关根 伸夫
Nobuo SEKINE

Selected Works

The picture of sun and moon
The picture of sun and moon
Japanese paper, 18k gold foil
60.6×72.7cm 2008
A certain life
A certain life
Japanese paper, 18k gold foil
90.9×72.7cm 2009
OX Volcano
OX Volcano
Sculpture, Bronze
23×44×44cm 1989
「 △ 」位相绘画
「 △ 」位相绘画
Japanese paper, 18k gold foil
45×38cm,59×52cm/Frame Size
1988
「 △ 」Project
「 △ 」Project
Print,
65cmx50cm 1982
Dedicated to Water and Moon
Dedicated to Water and Moon
Prints, 66/100
45×27.5cm, 66.4×51.2cm/Frame Size

Bio

1942       

Born in Saitama Japan

1968     

Art Studies: Graduated from master course a postgraduate course of oil painting, Tama Fine Art College, Tokyo

1973     

Established Environment Art Studio

  • Individual Exhibition

     

    2006    

    Saint Paul Gallery,Maebashi

    Gallery Bijutsu Sekai (Gallery-BS),Tokyo

    2005    

    Gallery Bijutsu Sekai (Gallery-BS),Tokyo

    “MANIF 11/05 SEOUL”, Seoul

    2004    

    Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing

    2003    

    Kawagoe City Art Museum ,Saitama

    1998    

    Saint Paul Gallery,Maebashi

    1997    

    Lagoe Gallery, Saitama

    1993    

    Gallery Art Point, Tokyo

    Garalleri Akern, Norway

    1992 ,1999

    Shikyodo Museum, Toyota

    1991    

    Kawagoe Gallery, Saitama

    Tenmaya department store, Okayama

    Anshido Gallery, Shizuoka

    1990    

    Tenjuen, Niigata

    Soko Museum, Niigata

    Atelier Garo, Niigata

    Sogo department store, Hiroshima

    Seibu department store-Studio5, Tokyo

    Mitsukoshi department store, Tokyo

    1989    

    Kodosha, Ichinoseki

    Gallery Lamia, Tokyo

    Chikugo Gallery, Kurume

    Misui Gallery, Matsudo

    GalleryTAK, Yokohama

    Susono Art House, Susono

    Kozaido Gallery, Tokyo

    Kobundo Gallery, Obihiro

    Gojuichiban-kan Gallery, Aomori

    Gallery Picasso, Maebashi

    Katsuyama Isozaki Hall, Fukui

    Stemfli Gallery ,New York

    Umeda Mordern Art Museum, Osaka

    1988    

    Gallery M, Obama

    Art Dune, Hamamatsu/91,94,97,2001,2004

    Kozaido Gallery, Tokyo

    Nishida Gallery, Nara

    Soh Gallery, Tokyo

    Anshido Gallery, Shizuoka

    Gallery Kura, Kitakyushu

    We Gallery, Omiya

    1987    

    Ginza Jiyugaoka Gallery, Tokyo

    Gallery Te, Tokyo

    Kawagoe Gallery, Saitama

    1985    

    Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo

    1983    

    Sekine and Environment Art Studio, Stripe House Museum, Tokyo

    1982    

    Sekine’s Prints and Sculptures(Cross Country 7500Km)

    1979    

    Sonja Henie-Niels Onstad Culture, Oslo, Norway

    1978     

    Louisiana Museum of Art, Denmark

    Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany

    Rijks museum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland

    197780,81,82    Keneko Art Gallery, Tokyo

    1976     

    Gallery Dori, Tokyo

    1975,77,81,87,93

    Sakura Gallery, Nagoya

    1973,77,80,87    

    Tokyo Gallery

    1971     

    Gallery The Krebs, Bern Galerie Birch ,Copenhagen

    1970     

    Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa Gallery Modulo ,Milan

    1969     

    Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo

  • Group Exhibition

     

    2006    

    Public Art Gallery NOVITA, Aomori

    Memorial for Yoshiaki Tono, Gallery TOM, Tokyo

    2005    

    MONO-HA: Reconsideration, The National Museum of Art, Osaka

    2004    

    Kim Tschang-Yeul, Sekine Nobuo& Susumu Sakaguchi, Gallery Bijutsu Sekai, Tokyo

    2003    

    The 20th Anniversary of Gallery Q, Tokyo

    2002    

    Sculpture Project, Busan Biennale, Korea

    Memorial for Yoshishige Saito Kawamura Gakuen Art Hall, Tokyo

    2001    

    MONO-HA, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo

    Prefectural Museum of Modern Art   Niigata, Japan

    Century, Tate Modern Art Gallery, London

    2000    

    Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea

    1998    

    Lumieves-Light-Rediscovery of Stained Glass, TN Probe, Tokyo

    1997    

    Modern Art from a Collector’s View Point, Yamamura Collection

    Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art Kobe, Japan

    Street Museum, Kawagoe, Japan

    1996    

    Inside and the Outside of Art, Itabashi Art Museum ,Tokyo

    1970-Material and Perception- MONO-HA and Artists Who Ask Root

    Saint Ratienu Museum, France

    1995   

    1970-Material and Perception- MONO-HA and Artists Who Ask Root<Cross Country>

    Archeology of Phase-Mother Earth, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan

    Design of Japan in Postwar Days <Cross Country>

    1994    

    Landscape of Stone, Cockyard Garden Yokohama

    MONO-HA, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo

    Different Natures, La Virreina, Barcelona

    Postwar Avant -Garde Art in Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art

    Guggenheim Museum, New York, San Francisco

    ASIANA Contemporary Art from the Fast East, Parazzo ,Italy

    1993    

    Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto

    Konishi Art Gallery, Kyoto

    Avant Garde Art in 1970’s Japan “From Resistance to Internal Conflict, Setagaya Art Museum Tokyo

    OOMITSU Collection, Niigata City Art Museum

    1991    

    Gallery Gen-Group Show, Tokyo

    MONO-HA, Kamakura Gallery

    1990    

    Yokohama Business-Park, Yokohama

    1989    

    Japanese Open Air Sculptures   Middlheim Museum, Antwerp

    1988    

    MONO-HA, Rome University Annex Museum of Art, Rome

    1987    

    MONO-HA and Post MONO-HA, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo

    1986    

    Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo

    Lee U-fan Nobuo Sekine, Kishio Suga: The Method of Our 70’s SOH Gallery, Tokyo

    Avant Garde Japanese Art, Pompidou Center, paris

    1984    

    Human Documents 84/85 Tokyo Gallery

    Art of Present Time Wood and Paper- Dialogue with Nature, Pref. Museum Gifu

    Development of Contemporary Sculpture, Gallery Seiho, Tokyo

    1983    

    Figure of Wood and Esprit, Pref. Museum Saitama

    1982    

    Turning Point of Contemporary Art of 1960’s, National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo

    Visual Circus<Cross Country>

    1981    

    Turning Point of Contemporary Art of 1960’s, National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo

    Modern Japanese Sculpture, Modern Art Museum of Prefecture, Kanagawa

    Japanese Contemporary Art, Seoul

    1980    

    History of Contemporary Sculpture, Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery

    1977    

    Japan Art Festival, Tokyo

    Voices in the Modern Age <Cross Country>

    1976    

    International Biennale Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo

    1975    

    Contemporary Art Exhibition from 1950 to 1975, Tokyo Central Museum

    Two- Man Show(with Kuniichi Sima)<Cross Country 7500Km>

    1974    

    Two- Man Show, Gallery Coco, Kyoto

    Tokyo Biennale, Tokyo

    Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition of 20 Artists, Tokyo Central Museum

    Japan Art Exhibition, Germany, North Europe

    Contemporary Sculpture Symposium, Tochigi-Museum

    1973    

    Japan Art Festival, Tokyo

    11th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan  Tokyo

    1971    

    10th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo

    1970    

    EXPO 70 Art Exhibition Osaka

    35th Vbezia Biennale

    Human Documents 1970  Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo

    1969    

    6th Paris Biennale Paris

    9th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan Tokyo

    1st International Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition Hakone Open Art Museum Tokyo

    The 9 Visual Points Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo

    Tricks and Vision Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo

    Trend of Japanese Contemporary Art National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

    Japanese Artist Drawing   Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo

    1968    

    OOX Plan Muramatsu Gallery Tokyo

    8th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan Tokyo

    Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition Suma Palace Park, Kobe, Japan

    5th Exhibition Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan

    1967    

    Two-man show Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo

    11th Shell Art Exhibition Tokyo

    OOOPlan Muramatsu Gallery,Tokyo

    Universiad Tokyo

  • Awards

     

    1969     

    Prize Group Work at 6th Paris Biennale, Paris

    Concour Prize at 1st International Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Hakone, Japan

    1968    

    Concour Prize at 8th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo

    Asahi Newspaper Prize at Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Suma Palace Park ,Kobe

    First Prize at 5th Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagaoka ,Japan

    1967    

    Commendatory Prize at 11th Shell Art Exhibition, Tokyo