1924
Born in Banzai-cho Kutaku, Osaka, Japan
1947
employed at Ozaki books in Umeda, Osaka and joined a new project of a magazine for children’s poems and prose, Kirin, with Yoshiro Hoshi. Kirin was planed by Yasushi Inoue, journalist for Mainichi Newspaper Osaka
(later novelist), and poet Iku Takenaka.
1948
Kirin was launched in February. Ukita met Jiro Yoshihara to request cover illustrations.
Subsequently, Yoshihara became an art adviser for Kirin.
2013
Died in Osaka, Japan
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018
Gallery604 & ProjectB6, Busan
2013
LADS Gallery, Osaka
Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
2012
Gallery Shimada, Kobe
Special Exhibition: One year later, a picture painted on March 11th 2012, SELF-SO ART GALLERY, Kyoto
2011
LADS Gallery, Osaka
STREET GALLERY, Kobe
2010
Merry-Go-Round, Kyoto
LADS Gallery, Osaka
2009
LADS Gallery, Osaka
2008
Kita Gallery, Nara
Kaede Gallery, Osaka
2007
LADS Gallery, Osaka
ART SPACE HAT, Osaka
Art Spot Gallery Marya, Takatsuki, Osaka
Gallery Shimada, Kobe
2006
Kita Gallery, Nara
Kawabata Yasunari Museum of Literature Gallery, Ibaraki, Osaka
2005
LADS Gallery, Osaka
KANEKO ART TOKYO, Tokyo
Art Spot Gallery Marya, Takatsuki, Osaka
2004
Kita Gallery, Nara
LADS Gallery, Osaka
2003
Kita Gallery, Nara
2002
KANEKO ART TOKYO, Tokyo
Gallery Shimada, Kobe
LADS Gallery, Osaka
STREET GALLERY, Kobe
2001
Art Spot Gallery Marya, Takatsuki, Osaka
Kita Gallery, Nara
KANEKO ART TOKYO, Tokyo
2000
Art Spot Gallery Marya, Osaka
LADS Gallery, Osaka
1999
Galerie Hundertmark, Cologne, Germany
Art Spot Gallery Marya, Osaka
The South-West Häme Museum, Forssa, Finland
1998
Värj狎mö, Forssa, Finland
1997
SELF-SO-ART-GALLERY, Osaka
LADS Gallery, Osaka
1996
Arai Gallery, Hyogo
1995
LADS Gallery, Osaka
1994
Gallery Keiko, Osaka, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014
Artevida : ambiente, Escola de Artes Visuais Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013
Gutai : Splendid Playground, Guggenheim Museum, New York
2012
GUTAI : The Spirit of an Era, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Silent Echoes : Collection ExhibitionⅡ, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Nul=0, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Netherlands
A Visual Essay on Gutai at 32 East 69th Street, Hauser & Wirth, New York
2011
Exhibition with Yuko Ohnari, Merry-Go-Round, Kyoto
2009 From Home to the Museum: Tanaka Tsuneko Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
2008
Exhibition with Yumi Shioki, Café Zanpano, Kyoto
Vent d’Oriente, Capri-Certosa di San Giacomo, Italy
2004
Retrospective exhibition: Woken up by those hot times! 50th Anniversary Gutai 1954-1972, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo
1999
Gutai, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
1997
Confronting : Exhibition with Mikako Kawai, LADS Gallery, Osaka
1994
〃, Kirin Plaza, Osaka
1993
Gutai 2 : 1959-1965, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Hyogo
1992
Gutai 1 : 1954-1958, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Hyogo
Artists of the Gutai Association, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai
1991
Gutai Japanische Avantgarde / Japanese Avant-garde 1954-1965, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
1990
Japanese Avante-Garde Gutai 1950’s group, National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome.
Gutai : Unfinished Avant-garde Group, Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo
1985
YAMAMURA Collection Exhibition, National Museum of Art, Osaka
1983
Sechs Japanische Künstler der Gutai-Gruppe, Atelierhaus Hildebrandstrasse, Düsseldorf Six Japanese Artists of the Gutai Group, Itami City Art Gallery
1979
Jiro YOSHIHARA and Today’s Aspects of Gutai, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
1976
18 Years of Gutai Art, Osaka Municipal Gallery
1972
The Commemorative Circle for Jiro Yoshihara, Fujimi Gallery, Osaka
1964
An exhibition of new works of Gutai, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka
14th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka
1963
13th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka
12th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo
1961
10th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka and Tokyo
Continuité et Avant-garde au Japon, International Center of Aesthetic Research, Turin, Italy
1960
International Sky Festival, Roof of Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka
9th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka
1959
8th Gutai Art Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
1958
International Art of a New Era – Informel and Gutai, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Tokyo, Kyoto
1957
4th Gutai Art Exhibition, Ohara Hall, Tokyo
3rd Gutai Art Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
1956
Gutai Small Works Exhibition, Sanseido Gallery, Tokyo
2nd Gutai Art Exhibition, Ohara Hall, Tokyo
1955
1st Gutai Art Exhibition, Ohara Hall, Tokyo
Experimental Outdoor Exhibition of Modern Art to Challenge the Midsummer Sun, Ashiya park, banks of the Ashiya River