SONE Yutaka

2003 Outset/Frieze Art Fair fund to Benefit the Tate Collection

1997 VOCA Encouragement Prize

1996 Philip Morris Art Award Grand Prize

1992 Tokyo University of the Arts Masters Graduation Exhibition Salon de Printemps Prize

2024

Last Night of the Stone Age “Three Stories of Today” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

 

2023

OBSIDIAN, Tommy Simoens Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

 

2022

－・－・　・－　－・　・－・・　・－－　－・・－　・・－－　－・・　・・　－－－　・－－－－　・・－－－　－－－－－　－－－・・ 〜Memories of the Invasion, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan [two-person exhibition with AIDA Makoto]

MOVIE THEATRE, Tommy Simoens Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

 

2020

La Última Noche de la Edad de Piedra, José García, Mexico

Halfway Happy: vol. 1 Yutaka Sone, Gallery αM, Tokyo, Japan

 

2017

Obsidian, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China

Michoacán Report II, Tommy Simoens Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

Yutaka Sone: Travel 1987-1988, Museumof Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA), Antwerp, Belgium

 

2016

Michoacán Report I, Tommy Simoens Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

Day and Night, David Zwirner, New York, NY, USA

 

2013

Sculpture, David Zwirner, London, UK

Yutaka Sone and Benjamin Weissman: What Every Snowflake Knows in Its Heart, Santa Monica

Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA [two-person exhibition]

 

2012

Snow: Echigo-Tsumari, Noh Butai Snow-Land Agrarian Culture Center, Tokamachi, Niigata, Japan [as part of Snow Art Project Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2012 Winter]

 

2011

Island, David Zwirner, New York, NY, USA

Perfect Moment, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan

 

2010

Snow, Maison Hermès Le Forum, Tokyo, Japan

 

2009

Baby Banana Tree, The Boone Sculpture Garden, Pasadena City College, CA, USA [permanent Installation]

 

2008

Baby Banana Tree, Guadalajara City Hall, Mexico

 

2007

Secret for snow leopard: Yutaka Sone, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK

Yutaka Sone, David Zwirner, New York, NY, USA

Roller Coaster Project, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan [two-person exhibition with Damon McCarthy]

 

2006

It Seems Like Snow Leopard Island, David Zwirner, New York

Like Looking For Snow Leopard, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland

X-Art Show, Aspen Museum of Art, CO, USA

Yutaka Sone Forecast: Snow, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, IL, USA

 

2005

Snow, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo

 

2004

Amusement Romana, David Zwirner, New York, NY, USA

Vertical Travel, Bowie Van Valen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

2003

Heterotopias: Yutaka Sone and Motohiko Odani, Japanese Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale, Italy [two-person exhibition]

White Cave, Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Mine, Japan

Jungle Island, Museum of Contemporary Art at the Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, USA

OPA (Oficina para Proyectos de Arte), Guadalajara, Mexico

 

2002

Travel to Double River Island, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan

 

2000

Double Six, Artpace, San Antonio, TX, USA

 

1999

Yutaka Sone, David Zwirner, New York, NY, USA

Yutaka Sone/Video Works 1995–1998, Kohji Ogura Gallery/Museum of Contemporary Art, Aichi, Japan

Alpine Attack, Sogetsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

 

1998

Rat Race, Super Factory, Hiroshima, Japan

Her 19th Foot/Tour de France Project Drawings, Nagamine Projects, Tokyo, Japan

Magic Stick/Happy Birthday, AARA About Art Related Activities, About Studio/About Cafe, Bangkok, Thailand

 

1997

Amusement, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan

At the End of All the Journeys, Hiroshima City Contemporary Art Museum, Japan [itinerary: Shiseido Art House, Kakegawa, Japan; Navin Taxi Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand]

 

1996

Future Perfect, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Scoop, Mitaka City Arts Foundation, Tokyo, Japan

 

1995

Departures, Roentgen Kunst Institute, Tokyo, Japan

 

1994

Her 19th Foot, Nippon International Contemporary Art Fair, Kanagawa Japan

Space Luxury Art, Hosomi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Yutaka Sone, Mars Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

 

1993

One Hand Clapping, Yokohama Galleria Bellini, Kanagawa, Japan

Her 19th Foot, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan

2023

Last Night of the Stone Age, Tommy Simoens Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

Last Night of the Stone Age, Azabudai Hills, Tokyo, Japan [permanent Installation]

 

2022

Okayama Art Summit 2022: DO WE DREAM UNDER THE SAME SKY, Okayama, Japan

 

2021

BIENALSUR: Give and Give (Dar Y Dar), San Juan, Argentina

 

2020

Early ‘90s Tokyo Art Squad, Arts Chiyoda 3331, Tokyo, Japan

 

2019

15th Anniversary Exhibition: Where We Now Stand—In Order to Map the Future 2, Kanazawa 21st Century Museum, Ishikawa, Japan

Stay Tune/d, Gallery Muryow, Toyama, Japan

Tokyo Independent, Chinretsukan, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan

5th Collectors’ Contemporary Collaboration, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre

 

2018

Grand Reverse: The Odious Smell of Truth, Tommy Simoens Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

Paradise Is Now: Palm Trees in Art, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany

Sanguine: Luc Tuymans on Baroque, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy

 

2016

Built, World, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, GA, USA

Room Services, Printed Matter New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, NY, USA [collaboration with Mandy El-Sayegh and Oscar Murillo]

 

2015

Let Us Celebrate While Youth Lingers and Ideas Flow, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, IL, USA

Panorama, The High Line, New York, NY, USA

Tiger Tiger, Salon 94 Bowery, New York, NY, USA

 

2013

12th Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach: Utopie beginnt im Kleinen/Utopia starts small, Alte Kelter, Germany

The Garden of Diversion, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China

The Principle of Hope, Kunisaki Peninsula Art Festival Residency Program, Oita, Japan

Why not live for art II: 9 collectors reveal their treasures, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan

 

2012

Glasstress New York: New Art from the Venice Biennales, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, USA

Lightness?, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium

 

2011

Everything Must Go!, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, USA

Glasstress 2011, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy [part of the 54th Venice Biennale: ILLUMInazioni – ILLUMInations]

Making Histories – Changing Views of the Collection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

2010

Animism, Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen and Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium [itinerary: Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland]

The Crystal World: To J.G. Ballard, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany

 

2009

Contemporary Art is just Easy as Pie, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan

Shadows and Reflected Color for Sale, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

 

2008

BadLands: New Horizons in Landscape, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, USA

Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

The Gallery, David Zwirner, New York, NY, USA

Highlights from the Permanent Collection 1980 – 2005, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Parallel World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

 

2007

Critical Mass: 20 Jahre Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland

Sculptors’ Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals and More, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Temptation of Space, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

 

2006

Our Town: Architecture in Art, Hudson Untitled Foundation, Hudson, NY, USA

Rapt! 20 Contemporary Artists from Japan: Yutaka Sone, Jin Kurashige, RMIT Project Space/Spare Room, Melbourne, Australia

Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA

Tokyo Blossoms: Deutsche Bank Collection Meets Zaha Hadid, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

 

2005

25: Twenty-five Years of the Deutsche Bank Collection, Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin, Germany

Bidibidobidiboo: Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

Chikaku: Time and Memory in Japan, Kunsthaus Graz and Camera Austria, Graz, Austria [itinerary: Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo, Spain]

Desenhos [drawings]: A-Z, Porta 33, Ilha da Madeira, Portugal

Early Work by Gallery Artists, David Zwirner, New York, NY, USA

EindhovenIstanbul, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Idyl: As to Answer That Picture, Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp, Belgium

Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA

Surface, Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL, USA

Untitled Folly, Bowie Van Valen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

2004

100 Artists See God, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL, USA [itinerary: The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, USA; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY, USA; Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, USA; Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, PA, USA; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN, USA]

Climats, Cyclothymie des Paysages, Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière, France

Brainstorming: Topographie de la morale, Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière, France

Whitney Biennial 2004, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

 

2003

Happy Trail, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan [three-person exhibition with Damon McCarthy and Eric Allaway]

MetaScape, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH,USA

The Sharjah International Arts Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

The Summer of 2003, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

2002

13th Biennale of Sydney: (The World May Be) Fantastic, Sydney, Australia 25th São Paulo Biennial, Brazil

Beautiful Artist, Saika-tei, Yamaguchi Institute of Contemporary Arts (YICA), Yamaguchi, Japan [curated by Yutaka Sone]

Das Geschenk: Gegen – Sich Hingeben, Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

The House of Fiction, Hauser & Wirth in der Lokremise, St. Gallen, Switzerland

 

2001

About the Bayberry Bush, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, USA

Egofugal: From the 7th Istanbul Biennial, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan

The Gift: Generous Offering, Threatening Hospitality, Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy [itinerary: Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY, USA; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, USA; Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada]

I ♡ NY, David Zwirner, New York, NY, USA

Kleine Paradiese im Gutspark Böckel, Gutspark Böckel, Rödinghausen, Germany

Loop, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany [itinerary: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, USA]

New Works: 00.4, Artpace, San Antonio, TX, USA

Philip Morris Art Award, Fuji Television Forum, Tokyo, Japan [itinerary: Umeda Stella Hall, Osaka, Japan]

Techno-Landscape: Toward Newer World Textures of the World, Intercommunication Center Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

7th Istanbul Biennial: Egofugal: Fugue from Ego for the Next Emergence, Istanbul, Turkey

Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Kanagawa, Japan

 

2000

Acquisizione Recenti/Recent Acquisitions, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba, Italy

Déjà Vu, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA

From a Distance: Landscape in Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA

The Greenhouse Effect, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

In Between: The Art Project of Expo 2000, Expo 2000, Hannover, Germany

La Ville, Le Jardin, La Mémoire, Académie de France à Rome – Villa Medici, Rome, Italy

Time, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Norway

 

1999

The 48th Venice Biennale: Sogni/Dreams, Venice, Italy

Fancy Dance: Contemporary Japanese Art After 1990, Artsonje Museum, Kyongyu, Korea [itinerary: Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea]

New Life: 11 Artists from Denmark and Sweden in Tokyo, Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo, Japan

 

1998

Shoot at the Chaos: Age of the Electronic Image, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

Sur-Everyday-Life, Shanghai Art Museum, China

Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA [itinerary: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL, USA]

 

1997

Cities on the Move, Vienna Secession, Austria [itinerary: Le centre d’arts plastiques contemporains, Musée d’art moderne, Bordeaux, France; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, USA; Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humblebæk, Denmark; Hayward Gallery, London, USA; Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA]

Du Construit, Du Paysage, Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain, Sète, France

The First Steps: Emerging Artists from Japan, Grey Art Gallery, New York, USA

Skulptur. Projekte in Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst, Münster, Germany

Promenade in Asia, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

VOCA: The Vision of Contemporary Art, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan

 

1996

Art Scene 1990-1996, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan

Interzones, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark [itinerary: Uppsala Konstmuseum, Slottet, Uppsala, Sweden]

Join Me! One Night Artist’s Cafe, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

Philip Morris Art Award, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

Morphe ’96, Ohararyu-Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan

Survival Tools, Sakura City Art Museum, Chiba, Japan

Video Art on the Edge, Kita Kanto Museum of Fine Arts, Gunma, Japan

 

1995

Chiang Mai Social Installation, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Nutopi, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden

Ripple Across The Water, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

Visions of Happiness, The Japan Foundation Asian Culture Center, Tokyo, Japan

 

1994

Shinjuku Shonen Art, Tokyo, Japan

The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

The Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Nevada Museum of Art, NV, USA

Pasadena City College, CA, USA

The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA

Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Tate, London, UK

Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan

Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA