FUNAKOSHI, Katsura
Japanese, 1951 - 2024
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
Person TypeIndividual
Terms
Austrian, 1928 - 2000
