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Artist's Website
2011
Awarded the Order of the Rising Sun
2006
First international exhibition of his painting, Fondation Cartier, Paris
2000
Named to Art Directors Club Hall of Fame, New York
1993
Participated in 45th Venice Biennale
1985
Participated in the 13th Paris Biennial
Participated in the 18th São Paulo International Biennial
1981
Converted from graphic design to painting
1972
Graphics by Tadanori Yokoo, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1966
First solo exhibition, at Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo
1964
Established Studio Ilfil
1960
Entered Nippon Design Center (NDC), Tokyo, Japan
1956
Nominated as member of Tokyo’s Nissenbi Japan Advertising Artists Club
Regular contributor of the Kobe Shimbun, Kobe, Japan
1936
Born in Nishiwaki, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Solo Exhibitions
2012
Tadanori Yokoo: Kora-ju. Friedman Benda, New York, NY
2011
Tadanori Yokoo: Original view, eyes of the consciousness. Okanoyama Museum of Art, Nishiwaki, Japan
The Best 450: Posters of Tadanori Yokoo. Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
Tadanori Yokoo: 109-faced Painter. Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
2010
The Complete Posters of Tadanori Yokoo. National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Tadanori Yokoo: Aesthetics of End. Friedman Benda, New York, NY
2009
Tadanori Yokoo Incomplete—What’s yours is mine. What’s mine is mine. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2008
Tadanori Yokoo. Friedman Benda, New York, NY
Tadanori Yokoo: Be Adventurous! Traveling Exhibition:
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
2006
Tadanori Yokoo. Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
2005
Tadanori Yokoo. Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Then and Now. Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004
Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, Miyazaki, Japan
Selected Works and New Paintings. SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
2003
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Entwistle Gallery, London, UK
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, New Orleans, LA
2000
Eki Museum, Kyoto, Japan
1999
Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
Telecommunications Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1998
Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
1997
Kirin Plaza, Osaka, Japan
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan
1996
Craze for Waterfalls. Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1995
Otemae Art Center, Hyogo, Japan
1994
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Park Tower Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Yayoi Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
1991
Kirin Puraza Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Sagacho Exhibition Space, Tokyo, 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, Pittsburgh, PA
1986
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Roy Boyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Roberta English Gallery, Sausalito, CA
1985
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, Italy
Farcone Teatro, Genoa, Italy
Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
1984
Otis Persons Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983
Musée de la Publicité, Paris, France
Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City, Japan
1982
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1980
Okayama Museum, Okayama, Japan
1974
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1973
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
1972
Graphics by Tadanori Yokoo, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1970
Matsuya Ginza, Kyoto, Japan; Kobe, Japan; Sapporo, Japan; and Nagoya, Japan
1966
Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2012
Tokyo 1955-1970. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY [upcoming]
Seeking Shambhala. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Mathematics: A Beautiful Elsewhere. Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2011
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970 – 1990. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Our Magic Hour. Yokohama Triennale, Kanagawa, Japan
The World of Junzo Ishiko, from Art via Manga to Kitsch. Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The Prospects of the Modern Painting. Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950-1970. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2005
The Issey Miyake Paris Collections 1977-1999: Invitations by Tadanori Yokoo. Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
The Last Exhibition of Parallelism. Ohara Museum, Kurashiki, Japan
15th International Poster Biennial, Poster Museum, Lahti, Finland
2004
Remaking Modernism in Japan 1900-2000. Traveling Exhibition:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; University Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Duchamp & 20th Century Art. National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
TAKARAZUKA: the Land of Dreams. Suntory Museum, Tenpozan, Japan; Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2003
14th International Poster Biennial, Poster Museum, Lahti, Finland
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Trnava Poster Triennial, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, Slovakia
2002
Screen Memories. Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
Pop! Pop!! Pop!!! Ibaraki Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Mito, Japan
All Things in the Universe. Traveling exhibition:
Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2001
MoMA Highlights. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis. Tate Modern, London, UK
Art Kite Museum, Detmold, Germany
13th International Poster Biennial, Poster Museum, Lahti, Finland
2000
Modern Contemporary. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Iconology of Rose-Colored Dance: Reconstructing Tatsumi Hijikata.
Research Center for the Arts, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
Shimane Art Museum, Matsue, Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
17th International Poster Biennial, Wilanów Poster Museum, Warsaw, Poland
19th International Biennial, Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
Trnava Poster Triennial, 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, Mito, Japan
California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
Hiroshima City Museum of Graphic Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL
Hyojo-han-hyojo: Prints in Japan 1945-1999. Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
1998
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
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, National Exhibition Centre of Modern Art, Sofia, 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
Trnava Poster Triennial, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, Slovakia
’97 Posters. Lahti Art Museum, Lahti, Finland
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Helsinki International Poster Biennial, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland
Museum of Modern Art, Kanagawa, Japan
1996
1960’s Avant-garde Art in the Post War Japan. Kurashiki City Art Museum, Kurashiki, Japan
1995
Japanese Culture, The Fifty Post-war Years, 1945-1995. Traveling exhibition:
Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan; Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Today’s Fine Art. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Philosophia. The Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
International Stage Poster Triennial, National Exhibition Centre of Modern Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
1994
Avant-garde Art in the Post-war Japan. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, NY
Japanese Design. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Yayoi Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Japan
Art Today 1994. Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano, Japan
The Pop Image Prints and Multiples. Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
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
International Poster Exhibition. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1992
Adam and Eve: 10th Anniversary Exhibition. Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Japan’s Pop 1960’s. Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui, Japan
3 Japanese Poster Artists. 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, UK
Contemporary Japanese Graphic Design. Design Museum, London, UK
Maniera-no-Kosaten: Contemporary Prints and Image Expression. Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
Royal College of Art, London, UK
Fukuyama Museum of Art, Fukuyama, Japan
1990
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
13th International Poster Biennial, Wilanów Poster Museum, Warsaw, Poland
14th International Biennial of Graphic Design, Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
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
1989
A Survey of Contemporary Painting—Blessed Paintings: 19th Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition, Special Section. Traveling Exhibition:
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Kyoto City Art Museum, Kyoto, Japan
ARTIS ‘89 An international image for human and citizens’ rights. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Contemporary Japanese Posters. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
The 4th Bangladesh Asian Art Biennial, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Hara Museum Arc, Shibukawa, Japan
7th International Poster Biennial, Poster Museum, Lahti, Finland
Museum of Modern Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1988
Modern Posters. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
From the Collections—Image of People Seen in Modern Art. National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
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
Art Kite. Traveling exhibition: Japan, United States and Europe
12th International Poster Biennial, Wilanów Poster Museum, Warsaw, Poland
13th International Biennial of Graphic Design, Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
1987
Selections from the Collection. Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,
Los Angeles, CA
Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
Inside God, People, Materials and Time: Icons in Contemporary Art. 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, Poster Museum, Lahti, Finland
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1986
Tokyo Form and Spirit. Traveling Exhibition:
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; IBM Gallery, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Japanese Avant-garde 1910-1970. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
9th British International Prints Biennial, Bradford, UK
Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
11th International Poster Biennial, Wilanów Poster Museum, Warsaw, Poland
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
A Current of Contemporary Art in Japan: Painting Part 1. The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Taipei Municipal Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Art and Simplicity. Traveling Exhibition:
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Tochigi, Japan
1985
13th Paris Biennial, Paris, France
18th São Paulo International Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
40 Years of Contemporary Art. Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1st International Poster Biennial, Nimes, France
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
1st International Poster Triennial, Toyama, Japan
Laforet Museum Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan
The 1st Representational Painting Biennial, Museum of Modern Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Contemporary Self-Portrait. Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Japanese Prints. Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
1984
20th Century Posters: Avant-garde. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The 2nd Toyama International Contemporary Art Exhibition: A Panorama of Japan Graphic Art & Design. Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Berlin Exhibition Center, Berlin, Germany
Soviet Union Artists’ Union Central Artists’ Building, Moscow, Russia
11th International Biennial of Graphic Design, Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
10th International Poster Biennial, Wilanów Poster Museum, Warsaw, Poland
1983
A Tendency of Contemporary Art in Japan, Part 2: Departure to Diversity.
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
5th International Poster Biennial. Poster Museum, Lahti, Finland
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
1982
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
9th International Poster Biennial, Wilanów Poster Museum, Warsaw, Poland
10th International Biennial of Graphic Design, Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
1981
World Contemporary Prints in 25 Years. Traveling Exhibition:
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Tochigi, Japan; Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
The 1960s—A Period of Change in Contemporary Art. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
1980
Japan Style. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Japan Posters. Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria
8th International Poster Biennial, Wilanów Poster Museum, 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. Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Japanese Poster Exhibition. Musée de la Publicité, Paris, France
3rd International Poster Biennial, Poster Museum, Lahti, Finland
International Poster Exhibition, St. Listowel, Ireland
Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
Poster Art Museum, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China
1978
First Asia Graphic Design Biennial, Tehran, Iran
7th International Poster Biennial, Wilanów Poster Museum, Warsaw, Poland
8th International Biennial of Graphic Design, Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
1977
Contemporary Japanese Posters. Museu de Arte, São Paulo, Brazil
The Last 10 Years in Japanese Posters. 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
6th International Poster Biennial, Wilanów Poster Museum, Warsaw, Poland
7th International Biennial of Graphic Design, Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
1975
11th Contemporary Art in Japan Exhibition. Traveling Exhibition:
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Japanese Print Arts in 1975. Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
Five Japanese Graphic Designers. Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
A Panorama of Contemporary Art in Japan. Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1974
11th Japan International Art Exhibition. Traveling Exhibition:
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Graphic Image ’74. Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Japan’s Traditional and Contemporary Art. Stadtmuseum, Dusseldorf, Germany
International Print Art Biennial, Tokyo, Japan
Japanese Contemporary Prints. Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico
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
5th International Poster Biennial, Wilanów Poster Museum, Warsaw, Poland
6th International Biennial of Graphic Design, Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
1973
Contemporary Japanese Art: Perspective on Two Decades. Traveling Exhibition: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Graphic Image ’73. Traveling Exhibition:
Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Prints. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; New York Culture Center, New York, NY
1972
Print Art. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1971
Japanese Art Since 1945. Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura &
Hayama, Japan
10th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Art. Traveling Exhibition:
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan
Yokohama Citizens’ Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
100 Artists in Art Today. Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art,
Kobe, Japan
Chronicle of Art after World War II. Kanagawa Museum of Modern Art, Kanagawa, Japan
1970
First Korean Print Biennial, Seoul, South Korea
White Chapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Human Documents ’70. Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1969
Contemporary Design Prospects. National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
6th Biennial des Jeunes de Paris. Paris, France
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
18 Artists of Contemporary Prints. Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art,
Kyoto, Japan
1968
Word and Image. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
1965
Persona. Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
Awards
2011
Asahi Award, Asahi Shimbun
Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, Japan
2007
Hyogo Prefecture Award of Recognition
2006
Japan Inter-Design Award
2005
Grand Prize, 15th International Poster Biennial, Lahti, Finland
2004
Silver Prize, New York Art Directors Club, New York, NY
Dark-blue Ribbon Medal, Japanese Government International Jury Prize
3rd International Poster Biennial, Ningbo, China
2003
Design Center Prize of the 5th Poster Exhibition, Trnava, Slovakia
2002
ICOGRADA Special Prize, 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, NY
1998
Silver Prize, New York Art Directors Club, New York, NY
1997
Gold Prize, New York Art Directors Club, New York, NY
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, 3rd International Lahti Poster Biennial, Lahti, Finland
1978
Merit Prize, 7th International Poster Biennial, Warsaw, Poland
Kodansha Publishing Cultural Award for Binding, Tokyo, Japan
1975
20th Mainichi Design Award, Tokyo, Japan
1974
Gold Prize, 5th International Poster Biennial, Warsaw, Poland
Silver Prize, 6th International Graphic Design Biennial, Brno, Czech Republic
1973
Judge’s Committee Prize of Contemporary Japanese Prints, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Grand prize, Tokyo Art Directors Club, Tokyo, Japan
1972
Special Prize, 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, 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
Museum and Public Collections
Art Kite Museum, Detmold, Germany
Bradford Museums Galleries & Heritage, West Yorkshire, England
Brandenburg Art Collections of Cottbus, Cottbus, Germany
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Chicago Athenaeum, Chicago, IL
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Dante Museum, Rome, Italy
DNP Archives of Graphic Design, Tokyo, Japan
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
Hakone-machi Social Education Center, Hakone, Japan
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
Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
International Hokusai Research Center, Milan, Italy
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan
Japan Foundation, Toronto, Canada
J. Paul Getty Museum Villa, Malibu, CA
Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
Keio University Research Center for the Arts & Arts Administration, Tokyo, Japan
Kunstgewerbe Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto Saga University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
Lahiti Art Museum, Lahti, Finland
Les Silos, Maison du livre et de l'affiche, Chaumont, France
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
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, NY
National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
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 Moderne, Munich, Germany
Patrick and Beatrice Haggarty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Modern Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA
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, UK
Walker Art Center, Minnesota, USA
Wilanòw Poster Museum, Warsaw, Poland
World Children's Art Museum, Okazaki, Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Yonago City Museum of Art, Yonago, Japan
Literature
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Tadanori Yokoo: Be Adventurous! Tokyo: Kokushokankokai Inc., 2008.
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Press
2012
Bonacorsi, Ivo. “Mathematics at the Fondation Cartier.” Domus, January 2, 2012.
Asahi Shimbun. “Artist Yokoo, Four Others Win Asahi Award.” January 1, 2012.
2011
Rawlings, Ashley. “Tadanori Yokoo: Dark Was the Night.” ArtAsiaPacific, Issue 74, July - August, 2011.
2010
Mount, Christopher. “Wild at Heart: Tadanori Yokoo.” The Design Observer, July 21, 2010.
2008
Gartelmann, Stephanie. “Seized by Color.” Pol Oxygen, Issue 28, 2008.
Cheung, Jimmy. “Forks and Fate.” Giant Robot, November, 2008.
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2005
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