Born in Morioka, Japan, 1944
Education
BFA, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan, 1968
Lives and works in Ito City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
One-Person Exhibitions
2024
Kishio Suga: 20 Years, Gallery Shilla, Seoul, South Korea
Mendes Wood DM, Cara Iramaia, São Paulo, Brazil
There Is Neither Such Thing as Being, Nor Such Thing as Not Being, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Corresponding Space, He Art Museum, Foshan, Guangdong Province, China
2023
Johyun Gallery, Busan, South Korea
Gallery Shilla, Seoul, South Korea
Neither Things nor Sites, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022
“Not Being Present, Not Being Absent,” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Mendes Wood, Brussels, Belgium
Paper, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Kishio Suga: The Existence of ‘Things’ and the Eternity of ‘Site,’ Iwate Museum of Art, Morioka, Japan
Gathered <Intermediates>, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan and Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
2020
Released Scenic Space, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Early Works, Gallery Cocon, Tokyo, Japan
2019
Measured Divisional Entities, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Each Modern, Taipei, Taiwan
Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Japan
Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Shilla, Daegu, South Korea
eN arts, Kyoto, Japan
2018
Blum & Poe, New York, NY
Expanded Self-Space, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Photography and Video, 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Released Existence on Edges, The Club, Tokyo, Japan
Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil
Yu-un, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Saiensu I / II, Morioka, Japan
2017
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium
Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Beijing, China
Divided Orientation of Space, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
New Works, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
2016
Dia: Chelsea, New York, NY
Gallery Shilla, Daegu, South Korea
Situations, curated by Yuko Hasegawa and Vicente Todolí, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy
2015
Blum & Poe, New York, NY
Perimeter (Entai), 1985, Blain|Southern, London, UK Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Situated Latency, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Intentional Scenic Space, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, JapanKishio Suga: 1980s, Gallery Cocon, Tokyo, Japan
Shane Campbell Gallery, Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL
New Works, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
2014
Situated Underlying Existence, Corps de Garde, Colmar, France
The “Origin of Situation” as Disclosed by “Things,” Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
1970/80s, Gallery Cocon, Tokyo, Japan
2013
Gallery Collection: Lee Ufan, Takeda Art Co., Tokyo, Japan
Out of Doubt: Roppongi Crossing 2013, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
A/D Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Placement of Hidden Currents, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
2011
Keio University, Hiyoshi Campus Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
New Works, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Tochigi, Japan
Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2010
Existence, The Art Gallery, Kanazawa College of Art, Ishikawa, Japan
What One Perceives in the Depths of One’s Sight, Gallery Cocon, Tokyo, Japan
New Works, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Japan
Space Hongjie, Seoul, South Korea
Gallery 604 J & H, Busan, South Korea
2009
Le Cose Esistono, Marginil Arte Contemporanea, Massa, Italy
New Works, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Japan
2008
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
TKG Editions Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
TKG Daikanyama, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Japan
Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London, UK
New Works, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Japan
2007
New Works, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Japan
2006
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Airflow, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
Two Dimension and Three Dimension, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
New Works, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Japan
2005
Gallery Shilla, Daegu, Korea
Gallery Saiensu I, II, Morioka, Japan
Uncertain Void: Installation by Kishio Suga, Iwate Museum of Art, Morioka, Japan
New Works, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Japan
2004
1986–1995 Relief/Two Dimension, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Dispersed Combination, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
New Works, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Japan
2003
Gate, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
New Works, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Japan
2002
Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Distant-Hollow-Construction, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
New Works, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Japan
2001
Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Japan
2000
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1999
Stance, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1998
Dialogue—Kishio Suga, The Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, Japan
Masuda Studio, Tokyo, Japan
Relayed Boundaries, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The 20th Anniversary of Gallery Saiensu, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Japan
Part I: Kishio Suga, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997
Masuda Studio, Tokyo, Japan
Laterally Enclosed Scenery, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Sugar's Collection: Kishio Suga, Gallery San, Yokohama, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; traveled to
Itami City Museum of Art, Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan; Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery,
Yokohama, Japan; Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
1996
Along Gathered Edges and a Centered Boundary, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Disseminating Territory, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1995
RESTRIZIONE: Sostenere le cose, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Expression of Kishio Suga, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Framed State, Multiple Realms, M Gallery, Ashikaga, Japan
A Question for Foundation: Art in 70’s: The 7th Exhibition, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
On Primitivism of Objects and Inevitability of Construction, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Elemental Status with Elemental Base, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Japan
1994
Gathered Scenery, Surrounded Edges, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
New Works, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1993
Gathered Dimensions, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Japan
Edges of a Peripheral Realm, Ushibuchi Museum, Matsuyama, Japan
Scenic Intervals 1993, Contemporary Art Space, Takashimaya Nihombashi Store, Tokyo, Japan
Scenic Intervals 1993, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Thing, Site, Dependency, Piga Harajuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992
Surrounded Space—Supported Dimension, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
’92 New Works, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Surrounded Space—Supported Dimension: Relief Works, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
PROTRUSION, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Installation, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Japan
Differentiated and Extended Voids, Kaneko Art G2, Tokyo, Japan
Edges of a Peripheral Realm, Plaza Gallery, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan
1991
A Piece of Paper Reveals Scenery, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Along the Elemental Scenery, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Along the Elemental Scenery, Gallery Art Soko, Tokyo, Japan
Intervals of Scenery, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Inauguration of the Permanent Installation Point-scale of the Sky, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Japan
1990
Concept Space, Shibukawa, Japan
Surrounding Construction, Concept Space R2, Takasaki, Japan
Around Circumstance, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Both Edges of an Enclosed Realm, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Edges of Body, Hino Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Waxing-Space-Waning, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Japan
New Works: Paintings, Sculptures, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Peripheral Field, Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1989
Scenery of Defiant Stature, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Two Dimensions and Three Dimension, Kaneko Art G1, Tokyo, Japan
A Contact Point of Action and Objects, Kintetsu Department Store, Osaka, Japan
Heineken Village Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1988
Surroundings, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Surroundings of Thought, Off Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Circumference of Body, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Out of Multiple Surroundings, Kaneko Art G1, Tokyo, Japan
Gathered Surroundings, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Japan
1987
PROTRUSION, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Supportive Peripheries, Kaneko Art G1, Tokyo, Japan
1986
Square Pond, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Supplemented Material, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1985
Supporting a Void, Soo Gallery, Daegu, South Korea
Metallic Pond, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Japan
Border of Interior and Exterior, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Conjoined Bodies, Kaneko Art G1, Tokyo, Japan
1984
A Belt of Waves in Progression, Komai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Supplemented Material, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1983
Conjoined Realms, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Support of Accumulation, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1982
Installation, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
Partitioned Spaces, Kaneko Art G1, Tokyo, Japan
Effect, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Supported Wood, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Japan
1981
Dependent Placements, Gallery Hinoki, Tokyo, Japan
Satou Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
PROTRUSION, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Towards Order, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1980
Paper Works 3: As Fact, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Order of Entities, Shirakaba Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Matter and Location, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Japan
Periphery of Space, Gallery Kitano Circus, Kobe, Japan
Flattened Phase—In Terms of Phenomena, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Realm of Matter, Gallery Lumiere, Yamagata, Japan
1979
Law of Gathered Space, Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Differentiated Order, Box Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Gap of the Entrance to the Space (part 1), Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gap of the Entrance to the Space (part 2), Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
’79, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1978
Neutral Order, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Parameters of Space, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Japan
Wooden Works, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1977
Space, Galeria Akumulatory 2, Poznán, Poland
Theory of Emerging Situation, Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Continuous Existence, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1976
Continuous Process, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Spatial Discrepancy, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Interstitial State, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1975
Condition of Situated Units, Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Law of Multitude, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Phase of Acquisition, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Paper Works 2, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Paper Works 1, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1974
Fieldology, Gallery 16, Kyoto, Japan
Units of Dependency, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1973
Law of Dependence, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Cause of Situation, Morioka City Hall, Morioka, Japan
Separating Dependence, Satou Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1972
Condition of a Critical Boundary, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Left-Behind Situation, Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Unfolding Field, Joshuya Building, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
1971
Abandoned Order, Satou Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1970
Soft-Concrete, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1969
Parallel Strata, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1968
Space Transformation, Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2024
A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), Tokyo, Japan
If not now, when?: Collection Max Vorst, Museum Beelden aan Zee, the Haugue, Netherlands
Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood, BLUM, Tokyo, Japan
Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood, BLUM, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Re: Startline 1963–1970/2023 — Sympathetic Relations between the Museum and Artists as Seen in the Trends in Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Linhas Tortas, Curated by Diana Campbell, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil
Inhabiting Time, Pinault Collection, Laennec Chapel, Paris, France
Fusion in Serendipity, The Yang Arts Collection, Taipei City, Taiwan
Sam Francis and Japan: Emptiness Overflowing, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Calling on the Past: Selections from the Collection, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
Re: Startline 1963−1970/2023: Sympathetic Relations between the Museum and Artists as Seen in the Trends in Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Passport to Shangri-La, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2022
JAPAN. BODY_PERFORM_LIVE: Resistance and Resilience in Japanese Contemporary Art, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Do It! Everyday Life Becomes Art: Art of the 1970s as Seen in Documents from the National Art Center, Tokyo Archives, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Building and Dreaming, curated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol and Sun Man, BY ART MATTERS, Hangzhou, China
2021
Abstraction, Isetan Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Fall for Art, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The Still Point, Kudan House, Tokyo, Japan
Days of Inertia, Mendes Wood DM at D'Ouwe Kerk, Retranchement, The Netherlands
At The Luss House: Blum & Poe, Mendes Wood DM and Object & Thing, The Gerald Luss House, Ossining, NY
Mountains Carrying Suns, Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan
2020
5,471 miles, Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan
Collection: The Aesthetics of Contemporary Japan, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Toriwase: A Special Installation of Modern Japanese Art and Ceramics, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
EnormousBalls, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium
Timeless Conversations 2020: Voices from Japanese Art of the Past and Present, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Artists for New York, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
Small Works, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2019
30th Anniversary of the Yokohama Museum of Art Meet the Collection, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Weavers of Worlds - A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
LUMINE Meets Art Award, NEWoMAN Art Wall, Tokyo, Japan
DECODE: Events & Materials — The Work of Art in the Age of Post-industrial Society, Museum
of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Tribute to Mono-ha, Cardi Gallery, London, UK
Contemporary Art in the Late Showa 1964-1989, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan\
Mono-Ha: The Art of Nothingness, Aki Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2018
1968 Art of Turbulent Times, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan; traveled to Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan Natura Naturans, Mendes Wood DM, New York,
NY
1968: Art of Turbulent Times, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan; traveling to Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan; and Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
The Surface of Things, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
Minimalism: Space. Light. Object, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL
Redefining the City with Context: Beyond the Wall, Xi'an, China
Through a Forest Wilderness, Nikolskoer Landpartie, Berlin, Germany
Bubblewrap, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
2017
57th Venice Biennale, VIVA ARTE VIVA, curated by Christine Macel, Venice, Italy
Yokohama Art Museum, Yokohama, Japan
The Sogetsu Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan
Japan House at SP-Arte, Bienal Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil
Would you Rather…, BBQLA, Los Angeles, CA
TOUCHPIECE, curated by Justin Beal, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles, CA Who Can Be
Strangers? The Art of Mono-ha and Dansaekhwa, Blum & Poe at Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Japanorama: New Vision on Art Since 1970, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
What is the Relationship Between Ceramics and Contemporary Art?, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
When Attitude Become Form: Japanese Art of the 1970s through the Photography of Anzaï Shigeo, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2016
Robert Morris & Kishio Suga, Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan
Utopia/Heterotopia: First Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition, curated by Wang Xiaosong, Liu Gang, North Silk Factory and West Scenic Zone, Wuzhen, China
Karla Black and Kishio Suga: A New Order, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
New "Artists Today" Exhibition 2016: Spaces of Creation – Mono-ha to the Art of Today, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
The Emergence of the Contemporary: Avant-Garde Art in Japan 1950–1970, Imperial Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In Between, curated by Luisa Duarte, Bergamin & Gomide, São Paulo, Brazil
2015
Breaking Through to the Actual via the Imagination, Curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Mono-ha: Works on Paper, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
Takahashi Collection: Mirror Neuron, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Construction/Deconstruction, organized with Oliver Renaud-Clément, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
Dessins, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
Mono-ha, Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy
2014
Micro Salon 2014, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
Exhibition for Retiring Professors at Kanazawa College of Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Abstract Drawing, Drawing Room, London, UK
Japon, Abbaye Saint André, Centre d'art Contemporain, Meymac, France
The Hara Museum Collection at 35, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Mono-ha Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karuizawa, Japan
Takahashi Collection 2014: Mindfulness!, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Erasure: From Conceptualism to Abstraction, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong and City University,
Hong Kong, China
Imaginative Geometry, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Kishio Suga, Yoko Sawai, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
Group exhibition by Tomio Koyama Gallery, TOLOT/heuristic SHINONOME, Tokyo, Japan
Mono-ha, Tabloid Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Other Primary Structures (Others 2: 1967 - 1970), Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Geometric Perspectives on Japanese Abstraction, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
1974, Part Two: A Turning Point in Postwar Japanese Art, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma,
Japan
Chronicle 1964–2014: History of Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Lee Ufan + Kishio Suga Print Exhibition, Tezukayama Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2013
Layers of Artistic Expression, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Connecting_Unfolding, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Out of Doubt: Roppongi Crossing 2013, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
Tricks and Vision to Mono-ha, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, The Warehouse, Dallas,
TX
Re: Quest―Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Micro Salon 2013, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2012
Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The ’70s in Japan: 1968–1982, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; traveled to Hiroshima
City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
The Artists of Mono-ha and Its Era, Rakusui-tei Museum of Art, Toyama, Japan
Collection: ’70s Japan—Mono-ha, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mona-ha, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2011
Villa Tokyo, various locations in Kyobashi, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery’s Collection Exhibition: Mono-ha, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2010
Contemporary Art of China and Japan, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, South Korea
MOT Collection, Enter Here—What Do You See?, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Currents in Japanese Contemporary Wood Sculpture, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art,
Hokkaido, Japan
Tokyo Gallery + BTAP 60th Anniversary Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan Micro Salon 60, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2009
No Man’s Land, Ambassade de France au Japon, Tokyo, Japan Drawing Story I 1960-1990, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2008
Mediations Biennale, National Museum, Poznań, Poland Art Scene Revived, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Living in the Material World: “Things” in Art of the 20th Century and Beyond, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
What Is Mono-ha?, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Beijing, China
2006
Mono-ha: Lee Ufan, Kishio Suga, Nobuo Sekine—from the 1970s, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Fukutake House, Tokamachi, Japan
Art and Object: Affinity of the Jomon and the Contemporary, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan
Homage to Yoshiaki Tono, Gallery TOM, Tokyo, Japan
2005
Reconsidering Mono-ha, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2004
Remaking Modernism in Japan 1900–2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
The New Tokyo Gallery Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2002
Two Mono-ha Artists: Lee Ufan and Kishio Suga, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The Unfinished Century: Legacies of 20th Century Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
2001
Global Visions: Art after 1980, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Mono-ha: School of Things, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK; traveled to Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, UK
2000
3rd Gwangju Biennale, Biennale Hall, Jungoei Park, Gwangju, South Korea
1999
Mono-ha: Kishio Suga/Lee Ufan, M Gallery, Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
1998
Art/Ecosystem: The Contemporary Japanese Art Scene, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsunomiya, Japan
1997
Beyond the Form, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Gravity: Axis of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
1996
Collection in Focus: 12 Installation Pieces, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Prints of the 1970’s, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Inside of Works, Outside of Works, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1995
Matter and Perception 1970: Mono-ha and the Search for Fundamentals, Museum of Fine Arts Gifu, Gifu, Japan; traveled to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; Museum of Modern Art Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France
Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan; Hyogo Prefectural, Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
46th Venice Biennale: ASIANA Contemporary Art from the Far East, Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, Venice, Italy
Kishio Suga + Mika Yoshizawa: Standing and Boundary of Place, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1994
Cross and Square: Grids, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Japanese Art after 1945: Scream against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan; traveled to Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
8th Triennale India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
The Domain of the Medium: New Approaches to the Medium in Art, Craft, Design, Crafts Gallery, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Mono-ha Part III, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1993
Yoshihisa Sankawa + Kishio Suga, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Reconstructed and Quotation, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
1992
Avanguardie Giapponesi degli anni 70, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy; traveled to Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1991
70’s–80’s Contemporary Art: Mono-ha (Part 3), Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Soko Tokyo Gallery: New Generation, Soko Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Movement of Contemporary Art in Japan: Three-Dimensional Works, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
The World of Box: Do It Yourself, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
1989
The Space: Material, Tension, Vacancy in Japanese Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Wounded Surfaces: Lee Ufan, Kishio Suga, Koichi Ebitsuka, Mika Yoshizawa, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Art Exciting ’89, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; traveled to Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia (toured under the title Japanese Ways, Western Means)
20th Biennale Middelheim: Japan, Europalia ’89, Middelheim Open-Air Museum for Sculpture, Antwerp, Belgium
1988
Introduction to Art History: Films by Contemporary Japanese Artists, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Monoha: La scuola delle cose, Museum Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
A Three Week Artistic Symposium of Color, Shape and Sound, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Art 1988 by Eleven Artists, Kahitsukan: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
1987
Art in Japan since 1969: Mono-ha and Post-Mono-ha, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
TAMA VIVANT ’87: From Thingness to Narrative, Seed Hall, Tokyo, Japan
State of Contemporary Art from North Eastern Japan 2, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan
2nd Biennale Japan Ushimado International Art Festival, Ushimado, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
1986
Seeing New Developments in Space and Materials, Institut Franco-Japonais, Tokyo, Japan
2nd Tokyo Open-Air Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Kinuta Park, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Monologue/Dialogue: Kishio Suga and Kenji Inumaki, Nabis Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Seoul—Contemporary Asian Art Show, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, South Korea
Mono-ha Part II, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Black and White in Art Today, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Lee Ufan, Nobuo Sekine, Kishio Suga: Methods of the 1970s, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
22nd Artists Today: Apocalypse in Contemporary Art – From the Depth of Soul, Yokohama City
Gallery, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Japon des avant gardes: 1910–1970, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1985
Contemporary Sculpture in Japan: Wood, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Artist’s Books, Franklin Furnace Gallery, New York, NY
Construction in Japanese Paper, Halle Sud, Geneva, Switzerland
40 Years of Japanese Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Beauty of Wood: Between Painting and Sculpture, Asahikawa Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan
2nd Asian Art Show, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
21st Artists Today: When Installations Become Form, Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohama,
Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Opening Exhibition, Gallery Soh, Tokyo, Japan
1984
Sculpture in Modern Japan, 1968–1980s, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, Japan
Japanese Contemporary Paintings, 1960–1980, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Takasaki, Japan
Human Documents ’84/’85, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2nd TOYAMA NOW ’84, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
State of Contemporary Art from North Eastern Japan, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan
Trends of Contemporary Japanese Art 1970–1984: Universality/Individuality, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1983
Shape and Spirit in Wood Works, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Permanent Collection 2 Art of Today: Japan-England, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
A Sense of Contemporary Japanese Art 2: An Encounter with the Sights around Us, Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
A Panorama of Contemporary Art in Japanese Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
The Front of Contemporary Japanese Art, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1982
ARTEDER ’82, Mikeldi Gallery, Bilbao, Spain
4th Biennale of Sydney, Video/Performance Section, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Tama Art University Festival Exhibition, Tama Art University Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1981
Yoin: Ideas from Japan Made in Australia, Gryphon Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
1st Parallel Art Exhibition, Ohara Center of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Performance in Video, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Kishio Suga, Susumu Koshimizu, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
16th São Paulo Biennale, Parque Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil
A Sense of Contemporary Japanese Art 1: An Encounter with the Sights around Us,
Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan: Trends of Japanese Art in the 1970s, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
1980
Shell Art Exhibition, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan 1980 Japanese Prints, Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Utsunomiya, Japan
Variations on Planar Paintings, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Paper Expression, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1979
Kishio Suga, Masayuki Takahashi, Lee Ufan, Komai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Small Works, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Lisbon International Show ’79, Galeria de Belem-Lisboa, Centro de Arte Contemporânea (Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis), Lisbon, Portugal
15th Artists Today, Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1978
38th Venice Biennale, Japan Pavilion, Venice, Italy
14th Artists Today, Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1977
03·23·03─Projects/Performances/Conferences, Parachute Revue and Institut d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Tokyo Gallery Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Japan and America: Contemporary Art Exhibition, 80 Ranton Street Gallery, USA; traveled to Kanagawa Prefectural Hall Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
13th Artists Today: The Richness of Painting, Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
1976
Pan Conceptuals, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kyoto Biennale: Contemporary Art by Seven Art Critics, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto,
Japan
Ima: Now Exhibition, Ewing Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Seven Italian Artists and Seven Japanese Artists: Procedures Based on New Consciousness, Italian Culture Center, Tokyo, Japan
2nd Biennale of Sydney: Recent International Forms in Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1975
Japanese Contemporary Sculpture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Tokyo Gallery '76, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1974
Katsuro Yoshida + Kishio Suga, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Japan Art Exhibition, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; traveled to Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Sweden; Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Oslo, Norway
Universe (Cosmos): Image Experiments in Serigraphy by Contemporary Japanese Artists, São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo, Brazil
Materials, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
7th Contemporary Form: Image Expression ’74, Art Core Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Japan: Tradition und Gegenwart, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
1973
8th Japan Art Festival Exhibition, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
8e Biennale de Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, and Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
1972
1st International Art Exhibition, Il Centro Gallery, Naples, Italy
Project for Mount Vesuvius Operation, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1st Contemporary Japanese Graphics Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
1971
10th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
4th Contemporary Japanese Sculpture Exhibition, Ube Museum of Outdoor Sculpture, Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
Print 1972, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1970
9th Trends in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
5th Japan Art Festival Exhibition, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; traveled to Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (toured under the title Contemporary Japanese Art)
Aspects of New Japanese Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
7th Artists Today, Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
1968
OOX Exhibition: TAMA FINE ART COLLEGE OOX Class, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
9 Visional Points, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1967
4th International Young Artists Exhibition, Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
OOOOPLAN 8 Events for Midnight, Shinjuku Pitt Inn, Tokyo, Japan
N·S·S, Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
11th Shell Art Award, Shiroki-ya Grand Hall Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Kyoto Municipal
Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Universiade Exhibition, Isetan, Tokyo, Japan
OOOPLAN, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Performances
Note that on March 6, 2004, Suga renamed all his “events” as “activations.”
2016
Screening of Being and Murder (1999), dir. Kishio Suga, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Activation, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
2015
Multiple Latent Sceneries, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2014
Scattering and Gathering, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
2009
Cultivated Path of Wind, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Japan
2008
Appearance of Multiple Latencies, Messe Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Edges of Space, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Japan
2006
Concurrent Correspondence, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Appearance of Multiple Conflicted Causes, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
System of Plurality, Fukutake House, Tokamachi, Japan
2005
Divided Rhythm, Iwate Museum of Art, Morioka, Japan
2004
Edge of Space, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
1998
Stability of Separation and Conjunction: Visual Interstices, Itami City Museum of Art, Itami, Japan
Unfolding Field, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, Japan
Towards Stability and Instability, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Gathered Release-Restriction, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
1997
Gathered Release-Restriction, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1995
Distribution of Polysemy, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
1990
Surrounding Construction, Concept Space R2, Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Along Intervals, Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1987
EXTEND: 50th Anniversary of Tama Art University: TAMABIVENTS Studio 200, Tokyo, Japan
1986
Exposed Way to the Sky—The Point of Contact Lies Deep, Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
1984
Edges in Motion, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
1981
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
1980
Entirety of Transferred Units, Gallery Lumiere, Yamagata, Japan
Progression of Space, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Matter and Location, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Matter and Dimension, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1979
Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
1978
38th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Adaptation-Circumstances-Transition-Substance, Tama Art University, Hachioji Campus, Tokyo, Japan
1977
Theory for Creating Sites, Tokiwa Park, Tokyo, Japan
Theory of Emerging Situation, Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Inokashira Park, Tokyo, Japan
1976
Phase Getting Fulfilled, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
There: At Each Location, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
For the Side Corners, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Differentiated Movement—Continuous Existence, Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Tokyo, Japan
Site and Wisdom—Gathering of Distance, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
1975
Phase of Acquisition, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Natural Order, Tokiwa Park, Tokyo, Japan
1974
Fieldology, Gallery 16, Kyoto, Japan
Units of Dependency, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1973
Parallel Perception—Independent Existence, studio of the artist, Shimizu, Tokyo, Japan
Law of Dependence, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Awards
2016
Mainichi Art Award
1970
Grand Prize, 5th Japan Art Festival
1967
11th Shell Art Prize
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Catalogues
2023
Japan: Body Perform Live. Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2023.
Kishio Suga: Notes 1967–2008. Tokyo: HeHe Press, 2023.
2022
Kishio Suga: The Existence of “Things” and the Eternity of “Site.” Tokyo, Japan: HeHe Press, 2022.
2021
Maerkle, Andrew, Ashley Rawlings, and Sen Uesaki, eds. Kishio Suga: Writings, vol. 1, 1969–1979. Trans. Andrew Maerkle. Milan: Skira, 2021.
Gathered <Intermediates>. Text by Taro Amano. Tokyo: Tomio Koyama Gallery, 2021.
2020
Released Scenic Space. Text by Mika Yoshitake. Tokyo: Tomio Koyama Gallery, 2020.
2019
Measured Divisional Entities. Text by Yuko Hasegawa. Tokyo: Tomio Koyama Gallery, 2019.
Storer, Russell and Eugene Tan, eds. Minimalism: Space. Light. Object. Singapore: National
Gallery Singapore, 2018.
2018
Brodbeck, Anna Katherine, ed. Two x Two x Twenty. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 2018, 18, 192-93.
Expanded Self-Space | Divided Orientation of Space. Tokyo: Tomio Koyama Gallery, 2018.
Wood, Catherine. Performance in Contemporary Art. London: Tate Publishing, 2018, 194-95.
2017
Intentional Scenic Space. Tokyo: Tomio Koyama Gallery, 2017.
Karla Black and Kishio Suga: A New Order. Scotland: Trustees of the National Galleries of
Scotland, 2017.
2016
Hasegawa, Yuko and Vicente Todolí, eds. Kishio Suga: Situations, Texts by Barbara Bertozzi, Achille Bonito Oliva, Yuko Hasegawa, Ashley Rawlings, and Kishio Suga. Milan: Mousse Publishing; Milan: Pirelli HangarBicocca, 2016.
2015
Di Maggio, Gino, Achille Bonito Oliva, Yasuyuki Nakai, Kiyoshi Okada, and Masahiro Aoki. Mono-ha. Milan: Fondazione Mudima, 2015.
François Pinault Foundation. Pinault Collection: Numéro 04, Avril - Septembre 2015. Paris: Pinault Collection, 2015.
Hasegawa, Yuko, Naoko Seki, and Simon Groom. Kishio Suga: Situated Latency. Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2015.
Kishio Suga. Text by Jason Farago. Los Angeles: Blum & Poe, 2015.
Mori, Keisuke. Kishio Suga. Nagaizumicho: Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, 2015.
2014
Chung, Hyung-Min. Inauguration of MMCA Seoul. Seoul: MMCA, 2014.
Deacon, Richard. Abstract Drawing. London: Drawing Room, 2014.
Inauguration of MMCA Seoul. Seoul: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, 2014.
Making Sites. Texts by Shunji Muroi and Kishio Suga. Daikokuya | Kishio Suga Souko Museum, 2014.
Mono-ha Artists. Karuizawa: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2014.
Tanaka, Tatsuya, Yuri Matsushita, and Seiko Sato. 1974: A Turning Point in Postwar Japanese Art. Gunma: Museum of Modern Art, 2014.
2013
Kishio Suga. Text by Ashley Rawlings. Los Angeles: Blum & Poe, 2013.
Bourgeois, Caroline and Michael Govan. Prima Materia. Venice: Palazzo Grassi; Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2013.
Furuichi, Yasuko and Juri Murakami. Re: Quest – Japanese Contemporary Art Since the 1970s. Tokyo: Japan Foundation, 2013.
Kataoka, Mami, Hitomi Sasaki, and Shinichi Uchida. Roppongi Crossing 2013: Out of Doubt. Tokyo: Mori Art Museum, 2013.
Totman, Conrad. A History of Japan. London: Folio Society, 2013.
2012
The Artists of Mono-ha and the Era. Toyama: Rakusui-tei Museum of Art, 2012.
Chong, Doryun. Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2012.
Yoshitake, Mika. Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha. Los Angeles: Blum & Poe, 2012.
2011
K. Suga’s Project at Keio Univ. Hiyoshi, Nov 5th 2011, Photo by Anzaï.
Text by Yukio Kondō. Tokyo: Keio University, Hiyoshi Campus Gallery, 2011.
2010
Departures of Kishio Suga and Mono-ha. Text by Shigeo Chiba. Seoul: Gallery 604 & Space Hongjee, 2010.
The French Embassy in Japan, No Man’s Land: Creation and Distraction at the French Embassy. Tokyo: Hachette Fujingaho, 2010.
Kishio Suga: Existence. Texts by Takuo Komatsuzaki and Kishio Suga. Kanazawa: Kanazawa College of Art, Art Gallery, 2010.
2009
Kishio Suga: Works 1970–1978. Texts by Shigeo Anzaï, Shigeo Chiba, and Kishio Suga. Tokyo: Tomio Koyama Gallery, 2009.
Takamatsu City Museum of Art Collection Catalogue IV. Takamatsu City: Takamatsu City Museum of Art, 2009.
2008
Kishio Suga. Tokyo: Tomio Koyama Gallery, 2008.
Kishio Suga: Grass’s Grudge under the Tree. Tokyo: Toyo Keizai, 2008.
Kishio Suga’s Work from a Zen Perspective. Texts by Shunji Muroi and Kishio Suga. Itamuro,
Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan: Kishio Suga Souko Museum, 2008.
Mediations Biennale: Voyage Sentimental, Identity, and Tolerance, Corporeal/Technoreal.
Poznań: Centrum Kultury “Zamek,” 2008.
Nakazawa, Hideki. Contemporary Art History: Japan. Japan: Alo Alo International, 2008.
Yamashita, Yumi. Clients Would Come for Art. Tokyo: Toyo Keizai, 2008.
2007
What Is Mono-ha?. Texts by Huang Du, Charles Merewether, Yusuke Nakahara, Yukihito Tabata, Hozu Yamamoto. Tokyo: Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, 2007.
2006
Kishio Suga. Texts by Midori Matsui, Kishio Suga, and Yasuyuki Nakai. Tokyo: Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, 2006.
2000
O, Kwang-su and Ichirō Hariu. Kwangju Biennale 2000: Man + Space: The Special Exhibition.Kwangju, Korea: Kwangju Biennale Foundation, 2000.
1999
Suga, Kishio. Selected Writings of Suga Kishio: “Spheres Will Not Be Closed” and Selected Writings of Suga Kishio: Stance. 2 vols. Yokohama: Yokohama Museum of Art, 1999.
1998
Conversation Version: Kishio Suga. Text by Arata Tani and Kunio Saitō. Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan: Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, 1998.
1997
Suga Kishio. Texts by Hitoshi Dehara, Toshiaki Minemura, and Kishio Suga. Tokyo: Yomiuri Shinbunsha, Bijutsu renraku kyōgikai, 1997.
1995
Matter and Perception 1970: Mono-ha and the Search for Fundamentals. Texts by Gen Umezu, Miyako Okubo, Kiyoshi Okada, Runa Oda, Hitoshi Dehara, Itaru Hirano, Yasutaka Hiroe, and Makiko Matake. Gifu, Japan: Museum of Fine Arts Gifu; Hiroshima, Japan: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Kitakyushu, Japan: Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art; Saitama, Japan: Museum of Modern Art; Saint-Étienne, France: Museum of Modern Art Saint-Étienne, 1995.
Mono-ha: 1994. Tokyo: Kamakura Gallery, 1995.
1994
Munroe, Alexandra. Japanese Art after 1945: Scream against the Sky. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1994.
1991
Koplos, Janet. Contemporary Japanese Sculpture. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991.
1990
Kishio Suga. Texts by Yasuo Kobayashi, Kishio Suga, and Gan Tanikawa. Tokyo: Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990.
1989
Scenery of Defiant Stature. Text by Akira Tatehata and Kishio Suga. Tokyo: Kamakura Gallery, 1989.
1988
Kishio Suga [1968–1988]. Texts by Kishio Suga and Toshiaki Minemura. Tokyo: Kishio Suga, 1988.
Mondadori, Arnoldo. Monoha: La scuola delle cose, Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea. Texts by Barbara Bertozzi, Kishio Suga, et al. Rome: Museum Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, 1988.
1987
Art in Japan since 1969: Mono-ha and Post Mono-ha, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 1987.
1986
Japon des avant gardes: 1910–1970. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1986.
Kishio Suga. Text by Toshiaki Minemura. Tokyo: Kamakura Gallery, 1986.
Mono-ha. Text by Toshiaki Minemura. Tokyo: Kamakura Gallery, 1986.
1984
Trends of Contemporary Japanese Art 1970–1984: Universality/Individuality.
Text by Yasuhiro Yurugi. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1984.
1970
Contemporary Japanese Art: The Fifth Japan Art Festival Exhibition. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1970.
Articles and Reviews
2022
“Kokoro no Tamatebako: Kishio Suga 5.” [Treasure Box of the Heart: Kishio Suga, Volume 5]. Nihon Keizai Shimbun Yūkan, May 27, 2022.
“Kokoro no Tamatebako: Kishio Suga 4.” [Treasure Box of the Heart: Kishio Suga, Volume 4]. Nihon Keizai Shimbun Yūkan, May 26, 2022.
“Kokoro no Tamatebako: Kishio Suga 3.” [Treasure Box of the Heart: Kishio Suga, Volume 3]. Nihon Keizai Shimbun Yūkan, May 25, 2022.
“Kokoro no Tamatebako: Kishio Suga 2.” [Treasure Box of the Heart: Kishio Suga, Volume 2]. Nihon Keizai Shimbun Yūkan, May 24, 2022.
“Kokoro no Tamatebako: Kishio Suga 1.” [Treasure Box of the Heart: Kishio Suga, Volume 1]. Nihon Keizai Shimbun Yūkan, May 23, 2022.
Remington, Miranda. “Kishio Suga on Paper.” Pen-Online.com, February 3, 2022.
2020
Pastore, Jennifer. “Tochigi: An Off-Beat Art Adventure.” Tokyoartbeat.com, December 10, 2020.
“Collector Matthew Shieh: Five Selected Artworks.” Ocula.com, May 7, 2020.
Fullerton, Elizabeth. “Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens: Collaborating with Nature.” SculptureMagazine.art, July 2, 2020.
2018
Chan, Dawn. "Kishio Suga at Blum & Poe." Artforum 56, no. 9 (May 2018): 232.
Edgington, Colin. “Kishio Suga.” Brooklyn Rail, April 4, 2018.
“Goings On About Town: Kishio Suga.” New Yorker, April 16, 2018, 11.
2017
Boucher, Brian. "The Dia Art Foundation Expands Its Focus to Asian Art, Making Key New Acquisitions." Artnet News, July 10, 2017.
Li, Jennifer S. “Kishio Suga at Blum & Poe.” Art in America (May 2017): 135-136.
Rodney, Seph. "The Persistence of Things in a Japanese Minimalist's Installations." Hyperallergic, May 26, 2017. Speer, Richard. "The Pregnant Void." visualartsource.com, April 2017. Suga, Kishio. “Kishio Suga.” Translated by Mika Yoshitake. Artforum.com, July 24, 2017. Twersky, Carolyn. "Dia Art Foundation Acquires Works by Lee Ufan and Kishio Suga." Artnews, July 10, 2017. Vellodi, Kamini. “Materiality Cut Two Ways.” MAP, January 31, 2017. Wagley, Catherine. "5 Art Shows to See in L.A. This Week." LA Weekly, March 15, 2017. Zappas, Lindsay Preston. “Would You Rather... at BBQLA, Los Angeles.” ArtReview 69, no. 4 (May 2017): 121. Zellen, Jody. "Continuing and Recommended: Kishio Suga." ArtScene 36, no. 7 (April 2017): 18-19. Zellen, Jody. "Recommendations: Kishio Suga." visualartsource.com, April 2017.
2016
Casavecchia, Barbara. “Kishio Suga: Situations.” ArtReview 68, no. 9 (December 2016): 101.
"Counsel for the Month Ahead." Even Magazine, September 2016.
Devi, Nirmala. "Previewed." ArtReview Asia 4, no.5 (Winter 2016): 26-27.
Emory, Sami. "Precarious Cut-Stones Sculptures Convey a Sense of Delicate Balance." The Creators Project, December 10, 2016.
"Kishio Suga's 70s Throwback at Dia:Chelsea." Art Newspaper, August 6, 2016.
"Kishio Suga Wins Mainichi Art Award in Visual Arts." Artforum.com, January 29, 2016.
Ko, Hanae. "Five Plus One: Kishio Suga." ArtAsiaPacific [Almanac XII], January 2017.
Kordic, Angie. "Robert Morris and Kishio Suga Installations Confronted at Blum and Poe Tokyo." Widewalls, February 2016.
Mori, Keisuke. "Interview: Kishio Suga – From 'Presence' to 'Existence'." Translated by Naoki Matsuyama.
Bijutsu Techo Special Issue (Spring 2016): 52–59.
Moscowitz, Tamara. "Border Crossings: a New Show Pairs the Work of Hanne Darboven and Kishio Suga." Wallpaper, November 22, 2016.
Munro, Stuart. Review of Robert Morris & Kishio Suga. Blum & Poe, Tokyo. Art Agenda, May 4, 2016.
Munro, Stuart. "Ways to Investigate an Unknown Thing: Kishio Suga and the Enduring Nature of Mono-ha." Mousse 55 (Fall 2016): 220-229.
Nagata, Akiko. “Recipients of the Mainichi Art Award: Kishio Suga – Times Have Caught up with Mono-ha.” Mainichi Shimbun, January 6, 2016 (evening edition).
Nagata, Akiko. “Robert Morris & Kishio Suga: Two Person Exhibition.” Mainichi Shinbun (evening ed.), April 6, 2016.
Nettleton, Taro. “Kishio Suga.” ArtReview Asia 4, no. 2 (March 2016): 50–55.
Spencer, Samuel. "Robert Morris and Kishio Suga at Blum & Poe Tokyo." BlouinArtInfo, March 17, 2016.
Suga, Kishio, trans. Ashley Rawlings. “Kishio Suga.” ArtAsiaPacific [Almanac XI], January 2016.
Sutherland, Calum. “Robert Morris and Kishio Suga.” Japan Times, March 16, 2016.
Sutherland, Calum. "Robert Morris and Kishio Suga's Piece in Conversation." Ocula.com, March 17, 2016. Originally published in Japan Times, March 15, 2016.
Tatehata, Akira. “The Seven Recipients of the Mainichi Art Award: Kishio Suga – Turning Extreme
Situations into Artworks.” Mainichi Shinbun, January 1, 2016 (morning edition).
Tsai, Sylvia. "Kishio Suga Wins Mainichi Art Award." ArtAsiaPacific.com, January 28, 2016.
Wade, Mike. "A Show to Learn the Ropes of Making Art." The Times, October 21, 2016.
Wee, Darryl. "Kishio Suga Wins Mainichi Art Award." Blouinartinfo, January 28, 2016.
Wee, Darryl. "Top 10 Exhibitions in April in 2016." BlouinArtInfo [Hong Kong], April 4, 2016.
Yoshitake, Mika. "Kishio Suga: Situations." Artforum 55, no. 1 (September 2016): 182.
Yoshitake, Mika. "Mono-ha's Afterlife." Bijutsu Techo Special Issue (Spring 2016): 62-64.
2015
Farago, Jason. "Kishio Suga." New Yorker, January 26, 2015.
Glace, Carter. "Kishio Collection Full of Surprises, Humor." Washington Square News (New York), February 10, 2015.
Howard, Jessica Jane. “Kishio Suga: Situated Latency.” ArtAsiaPacific, no. 93 (May–June 2015): 123.
Ichii, Kenji. “Kishio Suga.” Art Collectors, no. 72 (March 2015): 7-10.
Inoue, Shinji. "Culture: Mono-ha, Suga Kisho's solo exhibitions - Eliciting Invisible Realms." Yomiuri Shinbun (morning ed.), March 5, 2015.
Kishi, Keiko. "Suga Kishio's Solo Exhibitions in Tokyo and Shizuoka: An Invisible Realm Emerges." Mainichi Shinbun (evening ed.), March 11, 2015.
Kurosawa, Ayako. "Two Suga Exhibitions on View." Sankei Shinbun (morning ed.), February 26, 2015.
Maerkle, Andrew. “Kishio Suga: Museum of Contemporary Art.” Frieze, no. 172 (June/July/August 2015): 175.
Momen, Matin. "Kishio Suga." Style Zeitgeist (blog), February 4, 2015.
Okabe, Aomi. "Art Review: Suga Kishio." Tokyo Shinbun (evening ed.), February 20, 2015.
Onishi, Wakato. "Monoha-Giving Life to Space, Existence and Expression Giving Rise to Site." Asahi Shinbun (evening ed.), February 4, 2015.
Wee, Darryl. "Kishio Suga Opens Museum Retrospective in Tokyo." Blouin Artinfo, January 21, 2015.
Wee, Darryl. "Kishio Suga Opens Solo Show at Blum & Poe." Blouin Artinfo, January 4, 2015.
2014
Jervis, John. "Kishio Suga." ArtAsiaPacific, no. 91 (November-December 2014): 157–160.
Minemura, Toshiaki. “The World Wide Artist Vol. 1. Kishio Suga” Gekkan Gallery, October 2014, 28–37.
Wee, Darryl. “Interview: Kishio Suga on the Legacy of Mono-ha.” Artinfo.com, May 12, 2014.
2013
Barrilà, Silvia Anna. "Giapponesi graditi all'America." Il Sole 24 Ore, no. 581 (October 2013): 20
21.
Cembalest, Robin. “New Perspectives on Art.” Vogue (Japan), no. 162 (February 2013): 280-281.
“Kishio Suga.” Art + Auction (February 2013): 95.
Goodall, Hollis. "Roundtable." Review of Japanese Culture and Society, no. 25 (December 2013): 235-37.
Li, Jennifer S. "Kishio Suga." ArtAsiaPacific.com, January 18, 2013.
O'Kelly, Emma. "Frieze Masters 2013 and Highlights from Other Exhibitions Across London." Wallpaper.com, October 19, 2013.
Tomii, Reiko. "Six Contraditions of Mono-ha." Review of Japanese Culture and Society, no. 25
(December 2013): 214-22.
Whitney, Kathleen. “Kishio Suga: Stealth Objects.” Sculpture 32, no. 10 (December 2013): 34-39.
Yoshitake, Mika. "What is Mono-ha?" Review of Japanese Culture and Society, no. 25 (December 2013): 202-13.
Yoshitake, Mika. "Roudtable Discussion: Dialogue 2, Lee Ufan and Suga Kishio." Review of Japanese Culture and Society, no. 25 (December 2013): 228-31.
2012
Berardini, Andrew. “Mono-ha, the Japanese ‘School of Things’ at Blum & Poe.” LA Weekly, March 8, 2012.
Chang, Ian. “Requiem for the Sun.” Frieze, no. 148 (June–August 2012): 206.
Diner, Eli. “Kishio Suga: Blum & Poe.” Artforum.com, December 13, 2012.
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. “Mono-Ha Revisited.” KCRW.com, February 23, 2012.
Favell, Adrian. “Mono-ha in LA.” ARTiT.com (blog), February 27, 2012.
Haber, John. “Zen and the Art of Minimalism.” Haberarts.com, August 3, 2012.
Halperin, Julia. “Blum & Poe’s Survey Touches Off Mono-Ha Mania—And It’s Coming to New
York.” Artinfo.com, April 23, 2012.
Our Staff’s Pithy Takes on the Mono-ha Retrospective, Summer’s First Group Shows, and
More.” Artinfo.com, June 29, 2012.
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Ito, Gregory. Kishio Suga at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.” San Francisco Arts Quarterly Online, November 15, 2012.
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Kee, Joan. “‘Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha.’” Artforum 50, no. 9 (May 2012): 316.
Knight, Christopher. “Worldly, Refined.” Los Angeles Times, March 21, 2012.
Maerkle, Andrew. “Kishio Suga: Between Potentiality and Fatality.” ART iT, April 2, 2012.
Momen, Motin. “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha.” StyleZeitgeist.com (blog), July 2012.
Myers, Holly. “Kishio Suga Finds Poetry in Everyday Materials.” Los Angeles Times, November
16, 2012.
“Simple, Elegant Design.” Los Angeles Times, March 9, 2012.
Myers, Terry R. “Kishio Suga: Placement of the Hidden Currents.” Art Review, no. 60 (Summer
2012): 152–53.
Raffel, Amy. “Gladstone Gallery, Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-Ha.” Workspacesllc.com (blog), July, 26, 2012.
Rawlings, Ashley. “Turning the World Inside Out: A Major Survey of Mono-ha in Los Angeles.” Art in Australia 49, no.4 (Winter 2012): 580–83.
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2011
“G-tokyo 2.19–27 from Tokyo, Contemporary Art Fair Gathered the Highest-Rank Japanese Galleries Only.” Tokyo Art Month, February 16, 2011.
Wallis, Stephen. “Mono-ha Moment.” Art in America 99, no. 11 (December 2011): 65–66.
2010
Imada, Yukinobu. “One-Hundred-Year Business Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya.” Asahi Shimbun, September 17, 2010.
Suzuki, Hiroshi. “Kanazawa College of Art, ‘Business Trip’ to Downtown.” Hokuriku Chūnichi Shimbun, February 6, 2010.
2009
Awata, Daisuke. “Suga Kishio Published a Serious Mystery Novel! Special Edition with Artwork Is on Sale for a Limited Time.” Bijutsu Techō 61, no. 918 (February 2009): 185.
Hosaka, Kenjirō. “Reality of Deconstruction and Reconstruction.” Bijutsu Techō 61, no. 919 (March 2009): 62.
“Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya Utilizes Artist’s Philosophy of Business Management/Collection.” NODE, no. 9 (December 2009): 55.
“Naka River, to Balance with Forests. Itamuro Onsen Completed a Garden for Public Art-Making.” Shimotsuke Shimbun, September 8, 2009.
“Public Art-Making in an Inn’s Garden: Artist Suga, New Work, Too, Is on Display.” Shimotsuke Shimbun, September 2, 2009.
“Suga Kishio’s Performance at a Hot Spring Inn.” Art Collector 2, 5–7, no. 16 (August 2009): 137.
2008
“Artist Interview: Kishio Suga.” Tomiokoyamagallery.com, February 22, 2008,
“Inviting Consciousness to Mono’s Inner World.” Yomiuri Shimbun, February 23, 2008.
Koishi, Katsurō. “Contemporary Art by Utilizing Materials as They Are, Suga Kishio’s Exhibition:
Expressing Power Hidden in Wood, Stone, and Iron.” Asahi Shimbun, February 27, 2008.
Matsui, Midori. “Kishio Suga.” Artforum 46, no. 9 (May 2008): 400.
“Sculpture that Forces the Audience to Make a Landscape: Suga Kishio.” Gekkan gengo 37,
nos. 4–441, (April 2008).
“Suga Kishio’s Sculptural Work: A Storage Museum at Itamuro Onsen.” Yomiuri Shimbun (Tochigi edition), July 11, 2008.
Myōchin, Miki. “The Secret for Working: Overflowing Art.” Mainichi Shimbun, March 24, 2008.
Nakai, Yasuyuki. “Challenging the Style of Zen Art with the Spiritual State of Nothingness: Suga Kishio’s Rock Garden for Hearing and Seeing Nothingness.” Art Anatomy: Reintroduction to Contemporary Art 5. Kyoto Shimbun, August 30, 2008.
“Enlightenment as a System.” Gaka tachi no bijutsushi, no. 62 (2008): 197–200.
Shiraki, Midori. “Reclamation of Universe Hidden in a Thing.” Nihon Keizai Shimbun, February 24, 2008.
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“Suga Kishio Collection Leads to Zen.” Bijutsu Techō 60, no. 912 (September 2008): 186.
“Suga Kishio: Soko Museum.” Art in Asia, no. 7 (2008): 165.
Takashima, Naoyuki. “Conceptualism, Dictionary of Contemporary Art.” Bijutsu Techō 60, no. 906 (April 2008): 70–73.
“Tomio Koyama Gallery Rapidly Introduces Japanese Artists to the World.” Lofficiel Japon 4, nos. 1–22 (February 1, 2008): 117.
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2007
Corkill, Edan. “Shigeo Anzaï: Faces of Youthful Ambition.” Japan Times,
October 4, 2007.
“Easy to Understand! Transformation of Contemporary Art.” Pen 11, nos. 20–209 (November
2007): 68–71.
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2006
“Forefront of Contemporary Art.” Bijutsu no Mado, no. 270 (March 2006): 122.
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“Kōtō Ward Event Schedule.” Gekkan Kōtō 10 (March 2006): 20.
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“Revisiting the Forty-Year Career of Suga Kishio—One of the Representatives of Mono-ha.” Weekly Pia, February 23, 2006.
1991
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1984
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1976
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1974
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1970
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Museum and Public Collections
Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan
Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea
BY ART MATTERS, Hangzhou, China
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, South Korea
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY
Fuchu City, Hiroshima, Japan
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
HE Art Museum, Guangdong, China
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Asahikawa, Japan
Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan
Iwate Museum of Art, Morioka, Japan
Kahitsukan Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
Kiyosato Museum of Contemporary Art, Yamanashi, Japan
Long Museum, Shanghai, China
M+, Kong Hong, China
Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL
Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec, Canada
Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Sapienza, Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Rakusui-tei Museum of Art, Toyama, Japan
Reijo Art Museum, Shikoku, Japan
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, IL
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Japan
Tate Modern, London, UK
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan
X Museum, Beijing, China
Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Yamaguchi, Japan
Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan