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    YOZO UKITA

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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