Kishio Suga
1944
1968

Born in Morioka, Japan
Graduated from Tama Art University (Tokyo, Japan)

Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2014

Gallery Cocon, Tokyo, Japan
Released Scenic Space, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Each Modern, Taipei
eN arts, Kyoto, Japan
Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Japan
Gallery Shilla, Daegu, Korea
Measured Divisional Entities, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, JapanTokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
Blum & Poe, New York, USA
Expanded Self-Space, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Released Existence on Edges, The Club, Tokyo, JapanBlum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
Divided Orientation of Space, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Tochigi, Japan
Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium
Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Beijing, China
Dia: Chelsea, New York, USA
Gallery Shilla, Daegu, Korea
Situations, Hangar Bicocca Foundation, Milan, Italy
Blum & Poe, New York, USA
Kishio Suga: New Works, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Tochigi, Japan
Kishio Suga: Situated Latency, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Kishio Suga: 1980s, Gallery Cocon, Tokyo, Japan
Perimeter (Entai), 1985, Blain | Southern, London, UK
Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, USA
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
8/ Art Gallery/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Tochigi, Japan
Kishio Suga: Situated Underlying Existence, Le Corps de Garde, Colmar, France
The “Origin of Situation” as Disclosed by “Things”, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
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A/D Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
Placement of the Hidden Currents, Toyama Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Keio University, Hiyoshi Campus Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Tochigi, JapanLe Cose Esistono, Margini Arte Contemporanea, Massa, Italy
Daiwa Foundation, Japan House, London, UK
Airflow, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
Uncertain Void: Installation by Kishio Suga, Iwate Museum of Art, Morioka, Japan
Released Unit, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
Air-Construction-Distance, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, JapanTokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Stance, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Version Kishio Suga, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Hiroshima, Japan) and toured to Itami City Museum of Art (Itami, Japan); Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery (Yokohama,Japan) and Chiba City Museum of Art (Chiba, Japan)
Protrusion, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Peripheral Field, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Existence of Contact / Entering the Space, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gap of the Entrance to the Space, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Neutral Order, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Cause of Situation, Morioka City Hall, Morioka, Japan
Parallel Starta, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Space Transformation, Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions202020192018
2017

Timeless Conversations 2020: Voices from Japanese Art of the Past and Present, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Art in the Late Showa 1964-1989, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery,Kanagawa, Japan
Decode: Events & Materials - The Work of Art in the Age of Post-Industrial Society,
Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Weavers of Worlds — A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern/Contemporary Art,
Museum of Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan
Minimalism: Space Light Object, National Gallery, Singapore
1968: Art of Turbulent Times, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Japanorama: New Vision on Art Since 1970, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, CentrePompidou, Metz, France

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Japan House at SP-Arte, Biennale Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil!
Would You Rather…, BBQLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA !
The Sogetsu Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan !
TOUCHPIECE, curated by Justin Beal, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles, CA, USA!
What is the Relationship Between Ceramics and Contemporary Art?, Kaikai Kiki
Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
When Attitudes Become Form: Japanese Art of the 1970s through the Photographyof Anzai Shigeo, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan !

2016

2015

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Who Can Be Strangers? The Art of Mono-ha and Dansaekhwa, Blum & Poe at Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USAYokohama Art Museum, Yokohama, Japan
57th Venice Biennale, VIVA ARTE VIVA, curated by Christine Macel, Venice, Italy
Karla Black and Kishio Suga: A New Order, Scottish National Gallery of ModernArt, Edinburgh, UK
In Between, curated by Luisa Duarte, Bergamin & Gomide, São Paulo, Brazil
New "Artists Today" Exhibition 2016: Spaces of Creation – Mono-ha to the Art ofToday, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Robert Morris & Kishio Suga, Blum & Poe, Tokyo, JapanThe Emergence of the Contemporary: Avant-Garde Art in Japan 1950–1970, Imperial Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Utopia/Heterotopia: First Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition, curated by Wang Xiaosong, Liu Gang, North Silk Factory and West Scenic Zone,Wuzhen, China
Breaking Through to the Actual via the Imagination, Curated by Yuko Hasegawa,Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Construction/Deconstruction, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
Dessins, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
Mono-ha, Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy
Mono-ha: Works on Paper, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
Takahashi Collection: Mirror Neuron, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Abstract Drawing, Drawing Room, London, UK
Chronicle 1964-2014: History of Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama Civic Art
Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Erasure: From Conceptualism to Abstraction, Osage Gallery and the City Universityof Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Geometric Perspectives on Japanese Abstraction, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo,Japan
Group Exhibition by Koyama Tomio Gallery, TOLOT/heuristic SHINONOME,Tokyo, Japan
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Japon, Abbaye Saint-André de Meymac, Centre d'art Contemporain de Meymac,Meymac, France
Kishio Suga, Yoko Sawai, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, JapanLee Ufan + Kishio Suga Print Exhibition, Tezukayama Gallery, Osaka, Japan
micro salon 2014, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
Mono-ha, Tabloid Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Mono-ha Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karuizawa, Japan
Mono-ha by Anzai: Photographs 1970 – 1976, Zeit-Foto-Salon, Tokyo, Japan
Other Primary Structures, Jewish Museum, New York, USA
Takahashi Collection 2014: Mindfulness, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, JapanThe Hara Museum Collection at 35, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art , Tokyo,Japan
1974, Part Two: A Turning Point in Postwar Japanese Art, Museum of Modern Art,Gunma, Japan
Mori Art Museum 10th Anniversary Exhibition – Roppongi Crossing: Out of Doubt,
Mori Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, The WareHouse, Dallas, USA
Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
Double Vision; Contemporary Art from Japan, Moscow Museum of Modern Art,Moscow, Russia
Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
The ‘70s in Japan: 1968-1982, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama (Saitama,Japan)
Tokyo 1955-1970: The New Avant-Garde, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Contemporary Art from China and Japan, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan,Korea
MOT Collection, Enter Here – What Do You See?, Museum of Contemporary Art,Tokyo, Japan
What is Mono-ha?, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Beijing, China
Reconsidering Mono-ha, The National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan
Remaking Modernism in Japan 1900-2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo,
Japan
Mono-ha: School of Things, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
The 3rd Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
ASIANA Contemporary Art from the Far East, The 46th Venice Biennale, Palazzo
Vendramin Calergi, Venice, Italy
Matter and Perception – Mono-ha and the Search for the Fundamentals, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan

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Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against The Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan and the Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Avanguardie Giapponesi degli anni 70, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna diBologna, Bologna, Italy
Mono-ha: La Scuola delle Cose, Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea diRoma, Roma, Italy
Art In Japan since 1969: Mono-ha and Post Mono-ha, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo,Japan
Japon des avant-gardes: 1910-1970, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Construction in Japanese Paper, Halle Sud, Geneva, Switzerland
The 3rd Human Documents ‘84/’85, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Trends of Contemporary Japanese Art 1970-1984: Universality / Individuality,
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum , Tokyo, Japan
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
The 4th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia
Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan: Trends of Japanese Art in the 1970s, Korean
Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
The 16th São Paulo Biennale, Parque Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil
Lisbon International Show ’79, Galeria de Belem, Centro de Arte Contemporânea,Porto, Portugal
Japanese Contemporary Sculpture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills,MI, USA
Japan: Tradition und Gegenwart, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Universe (Cosmos): Image Experiments in Serigraphy by Contemporary JapaneseArtists, São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo, Brazil
8th Paris Biennale, Musée d'Art Moderne - Ville de Paris, Paris, France
The 1st International Art Exhibition, II Centro Gallery, Naples, Italy
August 1970 – Aspects of New Japanese Art, The National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo, JapanThe 5th Japan Art Festival, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan and
Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Trends in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
9 Visual Points, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
11th Shell Art Award, Shiraki-ya Grand Hall, Tokyo and Kyoto Municipal Museumof Art, Kyoto, Japan
4th International Young Artists Exhibition, Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan

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Accolades
2016
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Mainichi Art AwardGrand Prize, 5th Japan Art Festival
11th Shell Art Prize

Selected Publications
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1986

Blum & Poe. “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha”. Exh.cat.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. “Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Agant-Garde”
Kettel’s Yard. “Mono-ha: School of Things”. Exh.cat.
Guggenheim Museum. “Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky”. Exh.cat.
Centre Georges Pompidou. “Japon des Avant-Gardes 1910-1917”. Exh.cat.

Selected Public Collections
Akita Museum of Modern Art (Akita, Japan), Asahikawa Museum of Art (Hokkaido, Japan), Busan
Museum of Art (Busan, Korea), Chiba City Museum of Art (Chiba, Japan), Daegu Art Museum(Daegu, Korea), Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, USA), Dia Art Foundation (New York, USA),
Guggenheim Museum (Abu Dhabi, UAE), Glenstone Foundation (Maryland, USA), Hiroshima
City Museum of Contemporary Art (Hiroshima, Japan), Iwaki City Art Museum (Fukushima,Japan), Iwate Museum of Art (Morioka, Japan), Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art (Kyoto,Japan), Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (Kitakyushu, Japan), Kiyosato Museum of Contemporary Art (Yamanashi, Japan), Long Museum (Shanghai, China), M+ (Kong Hong), Meguro Museum of Art (Tokyo, Japan), Miyagi Museum of Art (Sendai, Japan), Museo Laboratorio Arte Contemporanea, Sapienza Università di Roma (Rome, Italy), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo(Tokyo, Japan), Museum of Modern Art, Saitama (Saitama, Japan), Museum of Modern Art, Toyama (Toyama, Japan), National Museum of Art, Osaka (Osaka, Japan), National Museum of Modern
Art, Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan), Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh, UK), Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago (Chicago, USA), Takamatsu City Museum of Art (Takamatsu,Japan), Tate Modern (London, UK), Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan), Utsunomiya
Museum of Art (Tochigi, Japan), Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Modern Art (Yamaguchi,Japan), Yokohama Civic Art Gallery (Yokohama, Japan), Yokohama Museum of Art (Yokohama,Japan)

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