Artists

Tatsuo Kawaguchi

Biography

1940Born in Kobe, Japan.

1962Graduated from Tama Art University, Department of Painting.

1965Organized Group “I” in Kobe.

1974Awarded the First Iue Culture Prize for Art and Culture.

1975Dipatched by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, travelled through Europe and America for study.

1983Associate Professor of Art at the University of Tsukuba, Institure of Art and Design.

1991Became Professor of Art at the University of Tsukuba, Institure of Art and Design.

1992Published “Tatsuo Kawaguchi Art Works” by Gendaikikakushitsu.

2003Became Professor of the Graduate School of Kyoto University of Art and Design.

2004Became Emeritus Professor of Art at the University of Tsukuba, Institure of Art and Design. Professor of the Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts.

2008Published “Tatsuo KAWAGUCHI The Invisible and The Visible” by Gendaikikakushitsu.

Awarded the Prize of Japan Arts Foundation.

2017Awarded Mainichi Art Award.

CurrentlyLive in Chiba.

Solo Exhibitions

2022"Tatsuo Kawaguchi Relation", Shigeru Yokota Gallery（Tokyo, Japan）

Tatsuo Kawaguchi's solo exhibition "Relation - Seed / Copper", SNOW Contemporary（Tokyo, Japan）

2021"［Contemporary Art Exhibition］Artist Voice I: Tatsuo Kawaguchi non-respiring", Keio University Art Space（Tokyo, Japan）

2020"Tatsuo Kawaguchi Gaze Breathing via Branchial Respiration", Keio University Art Space（Tokyo, Japan）

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI",Kayne Griffin Corcoran（Los Angeles, USA）

Tatsuo Kawaguchi "When a Seed Becomes Art", SNOW Contemporaty (Tokyo, Japan)

2019"Tatsuo Kawaguchi : Time Compass", Isobe Yukihisa Memorial Echigo Tsumari Kiyotsu Soko Museum of Art (Tokamachi, Niigata)

"Solo Exhibition 'Kawaguchi Tatsuo'", Art Office Ozasa (Kyoto, Japan)

"Tatsuo Kawaguchi : Relation- Yusuke Nakahara, or Critic as Creation", Art Front Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

2018Tatsuo Kawaguchi "Copperplate Engraving From 1963", SNOW Contemporary（Tokyo, Japan）

"Tatsuo Kawaguchi", Kurobe City Museum of Art（Toyama, Japan）

"Tatsuo Kawaguchi Relation―Lead Envelope", SNOW Contemporary（Tokyo, Japan）

"Tatsuo Kawaguchi", Shigeru Yokota Gallery（Tokyo, Japan）

"Tatsuo Kawaguchi DARK BOX "Shelter" lat: 35.35153 lng: 139.4057", CAPSULE（Tokyo, Japan）

2017"Art Document 2017 Tatsuo Kawaguchi", Kanaz Forest of Creation（Fukui, Japan）

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Gallery Monma（Hokkaido, Japan）

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Fuji Xerox Art Space（Kanagawa, Japan）

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Kayne Griffin Corcoran（Los Angeles, USA）

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Frieze New York（New York, USA）

2016"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI: Standing Time", Kawaguchi Art Gallery ATLIA（Saitama, Japan）

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI: Topology of Time", SNOW Contemporary（Tokyo, Japan）

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Shigeru Yokota Gallery（Tokyo, Japan）

2015"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI: Beside the Coelacanth", Coelacanth Mouri Bushiro Memorial Museum（Toyama, Japan）

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI: Waiting Time For Germination", Sanki Bunko（Kanazawa, Japan）

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI: Darkness Time", MUSEUM HAUS KASUYA (Yokosuka, Japan)

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI: Land and Sea 1970", Taka Ishii Gallery New York（New York, USA）

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI: Vertical Time, or Stairway Time", SNOW Contemporary（Tokyo, Japan）

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI: Manuscript Paper in the Book", NADiff a/p/a/r/t（Tokyo, Japan）

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Shigeru Yokota Inc. (Tokyo, Japan)

2014"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", KYOKUSHOU MUSEUM (Gifu, Japan)

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Gallery Monma (Sapporo, Japan)

2013"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", House of the Nakai (Kyoto, Japan)

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Shigeru Yokota Inc. (Tokyo, Japan)

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Parea Wakasa Gallery (Fukui, Japan)

"Chochikukyo", Chochikukyo (Kyoto, Japan)

2012"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Iwaki City Art Museum (Fukushima, Japan)

2011"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Shigeru Yokota Inc. (Tokyo, Japan)

2010TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "The Spiral Time", KAKE Museum of Art (Okayama, Japan)

2009TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Language, Time, Life", The National Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo, Japan)

2008TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "DARK BOX 2008", Nagoya City Art Museum (Nagoya, Japan)

"Voyage of Time", Nizayama Forest Art Museum (Toyama, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCH "see saw seen 1973", Shigeru Yokota Inc. (Tokyo, Japan)

"Positions towards Infinity: Works of TATSUO KAWAGUCHI in 1970s", Utsunomiya Museum of Art, (Tochigi, Japan)

2007TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Quality", Nagoya City Art Museum (Nagoya, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "The Invisible and The Visible", Nagoya City Art Museum (Nagoya, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "The Invisible and The Visible", Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art (Hyogo, Japan)

2006TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Underground Time", MACA GALLERY (Tokyo, Japan)

2005TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Book", Tokyo Publishing House (Tokyo, Japan)

"Time within Time Part 2", Gallery NOVITA (Aomori, Japan)

"Time within Time", Aomori Contemporary Art Center (Aomori, Japan)

2004TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation-Flottage of Time", Nagoya City Art Museum (Nagoya, Japan)

2003"Japan Contemporary Art - TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Busan Museum of Art (Busan, Korea)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Earth, Water and Plant", Hillside Forum (Tokyo, Japan)

2002TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Small Thing", INAX Gallery 2 (Tokyo, Japan)

2001TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Plant・Dandelion of Hiroshima", Morioka Crystal Gallery (Morioka, Japan)

2000TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Seed・Life", Shigeru Yokota Inc (Tokyo, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Dark Box", Shigeru Yokota Inc. (Tokyo, Japan)

1999TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Kyoto", Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (Kyoto, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Resemblance", MUSEUM HAUS KASUYA (Yokosuka, Japan)

1998"Sight Breathing: TATSUO KAWAGUCHI : Dialogue with the Unseen", Iwaki City Art Museum (Fukushima, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Collection of Print Arts ‘Relation - Time・Frottage of Time’", Tokyo Publishing House (Tokyo, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Sealed Time", Art Tower Mito (Ibaraki, Japan)

1997"Relation - TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Chiba City Museum of Art (Chiba, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Water - Vision of Branchial Respiration", Shigeru Yokota Inc. (Tokyo, Japan)

1996TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Seed・Farming Tool", Hillside Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

1995"Walk-in sculpture: TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Shigeru Yokota Inc. (Tokyo, Japan)

1994"Forming the Present", IBM Kawasaki City Gallery (Kanagawa, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Around Seed", Art Front Gallery, Hillside Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

1993TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Lotus Time・Chlorophyl", Shigeru Yokota Inc. (Tokyo, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Spring Summer Autumn Winter Future", Sakura Gallery (Nagoya, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Time Form", Hosomi Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Early Paintings 1963 – 1966", Hillside Gallery, Art Front Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Lotus Time", Gallery Maronie (Kyoto, Japan)

1992TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Leady Flower Clock", Hillside Gallery, Art Front Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCH "Relation - Bird Drawing", Art Space Niji (Kyoto, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCH "Relation - Bird", Art Space Niji (Kyoto, Japan)

1991TATSUO KAWAGUCH "COSMOS", Muramatsu Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Plant", Shigeru Yokota Inc. (Tokyo, Japan)

1990TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Book・Hokusai Who Has Seed ‘Fuji and Seeds Suit with a Text’", Hosomi Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

"Today's Artist -V-'90: TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura (Kanagawa, Japan)

"Livre Objet〈Hokusai Who Has Seed〉by TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Sakura Gallery (Nagoya, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Seed・Leady Farm", Kyoji Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

1989TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Seed / Relation – Seed・Farm", Gallery Maronie, Space 5 + Gallery 4 (Kyoto, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Another Blue", Ishiyamachi Gallery (Kyoto, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Seed・Vertical Farm", Muramatsu Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Seed", Sakura Gallery (Nagoya, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Seed・Farm", Hillside Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

1988"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Gallery Mu (Otsu, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - SeedⅡ", Tor Road Gallery (Kobe, Japan)

1987"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Art Space Niji (Kyoto, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Seed", Tor Road Gallery (Kobe, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Seed, Soil, Water, Air", Gatodo Gallery Takeshiba (Tokyo, Japan)

1986TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Made of Parts 1972 - Gatodo Gallery Takeshiba, July 1986", Gatodo Gallery Takeshiba (Tokyo, Japan)

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Tor Road Gallery (Kobe, Japan)

"Series Today's Artist - TATSUO KAWAGUCHI" Osaka Contemporary Art Center (Osaka, Japan)

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Institute of France-Japan Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)

1985"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Akiyama Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Tor Road Gallery (Kobe, Japan)

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Gallery Cuore (Osaka, Japan)

1984"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Gallery K&M (Gifu, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Blue", Gatodo Gallery Takeshiba (Tokyo, Japan)

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Kwan-Hoon Gallery (Seoul, Korea)

1983TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Heat", Tor Road Gallery (Kobe, Japan)

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Gallery Suzuki (Kyoto, Japan)

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Art Space Niji (Kyoto, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Signs of Nature", Ina Gallery 2 (Tokyo, Japan)

1982"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Tor Road Gallery (Kobe, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Quality", Sakura Gallery (Nagoya, Japan)

1981"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Art Front Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Quality", Gallery Le Coin, (Osaka, Japan)

"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Tor Road Gallery (Kobe, Japan)

1980TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Quality・Paper", Tor Road Gallery (Kobe, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "From Start to Start Part 2" Sakura Gallery (Nagoya, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "From Start to Start Part 1" Sakura Gallery (Nagoya, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Relation - Quality", Kobayashi Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

1979TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "WORKS - MADE OF PARTS", Tor Road Gallery (Kobe, Japan)

1978TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "〈IRON OF IRON〉or TOOLS", Tor Road Gallery (Kobe, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "1968 - 1978", Art Center M (Kohama, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Signs of Materials", Galery U (Nagoya, Japan)

TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Works - Made of Parts", galerie 16 (Kyoto, Japan)

1977"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Gallery Kitano Circus (Kobe, Japan)

1975"TATSUO KAWAGUCHI", Minami Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

1972TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "ENERGY", Pinar Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

1971TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "172,800 Seconds", galerie 16 (Kyoto, Japan)

1968TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "DARK", Muramatsu Gallery (Organizer: Tokyo Gallery) (Tokyo, Japan)

1967TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Print Exhibition", galerie 16 (Kyoto, Japan)

1966TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Solo Exhibition", galerie 16 (Kyoto, Japan)

1965TATSUO KAWAGUCHI "Solo Exhibition", Gallery Ano (Osaka, Japan)