Katsura Funakoshi

(Japanese, born 1951)

words on the wall by katsura funakoshi

Katsura Funakoshi

Words on the Wall, 1993

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Biography

Timeline

1951
Born in Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
1971 - 1975
B.A., Tokyo Zokei University, University of Art and Design, Department
1975 - 1977
Postgraduate Course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, M.A.
1984
Awarded Excellence Prize 'Oyama-City with Sculpture'
1985 - 1986
Taught sculpture course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1986 - 1987
Lived in London, one year scholarship from the Bureau of Cultural Properties
1989
Teaches sculpture course at Tokyo University of Arts and Design
1990 - 1991
Taught sculpture course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1991
Awarded Takashimaya Charitable Trust for Art and Culture Prize
1995
Awarded the 26th Nakahara Teijiro Prize for Excellence

Exhibitions

2009
35th Anniversary: Seven, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
2008 - 2009
Invention/Tradition, Crown Point Press, San Francisco
2008
September Show '08, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
Summer Show, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
Summer Villa: The Sculptures, Drawings, and Prints of Katsura Funakoshi in Art Deco Space, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo (solo)
Katsura Funakoshi, Tohoku University of Art and Design, Yamagata, Japan (solo)
Katsura Funakoshi: New Sculpture, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York (solo)
Katsura Funakoshi: New Works, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo (solo)
2007
Katsura Funakoshi, Tohoku University of Art and Design (solo)
Vital Signs - Reality of nine contemporary artists, Yokosuka Museum of Art