Tetsumi Kudo - Biography

Born in Osaka, Japan, 1935
Moves to Paris in 1962
Returns to Japan in 1987
Died in Tokyo, 1990

EDUCATION

1958
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, "Tetsumi Kudo: Cubes and Gardens", September 10 - October 16, 2010

2008
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, "Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis," October 18, 2008 - January 11, 2009, curated by Doryun Chong (catalogue)
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, "Tetsumi Kudo," June 20 - August 15, curated in collaboration with Joshua Mack (brochure)

2007
La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France, "Tetsumi Kudo - La montagne que nous cherchons est dans la serre [The Mountain We Are Looking for Is in the Greenhouse]," February 17 - May 13, 2007 (catalogue)

2004
M. Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, "Tetsumi Kudo - Works of beginning 80's by collection Hiroko Kudo"

1994
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, "Tetsumi Kudo - Contestation/Création," travels to: Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan, "Tetsumi Kudo - Contestation/Création," January 5 - February 5, 1995.

1991
Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn, Holland, "Tetsumi Kudo, 1935 - 1990," April 14 - June 3, curated by Frits Becht, travels to: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland, "Tetsumi Kudo, 1935 - 1990," June 29 - August 25 (joint catalogue)

1989
FIAC, Paris, France, "Nouvelle écologie [New Ecology]," October 7 - 15, travels to:
Galerie du Génie, Paris, France, "Nouvelle écologie," October 24 - November 10 (joint catalogue)

1988
Art Forum Tanaka, Tokyo, Japan, "Une pièce de Tetsumi Kudo"

1986
Hirosaki City Museum, Aomori, Japan, "Parcours d'un artiste d'avant-garde japonais - L'esprit de Tetsumi Kudo [Path of a Japanese Avant-garde Artist - The Spirit of Tetsumi Kudo]"
Kobayashi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, "Tetsumi Kudo"
Galerie Gilbert Brownstone and Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris, France, "Parcours d'un artiste d'avant-garde"

1985
M. Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, "Tetsumi Kudo Folie - Désenchantement - Désir de sang, Dessins, objets, collages [Tetsumi Kudo Madness - Disenchantment - Desire of Blood, Drawings, Objects, Collages]"
Galerie Brownstone, Paris, France, "Survivance de l'avant-garde [Survival of the Avant-garde]"

1984
Shibuya PARCO, Tokyo, Japan, "Objets universels Tetsumi Kudo et ses compagnons de débauche"
Espace Niki, Tokyo, Japan, "Rentrée d'Anti-Art à Uëno - Tetsumi Kudo One Man Show"
Espace Japon, Paris, France, "Le trou noir sacré, structure spirituelle des Japonais à la période Jomon"
NAF Gallery, Kawaijuku, Nagoya, Japan, "Kamikaze de l'art à l'âge du bachotage et au présent"
Okazaki Tamako Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, "Tetsumi Kudo - Vidéos de performances et aquarelles"
Date Gallery, Okayama, Japan, "L'âme du Japon [The Soul of Japan]"
Fujita Gallery, Hirosaki, Japan, "L'Érotisme de Tetsumi Kudo - Pièces récentes célébrant le nouvel an à Hirosaki-Mont Iwaki, trou noir et neige"

1983
Aomori Gallery, Aomori, Japan, "La structure de Jomon - Nouvelles pièces de Tetsumi Kudo [The Structure of Jomon - New pieces by Tetsumi Kudo]"
Fujita Gallery, Hirosaki, Japan, "L'artiste contemporain de Tsugaru"
16 Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, "La structure de Jomon - la structure du système Tennoh - la structure du Japon contemporain"
Supplement Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, "La structure du système Tennoh"
Atelier de l'artiste [Artist's Studio], Paris, France, "Accrochage-Objets"

1982
Takagi Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, "From Paris (Tetsumi Kudo Part One)"
Ginza Kaigakan, Tokyo, Japan, "Quelques activités par désœuvrement noble"
16 Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, "En attendant une révélation sous une pluie de Chromosome héréditaires"
UNAC, Tokyo, Japan, "Shikishi comme une institution"

1981
Galerie Jöllenbeck, Cologne, Germany, "Tetsumi Kudo - Objets et dessins"
Sogetsu Museum, Tokyo, Japan, "Tetsumi Kudo"

1980
UNAC, Tokyo, Japan, "C'est une pièce de Tetsumi Kudo"

1979
Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture, Metz, France, "Méditation entre future et mémoire, 10 objets récents de Kudo [Meditation between Future and Memory, 10 Recent Objects by Kudo]"
Galerie Bellechasse, Paris, France, "Vingt pièces rétrospectives de Kudo [Twenty Retrospective Works by Kudo]"
Galerie Jade, Colmar, France, "Kudo"

1978
Galerie Antares, Munich, Germany, "Kudo"
Galerie Bellechasse, Paris, France, "Méditation entre future et mémoire: Vingt objets récents de Kudo"
Galerie Wunderland, Berlin, Germany, "Tetsumi Kudo en collaboration avec le département des programmes artistique du DAAD, Zeremonie: Meditation Buddha in Berlin"
Galerie Diogenes, Berlin, Germany, "Zeremonie: For Meditation - Buddha in Berlin"
Atelier de l'artiste [Artist's studio], Berlin, Germany, "Zeremonie: For Meditation - Buddha in Berlin"

1977
Galerie Vallois, Paris, France, "Cages - multiples"
Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, "Portrait de l'artiste dans la crise - cages - peintures à l'ordinateur [Portrait of the artist in crisis - cages - paintings by computer]"

1974
Galerie Valsecchi, Milan, Italy, "Kudo"

1973
Galerie Mathias Fels, Paris, France, "15 ans d'activité [15 Years of Activity]"
Galerie Beaubourgs, Paris, France, "Greffes et Symbioses (musique expérimentale de Y. Tone)"

1972
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland, "Pollution - Cultivation - New Ecology - Your Portrait"

1971
Galerie Mathias Fels, Paris, "Pollution - Cultivation - Nouvelle écologie" (projection of film, "Le monument de la métamorphose, June 23)

1970
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, "Cultivation by Radioactivity," April 17 - July 5, 1970 (catalogue)

1969
Gallery Ichibankan, Tokyo, "Exposition d'un jour"

1968
Mickery Gallery, Loenersloot, Holland, "Cultivation by Radioactivity in the Electronic circuit", travels to:
Technishe Hogeschool, Eindhoven, Holland, 1969
Leger Gallery, Malmö, Sweden, "Kudo"

1967
Galerie Mathias Fels, Paris, France, "Kudo"

1966
M.E. Thelen Gallery, Essen, Germany, "Tetsumi Kudo"
20 Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland, "Kudo"

1965
Galerie J, Paris, France, "Rien n'est laissé au hazard [Nothing Is Left to Chance]"

1961
Bungeishunju Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, "Philosophie de l'impuissance - Tableau de réparation d'impuissance et apparition du dôme de protection au point de saturation", travels to: Hakuhou Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1959
Miami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, "Tetsumi Kudo"
Bungeishunju Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, "Fluidité spirituelle et sa condensation, Peinture plane et peinture solide"

1958
Tenmaya Gallery, Okayama, Japan, "Tetsumi Kudo"

1957
Café Tabiji, Tokyo, Japan, "Enregistrement de l'onde spinale"
Galerie Blanche, Tokyo, Japan, "Démonstration d'oeuvre [Presentation of the Work]"

HAPPENINGS, CEREMONIES, AND PERFORMANCES

1988
Art Forum Tanaka, Tokyo, Japan, "L'Âme d'un artiste [The Soul of an Artist]," (performance)
1985 Galerie Gilbert Brownstone, Paris, France, "Survivance de l'avant guarde [Survival of the Avant-garde]"

1984
[Unknown venue], Okayama, Japan, "Performance and Goodbye Reunion with Eiko Kujo and Kojin Tanaka," (performance)
NAF Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, "Jeux de fils infinis avec le chromosome héréditaire [Game of Infinite Strings with the Hereditary Chromosome]," (performance)
Espace Japon, Paris, France, "Le trou noir sacré [The Sacred Black Hole]"
Hirosaki Parc, Hirosaki, Japan, "Jeux de fils infinis entre le père et la fille…Entre l'arc-en-ciel et les herbes [Game of Infinite Strings between the Father and the Daughter…Between the Rainbow and the Grass]," (performance)

1983
No. 50 Gallery, Aomori, Japan, "[No Title]," (performance)

1981
Jöllenbeck Gallery, Cologne, Germany, "La lumière non perdue [The Unlost Light]," (ceremony)

1980
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, "La lumière non perdue [The Unlost Light]," (ceremony)
Maison de la Culture, Rennes, France, "La lumière non perdue [The Unlost Light]," (ceremony)

1979
Galerie Jade, Colmar, France, "Jeux de fils [Game of Strings]," (ceremony)
Galerie Bellechasse, Paris, France, "Jeux de fils infinis [Game of Infinite Strings]," (ceremony)
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, "La lumière non perdue [The Unlost Light]," (ceremony)
Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture, Mertz, France, "Jeux de fils [Game of Strings]," (ceremony)

1978
Atelier de l'artiste [Artist's Studio], Berlin, Germany, "For Meditation - Buddha in Berlin," (ceremony)
Wunderland Gallery, Berlin, Germany, "Meditation - Buddha in Berlin," (ceremony)
Galerie Bellechasse, Paris, France, "Jeux de fils infinis [Game of Infinite Strings]," (ceremony)

1977
Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, France, "Votre Portrait," "Portrait de l'artiste dans la Crise [Portrait of the Artist in Crisis]," "Souvenir de la Muse [Memory of the Muse]," accompanied by Kazu Kaido and Toshikuni Maeno
XIV Biennale de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, "Your Portrait in the Pollution"

1969
STATION 70, Tokyo, Japan, "Démon de pénis [Penis Devil]"
Creamcheese, Dusseldorf, Germany, film documentary on Kudo, "Instant Sperm. Quiet Event"
Kölnisher Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, "Your Portrait. Instant Sperm. Souvenir of Moult"

1968
Galerie Leger, Göteborg and Galerie Leger, Malmö, Sweden, "Quiet Event"
XXIV Salon de Mai, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, "Observation"
Galerie M.E. Thelen, Kassel, Germany, "Quiet Event"
Galerie Mickery, Loenersloot, Holland, "Play a Game of Bowling"

1967
Galerie Mathias Fels, Paris, France, "Quiet Event, Your Portrait"
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Le Monde en question ou vingt six artistes de contestation [The World in Question or Twenty-Six Subversive Artists], Paris, France, "Soirée dansante dans le jardin de la Mue [Dancing Evening in the Garden of the Slough]"
Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland, "Quiet, Event, Souvenir of Moult, Science fiction"
VIII Salon Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui, Paris, France, "Votre portrait [Your Portrait]"

1966
Salon Comparaisons, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, "For Nostalgic Purpose and For Your Living Room"
3rd Festival de la Libre Expression, Théâtre de la Chimère, Paris, France, "Your Portrait"
XXIIe Salon de Mai, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, "Votre Portrait [Your Portrait]"
Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy, "Quiet Event, votre portrait [Quiet Event, Your Portrait]"
Galerie 20, Amsterdam, Holland, "Quiet Event"
Galerie M.E. Thelen, Essen, Germany, "Quiet Event, Instant Sperm"

1965
Galerie J, Paris, France, "Actions lentes [Slow Actions]"

1964
Workshop de la Libre Expression, Centre Culturel Américan, Paris, France "Bottled Humanism, Dry Penis, Instant Sperm"

1963
Studios de cinéma de Boulogne, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, "Philosophy of Impotence"
Troisième Biennale de Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, "Harakiri of Humanism, Bottled Humanism"

1962
Galerie Raymond Cordier, Paris, France, "Philosophy of Impotence"

1958
Galerie Mimatus Shobo, Tokyo, "Anti-Art"

1957
Galerie Blanche, Tokyo, Japan, "Anti-Art"


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
Gering & López Gallery, New York, NY, "No Images of Man," June 25 - August 22, curated by Mitchell Algus

2007
National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan, "Living in the Material Word 'Things' in Art of the 20th Century and Beyond"
National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan, "Artistes étrangers à Paris 1900-2005 [Foreign Artists in Paris 1900-2005", organized by the Centre Georges Pompidou

2006
Neue National Galerie, Berlin, Germany, "Tokyo-Berlin/Berlin-Tokyo"

2005
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, "Drifting Objects of Dreams: The collection of Shyzo Takiguchi - Dialogues with his contemporary avant-garde artists"
Centre Georges Pompidou, MNAM, Paris, France, "Big Bang (Salle Transgression)"

2004
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, "What is Art?"
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, "Remarking Modernism in Japan 1900-2000"
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, "Collection 1"
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, "Mirrorical Returns: Marcel Duchamp & 20th Century Art"

2002
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan, "The unfinished Century: Legacies of 20th Century Art"
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan, "The Dream of a Museum - 120 years of the concept of the bitjutsukan in Japan"

2001
Centre Georges Pompidou, MNAM, Paris, France, "Les années Pop [The Pop Years]"
MAC, Galeries contemporaines des Musées de Marseille, Marseille, France, "Économie de moyens [Economy of Means]"
Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori, Japan, "Invitation to Contemporary Art, Avant-garde Japan [of the] 60's"

2000
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, Dole, France, "Objecteurs-Artmakers"
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, "Japanese Art in the 20th Century"
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, "50 Years of Contemporary Art, Permanent Collections"

1999
Institut de Cultura, Barcelona, Spain, "Jardin de Éros"

1998
Art Plaza, Oita, Japan, "Neo-Dada Japan 1958-1998"
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, "To and from Shuzo Takiguchi"
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, "Out of Action: Between performance and the Object, 1949-1979," curated by Paul Schimmel (catalogue)

1996
Kurashiki Museum of Modern Art, Kurashiki, Japan, "Art of Postwar 1960's Avant-garde"

1995
Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, "Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years", travels to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima City, Japan, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan

1994
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky"
Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, "L'Art japonais après 1945: Un cri vers le ciel [Japanese Art After 1945: A Cry Towards The Sky]"
Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, "Quand le corps deviant art [When the Body Becomes Art]"
Museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan, "Collection japonaise [Japanese Collection]"

1993
Museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan, "Collections permanents [Permanent Collection]"
Centre Noirot, Arras, France, "Sept artistes japonais de Paris [Seven Japanese Artists From Paris]"
Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, "Critique sociale et satire dans l'Art Moderne [Social Critique and Satire in Modern Art]"
Sogestsu Art Center, Tokyo, Japan, "Une sélection dans les collections [A Selection from the Collection]"

1992
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan, "Figures humaines [Human Figures]"
Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, "Introduction contradictoire pour comprendre deux fois mieux l'art contemporain [Contradictory Introduction to Understand Contemporary Art Twice as Well]"

1991
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, "Collections contemporaines [Contemporary Collections]"
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan,"La ligne dans l'art contemporain - L'axe des yeux et des mains [Lines in Contemporary Art - The Axis of Eyes and Hands]"
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, "L'Anti-art au Japon [Anti-Art in Japan]"
Galerie Mathias Fels, Paris, France, "César, Dietmann, Kudo, Pommereulle, Spoerri, J.P. Raynaud"
Sogestsu Art Center, Tokyo, Japan, "Œuvres japonaises des collections contemporaines [Japanese Works from Contemporary Collections]"

1990
Space Niki, Tokyo, Japan, "Erotica fleurissante - Tetsumi Kudo et Naoko Majima [Blooming Erotica - Tetsumi Kudo and Naoko Majima]"

1989
Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, "Tetsumi Kudo, Naoko Majima (Tsugaru Shaman and Tokyo Ninga)"
Galerie 1900-2000 in collaboration with Galerie du Génie, and Galerie de Poche, Paris, France, "Happenings & Fluxus"
Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, "Portraits from the Collection"

1988
Tokyo National Academy of Fine Arts in collaboration with Space Niki, Tokyo, Japan "No Title"
Centre d'art contemporain, Montbeliard, France, "Nine Artists from Jade Gallery"
Kudo's Studio, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan, "À l'Ame [To the Soul]"
Hall of CNAP, Paris, France, "Four Installations of FNAC", with direction from Anne Tronche
Musée Cantini, Marseille, France, "Modern Art in Marseille"
Tokyo National Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, "Ouvrez les barriers [Open the Barriers]"

1987
Tsukahsin Hall, Amagasaki, Japan, "The Object"
Space Niki, Tokyo, "Byobu [Japanese folding screens] by Six Artists"
Tokyo National Academy of Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan, "Centennial Anniversary of the Tokyo National Academy of Fine Arts"
The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan, "The Tohoku Image"
Fukushima Museum of Art, Fukushima City, Japan, "Contemporary Art in Tojoku II"
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Labège, France, "Collection of Agnès and Frits Becht", travels to: Musée d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

1986
Ohkurayama Memorial Hall, Yokohama, Japan, "Art - A Dialogue on Peace"
Musée d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, "Japon des avant-gardes, 1910 - 1970 [The Avant-garde of Japan, 1910 - 1970]

1985
Metropolitan Museum of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, "Art of Today - The Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Tokyo"
Bibliothèque Louis Aragon, Villejuif, Paris, "Trop [Too Much]"
Metropolitan Art Museum of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, "New Building's 10th Anniversary - 40 Years of Contemporary Japanese Art"
Musée Fodor, Amsterdam, Holland, "Beelden een keuze uit de collective van het Stedelijk Museum"
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, United Kingdom, "Reconstructions: The Avant-garde in Japan 1945-1965", travels to: Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

1984
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland, "Collection Becht"
Salon Nichido, Tokyo, Japan, "Exhibition of Contemporary Art"
Gunma Museum of Fine Arts, Takasaki, Japan, "Twenty Years of Contemporary Art"
Fujita Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, "Experiences in Silk Screens"
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, "Le Siècle de Kafka [The Age of Kafka]"
Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima City, Japan, "Contemporary Art in Tohoku"

1983
Maison des arts André Malraux, Le Havre, France, "Une pratique: le moulage en sculpture [A practice: Casting in Sculpture]"
Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Saint-Étienne, France, "L'Art en France 1957 - 1967 [Art in France 1957 - 1967]"
La Citrouille, Théâtre d'ombres, Caen, France, "Un centenaire en morceaux, Pinocchio à Caen [A Centennial in Pieces, Pinocchio to Caen]"
Galerie Harlekin, Berlin, Germany, "Art-Hats"
Galerie Mathias Fels, Paris, France, "D'une figuration l'autre [From One Figuration The Other]"
Pavillon des arts, Paris, France, "Une journée à la champagne [A Day in the Country]
Maison de la Culture de Grenoble, Grenoble, France, "Les orientations de l'art japonais dans les années 60 [The Trends in Japanese Art in the 60's]"
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, "Electra"

1982
The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan, "1st Festival of Contemporary Art"

1981
Nara Prefectural Museum of Art, Nara, Japan, "Ancient Collection of Ohashi"
Centre culturel et artistique, Montrouge, France, "26th Salon de Montrouge"
Galerie Paul Ambroise, Paris, France, " Où [Where]"
9th Festival de Lille, Lille, France, "Science au future - Science fiction [Science in the Future - Science Fiction]"
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan, "Les années 60 - Une décade de changements dans l'art contemporain japonais [The 60's - A Decade of Changes in Contemporary Japanese Art]", travels to: The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

1980
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, "7th Foire d'Art Contemporain [7th Fair of Contemporary Art]"
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, "Accrochage IV"
Centre culturel et artistique, Montrouge, France, "25th Salon de Montrouge"
Grand Palais, Paris, France, "XXI Salon Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui"
Palais Rameau, Lille, France, "Science au future - Science fiction [Science in the Future - Science Fiction]"

1979
Centre culturel et artistique, Montrouge, France, "24th Salon de Montrouge"
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, "Tendances de l'art en France 2, 1968 - 1978 [Tendancies in Art in France 2, 1968 - 1978]"

1978
Seibu Museum, Tokyo, Japan, "Paris Biennale: 1959 - 1973"
Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, "X Festival International de peinture," (Grand Prize)
Galerie d'Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice, Nice, France, "Attitudes, autour de François Pluchard [Attitudes, surrounding François Pluchard]"

1977
Musée d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, "Permanent Collections [Inauguration of the Musée d'Art Moderne]"
Galerie de la Défense, Paris, France, "XXXIII Salon de Mai"
ARC 2, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, "Mythologies quotidiennes 2 [Quotidien Mythologies 2]"
Fondation Nationale des Arts Plastiques et Graphiques, Paris, France, "Biennale de Paris : une anthologie 1959 - 1967"
Grand Palais, Paris, France, "XVIII Salon Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui"
São Paulo, Brazil, "XIV Biennale de São Paulo," (special mention)

1976
Galerie Mathias Fels, Paris, France, "Wien (1876 - 1913)"
Galerie de La Défense, Paris, France, "XXXII Salon de Mai"
Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, "VIII Festival International de peinture [VII International Festival of Painting]," (Grand Prize)
Venice, Italy, "Biennale de Venise, Evènements internationaux 72 - 76 [International Events 72 - 76]"
Charlottenborg, Denmark, "Dodsspringet pa Charlottenborg"
Grand Palais, Paris, France, "XVII Salon des Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui"
ARC 2, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/Maison de la Culture de Rennes, "Boîtes [Boxes]"

1975
Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan, "Contemporary Art 1950 - 1975"
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, "XXXI Salon de Mai"
Tenmaya Isen Kaikan, Okayama, Japan, "Autour d'un prodige - Tetsumi Kudo et Yasuhiro Yoshioaka [Surrounding a Prodigy - Tetsumi Kudo and Yasuhiro Yoshioaka]"
Grand Palais, Paris, France, "XVI Salon Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui"

1974
Städtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany, "Japan: Tradition and Presence"
Tokyo, Japan, "Biennale 1974"
Espace Cardin, Paris, France, "Opus 50"
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, "XXX Salon de Mai"
Galerie Fred Lanzenberg, Brussels, Belgium, "Les Pré-Voyants [The Foresee-ers]"

1972
Grand Palais, Paris, France, "Douze ans d'art contemporain en France 1960 - 1972 [Twelve Years of Contemporary Art in France 1960 - 1972]"
Les Olympiades, Munich, Germany, "Die Spiele der XX"
Les Halles (Pavillon Baltard), Paris, France, "XII Salon Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui"
Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, "10th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Art"
The Hanoke Open-Air Museum, Hanoke, Japan, "2nd International Exhibition of Modern Sculpture: The Image of Man in the Contemporary World"

1970
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Palais de la Ramine, Lausanne, France, "3rd Salon international des Galeries Pilotes [3rd International Salon of Pilot Galleries]"

1969
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, "IX Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Art"
Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohama, Japan, "Today's Artists"

1968
Kunstverein fur die Rheilande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany, "Science-fiction"
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, "Three Blind Mice", travels to: [Unknown venue], Sint Pietersabidj, Ghent, Belgium
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, "XXIV Salon de Mai"
Paris, France, "IX Salon Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui"

1967
Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy, "Galerie Mathias Fels at Studio Marconi"
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, "XXIII Salon de Mai"
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, "Le Monde en question ou Vingt six peintre de contestation [The World in Question or Twenty-six Subversive Painters]"
Havana, Cuba, "Le Salon de Mai à la Havane [ The May Salon in Havana]"
Kunsthalle de Berne, Berne, Switzerland, "Science-fiction"
Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden, "Superlund"
De Moriaan, Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, "Homage to Bosch"
Paris, France, "VIII Salon Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui"
Musée des Art Décoratifs, Paris, "Science-fiction"

1966
Salon Comparaisons, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, "3rd Festival de la Libre Expression [3rd Festival of Free Expression]"
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, "XXII Salon de Mai"
20 Gallery, Amsterdam/20 Gallery Arnhem, the Netherlands, "Zomertentoonstelling"
Galerie Mathias Fels, Paris, France, "Accrochage"
Galerie J. Ranson, Paris, France, "Nouvel an [New Year]"

1965
Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium, "Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme [Pop Art, New Realism]"
Galerie Lambert, Paris, France, "Seize jeunes peintres japonais [Sixteen Young Japanese Painters]"
Galerie Orz, the Hague, the Netherlands, "Modern Eroticism"
Galerie Creuze, Paris, France, "Les Objecteurs [The Objectors]"
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, "IV Biennale de Paris (French section)"

1964
Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, "Sept jeunes [Seven Youths]"
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, "Currents in Contemporary Art in Japan"
Centre Culturel Américan, Paris, France, "Workshop de la Libre Expression [Free Expression Workshop]"
Gemeentemuseum, the Hague, the Netherlands, "New Realism"
Museum des 20, Vienna, Austria, "Pop Art etc."
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany, "New Realism and Pop Art"

1963
Galerie J., Paris, France, "L'Objet pressenti"
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, "IV Biennale de Paris (Japanese section)"

1962
Matsuzakaya, Tokyo, Japan, "Second International Young Artists Exhibition," (Grand Prize)
Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, "Fourteenth Salon des Indépendants Yomiuri"
Galerie du Cercle, Paris, France, "Collages et objects [Collages and Objects]"
Raymond Cordier, Paris, France, "Pour conjurer l'esprit de Catastrophe [In Order to Conjure the Spirit of Catastrophe]"

1961
Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, "Thirteenth Salon des Indépendants Yomiuri"
International Center of Aesthetic Research, Turin, Italy, "Continuity and the Avant-garde in Japan"
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan, "Experimentation in Contemporary Art in Japan"

1960
Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, "Twelfth Salon des Indépendants Yomiuri"

1959
Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, "Eleventh Salon des Indépendants Yomiuri"
Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, "First Exhibition of the New Tokyo School"
La Bussola Gallery, Lissone, Italy, "XI Premio Lissene," travels to: Ginza Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1958
Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, "Tenth Salon des Indépendants Yomiuri"
Kunugi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, "2nd Exhibition of the Tuchi Group"
Mimatsu Shobo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, "3rd Exhibition of the Tuchi Group"
Ginza Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, "4th Exhibition of the Tuchi Group"

1957
Kanda Bumpodo, Tokyo, Japan, "1st Exhibition of the Tuchi Group"


ARTIST PROJECTS

1970
WRD Westdeutsches Fernsehen, set design for "La Vase [The Vase]" by Eugène Ionesco

1969
"Monument of Metamorphosis," Mount Nokogiri, Tokyo, Japan, commissioned public sculpture

GRANTS AND AWARDS

1987
Named professor at the National School of Fine Arts, Tokyo

1978
Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, "X Festival International de peinture," (Grand Prize)

1977
São Paulo, Brazil, "XIV Biennale de São Paulo," (special mention)

1976
Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, "VIII Festival International de peinture [VII International Festival of Painting]," (Grand Prize)

1962
Matsuzakaya, Tokyo, "Second International Young Artists Exhibition," (Grand Prize)