PRESS RELEASE 2022.12.9

Museum of Contemporary Art TokyoDAVID HOCKNEY
15 JULY – 5 NOVEMBER 2023

1. The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven), 2011, Oil on 32 canvases (91.5 x 122 cm each), 365.6 x 975.2 cm, Centre Pompidou,Paris. Musée national d'art moderne-Centre de création industrielle © David Hockney Photo: Richard Schmidt

The exhibition DAVID HOCKNEY, held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is the largest ever solo
exhibition in Asia devoted to the British artist David Hockney (b. 1937 in Bradford, UK) who is regarded as
one of the most innovative artists of the postwar era. Hockney has produced diverse works in a variety offields including painting, drawing, print work, photography, and stage design for over 60 years and recently
made pictures of familiar subjects using the iPad. This large scale exhibition of over 100 selected works
includes a number of the artist’s early works produced in the California in the 1960s, a series of recent
large paintings of his native Yorkshire landscape and a 90 meters-long new work he drew in Normandy
during the lockdown period for COVID-19.___________________________________________________________
ProfileDavid Hockney was born in Bradford, England, in 1937, and iscurrently working in Normandy, France. He studied at Bradford
College of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. Upon
moving to Los Angeles in 1964, he came into the international
limelight with his works depicting life in sunny California. For
over sixty years, he has explored and experimented withimage-making. Major retrospectives of his work wereorganized by Tate Britain, the Centre Pompidou, and theMetropolitan Museum of Art in 2017-2018 in honor of his life
as he reached his 80th birthday. The exhibition broke therecord for visitor numbers at Tate Britain, with about a half
million visitors. David Hockney is one of the most versatile
6. David Hockney in Normandy, April 1st 2021 © David Hockney

artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Photo: Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima

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2. A Year in Normandie 2020-2021 (detail), 2020-21, Composite iPad painting, 100 x 9000 cm, Collection of the artist © David Hockney

3. A Year in Normandie 2020-2021 (detail), 2020-21, Composite iPad painting, 100 x 9000 cm, Collection of the artist © David Hockney

4. Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, 1970-71, Acrylic on canvas, 213.4 x 304.8 cm,

5. A Lawn Sprinkler, 1967, Acrylic on canvas, 125.8 x 123.8 cm,

Tate: Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1971 © David Hockney
Photo: Richard Schmidt

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo © David Hockney

Information
Exhibition Title

DAVID HOCKNEY

Exhibition Period

Saturday, 15 July 2023 - Sunday, 5 November 2023

Venue

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Exhibition Gallery 1F/3F

Organized by

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo operated by Tokyo Metropolitan Foundationfor History and Culture, The Yomiuri Shimbun

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1. David Hockney, The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) , 2011,Centre Pompidou, Paris. Musée national d'art moderne-Centre de création industrielle© David Hockney Photo: Richard Schmidt
2. David Hockney, A Year in Normandie 2020-2021 (detail), 2020-21, Collection of the artist© David Hockney
3. David Hockney, A Year in Normandie 2020-2021 (detail), 2020-21, Collection of the artist© David Hockney
4. David Hockney, Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy , 1970-71, Tate: Presented by the Friends ofthe Tate Gallery 1971 © David Hockney Photo: Richard Schmidt
5. David Hockney, A Lawn Sprinkler, 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo © David Hockney
6. David Hockney in Normandy, April 1st 2021 © David Hockney Photo: Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de LimaContact：Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Public Relations Kudo / Inaba / Uchibori
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