Sadamasa Motonaga

1922 Born in Iga, Mie Prefecture(November,26）

1955 Joined the Gutai Art Association（left in 1971）

1966 Visited the United States by the invitation of the Japan Society,went back to Japan next year

1970 Participated in the Gutal Art Festival at the he festival plaza at Expo'70

1996 Appointed as a Professor in the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art and Design, Seian University of Art and Design

2011 Died at the age of eighty-three(October,3)

1922 Born in Iga, Mie Prefecture(November,26）

1955 Joined the Gutai Art Association（left in 1971）

1966 Visited the United States by the invitation of the Japan Society,went back to Japan next year

1970 Participated in the Gutal Art Festival at the he festival plaza at Expo'70

1996 Appointed as a Professor in the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art and Design, Seian University of Art and Design

2011 Died at the age of eighty-three(October,3)

Awards

1983 Japan Arts Grand Prize

1986 Hyogo Prefectural Cultural Award


1988 Conferred the Chevalier de la Légion d`Honneur by the French government

1991 Awarded Medal with Purple Ribbon by the Japanese government

1992 Osaka Art Prize


1997 Awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette,4th Class

2002 Mie Prefectural People's Meritorious Service Award Cultural Award

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 Motonaga Sadamasa: Photography. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka

2022 Motonaga Sadamasa: The100th anniversary of his birth; Mie Prefectural Art Museum. Tsu 
2014, Sadamasa Motonaga

2009 Sadamasa Motonaga. Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu

2005 Sadamasa Motonaga. Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, Nagano

2003 Sadamasa Motonaga. Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
2002

1985 The world of Sadamasa Motonaga. Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022 Into the Unknown World — GUTAI: Differentiation and Integration, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

2015 Splendid Playground. Guggenheim Museum, New York

2013 Between Action and the Unknown: The Art of Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga. Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas

2006 Zéro. Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne

1981 ArtPop–Japan. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1955

Selected Public Collections

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe

Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro,Rio de Janeiro

The Museum of Modern Art [MoMA], New York

The National Museum of Art, Osaka


The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto


Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo