Represented▼
Agan Harahap
AIDA Makoto
AKAMATSU Nelo
Albert Yonathan Setyawan
AMANO Yoshitaka
AOYAMA Satoru
Ari Bayuaji
Ashley YK Yeo
Budi Agung Kuswara
DU Kun
EGUCHI Ayane
Entang Wiharso
Gilang Fradika
Heri Dono
HORI Kosai
I Made Djirna
IKEDA Manabu
indieguerillas
Iwan Effendi
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba
KANEKO Tomiyuki
KARIYA Hiroshi
Kemalezedine
Ken + Julia YONETANI
KONDOH Akino
KUMAZAWA Mikiko
MAJIMA Naoko
MATSUKAGE
MIYANAGA Aiko
MIZUNO Rina
MORI Junichi
Namonaki Sanemasa
Nasirun
O JUN
OGINO Yuna
OKADA Hiroko
OKAMOTO Ellie
SHINTSUBO Kenshu
SONE Yutaka
TANADA Koji
TSUTSUI Shinsuke
USAMI Masahiro
Wianta, Made
YAMAGUCHI Ai
YAMAGUCHI Akira
YAMAMOTO Masao
YAMAMOTO Ryuki
HORI Kosai
In 1967 he entered Tama Art University, and in the same year with the assistance of his peers he staged the performance piece “Self-Burial Ceremony”, with which his career as an artist began.He was also active in the Japanese student demonstrations of the late 1960s, from within which he became one of the founders, and subsequently leader, of a movement known as Bijutsuka Kyoto Kaigi (Artists Joint-Struggle Council) or “Bikyoto”, which sought to interrogate the institutionalized nature of art. The works of his early career tended to overlap with the activities of that movement, created as pieces questioning the foundations of art itself. With the aim of breaking through the boundaries of modernist painting, such works took a retroactive approach to the history of painting and become a process of searching for its origins. Departing from this source, Hori traced the development of painting’s formation within Eastern nations and within Japan － and in so doing his own personal pictorial space took form. Meanwhile, he also began zealously developing installation and performances pieces resonating with the many issues and phenomena emerging “on the borderlines” of the society and art of “here and now”. His works have been shown at numerous international exhibitions, including the 1977 Paris Biennale and the 1984 Venice Biennale.
1947 Born in Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, Japan
1967 Entered the department of Painting of Tama Art University, Majoring in Oil Painting
1969 Organized Bikyoto, Council of artists for a United Front.
2002 – Appointed a professor at Tama Art University
2010 Established the Akibatamabi21 alternative space managed by Tama Art University and served as its founding producer (−2012)
2014- Retired from Tama Art University, and is currently an Professor Emeritus
The Garden of the Fall and Rebirth-13
2015
Japanese ink, mineral pigments, dermatograph, charcoal, crayon, oil pastel, silver leaf on canvas
333.3x248.5cm
photo by MIYAJIMA Kei
The Garden of the Fall and Rebirth-12
2015
Japanese ink, mineral pigments, dermatograph, oil pastel, silver leaf on canvas
80.3×60.6cm
photo by MIYAJIMA Kei
The Garden of the Fall and Rebirth-9
2015
Japanese ink, mineral pigments, dermatograph, oil pastel, Japanese paper on canvas
80.3×60.6cm
photo by MIYAJIMA Kei
The Garden of the Fall and Rebirth-8
2015
Japanese ink, gesso,charcoal, dermatograph, oil pastel on canvas
227.3x181.8cm
photo by MIYAJIMA Kei
To Remember - The sea of Mabuni, Okinawa 2013
2014
charcoal on print
110×220cm
photo by MIYAJIMA Kei
naked place-5
2011
Japanese ink, aluminium powder, mineral pigments, Japanese paper, canvas
333.3×248.5cm
photo by MIYAJIMA Kei
naked place-1
2011
Japanese ink, acrylic, aluminium powder, mineral pigments, canvas
227.3×544cm
photo by MIYAJIMA Kei
naked place-4
2011
oil stick, print
110x220cm
photo by MIYAJIMA Kei
naked place-3
2011
Japanese ink, acrylic, aluminium powder, mineral pigments, canvas
227.3x544cm
photo by MIYAJIMA Kei
Solo Exhibitions
2021
“Touching so close and having an openness” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“To remember-who am I ? Hori Kosai+Hori Erize” √K Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan
“Kosai Hori Retrospective” √K Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan
2019
“To remember-who am I ? Hori Kosai+Hori Erize” Maruki Gallery For The Hiroshima Panels, Saitama
“Drawing” Hanaasagi, Tokyo, Japan
2016
“HORI KOSAI”, Gallery 604, Busan, South Korea
2015
“The Garden of the Fall and Rebirth”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
“The Garden of the Fall and Rebirth”, 3331Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
2014
“Naked Place — HORI Kosai”, Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo
2011
“Naked Place”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
2010
SPACE HONGJJE, Seoul, South Korea GALLERY604, Busan, South Korea
2008
GALLERY A story, Seoul / Busan, South Korea
2007
Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo ( also ’80-’82, ’85, ’88, ’92, ’94, ’99, ’00, ’01, ’03, ’05)
2006
Okabe Prints & Publishing House Gallery, Kanagawa
2005
Atelier Rika, Kochi (’95, ’00)
2004
“Retrospective”, Takaoka City Museum of Art, Toyama Gallery Ikeda, Tokyo
2000
“Wind, Air and Memory”, Kuman Museum, Ehime
1999
Gallery Te, Tokyo
1998
Akutsu Gallery, Gunma
1996
“Eyes of the Wind”, Takaoka City Museum of Art, Toyama
Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo (’82-’84, ’87, ’90, ’91, ’93)
1995
Gallery NOW, Toyama (’92) Gallery Ueda, Tokyo (’90-’93)
1994
Gallery Emon, Aichi
1992
Gallery Mori, Ehime Art Space Mauve, Hyogo
1991
“Recent Works of Kosai Hori”, National Museum of Art, Osaka
Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo Yano Art Gallery, Tottori Forum Yu, Nagano (’87)
Galerie Nane Stern, Paris, France (’84)
1990
Lee Kang-So& Kosai Hori, Seam Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
1980
Komai Gallery, Tokyo
1978
Maki Gallery, Tokyo (’75)
1977
Gallery U, Aichi
1976
Shirakaba Gallery, Tokyo
1973
Tamura Gallery, Tokyo Tokiwa gallery, Tokyo
1972
Nirenoki Gallery, Tokyo Atelier Shinon, Tokyo
1971
Space Love Hair, Tokyo
Group Exhibitions
2023
“World in Balance : Art in Japan from the postwar to the present” (AWT / Focus) Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2022
“Grasping at Clouds: Works from the Hara Museum and the Hara Rokuro Collections” Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
“MOMAS Collection” The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
“Various Lives” Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano, Japan
“Collection Exhibition” Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2021
“Fifty years of Printmaking at Tama Art University” Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2020
“Made in Fuchu: twenty years of open studio programs” Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2019
“Special exhibition: After YUSATSU—Noboru Takayama×Noboru Tsubaki×Katsuhiko Hibino× Hiroshi Fuji×Kosai Hori” 3331 Art Fair 2019, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
2018
“1968: Art in the turbulent Age”, Chiba City Museum of Art, travelling to Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Shizuoka City Museum of Art (-2019)
“New Wave : Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1980s”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
“A View of Prints: The Trajectory of the Gendai Hanga Center”, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
2017
“A Trip through the Tokyo Station Gallery Collection: from Railway Art to Picasso” Tokyo Station Gallery
“Collection Exhibition”, Kurobe City Museum, Toyama
2016
“Busan Biennale”, Busan, South Korea
“Water”, Kuragaike Art Salon, Aichi
2013
“Minimal | Post Minimal – The Contemporary Japanese Art from 1970s”, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi
2012
“Aizu Urushi Art Festival”, Fukushima
2011
“Elpis-Sky of Hope”, TOKYO DESIGNRS WEEK2011, Tokyo
2010
“Contemporary Art of China and Japan”, Busan Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2009
“Towards Objet – Transformation of Book World”, Urawa Art Museum, Saitama
2007
“Attitude 2007”, Kumamoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Kumamoto
“Perspective of Contemporary Paintings”, Tokyo Station Gallery
2006
“The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2006”, Niigata
2005
“Himing 2005”, Himi City, Toyama
2004
“Water level of Images”, Toyota City Museum of Art, Aichi
“Intercross of 4 Critics”, Tama Fine Arts University Museum, Tokyo
2003
“The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2003”, Niigata
2002
“Attitude”, Kumamoto Museum of Contemporary Art
2001
“Century City”, Tate Modern, London, U.K.
1999
“Global Conceptualism”, Queens Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A.
1998
“Busan International Contemporary Art Festival”, Busan Museum of Art, South Korea
“Aspects of line”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
1997
“Point of Contact – South Korean, Chinese, and Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Taegu & Culture Hall, South Korea
1996
“An Exhibition of 50 Contemporary Japanese Artists: A Presentiment of the 21Century”, Nabio Museum of Art, Osaka
1995
“Invitation to Abstract Act”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
“Circulating Currents: Japanese and Korean Contemporary art”, The Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi
“Japan Today”, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, U.S.A. traveled to Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden
“About Lines: Non-existing Modernism and Invisible Realism”, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
“Tsubaki-kai Exhibition 1995”, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
“Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years”, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, traveled to Hiroshima, Hyogo and Fukuoka
“Vision from Memory”, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma
1994
“Landscape on the Border”, Rias Ark Museum of Art, miyagi
“Creativity in Asian Art Now”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
1993
“Tsubaki-kai Exhibition 1993”, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
“Ark of Art”, The Museum of Art, Kochi
1992
“Avanguardie Giapponese degli Anmi 70”, Galleia Comunale d’arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy
“The 1st International Contemporary Art Fair Japan”, Pacifico Yokohama Exhibition Hall, Kanagawa
1991
“Painting of the Showa Era: Part3”, The Miyagi Museum of Art
“Contemporary Art 7: The Mind of Japan”, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu
1989
“Europaria Japan 89”, Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
“The Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan 1989: Prospects of Contemporary Art-A Celebration of Painting”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, traveled to Kyoto Municipal Art Museum
1987
“Paintings 1977-1987”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
“Toyama Now ’87”, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
1986
“Contemporary Japanese Art”, Taipei Art Museum, Taiwan
1985
“Exchange d’Art Contemporain, Tokyo- Paris”, Yurakucho Asahi Gallery, Tokyo
1984
“41st Venice Biennale”, Venice, Italy
1983
“International de Arte Valparaiso, 1983”, Valparaiso, Chile
1982
“International Jugend triennale + Meister der Zeichnung”, Nuremberg, Germany
“Arteder ’82-Muestra Internacional de Obra Grafica”, Bilbao, Spain
1980
“1st Hara Annual Perspective for ’80”, Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo
1978
“Artists Today 1978”, Yokohama City Gallery, Kanagawa
“Tokyo Geijutsu-4 1978”, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo
1977
“Tokyo- Bay area Exchange of Contemporary Art”, 80 Langton Street Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.
“10th Biennale de Paris”, Musee d’art Moderne de la vile de Paris, France
1976
“10th Tokyo Biennale for Prints”, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo traveled to The National Museum of Modern Art
1975
“Affair & Practice-Why it-“, Contemporary Culture Center, Tokyo
“The 10th Japan Art Festival”, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan, traveled to Australia and New Zealand
1973
“Artists Today 1973”, Yokohama city Gallery, Kanagawa
“Kyoto Biennale”, Kyoto Municipal Art Museum
“Affair &Practice by 12 Artists”, Pinar Gallery, Tokyo
1969
“The 9th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, traveled to Kyoto Municipal Art Museum
1967
“Self-Burial Ceremony”, On the Ginza street, Tokyo
Public Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Okayama
The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of fine Arts, Tochigi
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa
The Japan Foundation
The National Museum of art, Osaka
Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
Saito Memorial Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Saitama
The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
The Museum of Art, Kochi
Urawa Art Museum, Saitama
Ome City museum, Tokyo
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama
Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima
Chiba city Museum of Art, Chiba
Utsunomiya City Museum of Art, Tochigi
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
Kurobe City Art Museum, Toyama
Niigata City Art Museum
Shiseido Art House, Shizuoka
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa
Tokyo Station Gallery
