Biography |
| 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 | Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1975 | Sakura Gallery, Nagoya |
| 1976 | Gallery Dori, Tokyo |
| 1977 | Keneko Art Gallery, Tokyo |
| Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo |
| Sakura Gallery, Nagoya |
| 1978 | Louisiana Museum of Art, Denmark |
| Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany |
| Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland |
| 1979 | Sonja Henie-Niels Onstad Culture Center, Oslo, Norway |
| 1980 | Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo |
| Keneko Art Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1981 | Sakura Gallery, Nagoya |
| Keneko Art Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1982 | Sekine's Prints and Sculptures (Cross Country 7500Km). |
| Keneko Art Gallery, Tokyo |
| 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 |
| Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo |
| Sakura Gallery, Nagoya |
| 1988 | Gallery M, Obama |
| Art Dune, Hamamatsu |
| 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 |
| Art Dune, Hamamatsu |
| 1992 | Shokyodo Museum, Toyota |
| 1993 | Gallery Art Point, Tokyo |
| Galleri Akern, Norway |
| Sakura Gallery, Nagoya |
| 1994 | Art Dune, Hamamatsu |
| 1997 | Kawagoe Gallery, Saitama |
| Art Dune, Hamamatsu |
| 1998 | Saint Paul Gallery, Maebashi |
| 1999 | Shokyodo Museum, Toyota |
| 2001 | Art Dune, Hamamatsu |
| 2003 | Kawagoe City Art Museum, Saitama |
| 2004 | Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura |
| Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing |
| Art Dune, Hamamatsu |
| 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 |
| 2014 | Blum & Poe (Los Angeles) |
| 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 Ufan, 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 Dept., 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 |
| 2012 | "REQUIEM FOR THE SUN: THE ART OF MONO-HA" Blum & Poe (Los Angeles) |
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. |
