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Shiro Kuramata
(
Japanese
, 1934–1991)
Shiro Kuramata
Flower Vase #1,
1989
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Biography
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Timeline
1934
Born in Tokyo
Exhibitions
2012 - 2013
Shiro Kuramata. Design Museum Gent, Gent, Belgium
2011
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Shiro Kuramata and Ettore Sottsass. 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo, Japan
Modern by Design. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
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
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
Österreichisches Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria January-March
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, June – August
1998
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, New York, June-September
Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Montreal, Canada, October-December
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
1997
Centro Cultural, Mexico City, Mexico, April-June
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, August-December
1996 - 1999
Shiro Kuramata 1934-1991. Traveling exhibition: Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, June-September
1995
Japan Today, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
1994
Collection: Chairs of the 20th Century, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Japanese Design—A Survey Since 1950, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Images du Futur—’94 Japon, Old Port of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
1993
Electronic Surface—Liquid Structure, O Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Sealing of Dreams, Gallery MA, Tokyo, Japan
TAPIS, Galerie Yves Gastou, Paris, France
1991
Il Dolce Stilnovo della Casa, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
Design Connection—Shiro Kuramata Memorial, Porte de Versailles, Paris, France
1990
Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy
Il Palazzo and Six Designers, Gallery MA, Tokyo, Japan
I Spiritelli, Museo Alchimia, Milan, Italy
1989
Memphis & Transavanguardia, Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Aoyama, Tokyo; Fukuyama Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Uny Group. Bi ! Kujira, Yatai at World Design Exposition ’89, Nagoya, Japan
Europalia 1989 Japan, Brussels, Belgium
Shiro Kuramata, Galerie Yves Gastou, Paris, France
Image Up Project Exhibition for Furniture from Shizuoka. Axis Gallery, Tokyo; Shizuoka Isetan Department Store, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
In*Spiration Lighting Design Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan; Paris, France; Milan, Italy
Craft Council, Sydney, Australia
KAGU Tokyo Designer’s Week ’88, Axis Gallery Annex, Tokyo, Japan
1988
Petits Architectures Nomades (Little Nomad Architecture), Galerie Yves Gastou, Paris, France
1987
The 1987 Vitra International Exhibition, Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
IDÉE Shiro Kuramata Exhibition, IDÉE Shop, Tokyo, Japan
Milano Furniture Salon Exhibition, Zeus Hall, Milan, Italy
Intellectual Interior, Shibuya PARCO Part 3, Space Part 3, Tokyo, Japan
Exhibition Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Tokyo High School for the Arts, Tokyo High School for the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Memphis Vol. 8, Milan, Italy
Shiro Kuramata Exhibition, Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Tokyo: Form and Spirit, Axis Gallery (1985), Walker Arts Center and other cities in the USA
Shiro Kuramata, Galerie Yves Gastou, Paris, France
Project K3, Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Cappellini Presents the Furniture by Shiro Kuramata, Museum of Milan, Milan, Italy
1910—1970 Japon des Avant-Gardes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Chairs, San Francisco Airport Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986
Kagu—Mobilier, The Royal Monastery of Fontainebleau, France
Clock: Five Artists, Tokyo, Japan and New York, NY
Japan Creative Exhibition, Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
A Panorama of Contemporary Art in Japan—Design of Daily Life, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Prints by Twenty Top International Artists, Laforet Museum Akasaka, Tokyo and Kyoto International Conference Hall, Japan
Shiro Kuramata Smal, Cassina Japan Showroom, Tokyo, Japan
Time Piece, Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo: Its Shape and Substance Tokyo in Tokyo, A collaboration with Tadao Ando, Axis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1985
Contemporary Landscape: From the Horizon of Postmodern Design, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Time Machine, Gallery 911, New York, NY
1984
Japanese Designers—Tradition and the Present, Central Hall of the Soviet Artists Alliance, Moscow, Russia
Phoenix / New Attitudes in Design, Queen’s Quay Terminal, Toronto, Canada
1983
From Spoons to Cities: One Hundred Designers at Work, Milan, Italy
Memphis Vol. 4, Milan, Italy
Tokyo International Lighting Design Competition 1983, Livina Yamagiwa, Tokyo, Japan
Design Gallery Exhibition No. 302 Terrazzo Shiro Kuramata, Matsuya Ginza Design Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1982
Memphis Vol. 3, Milan, Italy
Casa Italia—Memphis Group Exhibition, Seibu Department Store, Ikeukuro, Tokyo, Japan
Design Forum ’81, Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
System Monopoll, Matsuya Ginza Design Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Lighting Exhibition, Mikimoto Hall,Tokyo, Japan
Metal Sculpture Exhibition, Mikimoto Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Three Designers Exhibition, Ina Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
M.T.I. ‘Furniture by Architects,’ Cambridge, England
Small Small Exhibition, Ao Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1981
Memphis Vol. 2, Milan, Italy
1978
Design and Art of Modern Chairs, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
MA Espace-Temps du Japon, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
1977
Isu (chair), Tokyo Designers Space, Tokyo, Japan
Small Small Exhibition, Ao Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Art Today ’77—Structure of Visuality, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1976
Wonderland, Ao Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
One Day One Show, Tokyo Designers Space, Tokyo, Japan
Experiment Work, Matsuya Ginza Design Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Akari (Light) Exhibition, Ao Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Negation of Form, Kirony Interior In, Tokyo, Japan
1975
Wall Paper Design by Ten Designers, Kawakichi, 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
Tokyo International Lighting Design Competition 1972, Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
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
Good Design Exhibition ’70, Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
Shaggy Art Exhibition, Detzi Building, Tokyo, Japan
1968
DESIGN FOR LIVING, Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
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Public Collections
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Kunstgewerbemuseum Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Fonds national d'art contemporain, France
Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Vitra Design Museum, Basel, Switzerland
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Toyama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Toyama City, Japan
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. TX
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
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