Nobuo Sekine

1942
Born in Saitama, Japan.
1968
Art Studies: Graduated from master course a postgraduate course of oil
painting, Tama Fine Art College, Tokyo.
1973
Established Environment Art Studio.


■Solo Exhibition　?????????????????????

1969 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1970 Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa Gallery Modulo, Milan
1971 Gallery The Krebs, Bern　 Gallery Birch, Copenhagen
1973,77,80,87 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1975,77,81,87,93 Sakura Gallery, Nagoya
1976 Gallery Dori, Tokyo
1977,80,81, 82 Keneko Art Gallery, Tokyo
1978
Louisiana Museum of Art, Denmark
Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland
1979
Sonja Henie-Niels Onstad Culture Center, Oslo, Norway
1982
Sekine's Prints and Sculptures (Cross Country 7500Km).
1983
Sekine and Environment Art Studio, Stripe House Museum, Tokyo
1985
Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo
1987
Ginza Jiyugaoka Gallery, Tokyo
Gallery Te, Tokyo
Kawagoe Gallery, Saitama
1988
Gallery M, Obama
Art Dune, Hamamatsu/91,94,97,2001,2004
Kozaido Gallery, Tokyo
Nishida Gallery, Nara
Soh Gallery, Tokyo
Anshindo Gallery, Shizuoka
Gallery Kura, Kitakyushu
We Gallery, Omiya
1989
Kodosha, Ichinoseki
Gallery Lamia, Tokyo
Chikugo Gallery, Kurume
Mitsui Gallery, Matsudo
Gallery TAK, Yokohama
Susono Art House, Susono
Kozaido Gallery, Tokyo
Kobundo Gallery, Obihiro
Gojuichiban-kan Gallery, Aomori
Gallery Picasso, Maebashi
Katsuyama Isozaki Hall, Fukui
Stemfli Gallery, New York
Umeda Modern Art Museum, Osaka
1990
Tenjuen, Niigata
Soko Museum, Niigata
Atelier Garo, Niigata
Sogo department store, Hiroshima
Seibu department store-Studio 5.Tokyo
Mitsukoshi department store, Tokyo
1991
Kawagoe Gallery, Saitama
Tenmaya department store, Okayama
Anshindo Gallery, Shizuoka
1992,99
Shokyodo Museum, Toyota
1993
Gallery Art Point, Tokyo
Galleri Akern, Norway
1997
Kawagoe Gallery, Saitama
1998
Saint Paul Gallery, Maebashi
2003
Kawagoe City Art Museum, Saitama
2004
Kamakura Gallery,Kamakura
Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing
2005
Gallery Bijutsu Sekai (Gallery-BS), Tokyo
“MANIF 11! 05 SEOUL”, Seoul
2006
Saint Paul Gallery, Maebashi
Gallery Bijutsu Sekai (Gallery-BS), Tokyo
2007　　
Center Gallery,Yokohama
Gallery Bijutsu Sekai(Gallery-BS),Tokyo
Shina Gallery,Kyoto
2008
Gallery Bijutsu Sekai(Gallery BS),Tokyo
Gallery Art Composition,Tokyo
PYO Gallery,Soul
2009
Center Gallery,Yokoham
Kawagoe Gallery,Saitama
2010
BE- UP-ART,Tokyo
2011
Kamakura Gallery,Kamakura
Shanghai Sculpture Space,Shanghai


■Group Exhibition　???????????????????????

1967
Two-man show, Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo
“11th Shell Art Exhibition”, Tokyo.
“OOOPLAN”, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
“Universiad”, Tokyo
1968
“OOXPLAN”, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
“8th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan”, Tokyo
“Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition”, Suma Palace Park, Kobe, Japan
“5th Exhibition”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan
1969
“6th Paris Biennale”, Paris
“9th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan”, Tokyo
“1st International Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition”, Hakone Open-Art Museum, Tokyo
“The 9 Visual Points”, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
“Tricks and Vision”, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
“Trendｓ of Japanese Contemporary Art”, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
“Japanese Artist Drawing”, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1970
“EXPO 70,Art Exhibition”, Osaka
“35th Venezia Biennale”
“Human Documents 1970”, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1971
“10th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan”, Tokyo
1973
“Japan Art-Festival”, Tokyo
“11th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan”, Tokyo
1974
“Two-man Show”, Gallery Coco, Kyoto
“Tokyo Biennale”, Tokyo
“Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition of 20 Artists”, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo
“Japan Art Exhibition”, Germany
“Japan Art Exhibition”, North Europe
“Contemporary Sculpture Symposium”, Tochigi-Museum
1975
“Contemporary Art Exhibition from 1950 to 1975”, Central Museum, Tokyo
“Two-Man Show”(with Kuniichi Sima)<Cross Country 7500Km>
1976
“International Biennale Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo”
1977
“Japan Art-Festival”, Tokyo
“Voices in the Modern Age”<Cross Country>
1980
“History of Contemporary Sculpture”, Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery
1981
“Turning Point of Contemporary Art of 1960's”, National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo
“Modern Japanese Sculpture”, Modern Art Museum of Prefecture, Kanagawa
“Japanese Contemporary Art”, Seoul
1982
“Turning Point of Contemporary Art of1960's”, National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto
“Visual Circus”<Cross Country>
1983
“Figure of Wood and Esprit”, Pref.Museum, Saitama
1984
“Human Documents '84/'85”, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
“Art of Present Time. Wood and Paper-Dialogue with Nature” Pref.Museum, Gifu
“Development of Contemporary Sculpture”, Gallery Seiho, Tokyo
“Sculpture Japonaise Contemporaine”, Galerie Jullien-Cornic, Paris
1986
“MONO-HA”, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
“Lee U-Fan, Nobuo Sekine, Kishio Suga: The Method of Our 70's SOH Gallery, Tokyo
“Avant Garde Japanese Art, Pompidou Center, Paris
1987
“MONO-HA and Post MONO-HA”, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo
1988
“MONO-HA”, Rome University Annex Museum of Art, Rome
“Exhibition, seen by Hands” Seibu Dpt., Yurakucho
1989
“Japanese Open-Air Sculptures”, Middlheim Museum, Antwerp
1990
Yokohama Business-park, Yokohama
1991
“Gallery Gen-Group show”, Tokyo
“MONO-HA” Kamakura Gallery,Tokyo
1993
Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto
Konishi Gallery, Kyoto
Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto
Avant-garde art in 1970s Japan, “From Resistance to internal Conflict”, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
“OOMITSU collection”, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata
EXPOSITION DEFFERENNTES NATURES (Galerie Art 4/La Defaense)
1994
“Landscape of stone”, Dockyard Garden, The Landmark Tower Yokohama, Yokohama
“MONO-HA”, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
“Different Natures”, La Virreina, Barcelona
“Memorial for Yaeko Fujita: artists and Sakura Gallery”, Sakura Gallery, Nagoya
“Postwar Avant-garde art in Japan”, Yokohama Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, New York, San Francisco
“ASIANA Contemporary Art from The Far East”, Parazzo, Italy
1995
“1970-Material and perception - MONO-HA and Artists who ask root”, <Cross Country>
“Archeology of Phase-Mother Earth”, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan
“Design of Japan in postwar days”, <Cross Country>
1996
“Inside and the outside of art”, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
“1970-Material and perception - MONO-HA and Artists who ask root”, Saint Ratienu Museum, France
1997
“Modern Art' from a collector's view point: Yamamura Collection”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
“Street museum”, Kawagoe, Japan
1998
“Lumieves -Light- Rediscovery of stained glass”, TN Probe, Tokyo
2000
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
“Modern art of Japan - Monet de Paris” French National Mint Bureau, Paris
2001
“Century”, Tate Modern Art Gallery, London
“MONO-HA”, Kettles yard Art Gallery, Cambridge
Retrospective exhibition for 'Nagaoka Museum Prize1964-68',”Art Museum ran through the era and young energetic artists”,
Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata, Japan
“MONO-HA”, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
2002
“Sculpture Project”Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea
“Memorial for Yoshishige Saito”, Kawamura Gakuen Art Hall, Tokyo
2003
“The 20th Anniversary of Gallery Q”, Tokyo
2004
“Kim Tschang-Yeul, Sekine Nobuo & Susumu Sakaguchi “, Gallery Bijutsu Sekai (Gallery-BS), Tokyo
2005
“MONO-HA: reconsideration”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2006
“Public Art”, Gallery NOVITA, Aomori
“Memorial for Yoshiaki Tono”, Gallery TOM, Tokyo
2007
[WHAT IS MONO-HA?] Beijing Tokyo Art Project,Beijing
2008
Tamagawa Art Ling Project,Tokyo
2010
Masan Munsin Internatinal Sculpture Symposium,Masan
Yanpyon Environment festval,Korea
Shanghai Expo Prints Exhibition,Shanghai



■Awards　????????????????????????????

1967
Commendatory Prize at “11th Shell Art Exhibition”, Tokyo
1968
Concour Prize at “8th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan”, Tokyo
Asahi Newspaper Prize at “Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition”, Suma Palace Park, Kobe, Japan
First Prize at “5th Exhibition”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagaoka, Japan
1969
Prize Group Work at “6th Paris Biennale”, Paris
Concour Prize at “1st International Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition”, Hakone, Japan

■Public Collection　???????????????????????

Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagaoka, Japan / Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Japan / Louisiana Museum, Denmark Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam, Holland / Prefectural Museum, Tochigi / Prefectural Museum, Gunma / Prefectural Museum, Omiya, Saitama / Kanai Museum, Hokkaido / Hara Museum, Tokyo / Hiroshima Contemporary Art Museum / Takamatsu Museum of Art / Setagaya Art Museum, Yokohama Business Park / Seibu Museum, Tokyo / Rijksmuseum Kroller, Otterlo, Holland / Sonji Henie-Nils Onstad Culture Center, Oslo, Norway

■Environment Art　???????????????????????

Art works and monuments in several hundred places throughout the country.
Recent important projects include Shrine of Water and Pedestal of the Sky at the New Tokyo Metropolitan Office, Waving Scenery and Wave Cone at Tama Cemetery Ossuary Tokyo, fountain sculpture Rainbow at Hotel Shilla in South Korea, fountain sculpture Bridges over Seven Seas at Yokkaichi Citizen Park, Rainbow Symphony at Fukuoka, Flying Rainbow at Osaka City Air Terminal. Also 'Nagano city municipal grand design (in project)', 'East Osaka municipal hospital Art project', 'Shinagawa V Tower’, 'View Verge Annaka-Haruna’, as an art director.


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