KUWAYAMA Tadaaki
桑山忠明
TADAAKI KUWAYAMA
1932 Born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
1956 BFA, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Department of Japanese painting
1958 Moved to United States
【 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 】
2024 Tadaaki Kuwayama, Taka Ishii Gallery (Maebashi Space), Maebashi, Japan
2024 Tadaaki Kuwayama & Rakuko Naito: In Silence: An Ode to Nothing, Whitestone Gallery, Hong Kong
2023 Tadaaki Kuwayama: 1932–2023, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2023 Kuwayama/Naito, The Mayor Gallery, London, UK
2022 In your arm I am radiant, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Alison Bradley Projects. New York City, NY, USA (Curated by Gabriela Rangel)
2021 Tadaaki Kuwayama, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Germany
2021 Tadaaki Kuwayama: selected works of 60y & collaborations, Taubert Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2020 Kuwayama Naito, Christie’s NYC, New York, NY, USA
2019 Adrian Rosenfeld, San Francisco, CA, USA
2019 Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2019 Whitestone Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.
2018 Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018 Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI,USA
2018 Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, USA
2017 Tadaaki Kuwayama: Radical Neutrality, The Mayor Gallery, London, UK
2017 Recent Works, Willem Baars Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016 Tadaaki Kuwayama: From the 60s Till Today, Galerie Grand Ciecle, Taipei
2016 Tadaaki Kuwayama: Titanium 4 Colors, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2016 Not Primary Color, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI, USA
2015 Gallery Shilla, Daegu, Korea
2015 Tadaaki Kuwayama: Early Work, 1962-1975, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2014 Tadaaki Kuwayama: Pure Painting, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI, USA
2013 Tadaaki Kuwayama, Gallery Shilla, Daegu, Korea
2013 Titanium 2 Lines, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2013 60-70s, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2013 Tadaaki Kuwayama Titanium-Art as Space, Space as Art, Nagoya University of Art, Art & Designed Center, Aichi, Japan
2013 Titanium, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2012 TADAAKI KUWAYAMA: HAYAMA, The Museum Modern Art, Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan
2012 Six Elements or More, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY, USA2012 Gary Snyder Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2011 White Tadaaki Kuwayama Osaka Project, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2011 Untitled: Tadaaki Kuwayama, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
2011 Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2010 Out of Silence: Tadaaki Kuwayama, Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
2010 Nagoya Gallery, Aichi, Japan
2008 Gold & Silver Recent Works, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Tokyo, Japan
2008 Bjorn Ressle Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2008 PAINTINGS FROM THE 1970s, Gary Snyder Project Space, New York, NY, USA
2008 Large Paintings from 60s & 70s, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
2006 One Room Project 2006, Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
2006 Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2006 One Room Project 2006 in Osaka, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2006 Galerie König, Hanau/Frankfurt, Germany
2005 ’90 [part 1-2], Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2003 Selected Works 1992-2003, Tamada Project, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Space as Art-Art as Space, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2002 Galerie Renate Bender, Munich, Germany
2002 Tadaaki Kuwayama: Repetition & Continuity II, Riva Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2001 Folin/Riva Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2001 Project’ 01, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan;
2001 Contemporary Art Space Osaka, Osaka, Japan
2000 Towards Utopia, Contemporary Art Space Osaka, Osaka, Japan
2000 TADAAKI KUWAYAMA: Positionenreihe 17, Rupertinum Museum, Salzburg, Austria
1998 The Zurich Intervention, Stiftung fur Konstruktive und Konkrete Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
1997 A Retrospective for Works, Galerie Renate Bender, Munich, Germany
1997 PROJECT FOR INGOLSTADT, Museum für Konkrete Kunst (Städtische Galerie im Teather Ingolstadt), Ingolstadt, Germany
1997 Recent Works, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1996 Recent Drawings, Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996 PROJECT ’96, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan,
1996 PROJECT ’96, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
1995 Project for Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst Reutlingen, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany
1994 Past Through Present Eye, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1994 Pencil and Wax on Paper, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1994 Drawing on Mylar, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1993 Recent Works, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1993 60s-90s, Shugado Gallery, Osaka, Japan1992 5 Metallic Colors, Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992 The Snow Country Suite, Ibaraki Municipal Kawabata Literature Memorial Hall, Osaka, Japan
1992 Metallic Green, Sakura Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1991 NEW PRINTS, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1991 Recent Works, Gallery Yamaguchi Warehouse, Osaka, Japan
1991 Gilbert Brownstone et Cie, Paris, France
1990 RECENT WORKS 1989-90, Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1990 The Snow Country Suite, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1990 The Snow Country Suite, Gallery Yonetsu, Tokyo, Japan
1990 The Snow Country Suite, Gallery Sumi, Okayama, Japan
1990 Drawings, Gallery Sumi, Okayama, Japan
1989 Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
1989 Sakura Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1989 Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1989 Bilder 1988-1989, Galerie Reckermann, Köln, Germany
1989 Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1989 O.K.Harris Works of Art, New York, NY, USA
1988 Part V: Chrome Age 1968-69, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1988 Part IV: Cross Chrome Age 1966, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1988 Part III: Pigment Age – Canvas 1962-65, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1988 Part II: Pigment Age – Paper 1960-61, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1988 Part I: New Paintings – White Series 1986-78, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1988 New Paintings, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1985 A Retrospective 1960-1985, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
1985 By Two Recent Works, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1985 Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, Japan
1985 Laboratory, Hokkaido, Japan
1984 Early Paintings, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1984 New Paintings, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1983 Sakura Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1983 NEW PAINTING, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1982 Ölbilder 1980 bis 1982, Gimpel-Hanover + André Emmerich Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1982 Ölbilder 1980 bis 1982, Galerie Reckermann, Köln, Germany
1982 Galerie Linie, Moers, Germany
1981 KUWAYAMA WALLS, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1980 Drawings, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1979 Protech-McIntosh Gallery, Washington D.C., USA
1979 Sakura Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1978 Koh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1977 Galerie Denise René, New York, NY, USA
1976 Drawings Show, Contemporary Art Laboratory-T, Tokyo, Japan
1975 Galerie Denise Rene, New York, NY, USA1975 Bilder und Zeichnungen, Galerie Müller, Stuttgart, Germany
1974 Einraum Ausstellungen ’74, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
1974 Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1973 Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1973 Galerie Kowallek, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1973 Bilder 1966-1973, Galerie Reckermann, Köln Germany
1972 New Paintings, Henri 2, Washington D.C., USA
1969 Galerie Reckermann, Köln, Germany
1969 Henri Gallery, Washington D.C.
1968 Galerie d’Aujourd’hui, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1968 Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
1968 Galleria del Leone, Venice, Italy
1967 New Paintings, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
1967 Franklin Siden Gallery, Detroit, MI, USA
1967 Galerie Mutzenbach, Dortmund, Germany
1967 Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
1967 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1966 The Systemic Paintings of Kuwayama, The Red Carpet Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA
1965 Daniels Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1964 Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1962 Swetzoff Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
1962 Green Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1961 PAINTINGS, Green Gallery, New York, NY, USA
【 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 】
2025 Snowmelt, Alison Bradley Projects. New York City. NY. USA
2024 The Secrets of Color from Impressionism to Contemporary Art, Pola Museum, Hakone, Japan
2024 Friend, Ki Smith Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
2022 No Title, Not Untitled, Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2022 Kankaku, Alison Bradley Projects. New York City, NY, USA
2019 Material Existence, Bellagio, Las Vegas, NV, USA (curated by Alison Bradley)
2019 Tadaaki Kuwayama and Rakuko Naito, Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2018 MINIMALISM: SPACE. LIGHT. OBJECT., Singtel Special Exhibition Gallery, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
2018 Inventing The New: Tadaaki Kuwayama & Rakuko Naito, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI, USA
2018 Taka Ishii Gallery New York, New York, NY, USA
2018 Giant Steps: Artists and the 1960s, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
2018 The Essential Perspective. Minimalisms in the Helga de Alvear Collection, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
2018 FIRST CHOICE 2018: A selection of post-war highlights, Willem BaarsProjects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018 NAITO & KUWAYAMA, Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018 Being Alive, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI, USA
2017 Gallery Selections: Assorted Artists, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2017 - light of darkness abysm -, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2017 Tadaaki Kuwayama and Rakuko Naito, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2017 Interaction of Color, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2017 Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY, USA
2016 NEW SPACE with THE ARTISTS and ART, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2015 Printer's Proof: Thirty Years at Wingate Studio, Stone Gallery at Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
2015 Op Infinitum: 'The Responsive Eye' Fifty Years After (Part II) - American Op Art In The 60s, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
2015 Characteristic Sense of The Rectangle, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2013 LINE [Tadaaki Kuwayama / Akiko Horio / Simon Fitzgelard, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2011 Surface, Support, Process: The 1960s Monochrome in the Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
2011 Painting in Parts, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, USA
2010 grid: Minimal Art and Kimono, grid I, Tottori, Japan
2010 Aichi, Contemporary Art, Nagakute Bunka-no-Ie, Aichi, Japan
2009 The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
2008 Eureka! : art as traces and/or lines, Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, Shinsaibashi Temporary Exhibition Space, Osaka, Japan
2008 Choosing, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Humburg, Germany
2008 New American Abstraction 1950-70, Gary Snyder Project Space, New York, NY, USA
2007 Margin of Painting: Minimal Art, Cohju Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan
2005 Placements, Galerie König, Hanau/Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
2004 Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland.
2004 Monochromos: de Malevich al Presente, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2002 The Unfinished Century: Legacies of 20th Century Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Samadhi, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, USA.
2002 Austere Geometry, Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY, USA.
2000 Towards Utopia, Contemporary Art Space, Osaka, Japan
2000 Summer Group Show, Folin/Riva Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2000 Photograph / Painting / Plane: Collection of Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, ATC Museum, Osaka, Japan
1999 5th Kitakyushu Biennale Aesthetics of Repetition and Continuity, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
1998 Collection of Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
1997 Ad Reinhardt, Tadaaki Kuwayama, Donald Judd, and Flavin, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1997 Tadaaki Kuwayama / Andreas Karl Schulze, Japaniches Kulturinstitut Köln, Köln, Germany.
1996 Creativity of Abstract Paintings, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan
1996 The Structure of Painting: One Color, One Form, Bumpodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Yo Akiyama, Tadaaki Kuwayama, Frank Stella, Julian Schnabel, Gallery Emon, Aichi, Japan
1995 Structure and Void: Matti Kujassalo and Tadaaki Kuwayama, Galerie Renate Bender, Munich, Germany
1994 Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky, (Traveling Show) Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Soho, New York, NY, USA; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, USA (-’95)
1993 Rudolf Mumprecht, Hernández Pijuan, Tadaaki Kuwayama: DREI POSITIONEN, Galerie Mielich-Bender, Munich, Germany
1993 Works on Paper: TADAAKI KUWAYAMA, TOEKO TATSUNO, MASAAKI YAMADA, Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1993 Metallic Work, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1993 Prints Show: Donald Judd, Tadaaki Kuwayama, Brice Barden, Joel Shapiro, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1993 Judd & Kuwayama: 60’s works and prints, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1993 Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1992 Esoace446, Osaka, Japan
1992 TADAAKI KUWAYAMA, RAKUKO NAITO, Sakura Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1991 After Reinhardt: The Ecstasy of Denial, Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1991 THE PAINTINGS: POST 50’S Vol.II, Gallery Yonetsu, Tokyo, Japan
1991 Contemporary Art of America and Japan: Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Saitama, Japan
1991 Abstract Art in Japan, Art Museum Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Minimal and ..., Gallery Yamaguchi, Warehouse, Osaka, Japan
1990 Minimal Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan
1990 TADAAKI KUWAYAMA, MASAAKI YAMADA: two man show, Gallery Yamaguchi, Warehouse, Osaka, Japan
1990 An exhibition to commemorate the publication of Gazing at Hokusai’s Constellation, Sakura Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1990 Carl Andre, Tadaaki Kuwayama, Donald Judd, Gallery Yamaguchi, Warehouse, Osaka, Japan
1990 THE PAINTINGS: POST 50’s, Gallery Yonetsu, Tokyo, Japan1990 Tadaaki Kuwayama, Masaaki Yamada, Gallery Yamaguchi, Warehouse, Osaka, Japan
1990 Gegenwart Ewigkeit, Berlinische Galerie [Martin-Gropius-Bau], Berlin, Germany
1989 TECHNO-METAPHYSICS: Five Japanese Artists, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1989 Blank in Modern Painting: from Cézanne to Conceptual Art: an Approach to Modern Art, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
1988 Art Kite, (Traveling Show) The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan; Mie Prefectural Museum of Art, Mie, Japan; The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Shiga, Japan; The Himeji Castle Sannomaru Park, Hyogo, Japan; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan; Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Munich, Germany; Paris, France; Düsseldorf, Germany; Moscow, Russia; Vienna, Austria; London, UK; and New York, NY, USA
1987 Paintings in Japanese Contemporary Art, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Japan
1987 The Tenth Anniversary Exhibition: Panting 1977-1987, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan
1987 The 18th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan 1987, (Traveling Show) Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Kyoto Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan; The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan
1986 Black and White in Art Today, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Saitama, Japan Gallery Biitker, Detroit, MI, USA
1986 The Message: Japanese Contemporary Paintings, Sogo Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
1985 Contemporary Japanese Paintings, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
1984 Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, (Traveling Show) Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, NY, USA; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan
1984 Japanese Contemporary Paintings, 1960-1980, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Gunma, Japan
1983 Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, (Traveling Show) San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, USA; The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, USA; The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, USA
1983 Small Works, Bonnier Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1982 Geometric Art at Vassar, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
1982 Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
1982 Kunst wird Material, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Berlin, Garmany.
1982 The 1960’s: A decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan1982 Group Show, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1981 The 1960’s: A decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1981 Konsekvens en Konstnarshyllning till Olle Baertling, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
1981 Contemporary Japanese Art: Trends of Japanese Art in 70’s, Fine Art Center Gallery of Korean Culture and Art Foundation, Seoul, Korea
1981 Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, (Traveling Show) William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Art, Kansas City, MO, USA; Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI, USA; Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI, USA
1980 variations on planar paintings: Tadaaki Kuwayama, Kishio Suga, Masaaki Yamada, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
1980 Japanese Art Now: Tadaaki Kuwayama & Rikuro Okamoto, Japan House Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1980 F. SELLA + TADAAKI KUWAYAMA, Koh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1980 Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, (Traveling Show) Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, TX, USA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, USA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
1979 Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
1978 Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
1978 Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA
1977 The Sacred Image in Traditional and Contemporary Art, East & West, The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York, NY, USA
1977 Less is More: an Exhibition of American Minimal Painting, Koh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1977 Line, Weight, Color, Galerie Denise René, New York, NY, USA
1977 Contemporary Art ’77-1, Contemporary Art Laboratory T, Tokyo, Japan
1977 Aspecte konstrukiver Kunst, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
1976 Contemporary Art Laboratory T, Tokyo, Japan
1975 International Exhibition of Small Sizes, Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern, Switzerland
1975 View of Japanese Contemporary Art, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1975 Japan I bild: konst från fyra århundraden, Henie Onstad kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
1974 Japan I bild: konst från fyra århundraden, Götborgs konstmusum, med konsthallen, Gothenburg, Sweden,
1974 The Modern Paintings of Tadaaki Kuwayama Plus the Primitive Sculpture of The New Hebrides, Inter River Trading Company, New York, NY, USA
1974 Japan på Louisiana: Moderne Japansk Kunst, Louisiana Museum of Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
1974 Painting – Kuwayama Sculpture – Kipp, Galerie Denise René, New York, NY, USA1974 JAPAN: Tradition unde Gegenwart, Stadtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
1974 The 1960s: Color Painting in the United States from the Michener Collection,The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
1974 Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1974 Japanese Artists in the Americas, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
1973 Art and Things: Paintings in the Sixties, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
1973 Japanese Artists in the Americas, The National Museum of Modern Art,Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1973 The Art of Surface: A Survey of Contemporary Japanese Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1972 The Michener Collection: American Paintings of the Twentieth Century, The Michener Galleries, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA 1972 50 Jahre Museum Folkwang in Essen III: Kunst seit 1960, (Traveling Show) Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany; The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA; Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1972 The ‘60s Revisited, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA
1971 The Sixties from the Michener Collection, The University of Texas at Austin, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, USA
1971 Contemporary American Drawings, French & Company, New York, NY, USA
1971 Saikodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1971 The Exhibition of Tokyo Gallery 1971, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1970 20th Century American Masters, William Zierler Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1970 American Paintings of the Sixties from the Michener Collection, The University of Texas at Austin, (Traveling Show) Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX, USA; Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, IN, USA; University of Illinois, IL, USA
1969 Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1968 Selections from the Michener Foundation Collection, Freedman Art Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, USA
1968 Plus by Minus: Today’s Half-Century, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
1968 The 1st Trienniale-India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
1968 Cool Art 1967, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA
1967 Normal Art, The Lannis Museum of Normal Art, New York, NY, USA
1967 The 1967 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
1967 Domestic Exhibition of 1st Indian Triennial of Contemporary World Art, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1967 Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA
1967 Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1967 Neue Formen der Farbe, (Traveling Show) Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany; Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
1966 Black & White, Wordsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, USA 1966 Four Directions: Burns, Breder, Brass, Kuwayama, A.M.Sax Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1966 Vormen van de Kleur, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1966 Systemic Painting, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA.
1966 White on White, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, USA
1966 Cross Section of Contemporary Art, (Traveling Show) Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, USA; State University of New York, College at Oswego, Oswego, NY, USA; Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA; Bemidji State College Bemidji, MN, USA; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, Canada; University of California Riverside, CA, USA; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, USA; Ithaca College Ithaca, NY, USA; Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
1965 FIVE PAINTERS, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1965 Exhibition of Japanese Artists Abroad: Europe and America, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1965 White on White, De Cordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA, USA
1965 Cross Section of Contemporary Art, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, USA; Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Davenport, IA, USA; Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS, USA; Fort Wayne Art Museum, Fort Wayne, IN, USA; Oak Ridge Community Art Center, Oak Ridge, TN, USA; Huntington Galleries, Huntington, WV, USA; Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA; Paterson State College, Wayne, NJ, USA; Bacardi Imports Inc., Miami, Fl, USA
1965 New Eyes, Chrysler Museum, Provincetown, MA, USA
1965 Contemporary Japanese Painting, Laura Knott Gallery, Bradford Junior College, Bradford, MA, USA
1964 Daniels Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1964 Cross Section of Contemporary Art, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN, USA
1964 Motion and Movement, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
1964 June Exhibition, Green Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1964 Classic and Poetic Box Forms in Art, Southampton Art Gallery East, NY, USA
1964 Box Show, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1963 Formalists, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C., USA
1963 Green Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1962 Geometric Paintings Classic & Romantic, Jerrold Morris International Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1961 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
1961 Colorado College Museum, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
1961 The 1961 Pittsburgh International: Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
1960 A Group of Paintings, Sculptures and Drawings, Green Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1960 New Currents / Six Younger American Painters, Holland Goldowsky Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
【 AWARDS & GRANTS 】
1986 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
1969 National Endowment for the Arts
1964 Art in America New Talent
【 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS 】
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, USA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, The University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA Artizon Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, USA
Chiba City Museum, Chiba, Japan
Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY, USA
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
Kure Museum of Art, Kure, Japan
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblesbaek, Denmark
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Museum fur Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, USA
Nagoya City art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Nationalgalerie Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan
Pola Museum of Modern Art, Hakone, Japan
Rupertinum Museum, Salzburg, Austria
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
SFMOMA San Francisco, USA
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Shizuoka, Japan
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
Stiftung fur Konstruktive und Konkrete Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA
The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art Seibu Takanawa, Karuizawa, JapanThe Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, USA
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, USA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
1932 Born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
1956 BFA, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Department of Japanese painting
1958 Moved to United States
【 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 】
2024 Tadaaki Kuwayama, Taka Ishii Gallery (Maebashi Space), Maebashi, Japan
2024 Tadaaki Kuwayama & Rakuko Naito: In Silence: An Ode to Nothing, Whitestone Gallery, Hong Kong
2023 Tadaaki Kuwayama: 1932–2023, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2023 Kuwayama/Naito, The Mayor Gallery, London, UK
2022 In your arm I am radiant, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Alison Bradley Projects. New York City, NY, USA (Curated by Gabriela Rangel)
2021 Tadaaki Kuwayama, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Germany
2021 Tadaaki Kuwayama: selected works of 60y & collaborations, Taubert Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2020 Kuwayama Naito, Christie’s NYC, New York, NY, USA
2019 Adrian Rosenfeld, San Francisco, CA, USA
2019 Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2019 Whitestone Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.
2018 Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018 Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI,USA
2018 Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, USA
2017 Tadaaki Kuwayama: Radical Neutrality, The Mayor Gallery, London, UK
2017 Recent Works, Willem Baars Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016 Tadaaki Kuwayama: From the 60s Till Today, Galerie Grand Ciecle, Taipei
2016 Tadaaki Kuwayama: Titanium 4 Colors, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2016 Not Primary Color, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI, USA
2015 Gallery Shilla, Daegu, Korea
2015 Tadaaki Kuwayama: Early Work, 1962-1975, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2014 Tadaaki Kuwayama: Pure Painting, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI, USA
2013 Tadaaki Kuwayama, Gallery Shilla, Daegu, Korea
2013 Titanium 2 Lines, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2013 60-70s, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2013 Tadaaki Kuwayama Titanium-Art as Space, Space as Art, Nagoya University of Art, Art & Designed Center, Aichi, Japan
2013 Titanium, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2012 TADAAKI KUWAYAMA: HAYAMA, The Museum Modern Art, Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan
2012 Six Elements or More, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY, USA2012 Gary Snyder Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2011 White Tadaaki Kuwayama Osaka Project, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2011 Untitled: Tadaaki Kuwayama, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
2011 Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2010 Out of Silence: Tadaaki Kuwayama, Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
2010 Nagoya Gallery, Aichi, Japan
2008 Gold & Silver Recent Works, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Tokyo, Japan
2008 Bjorn Ressle Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2008 PAINTINGS FROM THE 1970s, Gary Snyder Project Space, New York, NY, USA
2008 Large Paintings from 60s & 70s, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
2006 One Room Project 2006, Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
2006 Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2006 One Room Project 2006 in Osaka, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2006 Galerie König, Hanau/Frankfurt, Germany
2005 ’90 [part 1-2], Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2003 Selected Works 1992-2003, Tamada Project, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Space as Art-Art as Space, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2002 Galerie Renate Bender, Munich, Germany
2002 Tadaaki Kuwayama: Repetition & Continuity II, Riva Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2001 Folin/Riva Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2001 Project’ 01, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan;
2001 Contemporary Art Space Osaka, Osaka, Japan
2000 Towards Utopia, Contemporary Art Space Osaka, Osaka, Japan
2000 TADAAKI KUWAYAMA: Positionenreihe 17, Rupertinum Museum, Salzburg, Austria
1998 The Zurich Intervention, Stiftung fur Konstruktive und Konkrete Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
1997 A Retrospective for Works, Galerie Renate Bender, Munich, Germany
1997 PROJECT FOR INGOLSTADT, Museum für Konkrete Kunst (Städtische Galerie im Teather Ingolstadt), Ingolstadt, Germany
1997 Recent Works, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1996 Recent Drawings, Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996 PROJECT ’96, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan,
1996 PROJECT ’96, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
1995 Project for Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst Reutlingen, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany
1994 Past Through Present Eye, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1994 Pencil and Wax on Paper, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1994 Drawing on Mylar, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1993 Recent Works, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1993 60s-90s, Shugado Gallery, Osaka, Japan1992 5 Metallic Colors, Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992 The Snow Country Suite, Ibaraki Municipal Kawabata Literature Memorial Hall, Osaka, Japan
1992 Metallic Green, Sakura Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1991 NEW PRINTS, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1991 Recent Works, Gallery Yamaguchi Warehouse, Osaka, Japan
1991 Gilbert Brownstone et Cie, Paris, France
1990 RECENT WORKS 1989-90, Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1990 The Snow Country Suite, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1990 The Snow Country Suite, Gallery Yonetsu, Tokyo, Japan
1990 The Snow Country Suite, Gallery Sumi, Okayama, Japan
1990 Drawings, Gallery Sumi, Okayama, Japan
1989 Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
1989 Sakura Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1989 Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1989 Bilder 1988-1989, Galerie Reckermann, Köln, Germany
1989 Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1989 O.K.Harris Works of Art, New York, NY, USA
1988 Part V: Chrome Age 1968-69, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1988 Part IV: Cross Chrome Age 1966, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1988 Part III: Pigment Age – Canvas 1962-65, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1988 Part II: Pigment Age – Paper 1960-61, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1988 Part I: New Paintings – White Series 1986-78, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1988 New Paintings, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1985 A Retrospective 1960-1985, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
1985 By Two Recent Works, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1985 Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, Japan
1985 Laboratory, Hokkaido, Japan
1984 Early Paintings, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1984 New Paintings, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1983 Sakura Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1983 NEW PAINTING, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1982 Ölbilder 1980 bis 1982, Gimpel-Hanover + André Emmerich Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1982 Ölbilder 1980 bis 1982, Galerie Reckermann, Köln, Germany
1982 Galerie Linie, Moers, Germany
1981 KUWAYAMA WALLS, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1980 Drawings, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1979 Protech-McIntosh Gallery, Washington D.C., USA
1979 Sakura Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1978 Koh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1977 Galerie Denise René, New York, NY, USA
1976 Drawings Show, Contemporary Art Laboratory-T, Tokyo, Japan
1975 Galerie Denise Rene, New York, NY, USA1975 Bilder und Zeichnungen, Galerie Müller, Stuttgart, Germany
1974 Einraum Ausstellungen ’74, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
1974 Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1973 Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1973 Galerie Kowallek, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1973 Bilder 1966-1973, Galerie Reckermann, Köln Germany
1972 New Paintings, Henri 2, Washington D.C., USA
1969 Galerie Reckermann, Köln, Germany
1969 Henri Gallery, Washington D.C.
1968 Galerie d’Aujourd’hui, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1968 Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
1968 Galleria del Leone, Venice, Italy
1967 New Paintings, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
1967 Franklin Siden Gallery, Detroit, MI, USA
1967 Galerie Mutzenbach, Dortmund, Germany
1967 Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
1967 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1966 The Systemic Paintings of Kuwayama, The Red Carpet Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA
1965 Daniels Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1964 Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1962 Swetzoff Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
1962 Green Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1961 PAINTINGS, Green Gallery, New York, NY, USA
【 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 】
2025 Snowmelt, Alison Bradley Projects. New York City. NY. USA
2024 The Secrets of Color from Impressionism to Contemporary Art, Pola Museum, Hakone, Japan
2024 Friend, Ki Smith Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
2022 No Title, Not Untitled, Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2022 Kankaku, Alison Bradley Projects. New York City, NY, USA
2019 Material Existence, Bellagio, Las Vegas, NV, USA (curated by Alison Bradley)
2019 Tadaaki Kuwayama and Rakuko Naito, Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2018 MINIMALISM: SPACE. LIGHT. OBJECT., Singtel Special Exhibition Gallery, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
2018 Inventing The New: Tadaaki Kuwayama & Rakuko Naito, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI, USA
2018 Taka Ishii Gallery New York, New York, NY, USA
2018 Giant Steps: Artists and the 1960s, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
2018 The Essential Perspective. Minimalisms in the Helga de Alvear Collection, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
2018 FIRST CHOICE 2018: A selection of post-war highlights, Willem BaarsProjects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018 NAITO & KUWAYAMA, Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018 Being Alive, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI, USA
2017 Gallery Selections: Assorted Artists, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2017 - light of darkness abysm -, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2017 Tadaaki Kuwayama and Rakuko Naito, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2017 Interaction of Color, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2017 Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY, USA
2016 NEW SPACE with THE ARTISTS and ART, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2015 Printer's Proof: Thirty Years at Wingate Studio, Stone Gallery at Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
2015 Op Infinitum: 'The Responsive Eye' Fifty Years After (Part II) - American Op Art In The 60s, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
2015 Characteristic Sense of The Rectangle, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2013 LINE [Tadaaki Kuwayama / Akiko Horio / Simon Fitzgelard, Gallery Yamaguchi Kunst-bau, Osaka, Japan
2011 Surface, Support, Process: The 1960s Monochrome in the Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
2011 Painting in Parts, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, USA
2010 grid: Minimal Art and Kimono, grid I, Tottori, Japan
2010 Aichi, Contemporary Art, Nagakute Bunka-no-Ie, Aichi, Japan
2009 The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
2008 Eureka! : art as traces and/or lines, Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, Shinsaibashi Temporary Exhibition Space, Osaka, Japan
2008 Choosing, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Humburg, Germany
2008 New American Abstraction 1950-70, Gary Snyder Project Space, New York, NY, USA
2007 Margin of Painting: Minimal Art, Cohju Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan
2005 Placements, Galerie König, Hanau/Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
2004 Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland.
2004 Monochromos: de Malevich al Presente, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2002 The Unfinished Century: Legacies of 20th Century Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Samadhi, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, USA.
2002 Austere Geometry, Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY, USA.
2000 Towards Utopia, Contemporary Art Space, Osaka, Japan
2000 Summer Group Show, Folin/Riva Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2000 Photograph / Painting / Plane: Collection of Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, ATC Museum, Osaka, Japan
1999 5th Kitakyushu Biennale Aesthetics of Repetition and Continuity, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
1998 Collection of Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
1997 Ad Reinhardt, Tadaaki Kuwayama, Donald Judd, and Flavin, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1997 Tadaaki Kuwayama / Andreas Karl Schulze, Japaniches Kulturinstitut Köln, Köln, Germany.
1996 Creativity of Abstract Paintings, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan
1996 The Structure of Painting: One Color, One Form, Bumpodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Yo Akiyama, Tadaaki Kuwayama, Frank Stella, Julian Schnabel, Gallery Emon, Aichi, Japan
1995 Structure and Void: Matti Kujassalo and Tadaaki Kuwayama, Galerie Renate Bender, Munich, Germany
1994 Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky, (Traveling Show) Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Soho, New York, NY, USA; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, USA (-’95)
1993 Rudolf Mumprecht, Hernández Pijuan, Tadaaki Kuwayama: DREI POSITIONEN, Galerie Mielich-Bender, Munich, Germany
1993 Works on Paper: TADAAKI KUWAYAMA, TOEKO TATSUNO, MASAAKI YAMADA, Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1993 Metallic Work, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1993 Prints Show: Donald Judd, Tadaaki Kuwayama, Brice Barden, Joel Shapiro, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1993 Judd & Kuwayama: 60’s works and prints, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
1993 Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1992 Esoace446, Osaka, Japan
1992 TADAAKI KUWAYAMA, RAKUKO NAITO, Sakura Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1991 After Reinhardt: The Ecstasy of Denial, Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1991 THE PAINTINGS: POST 50’S Vol.II, Gallery Yonetsu, Tokyo, Japan
1991 Contemporary Art of America and Japan: Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Saitama, Japan
1991 Abstract Art in Japan, Art Museum Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Minimal and ..., Gallery Yamaguchi, Warehouse, Osaka, Japan
1990 Minimal Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan
1990 TADAAKI KUWAYAMA, MASAAKI YAMADA: two man show, Gallery Yamaguchi, Warehouse, Osaka, Japan
1990 An exhibition to commemorate the publication of Gazing at Hokusai’s Constellation, Sakura Gallery, Aichi, Japan
1990 Carl Andre, Tadaaki Kuwayama, Donald Judd, Gallery Yamaguchi, Warehouse, Osaka, Japan
1990 THE PAINTINGS: POST 50’s, Gallery Yonetsu, Tokyo, Japan1990 Tadaaki Kuwayama, Masaaki Yamada, Gallery Yamaguchi, Warehouse, Osaka, Japan
1990 Gegenwart Ewigkeit, Berlinische Galerie [Martin-Gropius-Bau], Berlin, Germany
1989 TECHNO-METAPHYSICS: Five Japanese Artists, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1989 Blank in Modern Painting: from Cézanne to Conceptual Art: an Approach to Modern Art, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
1988 Art Kite, (Traveling Show) The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan; Mie Prefectural Museum of Art, Mie, Japan; The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Shiga, Japan; The Himeji Castle Sannomaru Park, Hyogo, Japan; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan; Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Munich, Germany; Paris, France; Düsseldorf, Germany; Moscow, Russia; Vienna, Austria; London, UK; and New York, NY, USA
1987 Paintings in Japanese Contemporary Art, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Japan
1987 The Tenth Anniversary Exhibition: Panting 1977-1987, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan
1987 The 18th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan 1987, (Traveling Show) Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Kyoto Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan; The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan
1986 Black and White in Art Today, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Saitama, Japan Gallery Biitker, Detroit, MI, USA
1986 The Message: Japanese Contemporary Paintings, Sogo Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
1985 Contemporary Japanese Paintings, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
1984 Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, (Traveling Show) Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, NY, USA; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan
1984 Japanese Contemporary Paintings, 1960-1980, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Gunma, Japan
1983 Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, (Traveling Show) San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, USA; The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, USA; The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, USA
1983 Small Works, Bonnier Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1982 Geometric Art at Vassar, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
1982 Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
1982 Kunst wird Material, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Berlin, Garmany.
1982 The 1960’s: A decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan1982 Group Show, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1981 The 1960’s: A decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1981 Konsekvens en Konstnarshyllning till Olle Baertling, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
1981 Contemporary Japanese Art: Trends of Japanese Art in 70’s, Fine Art Center Gallery of Korean Culture and Art Foundation, Seoul, Korea
1981 Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, (Traveling Show) William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Art, Kansas City, MO, USA; Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI, USA; Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI, USA
1980 variations on planar paintings: Tadaaki Kuwayama, Kishio Suga, Masaaki Yamada, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
1980 Japanese Art Now: Tadaaki Kuwayama & Rikuro Okamoto, Japan House Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1980 F. SELLA + TADAAKI KUWAYAMA, Koh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1980 Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, (Traveling Show) Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, TX, USA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, USA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
1979 Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
1978 Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
1978 Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA
1977 The Sacred Image in Traditional and Contemporary Art, East & West, The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York, NY, USA
1977 Less is More: an Exhibition of American Minimal Painting, Koh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1977 Line, Weight, Color, Galerie Denise René, New York, NY, USA
1977 Contemporary Art ’77-1, Contemporary Art Laboratory T, Tokyo, Japan
1977 Aspecte konstrukiver Kunst, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
1976 Contemporary Art Laboratory T, Tokyo, Japan
1975 International Exhibition of Small Sizes, Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern, Switzerland
1975 View of Japanese Contemporary Art, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1975 Japan I bild: konst från fyra århundraden, Henie Onstad kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
1974 Japan I bild: konst från fyra århundraden, Götborgs konstmusum, med konsthallen, Gothenburg, Sweden,
1974 The Modern Paintings of Tadaaki Kuwayama Plus the Primitive Sculpture of The New Hebrides, Inter River Trading Company, New York, NY, USA
1974 Japan på Louisiana: Moderne Japansk Kunst, Louisiana Museum of Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
1974 Painting – Kuwayama Sculpture – Kipp, Galerie Denise René, New York, NY, USA1974 JAPAN: Tradition unde Gegenwart, Stadtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
1974 The 1960s: Color Painting in the United States from the Michener Collection,The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
1974 Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1974 Japanese Artists in the Americas, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
1973 Art and Things: Paintings in the Sixties, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
1973 Japanese Artists in the Americas, The National Museum of Modern Art,Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1973 The Art of Surface: A Survey of Contemporary Japanese Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1972 The Michener Collection: American Paintings of the Twentieth Century, The Michener Galleries, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA 1972 50 Jahre Museum Folkwang in Essen III: Kunst seit 1960, (Traveling Show) Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany; The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA; Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1972 The ‘60s Revisited, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA
1971 The Sixties from the Michener Collection, The University of Texas at Austin, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, USA
1971 Contemporary American Drawings, French & Company, New York, NY, USA
1971 Saikodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1971 The Exhibition of Tokyo Gallery 1971, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1970 20th Century American Masters, William Zierler Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1970 American Paintings of the Sixties from the Michener Collection, The University of Texas at Austin, (Traveling Show) Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX, USA; Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, IN, USA; University of Illinois, IL, USA
1969 Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1968 Selections from the Michener Foundation Collection, Freedman Art Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, USA
1968 Plus by Minus: Today’s Half-Century, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
1968 The 1st Trienniale-India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
1968 Cool Art 1967, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA
1967 Normal Art, The Lannis Museum of Normal Art, New York, NY, USA
1967 The 1967 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
1967 Domestic Exhibition of 1st Indian Triennial of Contemporary World Art, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1967 Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA
1967 Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1967 Neue Formen der Farbe, (Traveling Show) Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany; Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
1966 Black & White, Wordsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, USA 1966 Four Directions: Burns, Breder, Brass, Kuwayama, A.M.Sax Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1966 Vormen van de Kleur, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1966 Systemic Painting, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA.
1966 White on White, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, USA
1966 Cross Section of Contemporary Art, (Traveling Show) Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, USA; State University of New York, College at Oswego, Oswego, NY, USA; Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA; Bemidji State College Bemidji, MN, USA; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, Canada; University of California Riverside, CA, USA; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, USA; Ithaca College Ithaca, NY, USA; Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
1965 FIVE PAINTERS, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1965 Exhibition of Japanese Artists Abroad: Europe and America, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1965 White on White, De Cordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA, USA
1965 Cross Section of Contemporary Art, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, USA; Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Davenport, IA, USA; Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS, USA; Fort Wayne Art Museum, Fort Wayne, IN, USA; Oak Ridge Community Art Center, Oak Ridge, TN, USA; Huntington Galleries, Huntington, WV, USA; Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA; Paterson State College, Wayne, NJ, USA; Bacardi Imports Inc., Miami, Fl, USA
1965 New Eyes, Chrysler Museum, Provincetown, MA, USA
1965 Contemporary Japanese Painting, Laura Knott Gallery, Bradford Junior College, Bradford, MA, USA
1964 Daniels Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1964 Cross Section of Contemporary Art, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN, USA
1964 Motion and Movement, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
1964 June Exhibition, Green Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1964 Classic and Poetic Box Forms in Art, Southampton Art Gallery East, NY, USA
1964 Box Show, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1963 Formalists, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C., USA
1963 Green Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1962 Geometric Paintings Classic & Romantic, Jerrold Morris International Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1961 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
1961 Colorado College Museum, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
1961 The 1961 Pittsburgh International: Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
1960 A Group of Paintings, Sculptures and Drawings, Green Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1960 New Currents / Six Younger American Painters, Holland Goldowsky Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
【 AWARDS & GRANTS 】
1986 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
1969 National Endowment for the Arts
1964 Art in America New Talent
【 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS 】
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, USA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, The University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA Artizon Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, USA
Chiba City Museum, Chiba, Japan
Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY, USA
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
Kure Museum of Art, Kure, Japan
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblesbaek, Denmark
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Museum fur Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, USA
Nagoya City art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Nationalgalerie Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan
Pola Museum of Modern Art, Hakone, Japan
Rupertinum Museum, Salzburg, Austria
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
SFMOMA San Francisco, USA
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Shizuoka, Japan
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
Stiftung fur Konstruktive und Konkrete Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA
The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art Seibu Takanawa, Karuizawa, JapanThe Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, USA
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, USA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
Biography