Variation and Autonomy: The Prints of Contemporary Japanese Painters

This exhibition introduces the work of ten artists who explored a wide range of possibilities through prints and expanded the range of expression in contemporary art using the print medium in the 1970s. Rather than focusing on specialists who are considered to have shaped the history of contemporary Japanese prints, the exhibition deals with prints by painters who drew on trends in contemporary art and attempts to reassess the existing history of contemporary Japanese prints.

Curated by
Kyoji Takizawa (Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts)

Exhibiting artists (exhibit order)
Masanari Murai, Toshinobu Onosato, Yasukazu Tabuchi, Yayoi Kusama, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Hitoshi Nakazato, Tomoharu Murakami, Naoyoshi Hikosaka, Kosai Hori, and Toeko Tatsuno

2024 first semester New Zealand *TBC
December 8, 2023 - January 21, 2024
Caloundra Regional Gallery (Brisbane, Australia)
October 13 - November 16, 2023
Gallery Central (Perth, Australia)
June 29 - July 30, 2023
Sungkok Art Museum (Seoul, South Korea)
April 5 - May 20, 2023
Kyungpook National University Art Museum (Daeg, South Korea)
February 3 - March 12, 2023
National Art Museum of Moldova (Chisinau, Moldova)
December 14, 2022 - January 7, 2023
Art and Skills Institute (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
September 1 - 26, 2022
Bahrain National Museum (Manama, Bahrain)
June 14 - July 7, 2022
The Galleria – South Atrium, Level G (Abu Dhabi, UAE)
February 3 - March 6, 2022
Kaunas Picture Gallery (Kaunas, Lithuania)
November 16 - December 4, 2021
Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade (Belgrade, Serbia)
August 17 - September 11, 2021
Botswana National Museum (Gaberone, Botswana)
May 7 -June 18, 2021
Japanese Cultural Institute in Rome (Rome, Italy)