HORI Kosai
1947

Born in Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, Japan

1967

Entered the department of Painting of Tama Art University, Japan Majoring in Oil Painting

1969

Organized Bikyoto, Council of artists for a United Front

2002 - Appointed a professor at Tama Art University
2010

Established the Akibatamabi21 alternative space managed by Tama Art University and served as its
founding producer (−2012)2014- Retired from Tama Art University, and is currently an Professor Emeritus

Solo & Two person Exhibitions
2021“Touching so close and having an openness" Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan“To remember-who am I ? Hori Kosai+Hori Erize” √K Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan“Kosai Hori Retrospective” √K Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan2019“To remember-who am I ? Hori Kosai+Hori Erize” Maruki Gallery For The Hiroshima Panels, Saitama“Drawing” Hanaasagi, Tokyo, Japan

2016“HORI KOSAI”, Gallery 604, Busan, South Korea

2015“The Garden of the Fall and Rebirth”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan“The Garden of the Fall and Rebirth”, 3331Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

2014“Naked Place — HORI Kosai”, Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2011“Naked Place”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan2010

SPACE HONGJJE, Seoul, South Korea
GALLERY604, Busan, South Korea

2008

GALLERY A story, Seoul / Busan, South Korea

2007

Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo, Japan ( also ’80-’82, ’85, ’88, ’92, ’94, ’99, ’00, ’01, ’03, ’05)

2006

Okabe Prints & Publishing House Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan

2005

Atelier Rika, Kochi, Japan (’95, ’00)

2004

“Retrospective”, Takaoka City Museum of Art, Toyama, Japan
Gallery Ikeda, Tokyo, Japan

2000“Wind, Air and Memory”, Kuman Museum, Ehime, Japan

1999

Gallery Te, Tokyo, Japan1998

Akutsu Gallery, Gunma, Japan

1996“Eyes of the Wind”, Takaoka City Museum of Art, Toyama, Japan
Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (’82-’84, ’87, ’90, ’91, ’93)

1995

Gallery NOW, Toyama, Japan (’92)
Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan (’90-’93)

1994

Gallery Emon, Aichi, Japan

1992

Gallery Mori, Ehime, JapanArt Space Mauve, Hyogo, Japan

1991“Recent Works of Kosai Hori”, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Yano Art Gallery, Tottori, Japan
Forum Yu, Nagano, Japan (’87)
Galerie Nane Stern, Paris, France (’84)

1990

Lee Kang-So& Kosai Hori, Seam Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

1980

Komai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan1978Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (’75)

1977Gallery U, Aichi, Japan

1976

Shirakaba Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1973

Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tokiwa gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1972

Nirenoki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Atelier Shinon, Tokyo, Japan

1971

Space Love Hair, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibitions
2023“World in Balance : Art in Japan from the postwar to the present” (AWT / Focus) Okura Museum of Art,Tokyo, Japan

2022 “Grasping at Clouds: Works from the Hara Museum and the Hara Rokuro Collections” Hara Museum
ARC, Gunma, Japan“MOMAS Collection” The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan“Various Lives” Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano, Japan“Collection Exhibition” Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2021“Fifty years of Printmaking at Tama Art University” Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2020“Made in Fuchu: twenty years of open studio programs” Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2019““Special exhibition: After YUSATSU—Noboru Takayama×Noboru Tsubaki×Katsuhiko Hibino×
Hiroshi Fuji×Kosai Hori” 3331 Art Fair 2019, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan2018“1968: Art in the turbulent Age”, Chiba City Museum of Art, travelling to Kitakyushu Municipal Museumof Art, Fukuoka, Shizuoka City Museum of Art, Japan (-2019)“New Wave : Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1980s”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan“A View of Prints: The Trajectory of the Gendai Hanga Center”, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama,Japan2017“A Trip through the Tokyo Station Gallery Collection: from Railway Art to Picasso” Tokyo Station
Gallery, Japan“Collection Exhibition”, Kurobe City Museum, Toyama, Japan

2016“Busan Biennale”, Busan, South Korea“Water”, Kuragaike Art Salon, Aichi, Japan

2013“Minimal | Post Minimal – The Contemporary Japanese Art from 1970s”, Utsunomiya Museum of Art,Tochigi, Japan2012“Aizu Urushi Art Festival”, Fukushima, Japan2011“Elpis-Sky of Hope”, TOKYO DESIGNRS WEEK2011, Tokyo, Japan

2010“Contemporary Art of China and Japan”, Busan Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

2009“Towards Objet - Transformation of Book World”, Urawa Art Museum, Saitama, Japan

2007“Attitude 2007”, Kumamoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Kumamoto , Japan“Perspective of Contemporary Paintings”, Tokyo Station Gallery, Japan

2006“The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2006”, Niigata, Japan

2005“Himing 2005”, Himi City, Toyama, Japan

2004“Water level of Images”, Toyota City Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan“Intercross of 4 Critics”, Tama Fine Arts University Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2003“The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2003”, Niigata, Japan

2002“Attitude”, Kumamoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

2001“Century City”, Tate Modern, London, U.K.

1999

“Global Conceptualism”, Queens Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A.

1998“Busan International Contemporary Art Festival”, Busan Museum of Art, South Korea“Aspects of line”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

1997“Point of Contact - South Korean, Chinese, and Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition”,
Taegu & Culture Hall, South Korea

1996“An Exhibition of 50 Contemporary Japanese Artists: A Presentiment of the 21Century”,
Nabio Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

1995“Invitation to Abstract Act”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan“Circulating Currents: Japanese and Korean Contemporary art”, The Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art,Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan“Japan Today”, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, U.S.A. traveled to Denmark, Norway, Finlandand Sweden“About Lines: Non-existing Modernism and Invisible Realism”, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan“Tsubaki-kai Exhibition 1995”, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan“Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years”, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, traveled to Hiroshima,
Hyogo and Fukuoka, Japan“Vision from Memory”, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
1994“Landscape on the Border”, Rias Ark Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan“Creativity in Asian Art Now”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

1993“Tsubaki-kai Exhibition 1993”, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan“Ark of Art”, The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan

1992“Avanguardie Giapponese degli Anmi 70”, Galleia Comunale d’arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy“The 1st International Contemporary Art Fair Japan”, Pacifico Yokohama Exhibition Hall, Kanagawa,
Japan

1991

“Painting of the Showa Era: Part3”, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Japan“Contemporary Art 7: The Mind of Japan”, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan

1989“Europaria Japan 89”, Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Ghent, Belgium“The Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan 1989: Prospects of Contemporary Art-A Celebration ofPainting”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, traveled to Kyoto Municipal Art Museum, Japan

1987“Paintings 1977-1987”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan“Toyama Now ’87”, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan

1986“Contemporary Japanese Art”, Taipei Art Museum, Taiwan

1985“Exchange d’Art Contemporain, Tokyo- Paris”, Yurakucho Asahi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan1984“41st Venice Biennale”, Venice, Italy

1983“International de Arte Valparaiso, 1983”, Valparaiso, Chile

1982“International Jugend triennale + Meister der Zeichnung”, Nuremberg, Germany“Arteder ’82-Muestra Internacional de Obra Grafica”, Bilbao, Spain

1980“1st Hara Annual Perspective for ’80”, Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

1978“Artists Today 1978”, Yokohama City Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan“Tokyo Geijutsu-4 1978”, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1977“Tokyo- Bay area Exchange of Contemporary Art”, 80 Langton Street Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.
“10th Biennale de Paris”, Musee d’art Moderne de la vile de Paris, France

1976“10th Tokyo Biennale for Prints”, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo traveled to The National
Museum of Modern Art, Japan1975“Affair & Practice-Why it-“, Contemporary Culture Center, Tokyo, Japan“The 10th Japan Art Festival”, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan, traveled to Australia
and New Zealand

1973“Artists Today 1973”, Yokohama city Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan“Kyoto Biennale”, Kyoto Municipal Art Museum, Japan

“Affair &Practice by 12 Artists”, Pinar Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1969“The 9th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, traveled to Kyoto
Municipal Art Museum, Japan

1967“Self-Burial Ceremony”, On the Ginza street, Tokyo, Japan

Public collections
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Okayama, JapanThe Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, JapanTochigi Prefectural Museum of fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, JapanThe Japan Foundation
The National Museum of art, Osaka, Japan
Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Saito Memorial Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama, JapanThe Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, JapanThe Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
Urawa Art Museum, Saitama, JapanOme City museum, Tokyo, Japan
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan
Chiba city Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Utsunomiya City Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Kurobe City Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
Niigata City Art Museum, Japan
Shiseido Art House, Shizuoka, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, JapanTokyo Station Gallery, JapanThe Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan