NOBUO SEKINE
Born: Saitama, Japan, 1942
Education: BFA, Tama Art University, major in oil painting, Tokyo Japan, 1968
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
Re-creations 1970/2011, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
Monogatari, Shanghai Sculpture Space, Shanghai, China
2010
BE-UP-ART, Tokyo, Japan
2009
Center Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Kawagoe Gallery, Kawagoe, Japan
2008
Gallery Bijutsu Sekai, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Art Composition, Tokyo, Japan
PYO Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2007
Center Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Gallery Bijutsu Sekai, Tokyo, Japan
Shina Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2006
Saint Paul Gallery, Maebashi, Japan
Gallery Bijutsu Sekai, Tokyo, Japan
2005
Gallery Bijutsu Sekai, Tokyo, Japan
MANIF 11! ’05 SEOUL, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2004
Movement, Feeling, Environment, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Beijing, China
Art Dune, Hamamatsu, Japan
Phase of Nothingness - Black from ’78-’79 solo exhibition in Europe, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
2003
Kawagoe City Art Museum, Saitama, Japan
2001
Art Dune, Hamamatsu, Japan
1999
Museum Shokyodo, Aichi, Japan
1998
Saint Paul Gallery, Maebashi, Japan
1997
Kawagoe Gallery, Kawagoe, Japan
Art Dune, Hamamatsu, Japan
1996
Archaeology of Phase - Mother Earth, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan
1993
Gallery Art Point, Tokyo, Japan
Galleri Akern, Kongsberg, Norway
1994
Art Dune, Hamamatsu, Japan
1993
Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
1992
Museum Shokyodo, Aichi, Japan
Nobuo Sekine, Soko Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1991
Kawagoe Gallery, Kawagoe, Japan
Tenmaya Department Store, Okayama, Japan
Anshindo Gallery, Shizuoka, Japan
Art Dune, Hamamatsu, Japan
1990
Tenjuen, Niigata, Japan
Soko Museum, Niigata, Japan
Atelier Gallery, Niigata, Japan
Sogo Department Store, Hiroshima, Japan
Seibu Department Store - Studio 5, Tokyo, Japan
Mitsukoshi Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
1989
Kodosha, Ichinoseki, Japan
Gallery Lamia, Tokyo, Japan
Chikugo Gallery, Kurume, Japan
Mitsui Gallery, Matsudo, Japan
Gallery TAK, Yokohama, Japan
Susono Art House, Susono, Japan
Kozaido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kobundo Gallery, Obihiro, Japan
Gojuichiban-kan Gallery, Aomori, Japan
Gallery Picasso, Maebashi, Japan
Katsuyama Isozaki Hall, Fukui, Japan
Stempfli Gallery, New York, New York
Umeda Modern Art Museum, Osaka, Japan
1988
Gallery M, Obama, Japan
Art Dune, Hamamatsu, Japan
Kozaido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Nishida Gallery, Nara, Japan
Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Anshindo Gallery, Shizuoka, Japan
Gallery Kura, Kitakyushu, Japan
We Gallery, Omiya, Japan
1987
Ginza Jiyugaoka Gallery, Tokyo
Gallery Te, Tokyo, Japan
Kawagoe Gallery, Kawagoe, Japan
Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1985
Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1983
Sekine and Environment Art Studio, Stripe House Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1982
Sekine's Prints and Sculptures: Cross Country 7500Km, Keneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1981
Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
1980
Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1978
Nobuo Sekine: Skulptor 1975-1978, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany; traveled to Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk Denmark; Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands; Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway
1977
Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1976
Gallery Dori, Tokyo, Japan
1975
Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
1973
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1971
Gallery Krebs, Bern, Switzerland
Gallery Birch, Copenhagen, Denmark
1970
Galleria La Bertesca, Genova, Italy
Genoa Gallery Modulo, Milan, Italy
1969
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013
Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
Tricks and Vision to Mono-ha, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX
2012
Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to Haus der Kunst, Munich
Tokyo 1955-1970, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, California
The ‘70s in Japan: 1968-1982, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
The Artists of Mono-ha and Its Era, Rakusui-tei Museum of Art, Toyama, Japan
2011
Gallery’s Collection Exhibition: Mono-ha, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2010
Masan Munsin International Sculpture Symposium, Munsin Art Museum, Masan, Korea
Tokyo Gallery + BTAP 60th Anniversary Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
Yanpyon Environment Festival, Korea
Printing Exhibition of Shanghai World Expo 2010, Shanghai, China
Micro Salon 60, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2009
Drawing Story I 1960-1990, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2008
Tamagawa Art Line Project, Tokyo, Japan
Art Scene Revived, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2007
What is Mono-ha?, Beijing Tokyo Art Project, Beijing, China
Nobuo Sekine & Mitsukuni Takimoto, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
2006
Public Art, Gallery NOVITA, Aomori, Japan
Memorial for Yoshiaki Tono, Gallery TOM, Tokyo, Japan
Mono-ha: Lee Ufan, Kishio Suga, Nobuo Sekine – from the 1970’s, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2005
Reconsidering Mono-ha, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2004
Kim Tschang-Yeul, Sekine Nobuo & Susumu Sakaguchi, Gallery Bijutsu Sekai, Tokyo, Japan
The New Tokyo Gallery Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2003
The 20th Anniversary of Gallery Q, Gallery Q, Tokyo, Japan
2002
Sculpture Project, Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea
Memorial for Yoshishige Saito, Kawamura Gakuen Art Hall, Tokyo, Japan
2001
Century, Tate Modern Art Gallery, London, UK
Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Mono-ha, Kettle’s Yard Art Gallery, Cambridge, UK
Retrospective Exhibition for Nagaoka Museum Prize 1964-68, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata, Japan
2000
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Modern Art of Japan: Monet de Paris, French National Mint Bureau, Paris, France
1998
Lumieves - Light - Rediscovery of Stained Glass, TN Probe, Tokyo, Japan
1997
Modern Art from a Collector's View Point: Yamamura Collection, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
Street Museum, Kawagoe, Japan
1996
Inside and the Outside of Art, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1970 - Material and Perception - Mono-ha and Artists Who Ask Root, Saint Ratienu Museum, France
1995
Archeology of Phase - Mother Earth, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan
Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
46th Venice Biennale: ASIANA Contemporary Art from The Far East, Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, Venice, Italy
Matter and Perception 1970: Mono-ha and the Search for Fundamentals, Museum of Fine Arts Gifu, Gifu, Japan; traveled to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; Musuem of Modern Art Sain-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France
1994
Landscape of Stone, Dockyard Garden, The Landmark Tower Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan
Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Different Natures, La Virreina, Barcelona, Spain
Memorial for Yaeko Fujita: Artists and Sakura Gallery, Sakura Gallery,Nagoya, Japan
Japanese Art after 1945: Scream against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama; traveled to Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
ASIANA Contemporary Art from the Far East, Parazzo, Italy
1993
Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Konishi Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Oomitsu Collection, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Differentes Natures, Visions de l'Art Contemporain, Galerie Art 4 et Galerie de l'Esplanade, Paris, France
Exposition Différentes Natures, Galerie Art La Defense, Paris, France
1992
Avantguardie Giapponesi degli anni 70, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna di Bologna; traveled to Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1991
Gallery Gen-Group Show, Tokyo, Japan
70’s-80’s Contemporary Art: Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1990
Yokohama Business Park, Yokohama, Japan
1989
Japanese Open-Air Sculptures, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
1988
Mono-ha: La Scuola delle cose, Museum Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome Italy
Seen by Hands, Seibu Department Store, Yurakucho, Tokyo, Japan
1987
Art in Japan since 1969: Mono-ha and Post Mono-ha, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Nobuo Sekine and Koji Enokura Recent Print Works, Naruse Murata Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Gallery Group Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1986
Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Lee Ufan, Nobuo Sekine, Kishio Suga: Methods of the 1970s, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Le Japon des Avant-Gardes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1984
Human Documents '84/'85-3, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Art of Present Time. Wood and Paper-Dialogue with Nature, Gifu Prefectural Museum, Gifu, Japan
Development of Contemporary Sculpture, Gallery Seiho, Tokyo, Japan
Sculpture Japonaise Contemporaine, Galerie Jullien-Cornic, Paris, France
1983
Figure of Wood and Esprit, Saitama Prefectural Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1982
Visual Circus
The 1960’s: A Decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan.
1981
Turning Point of Contemporary Art of 1960’s, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Modern Japanese Sculpture, Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Japanese Contemporary Art, The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
The 1960’s: A Decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1980
History of Contemporary Sculpture, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
1977
Japan Art-Festival, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Voices in the Modern Age
Tokyo Gallery Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1976
10th International Biennale Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1975
Contemporary Art Exhibition from 1950 to 1975, Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1974
Two-Man Show with Kuniichi Sima, Gallery Coco, Kyoto, Japan
11th Tokyo Biennale, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition of 20 Artists, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Japan Art Exhibition, Germany
Contemporary Sculpture Symposium, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan
1973
8th Japan Art-Festival, Tokyo, Japan
11th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1971
10th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Gallery 1971, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1970
Art Exhibition of World EXPO 1970, Suita, Osaka, Japan
35th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Human Documents '70-3, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1969
6th Paris Biennale, Paris, France
9th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1st International Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Hakone Open-Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
9 Visual Points, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tricks & Vision: Stolen Eyes, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Trend of Japanese Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Japanese Artist Drawing, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1968
OOXPLAN, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
8th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1st Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Suma Palace Park, Kobe, Japan
5th Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan
1967
Two-Man Show, Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
11th Shell Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
OOOPLAN, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Universiad, Tokyo, Japan
Bibliography
Catalogues and Monographs
2012
Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2012.
Mono-ha Artists and the Era. Toyama: Rakusui-tei Museum of Art, 2012.
Yoshitake, Mika. Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha. Los Angeles: Blum & Poe, 2012.
2011
Monogatari: Nobuo Sekine Arts Exhibition 1970-2011. Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, 2011.
2008
Sekine Nobuo. China: Pyo Gallery, 2008.
2007
What is Mono-ha? Texts by Huang Du, Charles Merewether, Yusuke Nakahara, Yukihito Tabata, and Hozu Yamamoto. Tokyo: Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, 2007.
2006
Sekine, Nobuo. Fukei no yubiwa. Tokyo: Tosho Shinbun, 2006.
2004
Beijing Tokyo Art Projects. Movement, Feeling, Environment: Nobuo Sekine, Environment Art Studio. Beijing: Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, 2004.
2003
Sekine, Nobuo. Concerning with “Environment Art” Sekine. Kawagoe, Japan: Kawagoe Shiritsu Bijutsukan, 2003.
2001
Mono-ha - School of Things. Texts by Tatehata Akira, Simon Groom, Lee Ufan, Cambridge: Kettle’s Yard, 2001.
1996
Isō-Daichi no kōkogaku (Archaeology of Phase-Mother Earth). Nishinomiya: Ōtani Memorial Art Museum, 1996.
Sekine, Nobuo, Masahiro Shino. “Iso, daichi” no kokogaku. Nishinomiya, Japan: Otani Memorial Museum of Art, 1996.
1995
Kamakura Gallery. Mono-ha 1994. Tokyo: Kamakura Gallery, 1995.
1994
Munroe, Alexandra. Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994.
1992
Sekine, Nobuo. Sekine: A Message from Environment Art Studio. Tokyo: Process Architecture, 1992.
1989
Sekine, Nobuo, and Yoshifumi Hayashi. Phase Conception II. Tokyo: Environment Art Studio; Niigata, Japan: Loft Museum Ten, 1989.
1987
Sekine, Nobuo. Sculpture of Scenery: Works of Nobuo Sekine + Environment Art Studio. Tokyo: Process Architecture, 1987.
1986
Mono-ha. Text by Toshiaki Minemura. Tokyo: Kamakura Gallery, 1986.
1985
Sekine, Nobuo. Half-Autobiography: Art and Urban and Pictoral Fiction. Tokyo: PARCO Shuppan, 1985.
1983
Sekine, Nobuo, and Environment Art Studio. From Landscape to Open Space. Tokyo: Shotenkenchiku-Sha, 1983.
1978
Nobuo Sekine: Skulptur 1975-1978. Exh. cat. Humlebaek, Denmark: Louisiana Museum, 1978.
Sekine Nobuo 68-78. Cat. raisonné. Text by Sekine Nobuo. Tokyo: Yuria pemuperu kōbō, 1978.
Sekine Nobuo: 1968-78. Tokyo: Julia Pempel Atelier, 1978.
1977
Sekine Nobuo. Tokyo: Tokyo Gallery and Kaneko Art Gallery; and Nagoya: Sakura Gallery, 1977.
1969
Sekine Nobuo. Text by Nakahara Yūsuke. Tokyo: Tokyo Gallery, 1969.
Articles and Reviews
2013
Cembalest, Robin. "New Perspectives on Art." Vogue (Japan), no. 162 (February 2013): 280-81.
Russell, Heather. "Nobuo Sekine and the Japanese Mono-ha Movement." Artnet.com, March 13, 2013.
Morikawa, Manami. "Special Report: 'Tokyo 1950-1975: A New Avant-Garde' Exhibition." Bijutsu techō 65, no. 982 (April 2013): 98-112.
2012
Akel, Joseph. “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha, Gladstone Gallery.” Modern Painters 24, no. 8 (October 2012): 92.
Balestin, Juliana. "Group Exhibitions 'Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha' at Gladstone Gallery, New York." Purple.fr, July 22, 2012.
Berardini, Andrew. “Mono-ha, the Japanese ‘School of Things’ at Blum & Poe.” LA Weekly, March 8, 2012.
Bryan-Wilson, Julia. "Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974." Artforum 51, no. 3 (November 2012): 269-70.
Cembalest, Robin. “New Perspectives on Art.” Vogue (Japan), no. 162 (February 2013): 280-81.
Chang, Ian. "Requiem for the Sun." Frieze, no. 148 (June-August 2012): 206.
Chong, Doryun. Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2012.
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. “Mono-ha Revisited.” KCRW.com, February 23, 2012, http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/at/at120223mono-ha_revisited.
Favell, Adrian. “Mono-ha in LA.” ARTiT.com (blog), February 27, 2012, http://www.art-it.asia/u/rhqiun/zMnqaA0XIdfS8NHW5v2x/.
Ferguson, Russell. “Best of 2012.” Artforum 51, no. 4 (December 2012): 218.
From Postwar to Postmodern: Art in Japan 1945-1989 : Primary Documents. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2012.
Haber, John. “Zen and the Art of Minimalism.” Haberarts.com, August 3, 2012, http://www.haberarts.com/monoha.htm.
Halperin, Julia. “Blum & Poe’s Survey Touches Off Mono-ha Mania - And It’s Coming to New York.” Artinfo.com, April 23, 2012, http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/800839/blum-poes-survey-touches-off-mo....
Halperin, Julia. "One-Line Reviews: Our Staff's Pithy Takes on the Mono-ha Retrospective, Summer's First Group Shows, and More." Artinfo.com, June 29, 2012, http://www.artinfo.com/photo-galleries/one-line-reviews-our-staffs-pithy... group-shows-and-more/?image=2&_suid=135542772166208163063190438622.
Hiro, Rika. "Exhibition Report - Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha in LA." Bijutsu techō, no. 6 (June 2012): 212-19.
Hiro, Rika. “‘Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha’ in Los Angeles: Encounters with Objects, Mono-ha, and the World.” Bijutsu techō (English Supplement), no. 2 (Spring 2012): 3-5.
Johnson, Caitlin. “Mono-ha at Blum & Poe.” Los Angeles I’m Yours, April 9, 2012, http://www.laimyours.com/13859/mono-ha-at-blum-poe/.
Kee, Joan. “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha.” Artforum 50, no. 9 (May 2012): 316.
Knight, Christopher. “Worldly, Refined.” Los Angeles Times, March 21, 2012.
Momen, Motin. “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha.” StyleZeitgeist.com (blog), July 2012, http://www.sz-mag.com/news/2012/07/mono-ha/.
Myers, Holly. “Simple, Elegant Design.” Los Angeles Times, March 9, 2012.
Raffel, Amy. “Gladstone Gallery, Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha.” Workspacesllc.com (blog), July 26, 2012, http://www.workspacesllc.com/blog/gladstone-gallery-requiem-for-the-sun-....
Rawlings, Ashley. “Turning the World Inside Out: A Major Survey of Mono-ha in Los Angeles.” Art in Australia 49, no.4 (Winter 2012): 580-83.
Ritter, Gabriel. “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha.” ArtAsiaPacific, no. 79 (July-August 2012): 120.
Schad, Ed. “Requiem for the Sun.” ArtReview, no. 59 (May 2012): 122-23.
Yau, John. "Nobuo Sekine and Charles Ray and Their Sculptures Filled with Liquid." Hyperallergic.com, July 29, 2012.
2011
Wallis, Stephen. "Mono-ha Moment." Art in America 99, no. 11 (December 2011): 65-66.
2007
Minemura, Toshiaki. “Difference in the Development of ‘Mono’: On a Visit to the What is Mono-ha? Exhibition in Beijing.” Mainichi Shimbun (evening edition), June 21, 2007.
Rawlings, Ashley. “An Introduction to Mono-ha.” TokyoArtBeat.com, September 8, 2007, http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/tablog/entries.en/2007/09/an-introduction-to....
2001
Safe, Emma. “Mono-ha - School of Things.” Art Monthly, no 248 (July-August 2001): 34-35.
Cowan, Amber. “The Five Best Shows Nationwide: Mono-ha: School of Things.” Times (London), February 6, 2001.
1999
Reed, Robert. “Terror in the Bronze.” Winds (January 1999): 30-32.
1978
"Nobuo Sekine." Louisiana Revy, 19, no. 1 (August 1978): 18-23. (translated sections of the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf catalog).
1975
Yasui, Shūzō. “Sekine Nobuo shōron. Kono <isō> no shitsuyō na tankyūsha” (Short essay on Sekine Nobuo. A tenacious investigator of this “phase”). Hanga geijutsu (Print arts), no. 11 (1975): 142-48.
1973
Yasui, Shūzō. “Sekine Nobuo e no tegami” (A letter to Sekine Nobuo). Kindai kenchiku, June 1973.
Minemura, Toshiaki. “Geijutsu jānaru: Sekine Nobuo koten” (Art journal: Sekine Nobuo solo exhibition). Obararyū sōka, June 1973.
1972
Haryu, Ichiro. “Dialogue number 31: Sekine, Nobuo, Interviewer Haryu, Ichiro.” Mizue 9-10, no. 812 (1972): 84-101.
1971
Ufan, Lee. “Chokusetsu genshō no chihei ni (Sekine Nobuo ron)” (From the horizon of a direct phenomenon [On Sekine Nobuo]). Pts. 1 and 2. SD, no. 74 (December 1970); no. 75 (January 1971).
1970
Ōkubo, Takaki. “Sekine Nobuo no kūsō” (Sekine Nobuo’s phase of nothingness). Kai, March 1970.
1969
Ōkubo, Takaki. “Sonzai to mu o koete-Sekine Nobuo ron” (Beyond being and nothingness - On Sekine Nobuo). Sansai, June 1969, 51-53.
1968
Yūsuke, Nakahara. “<Tsuchi no chōkoku> no episode” (The episode of the “dirt sculpture”). Geijutsu shinchō, December 1968, 43.
Public Collections
Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Japan
Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshima Contemporary Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
Kanai Museum, Hokkaido, Japan
Kawagoe City Art Museum, Saitama, Japan
Louisiana Museum, Denmark
Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagaoka, Japan
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam, Holland
Prefectural Museum, Gunma, Japan
Prefectural Museum, Omiya, Saitama, Japan
Prefectural Museum, Tochigi, Japan
Riijksmuseum Kroller, Otterlo, Holland
Seibu Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Sonji Henie-Nils Onstad Culture Center, Oslo, Norway
Takamatsu Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
Yokohama Business Park, Yokohama, Japan
Awards
1969
Concour Prize, 1st International Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Hakone, Japan
Prize Group Work, 6th Paris Biennale, Paris, France
1968
Concour Prize, 8th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Asahi Newspaper Prize, Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Suma Palace Park, Kobe, Japan
First Prize, 5th Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagaoka, Japan
1967
Commendatory Prize, 11th Shell Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan