Kanji Wakae

Artist
Artist
1944 Born in Yokosuka, Kanagawa
1982–83 Fellowship of Overseas Study, Program for Artists by the Agency for Cultural Affairs (Studied in Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany)
Currently lives and works in Yokosuka
1974
Awarded the Prize of Minister of Education, Science and Culture at the 9th International Biennial Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo
1973
Awarded at the 7th International Young Artists Exhibition
2018
67th Kanagawa Cultural Award
2024
“MUSEUM HAUS KASUYA 30th Anniversary Exhibition Kanji Wakae Mediterranean – 1. Beginning”, Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa
2018
Gallery TOM, Tokyo
2016
”Visibility” Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku, Tokyo
2014
Museum Haus Kasuya, Yokosuka, Kanagawa
2013
“Domain of Mirror – Downfall & Turnover” Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku, Tokyo
2008
“Under the Light of Time” Neues Kunstforum, Koln, Germany
2006
“HIROSHIMA” Museum Haus Kasuya, Yokosuka, Kanagawa
2004-05
“Kanji Wakae” Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori
2004
“Under the Light of Time” The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Kanagawa
2001
“Millennium- IV” LeRoy Nieman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, New York, USA
“Millennium- V” President’s Gallery, Massachusetts College of Arts, Boston, USA
1995
“Ethos” Museum Haus Kasuya, Yokosuka, Kanagawa(’96, ’99, ’03, ’06, ’12)
1994
“Vessel Drawings by Kanji Wakae”, Pyramid Atlantic Library/ Gallery, Hyattsville, MD, USA
“Kanji Wakae: Photographic Prints and Sculpture” JICC:Japan Information and Culture Center, Washington, D.C., USA
“Ethos”, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
1991
“Ethos” Lunam Gallery, Tokyo
1990
“Trend- II” INAX Gallery, Tokyo
1989
“Trend- I” Kunst-und Museumsverein Wuppertal, West Germany
1975
Galerie m, Bochum, West Germany
1972, 71
Tamura Gallery, Tokyo
1974, 72, 70
Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1968
Yoseido Gallery, Tokyo
2024
“Dialogue with Joseph Beuys”, GYRE, Tokyo
“Tectonic Shifts in Printing, Printmaking and Graphic Design 1957–1979” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
2021
“L’Image et son double” Centre Pompidou, Paris
2017
”2D Printers”, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi
”Japanese conceptual photography from the 70′s” GALERIE CHRISTOPHE GAILLARD, Paris/GALERIE 1900-2000, Paris, France
2016
The Pencil of Culture 10 ans d’acquisitions de photographies au Centre Pompidou, Grand Palais, Paris
2015-2016
“For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979”, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Grey Art Gallery, NY; Japan Society, NY, USA
2014
“Image And Matter In Japanese Photography From The 1970s, Curated By Yumiko Chiba” MARIANNE BOESKY GALLERY, New York, USA
“COLOR, MOTION, FORM, SUMMER ADVENTURE IN ART” The Museum of Modern Art Hayama, Kanagawa
“40th Anniversary Exhibition Part 2 Turning point of Japanese Art after World War Ⅱ” The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
2013
“MEMORIES OF A CITY – Yokosuka in Photographs and Contemporary Art” Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa
“Thermodynamics of the Sun” Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi
2011
“Noriyuki Haraguchi / Kanji Wakae” Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa
“Pictorial Theory of Evolution”, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi
“To the 1970s The Turning Point of Photography & Art” Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku, Tokyo
1989
“Das autonomies Bild.Experimentelle Gestaltung 1839-1989” Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
“The 20th Biennial of Sao Paulo” Brazil
1983
“Photography in Contemporary Art” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; The National Museum of Modren Art, Kyoto
1980
“Simulated Images in Contemporary Art” The National Museum of Art, Osaka
1977
“Malerei und Photographie im Dialog von 1840 bis Heute” Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
1976, 75, 70
“Artists Today ’70” Yokohama Citizen’s Gallery, Kanagawa
1974
“Tokyo Biennial ‘74” Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
“The 9th International Biennial Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; The National Museum of Modren Art, Kyoto
1973
“The 12th Biennial of Sao Paulo” Brazil
”Jigen to Jokyo” (Dimension and circumstances), Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo
“Contemporary Japanese Prints”, Boston/New York, USA
1972
“The 8th International Biennial Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1969
“The 9th Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition” Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Kiyosato Museum of Contemporary Art
Kawaguchiko Museum of Art
Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts
Aomori Contemporary Art Centre
Yokosuka Museum of Art
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
MUSEUM HAUS KASUYA
National Museum, Kraków, Poland
Geschichtsmuseum der Stadt Lüdenscheid, Germany
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
Von der Heydt-Museum, Germany
Centre Georges-Pompidou, France