Horikawa Michio The Shinano River Plan 11
(Documentary photograph of stone received by Maeyama Tadashi) 1969
Photograph 8.3 x 12.2 cm (3.3 x 4.8 inch)
堀川紀夫 Horikawa Michio
1946年新潟県中頸城郡（現・上越市）に生まれ。1967年、前山忠、市橋哲夫らをリーダーとする現代美術グループ「新潟現代美術家集団GUN（Group Ultra Niigata）」の結成に参加。主な展覧会に「Century City」テート・モダン（ロンドン 2001年）、「Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950-1970」Getty Center, Research Institute Exhibition Gallery（ロサンジェルス 2007年）、「越後妻有アートトリエンナーレ」（新潟 2000年・2009年）など。 2019年3月ニューヨークのJapan Societyで開催される「荒野のラジカリズム グローバル60年代の日本の現代美術家たち」に参加。
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EXHIBITIONS
Stones at Tokyo Biennale ’70 = (13 – 4) + 9 + 9 + 9
Horikawa Michio
March 18 – April 28, 2023
Not a Stone’s Throw
Horikawa Michio
September 28 – November 10, 2017
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1946 in Niigata
Lives and works in Niigata, Japan
Education
1986 MFA in Art Education, Joetsu University of Education, Niigata, Japan
1968 BFA in Art Education, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 Not a Stone’s Throw, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo
2018 Possibility of Tensegrity in the Summer Garden, Juca Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
2013 HORIKAWA Michio, Gallery Yuyama, Niigata, Japan
2011 My Trajectory – Snow Art Genealogy, Gallery Hinoki, Tokyo, Japan
2008 Sky Project Series, Space 23°C, Tokyo, Japan
2003 E-mail Stamps Series, Gallery Dot One, Niigata, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Psychic Wounds: On Art & Trauma, The Warehouse, Texas, USA
2019 Radicalism in the Wilderness: Japanese Artist in the Global 1960, Japan Society Gallery, New York, USA
2018 WILDERNESS, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
2017 Kukan Zokei 2017, Art House Oyabe, Toyama, Japan
2016 How to walk the site – 10 approaches –, Gallery Yuyama, Niigata, Japan
2016 War and Peace, Nagaoka Central Library Art Center, Niigata
2016 The 5th Article 9 Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Minus Art, Obihiro Contemporary Art, Hokkaido, Japan
2015 The 6th Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata, Japan
2015 Article 9 Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Group “Genshoku” and Ishiko Junzo 1966-1971, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
2013 Object of Today, Gallery Yuyama, Niigata, Japan
2013 Odawara Biennale 2013, Kanagawa, Japan
2013 The 3rd Article 9 Art Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2012 9 Horizons –Niigata Contemporary Art Now-, Gallery Yuyama, Niigata, Japan
2012 War and Peace, Nagaoka Central Library Art Center, Niigata, Japan
2012 The 5th Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata, Japan
2011 War and Peace, Nagaoka Central Library Art Center, Niigata, Japan
2011 Article 9 Art Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2010 5th Blue Sky Project, Joetsu City Library, Niigata; Imai Museum, Niigata, Japan
2009 The 4th Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata, Japan
2009 The Trajectory of GUN, Toki Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Article 9 Art Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2008 On Location, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, Japan
2008 The Trajectory of Niigata Contemporary Art Collective GUN 1967 – 1975, Gallery mu-an, Niigata, Japan