Nobuo Sekine

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

·        1969 — Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo — first solo exhibition.

·        1970 — Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa; Gallery Modulo, Milan.

·        1971 — Gallery Krebs, Bern; Gallery Birch, Copenhagen.

·        1973 — Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo.

·        1975 — Sakura Gallery, Nagoya.

·        1977 — Tokyo Gallery and Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo; Sakura Gallery, Nagoya.

·        1978–1979 — Nobuo Sekine: Skulptor 1975–1978, major travelling European exhibition: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf → Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk → Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo → Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norway.

·        1980 — Tokyo Gallery and Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo.

·        1983 — Sekine and Environment Art Studio, Stripe House Museum, Tokyo.

·        1992 — Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo.

·        1995 — Galleri Åkern, Kongsberg, Norway.

·        1996 — Archaeology of Phase – Mother Earth, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya.

·        2003 — Kawagoe City Art Museum, Saitama.

·        2004 — Movement, Feeling, Environment, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Beijing; Phase of Nothingness – Black, Kamakura Gallery.

·        2008 — PYO Gallery, Seoul.

·        2011 — Re-creations 1970/2011, Kamakura Gallery; Monogatari, Shanghai Sculpture Space.

·        2014 — Blum & Poe, Los Angeles — Sekine’s first solo exhibition in North America.

·        2015 — MOCA Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood.

·        2017 — Phase of Nothingness – Skin, YOD Gallery, Osaka.

·        2019 — Phase of Nothingness – Skin, Asia Art Center, Taipei; Nobuo Sekine 1942–2019, Kamakura Gallery.

·        2023 — Nobuo Sekine Sculptures 1970, Devals, Paris.

·        2024 — Phase of Nothingness—Skin, YOD Gallery, Tokyo.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND BIENNIALS

·         1967 — 11th Shell Art Exhibition, Tokyo.

·        1968 — 1st Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Suma Palace Park, Kobe — presentation of Phase—Mother Earth, a seminal work of Mono-ha.

·        1969 — 6th Paris Biennale; International Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Hakone.

·        1970 — 35th Venice Biennale, representing Japan.

·        1986 — Japon des Avant-Gardes 1910–1970, Centre Pompidou, Paris.

·        1994 — Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art → Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York → SFMOMA, San Francisco.

·        1995 — Matter and Perception 1970: Mono-ha and the Search for Fundamentals, travelling exhibition in Japan, subsequently presented at the Musée d’Art moderne de Saint-Étienne.

·        2000/2001 — Gwangju Biennale, Korea; Century City, Tate Modern, London.

·        2005 — Reconsidering Mono-ha, National Museum of Art, Osaka.

·        2010 — Mono-ha, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge.

·        2012 — Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles; Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde, MoMA, New York; Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, MOCA Los Angeles, subsequently at Haus der Kunst, Munich.

·        2013–2014 — Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana – Pinault Collection, Venice.

·        2014 — Other Primary Structures, Jewish Museum, New York.

·        2017 — Art and Space, Guggenheim Bilbao.

·        2020 — To Be Determined, Dallas Museum of Art.

·        2022 — Visual Natures, MAAT, Lisbon.

·        2023 — Inhabiting Time, Pinault Collection, Chapelle Laennec, Paris.

·        2024 — Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood, BLUM, Los Angeles.