Biography

Tsuruko Yamazaki
Born in 1925 in Hyogo, Japan
Died in 2019 in Hyogo, Japan
1975

Participates in the founding of the Artist's Union (AU)1954

Participates in the founding of the Gutai Art Association

1948

Graduates from the University of the Sacred Heart, Obayashi, Hyogo, Japan

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015

un-/untitled, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2013

Tsuruko Yamazaki, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2012

Tsuruko Yamazaki, Lads Gallery, Osaka

2010

Beyond Gutai: 1957-2009, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris2009

Tsuruko Yamazaki, Lads Gallery, Osakasolo exhibition, Gallery Cellar, Nagoya, Japan

2007

Gutai to Now, Gallery Cellar, Nagoya, Japan
From Gutai to Today, Lads Gallery, Osaka

2004

Reflection: Tsuruko Yamazaki, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Hyogo, Japan
Gallery Shimada, Kobe, Japan2003

Lads Gallery, Osaka

2000

Lads Gallery, Osaka

1997

Lads Gallery, Osaka

1995

Lads Gallery, Osaka
Gallery Renaissance, Tokyo

1986

Art Space Niji, Kyoto, Japan1985

Art Space, Hyogo, Japan1980

Art Space, Hyogo, Japan

1973

Fujimi Gallery, Osaka

1967

Gallery Petit Imabashi, Osaka

1963

Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka
Chuo Gallery, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023

art resonance vol.01 Defrosting Time: Art Across Generations,Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Hyogo, Japan
Inside Other Spaces. Immersive Environments by Women Artists 1956–1976, Haus der Kunst,Munich, Germany

2022

Into the Unknown World — GUTAI: Differentiation and Integration,
National Museum of Art, Osaka; Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

2021

Between Collectivism and Individualism ‒ Japanese Avant-garde in the 1950s and the1960s, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Painting goes on, toward Today, Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Hyogo, Japan
Galleries Curate: RHE, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2019

The Yamamura Collection: Gutai and the Japanese Avant-Garde 1950s-1980s,
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
Manifesto: Art x Agency, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Glow Like That, K11 Art Foundation - K11 Atelier, Hong Kong

2018

Gutai, Hauser & Wirth, New York
Collection Exhibition: Adventure in ‘Seeing’, 21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Japan2015

From the Object to the World – The Inhotim Collection,
Palácio das Artes and Centro de Arte Contemporânea e Fotografia, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

2014

Artevida: ambiente, Escola de Artes Visuais Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro

2013

Gutai: Splendid Playground, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York2012

A Visual Essay on Gutai at 32 East 69th St., Hauser & Wirth, New York
Nul=0, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Netherlands
Gutai: The Spirit of an Era, The National Art Center, Tokyo

2011

The Masked Portrait Part II - When Vibrations Become Forms, Marianne Boesky Gallery,
New York
Silent Echoes: Collection Exhibition II, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,
Kanazawa, Japan2010

Gutai: Painting with Time and Space, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland

2009

53rd Venice Biennale: Making Worlds, Giardini, Venice
Hundred Stories About Love, 21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Japan

2008

Alliance, Gallery Hyundai Company, Beijing; doART, Seoul
Rose is a Rose is a Rose: Yayoi Kusama, Atsuko Tanaka, Tsuruko Yamazaki,
De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium

2007

Zero: Internationale Künstler-Avantgarde der 50er/60er Jahre, Musée d’Art Moderne,Saint-Etienne, France
Collection I, 21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Japan2006

Zero: Internationale Künstler-Avantgarde der 50er/60er Jahre, Museum Kunst Palast,
Düsseldorf

2005Japanese Women Artists in Avant-garde Movements, 1950-1975,Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan

2004

Gutai 1954-1972, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan

2001

Le Tribù dell’Arte (Part 1), Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome

1993

Gutai 1955-56: A Restarting Point for Japanese Contemporary Art,
Kirin Plaza, Osaka; Penrose Institute of Contemporary Arts, Tokyo- 1994
Gutai III: 1965-72, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Hyogo, Japan
45th Venice Biennale: Cardinal Points of Art, Arsenale, Venice
Gutai II: 1959-1965, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Hyogo, Japan

1992

Outdoor Exhibition Revisited, Ashiya Park, Hyogo, Japan(organized by Ashiya City Museum of Art & History)
Gutai I: 1954-1958, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Hyogo, Japan

1991

Gutai: Japanische Avant-garde 1954-1965, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany

1990

Giappone all’avanguardia: Il Gruppo Gutai negli anni Cinauanta,
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome
Gutai: Unfinished Avant-garde Group, Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo

1989

The Legendary Yamamura Collection, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art,
Kobe, Japan

1986

Japon des Avant-gardes 1910-1970, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Gutai: Action and Painting, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, JapanGutai: Akcija I Slikarstvo, Muzej Savremene Umetnosti, Belgrade

1985

Gruppo Gutai: Pintura y Accion, Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid
Jiro Yoshihara and Gutai 1954-72, Ashiya Civic Center, Hyogo, Japan
Yamamura Collection Exhibition, The National Museum of Art, Osaka

1984

Contemporary Art 1950-70, Yao Seibu hall, Osaka

1983

Six Japanese Artists of the Gutai Group, Itami City Art Gallery, Osaka
Sechs Japanische Künstler der Gutai-Gruppe, Atelierhaus Hildbrandstrasse, Düsseldorf

1979

Jiro Yoshihara and Today’s Aspects of Gutai, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art,
Kobe, Japan1976

18 Years of Gutai Art, Osaka Municipal Gallery, Osaka
Artist’s Union Symposium, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo

1971

Celebration of the Founding of Gutai Mini-Pinacotheca, Gutai Mini-Pinacotheca, Osaka

1970

Gutai Art Festival - Performace by Humans and Objects on the Expo ‘70 Festival Square,
Expo ’70 Festival Square, Osaka
Gutai Group Exhibition at the Entrance of Midori Pavillion, Expo’70 Midori Pavillion, Osaka
Garden on Garden (collective work by the Gutai Group), Expo ’70 Museum, Osaka

1968

Contemporary Art Exhibition Only at Nights, Miyazaki Kanko Hotel, Miyazaki, JapanThe 21st Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka
The 20th Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka

1967

The 19th Gutai Art Exhibition, Central Museum, Tokyo; Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka
Gutai Group Exhibition, Wulfengasse Heide Hildebrand Gallery, Klagenfurt, Germany
The 18th Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka

1966

The 17th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Yokohama;
Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka
2e Salon International des Galeries Pilotes Lausanne,Musée Cantonal Des Beaux-Arts, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland
1965

The 16th Gutai Art Exhibition, Keio Department Store, Tokyo
The 15th Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka
Nul negentienhonderd vijf en zestig, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1964

Nagaoka Contemporary Art Museum Award Exhibition,
Nagaoka Museum of Contemporary Art, Niigata, Japan
Trends in Contemporary Art-Painting and Sculpture, The National Museum of Modern Art,Kyoto, JapanThe 14th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka
Gutai Small Works Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka

1963

The 13th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka
The 12th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo

1962

Don’t Worry, the Moon Won’t Fall Down - Gutai Art and Morita Modern Dance,Sankei Hall, Osaka
Celebration of Founding of the Gutai Pinacotheca, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka
The 11th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka

1961

The 10th Gutai Art Exhibition,
Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka; Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo
Continué et Avant-garde au Japon, International Center of Aesthetic Research, Turin

1960

International Sky Festival, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka
The 9th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka
The 8th Gutai Art Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto;
Ohara Kaikan Hall, Tokyo
The 7th Gutai Art Exhibition, Galleria Arti Figurativi, Turin

1958

The 6th Gutai Art Exhibition, Martha Jackson Gallery, New YorkThe 5th Gutai Art Exhibition, Ohara Kaikan Hall, Tokyo
International Art of a New Era - Informel and Gutai, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka

1957

The 4th Gutai Art Exhibition, Ohara Kaikan Hall, Tokyo
Gutai Art on Stage, Sankei Kaikan Hall, Osaka and Sankei Hall, Osaka
The 3rd Gutai Art Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Japan1956

The 2nd Gutai Art Exhibition, Ohara Kaikan Hall, Tokyo
Outdoor Gutai Art Exhibition, Ashiya Park, Hyogo, Japan
Shinko Independent Exhibition (Part 2), Shinko Shimbun 3F Hall, Kobe, JapanOne Day Outdoor Exhibition, Ruins at the bank of Muko River, Hyogo, Japan1955

The 1st Gutai Art Exhibition, Ohara Kaikan Hall, Tokyo
Experimental Outdoor Exhibition of Modern Art to Challenge the Midsummer Sun,Ashiya Park, Hyogo, Japan1953

The 1st Genbi Exhibition, Asahi Building Gallery, Kobe, Japan[continues taking part until the 3rd (1955)]

1948

The 1st Ashiya City Exhibition, Ashiya City Hall, Ashiya[continues taking part in the exhibition; becomes an official member at the 7th (1954)
and a judge at the 21st (1968)]

Selected Public Collections
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Instituto Inhotim, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Museum of Modern Art, New York
M+, Hong Kong
The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Hyogo, Japan
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Japan
Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, Osaka
Takamatsu Museum of Art, JapanThe National Museum of Art, Osaka
21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Japan