About
1951-2024 Born in Iwate Japan
1975 Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University (Sculpture course)
1977 Completed Master Course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and
Music (Sculpture course)
1986 Stayed in London under a grant from the Agency for Cultural Affairs (-'87)
1995 Awarded the 26th Nakahara Teijiro Excellence Prize
1997 Awarded the 18th Hirakushi Denchu Prize
2003 Awarded the 33rd Nakahara Teijiro Prize
2009 The 50th Mainichi Art Award
The 59th The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology's Art Encouragement Prize
2011 Awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon
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Solo Exhibitions
1982 Gallery Okabe, Tokyo
1985 Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo ('88,'90,'91,'93,'95,'96,'01,'02,'06,'08,'10)
1989 COMME des GARCONS, Tokyo
Arnold Herstand, New York
1991 Annely Juda Fine Art, London ('96,'99,'11)
1993 Today's Artists V?'93 Sakakura Shinpei / Funakoshi Katsura, The
Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura
1994 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York
1997 Exhibition of the 18th Hirakushi Denchu Prize, Ibara Municipal Denchu
Art Museum, Okayama
2000 Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany
Stadtische Museen Heilbronn, Germany
2003 Katsura Funakoshi Works: 1980-2003, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Tokyo; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts; Hokkaido Asahikawa
Museum of Art; Takamatsu City Museum of Art; Iwate Museum of Art;
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (-'04)
Katsura Funakoshi Prints 1987-2002, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo
2005 Katsura Funakoshi - Ernst Barlach: A Map of the Time, Annely Juda
Fine Art, London; Ernst Barlach Haus, Humburg, Germany
For Deep Line (Drawings), Tokyo Zokei University Gallery
2006 Cite du Livre, Aix-en-Provence, France
2007 Katsura Funakoshi, Speaking to His Own Face, Listening to the Faces
of Others, Tohoku University of Art & Design, Yamagata
2008 Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
Summer Villa: The Sculptures, Drawings, and Prints of Katsura Funakoshi
in Art Deco Space, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
ANDO GALLERY, Tokyo
2010 Katsura Funakoshi 2010 in Kumamoto, Contemporary Art Museum,
Kumamoto
2011 Katsura Funakoshi Works, Kami City Art Museum, Kochi
2012 Katsura Funakoshi Print Works, Suzaka Hanga Museum, Nagano
Katsura Funakoshi 2012 Seeing Eternity, The Menard Art Museum, Aichi
2013 Solo exhibition of Funakoshi Katsura original sketch exhibition in Sep
t -Imavision Gallery’s 20th Anniversary Special Exhibition
Solo exhibition of Katsura Funakoshi's prints in October --- Imavision
Gallery’s 20th Anniversary Special Exhibition
2015 Invited by four major art museums in Japan, a joint touring exhibition will
be held until June
2016 Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art/Gunma Prefectural Tatebayashi Museum
of Art/Mie Prefectural Museum of Art/Niigata City Museum of Art "The
Sphinx in Myself" Hyogo Prefectural Museum of art and toured 4 Museums
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Group Exhibitions
1976 Exhibition of New Figurative Sculpture, Tokyo Metropolitan Art
Museum (-'85)
1984 OYAMA Towards a City with Sculpture, Hakuo Women's Junior College
, Tochigi
1986 ART IN TOKYO'86 IMA Vol.1, Factory (Sapporo Beer Ebisu Storage), Tokyo
New Trends in Contemporary Sculpture─10 New Outstanding Sculptors of
America and Japan, Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo and Osaka;
Sapporo
Art Park; Salvatore Alla, New York (-'87)
1988 The XXXXIII Venice Biennale
1989 Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties, San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art et al (-'91)
XX Bienal de Sao Paulo
1990 Toyama Now '90, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
New Wave of Wood Sculptures, Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art
Japanische Kunst der Achtziger Jahre, Frankfurter Kunstverein,
Germany et al.
1991 A Current of Contemporary Art in Japan Sculpture, The Museum of Modern
Art, Toyama
1992 Documenta Ⅸ, Kassel, Germany
The 9th Biennale of Sydney
1994 Contemporary Human Figure, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art
1995 Art in Japan Today 1985-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years 1945-1995, Meguro Art Museum;
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Hyogo Prefectural Museum
of Modern Art; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
1996 Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany
Part 1─A Dialogue between Tools and Arts, The Museum of Modern Art,
Kamakura Images of Women in Japanese Contemporary Art 1930's-90's,
The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo
1998 Art Chicago 1998, Festival Hall, Navy Pier, Chicago ('00)
1999 Image of Sculpture, Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture in honor of Teijiro
Nakahara, Hokkaido Noontime Meditation: Contemporary Japanese Art
having Inner Sight, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
Destruction and Construction 1999, Chinretsukan Gallery, The University
Art Museum, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
The Trends of the Nakahara Teijiro Prize, Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture
in honor of Teijiro Nakahara, Hokkaido
2000 Skulpturen von Kunstlern aus 4 Kontinenten, Der Pavillon des Heiligen Stuhls
auf der Expo 2000, Hannover, Germany
Kaleidoscope of Time, Fukui City Art Museum
Shanghai Biennale 2000, Shanghai Art Museum
2001 Art for the Spirit: Eyes Searching for Eternity, Hokkaido Museum of
Modern Art
Contemporary Art after 1980, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
Between Earth and Heaven: New Classical Movements in the Art of Today,
The Ostend Museum of Modern Art, Belgium
2002 Sculptors of Eastern Japan, Tokyo Station Gallery
2003 Yasutake Funakoshi and His Family - from the Collections of People in
Morioka, Morioka Takuboku and Kenji Museum
The Presents from the Artists, Niigata City Art Museum et al (-'04)
2004 Art in Wood, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi
2005 Asian Potential: Art Nursed by Sea and Islands, Aichi Prefectural Museum
of Art
2007 Vital Signs: Reality of nine contemporary artists, Yokosuka Museum of Art
2008 Self / Other, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Kodaira Hirakushi Denchu Art Museum, Tokyo
DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow 2008, The National Art Center, Tokyo
2009 Hundred Stories about Love, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,
Kanazawa, Ishikawa
2010 Perfect Gem of Art Forest, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido
Alternative Humanities: Jan Fabre x Katsura Funakoshi, 21st Century
Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa