Hikosaka Naoyoshi Invitation to Floor Event 1971
Postcard, 10 x 14.5 cm
彦坂 尚嘉 Hikosaka Naoyoshi
Born in Tokyo in 1946. Hikosaka was one of the leading artists in the movement against the institutional framework of art in the 1970s, playing a significant role in conceptual art in Japan. Entered Tama Art University, Tokyo in 1967, founded Bikyōtō (Artists Joint-Struggle Council) together with his fellow students including Kosai Hori in 1969. Major exhibitions include “Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s” at the Queens Museum of Art (New York, 1999) and three other venues in the USA, “CENTURY CITY” at Tate Modern (London, 2001), “Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950-1970” at the Getty Center, Research Institute Exhibition Gallery (Los Angeles, 2007), “Aichi Triennale” at Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art (Aichi, 2013), “Re:play 1972/2015 Restaging “ at the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (Tokyo, 2015). Hikosaka’ s work is part of many public collections, such as at places like The National Museum of Art (Osaka) , Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (Aichi) and The Getty Research Institute, (Los Angeles)
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EXHIBITIONS
PWP: Practice by Wood Painting
HIKOSAKA Naoyoshi
October 14 – December 9, 2023
Floor Event: Repetitions and Variations
HIKOSAKA Naoyoshi
July 25 – September 12, 2020
FLOOR EVENT 1970
HIKOSAKA Naoyoshi
September 9 - October 29, 2016
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1946 in Tokyo
Lives and works in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
Education and Residences
1967-70 Tama Art University, Japan
1982-83 University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts, under the auspices of the Japanese Government Department of Culture foreign art study program
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 Naoyoshi Hikosaka Exhibition, Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa
2020 Floor Event: Repetitions and Variations, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo
2018 Three Person Exhibition: Naoyoshi Hikosaka/Yoko Kamijo/Nobuhiko Utsumi, Fei Art Museum Yokohama, Kanagawa
2016 FLOOR EVENT 1970, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo
2016 Naoyoshi Hikosaka : Salon des Refusés Olympic Emblem, General Incorporated association TOURI association The Bamboo culture space, Tokyo
2014 Naoyoshi Hikosaka / Avant-garde experimental NETART solo exhibition series 6, Avant-garde experimental NETART, Kanagawa, Japan
2010 HISTORY LESSONS/The Imaginary Museum of the Imperial Palace, MAKII MASARU FINE ARTS, Tokyo
2008 Naoyoshi Hikosaka Printing Collection, The Softmachine Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
2008 Two Person Exhibition: Naoyoshi Hikosaka/Yasuhiro Minami, MAKII MASARU FINE ARTS, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Who opens up the world?, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2018 Travelers: Stepping into the Unknown, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2018 TTAKAHASHI COLLECTION Face and Abstraction, Kiyoharu Art Colony, Yamanashi, Japan
2017 Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2017 | The Disconnection-Art Movement: An Exhibition of Simulation-Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Concert: Naoyoshi-Hirokawa Quartet Concert, Curated by Hiroyuki Ooki, Koganei Art Spot Chateau 2F, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Reverse triangular relationship Exhibition, General Incorporated association TOURI association The Bamboo culture space, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Concert: Ai-Kisaragi Torio the First Concert, Nayoshii Hikosaka, Ai Kisaragi and, arsBot Goes Mad, Composit Art sabo caferoom, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Cutting Art : Chair, Curated by Hiroyuki Oki, Koganei Art Spot Chateau 2F, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Concert: Hikosaka Naoyoshi + Kimio Itozaki +Yoshihide Namasu: Concert, Curated by Yusuke Ooki, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Re:play 1972/2015 Restaging 《Expression in Film ‘72》, The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Reverse triangular relationship Exhibition, General Incorporated association TOURI association The Bamboo culture space, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Concert: “Naoyoshi Hikosaka + Noise Music Concert of A.A.C.L” 《Down of Love》Fuck With 《Void-Civilization》, Composit Art sabo caferoom, Tokyo, Japan
2013 AICHI TRIENNALE 2013 : Awakening, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2013 《A dark night of luminous film》 Kimio Itosaki+Naoyoshi Hikosaka syndicalism photo exhibition, Avant-garde experimental NETART, Kanazawa, Japan
2009 The 4th Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata, Japan
2008 Kompira Art 2008 Toramaru Shachu, Auditorium Kotohira-cho, Kagawa, Japan