KATSURA FUNAKOSHI  


 

FUNAKOSHI portrait bis

1951, Né à Morioka, Iwate, Japon. Vit et travaille à Tokyo.

1971-75, Étudie à la Tokyo Zokei University, B.F.A.

1975-77, Étudie à la Tokyo University of the Arts, M.F.A.

1986-87, Séjourne à Londres grâce au programme d’étude du gouvernement pour les artistes japonais à l’étranger.

1991, Lauréat du 1er Takashimaya Charitable Trust for Art and Culture Prize.

1995, Lauréat du 26ème Nakahara Teijiro Excellence Prize.

1997, Lauréat du 18ème Hirakushi Denchu Prize.

2003, Lauréat du 33ème Nakahara Teijiro Prize.

2009, Lauréat du 50ème Mainichi Art Award. Lauréat du 59ème Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Award.

2011, Reçoit la Médaille au Ruban Pourpre. Professeur invité à la Tokyo Zokei University.

 

Principales expositions

Expositions personnelles 

2015    
Galerie Albrecht, Berlin, Allemagne
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art / Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi / 
Mie Prefectural Art Museum / Niigata City Art Museum (-’16), Japon
Museum Wiesbaden, Allemagne

2014     
Ando Gallery, Tokyo, Japon 

2013    
Tabloid Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
Imavision Gallery, Taipei, Taïwan
Imavision Gallery, Taipei, Taïwan

2012      
Suzaka Hanga Museum, Nagano, Japon
Menard Art Museum, Aichi, Japon

2011      
Kami City Art Museum, Kochi, Japon
Annely Juda Fine Art, Londres, Angleterre

2010      
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon  
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japon

2008    
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon  
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, Etats-Unis
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Japon
Ando Gallery, Tokyo, Japon

2007
Galley Art Composition, Tokyo, Japon
Tohoku University of Art and Design, Yamagata, Japon

2006    
Cité Du Livre, Aix-en-Provence, France
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon

2005     
Tokyo Zokei University, Zokei Gallery, Japon

2004     
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japon
Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie, Essen, Allemagne

2003     
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), Japon

2002     
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon

2001    
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon

2000    
Continental Gallery, Sapporo (’06), Japon
Gallery Tamura, Hiroshima (’02, ’04, ’07, ’09, ’12), Japon

1999    
Annely Juda Fine Art, Londres, Angleterre / Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Allemagne / Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Allemagne (-'00)

1997    
Ibara Municipal Denchu Art Museum, Japon

1996    
Annely Juda Fine Art, Londres, Angleterre
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon

1995    
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon

1994    
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, Etats-Unis
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, Etats-Unis

1993    
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japon

1991
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
Annely Juda Fine Art, Londres, Angleterre

1990
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon

1989    
Comme des Garçons, Tokyo, Japon
Arnold Herstand & Company, New York, Etats-Unis

1988    
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon

1985    
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon

1982    
Gallery Okabe, Tokyo, Japon

Expositions de groupe

2015        
40 Years plus, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon    

2014        
Nishimura Gallery 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon

2013    
New Year New Works, Nishimura Gallery (’14), Tokyo, Japon    
Re: Quest –Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Corée
Graduates from Tokyo Zokei University who departed from Exhibition of New Figurative Sculpture, Tokyo, Japon    
Zokei University Museum / Gallery Saoh & Tomos, Tokyo, Japon    
Toward Holiness, The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Japon    
Six Solo Exhibitions The Bonds between us, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano, Japon   

2012      
The Magic of Ceramics ~Artistic Inspiration, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga and toured, Japon    
35 Years plus, Exhibition for publication of“Nishimura Gallery 35 Years plus”, Nishimura Gallery , Tokyo, Japon    
The Story of Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japon    
The Power of Japanese Contemporary Sculpture, AKI Gallery, Taipei, Taïwan
When to Be Free, Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Japon    
The Power of Three-dimensional Shape, Sapporo Art Museum, Japon

2011      
I wanna hold you! Modern Japanese Wood Sculpture: 19th century-, Takaoka Art Museum / Hekinan City, Japon    
Tatsukichi Fujii Museum of Contemporary Art / Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum (-’12), Japon    
Charity Auction to Benefit the Reconstruction after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Art of Our Time, Tokyo Art Club, Japon    
Released from the Procession, Gallery Saoh, Tokyo, Japon    
Graphics, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon

2010
Nobuyoshi Araki and Katsura Funakoshi “An Image of Love Supreme”, Takahashi Collection Hibiya, Japon 
E・MA・KI, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Japon    

2009      
Drawings, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon    
Hundred Stories about Love, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japon    
Seven –Nishimura Gallery 35th Anniversary, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
Jan Fabre x Katsura Funakoshi Alternative Humanities, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japon

2008      
Self / Other, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japon    
Found Beauties from Companies and Private Collections in Kitakyushu, Gallery 130, Kitakyusyu, Japon    
Form from Warmth of the Wood and Play, Nerima Art Museum, Japon    
Inspiration from Buddha sculpture, Kodaira Hirakushi Denchu Art Museum, Japon    
DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japon

2007      
Vital Signs: Reality of nine contemporary artists, Yokosuka Museum of Art, Japon    
Forest of the 20th Century Art, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japon

2005
Katsura Funakoshi Ernst Barlach: A Map of the Time, Annely Juda Fine Art, Londres / Ernst Barlach Haus, Hambourg, Allemagne

2004      
Time of My Life, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japon
Art in Wood, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Japon
New Works by Five Artists, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon

2003      
Yasutake Funakoshi and His Family, Morioka Takuboku and Kenji Museum, Japon

The Presents from the Artists, Niigata City Art Museum and toured (-’04), Japon

2002
Takashimaya Art Award Exhibition, Tokyo Nihonbashi Takashimaya / Yokohama Takashimaya Gallery / Osaka Nanba Takashimaya Grand Hall / Kyoto Takashimaya Grand Hall, Japon
Human Figure, Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum, Japon
Zokei the Sculpture Show, Yokoyama Memorial Manzù Museum, Tokyo Zokei University, Asahi Beer
Oyamazaki Villa Museum, Japon

Sculptors of Eastern Japan, Tokyo Station Gallery, Japon
Trends of Japanese Modern Sculpture, Kitami Region Museum of Science, History and Art, Japon
Beauty of Tohoku, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Japon

2001      
Between Earth and Heaven, Museum of Modern Art, Ostende, Belgique
September, Nishimura Gallery (’02, ’03, ’07, ’08, ’10, ’12), Tokyo, Japon    

Art for the Spirit Eyes Searching for Eternity, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japon

2000      
Modernité Japonaise, Hôtel de la Monnaie, Paris, France

Expo 2000 Hannover, Pavilion of the Holy Sea, Hanovre, Allemagne

Kareidoscope of Time, Fukui City Art Museum, Japon
Japanese Art in the 20th Century, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japon

Shanghai Biennale 2000, Shanghai Art Museum, Chine

1999      
Noontime Meditation—Contemporary Japanese Art having Inner Sight, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japon
Destruction and Construction, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japon
Asian Potential Art Nursed by Sea and Islands, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japon    
Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo International Forum Exhibition Hall (’07, ’08, ’09, ’11, ’12, ’13, ’14), Japon    
Scenery at Heart: from Kotaro Terada’s eyes, Kawagoe City Art Museum, Japon

1998
Art Chicago, Navy Pier Festival Hall, Chicago (’00), Etats-Unis
Sculpture in Tohoku, The Akita Museum of Modern Art, Japon

1997
On Paper, Nishimura Gallery (’00, ’12), Tokyo, Japon

1996      
Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves, California Center for the Arts Museum, Etats-Unis
Enjoy Art Part II, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japon
Masterpiece from Corporate Collections, Hotel Okura, Tokyo, Japon
A Dialogue between Tools and Arts, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japon
Images of Women in Japanese Contemporary Art 1930’s-90’s, The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japon

1995      
Art in Japan Today 1985-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japon    
Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years 1945-1995, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo and toured, Japon    
Anthony Caro, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japon

1994      
Contemporary Human Figure, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japon
New Works at New Gallery, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon    
A Sculpture Show, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon    
Artventure, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japon   

1993      
Tsubaki-kai Exhibition, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo (’95), Japon
Karuizawa Drawing Biennale 1993, Wakita Museum of Art, Nagano / Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa (-’94), Japon 
History of Japanese Modern Sculpture, Kushiro Lifelong Learning Center Art gallery, Japon

1992      
Prediction, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
Japanese Modern and Contemporary Wood Sculptures, The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Japon
Documenta IX, Kassel, Allemagne
The 9th Biennale of Sydney, Australie

1991      
Tokyo Art Expo, Tokyo Convention Hall (’92), Japon
A Current of Contemporary Art in Japan-Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japon
Sculptures / Objects, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon    

1990    
Transformation of Material and Space, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall Gallery, Yokohama, Japon
Toyama Now ’90, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japon
Japanische Kunst der Achtziger Jahre, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Allemagne / Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Autriche
New Wave of Wood Sculptures, Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Japon

1989    
Setagaya Art: Art and Crafts - Produced by Artists of Setagaya Ward, Setagaya Art Museum (’90, ’91, ’94-’95, ’97-’98, ’98-’99), Japon  
Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and toured (-’91), Etats-Unis
Art Exciting ’89, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japon / Queensland Art Gallery, Australie
Sculpturesque Image, Gallery Haku, Osaka, Japon
The XX São Paulo Biennale, Brésil

1988    
Contemporary Japanese Sculpture and Prints, The Rotunda Exchange Square, Hong Kong
The XXXX III Venice Biennale, Italie
Seven Sculptors, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon  

1987    
Shiga Annual ’87 – Expressions of Human Figures, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japon  
Situation of Contemporary Art of Tohoku II, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Japon 

1986    
New Trends in Contemporary Sculpture – 10 New Outstanding Sculptors of America and Japan, Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo and Osaka, Japon / Sapporo Art Park, Japon / Salvatore Ala, New York, Etats-Unis (-’87)
Art in Tokyo ’86 IMA Vol. 1, Factory (Sapporo Breweries Ebisu Warehouse), Japon  
Three Artists, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japon  
A Scene of Contemporary Art 3: The New Generation, Miyagi Museum of Art, Japon  

1985    
Nichido Sculpture, Galerie Nichido, Tokyo, (’86), Japon
Summer Show, Nishimura Gallery (’93, ’95, ’96, ’98, ’99, ’00, ’05, 06, ’10, ’11, ’13), Tokyo, Japon  
Tama Vivant ’85, Gallery at Building No.1 of Tama Art University Hachioji Campus / Gallery Space 21, Tokyo, Japon  

1984    
10th Anniversary Exhibition of Sculpture of Ayumikai, Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art, Japon
Oyama-Towards a City with Sculpture, Hakuo Womens Junior College, Tochigi, Japon
Evolution of Sculpture 1930-1980, Gallery Seiho, Tokyo, Japon

1978    
Exhibition of New Figurative Sculpture in Autumn, Yokyo Hall, Tokyo (’80, ’82), Japon

1976    
Exhibition of New Figurative Sculpture, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (’77, ’78, ’79, ’80, ’81, ’82, ’83, ’84, ’85), Japon


Collections publiques

Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japon
    
Ishinomaki Culture Center, Japon    

Iwate Prefecture (Iwate Prefecture Citizen’s Cultural Exchange Center Aiina), Japon    

Iwate Museum of Art, Japon    

Museum Wiesbaden, Allemagne

Würth Collection, Allemagne

Catholic Church Zushi, Kanagawa, Japon

The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Japon

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japon

Karuizawa New Art Museum, Japon

The Nishi-Nippon City Bank, Ltd., Fukuoka, Japon

Kami City Art Museum, Japon

Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japon

Kurume City, Fukuoka, Japon

The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japon

The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japon

The Cultural Foundation of Okada, Paramita Museum, Mie, Japon

Sapporo Art Museum, Japon

Shiseido Art House, Shizuoka, Japon

Sumida Triphony Hall, Tokyo, Japon

St. Andrews Tokyo, Japon

Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japon

Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, Japon

Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Japon

Museum of Contemporary Sculpture affiliated to Chosenin temple, Tokyo, Japon

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japon

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japon

The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japon

Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japon

The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japon

Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture in Honor of Teijiro Nakahara, Japon

Nagoya City Art Museum, Japon

Nogi Town (deposited at Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts), Japon

Our Lady of the Lighthouse Trappist Monastery, Hakodate, Japon

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japon

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japon

The Hess Art Collection, Californie, Etats-Unis

Nakayama Toge Mori no Bijutsukan (Museum), Hokkaido, Japon

Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Japon

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Etats-Unis

Menard Art Museum, Aichi, Japon

Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Allemagne