Michio Fukuoka (1936-) is one of the representative Japanese sculptors based in Osaka.
Fukuoka started his career in the late 50’s. From the earliest of his career, his anti-art works to raise keen questions to the conventional art system have got great attention, including his participation in “Room in Alibi,” a signature exhibition curated by Yusuke NAKAHARA (1931‐2011,) one of the most contributing contemporary art critics in Japan.
In recent years, the artist’s invited participation in Yokohama Triennale (2014) and a huge retrospective exhibition held at National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka (2017) has activated the trend of reevaluation of his whole work.
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1936
Born in Osaka. Lives his childhood in Beijing.
1955
Graduates from Sakai Municipal Technical High School, Department of Architecture.
1955
Enters Osaka Municipal Art Research Institute, Department of Architecture.
1977
Awarded 8th Teijiro Nakahara Prize, Grand Prize
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
'Michio FUKUOKA Exhibition "Let's Smile"', Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe
2018
'Michio FUKUOKA Exhibition "From the Scene of Black Color"', Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe
2017
'A Sculptor Who No Longer Sculpts’, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2016
‘Words and Characters’, Gallery Hosokawa, Osaka
2013
'My Face', Gallery Hosokawa, Osaka
2008
'Kizashi -Michio Fukuoka From 1970's-1980's', Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka
2008
'Michio Fukuoka: Expression of Water' The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga
2005
'Laughing Warm, Angry Warm', Art Space Niji, Kyoto
2005
'Rotten Balls', Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
'Back to 1972' Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo, Japan
2022
‘Rewinding the MOT Collection Collection 2nd’ , Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
2022
‘Collection 2: Our Life’, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2019
'Art Basel Hong Kong', Gallery Yamaki Fine Art booth, Hong Kong
2014
'Yokohama Triennale 2014', Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
2013
‘Tamamono’, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
2012
'The Link between Words and Art: An Homage to Nakahara Yusuke', Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe