Izumi Kato
Born: Shimane, Japan, 1969
Lives and works between Tokyo, Japan and Hong Kong, China
Education
1992
Graduated from the Department of Oil Painting, Musashino Art University, Kodaira, Japan
Public Artworks
2022
A Summer in Le Havre, Normandy, France
Reborn Art Festival, Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
2021
Untitled, K11 Art Foundation, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, China
2020
Untitled, The Park, The Mills, Collection of Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
2019
Untitled, Fundación Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Mexico
Untitled, CONTACT connecting art exhibition of art in Japan and the world, Saimon, Kiyomizu-dera Temple, Kyoto, Japan
2018
Tai Kwun Public Art Project, Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
42nd Marunouchi Street Gallery, Marunouchi Nakadori Street, Tokyo, Japan
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2023
Perrotin, Paris, France
2022
From The Sea, Item Editions, Paris, France
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Parasitic Plastic Models, Watarium Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
2021
Stand By You, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA
Perrotin, New York City, New York, USA
2020
Perrotin, Paris, France (catalogue)
Exhibition from the Red Brick Art Museum Collection: Izumi Kato, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
2019
LIKE A ROLLING SNOWBALL, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue) LIKE A ROLLING SNOWBALL, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
Perrotin, Shanghai, China
Like A Rolling Stone, Item Éditions, Paris, France
Fundación Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Mexico (catalogue)
2018
Perrotin, Seoul, South Korea
Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
Perrotin, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, China
2017
Lithographs, Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan
New Prints and Drawings, Item Éditions, Paris, France
Take Ninagawa, Tokyo, Japan
2016
Living in Figures: Izumi Kato × Chen Fei, Nizayama Art Park Power Plant Museum, Toyama, Japan (two person, catalogue)
Perrotin, New York City, New York, USA
2014
Perrotin, Paris, France
Soft Vinyl Sculptures, Capsule, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
Perrotin, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, China
2012
SOUL UNION DELUXE, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan (catalogue)
2011
The View from After, Comme des Garçons Osaka, Six, Osaka, Japan
Paintings and Sculptures, Arataniurano, Tokyo, Japan; NADiff Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (touring, catalogue)
2010
Journeying into each day, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan (catalogue)
SOUL UNION, Arataniurano, Tokyo, Japan
2008
The Riverhead, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Dear Humans, Arataniurano, Tokyo, Japan
MOKU, Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, Japan
2006
Murata & Friends, Berlin, Germany
2005
HADAKA NO HITO, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
Galleria Enrico Astuni, Pietrasanta, Italy (catalogue)
2004
Murata & Friends, Berlin, Germany
Alpha M Project Vol.5, Musashino Art University, Art space kimura ASK?, Tokyo, Japan
2003
Ai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Drawings 1996–2003, 23 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2002
Galleria Chimera, Tokyo, Japan
2001
23 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Focusing on a New Generation in Japan ’01 “Painting” Statements from Galleries artist support program 2001: Kato Izumi, Ai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Murata & Friends, Berlin, Germany
Criterium 46: Izumi Kato, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Izumi Kato 1995-99, 23 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2000
23 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Ai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1999
SAMAZAMA NA ME 98, IBM-Kawasaki City Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
1998
Gallery Le Déco, Tokyo, Japan
1997
Gallery Le Déco, Tokyo, Japan
1996
Gallery Le Déco, Tokyo, Japan
1995
Ai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2023
The lens within your heart, from the Takeuchi Collection, WHAT Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Japan
Tagukore: Dunno A Thing About Art (But I Like It), Kadokawa Culture Museum, Saitama, Japan
Uraraka Painting Festival, Tokyo, Japan
2022
Being in the World, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Regarde-moi (Look at Me), Perrotin, Paris
Assembly 1: Unstored, Assembly, New York, USA
Head in the Clouds, Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan
Pacific Century: Hawaii Triennial, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Sunset / Sunrise, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
2021
A Nexus of Rainbows: Works from the Hara Museum and the Hara Rokuro Collections, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
Space Mounting, Kyoto Museum of Crafts and Design, Kyoto, Japan
Collection Exhibition 1: Inner Cosmology, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishikawa, Japan
Oketa Collection: 4G, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
Next World: Taguchi Art Collection × Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan
Just Looking, Still Looking, Always Looking, Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao, China
2020
Garden of Life: Eight Contemporary Artists Venture into Nature, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
On the Frontline of Contemporary Art: from the Taguchi Art Collection, Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan
Unconstrained Textiles: Stitching Methods, Crossing Ideas, Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (CHAT), Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
SCAI 30th Anniversary Exhibition, SCAI PARK, Tokyo, Japan
Portraits: Selection from the Hara Museum Collection, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
2019
My Name is Tokyo Kai and I am an Artoholic, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
NMAO collection with Alberto Giacometti II, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan Thousand-Armed Guanyin, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
Weavers of Worlds: A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Bubblewrap, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
MOMAT Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
An Enchanting Future, Le Consulat, Paris, France
Contemporary Sculpture Art Works from Xin Dong Cheng Collection, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
Take Ninagawa 10th Anniversary, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Art of the 21st Century: Taguchi Art Collection, Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
My Favourites: Toshio Hara Selects from the Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Takahashi Collection: Face and Abstraction, Kiyoharu Art Colony, Yamanashi, Japan
Contemporary Wood-Carved Netsuke, Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam
The Ubiquity of Borders: Japanese Contemporary, Gallery Baton, Seoul, South Korea
2017
The Riddle of Art: Takahashi Collection, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
Japanorama. New vision on art since 1970, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
The Art Show: Art of the New Millennium in Taguchi Art Collection, Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Gunma, Japan
GLOBAL NEW ART: The Essence of Taguchi Art Collection, Woodone Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
ART VACANCES, Kagoshima Islands, Kagoshima, Japan (touring)
Takahashi Collection: Mindfulness 2017, Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata, Japan
Collection1 PLAY, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishikawa, Japan
The Cosmos of the Takahashi Collection, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Spring Fever, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo, Japan
2016
Traces of a Dream: Selections of the Hara Museum Collection, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
ART VACANCES, Gallery Hiramine, Kagoshima, Japan (touring)
Takahashi Collection, Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui, Japan
It’s Our Permanent Collection!, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Collection of the Takamatsu Art Museum, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
S-House Museum Project, S-House Museum, Okayama, Japan
2015
Stance Or Distance?: Connecting Myself to the World, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Cosmos / Intime: Takahashi Collection, Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, Paris, France Messages: Takahashi Collection, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan
Takahashi Collection: Mirror Neuron, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Taguchi Art Collection: A Walk around the Contemporary Art World after Paradigm Shift, Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
2014
Red Bull Music Academy Tokyo 2014, Red Bull Music Academy, Tokyo, Japan
Rokko Meets Art 2014, Mount Rokko National Park, Hyogo, Japan
Twentieth Anniversary Special MOT Collection: Contacts, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Taguchi Art Collection: TAG−TEN, Matsumoto City Museum Of Art, Nagano, Japan
Takahashi Collection 2014: Mindfulness!, Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
2013
Traveling Art in Mimasaka Province, Shurakuen Garden, Okayama, Japan
Visceral Sensation: Voices So Far, So Near, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishikawa, Japan
Wonderful My Art – Artists of the Takahashi Collection, Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan
Re: Quest – Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
MISUGOSHITEKITAMONO, Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan
2012
Parallel Far East Worlds, A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu, China
Rokko Meets Art 2012, Mount Rokko National Park, Hyogo, Japan
The 35th Anniversary of The National Museum of Art, Osaka: the Allure of the Collection, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia; Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa, Israel (touring)
2011
Pathos and Small Narratives: Japanese Contemporary Art, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Jalapagos, Mitsubishi Estate Artium, Fukuoka, Japan
MOT Collection Silent narrator: on plural stories, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Taguchi Art Collection: Global New Art, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Most Requested Top 30 / 10 Years of Takahashi Collection, Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, Japan; Tabloid Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (touring)
Be Alive! Selections from the Hara Museum Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Art in an Office, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2010
Living With Art: Contemporary Art From Japan and Taiwan, Yi&C Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan, China
New Kore Shizuoka: New and Previous Collections and Art Closely Connected to Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
Fifth Anniversary Exhibition: Garden of Painting: Japanese Art of the 00s, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2009
Parabiosis: Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Soka Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Beijing, China; Tainan, Taiwan (touring, catalogue)
Being Seeing Feeling: Selections from the Hara Museum Collection, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
Dorodoro, Doron: The Uncanny World in Folk and Contemporary Art in Asia, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Long Season, Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, China
2008
Toyota Art Collection 2008, Kuragaike Art Salon, Toyota Kuragaike Commemorative Hall, Aichi, Japan
Forwards 08: Daimler Awards for Contemporary Art in Germany, Japan, South Africa and USA, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Kankai Pavilion Opening Exhibition: Beyond Time, Beyond Space, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
Neoteny Japan: Contemporary Artists after 1990's from Takahashi Collection, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan; Sapporo Art Museum, Hokkaido, Japan; Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata, Japan; Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan; Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan; Museum of Art Ehime, Ehime, Japan (touring)
Art Scope 2007/2008: Faces of Existence, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Selections from the Hara Museum’s Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Venice Biennale 52nd International Art Exhibition: Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, Italian Pavilion at Giardini, Venice, Italy
Painting as Forest: Artist as Thinker, Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan
MOT Annual 2007: From a World as Large as Life, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2006
The Child, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2005
GLOBAL PLAYERS: Deutsche und Japanische Kunst der Gegenwart, BankART1929, Yokohama, Japan; Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany (touring)
Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture, Japan Society, New York City, New York, USA
Izumi KATO, Junya SATO, Yuken TERUYA, 14-1 Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
2004
Galleria Enrico Astuni, Pietrasanta, Italy
lonely planet, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Body, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover, Germany
2003
ZONE: Clairvoyants in this threatening age, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Magic Room: The 1st Magical Art Exhibition, Project Room, Tokyo, Japan
2002
Pro Tsubo, Theodor-Zink-Museum, Kaiserslautern, Germany; Neue Galerie Landshut, Germany (touring)
VOCA 2002, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2000
Four Emerging Artists, Theatres des SENS, Tokyo, Japan
1997
‘Bi’ and ‘Jutsu’, Ai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Public Collections
Aranya, Qinhuangdao, China
Balanz Collection, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bernard Buffet Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, China
Colección SOLO, Madrid, Spain
Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Japigozzi Collection, Geneva, Switzerland
K11 Art Foundation, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, China
Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Longlati Foundation, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong, China
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan
Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
S-House Museum, Okayama, Japan
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Toyota Motor Corporation, Aichi, Japan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Zhiguan Museum of Fine Art, Beijing, China
Publications
2022
Parasitic Plastic Models, Watarium Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2020
Izumi Kato, Perrotin, Paris, France
Izumi Kato: Mexican Works in Casa Wabi, Potziland Records, Tokyo, Japan
2019
Izumi Kato: LIKE A ROLLING SNOWBALL, Seigensha Art Publishing, Inc., Kyoto, Japan
Izumi Kato: Drawings & Paper Works, Potziland Records, Tokyo, Japan
2016
Living in Figures: Izumi Kato × Chen Fei, Nizayama Art Park Power Plant Museum, Nyuzen, Toyama
2014
Izumi Kato: Soft Vinyl Sculptures, Capsule, Tokyo, Japan, Izumi Kato Studio
2012
Izumi Kato Exhibition: SOUL UNION DELUXE, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
2011
Izumi Kato: Paintings and Sculptures, Seigensha Art Publishing, Inc., Kyoto, Japan
Izumi Kato: Soft Vinyl Sculptures, Izumi Kato / Linden, Tokyo, Japan
2010
Kato Izumi: Journeying into Each Day, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
2005
Izumi Kato, Edizioni Galleria Enrico Astuni, Pietrasanta, Italy