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1936
Born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
1956
Named as regular contributor of the Kobe Shimbun, Kobe, Japan
1958
Nominated as member of Nissenbi Japan Advertising Artists Club (JAAC), Tokyo, Japan
1960
Entered Nippon Design Center (NDC), Tokyo, Japan
1964
Established Ilfil studio
1965
Persona, Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
Awarded Mainichi Industrial Design Award, Tokyo, Japan
1966
Solo exhibition, Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1968
Word and Image, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1969
A Prospect of Modern Design in Japan, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Awarded grand prize for prints at 6th Paris Youth Biennial, Paris, France
18 Artists of Contemporary Prints, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Created mise en scene for opera by Toshi Ichiyanagi
1970
Human Documents '70, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Solo exhibition, Matsuya Ginza, Kyoto; Kobe; Sapporo; and Nagoya, Japan
Directed the Fiber Pavilion of Osaka Exposition, Osaka, Japan
1971
Chronicle of Art after World War II, Kanagawa Museum of Modern Art, Kanagawa, Japan
The 10th Contemporary Art of Japan Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
100 Artists in Art Today, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan
1972
Solo exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Awarded the UNESCO prize of the 4th International Poster Biennial, Warsaw, Poland
Awarded special prize in the 5th International Graphic Design Biennial, Brno, Czech Republic
Print Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA
1973
Contemporary Art of Japan: A Panorama of Contemporary Japan Art in 20 years,
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Graphic Image '73, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Solo exhibition, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Contemporary Japan Prints, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachusetts;
New York Culture Center, New York, USA
Awarded Judge's Committee Prize of Contemporary Japan Prints, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
Awarded grand prize of Tokyo Art Directors Club, Tokyo, Japan
1974
Solo exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The 11th Japan International Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Graphic Design Image '74, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Awarded prize of Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, 9th International Print Art Biennial, Tokyo, Japan
Japan: Tradition and Contemporary, Stadtmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany
Japanese Contemporary Prints, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Awarded gold prize of the 5th International Poster Biennial, Warsaw, Poland
Awarded Silver Prize of the 6th International Graphic Design Biennial, Brno, Czech Republic
1975
Awarded the 20th Mainichi Design Award, Tokyo, Japan
The 11th Contemporary Art in Japan Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum,
Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Japanese Print Arts in 1975, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
A Panorama of Contemporary Art in Japan, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Five Japanese Graphic Designers, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland;
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
1976
Five International Graphic Designers, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1977
Contemporary Japanese Poster Exhibition, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
The Past 10 years' Japanese Poster, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1978
Awarded the Merit Prize of The 7th International Poster Biennial, Warsaw, Poland
Awarded Kodansha Publishing Cultural Award for Binding, Tokyo, Japan
1979
'79 Art Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Japanese Poster Exhibition, Musée de la Publicité, Paris, France
Awarded 2000 FMK Prize of the 3rd International Poster Biennial, Lahti, Finland
1980
Solo exhibition, Okayama Art Museum, Okayama, Japan
Japan Style, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
Japan Poster Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria
1981
Converted from a graphic designer to a painter
World Contemporary Prints in 25 Years, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo;
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Tochigi; Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
A Turning Point of Contemporary Art in 60's Japan, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
1982
Solo exhibition, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany
Solo exhibition, Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1983
Solo exhibition, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City, Japan
Solo exhibition, Musée de la Publicité, Paris, France
A Tendency of Contemporary Art in Japan part 2: Departure to Diversity,
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1984
Directed the stage decoration for Ballet Dionysos, Belgium 20th Century Ballet, Milan, Italy
Solo exhibition, Otis Persons Gallery, California, USA
The 20th Century Posters: Avant-garde, Walker Art Center, Minnesota, USA
The 2nd Toyama International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
A Panorama of Contemporary Art in Japan Graphic Art & Design, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
1985
Participated in the 13th Paris Biennial, Paris, France
Participated in The 18th São Paulo International Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
Solo exhibition, Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, Italy
Solo exhibition, Farcone Theatre, Genoa, Italy
Solo exhibition, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
The 1st Representational Painting Biennial, Museum of Modern Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Contemporary Self-Portrait, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Contemporary Art in 40 years, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1985: Japanese Prints, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
1986
Participated in the 9th British International Print Biennial, Bradford, England
Tokyo: Form and Spirit, Walker Art Center, Minnesota; Museum of Contemporary Art, California; IBM Gallery, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA
Japanese Avant-garde 1910-1970, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
A Current of Contemporary Art in Japan: Painting Part 1, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Solo exhibition, Roberta English Gallery, California, USA
Solo exhibition, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Solo exhibition, Roy Boyd Gallery, California, USA
Art and Simplicity, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Tochigi, Japan
1987
Solo exhibition, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Solo Exhibition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, USA
Selection of the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation Collection of Art, Pennsylvania and venues in United States
Icons in Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Awarded Hyogo Prefecture Cultural Award, Kobe, Japan
1988
Solo exhibition, Galerie Silvia Menzel, Berlin, Germany
The Modern Posters, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Art Kite, traveling exhibition: Japan, United States and Europe
Human Image in Modern Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1989
Awarded Honorary Prize of the 4th Asia Art Biennial, Dhaka, Bangladesh
The 19th Contemporary Japan-Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; Kyoto City Art Museum, Kyoto, Japan
ARTIS '89 An international image for human and citizens' rights, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Contemporary Japanese Poster, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1990
Excellent Works in Modern Japanese Art: Zidai-wo-tsuranuku-bi,
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan
Fantasy and Power: From Japanese Modern and Contemporary Art, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
1991
Solo exhibition, Sagacho Exhibition Space, Tokyo, Japan
Maniera-no-Kosaten: Contemporary Prints and Image Expression, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Beyond Japan: A Photo Theatre, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
Contemporary Japanese Graphic Design, Design Museum, London, England
1992
Japan's Pop 1960's, Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui, Japan
Adam and Eve: 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
3 Japanese Poster Artists, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1993
Participated in 45th Venice Biennale Trans-Actions, Venice, Italy
International Poster Exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1994
Avant-garde Art in the Post War Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, USA
Japanese Design, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA
Art Today 1994, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano, Japan
The Pop Image Prints and Multiples, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
Solo exhibition, Contemporary Art Center, Louisiana, USA
1995
Awarded the Mainichi Fine Art Award, Tokyo, Japan
Sengo Bunka no Kiseki 1945-1995/Japanese Culture: The Fifty Post-war Years Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
The 1st Performance Poster International Triennial, Bulgaria National Museum of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
Solo exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Today's Art, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Fredensborg, Denmark
1996
Solo exhibition, Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1960's Avant-garde Art in the Post War Japan, Kurashiki City Art Museum, Kurashiki, Japan
1997
Solo exhibition, Kirin Plaza, Osaka, Japan
Solo exhibition, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe; Museum of Modern Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Awarded the Gold Prize of Art Directors Club, New York, USA
1999
Hyojo-han-hyojo: Prints in Japan 1945-1999, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Solo exhibition, Communications Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Ground Zero Japan, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
2000
Solo exhibition, Eki Museum, Kyoto, Japan
Elected to the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame, New York, USA
2001
MoMA Highlights, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Century City Fine Arts and Culture of Contemporary City, Tate Modern, London, England
Solo exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Solo exhibition, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2002
Pop! Pop!! Pop!!!, Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Japan
All Things in the Universe, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Awarded the ICOGRADA Special Prize of the 20th International Graphic Design Biennial in Brno, Czech Republic
2003
Solo exhibition, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Awarded the Slovakia Design Center Prize of the 5th Trnava Poster Exhibition, Trnava, Slovakia
Solo exhibition, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Solo exhibition, Entwistle Gallery, London, England
2004
Awarded the Silver prize of Art Directors Club, New York, USA
TAKARAZUKA: the Land of Dreams, Suntory Museum, Tenpozan; Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Remaking modernism in Japan 1900-2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; University Art Museum, Tokyo;
National University of Fine Arts & Music, Tokyo, Japan
Solo exhibition, Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, Miyazaki City, Japan
Solo exhibition, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
Marcel Duchamp and the 20th Century Art, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Awarded the International Jury Prize of The 3rd International Poster Biennial, Ningbo, China
2005
Solo exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Solo exhibition, Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art, Tokyo, Japan
Solo exhibition, Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Awarded the Grand Prize of the 15th International Poster Biennial, Lahti, Finland
Issey Miyaki Paris Collections 1977-1999: Invitations by Tadanori Yokoo, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
The Last Exhibition of Parallelism in Art, Ohara Museum, Kurashiki, Japan
2006
Solo exhibition, Fondation Cartier pour I' art contemporain, Paris, France
Selected Solo Museum Exhibitions
2008
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
2006
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
2005
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
2004
Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, Miyazaki City, Japan
SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
2003
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Entwistle Gallery, London, England
2002
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2001
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Hara Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Japan
Loyola University, Louisiana, USA
2000
Eki Museum, Kyoto, Japan
1999
Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
Telecommunications Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1998
Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
1997
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Japan
1996
Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
1995
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Otemae Art Center, Hyogo, Japan
1994
Contemporary Art Center, Louisiana, USA
Park Tower Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Yayoi Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
1991
Kirin Puraza Osaka, Osaka, Japan
1990
Gallery Aricchi, Paris, France
1988
Gallery Silvia Mentzel, Berlin, Germany
Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
1987
Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, USA
1986
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Roy Boyd Gallery, California, USA
1985
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, Italy
Farcone Teatro, Genoa, Italy
Otis Person Gallery, California, USA
Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
1983
Musée de la Publicité, Paris, France
1982
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
1980
Okayama Museum, Okayama, Japan
1974
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1973
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
1972
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2004
Remaking Modernism in Japan 1900-2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; University Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Marcel Duchamp and 20th Century Art, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2003
Art Museum, Lahti, Finland
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, Slovakia
2002
Screen Memories, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan Ibragi Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan
2001
MoMA Highlights, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Modern, London, England
Art Kite Museum, Detmold, Germany
Lahti Poster Biennial, Art Museum, Lahti, Finland
2000
Modern Contemporary, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Iconology of Rose-Colored Dance: Reconstructing Tatsumi Hijikata,
Research Center for the Arts Administration, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
Shimane Art Museum, Matsue, Japan Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
17th International Poster Biennial, Warsaw, Poland
19th International Biennial, Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
Poster Triennial, Trnava, Slovakia
Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, Slovakia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
1999
Ground Zero Japan, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
California Center for the Arts, California, USA
Hiroshima City Museum of Graphic Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Machida City Museum of Graphic Art, Tokyo, Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Chicago Public Library, Illinois, USA
1998
Krannert Art Museum, Illinois, USA
Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Pécsi Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
9th Chaumont International Poster Competition, Chaumont, France
Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
18th International Biennial of Graphic Design, Brno, Czech Republic
Himeji City Museum of Art, Akita, Japan
2nd International Stage Poster Triennial, Sophia, Bulgaria
Ashiya City Museum of Art, Ashiya, Japan
Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsunomiya, Japan
Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan
1997
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan
Hokkaido Obihiro Art Museum, Hokkaido, Japan
Poster Biennial, Trnava, Slovakia
'97 Posters, Art Museum, Lahti, Finland
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Helsinki International Poster Biennial, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland
1996
Development of Fine Art in the Postwar Period—Around 1960, Kurashiki City Art Museum, Kurashiki, Japan
1995 Achievements of Post War Culture, 1945-1995, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo;
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe; Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Today's Fine Art, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Fredensborg, Denmark
The Frederick R.Weisman Art Museum, Minnesota, USA
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
1st Performance Poster International Triennial, Sophia, Bulgaria
1994
Japanese Art after 1945, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan;
Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, USA
Japanese Design, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA
Yayoi Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Japan
Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano, Japan
Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
1993
45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
Takasaki Museum of Art, Takasaki, Japan
Azabu Museum of Art and Crafts, Tokyo, Japan
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1992
Adam and Eve: 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui, Japan
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Himeji City Museum of Art, Himeji, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Tokushima, Japan
Brandenburg Art Museum, Cottbus, Germany
Pécsi Gallery, Pécs, Hungary
2nd International Poster Biennial, Mexico City, Mexico
1991
Beyond Japan: A Photo Theater, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
Contemporary Japanese Graphic Design, Design Museum, London, England
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
Royal College of Art, London, England
Fukuyama Museum of Art, Fukuyama, Japan
1990
Masterpieces of Modern Japan—Beauty Underlying the Ages,
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan
Power of Fantasy—From Japanese Modern and Contemporary Art, Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
13th International Poster Biennial, Warsaw, Poland
14th International Biennial of Graphic Design, Brno, Czech Republic
1989
A Survey of Contemporary Painting—Blessed Paintings: 19th Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition, Special Section, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; Kyoto City Art Museum, Kyoto, Japan
Artis '89, Images Internationales pour les Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Contemporary Japanese Posters, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
The 4th Bangladesh Asian Art Biennial, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Hara Museum Arc, Shibukawa, Japan
7th International Poster Biennial, Lahti, Finland
Museum of Modern Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1988
Modern Posters, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
From the Collections—Image of People Seen in Modern Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
12th International Poster Biennial, Warsaw, Poland
13th International Biennial of Graphic Design, Brno, Czech Republic
Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
Seibu Art Museum, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan
1987
Frederick R. Weisman Foundation Collection Selections, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Pennsylvania, USA
Contemporary Icon—Inside God, People, Materials and Time, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
12th International Poster Biennial, Lahti, Finland
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1986
Tokyo Form and Spirit, Walker Art Center, Minnesota; The Museum of Contemporary Art, California; IBM Gallery, New York; San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, California, USA
Le Japon des avant-gardes 1910-1970, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
9th British International Prints Biennial, Bradford, England
Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
11th International Poster Biennial, Warsaw, Poland
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Taipei Municipal Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1985
13th Paris Biennial, Paris, France
18th São Paulo International Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
40 Years of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo;
Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Kanagawa, Japan
1st International Poster Biennial, Nimes, France
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
1st International Poster Triennial, Toyama, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
Laforet Museum Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan
1984
The 20th Century Posters: Avante-garde, Walker Art Center, Minnesota and additional venues, USA
2nd Toyama International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Berlin Exhibition Center, Berlin, Germany
Soviet Union Artists' Union Central Artists' Building, Moscow, Russia
International Biennial of Graphic Design, Brno, Czech Republic
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
10th International Poster Biennial, Warsaw, Poland
1983
Trends in Contemporary Art II—60s, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
5th International Poster Biennial, Art Museum, Lahti, Finland
Colorado State University, Colorado, USA
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1982
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
International Poster Biennial, Warsaw, Poland
International Biennial of Graphic Design, Brno, Czech Republic
Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
1981
International Contemporary Prints—25 years, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi; Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
The 1960s—A Period of Change in Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Colorado State University, Colorado, USA
1980
Japan Style, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
Japan Posters, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria
International Poster Biennial, Warsaw, Poland
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Arts, Tochigi, Japan
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
1979
'79 Festival of Art—Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
L'Affiche japonaise des origins à nos jours, Musée de la Publicité, Paris, France
International Poster Biennial, Lahti, Finland
International Poster Exhibition, St. Listowel, Ireland
Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
Poster Art Museum, Colorado State University, Colorado, USA
Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China
1978
First Asia Graphic Design Biennial, Tehran, Iran
International Poster Biennial, Warsaw, Poland
International Biennial of Graphic Design, Brno, Czech Republic
1977
Contemporary Japanese Posters, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Japanese Posters, The Last 10 Years, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Otani Memorial Art Museum, Hyogo, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
International Print Biennial, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
1976
Five International Graphic Designers, Venice Bienniale, Venice, Italy
International Poster Biennial, Warsaw, Poland
International Biennial of Graphic Design, Brno, Czech Republic
1975
11th Contemporary Art in Japan Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Five Japanese Graphic Designers, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan
Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1974
11th Japan International Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo;
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Graphic Image '74, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Japan's Traditional and Contemporary Art, Stadtmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany
Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Yokohama Citizens' Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
São Paulo University Modern Art Museum, São Paulo, Brazil
Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico
International Poster Biennial, Warsaw, Poland
International Biennial of Graphic Design, Brno, Czech Republic
1973
Contemporary Japan Art: Perspective on Two Decades, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Graphic Image '73, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Awarded Judge's Committee Prize at Contemporary Japanese Prints, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
Boston Museum of Art, Massachusetts, USA
1972
Print Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA
Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1971
Japanese Art Since 1945, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama
10th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan
Yokohama Citizens' Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
100 Men of Today, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan
1970
First Korean Print Biennial, Seoul, South Korea
White Chapel Art Gallery, London, England
1969
Contemporary Design Prospects, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
6th Biennial des Jeunes de Paris, awarded Grand Prize, Paris, France
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
1968
Word and Image, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
Selected Museum Collections
Art Kite Museum, Detmold, Germany
Art Museum, Lahti, Finland
Bradford Museums Galleries & Heritage,
West Yorkshire, England
Brandenburg Art Collections of Cottbus, Germany
Chicago Athenaeum, Illinois, USA
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen,
Denmark
Dante Museum, Rome, Italy
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Haggerty Museum of Art, Wisconsin, USA
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Himeji City Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art,
Hiroshima, Japan
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan
Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan
J. Paul Getty Museum, California, USA
Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
Kunstgewerbe Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Les Silos, Maison du livre et de l'affiche,
Chaumont, France
Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
Museo Dantesco, Rome, Italy
Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien,
Vienna, Austria
Museum of Design, Zurich, Switzerland
Museum of Fine Arts—Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Museum of Fine Arts—Houston, Texas, USA
Museum of Formative Art, Zurich, Switzerland
Museum of Modern Art, Genoa, Italy
Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
National Museum, Poznaniu, Poland
National Museum for Applied Art, Munich, Germany
National Museum & Gallery of Wales,
Cardiff, Wales
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Ningbo Museum of Art, Ningbo, China
Notojima Glass Art Museum, Ishikawa, Japan
Ogaki Poster Museum, Ogaki, Japan
Ohara Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Oita Prefectural Art Hall, Oita, Japan
Okawa Museum of Art, Kiryu, Japan
Okanoyama Museum of Art, Nishiwaki, Japan
Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
Pinakothek der Modere, Munich, Germany
Patrick and Beatrice Haggarty Museum of Art,
Wisconsin, USA
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA
Santa Barbara Museum of Modern Art, California, USA
Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, California, USA
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Setagaya Literary Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano, Japan
Shimane Art Museum, Matsue, Japan
Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan
Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Japan
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Walker Art Center, Minnesota, USA
Wilanòw Poster Museum, Warsaw, Poland
World Children's Art Museum in Okazaki, Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Yonago City Museum of Art, Yonago, Japan
Selected Public Collections
Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, USA
University of California, USA
Colorado State University, USA
DNP Archives of Graphic Design, Tokyo, Japan
Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, California, USA
Hakone-machi Social Education Center, Hakone, Japan
IDEAS Student Committee, Australia
Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University,
Kyoto, Japan
International Hokusai Research Center, Milan, Italy
Japan Foundation, Toronto, Canada
Keio University Research Center for the
Arts & Arts Administration, Tokyo, Japan
Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto Saga University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA
National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, California, USA
Awards and Honors
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
2005
Grand Prize, 15th International Poster Biennial, Lahti, Finland
2004
Silver Prize, New York Art Directors Club, New York, USA
Dark-blue Ribbon Medal from the Japanese Government International Jury Prize,
3rd International Poster Biennial, Ningbo, China
2003
Slovakia Design Center Prize of the 5th Poster Exhibition, Trnava, Slovakia
2002
ICOGRADA Special Prize of the 20th International Graphic Design Biennial, Brno, Czech Republic
2000
Elected to the Hall of Fame, New York Art Directors Club
1999
Silver Prize, New York Art Directors Club, New York, USA
1998
Silver Prize, New York Art Directors Club, New York, USA
1997
Gold Prize, New York Art Directors Club, New York, USA
1995
Mainichi Fine Art Award, Tokyo, Japan
1989
Honorary Prize, 4th ASIA Art Biennial, Dhaka, Bangladesh
1987
Hyogo Prefecture Cultural Award, Hyogo, Japan
1979
2000 Fmk Prize of the 3rd International Poster Biennial in Lahti, Finland
1978
Merit Prize of the 7th International Poster Biennial, Warsaw, Poland
Kodansha Publishing Cultural Award for Binding, Tokyo, Japan
1975
20th Mainichi Design Award, Tokyo, Japan
1974
Gold Prize of the 5th International Poster Biennial, Warsaw, Poland
Silver Prize of the 6th International Graphic Design Biennial, Brno, Czech Republic
1973
Judge's Committee Prize of Contemporary Japanese Prints, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
1972
Special Prize in the 5th International Graphic Design Biennial, Brno, Czech Republic
UNESCO Award of the 4th International Poster Biennial, Warsaw, Poland
1970
Directed arts for the Fiber Pavilion at Expo '70, Osaka, Japan
1969
Grand Prize of the 6th Biennial des Jeunes de Paris, France
1965
Mainichi Industrial Design Award, Tokyo, Japan
1958
Nominated as member of Nissenbi Japan Advertising Artists Club, Tokyo, Japan