Artists
Profile
- 2013
- Teshima Yokoo House (Teshima, Kagawa Prefecture) opened
- 2012
- Tadanori Yokoo Museum of Contemporary Art (Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture) opened
- 2000〜
- In addition to solo exhibitions at national and public museums in Japan, he has made numerous presentations overseas, including the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art (2006) in Paris.
- 1981
- he became a painter and started full-scale activities. He makes full use of various methods and styles to create paint-ings depicting various themes covering all things in the universe, and is highly regarded internationally.
- 1964
- Leaves Nippon Design Center
Formed Studio Ilfil with Akira Uno and Ikuo Harada (dissolved the following year) - 1960
- Moved to Tokyo, worked as a graphic designer and illustrator.
- 1956
- Joined Kobe Shimbun
- 1955
- Graduated from Hyogo Prefectural Nishiwaki High School
- 1936
- Born in Nishiwaki City, Hyogo
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2021 "GENKYO YOKOO TADANORI," Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
- 2020
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"Timeless Conversations 2020: Voices from Japanese Art of the Past and Present," The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
"Hyogo Prefectural Yokoo Emergency Hospita," Yokoo Tadanori Contemporary Art, Hyogo, Japan
"SCAI 30th Anniversary Exhibition," SCAI PARK, Tokyo, Japan
- 2019
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Solo exhibition, Nishiwaki Okanoyama Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
"B29 and Homeland—From My Childhood to Andy Warhol," SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
- 2018
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"A Beautiful Elsewhere," Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
"Starting Points: Japanese Art of the ’80s," 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa ; Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa ; Shizuoka City Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
"New Wave: Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1980s," The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
- 2017
- "Yokoo Tadanori HANGA JUNGLE," Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
- 2016
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Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
"POP ART MON AMOUR," Maison d'ailleurs, Museum of the Science Fiction, the Utopia and the Extraordinary Voyages, Switzerland
"The Art of Meanings," State Museum of Oriental Art, Russia
The 32nd Kodansha Essay Award - 2015
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"Yokoo Tadanori: GREAT NIRVANA," Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art, Hyogo, Japan
"Yokoo Tadanori CUT&PASTE," Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art, Hyogo, Japan
"Yokoo Tadanori: Y-Junction Continued," Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art, Hyogo, Japan
The 27th Premium Imperiale in Honor of Prince Takamatsu
- 2014
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"Tadanori Yokoo: Showa Nippon - Repetition, Propagation, Metastasis," Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art, Hyogo, Japan
"Literature special exhibition Jakucho Kien-Mandala Exhibition," Tokushima Prefectural Museum of Literature Calligraphy, Tokushima, Japan
"LOST IN YOKOO JUNGLE," Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art, Hyogo, Japan
"HUMAN ICONS," Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
"YOKOO TADANORI: BEYOND GRAPHIC WORK," Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art, Hyogo, Japan
"Journey to the center of the art," Kirishima Open-air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
"YOKOO BY KISHIN," Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art, Hyogo, Japan
- 2013
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Iwate Prefectural Museum, Iwate, Japan
"Hanhanpukupukuhanpuku," Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art, Hyogo, Japan
Fukushima Prefectural Museum, Fukushima, Japan
"YOKOO'S YOKOO ZOO," Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art, Hyogo, Japan
Himeji City Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan
"Tadanori Yokoo HUMAN ICONS," Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art, Hyogo, Japan
KOBE Biennale 2013 Yokoo Tadanori "REFLECTION OF LANDSCAPE," Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
- 2012
- "Sokan to Teshima," SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art, Hyogo, Japan
Asahi Prize
- 2011
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Okanoyama Museum of Art Nishiwaki, Hyogo, Japan
The Okayama Perfectual Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan - 2010
- National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka, Japan
- 2009
- 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
- 2008
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SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan - 2006
- Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Paris, France
- 2005
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Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art, Shizuoka, Japan
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan - 2004
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Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, Miyazaki, Japan
SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Art Muzeum, Kumamoto, Japan - 2003
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The Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Entwistele Gallery, London, UK - 2002
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan - 2001
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Loyola University, New Orleans, USA
The Museum of modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan - 2000
- Art Museum“Station” Kyoto, Japan
- 1999
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The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
Telecommunications Museum, Tokyo, Japan - 1998
- Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
- 1997
- Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Japan
- 1996
- Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
- 1995
- Otemae Art Center, Hyogo, Japan
- 1994
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Yayoi Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Laforet Museum of Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, USA - 1991
- Kirin Puraza Osaka, Osaka, Japan
- 1990
- Gallery Aricchi, Paris, France
- 1988
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Gallery Silvia Mentzel, East Berlin, Germany
The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan - 1987
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Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA - 1986
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Roy Boyd Gallery, LosAngeles, USA
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel - 1985
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Otis Person Gallery, LosAngeles, USA
Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, Italy
Farcone Teatro, Genoa, Italy
Kunstlerhause Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan - 1983
- Musee de La Publicite, Paris, France
- 1982
- The Museum of fur Kunst und gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
- 1980
- Okayama Museum, Okayama, Japan
- 1974
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 1973
- The Museum of Kunst und gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
- 1972
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
"Yokoo Tadanori: The Artists," 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo
Public Collections
- Art Kites Museum, Sydney
IDEAS Students Committee, Australia
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
The Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Museum of Modern Art, Vienna
National Museum, Wales
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
National Archives of Canada, Ottawa
College of Fine Art, University of California, Los Angeles
Queens Land Art Gallery, Brisbane
Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, Santa Rosa
The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
The Museum of Modern Art, Genoa
The Chicago Athenaeum, Chicago
The Museum of Art and Design, Zurich
The Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Patrick and Beatrice Haggarty Museum of Art, Milwaukee
Musee de La Publicite, Paris
The Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Bradford Art Galleries and Museum, West Yorkshire
Brandenburg Art Museum, Cottbus
The Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles
J.PaulGetty Museum, Los Angeles
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Museum for Applied Art, Munich
Art Museum, Lahti
Dante Museum, Rome
Poster Museum, Warszawa
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain