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FUNAKOSHI, KatsuraJapanese, born 1951

Biography

1951 Born in Morioka City, Iwate

1971-75 Studied at Tokyo Zokei University, B.A.

1975-77 Studied at the Postgraduate Course of Tokyo University of the Arts, M.A.

1985-86 Taught at Tokyo University of the Arts, sculpture course

1986-87 Stayed in London by the Japanese government overseas study program for artists

1989- Teaches at Tokyo Zokei University

1990-91 Taught at Tokyo University of the Arts, sculpture course

1991 Awarded the 1st Takashimaya Charitable Trust for Art and Culture Prize

1995 Awarded the 26th Nakahara Teijiro Excellence Prize

1997 Awarded the 18th Hirakushi Denchu Prize

2003 Awarded the 33th Nakahara Teijiro Prize

2009 Awarded the 50th Mainichi Art Award

Awarded the 59th Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Award

2011 Awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon

Visiting Professor of Tokyo Zokei University

Lives and works in Tokyo

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1982 Gallery Okabe, Tokyo

1985 Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo

1988 Nishimura Gallery

1989 Arnold Herstand & Company, New York

COMME des GARÇONS, Tokyo

1990 Nishimura Gallery

1991 Nishimura Gallery

Annely Juda Fine Art, London

1993 Nishimura Gallery

The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura

1994 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco

André Emmerich Gallery, New York

1995 Nishimura Gallery

1996 Nishimura Gallery

Annely Juda Fine Art

1997 Ibara Municipal Denchu Art Museum, Okayama

1999 Annely Juda Fine Art / Kunsthalle Recklinghausen / Städtische Museen Heilbronn (-'00)

2000 Continental Gallery, Sapporo ('05)

Gallery Tamura, Hiroshima

2001 Nishimura Gallery

2002 Nishimura Gallery

Gallery Tamura

2003 Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo

Galleria Micia, Kagawa

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts / Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art /

Takamatsu City Museum of Art / Iwate Museum of Art / Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (-'04)

2004 Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Gallery Tamura

Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie, Essen, Germany

2005 Continental Gallery, Sapporo

Annely Juda Fine Art, London / Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg

Tokyo Zokei University, Zokei Gallery

2006 Cite Du Livre, Aix En Provence, France

Nishimura Gallery

2007 Gallery Tamura

Tohoku University of Art & Design, Yamagata

2008 Nishimura Gallery

Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York

Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum

Ando Gallery, Tokyo

2009 Gallery Tamura

2010 Nishimura Gallery

Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto

2011 Kami City Art Museum, Kochi

Annely Juda Fine Art

2012 Suzaka Hanga Museum, Nagano

Gallery Tamura

Menard Art Museum, Aichi

2013 Tabloid Gallery, Tokyo

Gallery Shirakawa, Kyoto

Imavision Gallery, Taipei

2014 Gallery Tamura

Ando Gallery

Selected Group Exhibitions

1976-84 New Figurative Sculpture, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

1984 10th Anniversary Exhibition of Sculpture of Ayumikai, Chiba Prefectural Art Museum

Oyama-city with Sculpture, Hakuoh University, Tochigi

1985 Nichido Sculpture, Galerie Nichido, Tokyo ('86)

1986 Three Artists, Nishimura Gallery

New Trends in Contemporary Sculpture - 10 New Outstanding Sculptors of America and Japan, Contemporary Sculpture Center,

Tokyo·Osaka / Sapporo Art Museum / Salvatore Ala, New York (-'87)

1987 Shiga Annual '87 – Expressions of Human Figures, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga

1988 The XXXX III Venice Biennale

Seven Sculptors, Nishimura Gallery

1989 Setagaya Art '89, Arts and Crafts Produced by Artists of Setagaya City, Setagaya Art Museum ('90, '91, '94, '97, '99)

Art Exciting '89, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama / Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane

Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eightieth, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and toured (-'91)

The XX São Paulo Biennale

1990 Transformation of Material and Space, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall Gallery, Yokohama

Toyama Now '90, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama

New Wave of Wood Sculptures, Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art

Japanische Kunst der Achtziger Jahre, Frankfurter Kunstverein and toured

1991 A Current of Contemporary Art in Japan - Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama

1992 Prediction, Nishimura Gallery

Japanese Modern and Contemporary Wood Sculptures, The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art

Documenta IX, Kassel

The 9th Biennale of Sydney

1993 Tsubaki-kai Exhibition '93, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo ('95)

Karuizawa Drawing Biennale 1993, Wakita Museum of Art, Nagano / Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary

Art, Kagawa

1994 Contemporary Human Figure, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art

New Works at New Gallery, Nishimura Gallery

A Sculpture Show, Nishimura Gallery

1995 Art in Japan Today 1985-1995, Inaugural Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Japanese Culture: The Fifty postwar years 1945-1995, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo and toured

1996 Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Museum Ludwig, Köln

Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido

Enjoy Art Part II, Isetan Museum, Tokyo

The 45th Anniversary, Part 1 A Dialogue between Tools and Arts, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura

Images of women in Japanese contemporary art 1930's - 90's, The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo

1997 Collection I·Sculpture, Nishimura Gallery

On Paper '97, Nishimura Gallery ('00, '12)

1998 SUMMER SHOW 1998, Nishimura Gallery ('99, '00, '05, '06, '10, '11, '13)

1999 Image of Sculpture, Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture In Honor of Teijiro Nakahara

France-Japon L’art sans frontière, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo

Noontime Meditation - Contemporary Japanese Art having Inner Sight, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts

Selected Works from the Terada Collection: Part 1, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Destruction and Construction, The University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of the Arts

The current of the Nakahara Teijiro Prize, Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture In Honor of Teijiro Nakahara

2000 Modernité Japonaise, Hôtel de la Monnaie, Paris

Toki no Mangekyo, Fukui City Art Museum

Shanghai Biennale 2000, Shanghai Art Museum

2001 Between Earth and Heaven, Museum of Modern Art, Ostend

SEPTEMBER 2001, Nishimura Gallery ('02, '03, '07, '08, '10, '12)

ART for the SPIRIT: Eyes Searching for Eternity, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art

Contemporary Art after 1980, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art

2002 Commemorating the Anniversary of Takashimaya Cultural Foundation Takashimaya Art, Tokyo Nihonbashi Takashimaya /

Yokohama Takashimaya Gallery / Osaka Nanba Takashimaya Grand Hall / Kyoto Takashimaya Grand Hall

Human Figure, Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum

Zokei The Sculpure Show, Yokoyama Memorial Manzù Museum, Tokyo Zokei University

Sculptors of Eastern Japan, Tokyo Station Gallery

2003 Yasutake Funakoshi and His Family - from the Collections of People in Morioka, Morioka Takuboku & Kenji Museum

Hope, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo

The Presents from the Artists, Niigata City Art Museum and toured (-'04)

2004 Time of My Life, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Art in Wood, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi

New Works by Five Artists, Nishimura Gallery

2005 Asian Potential: Art Nursed by Sea and Islands, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art

Kokoro no Fukei, Kawagoe City Art Museum

2006 20 arts for the last 20 years, Sapporo Art Museum

2007 Dramatic Collections, Sapporo Art Museum

Vital Signs: Reality of nine contemporary artists, Inaugural Exhibition, Yokosuka Museum of Art

Forest of the 20th Century Art, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art

The 30th Anniversary: Collection of the National Museum of Art, Osaka, The National Museum of Art, Osaka

2008 Self / Other, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Found Beauties from Companies and Private Collections in Kitakyushu, gallery 130, Kitakyushu

Request by citizens, The Museum of Art, Kochi

Inspiration from Buddha sculpture, Kodaira Hirakushi Denchu Art Museum

DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow 2008, The National Art Center, Tokyo

2009 Entertainment Gallery: Enjoying Art through Games, Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art

Hundred Stories about Love, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

2010 Nobuyoshi Araki and Katsura Funakoshi An Image of Love Supreme, Takahashi Collection Hibiya

Masterpieces of the collections, Sapporo Art Museum

The World of Images and Words, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama

E·MA·KI, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi

Jan Fabre x Katsura Funakoshi Alternative Humanities, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

Masterpieces from the Collection of Menard Art Museum 2010, Menard Art Museum

Special Exhibition in Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, The Tokushima Modern

Art Museum

The Essence of Beauty: 300 Masterpieces from the Museum Collection, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art(-'11)

2011 The Most Requested Top 30 / 10 Years of Takahashi Collection, Tabloid Gallery, Tokyo

Yasutake Funakoshi x Katsura Funakoshi ~Quiet Poetry~, Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture In Honor of Teijiro Nakahara

I wanna hold you! Modern Japanese Wood Sculpture: 19th century-, Takaoka Art Museum / Hekinan City Tatsukichi Fuji

Museum of Contemporary Art / Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum

MOT Collection Time of woods, Time of stones, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Graphics, Nishimura Gallery

2012 The Magic of Ceramics ~Artistic Inspiration, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga

The 35th Anniversary of The National Museum of Art, Osaka: the Allure of the Collection, The National Museum of Art, Osaka

35 YEARS plus Exhibition for publication of“NISHIMURA GALLERY 35 YEARS plus”Nishimura Gallery

The Story of Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

From Head to Toe—Human images in the Focus of the Würth Collection, Museum Würth, Germany

The Power of Japanese Contemporary Sculpture, AKI Gallery, Taipei

Hirakushi Denchu, Kodaira Hirakushi Denchu Art Museum, Tokyo / Mie Prefectual Art Museum

2013 New Year New Works, Nishimura Gallery ('14)

Nishimura Gallery Collections, Nishimura Gallery

Re: Quest Japanese Contemporary Art since 1970s, Museum of Art Seoul National University

Takahashi Collection Mindfulness!, Kirishima Open-air Museum, Kgoshima / Sapporo Art Museum

2013-14 Six Solo Exhibitions The Bonds between us, Karuizawa New Art Museum

2014 Treasured articles of Kochi-ke, The Museum of Art, Kochi

Nishimura Gallery 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Nishimura Gallery

Color, Motion, Form Summer Adventure in Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama, Kanagawa

Twentieth Anniversary Special MOT Collection Chronicle 1995-, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Drawing 03 ¬Preference, ginza shibuya gallery

A Summer General Collection Come – See – Discover Enjoying Paintings from Their Materials and Techiques, Menard Art

Museum

Encounter with World Masterpieces from, the Collections, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga

Public Collections

Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya

Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture In Honor of Teijiro Nakahara

Catholic church Zushi, Kanagawa

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art

Ishinomaki Cultural Center

Iwate Museum of Art

Iwate Prefecture (Iwate Prefecture Citizen’s Cultural Exchange Center - Aiina)

Kimobetsu

Kirishima Open-air Museum, Kagoshima

Kurume City, Fukuoka

McMaster Museum of Art, Canada

Menard Art Museum, Aichi

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Museum of Contemporary Sculpture affiliated to Chosenin temple, Tokyo

Museum Ludwig, Köln

Museum Wiesbaden, Germany

Museum Würth, Germany

Nagoya City Art Museum

Nakayama Toge Museum of Photography, Hokkaido

Our Lady of the Lighthouse Trappist Monastery, Hakodate

Sapporo Art Museum

Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo

Shiseido Art House, Shizuoka

St. Andrews Tokyo

Sumida Triphony Hall, Tokyo

Takahashi Collection, Tokyo

Takamatsu City Museum of Art

The Cultural Foundation of OKADA, Paramita Museum, Mie

The Hess Art Collection, California

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Museum of Art, Kochi

The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama

The Nishi-Nippon City Bank, LTD., Fukuoka

The National Museum of Art, Osaka

The Tokushima Modern Art Museum

Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

Source: NISHIMURA GALLERY, 2-10-8 NIHONBASHI CHUO-KU TOKYO 103-0027

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    Moon on the Northernmost
    FUNAKOSHI, Katsura
    Date: 1995
    Medium: Painted camphor wood and marble on metal stand
    Object number: 1996.002.0001LB