| Shigeru Izumi |
| 1922 |
Born in Osaka City. |
| 1939 |
Graduated from Craft and Design Course, Osaka City Kogei School |
| 1951 |
Established "Democratic Artists Association" (～'57) |
| 1959 |
Visited to America and became a guest professor of the print factory "Pratt Institute" in New York (～'62) |
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| 1963 |
Immigrated to Paris (～'68) |
| 1970 |
Became a professor at Fine Arts Department, Osaka University of Arts (～'92) |
| 1995 |
Died. |
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| Exhibitions (lifetime) |
| 1957 |
"The 1st Tokyo International Print Biennale"(won the Newcomer's Award) |
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"The 4th Bienal International de Artes de São Paulo" (Brazil) |
| 1965 |
"The Japanese New Painting and Sculpture" (circulated eight museums In the U.S.A. including The Museum of Modern Art, New York) (～'67) |
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| 1975 |
"Art Now’75" (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art) |
| 1978 |
"Series 'Today's Artist', Shigeru Izumi -after 1963-" (Osaka Prefectural Gallery) |
| 1980 |
"Shigeru Izumi Solo Exhibition" (Ban Gallery/Osaka) (※'81, '84, '87, '92, '93, '94) |
| 1983 |
"Kansai Artists Series 1, Waichi Tsutaka・Shigeru Izumi・Hideo Yoshihara" (The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama) |
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| 1986 |
"Ei-Q and the surroundings" (circulated three museums including The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama) |
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| 1993 |
"Sadajiro Kubo and artists - postwar, early prints" (Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts /Tokyo) |
| 1994 |
"Kansai Art 1950's～1970's" （Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art ） |
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| Exhibitions (retrospective) |
| 1996 |
"Shigeru Izumi" (Itami City Museum of Art/Hyogo) |
| 1998 |
"Shigeru Izumi－Early prints" (The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama) |
| 1999 |
"DEMOKRATO 1951 ～ 1957 －The Liberation of Art in Postwar Japan―" (circulated three museums including The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama) |
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| 2005 |
"IZUMI Shigeru: a retrospective" (The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama) |
| 2006 |
"Photographs of Shigeru Izumi" (The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga) |
| 2012 |
"Shigeru Izumi Special Exhibition" (Sakai City Cultural Hall Gallery/Osaka) |
| 2015 |
"Prints Travelogue of Shigeru Izumi on the 20th anniversary of his death" (BB Plaza Museum of Art/Hyogo) |
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| 2016 |
"Prints of Shigeru Izumi"(The Tokushima Modern Art Museum) |
| 2017 |
"Handsome Heart, Handsome Art: The World of Izumi Shigeru" (The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama) |
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Shigeru Izumi "PAINTINGS 1971-93" (Yoshimi Arts, the three konohana/Osaka) >> |
| 2018 |
"Shigeru Izumi 1960-70s" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) >> |
| 2019 |
"Shigeru Izumi Drawings 1960's" (Yoshimi Arts, the three konohana/Osaka) >> |
| 2020 |
"Shigeru Izumi 70's" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) >> |
| 2021 |
"Two-dimensional Expression over Two Eras: Shigeru Izumi and Six Contemporary Artists" (Yoshimi Arts, the three konohana/Osaka) >> |
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| 2022 |
Hello Super Collection －99 Untold Stories－(Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka) |
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“40th Anniversary Exhibition Is the door open? Tracing the 40-year history of MOMAS and its collections” (The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama) |
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"Back to 1972" (Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City) |
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"OIL PAINTING IN NIPPON: An element of the art in our time" (The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama) |
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"USTUMI Ryuko and Artists of Demokrato Artist Association" (Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts) |
| 2023 |
Collection Exhibition IV Journey through Forms, the joy of "design" (Oita Prefectural Art Museum) |
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"Moments to Fly Up: Ikeda Masuo and the Demokrato Artists" (The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama) |
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2023 I, Modern Prints - Shigeru Izumi (special feature in collection exhibition) (The Tokushima Modern Art Museumn) |
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"Shigeru Izumi Newly Discovered Works" (Yoshimi Arts, the three konohana/Osaka) >> |
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"Shigeru Izumi Entrusted: New York Paintings, 1959-1962" (Microscope Gallery/New York) |
| 2024 |
"Tectonic Shifts in Printing, Printmaking and Graphic Design 1957–1979" (The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto) |
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"Shigeru Izumi in the 1950s, The Sun Also Rises" (Itami City Museum) |
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| *including the titles translated by us |
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| Collection |
| The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; Itami City Museum of Art; Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City; Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka; Osaka Prefecture; Sakai City; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art; The Tokushima Modern Art Museum; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama; Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum; Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris; Carnegie Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art; Takahashi Ryutaro Collection; The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Oita Prefectural Art Museum; Takamatsu Art Museum; British Museum;, National Gallery of Art |
