HITOSHI NAKAZATO
1936 | Born in Machida, Tokyo |
EDUCATION
1966 | Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, MFA |
1964 Summer | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
1964 | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, MS in Art |
1960 | Tama Art University, Tokyo BFA |
GRANTS:
1982 | Japan/United States Consortium for Environmental Planning and Design, Ohio State University |
1974–75 | Creative Artist’s Public Service, New York State |
1966-67 | John D. Rockefeller III Fund |
Solo Exhibitions
2023 | Hitoshi Nakazato: Painting Outside Part II, MEM Gallery, Tokyo |
2022 | Hitoshi Nakazato: Painting Outside Part I, MEM Gallery, Tokyo Hitoshi Nakazato: 1968 – 1971 Tokyo, ArtCourt Gallery, Osaka |
2010 | NAKAZATO Hitoshi: New York/Machida—Line Outside/Black Rain, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Machida, Tokyo, Japan |
2009 | After 55 Years, Keikando Gallery, Obirin University, Tokyo Hiroshima Revisted – Black Rain, Pageant Soloveev Gallery, Philadelphia Hiroshima Revisited – Black Rain II, NY Coo Gallery, New York |
2007 | Print Series, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Painting Series, Ice Box Gallery, Philadelphia |
2006 | NYCoo Gallery, New York |
2005 | From Sphere to Cube, Pageant Soloveev Gallery, Philadelphia |
2004 | Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo |
2003 | Unfolding Gibon Sengai, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Luisiana |
2002 | Line Outside, Montpelier Center for Culture and Arts, Maryland |
2001 | Geo-Prospective, The Ericson Gallery, Philadelphia |
2000 | Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo |
1999 | Line Outside Series, The Ericson Gallery, Philadelphia PWS Gallery, Seoul Print Fair, Seoul, Korea Gallery Julliet, Trieste, Italy |
1998 | Gallery Kuranuki, Osaka Line Outside/Homage to Sen Gai, Nesbit Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia |
1997 | Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo |
1994 | Paintings, Frank Martin Gallery, Muhlenberg College, PA.Prints, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA Tompkins College Center Gallery, Cedar Crest College, PA |
1993 | Tokyo Gallery, TokyoTokyo Gallery Soko, Tokyo |
1992 | Mahakara Series, Gallery Kuranuki, Osaka |
1990 | Yoseido Gallery, Tokyo |
1989 | One Eleven One / Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo |
1987 | Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
1986 | AIP Gallery, Philadelphia Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo |
1983 | Ten Gallery, Fukuoka Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya |
1982 | Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo |
1981 | Mei Gallery, TokyoRecent Work, organized by Yoshiaki Inui Art Salon Gallery, Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture Bridgeport University, Connecticut |
1980 | Muramatsu Gallery TokyoGross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia |
1979 | Soker-Kaseman Gallery, San Francisco Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo New Works on Paper, Eric Makler Gallery, Philadelphia Recent Paintings, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia |
1978 | Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo Mercer College, New Jersey West Chester College, Pennsylvania |
1977 | Print Club, Philadelphia Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo |
1976 | Upstairs Gallery, San Francisco |
1970 | Pinar Gallery, Tokyo |
1968 | Cheltenham Art Center, Pennsylvania |
Group Exhibitions
2024 | Inaugural Group Exhibition, NISOPROJECT Gallery, London |
2023 | Nakazato・Brusatin, NISOPROJECT Gallery, Paris ACG Reflections 1: Lines – Yasue Kodama, Hitoshi Nakazato, Yutaka Hatta – ACG 20th Anniversary ArtCourt Gallery, Osaka |
2019 | “The Yamamura Collection: Gutai and the Japanese Avant-Garde 1950s-1980s” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe |
2018 | “Machida Connection: Akasegawa Genpei, Kazuo Okazaki, Hitoshi Nakazato” Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo |
2009 | Ben and I, Yoseido Gallery, Tokyo HAFH Exhibition, NYCoo Gallery, New York |
2008 | 30 Year Anniversary Exhibition, The National Museum of Art, Osaka |
2008, 2002, 2000, 1991, 1990, 1987 | Group Exhibition, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo |
2003 | 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Yoseido Gallery, Tokyo Artists Choose Artists, Samuel Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia In Between Hitoshi Nakazato, Kyoji Majima, Kankankyo Gallery, Tokyo |
2002, 1998 | Contemporary Japanese Prints, Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Heifa, Israel |
2000 | 60th Anniversary Exhibition, Cheltenham Center of Art, Cheltenham, PA Prints of 2000, Fisher Gallery, Bard College, New York |
1999 | 1999 Invitational Exhibition, University Hawaii at Hilo, Hawaii |
1998 | Contemporary Japanese Prints, Tikotin Musuem of Heifa Museum, Israel 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Foundation of Arts & Science, Long Beach Island, NJ Artists Choose Artists, Benjamin Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia |
1997 | Nine into Twenty One, Korea Gallery, New York PennArt, KPF Gallery, New York Contemporary Japanese and Japanese American Artists Prints, Parish Gallery, Washington, DC Inside/Out, Brandywine Worshop, Philadelphia, PA |
1996 | Hitoshi Nakazato/Marco Frascari Collage/Prints/Drawings, Burrison Art Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia East Fusion: Contemporary Asian American Art in New York, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, C. W. Post Campus, Brookville, New York |
1995 | Painting ’95, Gallery Kuranuki, Osaka Series, Art in Tokyo No., 7, Concerning Line, non-existant Modernism/Invisible Realism, Itabashi Museum, Tokyo |
1994 | Cross and Square Grids, Saitama Museum of Modern Art, Urawa Aspects (1979 – 1994), Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Gunma Brandywine Fire House Exhibition, Philadelphia Visions In Between, Taipei Gallery, New York |
1993 | The Structure of Painting, Japanese Contemporary Stripes, Bumpodo Gallery, Tokyo Drawings ’93, Kuranuki Gallery, Osaka Visions in Between, Fukuoka Museum, Hiroshima, Japan; New Trends Gallery, Taichung,Howard Salon Taipei, Taiwan; Park Ryu-Sook Gallery, Seoul, Korea; The Taipei Gallery, New York |
1992 | Visions in Between, Ise Art Foundation, New York NICAF, Yokohama International Contemporary Art Fair, Yokohama |
1991 | American Color Print Society, Philadelphia, PA |
1990 | American Color Print Society, Philadelphia, PA Penn Prints, Thirty Years of Printmaking at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
1989 | American Paintings, Takamatsu Museum of Modern Art, Takamatsu Recent Paintings, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo |
1987 | International Gallery 52, New York Painting 1977 – 1987, The National Museum of Art, Osaka |
1986 | Contemporary Japanese Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan International Gallery 52, New York |
1985 | Japanese Prints, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya Yamamura Collection, National Museum of Art, Osaka |
1984 | Human Document ’84/’85, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo Japanese Contemporary Paintings, 1960 – 1980, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Maebashi |
1981 | CAPS Artists, State Museum, Albany, New York |
1980-1981 | Competition for Central Station Mural, Philadelphia |
1979 | Contemporary Drawings: Philadelphia II, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia |
1978 | ACIA Permanent Collection – Alternative Center for International Art, New York The Last 3 Years – A Selection of Recent Acquisitions, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Drawings, Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, Pennsylvania 12th National Print Exhibition, Silvermine Guild of Artists, New Canaan, Connecticut |
1978 | Philadelphia Teaches Printmaking, Associated American Artists, Philadelphia |
1977 | 20th Century American Prints, Philadelphia Museum of Art Prints in Series: Idea into Image, Brooklyn Museum, New York Japan Art Festival-10th Anniversary, Contemporary Japanese Painting, Tokyo Over-Sized Prints, Art Alliance, Philadelphia |
1976 | Bicentennial Exhibition: Prints and Photographs, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia Bicentennial Show: Three Hundred Years of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art |
1975 | Young Artists, Union Carbide Building, New York |
1975 | Ten Artists, Center for International Art, New York |
1974-1975 | American Color Print Society, Philadelphia; Prize 1975, 1978 |
1973-1974 | Art of Surface: A Survey of Contemporary Japanese Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney;traveled to Adraide, Perth, Australia |
1973-1974 | Japanese Artists in the Americas, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and National Museum ofModern Art, Tokyo |
1972 | Cheltenham Show, Philadelphia Museum of Art |
1971 | Opening Show, Kurai Gallery, Tokyo Tokyo Gallery, ’71 Show, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo 10th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo |
1970-1971 | Contemporary Japanese Art, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Philadelphia Civic Center, Art Museumat the University of California, Berkeley |
1970 | Artists Today – 1970, YokohamaShell Art Show, Tokyo Japan Art Festival, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto |
1969 | Print and Drawing Show, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Contemporary Art Outdoor Festival, Yokohama |
1968 | American Drawings, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia 163rd Annual Show, American Drawings, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Japan | Hara Museum ARC, Gunma |
Hyogo Museum of Modern Art, Kobe | |
Japan Foundation, Kokusai Koryu Kikin | |
Kyushu Sangyo University Museum, Fukuoka | |
Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto | |
National Museum of Art, Osaka | |
Ohara Museum of Modern Art, Kurashiki | |
Okayama Museum of Art, Okayama | |
Setagaya Museum of Art, Tokyo | |
Shizuoka Museum of Art, Shizuoka | |
Takamatsu Museum of Modern Art, Takamatsu | |
Tochigi Museum of Art, Utsunomiya | |
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo | |
Wakamatsu Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama | |
Outside of Japan | Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama |
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York | |
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia | |
Museum of Modern Art, New York | |
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. | |
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia | |
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia | |
Tikotin Museum of Haifa Museum, Israel | |
University of Montevallo, Alabama |
Mural Projects:
1988 | Musashi Kyuryo Club (architect: Arata Isozaki), Saitama |
1987 | Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
1970 | Furukawa Pavilion (mural), Expo ’70, Osaka |