TOKI-NO-WASUREMONO

1931
He was born in Ibaraki Prefecture.

1953
Participated in the “Democrat Artists Association”.

1954
Graduated from Tokyo University of Education, Faculty of Education, Department of Art.

1958
He traveled to New York (Produced in New York until 2006).

1962
Join the “Fluxus” Group

1966
Japan squad Venice Biennale

1970
(Japan World Exposition, Osaka) “Rainbow Exhibition No. 7 Tactical Rainbow Room”

1971
Sao Paulo Biennale Japan National Team (Banco do Brasil Award)

1987
(Eihei-ji Temple, Fukui) “25 m Rainbow Event”
(Eiffel Tower, Paris) “300 m Rainbow Eiffel Tower Project”

1990
Participated in many Fluxus-related exhibitions

2006
(Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art) “Aimu AY-O at Rainbow 1950 -2006”

2010
(Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki) “Ay-O 1950’s -2000”

1931
He was born in Ibaraki Prefecture.

1953
Participated in the “Democrat Artists Association”.

1954
Graduated from Tokyo University of Education, Faculty of Education, Department of Art.

1958
He traveled to New York (Produced in New York until 2006).

1962
Join the “Fluxus” Group

1966
Japan squad Venice Biennale

1970
(Japan World Exposition, Osaka) “Rainbow Exhibition No. 7 Tactical Rainbow Room”

1971
Sao Paulo Biennale Japan National Team (Banco do Brasil Award)

1987
(Eihei-ji Temple, Fukui) “25 m Rainbow Event”
(Eiffel Tower, Paris) “300 m Rainbow Eiffel Tower Project”

1990
Participated in many Fluxus-related exhibitions

2006
(Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art) “Aimu AY-O at Rainbow 1950 -2006”

2010
(Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki) “Ay-O 1950’s -2000”

Exhibitions
2013
Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2013
Moment – Le Corbusier’s Secert Laboratory, Moderna Museet, Stokholm
2012
Le Corbusier. Le poème de l’ angle droit – Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
2012
Construire l’image: Le Corbusier et la photographie – Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel
2012
L’Italia di Le Corbusier – MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
2011
Le Corbusier expone – Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
2010
El Poema del Ángulo Recto – MNAD Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo, Buenos Aires
2009
Kunst und Architektur, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
2009
Zeichnungen, Skulpturen und Originalgrafiken, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
2009
Meisterwerke der Moderne. Die Sammlung des Kunstmuseums Winthertur, MART, Rovereto, Italy
2009
Gipfeltreffen der Moderne, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn, Germany
2009
Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture, Barbican Centre, London
2009
11 : 1 (+3) = Elf Sammlungen für ein Museum, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland
2008
Cold War Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2008
Traces du sacré, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany and Centre Pompidou, Paris
2008
In der Wüste der Moderne, Haus der Kulturen, Berlin
2008
Peripherer Blick und kollektiver Körper, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
2008
Ad Absurdum, MARTa Herford, Germany
2008
Die Hände der Kunst, MARTa Herford, Germany
2007
Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture, Vitra Design Museum – Weil am Rhein, Germany
2007
Le Corbusier, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Modernism: Designing a new world, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
2007
Hände, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
2006
Le Corbusier ou la Synthèse des arts, Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
2005
Le Corbusier: l´architetto e suoi libri, Centro Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
2005
Arte & Architettura 1900-2000, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
2005
Le Corbusier, Christoph Worringer, Galerie Hachmeister, Münster, Germany
2005
Internationale Zeichnungen, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
2004
Onbegrensd / Unbegrenzt, Galerie Hachmeister, Munster, Germany
2004
The graphic work, das grafische Werk, Heidi Weber Museum – Centre Le Corbusier, Zurich, Switzerland
2003
Le Corbusier, Werkbundhaus, Dresden, Germany
2003
Separated Colours Of Hachmeister, Galerie Hachmeister, Munster, Germany
2003
Louis Soutter et les modernes, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
2001
Le Corbusier, Henry Moore Institute Leeds, UK
2000
Cosmos, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
1987
Le Corbusier secret: dessins et collages de la Collection Ahrenberg, Kunsthalle Schirn Frankfurt, Germany, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
1987
Le Corbusier und Raoul LaRoche: Architekt und Maler, Bauherr und Sammler, Architekturmuseum Basel, Switzerland
1972
36th Biennale di Venezia 1972, Venice, Italy
1959
Documenta 2, Kassel, Germany
1957
Le Corbusier: Architektur, Malerei, Plastik, Wandteppiche, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
1955
Consecration of the Chapel of Ronchamp, France
1953
Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
1938
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
1918
Après le Cubisme (with Amédée Ozenfant) Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany

– Selected Solo Exhibitions –

2017 Primordial Line, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2014 ISOZAKI Arata: 12 x 5 =60, WATARI-UM, Tokyo, Japan
Labyrinth in Motion, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2013 ISOZAKI Arata: SOLARIS, NTT Inter Communication Center [ICC], Tokyo, Japan
2011 PROCESS, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Arata Isozaki-Starting from Ruins, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
Arata Isozaki-Prints, Marugame Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
2008 Arata Isozaki-7 Invitations 2008
Seven Villas, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
Seven Art Galleries, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Seven Curations, Hara Museum ARC, Japan
– Selected Group Exhibitions –

2018 1968: Art in the Turbulent Age, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of Its Transformation, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Florence Biennale 2017: eARTh – Creativity & Sustainability, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy
Japan-ness. Architecture and Urbanism in Japan since 1945, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
CONTEMPORARY RUINS, KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany(Upcoming)
Summer Exhibition 2017, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Okamoto Taro x Architecture, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Japan
Invisible Architecture: 1960s’ and 1970s’ Italian and Japanese architect movement analysis and contemporary debate, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, Italy
2016 Suzhou Documents,Suzhou Art Museum and other venues in Suzhou, Suzhou, China
The Emergence of Contemporary: Avant-Garde Art in Japan 1950-1970, Paço Imperial, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Ah, Shinjuku!: the City as Spectacle, Waseda University Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum,Tokyo, Japan
2015 Group Show, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
Legendary Houses in Postwar Japan / PROVOCATIVE / INTROSPECTIVE, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
2014 JAPAN ARCHITECTS 1945-2010, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
1974: A turning Point in Postwar Japanese Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Legendary Houses in Postwar Japan / PROVOCATIVE / INTROSPECTIVE, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2013 METABOLISM: The City of the FUTURE, Chun Shang Creative Hub, Taipei, Taiwan
Yoko Ono Half-A-Window Show A Retrospective, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
2012 Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde, The Museum of Modern Art New York, USA
Traces of Centuries & Future Steps, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
2011 METABOLISM: The City of the FUTURE, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
POSTMODERNISM: STYLE AND SUBVERSION 1970-1990, Victoria and Alber Museum, London, UK
2010 CITY2.0-Theory of Evolution by WEB Generation, EYE OF GYRE, Tokyo, Japan

He joined 1926 doujinshi “mountain cocoon” and published his poems. He was taught by Professor Junzaburo NISHIWAKI for five years until graduation.
1928: He published a poem, “Creationism” in “mountain cocoon” magazine. He published a series of experimental poetic texts until around 31.
1929. He helped Junzaburo NISHIWAKI edit ‘surrealist poetry’ and contributed “From Dada to Surrealism.” to the end of the book.
He translated and published ‘surrealism and painting’ by Breton 1930. (this year or the following year) He planned to open a photo studio and make a living, and temporarily worked at a photo studio in Nishi-Ginza.
1931: He graduated from Keio University. He published “poetry and reality” “kiss of life” and Man-Rei theory.
(1934) Taking a leave of absence due to poor health resulting from hard work. Later, he transferred to the literary department. He cooperated in the activities of “Society of New Mold Art” and got to know Ayako SUZUKI, a member of the group, and got married (following year).
He contributed “AU JAPON” to 1935 “Caye Dahl” magazine. Translated manuscript of lecture on “Association of Cultural Writers” delivered directly from Bruton (The following year, it was published in ‘surrealist exchange’)

1936 Suffer from gastric ulcer. He left PCL. Organizes “Avangardo Artists Club” (Special high schools are present and monitored at regular meetings.). “surrealism” was announced. Translated by Breton “About Decalcomania of Desire”.
1937 “overseas surrealism exhibition” organized (Compiled the commemorative publication ‘Album surrealist’ and produced the decalcomania on the cover). A collection of poetry and illustrations by Yoshifumi ABE (Nobuya) ‘fairy distance’ was published.
1938: Published ‘modern art’. “Picasso fire” is announced, and “Guernica” is introduced. “the aesthetics of Andre Breton” is an abridged translation of ‘madness of love’ by Bruton. He published a series of photo reviews, including “Photography and surrealism”. He was also interested in the new Bauhaus movement and wrote letters to Mohori Naji and Kepesh.
1939: published ‘Dali’. He taught “modern art” at the College of Art, Nihon University. He visited Otaru upon the death of his eldest sister.
1940 extra high pressure. fall into solitude. His view of surrealism has collapsed, and he has a serious sense of frustration. World’s First Monography on Milo ‘Milo’ Published
1946: He worked for a Japanese and American news agency as a special adviser and was in charge of the culture section of “Japan-U.S. Weekly” magazine.
1949 Meet many new and unknown writers at the Yomiuri Endepandon exhibition. ‘modern art’ was republished.
1950 He published many art reviews, mainly in The Yomiuri Shimbun.
1951 Special exhibitions were held 208 times until 57 in cooperation with the management of “Takemiya Gallery”. He was involved as an adviser in “experimental workshop” a group of young sculptors and composers (The name “experimental workshop” is also used.). The 3rd edition of ‘modern art’ was published.
1954. Published a collection of poetry illustrations, ‘Sphinx’ (Teijiro Kubo’s personal edition).
1955: Published ‘profile of 16’. The serialization of “List of Unique Writers” in “Geijutsu Shincho” magazine (Later published as ‘Fantastic Artist Theory’).
1961: She held her 2nd personal exhibition (Osaka North Gallery. The title of both the 1st and the 2nd episode is “From my book of paintings”).
1962: He immersed himself in decalcomania from New Year’s Day, and presented in his 3rd personal exhibition “My heart ticks.” (Southern Gallery. The next year, he visited Kobe International Hall.). Since he was not quick at writing the clay theory, he consulted Kitatabio of the Saito Neurology Department. Try Burnt Drawing. ‘modern art’ 4th edition
1967: Published a collection of poetry and illustrations by Yuri NONAKA ‘Wichisho’. ‘Poetic Experiment by Shuzo TAKIGUCHI 1927 ~ 1937’ was published.
1968: ‘Marcel Duchamp’ was completed (Special edition 60 includes original pieces by Duchamp, Jasper Jones, Tingerie and Shusaku Arakawa.). He started bottling olives that grew naturally in his garden.
1969 Supervised ‘André Breton Assembly’. The patient was hospitalized for cerebral thrombosis. ‘the painter’s silence’ was published. Special feature on Shuzo TAKIGUCHI in “an essay in a book” magazine.
1970: Published a collection of poetry and art with Milo ‘handwritten proverb’. I have an operation for a gastric ulcer.
1971: She held her 4th personal exhibition (Shinjuku Snack Bar “Sebastian”).
1972: Published ‘Three Dreams’ a new edition of ‘Fantastic Artist Theory’ ‘Brief slaughtered poets’ and ‘Creationism’.
1973: Supervised the “Surrealism and painters” series of “on the die’s seventh eye”. He was invited to a reception for “Marcel Duchamp retrospective” and went to America. He contributed “Personally Speaking” to the catalog.
1974 “Modern Poetry Book” featuring Shuzo TAKIGUCHI. Decalcomania is also listed.
1975: Published a collection of poetry and paintings with Antoni Tapies, ‘eyes of matter’ ‘one-second dream’.
1977: He collaborated with Kazuo OKAZAKI on ‘ophthalmoscopy’. She is one of 23 “eyewitness” (Temoins Ocultists) from the Pompidou Centre “Marcel Duchamp Exhibition”.
1978: Published a collection of poetry and art with Milo ‘With the Star of Milo’.

Jonas Mekas has received numerous grants and awards, including from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Albright Knox Gallery, and the Long Wharf Theater Foundation, and is a member of the American Center of P.E.N and the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts.

1962 Grand Prize awarded to GUNS OF THE TREES at the Porretta Terme Film Festival
1964 Grand Prize (Documentary) awarded to THE BRIG at the Venice Film Festival
1966 Gold Medal, Philadelphia College of Art, “for the devotion, passion, and selfless dedication to the rediscovery of the newest art”
1977 Guggenheim Fellowship
1989 Creative Arts Award, Brandeis University
1992 Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministry of Culture, France
Mel Novikoff Award, San Francisco Film Festival
1995 Lithuanian National Award
1996 Special Tribute, New York Film Critics Circle Award
Doctor of Fine Arts, Honoris Causa, Kansas City Art Institute
1997 Pier Paolo Pasolini Award, Paris
International Documentary Film Association Award, Los Angeles
Governors Award, Skohegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Doctor of Fine Arts, Honoris Causa, Universitatis Vytauti Magni, Lituania
2000 Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministry of Culture, France
2006 REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress
Directors Guild of America Award
2007 Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards special citation for “contribution to film art”
Special Award from the Roswitha Haftmann Foundation, Zürich
2008 Baltic Cultural Achievement Award
Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art (Õsterreichische Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst)
2010 Life Achievement Award at the second annual Rob Pruitt’s Art Awards
2011 George Eastman Honorary Scholar Award
2012 ‘Carry Your Light and Believe’ Award, Ministry of Culture, Lithuania
2013 Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministry of Culture, France
Francis J. Greenburger Award
2015 Yoko Ono Courage Award
2017 Elected member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts

Select List of Exhibitions
1983 Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
1992 Galerie National du Jeu de Paume, Paris
agnès b. Galerie du Jour, Paris
Still Gallery, Edinburgh
Luarence Miller, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
agnès b. Galerie du Jour, Paris
1997 Madrid Art Fair
Museum of Contemporary Art, Vilnius
1998 “Le Printemps de Cahors,” Musée de Cahors Henri-Martin
Gandy Gallery, Prague
1999 Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
Pupelis Gallery, Obeliai, Lithuania
agnès b. Galerie du Jour, Paris
2000 “La Beautè” festival, Avignon. Films and installation
“Laboratorium,” Antwerp
“Voilà,” Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
agnès b Galerie du jour, FIAC art fair, Paris
2002 Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Documenta 11, Kassel
2003 “Jonas Mekas: A Camera for Jonas,” Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Utopia Station Pavilion, Venice Biennale. Installation
“Dedication to Fernand Léger,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Vilnius
Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Frozen film frames
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris. Frozen film frames
“Fables de l’Identité,” Centre National de la Photographie, Paris. Frozen film frames
2005 “Farewell to Soho,” Moderna Museet, Stockholm
“Fragments of Paradise,” Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York
“As I Was Moving Ahead,” representing Lithuania at the 51st edition of the Venice Biennale
2006 “Destruction Quartet,” Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
“Onestar Stop,” Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels
“The Expanded Eye,” Kusthalle Zürich
Baltic Art Center, Visby
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
“To New York with Love,” Gallery Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo
“He Stands in the Desert Counting the Seconds of his Life,” Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum, Mexico City.
“The Diary Film,” Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden
“It All Comes Back Now in Glimpses,” Sketch Gallery, London
“Brief Glimpses of Beauty,” Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Center, UK
Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
2007 “Recent Work,” Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York
Serpentine Gallery, London
The Film Gallery, FIAC art fair, Paris
“Jonas Mekas: The Beauty of Friends being Together,” MoMA/P.S.1
Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius
“My Night Life” (with Auguste Varkalis), The Film Gallery, Paris
2008 Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2009 “1968,” Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
“A Few Things I Want to Share with You, My Paris Friends,” agnès b. Galerie du jour, Paris
“The Beast,” FIAC art fair, The Film Gallery, Paris
“Destruction Quartet,” James Fuentes Gallery, New York
“1989,” Kunsthalle Wien
“Jonas Mekas,” Gallery Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo
“To New York with Love,” Bas Fisher Invitational, Miami
“Destruction Quartet,” Kings County Biennial, Brooklyn
2010 “Cassis,” James Fuentes Gallery, New York Armory Show
The Brucennial, New York
“To New York with Love,” James Fuentes Gallery, New York
2011 “Musique Plastique,” agnès b. Galerie du jour, Paris
agnès b. Howard Street boutique, New York
“This Side of Paradise,” agnès b. Rue du Jour boutique, Paris
2012 “Portraits: Jonas Mekas and Robert Polidori,” Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
“Musique Plastique,” agnès b. Howard Street boutique, New York
“The 365 Day Project,” 2B Gallery, Budapest
“Reminiszenzen aus Deutschland,” Stadtmuseum, Wiesbaden
“Prisiminimai iš Vokietijos,” Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius
“Images out of Darkness,” James Fuentes Gallery, New York
Serpentine Gallery, London
“The 365 Day Project,” Centre Pompidou, Paris
2013 DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague
MUAC, Mexico City
“I Lift My Glass of Wine to You, My Vienna Friends!,” Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
Paris Photo L.A., Deborah Colton Gallery, Los Angeles
“Outlaw: New Works,” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn
agnès b. Marseille
“The Sixties Quartet,” KIASMA, Helsinki
“Let Me Introduce Myself, My Russian Friends!” State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
“Jonas Mekas: In Praise of the Ordinary,” The Phi Centre, Montreal
“Jonas Mekas / The Fluxus Wall,” Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
“Life Goes On… I Keep Singing,” Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston
2014 “Jonas Mekas: One Man Show,” Cēsis Arts Festival, Latvia
“365 Day Project,” ZKM, Karlsruhe
2015 “Frozen Film Frames: Portraits of Filmmakers,” Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon
Internet Saga Pavilion, Venice, Italy
“All These Images, These Sounds,” A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
2016 “Let Me Introduce Myself,” Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami
2017 Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel
“I Sing I Celebrate,” La Neomudéjar, Madrid
Boo-Hooray Summer Rental, Montauk

Filmography
Cup/Saucer/Two Dancers/Radio (1965/1983), 23 min.
Guns of the Trees (1962), 75 min.
Film Magazine of the Arts (Summer, 1963), 20 min.
The Brig (1964), 68 min.
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol (1964), 12 min.
Report from Millbrook (1965/ 1966), 12 min.
Walden (Diaries, Notes, and Sketches), (filmed 1964-1968, edited 1968-69), 3 hrs.
Hare Krishna (1966), 4 min.
Notes on the Circus (1966), 12 min.
Cassis (1966), 4 min.
The Italian Notebook (1967), 15 min.
Time and Fortune Vietnam Newsreel (1968), 4 min.
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1971-1972), 82 min.
Lost Lost Lost (1976), 2 hrs. 58 min.
In Between: 1964-8 (1978), 52 min.
Notes for Jerome (1978), 45 min.
Paradise Not Yet Lost (aka Oona’s Third year) (1979), 96 min.
Self-Portrait (1980), 20 min., video
Street Songs (1966/1983) 10 min.
Erik Hawkins: Excerpts from “Here and Now with Watchers”/Lucia Dlugoszewski Performs (1963/1983), 6 min.
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1969/1985), 2 hrs. 30 min.
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (1990), 35 min.
A Walk (1990), 58 min., video
Mob of Angels: Baptism (1990), 61 min., video
Mob of Angels at St. Ann (1991), 60 min, video
Dr. Carl G. Jung or Lapis Philosophorum (1991), 29 min.
Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (1992), 34 min.
The Education of Sebastian or Egypt Regained (1992), 6 hrs. video
Imperfect 3-Image films (1995), 6 min.
On My Way to Fujiyama (1995), 25 min.
Happy Birthday to John (1996), 24 min.
Cinema is Not 100 Years Old (1996), 4 min., video
Memories of Frankenstein (1996), 95 min.
Letters to Friends (1997), 1 hr. 28 min., video
Birth of a Nation (1997), 85 min.
Symphony of Joy (1997), 1 hr. 15 min.
Scenes from Allen’s Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (April 1997), 67 min., video
Letter from Nowhere — Laiškai iš niekur N.1 (1997), 75 min., video [in Lithuanian]
Song of Avignon (1998), 5 min.
Laboratorium Anthology (1999), 63 min., video
This Side of Paradise (1999) 35 min., 16 mm
Notes on the Factory (1999) 64 min., video
Notes on Film-Maker’s Cooperative (1999), 40 min., video
Autobiography of a Man Who Carried his Memory in his Eyes (2000) 53 min., video
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) 4 hrs. 48 min.
Mozart & Wien and Elvis (2000) 3 min.
Silence, Please (2000), 6 min., video
Requiem for a Manual Typewriter (2000) 19 min., video
Remedy for Melancholy (2000) 20 min., video
Letter to Penny Arcade (2001), 14 min. 33 sec., video
Ein Märchen (2001) 6 min., video
Ar Buvo Karas? (2002), 2 hrs. 28 min.
Mysteries (1966/2002) 34 min.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn (1949/2002) 15 min.
Travel Songs 1967-1981 (2003) 28 min.
Letter from Greenpoint (2004) 80 min., video
Notes on Utopia (2003-5) 55 min., video
Father and Daughter (2005), 4 min. 30 sec., video
Notes on an American Film Director at Work: Martin Scorsese (2005), 1hr 20 min.
Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch (2005), 58 min., film and video
First Forty (2006). Forty short films, using materials from earlier films, re-edited specially for internet and installations.
365 Day Project (2007). 365 short films, one for each calendar day of the year 2007.
Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR (2008), 4 hrs. 49 min., video
I Leave Chelsea Hotel (2009), 4 min.
Sleepless Nights Stories (2011), 114 min.
My Paris Movie (2011), 2 hrs. 39 min.
My Bars Bar Movie (2011), 86 min.
Correspondences: José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas (2011), 99 min.
Re: George Maciunas and Fluxus (2011), 87 min.
Mont Ventoux (2011), 3 min.
Happy Easter Ride (2012), 18 min.
Reminiszenzen aus Deutschland (2012), 25 min.
Out-takes from the Life of a Happy Man (2012), 68 min.

Writings by Jonas Mekas
Knyga Apie Karalius ir Žmones, Tubingen, 1947 [in Lithuanian].
Movie Journal, Macmillan, 1972: Japanese edition, 1975. Spanish edition, 1976; French edition, 1992.
Three Friends: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and George Maciunas, Tokyo, 1990 [in Japanese]; Lithuanian edition, Vilnius, 1998.
Laiškai iš niekur, Vilnius, 1997 [in Lithuanian].
Just Like A Shadow, text by Jerome Sans, frozen film frames by Jonas Mekas, Steidl, Göttingen, 2000.
Declarations de Paris, Editions Paris Expérimental, 2001 [in French and English].
As I Was Moving Ahead…, Editions Kinoshita, Tokyo, 2002 [in Japanese]. Text and narration from the film.
Fluxfriends (French edition of Three Friends: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and George Maciunas), Centre Georges Pompidou, 2002.
Artist Book, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2002.
Entretiens avec Jonas Mekas, Editions Paris Expérimental, 2006.
Anecdotes, translated by Jean-Luc Mengus, SCALI, Paris, 2007 [in French].
To Petrarca, Editions Dis Voir, Paris, 2009 [in both French and English editions]

Articles on cinema in Film Culture, Sight & Sound, Bianco e Nero, The New York Times, Cahiers du Cinema, Isskustvo Kino, etc.

Poetry
Semeniškių Idilės, Lithuanian edition, Žvilgsniai, Kassel, 1948; Japanese edition, Tokyo, 1996; enlarged Lithuanian edition, Vilnius, Baltos Lankos 1997.
Gėlių Kalbėjimas, Chicago, 1961 [in Lithuanian].
Pavieniai Žodžiai, Lithuanian edition, Chicago, 1967; Japanese edition, Tokyo, 1996.
Poezija, Vilnius, Vaga, 1971 [in Lithuanian].
Reminiscensijos, New York, Fluxus, 1972 [in Lithuanian].
Dienoraščiai, New York, Žvilgsniai, 1985 [in Lithuanian].
There is No Ithaca (English edition of Semeniškių Idilės and Reminiscensijos), translated by Vyt Bakaitis, Black Thistle Press, New York, 1996.
Dienų Raštai, Vilnius, 1998 [in Lithuanian].
Žmogus Be Vietos (Lithuanian edition of I Had Nowhere to Go), Baltos Lankos, 2000.
Poezija, Lietuvos Rašytojų Sąjungos Leidykla, Vilnius, 2002 [in Lithuanian].
Daybooks 1970-1972 (bilingual edition of Dienų Raštai), translated by Vyt Bakaitis, Portable Press, Brooklyn, 2003.
Žodžiai ir Raidės, Baltos Lankos, Vilnius, 2007 [in Lithuanian].
Idylls of Semeniškiai (bilingual edition), translated by Adolfas Mekas, Hallelujah Editions, 2007.

Diaries
I Had Nowhere to Go: Diaries, 1944-1954, Black Thistle Press, New York, 1991.
Zefiro Torna or Scenes From the Life of George Mačiunas, Arthouse, New York, 1998.
Žmogus Be Vietos (Lithuanian edition of I Had Nowhere to Go), Baltos Lankos, 2000.
Lettres de nulle part (French edition of Laiškai iš niekur, translated by Marielle Vitureau), Paris Expérimental, 2003.
Je n’avais nulle part où aller (French edition of I Had Nowhere to Go), P.O.L, Paris, 2004.
My Night Life (English, Italian, Lithuanian, and French editions), illustrated by Auguste Varkalis, Baltos Lankos, Vilnius, 2006.
Ningún lugar adonde ir (Spanish edition of I Had Nowhere to Go, translated by Leonel Livchits), Caja Negra, Buenos Aires, 2008.
Catalogs
Jonas Mekas, Hara Museum of Contempory Art, Tokyo, 1983.
Jonas Mekas, Galerie nationale du Jeu de paume, Paris, 1992.
Jonas Mekas: Films immobiles, une celebration, Galerie du Jour, Paris, 1996.
Jonas Mekas: Frozen Film Frames, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1996 [in Japanese].
Sustabdytos akimirkos, Contemporary Art Museum, Vilnius, 1997.
Jonas Mekas: This Side of Paradise, Galerie du Jour, Paris, 1999.
Jonas Mekas: Coversations, Letters, Notes, Misc. Pieces, edited by Liutauras Psibilskis, published by the Lithuanian Art Museum on the occasion of the Venice Biennale, 2005.
The Diary Film/Dagboksfilmen, edited by Liutauras Psibilskis, Moderna Museet, Stokholm, 2005.
The Avante-garde from Futurism to Fluxus, Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius, 2007 [in English and Lithuanian editions].
Jonas Mekas, Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca, Italy, 2008 [in Italian].
Jonas Mekas, published by Koenig Books, on the occasion of the exhibition “Jonas Mekas” at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2008 [in English and German].
A Few Things I Want to Share with You, My Paris Friends, Galerie du Jour, Paris, 2009.

Writings About Jonas Mekas
Alberto Arbasino, Entre el underground y el off-off, Anagrama, Barcelona, 1970.
Judith E. Briggs, Jonas Mekas (Filmmakers filming monograph), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1980.
David James, To Free the Cinema: Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground, Princeton University Press, 1992.
Pip Chodorov, Christina Lebrat, Le Livre de Walden, Editions Paris Expérimental, Paris, 1997.
Jonas Mekas: Frozen Film Frames, Photo-Planete, Tokyo, 1997 [in Japanese].
Pip Chodorov, Patrice Rollet, Lost Lost Lost, Editions Paris Expérimental, 2000. [in French and English].

Extended Essays and Interviews
Alan Levy, “Voice of the Underground Cinema,” The New York Times Magazine, September 19, 1965.
Calvin Tomkins, “All Pockets Open,” New Yorker profile, January 6, 1973.
Scott MacDonald, “Interview With Jonas Mekas,” October N. 29, Summer 1984.
Jerome Sans, “An Interview with Jonas Mekas,” Just Like a Shadow, Steidl, 2000.

Jonas Mekas has received numerous grants and awards, including from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Albright Knox Gallery, and the Long Wharf Theater Foundation, and is a member of the American Center of P.E.N and the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts.

1962 Grand Prize awarded to GUNS OF THE TREES at the Porretta Terme Film Festival
1964 Grand Prize (Documentary) awarded to THE BRIG at the Venice Film Festival
1966 Gold Medal, Philadelphia College of Art, “for the devotion, passion, and selfless dedication to the rediscovery of the newest art”
1977 Guggenheim Fellowship
1989 Creative Arts Award, Brandeis University
1992 Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministry of Culture, France
Mel Novikoff Award, San Francisco Film Festival
1995 Lithuanian National Award
1996 Special Tribute, New York Film Critics Circle Award
Doctor of Fine Arts, Honoris Causa, Kansas City Art Institute
1997 Pier Paolo Pasolini Award, Paris
International Documentary Film Association Award, Los Angeles
Governors Award, Skohegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Doctor of Fine Arts, Honoris Causa, Universitatis Vytauti Magni, Lituania
2000 Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministry of Culture, France
2006 REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress
Directors Guild of America Award
2007 Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards special citation for “contribution to film art”
Special Award from the Roswitha Haftmann Foundation, Zürich
2008 Baltic Cultural Achievement Award
Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art (Õsterreichische Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst)
2010 Life Achievement Award at the second annual Rob Pruitt’s Art Awards
2011 George Eastman Honorary Scholar Award
2012 ‘Carry Your Light and Believe’ Award, Ministry of Culture, Lithuania
2013 Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministry of Culture, France
Francis J. Greenburger Award
2015 Yoko Ono Courage Award
2017 Elected member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts

Select List of Exhibitions
1983 Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
1992 Galerie National du Jeu de Paume, Paris
agnès b. Galerie du Jour, Paris
Still Gallery, Edinburgh
Luarence Miller, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
agnès b. Galerie du Jour, Paris
1997 Madrid Art Fair
Museum of Contemporary Art, Vilnius
1998 “Le Printemps de Cahors,” Musée de Cahors Henri-Martin
Gandy Gallery, Prague
1999 Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
Pupelis Gallery, Obeliai, Lithuania
agnès b. Galerie du Jour, Paris
2000 “La Beautè” festival, Avignon. Films and installation
“Laboratorium,” Antwerp
“Voilà,” Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
agnès b Galerie du jour, FIAC art fair, Paris
2002 Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Documenta 11, Kassel
2003 “Jonas Mekas: A Camera for Jonas,” Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Utopia Station Pavilion, Venice Biennale. Installation
“Dedication to Fernand Léger,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Vilnius
Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Frozen film frames
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris. Frozen film frames
“Fables de l’Identité,” Centre National de la Photographie, Paris. Frozen film frames
2005 “Farewell to Soho,” Moderna Museet, Stockholm
“Fragments of Paradise,” Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York
“As I Was Moving Ahead,” representing Lithuania at the 51st edition of the Venice Biennale
2006 “Destruction Quartet,” Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
“Onestar Stop,” Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels
“The Expanded Eye,” Kusthalle Zürich
Baltic Art Center, Visby
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
“To New York with Love,” Gallery Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo
“He Stands in the Desert Counting the Seconds of his Life,” Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum, Mexico City.
“The Diary Film,” Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden
“It All Comes Back Now in Glimpses,” Sketch Gallery, London
“Brief Glimpses of Beauty,” Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Center, UK
Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
2007 “Recent Work,” Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York
Serpentine Gallery, London
The Film Gallery, FIAC art fair, Paris
“Jonas Mekas: The Beauty of Friends being Together,” MoMA/P.S.1
Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius
“My Night Life” (with Auguste Varkalis), The Film Gallery, Paris
2008 Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2009 “1968,” Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
“A Few Things I Want to Share with You, My Paris Friends,” agnès b. Galerie du jour, Paris
“The Beast,” FIAC art fair, The Film Gallery, Paris
“Destruction Quartet,” James Fuentes Gallery, New York
“1989,” Kunsthalle Wien
“Jonas Mekas,” Gallery Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo
“To New York with Love,” Bas Fisher Invitational, Miami
“Destruction Quartet,” Kings County Biennial, Brooklyn
2010 “Cassis,” James Fuentes Gallery, New York Armory Show
The Brucennial, New York
“To New York with Love,” James Fuentes Gallery, New York
2011 “Musique Plastique,” agnès b. Galerie du jour, Paris
agnès b. Howard Street boutique, New York
“This Side of Paradise,” agnès b. Rue du Jour boutique, Paris
2012 “Portraits: Jonas Mekas and Robert Polidori,” Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
“Musique Plastique,” agnès b. Howard Street boutique, New York
“The 365 Day Project,” 2B Gallery, Budapest
“Reminiszenzen aus Deutschland,” Stadtmuseum, Wiesbaden
“Prisiminimai iš Vokietijos,” Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius
“Images out of Darkness,” James Fuentes Gallery, New York
Serpentine Gallery, London
“The 365 Day Project,” Centre Pompidou, Paris
2013 DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague
MUAC, Mexico City
“I Lift My Glass of Wine to You, My Vienna Friends!,” Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
Paris Photo L.A., Deborah Colton Gallery, Los Angeles
“Outlaw: New Works,” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn
agnès b. Marseille
“The Sixties Quartet,” KIASMA, Helsinki
“Let Me Introduce Myself, My Russian Friends!” State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
“Jonas Mekas: In Praise of the Ordinary,” The Phi Centre, Montreal
“Jonas Mekas / The Fluxus Wall,” Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
“Life Goes On… I Keep Singing,” Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston
2014 “Jonas Mekas: One Man Show,” Cēsis Arts Festival, Latvia
“365 Day Project,” ZKM, Karlsruhe
2015 “Frozen Film Frames: Portraits of Filmmakers,” Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon
Internet Saga Pavilion, Venice, Italy
“All These Images, These Sounds,” A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
2016 “Let Me Introduce Myself,” Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami
2017 Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel
“I Sing I Celebrate,” La Neomudéjar, Madrid
Boo-Hooray Summer Rental, Montauk

Filmography
Cup/Saucer/Two Dancers/Radio (1965/1983), 23 min.
Guns of the Trees (1962), 75 min.
Film Magazine of the Arts (Summer, 1963), 20 min.
The Brig (1964), 68 min.
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol (1964), 12 min.
Report from Millbrook (1965/ 1966), 12 min.
Walden (Diaries, Notes, and Sketches), (filmed 1964-1968, edited 1968-69), 3 hrs.
Hare Krishna (1966), 4 min.
Notes on the Circus (1966), 12 min.
Cassis (1966), 4 min.
The Italian Notebook (1967), 15 min.
Time and Fortune Vietnam Newsreel (1968), 4 min.
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1971-1972), 82 min.
Lost Lost Lost (1976), 2 hrs. 58 min.
In Between: 1964-8 (1978), 52 min.
Notes for Jerome (1978), 45 min.
Paradise Not Yet Lost (aka Oona’s Third year) (1979), 96 min.
Self-Portrait (1980), 20 min., video
Street Songs (1966/1983) 10 min.
Erik Hawkins: Excerpts from “Here and Now with Watchers”/Lucia Dlugoszewski Performs (1963/1983), 6 min.
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1969/1985), 2 hrs. 30 min.
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (1990), 35 min.
A Walk (1990), 58 min., video
Mob of Angels: Baptism (1990), 61 min., video
Mob of Angels at St. Ann (1991), 60 min, video
Dr. Carl G. Jung or Lapis Philosophorum (1991), 29 min.
Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (1992), 34 min.
The Education of Sebastian or Egypt Regained (1992), 6 hrs. video
Imperfect 3-Image films (1995), 6 min.
On My Way to Fujiyama (1995), 25 min.
Happy Birthday to John (1996), 24 min.
Cinema is Not 100 Years Old (1996), 4 min., video
Memories of Frankenstein (1996), 95 min.
Letters to Friends (1997), 1 hr. 28 min., video
Birth of a Nation (1997), 85 min.
Symphony of Joy (1997), 1 hr. 15 min.
Scenes from Allen’s Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (April 1997), 67 min., video
Letter from Nowhere — Laiškai iš niekur N.1 (1997), 75 min., video [in Lithuanian]
Song of Avignon (1998), 5 min.
Laboratorium Anthology (1999), 63 min., video
This Side of Paradise (1999) 35 min., 16 mm
Notes on the Factory (1999) 64 min., video
Notes on Film-Maker’s Cooperative (1999), 40 min., video
Autobiography of a Man Who Carried his Memory in his Eyes (2000) 53 min., video
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) 4 hrs. 48 min.
Mozart & Wien and Elvis (2000) 3 min.
Silence, Please (2000), 6 min., video
Requiem for a Manual Typewriter (2000) 19 min., video
Remedy for Melancholy (2000) 20 min., video
Letter to Penny Arcade (2001), 14 min. 33 sec., video
Ein Märchen (2001) 6 min., video
Ar Buvo Karas? (2002), 2 hrs. 28 min.
Mysteries (1966/2002) 34 min.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn (1949/2002) 15 min.
Travel Songs 1967-1981 (2003) 28 min.
Letter from Greenpoint (2004) 80 min., video
Notes on Utopia (2003-5) 55 min., video
Father and Daughter (2005), 4 min. 30 sec., video
Notes on an American Film Director at Work: Martin Scorsese (2005), 1hr 20 min.
Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch (2005), 58 min., film and video
First Forty (2006). Forty short films, using materials from earlier films, re-edited specially for internet and installations.
365 Day Project (2007). 365 short films, one for each calendar day of the year 2007.
Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR (2008), 4 hrs. 49 min., video
I Leave Chelsea Hotel (2009), 4 min.
Sleepless Nights Stories (2011), 114 min.
My Paris Movie (2011), 2 hrs. 39 min.
My Bars Bar Movie (2011), 86 min.
Correspondences: José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas (2011), 99 min.
Re: George Maciunas and Fluxus (2011), 87 min.
Mont Ventoux (2011), 3 min.
Happy Easter Ride (2012), 18 min.
Reminiszenzen aus Deutschland (2012), 25 min.
Out-takes from the Life of a Happy Man (2012), 68 min.

Writings by Jonas Mekas
Knyga Apie Karalius ir Žmones, Tubingen, 1947 [in Lithuanian].
Movie Journal, Macmillan, 1972: Japanese edition, 1975. Spanish edition, 1976; French edition, 1992.
Three Friends: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and George Maciunas, Tokyo, 1990 [in Japanese]; Lithuanian edition, Vilnius, 1998.
Laiškai iš niekur, Vilnius, 1997 [in Lithuanian].
Just Like A Shadow, text by Jerome Sans, frozen film frames by Jonas Mekas, Steidl, Göttingen, 2000.
Declarations de Paris, Editions Paris Expérimental, 2001 [in French and English].
As I Was Moving Ahead…, Editions Kinoshita, Tokyo, 2002 [in Japanese]. Text and narration from the film.
Fluxfriends (French edition of Three Friends: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and George Maciunas), Centre Georges Pompidou, 2002.
Artist Book, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2002.
Entretiens avec Jonas Mekas, Editions Paris Expérimental, 2006.
Anecdotes, translated by Jean-Luc Mengus, SCALI, Paris, 2007 [in French].
To Petrarca, Editions Dis Voir, Paris, 2009 [in both French and English editions]

Articles on cinema in Film Culture, Sight & Sound, Bianco e Nero, The New York Times, Cahiers du Cinema, Isskustvo Kino, etc.

Poetry
Semeniškių Idilės, Lithuanian edition, Žvilgsniai, Kassel, 1948; Japanese edition, Tokyo, 1996; enlarged Lithuanian edition, Vilnius, Baltos Lankos 1997.
Gėlių Kalbėjimas, Chicago, 1961 [in Lithuanian].
Pavieniai Žodžiai, Lithuanian edition, Chicago, 1967; Japanese edition, Tokyo, 1996.
Poezija, Vilnius, Vaga, 1971 [in Lithuanian].
Reminiscensijos, New York, Fluxus, 1972 [in Lithuanian].
Dienoraščiai, New York, Žvilgsniai, 1985 [in Lithuanian].
There is No Ithaca (English edition of Semeniškių Idilės and Reminiscensijos), translated by Vyt Bakaitis, Black Thistle Press, New York, 1996.
Dienų Raštai, Vilnius, 1998 [in Lithuanian].
Žmogus Be Vietos (Lithuanian edition of I Had Nowhere to Go), Baltos Lankos, 2000.
Poezija, Lietuvos Rašytojų Sąjungos Leidykla, Vilnius, 2002 [in Lithuanian].
Daybooks 1970-1972 (bilingual edition of Dienų Raštai), translated by Vyt Bakaitis, Portable Press, Brooklyn, 2003.
Žodžiai ir Raidės, Baltos Lankos, Vilnius, 2007 [in Lithuanian].
Idylls of Semeniškiai (bilingual edition), translated by Adolfas Mekas, Hallelujah Editions, 2007.

Diaries
I Had Nowhere to Go: Diaries, 1944-1954, Black Thistle Press, New York, 1991.
Zefiro Torna or Scenes From the Life of George Mačiunas, Arthouse, New York, 1998.
Žmogus Be Vietos (Lithuanian edition of I Had Nowhere to Go), Baltos Lankos, 2000.
Lettres de nulle part (French edition of Laiškai iš niekur, translated by Marielle Vitureau), Paris Expérimental, 2003.
Je n’avais nulle part où aller (French edition of I Had Nowhere to Go), P.O.L, Paris, 2004.
My Night Life (English, Italian, Lithuanian, and French editions), illustrated by Auguste Varkalis, Baltos Lankos, Vilnius, 2006.
Ningún lugar adonde ir (Spanish edition of I Had Nowhere to Go, translated by Leonel Livchits), Caja Negra, Buenos Aires, 2008.
Catalogs
Jonas Mekas, Hara Museum of Contempory Art, Tokyo, 1983.
Jonas Mekas, Galerie nationale du Jeu de paume, Paris, 1992.
Jonas Mekas: Films immobiles, une celebration, Galerie du Jour, Paris, 1996.
Jonas Mekas: Frozen Film Frames, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1996 [in Japanese].
Sustabdytos akimirkos, Contemporary Art Museum, Vilnius, 1997.
Jonas Mekas: This Side of Paradise, Galerie du Jour, Paris, 1999.
Jonas Mekas: Coversations, Letters, Notes, Misc. Pieces, edited by Liutauras Psibilskis, published by the Lithuanian Art Museum on the occasion of the Venice Biennale, 2005.
The Diary Film/Dagboksfilmen, edited by Liutauras Psibilskis, Moderna Museet, Stokholm, 2005.
The Avante-garde from Futurism to Fluxus, Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius, 2007 [in English and Lithuanian editions].
Jonas Mekas, Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca, Italy, 2008 [in Italian].
Jonas Mekas, published by Koenig Books, on the occasion of the exhibition “Jonas Mekas” at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2008 [in English and German].
A Few Things I Want to Share with You, My Paris Friends, Galerie du Jour, Paris, 2009.

Writings About Jonas Mekas
Alberto Arbasino, Entre el underground y el off-off, Anagrama, Barcelona, 1970.
Judith E. Briggs, Jonas Mekas (Filmmakers filming monograph), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1980.
David James, To Free the Cinema: Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground, Princeton University Press, 1992.
Pip Chodorov, Christina Lebrat, Le Livre de Walden, Editions Paris Expérimental, Paris, 1997.
Jonas Mekas: Frozen Film Frames, Photo-Planete, Tokyo, 1997 [in Japanese].
Pip Chodorov, Patrice Rollet, Lost Lost Lost, Editions Paris Expérimental, 2000. [in French and English].

Extended Essays and Interviews
Alan Levy, “Voice of the Underground Cinema,” The New York Times Magazine, September 19, 1965.
Calvin Tomkins, “All Pockets Open,” New Yorker profile, January 6, 1973.
Scott MacDonald, “Interview With Jonas Mekas,” October N. 29, Summer 1984.
Jerome Sans, “An Interview with Jonas Mekas,” Just Like a Shadow, Steidl, 2000.

Jonas Mekas has received numerous grants and awards, including from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Albright Knox Gallery, and the Long Wharf Theater Foundation, and is a member of the American Center of P.E.N and the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts.

1962 Grand Prize awarded to GUNS OF THE TREES at the Porretta Terme Film Festival
1964 Grand Prize (Documentary) awarded to THE BRIG at the Venice Film Festival
1966 Gold Medal, Philadelphia College of Art, “for the devotion, passion, and selfless dedication to the rediscovery of the newest art”
1977 Guggenheim Fellowship
1989 Creative Arts Award, Brandeis University
1992 Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministry of Culture, France
Mel Novikoff Award, San Francisco Film Festival
1995 Lithuanian National Award
1996 Special Tribute, New York Film Critics Circle Award
Doctor of Fine Arts, Honoris Causa, Kansas City Art Institute
1997 Pier Paolo Pasolini Award, Paris
International Documentary Film Association Award, Los Angeles
Governors Award, Skohegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Doctor of Fine Arts, Honoris Causa, Universitatis Vytauti Magni, Lituania
2000 Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministry of Culture, France
2006 REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress
Directors Guild of America Award
2007 Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards special citation for “contribution to film art”
Special Award from the Roswitha Haftmann Foundation, Zürich
2008 Baltic Cultural Achievement Award
Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art (Õsterreichische Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst)
2010 Life Achievement Award at the second annual Rob Pruitt’s Art Awards
2011 George Eastman Honorary Scholar Award
2012 ‘Carry Your Light and Believe’ Award, Ministry of Culture, Lithuania
2013 Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministry of Culture, France
Francis J. Greenburger Award
2015 Yoko Ono Courage Award
2017 Elected member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts

Select List of Exhibitions
1983 Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
1992 Galerie National du Jeu de Paume, Paris
agnès b. Galerie du Jour, Paris
Still Gallery, Edinburgh
Luarence Miller, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
agnès b. Galerie du Jour, Paris
1997 Madrid Art Fair
Museum of Contemporary Art, Vilnius
1998 “Le Printemps de Cahors,” Musée de Cahors Henri-Martin
Gandy Gallery, Prague
1999 Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
Pupelis Gallery, Obeliai, Lithuania
agnès b. Galerie du Jour, Paris
2000 “La Beautè” festival, Avignon. Films and installation
“Laboratorium,” Antwerp
“Voilà,” Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
agnès b Galerie du jour, FIAC art fair, Paris
2002 Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Documenta 11, Kassel
2003 “Jonas Mekas: A Camera for Jonas,” Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Utopia Station Pavilion, Venice Biennale. Installation
“Dedication to Fernand Léger,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Vilnius
Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Frozen film frames
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris. Frozen film frames
“Fables de l’Identité,” Centre National de la Photographie, Paris. Frozen film frames
2005 “Farewell to Soho,” Moderna Museet, Stockholm
“Fragments of Paradise,” Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York
“As I Was Moving Ahead,” representing Lithuania at the 51st edition of the Venice Biennale
2006 “Destruction Quartet,” Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
“Onestar Stop,” Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels
“The Expanded Eye,” Kusthalle Zürich
Baltic Art Center, Visby
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
“To New York with Love,” Gallery Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo
“He Stands in the Desert Counting the Seconds of his Life,” Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum, Mexico City.
“The Diary Film,” Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden
“It All Comes Back Now in Glimpses,” Sketch Gallery, London
“Brief Glimpses of Beauty,” Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Center, UK
Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
2007 “Recent Work,” Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York
Serpentine Gallery, London
The Film Gallery, FIAC art fair, Paris
“Jonas Mekas: The Beauty of Friends being Together,” MoMA/P.S.1
Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius
“My Night Life” (with Auguste Varkalis), The Film Gallery, Paris
2008 Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2009 “1968,” Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
“A Few Things I Want to Share with You, My Paris Friends,” agnès b. Galerie du jour, Paris
“The Beast,” FIAC art fair, The Film Gallery, Paris
“Destruction Quartet,” James Fuentes Gallery, New York
“1989,” Kunsthalle Wien
“Jonas Mekas,” Gallery Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo
“To New York with Love,” Bas Fisher Invitational, Miami
“Destruction Quartet,” Kings County Biennial, Brooklyn
2010 “Cassis,” James Fuentes Gallery, New York Armory Show
The Brucennial, New York
“To New York with Love,” James Fuentes Gallery, New York
2011 “Musique Plastique,” agnès b. Galerie du jour, Paris
agnès b. Howard Street boutique, New York
“This Side of Paradise,” agnès b. Rue du Jour boutique, Paris
2012 “Portraits: Jonas Mekas and Robert Polidori,” Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
“Musique Plastique,” agnès b. Howard Street boutique, New York
“The 365 Day Project,” 2B Gallery, Budapest
“Reminiszenzen aus Deutschland,” Stadtmuseum, Wiesbaden
“Prisiminimai iš Vokietijos,” Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius
“Images out of Darkness,” James Fuentes Gallery, New York
Serpentine Gallery, London
“The 365 Day Project,” Centre Pompidou, Paris
2013 DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague
MUAC, Mexico City
“I Lift My Glass of Wine to You, My Vienna Friends!,” Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
Paris Photo L.A., Deborah Colton Gallery, Los Angeles
“Outlaw: New Works,” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn
agnès b. Marseille
“The Sixties Quartet,” KIASMA, Helsinki
“Let Me Introduce Myself, My Russian Friends!” State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
“Jonas Mekas: In Praise of the Ordinary,” The Phi Centre, Montreal
“Jonas Mekas / The Fluxus Wall,” Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
“Life Goes On… I Keep Singing,” Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston
2014 “Jonas Mekas: One Man Show,” Cēsis Arts Festival, Latvia
“365 Day Project,” ZKM, Karlsruhe
2015 “Frozen Film Frames: Portraits of Filmmakers,” Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon
Internet Saga Pavilion, Venice, Italy
“All These Images, These Sounds,” A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
2016 “Let Me Introduce Myself,” Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami
2017 Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel
“I Sing I Celebrate,” La Neomudéjar, Madrid
Boo-Hooray Summer Rental, Montauk

Filmography
Cup/Saucer/Two Dancers/Radio (1965/1983), 23 min.
Guns of the Trees (1962), 75 min.
Film Magazine of the Arts (Summer, 1963), 20 min.
The Brig (1964), 68 min.
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol (1964), 12 min.
Report from Millbrook (1965/ 1966), 12 min.
Walden (Diaries, Notes, and Sketches), (filmed 1964-1968, edited 1968-69), 3 hrs.
Hare Krishna (1966), 4 min.
Notes on the Circus (1966), 12 min.
Cassis (1966), 4 min.
The Italian Notebook (1967), 15 min.
Time and Fortune Vietnam Newsreel (1968), 4 min.
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1971-1972), 82 min.
Lost Lost Lost (1976), 2 hrs. 58 min.
In Between: 1964-8 (1978), 52 min.
Notes for Jerome (1978), 45 min.
Paradise Not Yet Lost (aka Oona’s Third year) (1979), 96 min.
Self-Portrait (1980), 20 min., video
Street Songs (1966/1983) 10 min.
Erik Hawkins: Excerpts from “Here and Now with Watchers”/Lucia Dlugoszewski Performs (1963/1983), 6 min.
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1969/1985), 2 hrs. 30 min.
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol (1990), 35 min.
A Walk (1990), 58 min., video
Mob of Angels: Baptism (1990), 61 min., video
Mob of Angels at St. Ann (1991), 60 min, video
Dr. Carl G. Jung or Lapis Philosophorum (1991), 29 min.
Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.
Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (1992), 34 min.
The Education of Sebastian or Egypt Regained (1992), 6 hrs. video
Imperfect 3-Image films (1995), 6 min.
On My Way to Fujiyama (1995), 25 min.
Happy Birthday to John (1996), 24 min.
Cinema is Not 100 Years Old (1996), 4 min., video
Memories of Frankenstein (1996), 95 min.
Letters to Friends (1997), 1 hr. 28 min., video
Birth of a Nation (1997), 85 min.
Symphony of Joy (1997), 1 hr. 15 min.
Scenes from Allen’s Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (April 1997), 67 min., video
Letter from Nowhere — Laiškai iš niekur N.1 (1997), 75 min., video [in Lithuanian]
Song of Avignon (1998), 5 min.
Laboratorium Anthology (1999), 63 min., video
This Side of Paradise (1999) 35 min., 16 mm
Notes on the Factory (1999) 64 min., video
Notes on Film-Maker’s Cooperative (1999), 40 min., video
Autobiography of a Man Who Carried his Memory in his Eyes (2000) 53 min., video
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) 4 hrs. 48 min.
Mozart & Wien and Elvis (2000) 3 min.
Silence, Please (2000), 6 min., video
Requiem for a Manual Typewriter (2000) 19 min., video
Remedy for Melancholy (2000) 20 min., video
Letter to Penny Arcade (2001), 14 min. 33 sec., video
Ein Märchen (2001) 6 min., video
Ar Buvo Karas? (2002), 2 hrs. 28 min.
Mysteries (1966/2002) 34 min.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn (1949/2002) 15 min.
Travel Songs 1967-1981 (2003) 28 min.
Letter from Greenpoint (2004) 80 min., video
Notes on Utopia (2003-5) 55 min., video
Father and Daughter (2005), 4 min. 30 sec., video
Notes on an American Film Director at Work: Martin Scorsese (2005), 1hr 20 min.
Scenes from the Life of Hermann Nitsch (2005), 58 min., film and video
First Forty (2006). Forty short films, using materials from earlier films, re-edited specially for internet and installations.
365 Day Project (2007). 365 short films, one for each calendar day of the year 2007.
Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR (2008), 4 hrs. 49 min., video
I Leave Chelsea Hotel (2009), 4 min.
Sleepless Nights Stories (2011), 114 min.
My Paris Movie (2011), 2 hrs. 39 min.
My Bars Bar Movie (2011), 86 min.
Correspondences: José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas (2011), 99 min.
Re: George Maciunas and Fluxus (2011), 87 min.
Mont Ventoux (2011), 3 min.
Happy Easter Ride (2012), 18 min.
Reminiszenzen aus Deutschland (2012), 25 min.
Out-takes from the Life of a Happy Man (2012), 68 min.

Writings by Jonas Mekas
Knyga Apie Karalius ir Žmones, Tubingen, 1947 [in Lithuanian].
Movie Journal, Macmillan, 1972: Japanese edition, 1975. Spanish edition, 1976; French edition, 1992.
Three Friends: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and George Maciunas, Tokyo, 1990 [in Japanese]; Lithuanian edition, Vilnius, 1998.
Laiškai iš niekur, Vilnius, 1997 [in Lithuanian].
Just Like A Shadow, text by Jerome Sans, frozen film frames by Jonas Mekas, Steidl, Göttingen, 2000.
Declarations de Paris, Editions Paris Expérimental, 2001 [in French and English].
As I Was Moving Ahead…, Editions Kinoshita, Tokyo, 2002 [in Japanese]. Text and narration from the film.
Fluxfriends (French edition of Three Friends: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and George Maciunas), Centre Georges Pompidou, 2002.
Artist Book, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2002.
Entretiens avec Jonas Mekas, Editions Paris Expérimental, 2006.
Anecdotes, translated by Jean-Luc Mengus, SCALI, Paris, 2007 [in French].
To Petrarca, Editions Dis Voir, Paris, 2009 [in both French and English editions]

Articles on cinema in Film Culture, Sight & Sound, Bianco e Nero, The New York Times, Cahiers du Cinema, Isskustvo Kino, etc.

Poetry
Semeniškių Idilės, Lithuanian edition, Žvilgsniai, Kassel, 1948; Japanese edition, Tokyo, 1996; enlarged Lithuanian edition, Vilnius, Baltos Lankos 1997.
Gėlių Kalbėjimas, Chicago, 1961 [in Lithuanian].
Pavieniai Žodžiai, Lithuanian edition, Chicago, 1967; Japanese edition, Tokyo, 1996.
Poezija, Vilnius, Vaga, 1971 [in Lithuanian].
Reminiscensijos, New York, Fluxus, 1972 [in Lithuanian].
Dienoraščiai, New York, Žvilgsniai, 1985 [in Lithuanian].
There is No Ithaca (English edition of Semeniškių Idilės and Reminiscensijos), translated by Vyt Bakaitis, Black Thistle Press, New York, 1996.
Dienų Raštai, Vilnius, 1998 [in Lithuanian].
Žmogus Be Vietos (Lithuanian edition of I Had Nowhere to Go), Baltos Lankos, 2000.
Poezija, Lietuvos Rašytojų Sąjungos Leidykla, Vilnius, 2002 [in Lithuanian].
Daybooks 1970-1972 (bilingual edition of Dienų Raštai), translated by Vyt Bakaitis, Portable Press, Brooklyn, 2003.
Žodžiai ir Raidės, Baltos Lankos, Vilnius, 2007 [in Lithuanian].
Idylls of Semeniškiai (bilingual edition), translated by Adolfas Mekas, Hallelujah Editions, 2007.

Diaries
I Had Nowhere to Go: Diaries, 1944-1954, Black Thistle Press, New York, 1991.
Zefiro Torna or Scenes From the Life of George Mačiunas, Arthouse, New York, 1998.
Žmogus Be Vietos (Lithuanian edition of I Had Nowhere to Go), Baltos Lankos, 2000.
Lettres de nulle part (French edition of Laiškai iš niekur, translated by Marielle Vitureau), Paris Expérimental, 2003.
Je n’avais nulle part où aller (French edition of I Had Nowhere to Go), P.O.L, Paris, 2004.
My Night Life (English, Italian, Lithuanian, and French editions), illustrated by Auguste Varkalis, Baltos Lankos, Vilnius, 2006.
Ningún lugar adonde ir (Spanish edition of I Had Nowhere to Go, translated by Leonel Livchits), Caja Negra, Buenos Aires, 2008.
Catalogs
Jonas Mekas, Hara Museum of Contempory Art, Tokyo, 1983.
Jonas Mekas, Galerie nationale du Jeu de paume, Paris, 1992.
Jonas Mekas: Films immobiles, une celebration, Galerie du Jour, Paris, 1996.
Jonas Mekas: Frozen Film Frames, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1996 [in Japanese].
Sustabdytos akimirkos, Contemporary Art Museum, Vilnius, 1997.
Jonas Mekas: This Side of Paradise, Galerie du Jour, Paris, 1999.
Jonas Mekas: Coversations, Letters, Notes, Misc. Pieces, edited by Liutauras Psibilskis, published by the Lithuanian Art Museum on the occasion of the Venice Biennale, 2005.
The Diary Film/Dagboksfilmen, edited by Liutauras Psibilskis, Moderna Museet, Stokholm, 2005.
The Avante-garde from Futurism to Fluxus, Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius, 2007 [in English and Lithuanian editions].
Jonas Mekas, Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca, Italy, 2008 [in Italian].
Jonas Mekas, published by Koenig Books, on the occasion of the exhibition “Jonas Mekas” at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2008 [in English and German].
A Few Things I Want to Share with You, My Paris Friends, Galerie du Jour, Paris, 2009.

Writings About Jonas Mekas
Alberto Arbasino, Entre el underground y el off-off, Anagrama, Barcelona, 1970.
Judith E. Briggs, Jonas Mekas (Filmmakers filming monograph), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1980.
David James, To Free the Cinema: Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground, Princeton University Press, 1992.
Pip Chodorov, Christina Lebrat, Le Livre de Walden, Editions Paris Expérimental, Paris, 1997.
Jonas Mekas: Frozen Film Frames, Photo-Planete, Tokyo, 1997 [in Japanese].
Pip Chodorov, Patrice Rollet, Lost Lost Lost, Editions Paris Expérimental, 2000. [in French and English].

Extended Essays and Interviews
Alan Levy, “Voice of the Underground Cinema,” The New York Times Magazine, September 19, 1965.
Calvin Tomkins, “All Pockets Open,” New Yorker profile, January 6, 1973.
Scott MacDonald, “Interview With Jonas Mekas,” October N. 29, Summer 1984.
Jerome Sans, “An Interview with Jonas Mekas,” Just Like a Shadow, Steidl, 2000.

1957 Hankyu Department Store 7th floor Western Gallery (Osaka)
1961 Tokyo Gallery
1963 Matha Jackson Gallery, New York
1973 Melbourne Crossley Gallery
Planned by the Modern Print Center: Visited 75 locations nationwide
(Grand Palais, Paris) “FIAC ’ 80”
1983
2nd Japan Arts Council Award
15 Japan Arts Awards
1985 Seibu Ikebukuro
The Contemporary Gallery Tokyo
1986: The Hyogo Prefectural Cultural Award
1988: The French government awarded him the Chevalier Award for Arts and Literature.
1991: The Medal with Purple Ribbon
1991 Mie Prefectural Museum of Art
1992: The Osaka Art Award
1992 INAX Gallery (Tokyo)
1993. Takashimaya Art Gallery (Osaka/Yokohama/Gifu)
1997: The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, Fourth Class
1999 Genei Sadamasa Stage Space Art Exhibition (Matsukata Hall)
2002: Received the Mie Prefectural Distinguished Service Award and Cultural Award.

■Main group exhibitions
1961. Experimental Exhibition of Contemporary Art (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)
Exhibition of Japanese Writers (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
1970 World Exposition: A Dynamic Modern Art Exhibition (Museum of Fine Arts, Osaka)
1975 Special Exhibition: 4 Abstracts of Hyogo Artists
Kokuta SUDA, Kazuichi TSUTAKA, Sadamasa MOTONAGA, Kazuo SHIRAGA –
(Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo)
1980 Modern Writers 2
Exhibition of Jiro TAKAMATSU and Sadamasa MOTONAGA (National Museum of Art)
Exhibition of Sadamasa Motonaga and Kazuo Shiraga
(Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama)

■Awards
1964 Won the 6th Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition Excellent Prize.
1966 Won the 7th Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition, Excellent Prize.
1971. The 10 th Modern Japanese Art Exhibition?
He received Buyosho (prize for purchasing) from the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
1983: Received the 2nd Association for the Promotion of Arts Award
Received the 15 Japan Art Grand Prize
The 4th Seoul International Print Biennale?
Grand Prix winner
1986 Hyogo Prefecture Cultural Award
1988 From the French Government
He was awarded the Chevalier Medal for Arts and Culture.
1991: Received the Medal with Purple Ribbon Award.
Osaka Citizens’ Award (cultural merit)
Japanese Picture Book Awards
? u Picture Book Nippon Award received
1992: Received the Osaka Art Award.
1994: Received Takarazuka City Cultural Contribution Award

■public collection
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art/Ashiya City Museum of Art
Iwaki City Museum of Art/Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki
Osaka Municipal Museum of Art/Osaka Prefectural Contemporary Art Center
Ohara Museum of Art/Kitakyushu City Museum of Art
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto/The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu
Kure City Museum of Art/National Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art, Saitama/Museum of Modern Art, Shiga
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art/Takamatsu City Museum of Art
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo/The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art/Tokushima Prefectural Museum of Art
Nara Prefectural Museum of Art/Nagoya City Museum of Art
Niigata City Museum of Art
Nishinomiya City Otani Memorial Museum of Art/Hamamatsu City Museum of Art
Hara Museum of Art/Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo/Fukuoka
Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art/Agency for Cultural Affairs
Mie Prefectural Museum of Art/Miyagi Prefectural Museum of Art
Meguro-ku Art Museum/Yokohama City Art Museum
The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
Museum of Contemporary Art, Rio de Janeiro/University of Sydney Museum of Art
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea

– Selected Solo Exhibitions –

2017 Primordial Line, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2014 ISOZAKI Arata: 12 x 5 =60, WATARI-UM, Tokyo, Japan
Labyrinth in Motion, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2013 ISOZAKI Arata: SOLARIS, NTT Inter Communication Center [ICC], Tokyo, Japan
2011 PROCESS, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Arata Isozaki-Starting from Ruins, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
Arata Isozaki-Prints, Marugame Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
2008 Arata Isozaki-7 Invitations 2008
Seven Villas, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
Seven Art Galleries, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Seven Curations, Hara Museum ARC, Japan
– Selected Group Exhibitions –

2018 1968: Art in the Turbulent Age, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of Its Transformation, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Florence Biennale 2017: eARTh – Creativity & Sustainability, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy
Japan-ness. Architecture and Urbanism in Japan since 1945, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
CONTEMPORARY RUINS, KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany(Upcoming)
Summer Exhibition 2017, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Okamoto Taro x Architecture, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Japan
Invisible Architecture: 1960s’ and 1970s’ Italian and Japanese architect movement analysis and contemporary debate, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, Italy
2016 Suzhou Documents,Suzhou Art Museum and other venues in Suzhou, Suzhou, China
The Emergence of Contemporary: Avant-Garde Art in Japan 1950-1970, Paço Imperial, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Ah, Shinjuku!: the City as Spectacle, Waseda University Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum,Tokyo, Japan
2015 Group Show, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
Legendary Houses in Postwar Japan / PROVOCATIVE / INTROSPECTIVE, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
2014 JAPAN ARCHITECTS 1945-2010, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
1974: A turning Point in Postwar Japanese Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Legendary Houses in Postwar Japan / PROVOCATIVE / INTROSPECTIVE, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2013 METABOLISM: The City of the FUTURE, Chun Shang Creative Hub, Taipei, Taiwan
Yoko Ono Half-A-Window Show A Retrospective, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
2012 Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde, The Museum of Modern Art New York, USA
Traces of Centuries & Future Steps, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
2011 METABOLISM: The City of the FUTURE, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
POSTMODERNISM: STYLE AND SUBVERSION 1970-1990, Victoria and Alber Museum, London, UK
2010 CITY2.0-Theory of Evolution by WEB Generation, EYE OF GYRE, Tokyo, Japan

– Selected Solo Exhibitions –

2017 Primordial Line, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2014 ISOZAKI Arata: 12 x 5 =60, WATARI-UM, Tokyo, Japan
Labyrinth in Motion, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2013 ISOZAKI Arata: SOLARIS, NTT Inter Communication Center [ICC], Tokyo, Japan
2011 PROCESS, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Arata Isozaki-Starting from Ruins, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
Arata Isozaki-Prints, Marugame Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
2008 Arata Isozaki-7 Invitations 2008
Seven Villas, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
Seven Art Galleries, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Seven Curations, Hara Museum ARC, Japan
– Selected Group Exhibitions –

2018 1968: Art in the Turbulent Age, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of Its Transformation, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Florence Biennale 2017: eARTh – Creativity & Sustainability, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy
Japan-ness. Architecture and Urbanism in Japan since 1945, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
CONTEMPORARY RUINS, KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany(Upcoming)
Summer Exhibition 2017, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Okamoto Taro x Architecture, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Japan
Invisible Architecture: 1960s’ and 1970s’ Italian and Japanese architect movement analysis and contemporary debate, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, Italy
2016 Suzhou Documents,Suzhou Art Museum and other venues in Suzhou, Suzhou, China
The Emergence of Contemporary: Avant-Garde Art in Japan 1950-1970, Paço Imperial, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Ah, Shinjuku!: the City as Spectacle, Waseda University Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum,Tokyo, Japan
2015 Group Show, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
Legendary Houses in Postwar Japan / PROVOCATIVE / INTROSPECTIVE, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
2014 JAPAN ARCHITECTS 1945-2010, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
1974: A turning Point in Postwar Japanese Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Legendary Houses in Postwar Japan / PROVOCATIVE / INTROSPECTIVE, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2013 METABOLISM: The City of the FUTURE, Chun Shang Creative Hub, Taipei, Taiwan
Yoko Ono Half-A-Window Show A Retrospective, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
2012 Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde, The Museum of Modern Art New York, USA
Traces of Centuries & Future Steps, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
2011 METABOLISM: The City of the FUTURE, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
POSTMODERNISM: STYLE AND SUBVERSION 1970-1990, Victoria and Alber Museum, London, UK
2010 CITY2.0-Theory of Evolution by WEB Generation, EYE OF GYRE, Tokyo, Japan

– Selected Solo Exhibitions –

2017 Primordial Line, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2014 ISOZAKI Arata: 12 x 5 =60, WATARI-UM, Tokyo, Japan
Labyrinth in Motion, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2013 ISOZAKI Arata: SOLARIS, NTT Inter Communication Center [ICC], Tokyo, Japan
2011 PROCESS, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Arata Isozaki-Starting from Ruins, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
Arata Isozaki-Prints, Marugame Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
2008 Arata Isozaki-7 Invitations 2008
Seven Villas, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
Seven Art Galleries, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Seven Curations, Hara Museum ARC, Japan
– Selected Group Exhibitions –

2018 1968: Art in the Turbulent Age, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of Its Transformation, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Florence Biennale 2017: eARTh – Creativity & Sustainability, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy
Japan-ness. Architecture and Urbanism in Japan since 1945, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
CONTEMPORARY RUINS, KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany(Upcoming)
Summer Exhibition 2017, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Okamoto Taro x Architecture, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Japan
Invisible Architecture: 1960s’ and 1970s’ Italian and Japanese architect movement analysis and contemporary debate, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, Italy
2016 Suzhou Documents,Suzhou Art Museum and other venues in Suzhou, Suzhou, China
The Emergence of Contemporary: Avant-Garde Art in Japan 1950-1970, Paço Imperial, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Ah, Shinjuku!: the City as Spectacle, Waseda University Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum,Tokyo, Japan
2015 Group Show, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
Legendary Houses in Postwar Japan / PROVOCATIVE / INTROSPECTIVE, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
2014 JAPAN ARCHITECTS 1945-2010, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
1974: A turning Point in Postwar Japanese Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Legendary Houses in Postwar Japan / PROVOCATIVE / INTROSPECTIVE, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2013 METABOLISM: The City of the FUTURE, Chun Shang Creative Hub, Taipei, Taiwan
Yoko Ono Half-A-Window Show A Retrospective, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
2012 Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde, The Museum of Modern Art New York, USA
Traces of Centuries & Future Steps, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
2011 METABOLISM: The City of the FUTURE, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
POSTMODERNISM: STYLE AND SUBVERSION 1970-1990, Victoria and Alber Museum, London, UK
2010 CITY2.0-Theory of Evolution by WEB Generation, EYE OF GYRE, Tokyo, Japan

– Selected Solo Exhibitions –

2017 Primordial Line, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2014 ISOZAKI Arata: 12 x 5 =60, WATARI-UM, Tokyo, Japan
Labyrinth in Motion, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2013 ISOZAKI Arata: SOLARIS, NTT Inter Communication Center [ICC], Tokyo, Japan
2011 PROCESS, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Arata Isozaki-Starting from Ruins, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
Arata Isozaki-Prints, Marugame Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
2008 Arata Isozaki-7 Invitations 2008
Seven Villas, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
Seven Art Galleries, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Seven Curations, Hara Museum ARC, Japan
– Selected Group Exhibitions –

2018 1968: Art in the Turbulent Age, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of Its Transformation, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Florence Biennale 2017: eARTh – Creativity & Sustainability, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy
Japan-ness. Architecture and Urbanism in Japan since 1945, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
CONTEMPORARY RUINS, KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany(Upcoming)
Summer Exhibition 2017, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Okamoto Taro x Architecture, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Japan
Invisible Architecture: 1960s’ and 1970s’ Italian and Japanese architect movement analysis and contemporary debate, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, Italy
2016 Suzhou Documents,Suzhou Art Museum and other venues in Suzhou, Suzhou, China
The Emergence of Contemporary: Avant-Garde Art in Japan 1950-1970, Paço Imperial, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Ah, Shinjuku!: the City as Spectacle, Waseda University Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum,Tokyo, Japan
2015 Group Show, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
Legendary Houses in Postwar Japan / PROVOCATIVE / INTROSPECTIVE, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
2014 JAPAN ARCHITECTS 1945-2010, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
1974: A turning Point in Postwar Japanese Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Legendary Houses in Postwar Japan / PROVOCATIVE / INTROSPECTIVE, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2013 METABOLISM: The City of the FUTURE, Chun Shang Creative Hub, Taipei, Taiwan
Yoko Ono Half-A-Window Show A Retrospective, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
2012 Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde, The Museum of Modern Art New York, USA
Traces of Centuries & Future Steps, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
2011 METABOLISM: The City of the FUTURE, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
POSTMODERNISM: STYLE AND SUBVERSION 1970-1990, Victoria and Alber Museum, London, UK
2010 CITY2.0-Theory of Evolution by WEB Generation, EYE OF GYRE, Tokyo, Japan

– Selected Solo Exhibitions –

2017 Primordial Line, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2014 ISOZAKI Arata: 12 x 5 =60, WATARI-UM, Tokyo, Japan
Labyrinth in Motion, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2013 ISOZAKI Arata: SOLARIS, NTT Inter Communication Center [ICC], Tokyo, Japan
2011 PROCESS, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Arata Isozaki-Starting from Ruins, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
Arata Isozaki-Prints, Marugame Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
2008 Arata Isozaki-7 Invitations 2008
Seven Villas, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
Seven Art Galleries, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Seven Curations, Hara Museum ARC, Japan
– Selected Group Exhibitions –

2018 1968: Art in the Turbulent Age, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of Its Transformation, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Florence Biennale 2017: eARTh – Creativity & Sustainability, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy
Japan-ness. Architecture and Urbanism in Japan since 1945, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
CONTEMPORARY RUINS, KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany(Upcoming)
Summer Exhibition 2017, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Okamoto Taro x Architecture, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Japan
Invisible Architecture: 1960s’ and 1970s’ Italian and Japanese architect movement analysis and contemporary debate, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, Italy
2016 Suzhou Documents,Suzhou Art Museum and other venues in Suzhou, Suzhou, China
The Emergence of Contemporary: Avant-Garde Art in Japan 1950-1970, Paço Imperial, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Ah, Shinjuku!: the City as Spectacle, Waseda University Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum,Tokyo, Japan
2015 Group Show, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
Legendary Houses in Postwar Japan / PROVOCATIVE / INTROSPECTIVE, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
2014 JAPAN ARCHITECTS 1945-2010, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
1974: A turning Point in Postwar Japanese Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Legendary Houses in Postwar Japan / PROVOCATIVE / INTROSPECTIVE, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2013 METABOLISM: The City of the FUTURE, Chun Shang Creative Hub, Taipei, Taiwan
Yoko Ono Half-A-Window Show A Retrospective, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
2012 Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde, The Museum of Modern Art New York, USA
Traces of Centuries & Future Steps, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
2011 METABOLISM: The City of the FUTURE, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
POSTMODERNISM: STYLE AND SUBVERSION 1970-1990, Victoria and Alber Museum, London, UK
2010 CITY2.0-Theory of Evolution by WEB Generation, EYE OF GYRE, Tokyo, Japan

In 1931, at the age of 19, in June, he formed Pacific Modern Art Society (1931) with Shinichi ISHIDA, Takeshi SONODA, Katsuyoshi KATSUMOTO, Inashiro TAJIRI, and others. Saburo ASO and Masaaki TERADA also participated. He published “Sen” (Line), the journal of Pacific Modern Art Society. The name of the magazine is given by Shunsuke.
On September 14, it published a journal “Sen” No.2, which was discontinued.
Around this time, his father Katsumi began to devote himself to the movement of “Seicho no Ie” advocated by Masaharu TANIGUCHI, and influenced his older brothers Akira and Shunsuke.
In 1932, at the age of 20, in April, he organized Sekkaku (1932) with the central members of Taiheiyo Kindai Geijutsu Kenkyukai. He rented his studio at Sasagaoka in Kitaarai, Nagasaki-cho, Kitatoshima-gun (Current 1-chome, Kano-cho, Toshima Ward), and he used it as his research institute together.
Around this time, he began to interact with Aimitsu.
Around September, there was a conflict within Red Sukage, and the Society was dissolved. Even after the dissolution of the lower house, the group gathered in Liliom and continued exchanges. Masao TSURUOKA, Tatsuoki NANBATA, Aso and Terada also gathered.
In 1933, at the age of 21, in April, 5 works including <> (1933) were exhibited in the 5th Hokutokai art exhibition.
In August, his older brother Akira started the publication of ‘art of life’ an in-house magazine of “Seicho no Ie”. Shunsuke also contributed articles and illustrations such as “Detsu-san” “human landscape” from October to the last issue in October 1936, and was involved in editing.
In June, he exhibited 3 pieces including <> in the 6th Hokutokai art exhibition.
In the summer, when “Komyo Thought Promotion Society” was established to sell publications of “Seicho no Ie” her father Katsumi and mother Hana went to Tokyo and the family moved to Harajuku, Shibuya Ward, 2- 170 No.8 (The current address is 14 -15, Jingumae 3-chome, Shibuya-ku.). Shunsuke will also help promote and edit the Komyo Thought Promotion Society.
In December, he contributed “Memoirs of the Gallery” to the Journal of NOVA Art Association, ‘NOVA’ No.2.
In 1935, when he was 23 years old and January, he entered 3 pieces including (1935) in the 5th Nova Art Association Exhibition and became a member of the Dojin <>. He also contributed “Memoirs of the Gallery” to the 3rd issue of ‘NOVA’.
In September, he submitted <> to the 22 Nika Exhibition and won his first prize.
In 1936, when he was 24 years old and January, he exhibited 15 works including <> and sketches at the 6th Nova Art Association Exhibition (1936).
In September, he resigned from Komyo Shiso Kankokai.
In the same month, he submitted <> to the 23 Nika Exhibition.
October: ‘art of life’ ceased publication with its October issue. Many writers and painters such as Jun TAKAMI, Haruo SATO, Kotaro TAKAMURA, Toshiyuki HASEGAWA, Ichiro FUKUZAWA, Aimitsu and Aso contributed essays and sketches.
In the same month, he started to issue ‘miscellaneous journal’ a monthly essay magazine he had been planning to publish with Sadako. It was issued in the studio “Sogo Kobo”. Fumiko Hayashi, Sakutaro Hagiwara and Kotaro Takamura wrote and Tsuguharu Fujita, Ichiro Fukuzawa and Tsuruoka wrote drafts for the magazine. He also wrote and drew sketches for “miscellaneous journal” etc.
In 1937, when he was 25 years old and January, he exhibited 21 works including <> and <> in the 7th Nova Art Association Exhibition (1937).
In September, he exhibited <> in the 24 Nika exhibition.
In November, he formed the Black Bean Society with the members of Red Sukage and Liliom and holds meetings every month.
In December, ‘miscellaneous journal’ ceased publication with its 14 issue.
In 1938 (1938), at the age of 26, in the first half of the year, he imitated and studied a portrait from Masamu YANASE ‘proletarian painter Georges Gros’ (Tetto Shoin, published in 1929).
In September, he exhibited 2 pieces of <> in the 25 Nika exhibition.
In 1939, (1939) at the age of 27, in February, 5 works including <> were exhibited in the 7th Forum Exhibition.
In September, he exhibited <> in the 26 Nika exhibition.
November: He exhibited <> in the 1st Rokugeikai exhibition.
In 1940, (1940) at the age of 28, in March, he submitted 2 pieces of <> <> to the 2nd Kumurokai exhibition and became a member thereafter.
In August, he exhibited <> <> in the 27 Nika exhibition and received a special discount.
In October, he held his first solo exhibition, Shunsuke Matsumoto’s, at the Nichido Gallery in Ginza, and exhibited 30 works.
In the same month, he exhibited <> in the 2nd Western-style painting exhibition held in 2600 A.D.
In 1941, when he was 29 years old and March, (1941) “living painter” was published in the April issue of the same magazine in response to the discussion article “National Defense and Art” published in the January issue of ‘Mizue’.
In May, he held an exhibition of Shunsuke Matsumoto and Yasutake Funakoshi in Morioka, and exhibited 30 works including <>.
August: He exhibited <> (Later, the exhibition traveled to Morioka.) in the 1st Iwate Art Association Tokyo Exhibition.
In September, he exhibited <> <> in the 28 Nika exhibition and became his friend.
In 1942, at the age of 30, in February, he held Shunsuke MATSUMOTO’s 2nd private exhibition at Nichido Gallery, where he exhibited 35 works including <> (1942).
In September, he exhibited 2 pieces of <> <> in the 29 Nika exhibition.
In October, he held an exhibition of Tetsuro SAWADA, Yasutake FUNAKOSHI and Shunsuke MATSUMOTO in Morioka, and exhibited 10 works.
This year, he was employed in the production of wall paintings at “Lady Beauty Salon” in Ikebukuro, “Blue Hawaii” in Kamata, “Wings of the Century” in Sugamo, and “Bar-Goldwin” in Gotanda, through the introduction of Koichi SAGA, his friend from Hanamaki.
1943 (1943), April 31, Aso, processing in Chinese

In 1931, at the age of 19, in June, he formed Pacific Modern Art Society (1931) with Shinichi ISHIDA, Takeshi SONODA, Katsuyoshi KATSUMOTO, Inashiro TAJIRI, and others. Saburo ASO and Masaaki TERADA also participated. He published “Sen” (Line), the journal of Pacific Modern Art Society. The name of the magazine is given by Shunsuke.
On September 14, it published a journal “Sen” No.2, which was discontinued.
Around this time, his father Katsumi began to devote himself to the movement of “Seicho no Ie” advocated by Masaharu TANIGUCHI, and influenced his older brothers Akira and Shunsuke.
In 1932, at the age of 20, in April, he organized Sekkaku (1932) with the central members of Taiheiyo Kindai Geijutsu Kenkyukai. He rented his studio at Sasagaoka in Kitaarai, Nagasaki-cho, Kitatoshima-gun (Current 1-chome, Kano-cho, Toshima Ward), and he used it as his research institute together.
Around this time, he began to interact with Aimitsu.
Around September, there was a conflict within Red Sukage, and the Society was dissolved. Even after the dissolution of the lower house, the group gathered in Liliom and continued exchanges. Masao TSURUOKA, Tatsuoki NANBATA, Aso and Terada also gathered.
In 1933, at the age of 21, in April, 5 works including <> (1933) were exhibited in the 5th Hokutokai art exhibition.
In August, his older brother Akira started the publication of ‘art of life’ an in-house magazine of “Seicho no Ie”. Shunsuke also contributed articles and illustrations such as “Detsu-san” “human landscape” from October to the last issue in October 1936, and was involved in editing.
In June, he exhibited 3 pieces including <> in the 6th Hokutokai art exhibition.
In the summer, when “Komyo Thought Promotion Society” was established to sell publications of “Seicho no Ie” her father Katsumi and mother Hana went to Tokyo and the family moved to Harajuku, Shibuya Ward, 2- 170 No.8 (The current address is 14 -15, Jingumae 3-chome, Shibuya-ku.). Shunsuke will also help promote and edit the Komyo Thought Promotion Society.
In December, he contributed “Memoirs of the Gallery” to the Journal of NOVA Art Association, ‘NOVA’ No.2.
In 1935, when he was 23 years old and January, he entered 3 pieces including (1935) in the 5th Nova Art Association Exhibition and became a member of the Dojin <>. He also contributed “Memoirs of the Gallery” to the 3rd issue of ‘NOVA’.
In September, he submitted <> to the 22 Nika Exhibition and won his first prize.
In 1936, when he was 24 years old and January, he exhibited 15 works including <> and sketches at the 6th Nova Art Association Exhibition (1936).
In September, he resigned from Komyo Shiso Kankokai.
In the same month, he submitted <> to the 23 Nika Exhibition.
October: ‘art of life’ ceased publication with its October issue. Many writers and painters such as Jun TAKAMI, Haruo SATO, Kotaro TAKAMURA, Toshiyuki HASEGAWA, Ichiro FUKUZAWA, Aimitsu and Aso contributed essays and sketches.
In the same month, he started to issue ‘miscellaneous journal’ a monthly essay magazine he had been planning to publish with Sadako. It was issued in the studio “Sogo Kobo”. Fumiko Hayashi, Sakutaro Hagiwara and Kotaro Takamura wrote and Tsuguharu Fujita, Ichiro Fukuzawa and Tsuruoka wrote drafts for the magazine. He also wrote and drew sketches for “miscellaneous journal” etc.
In 1937, when he was 25 years old and January, he exhibited 21 works including <> and <> in the 7th Nova Art Association Exhibition (1937).
In September, he exhibited <> in the 24 Nika exhibition.
In November, he formed the Black Bean Society with the members of Red Sukage and Liliom and holds meetings every month.
In December, ‘miscellaneous journal’ ceased publication with its 14 issue.
In 1938 (1938), at the age of 26, in the first half of the year, he imitated and studied a portrait from Masamu YANASE ‘proletarian painter Georges Gros’ (Tetto Shoin, published in 1929).
In September, he exhibited 2 pieces of <> in the 25 Nika exhibition.
In 1939, (1939) at the age of 27, in February, 5 works including <> were exhibited in the 7th Forum Exhibition.
In September, he exhibited <> in the 26 Nika exhibition.
November: He exhibited <> in the 1st Rokugeikai exhibition.
In 1940, (1940) at the age of 28, in March, he submitted 2 pieces of <> <> to the 2nd Kumurokai exhibition and became a member thereafter.
In August, he exhibited <> <> in the 27 Nika exhibition and received a special discount.
In October, he held his first solo exhibition, Shunsuke Matsumoto’s, at the Nichido Gallery in Ginza, and exhibited 30 works.
In the same month, he exhibited <> in the 2nd Western-style painting exhibition held in 2600 A.D.
In 1941, when he was 29 years old and March, (1941) “living painter” was published in the April issue of the same magazine in response to the discussion article “National Defense and Art” published in the January issue of ‘Mizue’.
In May, he held an exhibition of Shunsuke Matsumoto and Yasutake Funakoshi in Morioka, and exhibited 30 works including <>.
August: He exhibited <> (Later, the exhibition traveled to Morioka.) in the 1st Iwate Art Association Tokyo Exhibition.
In September, he exhibited <> <> in the 28 Nika exhibition and became his friend.
In 1942, at the age of 30, in February, he held Shunsuke MATSUMOTO’s 2nd private exhibition at Nichido Gallery, where he exhibited 35 works including <> (1942).
In September, he exhibited 2 pieces of <> <> in the 29 Nika exhibition.
In October, he held an exhibition of Tetsuro SAWADA, Yasutake FUNAKOSHI and Shunsuke MATSUMOTO in Morioka, and exhibited 10 works.
This year, he was employed in the production of wall paintings at “Lady Beauty Salon” in Ikebukuro, “Blue Hawaii” in Kamata, “Wings of the Century” in Sugamo, and “Bar-Goldwin” in Gotanda, through the introduction of Koichi SAGA, his friend from Hanamaki.
1943 (1943), April 31, Aso, processing in Chinese

In 1931, at the age of 19, in June, he formed Pacific Modern Art Society (1931) with Shinichi ISHIDA, Takeshi SONODA, Katsuyoshi KATSUMOTO, Inashiro TAJIRI, and others. Saburo ASO and Masaaki TERADA also participated. He published “Sen” (Line), the journal of Pacific Modern Art Society. The name of the magazine is given by Shunsuke.
On September 14, it published a journal “Sen” No.2, which was discontinued.
Around this time, his father Katsumi began to devote himself to the movement of “Seicho no Ie” advocated by Masaharu TANIGUCHI, and influenced his older brothers Akira and Shunsuke.
In 1932, at the age of 20, in April, he organized Sekkaku (1932) with the central members of Taiheiyo Kindai Geijutsu Kenkyukai. He rented his studio at Sasagaoka in Kitaarai, Nagasaki-cho, Kitatoshima-gun (Current 1-chome, Kano-cho, Toshima Ward), and he used it as his research institute together.
Around this time, he began to interact with Aimitsu.
Around September, there was a conflict within Red Sukage, and the Society was dissolved. Even after the dissolution of the lower house, the group gathered in Liliom and continued exchanges. Masao TSURUOKA, Tatsuoki NANBATA, Aso and Terada also gathered.
In 1933, at the age of 21, in April, 5 works including <> (1933) were exhibited in the 5th Hokutokai art exhibition.
In August, his older brother Akira started the publication of ‘art of life’ an in-house magazine of “Seicho no Ie”. Shunsuke also contributed articles and illustrations such as “Detsu-san” “human landscape” from October to the last issue in October 1936, and was involved in editing.
In June, he exhibited 3 pieces including <> in the 6th Hokutokai art exhibition.
In the summer, when “Komyo Thought Promotion Society” was established to sell publications of “Seicho no Ie” her father Katsumi and mother Hana went to Tokyo and the family moved to Harajuku, Shibuya Ward, 2- 170 No.8 (The current address is 14 -15, Jingumae 3-chome, Shibuya-ku.). Shunsuke will also help promote and edit the Komyo Thought Promotion Society.
In December, he contributed “Memoirs of the Gallery” to the Journal of NOVA Art Association, ‘NOVA’ No.2.
In 1935, when he was 23 years old and January, he entered 3 pieces including (1935) in the 5th Nova Art Association Exhibition and became a member of the Dojin <>. He also contributed “Memoirs of the Gallery” to the 3rd issue of ‘NOVA’.
In September, he submitted <> to the 22 Nika Exhibition and won his first prize.
In 1936, when he was 24 years old and January, he exhibited 15 works including <> and sketches at the 6th Nova Art Association Exhibition (1936).
In September, he resigned from Komyo Shiso Kankokai.
In the same month, he submitted <> to the 23 Nika Exhibition.
October: ‘art of life’ ceased publication with its October issue. Many writers and painters such as Jun TAKAMI, Haruo SATO, Kotaro TAKAMURA, Toshiyuki HASEGAWA, Ichiro FUKUZAWA, Aimitsu and Aso contributed essays and sketches.
In the same month, he started to issue ‘miscellaneous journal’ a monthly essay magazine he had been planning to publish with Sadako. It was issued in the studio “Sogo Kobo”. Fumiko Hayashi, Sakutaro Hagiwara and Kotaro Takamura wrote and Tsuguharu Fujita, Ichiro Fukuzawa and Tsuruoka wrote drafts for the magazine. He also wrote and drew sketches for “miscellaneous journal” etc.
In 1937, when he was 25 years old and January, he exhibited 21 works including <> and <> in the 7th Nova Art Association Exhibition (1937).
In September, he exhibited <> in the 24 Nika exhibition.
In November, he formed the Black Bean Society with the members of Red Sukage and Liliom and holds meetings every month.
In December, ‘miscellaneous journal’ ceased publication with its 14 issue.
In 1938 (1938), at the age of 26, in the first half of the year, he imitated and studied a portrait from Masamu YANASE ‘proletarian painter Georges Gros’ (Tetto Shoin, published in 1929).
In September, he exhibited 2 pieces of <> in the 25 Nika exhibition.
In 1939, (1939) at the age of 27, in February, 5 works including <> were exhibited in the 7th Forum Exhibition.
In September, he exhibited <> in the 26 Nika exhibition.
November: He exhibited <> in the 1st Rokugeikai exhibition.
In 1940, (1940) at the age of 28, in March, he submitted 2 pieces of <> <> to the 2nd Kumurokai exhibition and became a member thereafter.
In August, he exhibited <> <> in the 27 Nika exhibition and received a special discount.
In October, he held his first solo exhibition, Shunsuke Matsumoto’s, at the Nichido Gallery in Ginza, and exhibited 30 works.
In the same month, he exhibited <> in the 2nd Western-style painting exhibition held in 2600 A.D.
In 1941, when he was 29 years old and March, (1941) “living painter” was published in the April issue of the same magazine in response to the discussion article “National Defense and Art” published in the January issue of ‘Mizue’.
In May, he held an exhibition of Shunsuke Matsumoto and Yasutake Funakoshi in Morioka, and exhibited 30 works including <>.
August: He exhibited <> (Later, the exhibition traveled to Morioka.) in the 1st Iwate Art Association Tokyo Exhibition.
In September, he exhibited <> <> in the 28 Nika exhibition and became his friend.
In 1942, at the age of 30, in February, he held Shunsuke MATSUMOTO’s 2nd private exhibition at Nichido Gallery, where he exhibited 35 works including <> (1942).
In September, he exhibited 2 pieces of <> <> in the 29 Nika exhibition.
In October, he held an exhibition of Tetsuro SAWADA, Yasutake FUNAKOSHI and Shunsuke MATSUMOTO in Morioka, and exhibited 10 works.
This year, he was employed in the production of wall paintings at “Lady Beauty Salon” in Ikebukuro, “Blue Hawaii” in Kamata, “Wings of the Century” in Sugamo, and “Bar-Goldwin” in Gotanda, through the introduction of Koichi SAGA, his friend from Hanamaki.
1943 (1943), April 31, Aso, processing in Chinese