Kazuyo Kinoshita is one of the artists representative of Japanese Cotemporary Art in Kansai regeion. From 1973 to 1980, she applied a sort of electric reproduction technology called “Xerography” (blueprint.) In order to accomplish the works, the artist took pictures of papery objects which had been drawn, folded or warped by herself, and then depicted planar image of the same line or circle with the image in the objects on photographs, requestioning the existence of human’s consciousness. In her oil paintings in later years, she daub with and wipe off the pigment many times over, manifesting as well as denying the actions of herself. These two aspects, inconsistent in form, delineate the path of her thinking about human existence throughout her life.
Works
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TitleBoundary Thinking D S-12DSize91 x 116.5cmYear1970Mediumoil on canvas -
TitleBoundary Thinking B S-14B 65-BSize91 x 116.5cmMediumoil on canvas -
TitleUntitledSize96.5 x 58.6cmYear1975Mediumsilk-screen and colorfelt-pen on photopraph -
Title‘77-KSize71.6 x 102cmYear1977Mediumcolor felt-pen on photograph -
Title'77-LSize71.6 x 102cmYear1977 -
Title‘77-WSize71.6 x 102cmYear1977Mediumcolor felt-pen on photograph -
Title‘77-XSize71.6 x 102cmYear1977Mediumcolor felt-pen on photograph -
Title‘78-4Size69.3 x 96cmYear1978Mediumcolor felt-pen on photograph -
Title'86-CA371Size42.5 x 33.3cmYear1986Mediumoil on canvas -
Title'87-CA390Size146 x 112cmMediumoil on canvas -
Title'92-CA685Size163.7 x 131.7cmYear1992Mediumoil on canvas -
TitleLA-CA713Size146 x 112cmYear1992Mediumoil on canvas -
Title'93-CA790Size145.5 x 112cmYear1993Mediumoil on canvas
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TitleBoundary Thinking D S-12DSize91 x 116.5cmYear1970Mediumoil on canvas
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TitleBoundary Thinking B S-14B 65-BSize91 x 116.5cmMediumoil on canvas
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TitleUntitledSize96.5 x 58.6cmYear1975Mediumsilk-screen and colorfelt-pen on photopraph
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Title‘77-KSize71.6 x 102cmYear1977Mediumcolor felt-pen on photograph
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Title'77-LSize71.6 x 102cmYear1977
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Title‘77-WSize71.6 x 102cmYear1977Mediumcolor felt-pen on photograph
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Title‘77-XSize71.6 x 102cmYear1977Mediumcolor felt-pen on photograph
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Title‘78-4Size69.3 x 96cmYear1978Mediumcolor felt-pen on photograph
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Title'86-CA371Size42.5 x 33.3cmYear1986Mediumoil on canvas
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Title'87-CA390Size146 x 112cmMediumoil on canvas
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Title'92-CA685Size163.7 x 131.7cmYear1992Mediumoil on canvas
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TitleLA-CA713Size146 x 112cmYear1992Mediumoil on canvas
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Title'93-CA790Size145.5 x 112cmYear1993Mediumoil on canvas
CV
1939
Born in Kobe, Japan
1962
Graduates from Kyoto City University of Fine Arts
1990
Diagnosed with breast cancer
1994
Died in Kobe
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1966
First solo exhibition at Wiener Gallery, Kobe
1972
Kazuyo Kinoshita, galerie16, Kyoto
1974
Kazuyo Kinoshita, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1981
Kazuyo Kinoshita: 1976-1980, Heidelberger Kunstverein, West Germany
1991
Kazuyo Kinoshita : Reality and Recognition...And to another reality, galerie16,Kyoto
2016
Kazuyo Kinoshita: From "Message for Existence" to "Creation of Existence Itself", Gallery Shimada, Kobe
2017
Kazuyo KINOSHITA ”Another Existence" Gallery Yamaki Fine Art , Kobe
Selected Group Exhibitions
1963
Kyoto Independents Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Fine Arts, Kyoto（-1985）
1977
13th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
1983
Photography in Contemporary Art -Featuring Art from the 70's-. ,The National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo/The National Museum of Modern Art,Kyoto
1984
International Experimental Art Exhibition ,Petofi Osarnok,Budapest, Hungary
1989
Das Foto als autonomes Bild Experimentelle Gestaltung 1839-1989, Bielefeld, Munich, West Germany
1997
The recommendation of “I" art – Why “WATAKUSHI" was drawn, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
2015
For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968 – 1979, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, travelled to Japan Society, New York and Grey Art Gallery, New York University, U.S.A.
Awards
1977
Awarded the prize of Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art at 13th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo Japan
