Artists
Profile
- 1972
- Study Sculpture at Nagoya Junior Collage of Plastic Arts
- 1950
- Born in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2022
- "TOSHIKATSU ENDO," SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
- 2017
- "ENDO Toshikatsu – The Archaeology of the Sacred," The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
- 2015
- "Void – Water place," SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
- 2010
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"Void 2010 AKIYAMA," Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Toshikatsu Endo Trieb ⇔ Void," Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan - 2009
- "Sacrifice and Void," Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan
- 2008
- "Carpet - burnt words," Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 2007
- "Trieb - Shinden II" Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 2006
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"Trieb - vibration (Rein Room)," Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
"VOIDNESS lll," Akiyama art gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Trieb - Shinden l," Kenji Taki Gallery, Aichi, Japan - 2005
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"VOID," SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
"VOID ll," Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan - 2003
- "The Mirror Phase," Space 23℃, Tokyo, Japan
- 2002
- "Trieb - Water III," AKIYAMA GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
- 2001
- "Trieb - Water II, Trieb - Sea I," KENJI TAKI GALLERY, Aichi, Japan
- 2000
- "Trieb - The Cell of Narcissus II, - The invention III," Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 1999
- "Trieb - vibration II / III," SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
"Impoundment - Angel," Aqua Museum 104°, Shimane, Japan - 1998
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"Circle 1989-1992," SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
"Trieb - forgery," KENJI TAKI GALLERY, Aichi, Japan - 1997
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"Trieb - hippocampus," KENJI TAKI GALLERY, Aichi, Japan
"Trieb - vibration I," Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan - 1996
- "TOSHIKATSU ENDO," L.A.LOUVER Gallery, Los Angels, USA
- 1995
- "TOSHIKATSU ENDO Trieb," Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 1993
- "TOSHIKATSU ENDO," L.A.LOUVER Gallery, Los Angels, USA
- 1992
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"TOSHIKATSU ENDO," Gallery Haku, Osaka, Japan
"TOSHIKATSU ENDO," Gallery Takagi, Aichi, Japan - 1991
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"TOSHIKATSU ENDO," Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
"Earth : Air : Fire : Water - The Sculpture of Toshikatsu Endo," UK ; Ireland (Tour Exhibition) - 1989
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"Ete de la Sculpture," Le parc de la Pepinire, Nancy, France
"TOSHIKATSU ENDO," Finland ; Sweden ; Iceland ; Norway ; Denmark (Tour Exhibition) - 1987
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"Untitled," Gallery Haku, Osaka, Japan
"Untitled," Gallery Gutharc Ballin, Paris, France
"Untitled," Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan - 1984
- "Allegory I," Gallery Takagi, Aichi, Japan
- 1975
- "Code of Water," Lunami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2025
- "MOMAT Collection," The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
"Echigo-Tsumari Art Field," Echigo-Matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science “Kyororo,” Niigata, Japan - 2024
- "KOSHIKI ART 2024" Koshiki Islands, Kagoshima, Japan
- 2022
- "MOT Collection: Rewinding the Collection 2nd," Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
"The trace of Hakushu - What's Art Camp Hakushu?," Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba, Japan - 2020
- "SCAI 30th Anniversary Exhibition," SCAI PARK, Tokyo, Japan
- 2019
- "Art Setouchi," Setouchi, Ogijima Island, Kagawa, Japan
- 2018
- "Water and Land Niigata Art Festival," Niigata, Japan
- 2017
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"Japan Alps Art Festival 2017," Shinano Ohmachi, Nagano, Japan
"#05 Naoki Ishikawa, Toshikatsu Endo etc.," SCAI PARK, Tokyo, Japan
"#02 Toshikatsu Endo, Kishio Suga, Bosco Sodi," SCAI PARK, Tokyo, Japan - 2015
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"Four artists: material and hand," Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale, Kiyotsu Warehouse Museum, Niigata, Japan
"MOT Collection: Post War Art," Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
"Contemporary Art and Rakusuitei," Rakusuitei Museum, Toyama, Japan
"Railroad siding 2015," Ex-Second School Lunch Cookery of Tokorozawa City, Saitama, Japan - 2014
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"Making Links," SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
"◯△⬜︎ - Geometrical Imagination in the Art," Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan - 2012
- "Niigata Water and Land Festival 2012," Kameda Old Purification Plant, Niigata, Japan
- 2011
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"WATER, FIRE and EARTH the source of creativity," Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
"Personal Structures," Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy - 2010
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"Personal Structures TIME - SPACE - EXISTENCE," Kunstlerhaus Thurn & Taxis, Austria
"On Bathing," The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
"Personal Structures TIME SPACE EXISTENCE," GEORG KARGAL FINE ARTS, Austria - 2009
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"The 5th Enku Grand Prix Exhibition," The Museum of Fine Art, Gifu, Japan
"What Lurks in Wood," the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
"Niigata Water and Land Festival 2009," Niigata, Japan
"The 1st Tokorozawa Biennale of Contemporary Art SIDING RAIL ROAD 2009," Saitama, Japan
"Tornade of Art," Gallery Yada, Aichi, Japan
"Towards an art object - The world of a book undergoing a complete change," Urawa Museum, Saitama, Japan - 2008
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"Pre-Exhibition Tokorozawa Biennial of Contemporary Art SIDING RAILROAD," Saitama , Japan
"Osaka Art Kaleidoscope 2008 “Osaka time”," Naniwanomiya Historic Park, Osaka, Japan
"Personal Structures Time Space Existence," Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"The Taguchi Collection I: Contemporary Art," The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Gifu, Japan
"Nicola Carrino, Toshikatsu Endo, Karl Prantl: Die Schenkung Defet und andere Werke," Neues museum, Numberg, Germany
"Sculpture Village 2008 Exhibition," The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Gifu, Japan
"Tokorozawa Biennale Preliminary Art Exhibition: Retractable Line," Seibu Railway's former Tokorozawa roll-ing stock plant, Saitama, Japan
"International Ceramic Festival Mino," Gifu, Japan - 2007
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"Small Works '07 - Artist de la Galerie," Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Hillside Gallery: Aiming at a New Departure," Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan
"Water, ink, world of monochrome," Ueno Town art Museum International Symposium, Tokyo, Japan - 2006
- "Drawings: Endo, Koyama," Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Dance Hakushu 2006, Open-air work by Renka-shiki," Hakushu, Yamanashi, Japan
"Art exhibition TAMA VIVANT2006 Now the rhythm overlaps," Tama Art University, Hachioji Campus, Gallery of Painting Building, Tokyo, Japan / Minatomirai Line, Minatomirai Station, B3 concourse, Kanagawa, Japan - 2005
- "A voice of silence," The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
"The Last Exhibition of Parallelism in Art," Ohara Center, Tokyo, Japan - 2004
- "Landscape and Scalpel," Hachinohe City Art Museum, Aomori, Japan
- 2003
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"Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale 2003," Echigo Tumari Region, Niigata, Japan
"WATER/Amsterdam Channel Park Walking Art," Amsterdam, Netherlands - 2002
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"Vitality in Modernism -collection from Iwaki City Museum," Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan
"A Perspective on Contemporary Art : Continuity / Transgression," The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan - 2001
- "Yokohama Trieniale," Pacifico Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- 2000
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"Forms in Nature," The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
"ART DOCUMENT 2000 : Shigeo Toya, Toshikatsu Endo, Kimio Tsuchiya," Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui, Japan
"Shigeo Toya,Toshikatsu Endo," Shimane Art Museum, Shimane, Japan
"Gwangju Biennale," Municipal Museum of Gwangju, Gwangju, South Korea - 1999
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"Toshikatsu Endo, Hotaro Koyama, Kazuhiro Nomura," Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Forms Living in the Forest," The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
"Reading Nature...Where is Your Nature?," The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Saitama, Japan - 1998
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"Human, Nature, and Player - Image of Trees in Japanese Art," Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, Nagano, Japan
"Art / Ecosystem The Contemporary Japanese Art Scene," Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan - 1997
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"Aspects of Land and Soil," Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
"In Association with SOTHEBY'S the SAVOY," I.C.A, London, UK
"Mont-de-Marsan sculptures 1997 Le Lapon Creations in-situ," Mont-de-Marsan, France
"Point of Contact - South Korean, Chinese, and Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition," Taegu & Culture Hall, South Korea - 1996
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"100 Selected Works from The Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama," Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
"Collection in Focus:XII Installation pieces," Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
"Art Grandeur Nature 1996," Seine Saint-Denis, Conseil General, France
"SAYONARA Doujunkai Daikanyama Apartment Project -RESURRECTING MEMORIES-," Doujunkai Daikanyama Apartment, Tokyo, Japan - 1995
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"ARS 95 HELSINKI," Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
"Art in Japan Today 1985-1995," Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
"Japanese Culture:The Fifty Postwar Years," Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
"Circulating Currents - Japanese and Korean Contemporary Art," Aichi Prefectural Museum ; Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan - 1994
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"JAPANESE ART AFTER 1945 : SCREAM AGAINST THE SKY," Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
"ADELAIDE INSTALLATIONS (Adelaide Festival)," North Terrace Precinct, Adelaide, Australia
"BIENAL DE SAO PAULO, 1994," Ciccilo Matarazzo Pavilion, Sao Paulo, Brazil
"QUINTESSENCE," Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan - 1993
- "INVISIBLE NATURE," (Tour Exhibition) : Ballgame Hall, Royal Garden of the Prague Castle, Czech Republic ; Ludwig Museum Budapest, Hungury ; Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
- 1991
- "Structure and Rememberance - Toya, Endo, Kenmoch," Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
- 1990
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"A Primal Spirit - The Contemporary Japanese Sculptors," USA ; Canada (Tour Exhibition)
"La Biennale di Venezia 1990," Giardini di Castello, Venezia, Italy
"STÜCKI 2 Japan: Raumbezogene Arbeiten," Stücki 2, Basel, Switzerland
"Japanische Kunst der Achtziger Jahre," Germany ; Austria (Tour Exhibition)
"Japan Art Today," North Europe (Tour Exhibition) - 1989
- "20th Biennale Middelheim - Japan," Openlucht voor Beeldhouwkunst Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium
- 1988
- "La Biennale di Venezia 1988," Corderie dell' Arsenale, Venezia, Italy
- 1987
- "Documenta 8 Kassel 1987," Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
- 1986
- "The 6th Triennale-India 1986," Lalit Kala Akademy, New Delhi, India
- 1985
- "Metaphor and / or Symbol - A Perspective on Contemporary Art," National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
- 1984
- "Metaphor and / or Symbol - A Perspective on Contemporary Art," The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Awards
- 2018
- 59th World of Literary Prizes
- 2009
- The 5th Enku Grand Award
- 2007
- The Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts
Public Collections
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Aqua Museum 104°, Shimane, Japan
Flakstad commune, Norway
Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan
Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan
Kanazu Forest of Creation, Fukui, Japan
Kawaguchi Contemporary Art Museum, Saitama, Japan
Malmö Art Museum, Sweden
Matsunoyamamachi, Niigata, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA), USA
Musuem of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
The National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo, Japan
Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
Oita Art Museum, Oita, Japan
Paris City, France
Shimane Art Musem, Shimane, Japan
Takayama City, Gifu, Japan
Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, Toyama, Japan