[ARATANIURANO]

Izumi Kato

Japanese / English

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

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008
"The Riverhead", The Ueno Royal Museum Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007
"Dear Humans", ARATANIURANO, Tokyo
"MOKU", Takahashi Collection, Tokyo
2006
Murata & Friends, Berlin
2005
Galleria Astuni, Pietrasanta, Italy
HADAKA NO HITO, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
2004
Murata & Friends, Berlin
"αM PROJECT Vol.5", ASK? art space kimura, Tokyo
2003
Ai Gallery, Tokyo
"Drawings 1996-2003", 23GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2002
Galleria Chimera, Tokyo, Japan
2001
"Focusing on a New Generation in Japan", Ai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Murata & Friends, Berlin
"Kato Izumi Exhibition 1995-99", 23GALLERY,Tokyo, Japan
"Criterium46", Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
2000
23GALLERY, Tokyo
Ai Gallery, Tokyo
1999
IBM-KAWASAKI City Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
1996
GALLERY LE DECO, Tokyo (’97, ’98), Japan
1995
Ai Gallery, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009
"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
"The Child", Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
"GLOBAL PLAYERS-Deutsche und japanische Kunst der Gegenwart", Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany
2005
"GLOBAL PLAYERS-Deutsche und japanische Kunst der Gegenwart", BankART 1929, Yokohama, Japan
"Little Boy, Japan Society", New York, USA
"Izumi KATO, Junya SATO, Yuken TERUYA", Galerie 14-1, Stuttgart
2004
Galleria Astuni, Pietrasanta, Italy
"Pro Tsubo", Neue Galerie Landshut, Germany
"lonely planet", Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
"Body", Galerie Robert Dress, Hannover, Germany
2003
"ZONE – Clairvoyants in this threatening age", Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo
"The 1st Magical Art Exhibition", Magic Room, PROJECT ROOM, Tokyo
2002
"Pro-Tsubo, Zeitgenassische junge Kunst aus Japan", Theodor-Zink-Museum, Kaiserslautern, Germany
"VOCA 2002", Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
2000
"Four Emerging Artists", Theatres des SENS, Tokyo, Japan
1997
"Bi' and 'Jutsu' ", Ai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Public Collection

Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
"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