Tatsuo Kawaguchi
Tatsuo Kawaguchi

1940
born in Kobe, Japan

1962
Studied at Tama University of Fine Art, Tokyo. Graduated with B.F.A.

1965
Organized Group “I” in Kobe.

1983
Associate Professor of Art at the University of Tsukuba, Institute of Art and Design.(professor in 1991)

2003
Emeritus Professor of Art at the University of Tsukuba, Institute of Art and Design.
Professor of the Graduate School of Kyoto University of Art and Design.

2004
Professor Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts.
current professor of Kanazawa College of Art


■Selected solo exhibition

2025
-“Future Person’s Scribble” SNOW Contemporary, Tokyo/Japan
-“Tatsuo Kawaguchi – DARK.” YOKOTA TOKYO, Tokyo/Japan

2024
-“Reconsideration - Dandelion of Hiroshima” SNOW Contemporary, Tokyo/Japan

2023
-“Quality of Tears” SNOW Contemporary, Tokyo/Japan

2021
-“From 172800 Seconds in 1971 to 345600 Seconds in 2021”SNOW Contemporary, Tokyo/Japan

2020
-“When a Seed Becomes Art” SNOW Contemporary, Tokyo/Japan
-“Gaze Breathing via Branchial Respiration” SHOW-CASE project No.4, Keio University Art Space, Tokyo/Japan
-“TATSUO KAWAGUCHI” Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles/Japan

2019
-“Tatsuo Kawaguchi Time Compass” Yukihisa Isobe Memorial of Art, Niigata/Japan
-“Kawaguchi Tatsuo The Begininig of〈Relation〉” ART OFFICE OZAWA, Kyoto/Japan
-“-Relation-Yusuke Nakahara, or Critique as Creation” Art Front Gallery, Tokyo/Japan

2018
-“Tatsuo Kawaguchi” Shigeru Yokota Gallery, Tokyo/Japan
-“Relation―Lead Envelope” SNOW Contemporary ,Tokyo/Japan
-“Tatsuo Kawaguchi - CHINOKOUYA” Kurobe City Museum of Art, Toyama/Japan
-“Tatsuo Kawaguchi Copperplate PrintsFrom 1963” SNOW Contemporary, Tokyo/Japan
-“DARK BOX / Shelter / lat: 35.35153 lng: 139.4057” CAPSULE, Tokyo/Japan

2014
-“Tatsuo Kawaguchi: Seed that became pearl, Seed that became sound” Gallery Monma, Sapporo/Japan

2013
-〈In the Darkness and in the Light〉 Shigeru Yokota Gallery, Tokyo/Japan

2012
-“Let There Be Light! Tatsuo Kawaguchi:World after 3/11”Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima/Japan

2011
-“November 2011 Tatsuo Kawaguchi” Yokota Shigeru Gallery, Tokyo/Japan

2010
-“Kawaguchi Tatsuo:The Spiral Time” KAKE Museum of Art, Okayama/Japan

2009
-“Kawaguchi Tatsuo:Language,Time,Life” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo/Japan

2008
-“Positions towards Infinity;Works of Tatsuo Kawaguchi in 1970s” Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi/Japan
-“see saw seen 1973” Yokota Shigeru Gallery, Tokyo/Japan
-“DARK BOX 2008” Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya/Japan

2007
-“Tatsuo Kawaguchi:The Invisible and The Visible” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art / Nagoya City Art Museum, Hyogo and Nagoya/Japan

2005
-“Time within Time” Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori/Japan
-“Relation-Book” Yokota Shigeru Gallery, Tokyo/Japan

2004
-“Relation-Flottage of Time” Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya/Japan

2003
-“Earth/Water/Plant” Hillside Forum, Tokyo/Japan
-“Japan Contemporary Art - Kawaguchi Tatsuo” Busan Museum of Art, Busan/Korea

2000
-“Relation-Seed/Life” Yokota Shigeru Gallery, Tokyo/Japan

1999
-“Tatsuo Kawaguchi:Relation-Kyoto” Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto/Japan

1998
-“Kawaguchi Tatsuo 1990-1998:Sealed Time” Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki/Japan
-“Sight Breathing/Tatsuo Kawaguchi:Dialogue with the Unseen” Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima/Japan

1997
-“Relation-Tatsuo Kawaguchi” Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba/Japan

1991
-“Relation-Plant” Yokota Shigeru Gallery, Tokyo/Japan

1990
-“Today's Artist -V-'90 Tatsuo Kawaguchi” The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura/Japan

1989
-“Series Today's Artist-Tatsuo Kawaguchi” Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka/Japan

1986
-“Series Today's Artist-Tatsuo Kawaguchi” Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka/Japan

1984
-“Tatsuo Kawaguchi” Kwan-Hoon Gallery, Seoul/Korea
-“Blue” Gatodo Gallery Takeshiba, Tokyo/Japan

1981
-“Tatsuo Kawaguchi” Art Front Gallery, Tokyo/Japan


■Selected group exhibition and event

2025
-“At the Promised Place: Expanding Imagination Through Book Art” Urawa Art Museum, Saitama/Japan
-“Recorded Futures Relived: CCMA and Contemporary Art” Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba/Japan
-“Talking About the War Now: Through the Mito City Museum Collection and Tatsuo Kawaguchi 《Reconsideration - Dandelion of Hiroshima》” Mito City Museum, Ibaraki/Japan
-“Stop, Look Back, Face Forward | vol.2 Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Norio Imai, Keiji Uematsu: 1970s” gallery αM, Tokyo/Japan

2024
-“Ephemera: Printed Matter and Expression” Keio Museum Commons, Tokyo/Japan

2023
-“Re: Startline 1963-1970/2023 Sympathetic Relations between the Museum and Artists as Seen in the Trends in Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition”National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto/Japan

2021
-“Oku-Noto Triennale 2021” Former Iida Station, Ishikawa/Japan
-“Festival MANAZURU SCULPTED STONES” Kanagawa/Japan

2019
-“Festival MANAZURU SCULPTUED STOED”, Kanagawa/Japan

2013
The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki/Japan

2012
-“Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2012”, Echigo-Tsumari, Niigata/Japan

2011
-“This is not a book," Urawa Art Museum, Saitama/Japan

2010
-“the Setouchi International Art Festival 2010”, Shodoshima, Kagawa/Japan
-“Okayama Art Spanning Thousand Years”, The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama/Japan

2009
-“Niigata Water and Land Art Festival 2009”, Saito Residence, Niigata/Japan
-“Aqua Metropolis Osaka 2009”, Osaka City/Japan
-“Contemporary Art is just Easy as Pie”, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki/Japan
-“Close your Eyes ...and visualize what you see”, The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki/Japan

2007
-“Welcome to the Art World”, The Museum of Modeern Art, Toyama/Japan
-“Shape of Water”, The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki/Japan

2005
-“Age of Tokyo Metropolitan Art Gallery:1926-1970”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo/Japan

2004
-“Remarking Modernism in Japan 1900-2000” The University Art Museum-Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music / Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo/Japan
-“Traces:Body and Idea in Contemporary Art” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto / The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo/Japan
-“Group ‘i’”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art/Japan

2003
-“Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003” Echigo-Tsumari, Niigata/Japan

2002
-“Oita Contemporary Art Exhibition 2002” Oita City Museum of Art/Japan
-“Power of Art” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art/Japan

2000
-“Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2000” Echigo-Tsumari, Niigata/Japan

1994
-“Japanese Art after 1945:Screan against the sky” Guggenheim Museum Soho,New York / San Francisco Museum of ModernArt / Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens / US

1989
-“Magiciens de la terre” Centre Georges Pompidou(Musee national d'art moderne), La Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris/France

1986
-“Japon des Avant Gardes” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris/France

1973
-“8e Biennale de Paris” Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris/France
-“12 Bienal de Sao Paulo” Museu de Arte de São Paulo(MASP), Sao Paulo/Brazil

1970
-“Between Man and Matter-The 10th International Art Exhibition of Japan(Tokyo Biennale 1970)” Tokyo Metropolitan Art Gallery, Tokyo/Japan

1965
-“1st Group "i" Exhibition” Kobe International Gallery, Hyogo/Japan
Group ‘i’Independent Art Festival," by the Nagara River, Gifu Prefecture/Japan



■Public art

2005
Aomori Contemporary Art Centre(ACAC)

2003
Snow - Land Agrarian Culture Center, Matsudai, Nigata

2000
Matsudaimachi, Nigata

1994
Faret Tachikawa, Tokyo

1980
Sculpture City Kobe

1973
Tokiwa Park, Utsunomiya


■Major award

2023
Kobe City Cultural Award

2017
The 58th Mainichi Art Award

2008
The 15th Japanese Cultural Art Development Award

1974
The First Iue Culture Prize

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