2009 Azumino Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Toyoshina, Japan (Travelling Exhibition) McCaffrey Fine Art, Kazuo Shiraga: Six Decades, New York NY

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1 Kazuo Shiraga Born in Amagasaki, Japan, 1924 Attended Kyoto Municipal School of Painting, Studied at City Art Centre, Osaka, 1948 Joined New Creation Art Association, 1948 Formed Zero Society with Saburo Murakami and Akira Kanayama, 1952 Joined Gutai Art Association, 1955 Awarded the Amagasaki Citizen s Cultural Prize, 1965 Awarded the Hyogo Prefectural Cultural Prize for Excellence, 1987 Awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for Culture, 1999 Awarded the Osaka Art Prize, 2002 Died in Amagasaki, Japan, 2008 Select Solo Exhibitions 2009 Azumino Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Toyoshina, Japan (Travelling Exhibition) McCaffrey Fine Art, Kazuo Shiraga: Six Decades, New York NY 2007 Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK 2004 Gallery Apa, Nagoya, Japan Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin, Germany 2001 Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK 1999 Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin, Germany 1998 Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, Miyazaki, Japan 1997 Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Gallery Arai, Nishinomiya, Japan Gallery Apa, Nagoya, Japan 1993 Museum Kita, Nara, Japan Keihan Gallery of Arts and Science, Osaka, Japan Musée d Art Moderne Réfectoire des Jacobins, Labège, France Gallery Apa, Nagoya, Japan Gallery MMG, Tokyo, Japan

Awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for Culture, 1999 Awarded the Osaka Art Prize, 2002 Died in Amagasaki, Japan, 2008 Select Solo Exhibitions 2009 Azumino Municipal Museum of Modern Art,

2 1992 Galerie Stadler, Paris, France Gallery Georg Nothelfer, Berlin, Germany 1991 Gallery Shirakawa, Kyoto, Japan 1990 Gallery Kuranuki, Osaka, Japan Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, Japan 1989 Amagasaki Cultural Centre, Amagasaki, Japan 1988 Gallery Haku, Osaka, Japan Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin, Germany 1987 Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy 1986 Galerie Stadler, Paris, France 1985 Gallery Be-Art, Kyoto, Japan Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kazuo Shiraga, Kobe, Japan Gallery Haku, Osaka, Japan Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan Galerie Stadler, Paris, France International Center for Aesthetic Research, Turin, Italy

France Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy 1986 Galerie Stadler, Paris, France 1985 Gallery Be-Art, Kyoto, Japan Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kazuo Shiraga, Kobe, Japan

3 Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan Select Group Exhibitions 2012 National Art Center, Gutai: The Spirit of an Era, Tokyo, Japan Moderna Museet, Explosion! Painting as Action, Stockholm, Sweden 2010 Museo Cantonale d Arte, Gutai: dipingere con il tempo e lo spazio, Lugano, Switzerland 2009 Palazzo Fortuny, In-finitum, Venice, Italy La Biennale di Venezia, 53a Esposizione Internazionale d Arte, Fare Mondi, Venice, Italy Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, "Under Each Other's Spell": Gutai and New York, New York NY 2007 Palazzo Fortuny, Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art, Venice, Italy 2006 Museum Kunst Palast, Zero. Internationale Künstler-Avantgarde der 50er/60er Jahre, Düsseldorf, Germany 2005 Centre Pompidou, Big Bang: Destruction et creation dans l art du 20e siècle, Paris, France 2004 Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, GUTAI , Kobe, Japan National Museum of Modern Art, Traces: Body and Idea in Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan 2002 Miyagi Museum of Art, Artists of Gutai Art Association, Sendai, Japan 2001 Galleria Civica d'arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Le Tribù dell'arte, Rome, Italy 1999 Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Gutai, Paris, France 1998 The Museum of Contemporary Art at The Geffen Contemporary, Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, , Los Angeles LA (Travelling Exhibition) 1997

Venezia, 53a Esposizione Internazionale d Arte, Fare Mondi, Venice, Italy Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, "Under Each Other's Spell": Gutai and New York, New York NY 2007 Palazzo Fortuny,

4 Galleria Civica d'arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, Torino Parigi New York Osaka. Tapié. Un Art Autre, Turin, Italy 1996 Centre Pompidou, Formless: A User s Guide, Paris, France 1994 Guggenheim Museum, Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky, New York NY 1993 Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Gutai II: , Ashiya, Japan Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Gutai III: , Ashiya, Japan La Biennale di Venezia, 45a Esposizione Internazionale d Arte, Passagio ad Oriente, Venice, Italy Ehime Museum of Art, Challenge of Art After the War: Jiro Yoshihara and the Gutai Group, Matsuyama, Japan Penrose Institute of Contemporary Arts, Gutai 1955/56: Restarting Point for Japanese Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan 1992 Miyagi Museum of Art, Artists of Gutai Art Association, Sendai, Japan Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Gutai I: , Ashiya, Japan Ashiya Park, Outdoor Exhibition Revisited, Ashiya, Japan 1991 Institut Mathildenhöhe, Gutai Japanische Avantgarde , Darmstadt, Germany Fukuoka Art Museum, Adventurers of Paintings Gutai, Fukuoka, Japan 1990 Shoto Museum of Art, Gutai: The Avant-Garde Group Unfinished, Tokyo, Japan Galleria Nazionale d Arte Moderna, Giappone all avanguardia. Il Gruppo Gutai negli anni Cinquanta, Rome, Italy 1986 Centre Pompidou, Japon des Avant-Gardes , Paris, France 1985 Ashiya Civic Center, Jiro Yoshihara and Gutai, Ashiya, Japan National Museum of Art, Action and Emotion, Paintings of the '50s, Informel, Gutai, Cobra, Osaka, Japan Museum of Modern Art, Reconstructions: Avant-garde Art in Japan , Oxford, Great Britain Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Grupo Gutai: Pintura y Acción, Madrid, Spain 1983 Kunstmuseum, Dada in Japan/Japanese Avantgarde , Düsseldorf, Germany 1979

of Art & History, Gutai II: 1959-1965, Ashiya, Japan Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Gutai III: 1965-1972, Ashiya, Japan La Biennale di Venezia, 45a Esposizione Internazionale d Arte, Passagio

5 Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Jiro Yoshihara and Today's Aspects of Gutai, Kobe, Japan 1976 Osaka Prefectural Gallery, Eighteen Years of Gutai Art, Osaka, Japan 1971 Pinacoteca Provinciale, Aspetti dell Informale. Mostra storica Internazionale, Bari, Italy 1970 Midori Pavilion, Exhibition at the entrance of Expo 70 Midori Pavilion by the Gutai Group, Osaka, Japan Gallery Iteza, An Exhibition of Prints by Eight Gutai Artists, Kyoto, Japan 1969 Galleria d'arte Cortina, Spazi astratti. Dall'intuizione alla concettualizzazione, Milan, Italy Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, 1st Hiroshima Renaissance Art Exhibition, Hiroshima, Japan 1968 Gutai Pinacotheca, 20th Gutai Art Exhibition, Osaka, Japan Gutai Pinacotheca, 21st Gutai Art Exhibition, Osaka, Japan Miyazaki Kanko Hotel, Contemporary Art Exhibition Only in the Night, Miyazaki, Japan 1967 Experiment Studio, Gutai Group Osaka Japan, Rotterdam, Netherlands Heide Hildebrand Gallery, Gutai Group Exhibition, Klagenfurt, Austria Gutai Pinacotheca, 19th Gutai Art Exhibition, Osaka, Japan (Travelling Exhibition) 1966 Union Carbide Building, 1st Japan Art Festival, New York NY International Gallery Orez, NUL 1966 Art Exhibition (Nul Negentienhonderd zesenzestig), The Hague, Netherlands Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Art Palais de Rumine, 2ème Salon International des Galeries Pilotes Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Takashimaya Department Store, 17th Gutai Art Exhibition, Yokohama, Japan 1965 Kunsthaus, Moderne Malerei aus Japan, Zurich, Switzerland Stedelijk Museum, NUL 1965 Art Exhibition (Nul Negentienhonderd vijfenzestig), Amsterdam, Netherlands Museum of Modern Art, The New Japanese Painters and Sculptures, New York Gutai Pinacotheca, 15th Gutai Art Exhibition, Osaka, Japan Keio Department Store, 16th Gutai Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan Galerie Stadler, Groupe Gutai, Paris, France

Mostra storica Internazionale, Bari, Italy 1970 Midori Pavilion, Exhibition at the entrance of Expo 70 Midori Pavilion by the Gutai Group, Osaka, Japan Gallery Iteza, An Exhibition of Prints by Eight

6 1964 Takashimaya Department Store, 14th Gutai Art Exhibition, Osaka, Japan Takarazuka Family Land, The Beautiful Japan Exposition: The Annual Ring of Beauty, Takarazuka, Japan Centro de Artes Visuales Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Intuiciones y Realizaciones Formales, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1963 Takashimaya Department Store, 12th Gutai Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan Takashimaya Department Store, 13th Gutai Art Exhibition, Osaka, Japan Grand Palais, Exposition d Art Moderne, Paris, France Galerie DuMont, Cologne, Germany 1962 Takashimaya Department Store, 11th Gutai Art Exhibition, Osaka, Japan Accademia filarmonico-letteraria, Bluhm, Gallizio, Onishi, Shiraga, Tapies, Twombly, Alba, Italy Palazzo della Promotrice al Valentino, L Incontro di Torino. Pittori d America, Europa e Giappon, Turin, Italy Sankei Hall, Don't Worry, the Moon Won't Fall Down: Gutai Art and Morita Modern Dance, Osaka, Japan 1961 International Center of Aesthetic Research, The Continuité et Avant-garde au Japon, Turin, Italy Takashimaya Department Store, 10th Gutai Art Exhibition, Osaka, Japan Palazzo del Centro del Mobile, XII Premio Lissone internazionale per la pittura, Lissone, Italy 1960 Takashimaya Department Store, The International Sky Festival, Osaka, Japan 1959 Circolo degli Artisti in Palazzo Graneri, Arte Nuova, Esposizione Internazionale di pittura e scultura, Turin, Italy Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, 8th Gutai Art Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan Gendai Gallery, The Fifteen Japanese Contemporary Artists Recommended by Tapié, Tokyo, Japan Palazzo del Centro del Mobile, XI Premio Lissone internazionale per la pittura, Lissone, Italy Galerie Stadler, Métamorphismes, Paris, France 1958 Asahi Hall, 2nd Gutai Art on the Stage, Osaka, Japan Takashimaya Department Store, International Art of a New Era: Informel and Gutai, Osaka, Japan Ohara Hall, Gutai Small Works Exhibition (later known as 5th Gutai Art Exhibition ), Tokyo, Japan Martha Jackson Gallery, The Gutai Group Exhibition (later know as 6th Gutai Art Exhibition ), New York NY

Store, 13th Gutai Art Exhibition, Osaka, Japan Grand Palais, Exposition d Art Moderne, Paris, France Galerie DuMont, Cologne, Germany 1962 Takashimaya Department Store, 11th Gutai Art Exhibition,

7 1957 Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, 3rd Gutai Art Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan Sankei Hall, Gutai Art on the Stage, Osaka, Japan Ohara Hall, 4th Gutai Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan Takashimaya Department Store, International Art Exhibition of the World (Informel: Genèse d un art autre), Osaka, Japan 1956 Mukogawa River, One Day Only Outdoor Exhibition (also known as the Ruins Exhibition ), Amagasaki, Japan Ashiya Park, Outdoor Gutai Art Exhibition, Ashiya, Japan Ohara Hall, 2nd Gutai Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan 1955 Ashiya Park, Experimental Outdoor Exhibition of Modern Art to Challenge the Midsummer Sun, Ashiya, Japan Ohara Hall, 1st Gutai Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan 1954 Sogo Department Store, Zero Society Exhibition, Osaka, Japan

as the Ruins Exhibition ), Amagasaki, Japan Ashiya Park, Outdoor Gutai Art Exhibition, Ashiya, Japan Ohara Hall, 2nd Gutai Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan 1955 Ashiya Park, Experimental

2009 Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Motonaga Sadamasa, Tsu, Japan. 2006 Nerima Museum of Arts, Motonaga Sadamasa, Tokyo, Japan

2009 Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Motonaga Sadamasa, Tsu, Japan. 2006 Nerima Museum of Arts, Motonaga Sadamasa, Tokyo, Japan Sadamasa Motonaga Born in Ueno City, Japan, 1922 Graduated from Mie Prefecture Ueno Commercial School, 1938 Joined Gutai Art Association, 1955 Received Prize for Excellence at 6th Contemporary Art Exhibition