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1936 - Born in Hyogo Prefecture
1956 - Nominated as member of Nissenbi(JAAC)Japan Advertising Artists Club
1960 - Enters Nippon Design Center (NDC)
1964 - Forms Studio "Ilfil"
1965 - Participates in "Persona" exhibition (Matsuya Ginza)
Receives Mainichi Industrial Design Award
1966 - Solo Exhibition (Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo)
1968 - Participates in "Word and Image" exhibition (MoMA, New York)
1969 - Solo Exhibition (Tokyo Gallery)
Participates in "A Prospect of Modern Design in Japan" exhibition (The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto)
Awarded the Grand Prize for Prints at 6th Paris Youth Biennale
Participates in "18 Artists of Contemporary Prints" exhibition (Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art)
1970 - Participates in Exhibition "Human Documents '70" (Tokyo Gallery)
Solo Exhibition (Matsuya Ginza, Kyoto, Kobe, Sapporo,Nagoya etc.) Art-directs the Fiber Pavilion of Osaka Exposition
1971 - "Chronicle of Art after World War II" Exhibition (Kanagawa Museum of Modern Art)
"The 10th Contemporary Art of Japan Exhibition" (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art)
"100 Artists in Art Today" (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art)
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Solo Exhibition (MoMA, N
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– Tadanori Yokoo
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NEW YORK, NY | albertz benda is thrilled to present a solo exhibition by Tadanori Yokoo, Death and Dreams, comprising three bodies of work that span the past 40 years of the acclaimed artist’s practice. On view from September 6 through October 13, the majority of the works in Death and Dreams are drawn from Yokoo’s recent exhibition at the Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art in Kobe, Japan, which is dedicated to the artist. They are shown now both for the first time outside Japan and in a private gallery.
Featuring the complete 1980 series Back of Head, the 2010 series Falling Woman, and the Mystery Woman series started in 2016, Death and Dreams examines the fascinating progression of the artist’s dialogue with portraiture, repetition, and appropriation of Japanese and Western popular culture over the course of four decades.
Creating series of unique motifs, the artist has developed his own visual language that he constantly references and reconfigures. He deliberately allows for the presence of the artist’s hand and slight imperfections from one image to the next in a series. The gaps and disparities that arise through the intervention of time and the nature of the medium of painting are central to Yokoo