SUSUMU Koshimizu
 
Born:                    
Uwajima City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
 
Education:              
Tama Art University, Department of Sculpture, Tokyo, Japan, 1966
 
Awards:                 
Medal with Purple Ribbon, 2004
Awarded 2nd Enku Grand Award, 2003
Awarded Prize for Merit, Kyoto Prefecture Cultural Award, 1999
Joined faculty of Kyoto City University of Arts, Department of Sculpture, 1994
Awarded 10th Denchu Hirakushi Prize, 1994
Awarded Prize for Excellence, 11th Teijiro Nakahara Awards, 1980
 
Selected Solo Exhibitions

 
2010                     
Gravity/Mass/Work, Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
Snow Departs from Snow, Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
 
2007                     
Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan
 
2005                     
Kuma Museum of Art, Ehime,Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan
 
2001                     
Pathway: The Working Table Series, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 
1993                     
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 
1992                     
Sculptor of Today, of a Culture, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
Sculptor of Today, of a Culture, Ehime Prefectural Museum of Art, Ehime, Japan

1991
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan  

1988                     
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 
1983                    
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 
1981                      
To Celebrate 10th Denchu Hirakushi Prize, Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
 
1980                      
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 
1971                      
Tamura 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
Re: Quest―Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

2012      
Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mona-Ha, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY

2011
Gallery's Collections Exhibition: Mono-ha, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan

2010
Tokyo Gallery + BTAP 60th Anniversary Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
Micro Salon 60, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan

2008
Art Scene Revived, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo Japan
 
2005                      
Reconsidering Mono-ha, Osaka National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

2004
Susumu Koshimizu & Takeshi Hayashi, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
 
2001                      
Century City Art and Culture in The Modern Metropolis, Tate Modern, London, UK
 
2000                      
Aspects of Korean and Japanese Contemporary Art, 3rd Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
 
1998                      
The Domain of the Form: Functional Beauty and Its Transmigration, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

1996
Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition: Water Front, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
 
1995                     
Matter and Perception 1970: Mono-ha and the Search for Fundamentals, Museum of Fine Arts Gifu, Gifu, Japan; traveled to Hiroshima City Museum of Art; Kitakyushu Municipal Art Museum; Saitama Prefetural Art Museum; and Saint Etienne Municipal Art Museum, France 

 
1994                      
Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
  
1989                      
20ste Biennale Middelheim – Japan, Openluchtmuseum voor Beeldhouwkunst,
Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium
 
1988                      
Monoha–La scuolla della cose, University of Rome, Rome, Italy
 
1986                      
Avant-Garde Art of Japan 1910–1970, Pompidou Centre, Paris
, France

1984
Human Documents '84/'85-3, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 
1983                     
17th Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo, Brazil
 
1980                      
39th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
 
1976                      
37th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
  
1971                      
7th Paris Youth Biennale, Paris, France
 
1970                      
10th International Art Exhibition, Japan-Tokyo Biennale ’70: Between Man and Matter, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Human Documents '70-3, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Bibliography

2013
Morikawa, Manami. "Special Report: 'Tokyo 1950-1975: A New Avant-Garde' Exhibition." Bijutsu Techo 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.
Cembalest, Robin. "New Perspectives on Art." Vogue (Japan), no. 162 (February 2013): 2801-281. 
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.
Favell, Adrian. “Mono-ha in LA,” ArtiT, February 27, 2012.
Ferguson, Russell. “Best of 2012.” Artforum 51, no. 4 (December 2012): 218.
Haber, John. "Zen and the Art of Minimalism." Haberarts.com, August 3, 2012. 
Halperin, Julia. “Blum & Poe’s Survey Touches Off Mono-Ha Mania—And It’s Coming to New York,” Artinfo.com, April 23, 2012.
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.
Hiro, Rika. "Exhibition Report-Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha in LA" Bijutsu Techo, 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 Techo (English Supplement), no. 2 (Spring 2012): 3-5.
Johnson, Caitlin. "Mono-ha at Blum & Poe," Los Angeles I’m Yours, April 9, 2012.
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.
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.
Schad, Ed. “Requiem for the Sun.” ArtReview, no. 59 (May 2012): 122-123.
Yoshitake, Mika. Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha. Los Angeles: Blum & Poe, 2012.

2011                 
Wallis, Stephen. "Mono-ha Moment." Art in America 99, no. 11 (December 2011): 65-66.

2005                 
Koshimizu Susumu—Kino ishino mizuno iro (Koshimizu Susumu: The color of trees, stones and water). Text by Kitazawa Noriaki. Matsuyama: Sōfūsha, 2005.

1992
Koshimizu Susumu-ten: Chōkoku, gendai, fūdo/Susumu Koshimizu: Sculptor of Today, of a Culture. Texts by Minemura Toshiaki and Okada Kiyoshi. Gifu: Museum of Fine Arts, 1992.

1978                 
Minemura, Toshiaki. “Mienai atorie: Koshimizu Susumu” (Unseen studio: Koshimizu Susumu. Pts. 21–23. Obararyū sōka, February, March, April 1978.

1975
Inui, Yoshiaki. “Koshimizu Susumu: Busshitsu to katachi no hazama no ōkan” (Koshimizu Susumu. Treading the space between matter and form]. Bijutsu techō, May 1975, 103–27.
Koshimizu, Susumu. “Sakkaron: Koshimizu Susumu. <Nihonjin no dojin>” (Artist essay: Koshimizu Susumu. “Native Japanese”). Bijutsu techō, May 1975, 128–33.

1972
Okada, Takahiko. “Koshimizu Susumu. Katachi to busshitsu no hikiai” (Koshimizu Susumu. The attraction between form and matter). Obararyū sōka, November 1972, 53–55.

1971
Koshimizu Susumu. Text by Haryū Ichirō. Tokyo: Pinar Galleries, 1971.