ON KAWARA BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1933, in Japan
Lives and works in New York
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
On Kawara, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA, United States
2015
On Kawara 1966, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (MDD), Deurle, Belgium
On Kawara – Silence, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY, United States
2013
On Kawara. One Million Years, Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR), Brussels, Belgium
2012
On Kawara - Lived Time, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
On Kawara - One Million Years, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom
On Kawara - Date Painting(s) In New York And 136 Other Cities, David Zwirner, New York City, NY, United States
2010
On Kawara: Pure Consciousness at 19 Kindergartens, San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), San Francisco, CA, United States
2009
I Went, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium
One Million Years, David Zwirner, New York City, NY, United States
2008
On Kawara, doART Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
On Kawara: 10 Tableaux and 16,952 Pages, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, United States
2007
On Kawara- Book, Tokyo Publishing House, Tokyo, Japan
2006
On Kawara, Konrad Fischer Galerie – Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
On Kawara - Eternal Return, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
On Kawara "Conciencia. Meditación. El observador en las colinas", Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima, Peru
2005
On Kawara: Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the hills., The Power Plant, Toronto, ON, Canada
On Kawara: Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the hills., Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
On Kawara, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany
On Kawara: One Million Years (Past and Future), Akira Ikeda – Taura, Taura, Japan
2004
On Kawara - Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
On Kawara: Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore, Singapore
On Kawara - Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore, Singapore
On Kawara - Paintings of 40 Years, David Zwirner, New York City, NY, United States
On Kawara, Akira Ikeda - New York, New York City, NY, United States
On Kawara - The 90'sArt & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
On Kawara - Reading One Million Years, South London Gallery (SLG), London, United Kingdom
On Kawara, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
XFRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art 25th Anniversary Exhibition VISION｜DISTANCE, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi, Japan
Colección Jumex: On the Razor’s Edge, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Performance Homework, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
2019
Collecting in the 21st century - If an accumulation reflects a life De leur temps (6), Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Momat Collection, National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT), Tokyo, Japan
Time Is Thirsty, Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria
Only broken clocks show the right time, Gdańska Galeria Miejska, Gdansk, Poland
Selbstbildnis, Société, Berlin, Germany
Schau, ich bin blind, schau: From Rémy Zaugg to John Baldessari - The collection of Hans and Monika Furer, Kunstmuseum Basel / Neubau, Basel, Switzerland
The Sound of Silence, Galerie Praz-Delavallade - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Dry Land / Gladstone 64, Gladstone Gallery, New York City, NY, United States
Histoire de l’art cherche personnages…, CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Emancipation of Humanity: Focusing on Works by Female Artists, National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT), Tokyo, Japan
2019-1 Collection Highlights & Special Feature: An Inner LandscapeⅠ―Landscapes and Memories, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Andachtsbild, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York City, NY, United States
'26 april 2019', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Coleção Berardo de 1960 à atualidade, Berardo Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
snap+share, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, CA, United States
Trois fois rien: Le Centre national des arts plastiques au CN D, Centre national de la danse, Pantin, France
Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975, Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), Washington, DC, United States
One Minute, One Hour, One Month… One Million Years, The Island Club, Limassol, Cyprus
Unexplained Parade, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
A Day's Work, Raum Schroth im Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest, Germany
2018
New York : The 1980s; Part I, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Heart of Hearts, MMS2, Berlin, Germany
Sanguine. Luc Tuymans on Baroque, Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy
Zeitspuren - The Power of Now, Kunsthaus Centre, PasquArt - Centre d'Art, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Art in Motion. 100 Masterpieces with and through Media, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany
Hello World. Revisioning a Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Haus der Sinnsuche, Kunstsaele, Berlin, Germany
A sedução de uma vírgula bem colocada / The pull of a well placed comma, MACE - Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Elvas, Portugal
2050, A Brief History of the Future, National Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan
Where does your heart belong?, Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
Melancholia, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
A Colossal World, Whitebox Art Center, New York City, NY, United States
Schöne Grüße – Künstlerpostkarten, Galerie Ludorff, Dusseldorf, Germany
Matriz do tempo real, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC/USP), São Paulo, Brazil
David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York City, NY, United States
Dance to the Music of Time, Galerie Dvir – Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
2017
Il Nuovo III, Etablissement d'en face projects, Brussels, Belgium
You’ve got 1243 Unread Messages, Arsenals Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art (LNMA), Riga, Latvia
You've got 1243 unread messages, Latvian National Museum of Arts, Riga, Latvia
J'♥ Avignon The artists and the Collection Lambert, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Künstlerbücher. Die Sammlung, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Artist’s Books. The Collection, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
A Tale of Two Worlds, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Le Silo, Collection Billarant, Le Silo à Grains, Marines, Marines, France
Le temps, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France
Flap-flop, Clap-clop: A Place Where Words are born, Arts Maebashi, Tokyo, Japan
Magritte, Broodthaers & Contemporary Art, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Für die Ewigkeit – Archivarische Strategien in der Kunst, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany
Hôtel du Pavot 2, FRAC - Ile-de-France - Château Rentilly, Bussy-Saint-Georges, France
Time as Landscape, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL, United States
Time as Landscape - Inquiries of Art and Science, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL, United States
Think of this as a Window, Mute, London, United Kingdom
Think of this as a Window, Mutina for Art, Fiorano, Italy
I am a Problem, Staged by Ersan Mondtag, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Pas de Deux Romano-Germanic Kolumba, Kolumba, Cologne, Germany
Minimalism & Beyond, Mnuchin Gallery, New York City, NY, United States
Time, The Société, Brussels, Belgium
I am you, you are too, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Formasobrefondo, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico
Time and painting, MMS2, Berlin, Germany
The Times, FLAG Art Foundation, New York City, NY, United States
Dying well - false death, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
Selected Works from the Collection of Nagoya City Art Museum, The Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Wirtschaftswerte / Museumswerte, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
Truchement, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Darren Almond, Daniel Buren, Jenny Holzer, On Kawara, Lee Ufan, SCAI Park, Tokyo, Japan
Gravity & Grace, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, United States
Days and Horizons, Mendes Wood DM - New York, New York City, NY, United States
Primary Structures - Meisterwerke der Minimal Art, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Serialities, Hauser & Wirth - New York, 22nd Street, New York City, NY, United States
2016
Time, light, Japan Japanese art 1990s to now, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NS, WAustralia
Black`n`white, Galerie Andrea Caratsch - St. Moritz, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Momat Collection, National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT), Tokyo, Japan
Keiko Sato - Made in Japan group show, Galerie Annie Gentils, Antwerp, Belgium
"Wolke & Kristall". Die Sammlung Dorothee und Konrad Fischer, K21, Dusseldorf, Germany
Rhona Hoffman 40 Years, Part 1, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, United States
T E X T, Listasafn Islands - National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Sammlung Opitz-Hoffmann, Stadtmuseum Jena, Jena, Germany
PUTTING REHEARSALS TO THE TEST, It’s not about models, it’s about modeling, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada
Time Robbers, Galerija Umjetnina Split, Split, Croatia
Das Kapital. Schuld – Territorium – Utopie, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
25 Jahre Mmk Museum Für Moderne Kunst – Neue Sammlungspräsentation, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Turning Pages / Modern book culture in the collections of the Olomouc Museum of art, Zapadoceska galerie, Pilsen, Czech Republic
Time Of Others, Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane, QL, DAustralia
Echtzeit - Die Kunst Der Langsamkeit, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
With A Touch Of Pink - With A Bit Of Violet - With A Hint Of Green - Dorothee Fischer - In Memoriam, Konrad Fischer Galerie – Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
And Now the Good News, Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI Lugano), Lugano, Switzerland
On Kawara One Milion Years I Roman Opalka 1965/1-?, Signum Foundation Gallery – Lodz, Lodz, Poland
Dall’oggi al domani - 24 ore nell’arte contemporanea, MACRO Museo d´Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
Rastros y Vestigios, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico
Accrochage, Punta della Dogana - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy
Drawing Dialogues: Selections from the Sol LeWitt Collection, The Drawing Center, New York City, NY, United States
An Imagined Museum Works From The Centre Pompidou, The Tate And The Mmk, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Breve storia del future, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Ich kenne kein Weekend-Aus René Blocks Archiv und Sammlung, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria
Nervous Systems. Quantified Life and the Social Question, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
The Natural Order of Things, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Mot Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), Tokyo, Japan
Natureza Franciscana, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (mam), São Paulo, Brazil
Life Itself, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Talking about Art : The Viewpoint of Yusuke Nakahara, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura, Chiba, Japan
Identity Revisited, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX, United States
The Best Collection of Ohara Museum of Art, The National Art Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
On Kawara And Eric Doeringer - Here Not Here, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, United States
MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, United States
The Warehouse, Dallas, United States
Dia: Beacon, Beacon, United States
ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany
Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Sammlung Reinking, Hamburg, Germany
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain
Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne (MAMC), Saint-Etienne, France
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT), Tokyo, Japan
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Markus Lüpertz
- Mustafa Hulusi
- Pascal Dombis
- Ahn Chang Hong
- Jung MyungTaek
- Junggeun OH
- Woo Jongduk
- Hori Kosai
- Nakazawa Hideki
- On Kawara
- Nam June Paik
- Xu Bing
- Tan Ping
- Yin Zhaoyang
- Alex Katz
- Julian Schnabel
- Richard Pettibone
- Chong Gon Byun
- Zhang Fangbai
- Marcel Broodthaers
- Choi Myoung Young
- Kim Tschoon Su
- Jeom Soo Na
- Yu Kuk IL
- Lee Kyo Jun
- Park Eun Sun