Naoko Nishimoto

1956 Born in Kagoshima


1998
“Kotori”(Bird), in collaboration with Yuji Akatsuka, published by Edition Works

2002
“Kemono-ou”(Animal King), a collection of poetry was published by Shoshi Yamada

2004
"Okaeri"(Welcome Home), a collective exhibition of poetry at Pepper’s Loft Gallery in Tokyo, along with seven other poets

2009
“Junrei”(Pilgrimage), a collection of poetry was published by Shoshi Yamada

Yuji AKATSUKA

1955 Born in Kagoshima Pref.
1979 Graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Painting Department
1981 Completed the Master Program of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music


Solo Exhibitions

1981 Galerie 412, Tokyo
1983 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
1984 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
1985 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
1986 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo／Poster House, Sapporo and Tokyo
1987 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo／Gallery Shiroyama, Kagoshima
1988 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
1989 Fine Art Kunoki, Kagoshima
1990 “The Nineties Vol.11” Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo／Fine Art Kunoki, Kagoshima
1991 Kaneko Art G1, Tokyo／MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka／Galerie Ando, Tokyo
1992 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo／Gallery MANIN, Tokyo／Fine Art Kunoki, Kagoshima ／Galleria Finarte, Aichi／Galerie Ando, Tokyo
1993 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo／Gallery Yonetsu, Tokyo／FORMA, Tokyo
1994 Galleria Finarte, Aichi／MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka／OTA Fine Arts, Tokyo／Galerie Ando, Tokyo
1995 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo／Gallery Ikeda Bijutsu, Tokyo／Gallery Murayama, Tokyo／MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka
1996 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo／Gallery Ikeda Bijutsu, Tokyo／Galerie Ando, Tokyo／Gallery Murayama, Tokyo／Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
1997 Gallery Murayama, Tokyo
1998 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo／Gallery Ikeda Bijutsu, Tokyo／Galerie Ando, Tokyo／Gallery Murayama, Tokyo／HANASAKAN, Kagoshima
1999 Komagane Kogen Art Museum, Nagano／Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa／Galleria Finarte, Aichi／Gallery Murayama, Tokyo
2000 Gallery Murayama, Tokyo
2001 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo／Gallery Ikeda Bijutsu, Tokyo／Gallery Murayama, Tokyo／Mizuho Oshiro Gallery, Kagoshima
2002 Galleria Finarte, Aichi／Galerie Ando, Tokyo／Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa
2003 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
2004 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
2005 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo／Galleria Finarte, Aichi
2006 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo／Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa
2007 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
2008 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
2009 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
2010 Galleria Finarte, Aichi／Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
2011 Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo


Group Exhibition

1980
“Lithograph ’80”TAMAYA Gallery, Tokyo
1987
“Atelier C-126”Gallery Miyuki, Tokyo
1988
“GRAFISM Today”Ibaraki Prefectural Culture Center, Ibaraki
“Open the Gate”Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo
“Art in Bookshop”Art Vivant 4,Yurakucho Seibu, Tokyo
“Atelier C-126” Gallery Miyuki, Tokyo
1989
“New Age New Art”Shinjuku Isetan, Tokyo
“Japanese Contemporary Art in the 80’s”Heineken Village Gallery, Tokyo
“Charity Exhibition for Families of Victims, China June 4 1989”Hillside Gallery, Tokyo
1990
“The Eighties”Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
“Prints Vision ’90”Ikebukuro Seibu Fine Arts Store -Studio5, Tokyo
“Present to the Future”Heineken Village Gallery, Tokyo
“Contemporary Prints in Sapporo 1990”INAX Space, Sapporo
1991
“Tokyo ART Expo - Japan Art Scene ’90”Tokyo International Trade Fair, Tokyo
“Color’s Face Black”LAPINACOTEKA TAKI, Osaka
“The Exchange Exhibition -Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Hyosung Women University”Taegu Donga Museum, Seoul
“The Nineties, Part 2”Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
“Take Art Collection 1991”Spiral Garden, Tokyo
1992
“A View of Painting vol. 2”Gallery Furukawa, Tokyo
“Drawing Today”Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu
“Art Today ’92”Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano
“Tama Vivant’92”Shibuya Seibu Seed Hall, Tokyo
“Drawings” MOMA Contemporary, Fukuoka
1992-93
“A perspective on Contemporary Art - Among the Figures”The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo・The International Museum of Art, Osaka
1993
“NICAF’93”[Gallery Kobayashi ] Pacifico Yokohama Exhibition Hall, Kanagawa
1994
“VOCA ’94 -The Vision of Contemporary Art”The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
“Artists in Yokohama ’94“ Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa
“Two-Person Show vol.2”(with Mr. Hirotake Kurokawa) Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
“The Collection of Japanese Paintings after the Second World War”Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano
“A breeze from Yokohama, Yokohama Contemporary Art Exhibition in Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Friend-City Affiliation Between Yokohama and Shanghai” Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
1994-95
“Light & shadow, the sense of ephemerality”Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
1995
“Modern Art in Japan, from the Collection of the National Museum of Modern Art” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
“Allegory of Seeing 1995, Painting and Sculpture in Contemporary Japan”Sezon Museum, Tokyo
“Kyoubashi-kaiwai ‘95”Gallery Ikeda Bijutsu, Tokyo
“MESSAGE 95”Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
1996
“Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair”Nagoya Citizen’s Gallery, Aichi
“The Exhibition from the Museum Collection”Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa
“Figure Paintings”OTA Fine Arts, Tokyo, Tokyo
“Message’96”Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo [since then, presented on every year]
1997
“NICAF TOKYO‘97”[Gallery Kobayashi ] Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo
“Art 28 ’97” [Kamakura Gallery] Messe Basel, Basel
“ART TODAY 1997 OPERA APERTA”Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano
“Atelier C-126, 30th Anniversary Exhibition”Gallery Miyuki, Tokyo
“B semi 30th Anniversary Benefit Exhibition”Hillside Plaza, Tokyo
1998
“Art 29 ‘98”[Kamakura Gallery] Messe Basel, Basel
“Print of Prints”Bumpodo Gallery, Tokyo
1999
“The 7th International Contemporary Art Exhibition [Poland・Japan]”The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
“NICAF ’99 Tokyo”[Gallery Kobayashi] Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
“Selected Works from the permanent Collection Part 1”Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
“The Vision of Contemporary Art in Japan”Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo
2000
“Marks of the domain”O Gallery eyes, Osaka
2001
“NICAF 2001 Tokyo”[Kamakura Gallery] Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
“Chiba Art Now ’01”Sakura City Museum of Art, Chiba
“BOUNDLESS BLUE”O Gallery eyes, Osaka
2001-02
“In search of FORM-11 Japanese Artists”Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum, Pusan
2002
“KIAF 2002”BEXCO, Pusan
2003
“The Power of Painting ?Japanese Painting Since 1980”Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
“Modern Art Japan, from the Collection of The National Museum of Modern Art”The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
“NICAF’03”[Kamakura Gallery] Tokyo International Forum、Tokyo
“Kaiga” Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa
2004
“50 Years of Contemporary Art”Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
“WHY NOT LIVE FOR ART?”Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
“KIAF 2004 Contemporary Japanese Painting” COEX, Seoul
“New Expression of Asian Art Exhibition 2004”Tainan Municipal Cultural Center, Tainan
“Sublime Present ? International Aspects of Contemporary Print and Art Education”Musashino Art University, Tokyo
2005
“GEISAI#8” [Mizuho Oshiro Gallery] Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo
“Seoul International Print, Photo & Edition Works Art Fair”Hangaram Art Museum of Seoul Art Center, Seoul
2006
“Focus on Abstraction : Color, Form and Space”Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
“With You, With Art”Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo
2007
“Message- 2007”Miyakonojo City Museum of Art, Miyazaki
“THE PRESENT OF ART”Kagoshima City Museum of Art, Kagoshima
“2007 Heyri Asia Project - Japanese Contemporary Art Festival”Heyri Organizing Committee, Paju
“The Testimony of Self-portraits”The University Art Museum- Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo
2008
“Harvest - Works of Mr. Hara Takeshi and 161 people”Gallery Ginza Towa・Gallery ZOKEI-Tokyo, Tokyo
“Statements from Galleries 2008” [Gallery Kobayashi] Gallery Natsuka b.p, Tokyo
“Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair ‘08” Hoel New Otani Tokyo, Tokyo
“TAMA VIVANTⅡ2008 ? Seeds of Image”Tama Art University, Tokyo
“The 30 Years of Contemporary Art”Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa
2009
“Exhibition from S collection”Miyakonojo City Museum of Art, Miyazaki
“The Power of Painting” Musashino Art University Museum & Library (gFAL,FAL), Tokyo
“Drawing ? The Ability of Conscious Hands”Musashino Art University Museum & Library (gFAL,FAL), Tokyo
2010
“+PLUS - Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair”[Gallery Kobayashi] Tokyo Art Club, Tokyo
2011
“Exhibition from T collection”Asago Art Village, Hyogo


Public Collection
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano
Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima
Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo
Miyakonojo City Museum of Art, Miyazaki
The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi


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