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Takesada MATSUTANI
Takesada Matsutani is a Japanese painter, printmaker and installation artist. A member of the second generation of avant-garde Gutai artists, Matsutani is known for his iconic use of vinyl adhesive and graphite pencil, from bulbous sensual forms to monumental canvases of pencilled streams.
Takesada Matsutani, né à Osaka au en 1937 est devenu membre de l’Association Gutai en 1963. Il vit et travaille à Paris de puis 1966.
1937 Born in Osaka, Japan
1963 Member of the Gutai Association
1966 Lives and works in Paris, France
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Matsutani, Tōkyō Opera City Art Gallery, Tōkyō, Japan.
Matsutani, Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Paris, France .
Takesada Matsutani / Kate Van Houten – Paris Prints 1967-1978, Hauser & Wirth
Gallery, 18th Street, New York, USA.
2023 Takesada Matsutani, Almine Rech Gallery, Matignon, Paris, France.
2022 Combine, Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street, New York, USA.
2020 Takesada Matsutani, Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Hong Kong.
Matsutani, estampes, 1967-1977, Collections de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Les Abattoirs,
Toulouse, France.
2019 Yōhaku, Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland.
Matsutani, rétrospective (curator : Christine Macel), Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art mo-
derne, Paris, France.
2018 A Drop in Time, Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Somerset, UK.
Takesada Matsutani, Japan House, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Takesada Matsutani: Selected Works 1972-2017, Bergamin & Gomide Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Confluence, Takesada Matsutani & Aliska Lahusen (curator: Przemysław Wideł), Manggha
Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Poland.
2016 Takesada Matsutani, Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland.
The pencils of Matsutani, performance organized by Coracle
Press, Librairie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France.
2015 Takesada Matsutani, Hauser & Wirth Gallery, New York, USA.
Matsutani-Currents, Ōtani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan.
2013 Matsutani: The Gutai Period, Galerie Richard, New York, USA
Matsutani: Recent Works, Galerie Richard, New York, USA
A Matrix, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
2012 Tsubaki Modern Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Des années Gutai à nos jours, Galerie Richard, Paris, France
Espace muséographique George Baccrabère, Institut Catholique, Toulouse, France
Takesada Matsutani – Around the Circle 3,’ LADS Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Galerie Jean Greset, Besançon, France
Kishida & Matsutani, La Galerie Akie Arichi, Paris France
2011 The Spirit of Gutaï, Galerie Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
Museum Haus Kasuya, Matsutani and Ralph Petty, Yokosuka, Japan
Art Fair Tokyo 2011, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Around the Circle, Cohju Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan
Around the Circle, Galleria Art Horizon, Colera, Spain
Kai Gallery, Kobe, Japan
Galerie l’Espace du Dedans, Lille, France
2010 Matsutani Takesada. Stream, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan
Galerie Faider, Brussels, Belgium
2009 Matsutani, Galerie Friederich Müller, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
Tamura Gallery, Hiroshima, Japan
Matsutani, Galerie EGP, Paris, France
2008 Musée d’art Contemporain Saint-Martin, Montélimar, France
Negenpuntnegen Gallery, Roeselare, Belgium
Centre Culturel Saint-Mandé, France
2007 Kaneko Art Gallery,Tokyo, Japan
Matsutani Cercle, Galerie Guislain États d’Art, Paris, France
Galerie l’Espace du dedans, Lille, France
Matsutani – rétrospective, Centre Culturel André Malraux, Agen, France
Gendaikko-Museum, Miyazaki, Japan
2006 Galerie Faider, Brussels, Belgium
Galleria Nina Lumer, Milano, Italy
Kaneko Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
L’Arsenal, Metz, France
2005 Matsutani. Stream of Time, Kan Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Gallery Nina Lumer, Milan, Italy
Le Rire Bleu, Figeac, France
Works on Paper, Yasokawa Gallery, Kobe, Japan
2004 Bands of Blackness, Hiro Chikashige Gallery, Okayama, Japan
From 1959 to present, Galerie Accostage, Takamatsu, Japan
ARCO, Mussohkan Galleria, Madrid, Spain
Gallery Guislain-Etats d’Art, Paris, France
2003 Bands of Blackness, Lads Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Bands of Blackness, Gallery Yume, Tokyo, Japan
Bands of Blackness, Kaneko Art, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Hosokawa, Osaka Japan
Atelier RIKA, Kochi, Japan
Galerie Guislain États d’Art, Paris, France
2002 Cairns Regional Museum Gallery, Cairns, Australia
Matsutani. Recent Work, Don Soker Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California, USA
2001 Matsutani. Waves Paris-Miyazaki, Gendaikko Museum, Miyazaki, Japan
Matsutani Wave 5, Takechi Gallery, Kumamoto, Japan
Matsutani Wave 2, Motomachi Gallery, Kobe, Japan
2000 Wave, Otani Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan
Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1999 Studio Uno Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Matsutani & Van Houten, installations, Fondation DANAE, Jarnac, France
Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Matsutani’s Prints 1960-1988, Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Japan
1998 Action-Temps-Espace, Foundation DANAE, Jarnac, France
The Year of Japan in France, Musée d’Orbigny and Cloître de Dames Blanches, La Rochelle, France
Matsutani & Kanno, Monochromes, Palais des Congrès an Maison de la Culture, Le Mans, France
La Tentation du Blaspheme, Espace Ecureuil, Caisse d’Epagne de Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
Matsutani-Horio, Galerie Le Rire Bleu, Figeac, France
Eric Le Gallo Gallery -paintings Lieu-Dit – installation, Rouen, France
New York Galley, Kumamoto, Japan
1997 Matsutani & Suga, Kaneko Art, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Cour Carrée, Nancy, France
TICAF, Motomachi Gallery, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Wave, Gallery Accostage, Takamatsu, Japan
1996 Dessin – Objet – Tableau, Rosa Turetsky Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Galerie Japan Art, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
Kaneko Art, Tokyo, Japan
1995 Galerie J.Mercuri, Paris, France
Galerie Seika, Nagasaki, Japan
Gallery Yume-kairo, Tokushima, Japan
Matsutani’s Prints from 1967 to 1994, Tsuji Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Matsutani paintings and installation, Gallery Seika, Nagasaki, Japan
Matsutani paintings and engravings, Gallery Belle & Nankai Hospital Saeki, Oita, Japan
1994 Gallery Tor Road, Kobe, Japan
The 60’s, Gallery Tsubaki Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1993 The 60s and Recent Work, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan
Galerie Pascal Polar, Brussels, Belgium
Gallery Vingt-sept, Toulouse, France
1992 Matsutani Stream-Ashiya -92, Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Ashiya, Japan
Drawn in the Nineties, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA
Galerie Faust, Geneva, Switzerland
Ichiyacho Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Kaneko Art, Tokyo, Japan
International Contemporary Art Fair, Motomachi Gallery, Yokoyama, Japan
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre, Brussels, Belgium
1991 Suzukawa Gallery, Hiroshima, Japan
Motomachi Gallery, Kobe, Japan
Galerie Japan Art, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
Galerie Keller, Paris, France
1989 Kaneko Art, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Ishiyacho, Kyoto, Japan
Galerie d’Art Actuel, Liège, Belgium
Agi Schöningh Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
1988 Centre d’Art Contemporain Pablo Neruda, Corbeil-Essonne, France
3rd Exhibition “Manière Manière”, Centre Culturel Coréen Paris, France
Galerie Japan Art, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
Galerie Marina Dinkler, Berlin, Germany
Atelier Nishinomiya, Nishinomiya, Japan
1987 Galerie des Licearium, Poitiers, France
Galerie Keller, Paris, France
1986 The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Galerie Japan Art, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
Galerie Raymond Cordier, Paris, France
Motomachi Gallery, Kobe, Japan
Gendaikko-Center, Miyazaki, Japan
Galerie Marina Dinkler, Berlin, Germany
1985 Galerie Monochrome, Aachen, Germany
Galerie Faust, Geneva, Switzerland
Gallery Adesso, Ashiya, Japan
1984 Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1983 Today’s Artists No. 12: Matsutani Takesada 1981-83, Osaka Contemporary Arts Center, Osaka, Japan
Galerie Marina Dinkler, Berlin, Germany
Gallery S-65, Aalst, Belgium
1982 Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Gendaikko-Center, Miyazaki, Japan
Gallery Ten, Fukuoka, Japan
1981 Enpitsu ni yoru kuro no sekai [Black World of Pencil], Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Liberal Art Gallery, Hiroshima, Japan
1980 Gallery S-65, Aalst, Belgium
Motomachi Gallery, Kobe, Japan
La Cuvée Association de l’Art Contemporain, Lachassagne, France
Heide Hildebrand Gallery, Klagenfurt, Austria
1979 Galerie Marina Dinkler, Berlin, Germany
Concorde Nejima, Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, Japan
Galerie Ojima, ‘Le Geste de Matsutani’, Paris, France
1978 Matsutani. Perspectives Japonaises, Galerie Alain Oudin, Paris, France
Works on Paper, Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Karine SAPORTA, Paris, France
1976 Liberal Art, Hiroshima, Japan
L’objet à l’image Sérigraphique, Galerie Eiko, Paris, France
Gallery Watari, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Murakami, Kita-kyushu, Japan
1975 Gallery Muramatsu, Tokyo, Japan
1974 Kasahara Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Gallery Coco, Kyoto, Japan
1973 Gallery Iteza, Kyoto / Gallery Shinanobashi, Osaka, Japan
1972 Kasahara Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Gallery Fujibi, Osaka, Japan
Galerie Alain Oudin, Paris, France
1971 Gallery Iteza, Kyoto, Japan
Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1970 Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Lahumière, Paris, France
Gallery Shinanobashi, Osaka, Japan
1969 Galerie Ariadne, Vienna, Austria
1968 Galerie Zunini, Paris, France
1967 Matsutani. The Art of Plastic, Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1966 Art Seven Series, Gallery Kiyamachi, Kzoto, Japan
1965 Takesada Matsutani, Daiwa Gallery, Kobe, Japan
Gallery Kobe, Kobe, Japan
1963 Gutai Pinecotheca, Osaka, Japan
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2024 Abstrait, La Boverie, Liège, Belgium.
2023-2025 La Répétition. Œuvres phares du Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou
(curator: Éric de Chassey), Centre Pompidou-Metz, France.
2023 Paraventi: Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Centuries (cur:ator Nicholas Cullinan),
Fondazione Prada, Milano, Italy.
Stream : le cours du temps, in Moviment, chapitre 7 : Le geste et le temps, Centre Pompidou
– Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, France.
2022 Into the Unknown World — GUTAI: Differentiation and Integration, Nakanoshima
Museum of Art, Ōsaka in conjunction with the National Museum of Art, Ōsaka, Japan.
Rewinding the Collection 2nd, MOT Museum of Contemporary Art, Tōkyō, Japan.
2018 Gutai, l’espace et le temps (curator: Benoît Decron), Musée Soulages, Rodez, France.
2017 Viva Arte (curator: Christine Macel), Biennale Arte, The 57th International Art Exhibition,
Venice, Italy.
2013 Gutai Splendid Playground, The Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Variations on Theme: Contemporary Art 1950s–Present, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Collection of Prints: Kumi Sugai & Takesada Matsutani, Ashiya City Museum of Art and History,
Ashiya, Japan
Gutai Historical Survey and Contemporary Response, San Francisco Art Institute, California, USA
Happy Flies Kissing Beautiful Face: works in black and white, Stux Gallery, New York, USA
2012 Painting Towards Three Dimensions, Galerie Richard, New York, USA
GUTAI, The Spirit of an Era, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
A Visual Essay on Gutai at 32 East 69th Street, Hauser and Wirth, New York, USA
Wind of Karuizawa: Japanese Contemporary Art 1950-2012, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Japan
Artistic Interactions: Avant-garde Kansai, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan
Art and Memories, Tatsuno Art Project 2012, The Warehouse-Higashimaru, Tatsuno, Japan
2011 Venus d’ailleurs, Maison Européenne de la photographie, Paris, France
Une Fois, une Rencontre, Espace d’art actuel, Bayeux, France
Matsutani & Ralph Petty, Museum haus Kasuya, Yokosuka
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2010 Japanese Art 1950 – 2010, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Power of Form: Japanese Contemporary Art of 1950’s and 1960’s from the Collection of Osaka City
Museum of Modern Art, Osaka City Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Hirogaru Imagination [Broaden Your Imagination] Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Riverwalk
Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan
Daremo yaranai koto wo yare! [Do Something No One’s Ever Done Before], Kwansei Gakuin University Museum Planning Space, Nishinomiya, Japan
LINE – Freedom of Expression, Museum of Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Tsubaki Modern Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009 20 years, Galerie Akié Arichi, Paris, France
COSMOS, Galerie Jean Greset, Besancon, France
Place Saint-Sulpice, Paris, with Galerie Akié Aricchi, ‘27ème Marché de la poésie’, Paris, France
Métamorphoses du Livre, Galerie la Passerelle, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
2008 1984-2007 AARJF Artistes Grand Prix exposition, Galerie Akié Arichi, Paris, France
Guillevic Avec les Autres 1907-1997, Bibliothèque Municipale, Rennes, France
Projet Akebono, Exposition Franco-Japonaise d’estampes, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Foire Européenne d’Art Contemporain, Lille Grand Palais, (Galerie Guislain États d’Art)’, Lille, France
Just a glance 3, Gallery Cour Carrée, Paris, France
Espace d’Art Contemporain Saint Martin, Montélimar, France
2007 Resounding Spirit, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Takesada Matsutani and Kinichi Shinomiya, Gallery Accostage, Takamatsu, Japan
4ème Les Soirées de Mercure, Galerie Weiller, Paris, France
2006 ART’ITUDES (a selection from the Collection of Centre de la Gravure de La Louvière),
Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Peintures et Performances Takesada Matsutani & Germain Rosez, Espace Arsenal, Metz, France
3ème Les Soirées de Mercure, Galerie Weiller, Paris / Gallery Bunkamura, Tokyo, Japan
Black & White: Colors in Black – from the Terada Collection 022, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan
2005 Le Soirées de Mercure, Galerie Weiller, Paris, France
L’estampe Contemporaine, Galerie du Cloître, Ecole des Beaux-arts de Rennes, France
2004 Prints from East to West, Museum of Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Metamorphoses du Livre organized by C.Corre & CLAC,
Bibliothèque Forney, Paris, France
Musée de l’Ephémère, Montélimar, France
Prints from East to West, Museum of Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
GUTAI 1954-1972, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
HANGA: Waves of East – West Cultural Interchange The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Resounding Spirit, Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1960s The Gibson Gallery Collection, The Gibson Gallery, State University of New York at Potsdam, Potsdam NY
Les Rendez-Vous de CARDET: Exposition Energie Centre d’Art Le Village, Cardet, France
2003 Galerie Akié Arichi, Paris, France
Galerie Guislain, Paris, France
Gallery H.O.T. Osaka, Japan
20ans de la Semaine d’Art Contemporain de Saint- Mandé Centre Culturel de l’Hôtel de Ville, Saint-
Mandé, France
2002 Looking for the new, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
Artists of Gutai Art Association, Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
Artists of Gutai Art Association, Centre d’Arts plastiques Albert Chanot, Clamart, France
2001 Document on GUTAI, Part 2, Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Japan
Collection of Osaka City Museum of Modern Art 2001: Osaka Art panorama in the 20th Century, ATC Museum, Osaka, Japan
The Renaissance of Black and White, Konishi House, Osaka, Japan
De l’unique aux multiples, Centre d’Arts Plastique Albert Chanot, Clamart, France
2000 XXXIIéme festival International de la Peinture: JAPON visions contemporaines, Musée Château,
Cagnes-sur-Mer, France,
Sugai Kumi, S.W. Heyter, Matsutani Takesada Museum, Miyazaki, Japan
Document on GUTAI Part 1, Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Japan
1999 Galerie Akié Arichi, Paris, France
The Axis of 21 printers in Japan – Introduction to 20th Century prints, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
1998 EU-Japon, Grands et Jeunes d’Aujourd’hui, Tokyo. Japan and Seoul, South Korea
Asian Avant-Garde, Christie’s Fine Art Lte. London, Great Britain
New Prints of Europe, Guandong Museum of Art, China
Artistes japonais à Paris, Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, France
Matsutani & Kanno: Monochromes, Le Palais des Congrès / Centre Culturel Le Mans, Le Mans, France
1997 Fondation Danae, Jarnac, France
Artistes japonais contemporain, Espace Bateau-Lavoir, Paris, France
Takesada and SUGA Kishio, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gravity – Axis of Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
1996 An Exhibition of 50 Contemporary Japanese Artists, Navio Museum, Osaka, Japan
Relaciones, 10 Artists from 3 Continents, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, San Jose, Costa Rica
Shoto Art Museum, ‘Prints of the 1970s’, Tokyo, Japan
Chimériques Polymeres, le plastique dans l’art contemporain, Musée d’art moderne, Nice, France
1994 Acquisitions from 1992 to 1993 for the Departmental Funds of Contemporary Art Seine Saint-Denis,
Saint-Denis, France
Time in Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
Fonds Départemental d’Art Contemporain, Bobigny, France
Livres d’artistes, Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris, France
SAGA (FIAC) Galerie Akié Arichi, Paris, France
10 artistes de l’Atelier Contrepoint, Galerie Akié Arichi, Paris, France
1993 Gutaï II (1956-1965), Gutaï III (1965-1972), Ashiya City Museum of Art and History. Ashiya, Japan
Challenge of Art After the War: Jiro Yoshihara and the Gutai Group, Ehime Museum of Art,
Matsuyama, Japan
Interieurs, 100 Works selected from Private Collections of Modern Art, Midi-Pyrénées, France
Artists’Notebooks, Bibliothèque municipale, Aix-en-Provence, France
Gutaï Suite, Galerie de l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Toulouse, France
Galerie 27, Toulouse, France
FIAC, Galerie Rosa Turesky, Geneva, Switzerland
1992 Drawn in the Nineties, The Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA
Artists of Gutai Art Association, Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
1991 Adventurers of Paintings “Gutai,” Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Galerie 16, Paris, France
1990 Gutaï 1950-1960, Syoto Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Osaka Triennale 90, The International Triennale for Painting, Osaka, Japan (Bronze Prize)
SAGA (FIAC of Editions) Galerie Keller, Paris, France
1988 Gallery La Brea, Los Angeles, University of California, USA
The Artist’s Notebook, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, France
Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Atelier Nishinomiya, Japan
Centre Culturel, Carcassonne, France
Centre Culturel, Besançon, France
1989 Hiroshima, City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1988 43ème salon de mai, Grand Palais, Paris, France
1987 Black & White in Art Today, Museum of Art, Saitama, Japan
Présence des formes, The Architect, Les Angles, Avignon, France
Ephemeral, Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpetrière, Paris, France
Japan: Past & Present, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France
10th International Exhibition of Original Drawings, Moderna Galerija Rijeka, Croatia
1985 30 years, Galerie Stadler, Paris, France
Jiro Yoshihara and Gutai, Ashiya Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan
Grupo Gutai: Pintura y Acción, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Spain
Engraving, Big Formats, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Liège, Belgium
1984 Salon de Montrouge, Paris, France
Espace Bateau L’avoir, Paris, France
1983 Gutaï 1950-1980 National Museum of Modern Art, Madrid, Spain
Museum of Art, Belgrade, Serbia
1st Chinese International Print Exhibition, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
1982 Salon de Montrouge, Paris, France
1981 2nd International Impact Art Festival ’81, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
On Paper, Gothenburg Kunsthallen, Gothenburg, Sweden
1980 Sols, Voûtes, Espaces entre-les deux, American Center, Paris, France
Junij ’80, Moderna galerija Lublijana, Slovenia
Tendence de la Recherche Japonaise La Cuvée Association de l’Art Contemporain, Lachassagne,
France
1979 Jiro Yoshihara & Gutaï Today, Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo Prefecture Kobe, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Print Exhibition, San José Museum of Art, California, USA
Prints from Paris, 9 Contemporary Printmakers The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art,
University of Oxford, Oxford, England
1977 2nd CCAC World Print Competition, San Francisco, California, USA
1976 Eighteen Years of Gutaï Art, Prefectural Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1975 2nd Miami International Print Biennial, The Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Miami
FL
1974 4th International Exhibition of Original Drawings, Moderna Galerija Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
1973 World Print Competition, Special Edition Purchase Award, San Francisco, USA
1972 18th National Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Graphic Arts, Venice Biennal, Italy
6th Preliminary Show of Japan Art Festival, Museo della Permanente, Milano, Italy
Seventeen Years of Gutai Art Gutai Mini Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan
Ibiza Graphics Biennale ‘72Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Ibiza, Spain
1970 17th International Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Midori Pavilion, Osaka, Japan
An Exhibition of Prints by Eight Gutai Artists, Gallery Iteza, Kyoto, Japan
2ème Biennale Internationale de l’estampe, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
3ème Salon Internationales de Galeries Pilotes, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland / Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
1st Bienal Americana de Grabado [International Print Exhibition ]Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes,
Santiago, Chile
4th Preliminary show of Japanese Art Festival, Modern Art Museum, Munich, Germany
7th International Biennial of Prints, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
XIX, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Spain
1969 25 Artists from Atelier 17, Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, and Negev Museum, Beer-Shava, Israel
9th Exhibition of Japanese Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
25ème Salon de Mai, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Mednarodna grafična razstava; exposition internationale de gravure ’69, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia
Gendai bijutsu no douko [Tendances of Contemporary Art], The National Museum of Modern Art,
Kyoto, Japan
1968 21st Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan
Contemporary Art Exhibition Only in the Night, Miyazaki Kanko Hotel, Miyazaki, Japan
23ème Salon des Realités Nouvelles, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
1er Biennale internationale de l’estampe Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Azuma Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
1967 Gutai Group Osaka Japan, Experiment Studio, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Gutai Group Exhibition, Heide Hildebrand Gallery, Klagenfurt, Austria
19th Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca/ Tokyo Central Museum, Osaka, Japan
1966 1st Competition of the Mainichi Newspaper & The Municipal Art Museum, Kyoto
NUL 1966 Art Exhibition (Nul Negentienhonderd zesenzestig)International Gallery Olez, The Hague, Netherlands
Three-Person exhibition: Shuji Mukai, Matsutani, Maekawa, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan
2ème Salon International des Galeries Pilotes Lausanne, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Art Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland
17th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Yokohama, Japan
1965 Groupe Gutaï, Galerie Stadler, Paris, France
Group Gutaï , Gallery Studio, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Five Gutai Artists in Kobe, Daiwa Gallery, Kobe, Japan
15th Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan
16th Gutai Art Exhibition, Keio Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
14th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka, Japan
Gutai Art Small Works Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka, Japan
Exhibition Nippon Independents, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1963 Group Gutaï, Pinecotheca, Osaka , Japan
12th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
13th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka, Japan
1962 11th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka, Japan
Inaugural Exhibition of the Gutai Pinacotheca, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan
1961 10th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka/Tokyo, Japan
1960 9th Gutai bijutsu ten [Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka, Japan.
7th Society for the New Fine Arts, Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, , Japan (Osaka Mayor Award)