Japan

"Ge" Exhibition, Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

"Ge" Osaka Exhibition, ABC Gallery, Osaka, Japan

Japanese Artists, Stadler Gallery, Paris, France

IBM P.I. Exhibition, ABC Gallery, Osaka, Japan

Homecoming from Spain and Yugoslavia: Gutai: Action and Painting, Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Japan

New York Art Fair, USA

39th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

16th Japan International Art Exhibition, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo and Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

Gutai: Action and Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia

'86 Selected Artists Exhibition, Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

"Ge" Exhibition of Small Work, Daigakudo Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1986

Le Parc, Osaka, Japan (solo)

Yamaki Art, Osaka, Japan (solo)

Le Parc, Osaka, Japan

Yamaki Art, Osaka, Japan

The Message: 83 Japanese Contemporary Artists, Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan

Yamaki Art, Osaka, Japan

8th Emba Prize Exhibition, Emba Museum of Chinese Modern Art, Ashiya, Japan

Le Parc, Osaka, Japan

A Single Thread Transcending Time, Gallery Space 21, Tokyo, Japan

Cross-Section of Contemporary Art, Atelier Nishinomiya, Nishinomiya, Japan

'85 IBM P.I. Exhibition, ABC Gallery, Osaka, Japan

Action and Emotion: The 1950s: Informel, Gutai, COBRA, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

Emba Prize Exhibition, Emba Museum of Chinese Modern Art, Ashiya, Japan

Fiber Work Miniatures Exhibition, Kyoto, Tokyo, Kanazawa and Seoul, Korea

Asahi Craft Exhibition, Osaka, Tokyo, Japan

Contemporary Japan Painting Exhibition, National Museum of Modern Art, New Delhi, India

Gutai: Painting and Action, Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, Spain

Play Environments for Children by Contemporary Artists, Gallery Do, Osaka, Japan

"Ge" Special Exhibition, ABC Gallery, Osaka, Japan

Pictorial Art Now Osaka '85, Contemporary Art Center Osaka, Japan

Yoshihara Jiro and Gutai, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

1985

Hiramatsu Gallery, Osaka, Japan (solo)

Gallery Nakamura, Kyoto, Japan (solo)

38th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

Gallery Nakamura, Kyoto, Japan

1/20, Northfort, Osaka, Japan

Hiramatsu Gallery, Osaka, Japan

Starting Point, Ueroku Pinacotheca, 6th area of Uehonmachi, Osaka, Japan

Small Work by Former Gutai Artists, Ueroku Pinacotheca, 6th area of Uehonmachi, Osaka, Japan

Yamamura Collection, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

BOX100, Cuore, Osaka, Japan

Contemporary Art 1950-1970, Seibu Hall, Yao, Osaka, Japan

1984

Adult Paintings in Children's Paintings, Municipal Gallery, Hirakata, Japan

10th Japan-France Contemporary Art Exhibition, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

“Ge” Exhibition, Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

37th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

4th Fiber Work Miniatures Exhibition, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan

Ban Garow, Osaka, Japan

Hiramatsu Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1983

Ban Garow, Osaka, Japan (solo)

Hiramatsu Gallery, Osaka, Japan (solo)

New Work from the Collection, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Japanese Contemporary Artists, Paris, France

Pictorial Art Now Osaka '82, Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan

36th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

14th Japan International Art Exhibition, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo and Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto

Contemporary Prints Contest, Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan

“Ge” Mini-Exhibition, Nakamura Gallery, Osaka, Japan

4th Japan Emba Prize Exhibition, Emba Museum of Chinese Modern Art, Ashiya, Japan

Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom

New Work from the Collection, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Japan-France Contemporary Art Exhibition, Paris, Tokyo, Japan

Pictorial Art Now Osaka '82, Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan

New Work from the Collection, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

Kaku Tsushin (Fictitious Correspondence) Tent Museum, Shukugawa Park, Nishinomiya, Japan

5th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Painting, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

“Ge” Exhibition, Daicoro Gallery, Osaka, Japan

Japanese Contemporary Artists, Paris, France

Fuji Gallery, Osaka, Japan

Space Adesso, Ashiya, Japan

Fuji Gallery, Osaka, Japan (solo)

1982

Space Adesso, Ashiya, Japan (solo)

Japanese Contemporary Artists, Paris, France

Art Festival, Choukoku Gamu, Osaka, Japan

Kaku Tsushin (Fictitious Correspondence) Tent Museum, Shukugawa Park, Nishinomiya, Japan

“Ge” Exhibition, Daicoro Gallery, Osaka

Pictorial Art Now Osaka '81, Contemporary Art Center, Osaka

Japan Art Festival '81, London, Tokyo, Kyoto

1981

3rd Japan Emba Prize Exhibition, Emba Museum of Chinese Modern Art, Ashiya, Japan

35th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

15th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo and Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto

Small Work by Former Gutai Members, Gallery Miyazaki, Osaka, Japan

Jiro Yoshihara Award, Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan

Art Festival: Small Work by 39 Artists, Choukoku Gamu, Osaka, Japan

Contemporary Artists Working With Washi Paper, Gallery Haku, Osaka, Japan

2nd Japan Emba Prize Exhibition, Emba Museum of Chinese Modern Art, Ashiya, Japan

34th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

1980

Fuji Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1979

Osaka Prefectural Gallery, Osaka, Japan (solo)

Jiro Yoshihara and Contemporary Aspects of Gutai, Hyogo Prefectural Museum, Hyogo, Japan

14th Japan International Art Exhibition, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo and Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

33rd Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

1st Japan Emba Prize Exhibition, Emba Museum of Chinese Modern Art, Ashiya and travelling nationwide

1978

Art Now '78, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Japan

Tor Road Gallery, Kobe, Japan (solo)

32nd Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

12th Japan International Art Exhibition, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo and Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

“Ge” Exhibition, Daicoro Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1977

Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan (solo)

31st Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

“Ge” Exhibition, Prefectural Gallery, Osaka, Japan

"KAC” Exhibition, Prefectural Gallery, Osaka, Japan

Work Exhibition, Mitsukoshi Dept. Store, Kobe, Japan

1976

18 Years of Gutai Art, Prefectural Gallery, Osaka, Japan

30th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

29th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

Box, Hakusan Gallery, Kobe and Gallery Doi, Himeji, Japan

BOX100, Cuore, Osaka, Japan

The 10th Japan Art Festival (travelling exhibition), Museum of New Zealand and elsewhere

1975

Osaka Prefectural Gallery, Osaka, Japan (solo)

28th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

1974

Ashiyagawa Biennale, Tekisui Museum, Ashiya, Japan

27th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

1973

26th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

1972

Yoshihara Jiro and His Circle, Fujimi Gallery, Osaka, Japan

25th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

1971

24th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

1970

Gutai Japan Expo '70, Midori Pavilion, Expo '70, Osaka, Japan

23rd Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

22nd Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

1969

Gutai Small Work Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan

Nighttime-Only Gutai Exhibition, Miyazaki Kanko Hotel, Miyazaki, Japan

21st Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

1968

20th Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan

19th Gutai Art Exhibition, Central Art Museum, Tokyo, travelling in November to Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan

Gutai, Heide Hildebrand Gallery, Wulfengasse, Austria

1967

Gutai Small Work Exhibition, Design House, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

18th Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan

20th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

1966

Nul 1966, International Art Gallery Olez, The Hague, The Netherlands

Gutai Three-Person Exhibition (Maekawa Tsuyoshi, Matsutani Takesada, Mukai Shuji), Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan

19th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

2nd International Salon of the Pilot Galleries in Lausanne, Musée Cantonal Des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland

17th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Dept. Store, Yokohama, travelling in October to Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan

1965

Gutai Five-Person Exhibition, Daiwa Gallery, Kobe, Japan

18th Ashiya City Exhibition, Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

15th Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan

16th Gutai Art Exhibition, Keio Dept. Store, Tokyo, Japan

Japanese Art Today: Art Club '65, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Gutai Paris Exhibition, Galerie Stadler, Paris, France

17th Ashiya City Exhibition, Ashiya Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan

13th All Kansai Art Exhibition, Kansai, Japan

1964

14th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Dept. Store, Osaka, Japan

1963

12th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Dept. Store, Tokyo, Japan

13th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Dept. Store, Osaka, Japan

1962

11th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Dept. Store, Osaka, Japan

15th Ashiya City Exhibition, Ashiya Seido Primary School, Ashiya, Japan

Asahi Shinjinten (Asahi New Artists Exhibition), Takashimaya Dept. Store, Osaka, Japan

Kansai Comprehensive Art Exhibition, Municipal Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

Don't Worry, The Moon Won't Fall Down (Stage-Based Artwork Exhibition), Sankei Hall, Osaka, Japan

1961

14th Ashiya City Exhibition, Ashiya Seido Primary School, Ashiya, Japan

10th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Dept. Store, Osaka, travelling in May to Takashimaya, Tokyo, Japan

1960

10th Nishinomiya City Exhibition, Nishinomiya, Japan

13th Ashiya City Exhibition, Ashiya Seido Primary School, Ashiya, Japan

9th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Dept. Store, Osaka, Japan

1959

12th Ashiya City Exhibition, Ashiya Seido Primary School, Ashiya, Japan

8th Gutai Art Exhibition, Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, travelling in September to Ohara Kaikan Hall, Tokyo, Japan

1958

8th Nishinomiya City Exhibition, Nishinomiya, Japan

11th Ashiya City Exhibition, Ashiya Seido Primary School, Ashiya, Japan

10th Ashiya City Exhibition, Ashiya Seido Primary School, Ashiya, Japan

1957

8th Modern Art Association Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

1955

5th Nishinomiya City Exhibition, Nishinomiya, Japan