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Biography - Shoichi Ida

Born

September 13, 1941

Education

1965 Post Graduate degree from the Kyoto Municipal University of Art, Painting Department

One‑person Exhibitions

1966 Gallery Azuchi, Osaka, Japan
1968 Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Ichibankan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1970 Dragon, Inc., Paris, France
Gallery Crews, NY
1972 Bijitsu‑Shuppansha Lobby, Tokyo, Japan
1973 Gallery Coco, Tokyo, Japan
Basel O, Switzerland
Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1974 Himeji Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1975 Himeji Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Asahi Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
1976 Himeji Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Coco, Tokyo, Japan
Upstairs Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1977 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Art Core, Kyoto, Japan
1978 Kitano Circus Gallery, Kobe, Japan
Soker‑Kaseman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1979 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Medusa Gallery, Berlin, West Germany
Soker‑Kaseman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Arnold Gallery, Chicago, IL
Suzuki Gallery, NY
San Francisco Art Institute Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
Yoh Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Box Gallery, Nayoga, Japan
1980 Gallery Le Coin, Osaka, Japan
Yoh Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1981 City Gallery, Kobe, Japan
Galerie Marina Dinkler, Berlin
Latitude 53, Edmonton, Canada
Soker‑Kaseman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Irene Drori Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
Mary Baskett Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1982 Yoh Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Ryo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
1983 Yoh Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Gallery Haku, Osaka, Japan
Suzuki Gallery, NY
The Wise Collection, Houston, TX
Gallery Lentina, Sapporo, Japan
Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Gallery 24, Osaka, Japan
Yoh Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Moderna Galerija, Ljubluana, Yugoslavia
1984 Japan Art Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
Russell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 Duson Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Locus Lotus”, a special project for Artforum magazine, November, 1986, pp. 102‑107
“Shoichi Ida Ceramic”, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan
1987 “Shoichi Ida”, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Paperworks from the Garden Project and Locus Sutra”, Don Soker, San Francisco, CA
“Shoichi Ida: Works on Paper”, Lasorda/Iri Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988 “Paperworks”, Lasorda/Iri Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 “Perspectives 13: Shoichi Ida”, Oregon Art Institute and Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
“New Etchings”, Crown Point Press, NY
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, ILL
1990 “Introducing Shoichi Ida”, Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
1992 “New Prints by Shoichi Ida”, Crown Point Press, NY
1993 “Garden Project”, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 Life Gallery Ten - Fukuoka, Japan
Gallery Ueda - Tokyo, Japan
1997 Perimeter Galery Chicago, IL
2001 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
2003 “Shoichi Ida, S.B.B.V.H. Touch the Earth Complex Contact Since 1980”, Belles Artes, Santa Fe, NM
2008 “Shoichi Ida: 1941-2006, Memorial Exhibition”, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL

Group Exhibitions

1966 “Lithographs‑Best Three”, Gallery Coco, Tokyo, Japan
“Plastic Art”, Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan
“Selected Exhibition by Mainichi Press”, Daimaru Department Store, Kyoto, Japan
1967 “Experimental Print Exhibition”, Gallery Coco, Tokyo, Japan
“The Second Exhibition of Mainichi Art “, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
“Exhibition of Trends in Contemporary Japanese Art”, Kyoto, Japan
“Selected Exhibition of the Mainichi Press”, Daimaru Department Store, Kyoto, Japan
1968 “Exhibition of Contemporary Prints”, Texas Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
1969 “The Sixth Annual Biennial Exhibition of Prints”, Tokyo, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan
Exhibition of Japanese Artists, Barcelona, Spain
“The First International Exhibition of Prints”, Florence, Italy
“Essai de Graphie”, Gallery Dragon, Paris, France
“The International Biennial Exhibition of Young Printers”, Vancouver, Canada
“The Ninth Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
“Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Prints from 18 Artists”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
1970 “The Seventh International Exhibition of Prints”, Tokyo National Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
“Second Biennale of International Prints, Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
“The Frontier of Contemporary Japanese Prints”, Sapporo Cultural Center, Sapporo, Japan
“Patronat Tremi International Dihuit”, Barcelona Spain
“The Third International Biennial Exhibition of Prints”, Krakow, Poland
“Le Troisieme Salon International de Galeries Pilotes”, Musee des Beaux Arts, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, France, and Musee d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
“1st Ausstellung International Exhibition of Graphics and Illustration”, Frenchen, West Germany
1971 “The Ninth International Biennial Exhibition of Prints”, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
“Eyes”, Gallery Jansen, NY
Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Japan
“Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Prints”, Traveled to Brussels, Belgium and Mexico City, Mexico
“Exhibition of Contemporary Art”, Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
1972 “The Fourth International Biennial Exhibition of Prints”, Krakow, Poland
“The Third Bradford International Print Biennial Exhibition”, Bradford, England
“The Second Austellung International Exhibition of Graphics and Illustration”, Grechen, West Germany
“Bird’s Eye View of Contemporary Japanese Art”, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
1973 “The Tenth International Biennial Exhibition of Prints”, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
“Lithography Today”, Pratt Graphic Center, NY
(Traveling exhibition)
“New Prints from Japan”, Pratt Graphic Center, NY
1974 “Ibiza International Biennial of Graphics”, Ibiza, Spain
“The Fourth Bradford International Biennial Print Exhibition”, Bradford, England
“The Second Norwegian International Print Exhibition”, Sonja, Norway
Multimedia Exhibition with Frank Becker, the American Center, Kyoto, Japan
Third International Biennial Print Exhibition”, Frenchen, West Germany
Japan Art Festival, Tokyo,Japan,Vancouver and Montreal,Canada
“The Second Ashiyagawa International Exhibition”, Tekisui Museum, Ashiya, Japan
“The Ninth Annual International Exhibition of Prints”, Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
“Ikeda and Ida‑Two Japanese Printmakers”, Japan House Gallery, NY
1975 “New Outlook”, Coco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Art Nor ‘75”, Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Japan
Japan Art Festival, Tokyo, Japan and Wellington, Australia
“The Eleventh Contemporary Art Exhibition in Japan”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Print Exhibition, organized by Space Doyo, Toyama Municipal Museum, Toyama, Japan
1976 “The Fifth Bradford International Print Exhibition”, Bradford, England
Japanese Contemporary Print Exhibition, traveling show, Venezuela and Belgium, sponsored by the Japan Foundation
Kyoto Biennial, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
“Exhibition of Excellent Work”, Ministry of Culture, Chiba, Japan
Japan Art Festival, sponsored by the Japan Foundation; Tokyo, Japan, Seattle, WA and Los Angeles, CA
1977 “The Twelfth Annual International Print Ex‑ hibition”,Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
“Bird’s Eye View of Contemporary Japanese Art”, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
“Contemporary Japanese Prints”, a traveling show throughout Canada, sponsored by the Japan Foundation
“The International Print Biennial Exhibition”, Lervankusen, West Germany
1978 “Seventh International Print Biennale”, Krakow, Poland
Multimedia Exhibition with Frank Becker, Kita Kyoichi and Akiyama Kuniharu, 3rd Floor Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
1979 “The Contemporary Japanese Print”, San Jose Museum, San Jose, CA
“Contemporary Japanese Prints”, Cleveland Museum Cleveland, OH
Multimedia Exhibition at the American Center, Tokyo, Japan
“The Sixth Bradford Biennial Exhibition”, Brad‑ ford, England
1980 “Black Show”, Haku Gallery, Osaka, Japan
“The Washi Show”, Haku Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Exhibition of Paper, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The Third International Biennial, L’Hermitage, Brussels, Belgium
“Printed Art‑ A View of Two Decades”, Museum of Modern Art, NY
“Ascending Horizon”, Multimedia performance, The Space, Tokyo, Japan
“Ten Selected Artists”, Museum of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
The Second Annual Canadian Biennial of Prints and Drawings, Edmonton, Canada
“Contemporary Japanese Prints”, Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Utsunomiya
“Hosukai Enkel”, Berlin, West Germany
“Colored Prints”, The Crocker Museum, San Francisco, CA
“Intergrafica 80”, Krakow. Poland
1981 “Black Show”, Haku Gallery, Osaka, Japan
“Art Now‑1981”, Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan
“International Drawing Triennial”, Wroclaw, Poland
“Four Artists‑Works from the Seventies”, Haku Gallery, Osaka, Japan
“Contemporary Japanese Prints”, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
“Contemporary Japanese Prints”, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
“New Outlook, 1981”, Gallery Coco, Tokyo, Japan
“International Exhibition of Prints‑25 Years After WWII”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1982 “Intergrafica 82”, Katowice, Poland
Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
“Japanese Prints Today”, California State Polytechnic University
“Contemporary Paperworks: Korea and Japan”, “Alexandria International Biennale”, Alexandria, Egypt
1983 “Contemporary Japanese Prints”, Traveled throughout Poland
“Sechs Japanische Junstler de Gegenwart”, Hamburg,Germany
“World Print IV”, World Print Council, San Francisco, CA (Purchase prize)
1984 “Abstraction in Japan: An Exhibition of Contemporary Prints”, Warwick Arts Trust, London, England
“Internationl Exhibition of Graphic Art, ‘84”, Jyvaskyla, Finland
1985 “Contemporary Japanese Printmakers”, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
“The International Biennial of Textiles: The Paper Exhibition”, Musee des Arts Decoratifs de la Ville de Lausanne, Switzerland
“Inaugural Exhibition”, Crown Point Press, NY
1986 “The Eleventh Annual Print Biennial”, Krakow, Poland
“Intergrafica ‘86”, Katowice, Poland
“The Drawings”, Lorence Monk Gallery, NY
“Five Contemporary Japanese Artists”, Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“International Print Exhibition ‘86”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Japan
“Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Art”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Japan
“Double Portraits”, Installation/performance with Tom Marioni, Kyoto American Center, Kyoto, Japan
“Paper Drums”, Installation/performance with Yas Kaz and Toshinori Kondo, Saporro Factory, Tokyo, Japan
“Paperworks Now”,Wallace Wentworth Gallery, Washington, D.C
1987 “Shoichi Ida, Etchings 1984‑87; Tom Holland, New Releases”, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
“Not So Plain Geometry”, Crown Point Press, NY
“Prints from Presses”, University Art Gallery, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
“Arton the Market: Selections of Antiquitiesand Oriental Art”, Cincinnati Art Museum, OH
“The Modern Print: A Survey of Three Decades of Printmaking”, University of Glasgow, Scotland
“The Contemporary Japanese Print”,Shoto Museum,Tokyo, Japan
“Intergrafika ‘87”,East Berlin, Germany
“International Exhibition of Hand‑Made Paper”,Leopold Hoesch Museum, Duren, West Germany
“The M. Anwar Kamal Collection of Art”, The Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, FL
“Recent Graphics fromAmericanPrint Shops”, Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL traveling to the Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, W. VA
“Logical Foundations”, Pfifzer Inc., an exhibition organizedby the Museum of Modern ArtAdvisory Service
“Works on Paper”, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
1990 “Works on Paper”, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
Group Exhibition, Bank of America Concourse Gallery, NY
1991 “Contemporary Woodblock Prints From Crown Point Press, The Leif E. Memorial Exhibition”, Edison Community College, Fort Myers, FLA.
1993 “Selections from the Wise Collection”, Somerstown Studios, Somers, NY
Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN
1999 Contemporary Japanese Abstraction, Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
2003 Belles Artes Gallery, Sante Fe, NM
East and West, Points of Contact: Shoichi Ida & Robert Kushner, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA

Selected Collections

National Library of Paris, France
Belgium Royal Library of Brussels, Belgium
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Museum of Modern Art, NY
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Museum of the University of California, Berkeley
Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka, Yugoslavia
Museum of Modern Art, Krakow, Poland
Swedish Art Association, Stockholm, Sweden
Ministry of Culture of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Japan Society, NY
Museum of Santa Barbara, CA
Museum of Cincinnati, OH
The Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Japan
Stifung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Germany
National Museum of Wroclaw, Poland
Judah Collection, Los Angeles, CA
New York Public Library, NY

Selected Awards

1972 The Second International Exhibition of Graphics and Illustration, West Germany (Medal Prize)
1974 The Second Norwegian International Print Biennial Exhibition, Norway (Purchase Prize)
1986 “Excellence in International Cultural Interchange”, award, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts
1987 “Works on Paper: Third Annual Master Print Exhibition”, Lizardi/Harp Gallery, Pasadena, CA
1988 “Ex Aequo Prize”, 12th International Print Biennial, Krakow, Poland

Teaching and Lecturing

1965‑68 The Kyoto Municipal University of Art, Departments
of Sculpture and Printmaking
1974 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Columbus Institute of Printmaking, Columbus, OH
State University of New York at New Paltz, NY
The University of Cincinnati, OH
The Ukiyoe Society, NY
WNET, NY
1979 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
1979 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1980 Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1981 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Japan
SEACA, The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1982 Tokyo University of Art, Department of Printmaking, Tokyo, Japan
1983 Panel discussion, “Papaer as a Medium for Contemporary
Art”, with Yusuke Nakahara, Seo‑bo Park, Robert
Rauschenberg and David Hockney, Kyoto, Japan
1986 Miami University, Oxford, OH
The World Print Council and the California College of Art and Craft, San Francisco and Oakland, CA
1987 “For 25 Years: Crown Point Press”, Museum of Modern Art, NY