Genpei AKASEGAWA

1937

Born in Yokohama, Japan / Real name: Katsuhiko Akasegawa

1952-54

Asahigaoka High School, Art Course, Nagoya

1955-56

Musashino College of Art, Tokyo

1957

Left the college

1963

Showed Enlarged Thousand-Yen Note and wrapped objects at 15th Yomiuri Independant Exhibition
Formed Hi Red Center group with Jiro Takamatsu and Natsuyuki Nakamishi

1965

Indicted for on charges of counterfeiting because of the reproductions of thousand-yen notes used in art works (convicted in final trial by Supreme Court in 1970)

1970

Began teaching a course at Bigakko Art School
Began writing a series of art reviews for the Asahi Journal, "Yajiuma Gaho" (bystander's art report). From the fourth installment on the title was changed to "Sakura Gaho"

1979

Began writing novels under the pen name Katsuhiko Otsuji. Received the Chuo Koron New Writer's Prize for a novel"Hadazawari" under the name of Katsuhiko Otsuji

1981

Awarded Akutagawa Prize for a novel "Father Has Disappeared"

1986

Formed the "Rojo Kansatsu Gakkai" (Street Observation Academy)

1989

Helped write script for the film "Rikyu" on the life of a tea master, directed by Hiroshi Teshigawara

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

1958

"Coffee House" Shibuya, Tokyo

1961

"Contemporary Visions, Contemporary Fetishes-The Case of Genpei Akasegawa" Sato Gallery, Tokyo

1963

"On the Ambivalent Sea" Shinjuku Dai-Ichi Gallery, Tokyo

1970

"Genpei Akasegawa Print Exhibition" Kyoto Shoin, Kyoto

1971

"Three-Dimentional SakuraGaho" Kyoto Shoin, Kyoto

1983

"The World of Genpei Akasegawa" NAF Gallery, Nagoya

1987

"Genpei Akasegawa Data Exhibition with assistance from Katsuhiko Otsuji" Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo

1988

"Tomason Apocalypse-The 8th Exhibition Homage to Shuzo Takiguchi" Satani Gallery, Tokyo

1992

"Stereo Photographs - Journey to Mexico for Total Eclipse of the Sun" Photo Interform, Osaka

1995

"Adventures of Genpei Akasegawa- Majo Action for Development of Cerebral Resort" Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya

1997

"A Cat's Day" SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo

2001

"Youth of the " Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya
"Paintings and drawings - Across the border" SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
"Posters" Poster Haris Gallery, Tokyo

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Selected Group Exhibitions

1957

"Japan Independant Exhibition X" Tokyo Metlopolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo

1958

"Yomiuri Independant Exhibition X" Tokyo Metlopolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo
"Japan Independant Exhibition XI" Tokyo Metlopolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo

1959

"Yomiuri Independant Exhibition X" Tokyo Metlopolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo

1960

"Neo Dada Organizers" Ginza Gallery, Tokyo

1963

"Fifth Mixer Plan" with Hi Red Center, Shinjuku Dai-Ichi Gallery , Tokyo
"Sixth Mixer Plan; Object Presentation Ceremony" with Hi Red Center Naiqua Gallery, Tokyo

1966

"Sale of Small Works of Contemporary Art" fund-raiser for thousand-yen note trail, Tsubaki Modern Gallery, Tokyo

1967

"Non-freedom of Expression" Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo

1981

"A Decade of Change in Contemporary Art" National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

1982

"Shuzo Takiguchi and Postwar Art" The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama

1983

"Dada in Japan: Japanische Avangarde 1920-1970 Eine Fotodokumentation" Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, Germany
"Trends of Japanese Art in the 1960's - Depature Toward Multiplicity" Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
"Ultra-Art Tomason: Town in Agony" Gallery 612, Tokyo

1985

"40 Years of Contemporary Art" Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo

1985-86

"Reconstructions: Avant-Garde Art in Japan 1945-1965" Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

1986-87

"Japon des avant-gardes 1910-1970" Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1991

"Japaniese Anti-Art : Now and Then" National Museum of Art, Osaka

1992

"Kyushu-ha and Neo-Dada: Small Works" Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka

1993

"Neo-Dada Photography" Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka

1994-95

"Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky" Yokohama Art Museum,Yokohama / Guggenheim Art Museum Soho, New York / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

1998

"Neo-Dada Japan 1958-1998" Ohita Art Plaza

1999

"Out of Actions / Between Performance and the Object" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
"Grobal Conceptualism" Queens Museum of Art, New York
"Worthless" Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana(Republic of Slovenia)
"Leica Town in Kyobashi-ku" Inax Gallery, Tokyo

2000

"Leica Association / Paris Liberation" Chukyo Universitay C-Square, Nagoya

2001

"Century City" Tate Modern, London
"Mega-Wave / Yokohama Triennale 2001 " Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama
"Facts of Life" Hayward Gallery, London
"Revolution of Eyes" Shoto Art Museum, Tokyo
"Baba Akira and artists of Sato gallery" Museum of Modern Art, Akita