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Jiro Takamatsu

(Japanese, 1936–1998)

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Jiro Takamatsu

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Biography

Timeline

1936
Born in Tokyo, Japan
1958
Graduated from the painting section of the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
1963
Formed the Hi Red Center collective with Genpei Akasegawa and Natsuyuki Nakanishi
1968 - 1972
Taught at Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
1968
Won the Carlo Cardazzo Prize at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1998
Died in Tokyo, Japan

Exhibitions

2016
Jiro Takamatsu Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Jiro Takamatsu, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA, USA(solo exhibition)
2015
Jiro Takamatsu Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (solo exhibition)
Jiro Takamatsu: Trajectory of Work, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (solo exhibition)
Galerie de L'Epoque, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography 1986-1979, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
Geometries On and Off the Grid: Art from 1950 to the Present, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas, USA
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2014
Jiro Takamatsu Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Jiro Takamatsu: Mysteries, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan(solo exhibition)
4x4, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Study from the Human Body, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Other Primary Structures, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA
Artevida, Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Geometric Perspectives on Japanese Abstraction, BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
Image and Matter in Japanese Photography from the 1970s, Curated by Yumiko Chiba, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas, USA
2013
Jiro Takamatsu Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Jiro Takamatsu, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England(solo exhibition)
Something interesting in your father's photos, isn't it?, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Tricks and Vision to Mono-ha, Tokyo Gallery + Beijing Art Projects
4 Exhibitions from The Collection of Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Municipal Umi-Mori Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
Jr Tower Planis Hall,Hokkaido, Japan
Himeji City Museum of Literature, Hyogo, Japan
Setagaya Literary Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Sumpu Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
The 70s in Japan, 1968-1982, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Best Selection - 100 Years of Modern Japanese Art: In celebration of the 60th Anniversary of The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, The National Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Art Meeting (III) Search for New Synesthesia, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
Now is the Time: Recent Acquisition, The Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, USA
Tokyo 1955 - 1970 New Advanced Guard, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Tama and the Present Time, Permanent Exhibition, Fuchu Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
Jiro Takamatsu, Kenichiro Ishiguro, Yoshihiro Suda, Gallery Kogure, Tokyo, Japan
Re:Quest, Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
2012
Jiro Takamatsu Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
Smashing of Everything, Yumiko Chiba Associates / Viewing Room Shinjuku, Tokyo Japan(solo exhibition)
The Heart of Succumb Not To The Rain, Kenji Miyazawa Universe of Poetry and Pictures, Daimaru Museum, Kyoto, Japan
Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan
Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha, Blum & Poe, USA
Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Independent, New York, USA
Art Osaka 2012 the 10th Anniversary Action and Abstraction Japanese Postwar Art, Gutai, Japan
Mono-ha Avangarde, Nakanoshima Design Museum, Osaka, Japan
The Artists of Mono-ha and Its Era, Rakusui-tei Museum of Art, Toyama, Japan
Collection: Focus on Mono-ha-Japanese Art of the‘70s, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
The World of Ishiko Junzo: From Art via Manga to Kitsch, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2011
Jiro Takamatsu Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Jiro Takamatsu, McCaffrey Fine Art, New York, USA(solo exhibition)
Jiro Takamatsu Light and Shadow, Yumiko Chiba Associates / Viewing Room Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan(solo exhibition)
Jiro Takamatsu Words and Things, Refinement and Tautology, NADiff Gallery, Tokyo, Japan(solo exhibition)
Akari, Yumiko Chiba Associates / Viewing Room Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Depicting the Uncanny: Tricks and Humor, The Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
To the 1970s Turning Point of Photography & Art Copying, Reflection, and Projection PeriodⅠChoosing Photos: Checking Vision, Yumiko Chiba Associates / Viewing Room Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Hachinohe City Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
At/Form Tamagawa 1964-2009: Contemporary Japanese Art from a Graphical Viewpoint, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2010
Jiro Takamatsu Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Jiro Takamatsu Shadow Paintings, McCaffrey Fine Art, New York, USA(solo exhibition)
Jiro Takamatsu Early Works, Yumiko Chiba Associates / Viewing Room Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan(solo exhibition)
Shadows Works from the National Museums of Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
29ª Bienal de São Paulo Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brasil
MOT Collection Chronicle 1947-1963, Days of Independent Art Exhibitions, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Collection Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido, Japan
Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Japan
Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo, Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, Nagano, Japan
The Miyagi Museum of Art, Japan
2009
Jiro Takamatsu Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
Point Line, Form of Absence, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan(solo exhibition)
The Space, Yumiko Chiba Associates/ Viewing Room Ginza, Tokyo, Japan(solo exhibition)
Enokura, Nomura, Takamatsu: Photographs 1968-79, McCaffrey Fine Art, New York, USA(solo exhibition)
World of Trick Art, Toyohashi City Museum Art and History, Aichi, Japan
Where Light Comes Together With Other Light, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The 8th Dazaifu Tenmangu Art Program Jiro Takamatsu/Ryudai Takano, Photograph of Photograph and Photograph, Dazaifu Tenmangu, Fukuoka, Japan
Masterworks from Japanese Art Museum Collections, The Japan Association of Art, Japan Museum 25th Anniversary, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Visual Deception, Nagoya City art Museum, Aichi, Japan
The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
Permanent Display, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Thickness of painting: Exhibition from the Nerima Art Museum,Tokyo,Japan
Enokura, Nomura, Takamatsu: Photographs 1968-79, McCaffrey Fine Art, New York, USA
30 years of Fukuoka Art Museum: Collection/Connection, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
From Home to the Museum: Tanaka Tsuneko Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
Syuen A Treasured Article, Uramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Permanent Display Ⅱ, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Forest of Art: Japanese Artists of the Post-War, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
2008
Jiro Takamatsu Selected Exhibitions in 2008:
Photograph of Photograph, Yumiko Chiba Associates/ Viewing Room Ginza, Tokyo, Japan(solo exhibition)
Light and Shadow, Yumiko Chiba Associates/ Viewing Room Ginza, Tokyo, Japan(solo exhibition)
The Masked Portrait, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Self / Other, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Permanent Display 1, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Collection 1 Hiroshima Mon Amour, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
20th Century Photography, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
The 30th Anniversary: Collection of the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2007
Jiro Takamatsu Selected Exhibitions in 2007:
Living in the Material World: Things in Art of the 20th Century and Beyond, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Journey to the Fukuyama Museum of Art Collection, Searching for Beauty from Ryusei Kishida to Tadanori Yokoo, Kawagoe City Art Museum, Saitama, Japan
Exhibition of the Whole Collection, Part Ⅱ Prints, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Surrealism and Art Image and Reality, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Exhibition of All Artists in Niigata City Art Museum Collection II Prints, A Dream Print Gallery 2nd Period, Stroll in the Labyrinth, Books of the Collected Poems with Pictures, And Series of Prints, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Views of Water: From Monet and Taikan to the Present, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
The Photograph: What You See & What You Don't, The University Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
University of The Arts, Tokyo, Japan
What is Mono-ha?, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP , Beijing, China
The Latest Works of Japanese Modern Artists, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
The Suiboku Museum Toyama, Toyama, Japan
ANZAΪ: Personal Photo Archives 1970-2006, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

Public Collections

Le Musée de l’Objet Blois, France
Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi, Japan
Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu City, Japan
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