Yoshishige Furukawa
Profile
1921 Born in Fukuoka, Japan
1943 Tokyo Fine Arts School (Tokyo University of the Arts), BFA in Painting
2008 Deceased in Kanagawa, Japan
Lived and worked in New York City for 40 years
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017 "Plane Space", Robert Henry Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
2017 "Special Feature: Yoshishige Furukawa (MOMAS COLLECTION)", Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
2017 "Collages from the 2000's", KOKI ARTS, Tokyo
2017 "the 1960s dot paintings", Maus Contemporary | beta pictoris gallery, Birmingham, AL
2016 "Black Rubber Sheet", Maus Contemporary | beta pictoris gallery, Birmingham, AL
2015 "Paintings from the 1990's", KOKI ARTS, Tokyo
2015 Fukuoka Prefectural Art Museum, Fukuoka
2015 Gallery Oishi, Fukuoka
2013 "Drawings from the 1980's", KOKI ARTS, Tokyo
2010 Gallery Oishi, Fukuoka
2009 Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka
2008 Gallery Oishi, Fukuoka
2007 Sawara Museum Ruhe, Fukuoka
2006 Gallery Oishi, Fukuoka
2006 Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo
2005 Gallery Yamane, Tokyo
2004 Sawara Museum Ruhe, Fukuoka
2003 Gallery Hashimoto, Fukuoka
2003 Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo
2003 Shirota Gallery, Tokyo
2002 Gallery Oishi, Fukuoka
2002 Galerie MMG, Tokyo
2001 Gallery Hashimoto, Fukuoka
2000 Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo
1999 Curwen Gallery, London, UK
1998 Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1997 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo
1995 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY
1992 "Recent Works 11, Yoshishige Furukawa", National Museum of Art, Osaka
1992 "Yoshishige Furukawa", Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka
1991 The Freedman Gallery at Albright College, Reading, PA
1991 Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo
1991 Gallery Yamaguchi SOKO, Tokyo
1991 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY
1991 University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, Cedar Falls, IA
1989 Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo
1989 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Gallery Oishi, Fukuoka
1986 Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo
1985 Gallery Stella, Fukuoka
1983 Fine Art Gallery, Southampton College of Long Island University, Southampton, NY
1981 Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka
1981 Fukuoka Gallery, Fukuoka
1981 Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo
1977 Fukuoka Art Gallery, Fukuoka
1977 Fukuoka Gallery, Fukuoka
1976 Fuma Gallery, Tokyo
1974 Lotus Gallery, New York, NY
1973 Pace College Student Center, New York, NY
1972 Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
1963 Nihonbashi Gallery, New York, NY
1963 Fukuoka Iwataya Department Store, Fukuoka
1960 Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1959 Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1958 Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1957 Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1956 Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1956 Fukuoka Daimaru Department Store, Fukuoka
1955 Saegusa Gallery, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 "Biwaza Saga", Saga Prefectural Art Museum, Saga, Japan
2017 "FURUKAWA / BURGUILLOS", R.O. Proyectos, Madrid, Spain
2016-17 "Complex Uncertainties: Artists in Postwar America", Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA
2016-17 "WESTERN PAINTING IN KYUSHU", Kurume City Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2016 "Tsudou", Gallery Oishi, Fukuoka
2016 "Werkstoff", CRUCE ARTE Y PENSAMIENTO, Madrid
2016 "Art x Music: Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art Collections", Kyushu Geibun-Kan, Fukuoka
2008 "Galerie Tokyo Humanité Special Weeks", Galerie Tokyo Humanité, Tokyo, Japan
2007 "Yoshishige Furukawa / Akiko Mashima", Sawara Museum Ruhe, Fukuoka, Japan
2005 Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
2002 Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2000 Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
1998 Saga Prefectural Art Museum, Saga, Japan
1997 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
1993 "30th Anniversary Exhibition II: Modern Art from the Collection", Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
1993 The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
1992 Saga Prefectural Art Museum, Saga, Japan
1990 "Art Frankfurt", Frankfurt, Germany
1989 "Art Chicago", McClurg Court, Chicago, IL
1986 "Black and White in Art Today", Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
1984 "Nichido Contemporary Art Exhibition", Nichido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1984 "New Acquisitions Exhibition", National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
1981 "Ishikawa Isamu and his Friends", Nisshin Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1980 "Contemporary Asian Art Show", Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
1979 "Japanese Art Today", World Trade Center, New York, NY
1975 Center for International Art, New York, NY
1972 "Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition", Union Carbide Building, New York, NY
1970 Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
1968 "19th Annual New England Exhibition", Silvermine Guild of Artists, CT
1967 "18th Annual New England Exhibition", Silvermine Guild of Artists, CT
1965 "16th Annual New England Exhibition", Silvermine Guild of Artists, CT
1964 "15th Annual New England Exhibition", Silvermine Guild of Artists, CT
1959 Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Art Fairs
2018 London Art Fair, London (Maus Contemporary)
2017 PULSE Miami Beach, Miami Beach (Maus Contemporary)
2017 VOLTA13, Basel (Maus Contemporary | beta pictoris gallery)
2017 Art on Paper, New York (KOKI ARTS)
2017 ART in PARK HOTEL TOKYO, Tokyo (KOKI ARTS)
2016 ART FAIR ASIA, Fukuoka (KOKI ARTS)
2016 VOLTA12, Basel (Maus Contemporary | beta pictoris gallery)
2016 Art Brussels, Brussels (Maus Contemporary | beta pictoris gallery)
2016 ART in PARK HOTEL TOKYO, Tokyo (KOKI ARTS)
2015 ART FAIR ASIA, Fukuoka (KOKI ARTS)
1989 Art Chicago, Chicago (Condeso/Lawler Gallery)
Awards
1997 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1990 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1989 Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant
Selected Collections
British Museum
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka
The Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka
Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
Tagawa Museum of Art, Tagawa, Japan
Saga Prefectural Art Museum, Saga, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
The Roland Gibson Art Museum, NH
Brandeis University
Fukuoka City Hall
New York City Public Library