[ARATANIURANO]

Izumi Kato

Japanese / English

1969
Born in Shimane, Japan
1992
Graduated from the Department of Oil painting, Musashino Art University

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010
"SOUL UNION", ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan
2008
"The Riverhead", The Ueno Royal Museum Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007
"Dear Humans", ARATANIURANO, Tokyo
"MOKU", Takahashi Collection, Tokyo
2006
Murata & Friends, Berlin
2005
"HADAKA NO HITO", SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
Galleria Astuni, Pietrasanta, Italy
2004
"αM PROJECT Vol.5", ASK? art space kimura, Tokyo
Murata & Friends, Berlin
2003
Ai Gallery, Tokyo
"Drawings 1996-2003", 23GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2002
Galleria Chimera, Tokyo, Japan
2001
"Criterium46", Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Murata & Friends, Berlin
"Focusing on a New Generation in Japan", Ai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2000
Ai Gallery, Tokyo
23GALLERY, Tokyo
1999
IBM-KAWASAKI City Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
1996
GALLERY LE DECO, Tokyo (’97, ’98), Japan
1995
Ai Gallery, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010
"Living With Art - Contemporary Art from Japan and Taiwan", Yi&C.Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
"neoteny japan - From TAKAHASHI Collection", The Museum of Art Ehime, Ehime, Japan
"New Kore Shizuoka - New and Previous Collections and Art Closely Connected to Shizuoka", Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
"Garden of Painting / Japanese Art of the 00s", The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2009
“neoteny japan - From TAKAHASHI Collection” Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan
“Selection from the Hara Museum Collection” Hara Museum Arc, Gunma, Japan
"neoteny japan – From TAKAHASHI Collection", Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata, Japan
"neoteny japan – From TAKAHASHI Collection", Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"Dorodoro, Doron – The Uncanny World in Folk and Contemporary Art in Asia", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
"Long Season", Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
"TOYOTA ART COLLECTION 2008", Kuragaike Art Salon, Kuragaike Commemorative Hall, Aichi, Japan
2008
"neoteny japan – From TAKAHASHI Collection", Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
"FORWARDS 08 –Daimler Awards for Contemporary Art from Germany, Japan, South Africa and the USA", Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
"Kankai Pavilion Opening Exhibition – Beyond Time, Beyond Space", (supervised by Arata ISOZAKI), Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
"neoteny japan – From TAKAHASHI Collection", Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
"Art Scope 2007/2008 – Faces of Existence", Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
"Selection from the Hara Museum's Permanent Collection", Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2007
"MOT Annual 2007 – From a World as Large as Life", Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
"Painting as Forest : Artist as Thinker", Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan
Venice Biennale 52nd International Art Exhibition "Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense", Italian Pavilion at Giardini, Venezia, Italy
2006
"GLOBAL PLAYERS-Deutsche und japanische Kunst der Gegenwart", Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany
"The Child", Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2005
"Izumi KATO, Junya SATO, Yuken TERUYA", Galerie 14-1, Stuttgart
"Little Boy, Japan Society", New York, USA
"GLOBAL PLAYERS-Deutsche und japanische Kunst der Gegenwart", BankART 1929, Yokohama, Japan
2004
Galleria Astuni, Pietrasanta, Italy
"Body", Galerie Robert Dress, Hannover, Germany
"lonely planet", Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
"Pro Tsubo", Neue Galerie Landshut, Germany
2002
"The 1st Magical Art Exhibition", Magic Room, PROJECT ROOM, Tokyo
"ZONE – Clairvoyants in this threatening age", Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo
"VOCA 2002", Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
"Pro-Tsubo, Zeitgenassische junge Kunst aus Japan", Theodor-Zink-Museum, Kaiserslautern, Germany
2000
"Four Emerging Artists", Theatres des SENS, Tokyo, Japan
1997
"Bi' and 'Jutsu' ", Ai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Public Collection

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan
Franks Suss Collection
Pigozzi Collection
"Untitled", 2006, Oil on canvas, 227 x 181.8 cm, Photo by Keizo Kioku

"Untitled", 2006, Oil on canvas, 227 x 181.8 cm, Photo by Keizo Kioku

"Untitled", 2007, Oil on canvas, 194 x 162 cm, Photo by Keizo Kioku

"Untitled", 2007, Oil on canvas, 194 x 162 cm, Photo by Keizo Kioku

"The Riverhead", exhibition view, Ueno Royal Museum Gallery, 2008

"The Riverhead", exhibition view, Ueno Royal Museum Gallery, 2008