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Biography - Katsura Funakoshi

Born

1951 Morioka City, Iwate, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.

Education

1975 Studied at Tokyo University of Art and Design, B.A.
1977 Studied in the Postgraduate Program at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, M.A.

Teaching Experience

1985-86 Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Present Teaches at Tokyo University of Art and Design.

One Person Exhibitions

2008 Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, New York
2004 Annely Juda Fine Art, London (with Ernst Barlach) Traveled to Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg
1999 Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1998 Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Ibara Municipal DENCHU Art Museum, Ibara, Okaymama, Japan
1996 Annely Judd Fine Art, London, England
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1995 Annely Juda Gallery, London
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1994 Steven Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 Arnold Herstand Gallery, New York
1988 Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1982
Gallery Okabe, Tokyo, Japan
1985 Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibitions

“Exhibition of New Figurative Sculpture”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (exhibited annually until 1984).
1984 “Tenth Anniversary Exhibition of Sculpture of Ayumi Kai”, Chiba Prefectural Art Museum.
“Evolution of Sculpture 1930-80”, Gallery Seiho, Tokyo, Japan.
“Oyama-City with Sculpture”, Hakuo Womens Junior College, Tochigi.
1985 “Black by Four Artists”, Morioka Daiichi Gallery.
“Tama Vivant ‘85”, Tama University of Fine Arts, Gallery SPACE 21, Tokyo, Japan.
1985-86 “Nichido Sculpture”, Galerie Nichido, Tokyo, Japan.
1986 “Exhibition of Mono-iu-hito”, Orb, Tokyo, Japan.
“Art in Tokyo ‘86 IMA”, Factory, Tokyo, Japan.
“Three Artists”, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
1986-87 “New Trend in Contemporary Sculpture: Ten New Outstanding Sculptors of America and Japan”, Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo; Osaka; Sapporo Art Park and Salvatole Alla, New York.
1988 “Contemporary Japanese Sculpture”, The Rotunda Exchange Square, Hong Kong, China.
“The Forty-third Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
“Seven Sculptors”, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
1989 “Sculptors Now”, The Gallery of Tokyo Department StoreNihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan.
“Art Exciting ‘89”, The Saitama Museum of Modern Art,Saitama.
“Sculpturesque Image”, Gallery Haku, Osaka, Japan.
“Against Nature”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; traveling to MIT, Boston; Seattle Art Museum; The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; Grey Art Gallery, New York University; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas.
“Bienal de Sao Paulo”, Brazil.
1990 “Transformation of Material and Space”, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall Gallery, Yokohama.
“Toyama Now ‘90”, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama.
“Recent Releases”, Crown Point Press, NY
1990-91 “The 65th Annual Competition of Prints”, The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
1994 “SETAGAYA ART ‘94” Setagaya Art Museum, Japan
“Contemporary Human Figure”, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan
“New Works”, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“A Sculpture Show”, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1995 “Japan Art Today 1985-1995”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
“Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years 1945-1995”,Meguro Art Museum, Hyogo Perfectural Museum of Modern Art, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Fukuoka Perfectural Museum of Art, Japan
1996 “Kundst des 20”, Jahrhunderts, Museum Ludwig K, Germany
“Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves”, California Center for the Arts Museum
“Enjoy Art Part, Masterpieces of Corporation Collection, Hotel Okura, Tokyo, Japan
“A Dialogue Between Tools and Arts”, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan
“Images of Women in Japanese Contemporary Art: 1930’s-90’s”
The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
“NICAF TOKYO ‘97” International Contemporary Art Fair”, Tokyo International Exhibition Center, Tokyo, Japan
“Collection 1: Sculpture”, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1998 “ART: Selected Works from the Collection”, Aichi Perfectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
“Human Figure” Asahikawa Sculpture Museum, Japan
“Art 1998”, Chicago Festival Hall, Chicago
“SUMMER SHOW 1998” Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
“ACAF6” Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Australia
2000 “Der Verlorene Blick. Der Kopf in Skulptur, Zeichnung und Bild”, Galerie Lelong, Zürich

Public Collections

Our Lady of the Light House Trappist Monastery
Zushi Catholic Church
Oyama City
Museum of Contemporary Sculpture affiliated Chosen-In Temple
Tochigi Prefectual Museum of Fine Arts
Setagaya Art Museum
Nagoya City Art Museum
Tokushima Prefecture