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（'84?'88,'92,'93,'95,'96）
1986 Poster House ,Sapporo and Tokyo
1987 Gallery Shiroyama ,Kagoshima
1989 Fine Art Kunoki ,Kagoshima（'90,'92）
1990 “THE NINETIES ,vol. 11 ” Gallery Kobayashi
1991 Kaneko Art G1 ,Tokyo
MOMA Contemporary ,Fukuoka（'94,'95）
Galerie Ando ,Tokyo（'92,'94,'96）
1992 Gallery MANIN ,Tokyo
Galleria Finarte ,Nagoya（'94）
1993 Gallery Yonetsu ,Tokyo
FORMA ,Tokyo
1994 OTA Fine Arts ,Tokyo
1995 Gallery Ikeda Bijutsu ,Tokyo（'96）
Gallery Murayama ,Tokyo（'96）
1996 Gallery Kamakura ,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 ,Komagane
Galleria Finarte ,Nagoya
Gallery Kamakura ,Kamakura
Gallery Murayama ,Tokyo
2000 Gallery Murayama ,Tokyo
2001 Gallery Kobayashi ,Tokyo
HANASAKAN ,Kagoshima
Gallery Ikeda Bijutsu ,Tokyo
Gallery Murayama ,Tokyo
Gallery Ikeda Bijutsu ,Tokyo
2002 Galleria Finarte ,Nagoya
Galerie Ando,Tokyo
Gallery Kamakura,Kamakura
2003 Gallery Kobayashi,Tokyo
2004 Gallery Kobayashi,Tokyo
Gallery Ikeda Bijutsu,Tokyo
2005 Gallery Kobayashi,Tokyo
“GATE”Mizuho Oshiro Gallery,Kagoshima
Galleria Finarte,Nagoya
2006 Gallery Kobayashi,Tokyo
Group Exhibitions
1980 “Lithograph '80” Gallery Tamaya ,Tokyo
1987 “Atelier C-126” Gallery Miyuki ,Tokyo
1988 “Graphism Today” Ibaraki Prefectural Cultural Center ,Mito
“Open the Gate” Tokyo National University of Fine
Arts and
Music,Tokyo
“Art in Bookshop” Art Vivan 4 ,Yurakucho Seibu ,Tokyo
“Atelier C-126” Gallery Miyuki ,Tokyo（'89,'90,'91）
1989 “New Age New Art” Shinjuku Isetan ,Tokyo
“Japanese Contemporary Art in the 80's” Heineken
Village
Gallery ,Tokyo
1990 “THE EIGHTIES” Gallery Kobayashi ,Tokyo
“Prints Vision '90” Ikebukuro Seibu Fine Arts
Store ,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” LA PINACOTEKA TAKI ,Osaka
“The Exchange Exhibition of Prints ・Tokyo
National University
of Fine Arts and Music,Hyosung Women University”
Taegu Donga Museum ,Seoul
“THE NINETIES ・Document Exhibition” Gallery
Kobayashi ,Tokyo
“Take Art Collection” Spiral Garden ,Tokyo
1992 “A View of Painting vol.2” Gallery Furukawa ,Tokyo
“Drawing Today” Kitakushu Municipal Museum of Art
,Kitakyushu
“Art Today '92” Sezon Museum of Modern Art ,Karuizawa
“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 Yokohama '93・International Contemporary Art Fair”
Pacifico Yokohama Exhibition Hall ,Yokohama
1994 “VOCA '94・The Vision of Contemporary Art”The Ueno
Royal Museum,
Tokyo
“Artists in Yokohama '94” Yokohama Citizen's
Gallery ,Yokohama
“TWO PERSON SHOW vol.2” Gallery Kobayashi ,Tokyo
“The Collection of Japanese Paintings after the
Second World War”
Seson Museum of Modern Art , Karuizawa
“A Breeze from Yokohama・Yokohama Contemporary
Arts Exhibition
in Celebrarion of the 20th Anniversary of the Friend-City
Affiliation
Between Yokohama and Shanghai” ShanghaiArt Museum ,
Shanghai
1994-95“Light & shadow・the sense of ephemerality”
Hiroshima City
Museum of Contemporary Art , Hiroshima
1995 “ Modern Art in Japan・from the Cllection 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
“Kyobashi-Kaiwai '95”Gallery Ikedabijutsu ,Tokyo
1996 “Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair” Nagoya Citizen's
Gallery ,Nagoya
“The Exhibition from the Museum Collection”
Yokohama Museum
of Art ,Yokohama
“Figure Paintings” OTA Fine Arts ,Tokyo
“MESSAGE '96” Gallery Kobayashi ,Tokyo
1997 “NICAF TOKYO '97” Tokyo Big Sight ,Tokyo
“Art 28 '97” Messe Basel ,Basel
“ART TODAY 1997 OPERA APERTA”Sezon Museum of
Modern Art ,Karuizawa
“B semi 30th Annivarsary Benefit Exhibition”
Hillside Plaza ,Tokyo
“MESSAGE '97” Gallery Kobayashi ,Tokyo
“Atelier C-126 : 30th Annivarsary Exhibition”
Gallery Miyuki ,Tokyo
1998 “Art 29 '98” Messe Basel ,Basel
“Print of Prints” Bunpodo Gallery ,Tokyo
“MESSAGE '98” Gallery Kobayashi ,Tokyo
1999 “The Seventh International Contemporary Art Exhibition
[POLAND-JAPAN] ” The Museum of Modern Art ,Toyama
“Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery: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
“NICAF TOKYO '99” Tokyo International Forum ,Tokyo
“MESSAGE '99 ” Gallery Kobayashi ,Tokyo
2000 “Marks of the domain”Gallery O eyes ,Osaka
“MESSAGE 2000” Gallery Kobayashi ,Tokyo
2001 “NICAF 2001 TOKYO” Tokyo International Forum ,Tokyo
“BOUNDLESS BLUE”Gallery O eyes ,Osaka
“Chiba Art Now '01”Sakura City Museum of Art ,
Sakura
“In Search of FORM-11 Japanese Artists”Pusan
Metropolitan Art
museum,Pusan
MESSAGE 2001/Gallery Kobayashi,Tokyo
2002 1st Korea International Art Fair/BEXCO/Pusan
“MESSAGE 2002”Gallery Kobayashi,Tokyo
“KIAF 2002”BEXCO,Pusan
2003 “The Power of Painting-Japanese Painting Since 1980”Museum
of
Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
“ Modern Art in Japan・from the Cllection of The
National Museum of
Modern Art”The National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo
“NICAF 2003 TOKYO”Tokyo International Forum,Tokyo
“Kaiga”Gallery Kamakura,Kamakura
“Light'n Heavy vol.2”Gallery Goto,Tokyo
“MESSAGE 2003”Gallery Kobayashi,Tokyo
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”COEX, Seoul
“KIAF 2004 Contemporary Japanese Paintings”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
“MESSAGE 2004”Gallery Kobayashi,Tokyo
2005 “ GEISAI #8-Mizuho Oshiro Gallery Booth”Tokyo Big
Sight,Tokyo
“Seoul International Print,Photo&Edition Works
Art Fair”Hangaram Art
Museum of Seoul Art Center,Seoul
“MESSAGE 2005”Gallery Kobayashi,Tokyo
2006 “Focus on Abstraction: Colour,Form and Space”Tokyo
Opera City Art
Gallery,Tokyo
“With You, With Art”Fuchu Art Museum,Tokyo
“ light 'n Heavy vol.3”Gallery Goto,Tokyo
“Small Size Works-Statements from Galleries-”Gallery
Natsuka
b.p,Tokyo
Public Collection
The National Museum of Modern Art
Sezon Museum of Modern Art
Yokohama Museum of Art
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
Iwaki City Museum of Art