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Tetsumi Kudo

The Estate of Tetsumi Kudo

Biography

Born

Osaka, Japan, 1935

Education

Studied at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan, 1954 – 1958

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024

Hauser & Wirth, 'Tetsumi Kudo', Hong Kong, May 31 to August 31

2021

Hauser & Wirth, 'Tetsumi Kudo. Metamorphosis', New York NY, USA, May 5 to July 30

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Moderna Museet Malmö, 'On the Absurd Drama that is also Life', Malmö, Sweden, October 26 to February 23, 2025

The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 'Absolute Chairs', Saitama, Japan, February 17 to May 12 

2023

Mori Art Museum, 'Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living' [Mori Art Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition], Tokyo, Japan, October 18 to March 31, 2024 

Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 'Yayoi Kusama. The Dutch Years 1965-1970', Schiedam, The Netherlands, September 23 to February 25, 2024

Awards and Grants

1987

Named professor at the National School of Fine Arts, Tokyo

1978

Grand Prize, 'X Festival International de peinture', Cagnes-sur-Mer, France

Happenings, Ceremonies, Performances, Lectures and Films

1988

Performance: Soul of an Artist, October 4

Art Forum Yanaka, 'Tetsumi Kudo: Regarding This Works', Tokyo, Japan, October 4 to 30

1987

Symposium: Tamon Miki, Kojin Kudo, Tetsumi Kudo, Yasuo Taguchi, Toshiro Mineta, November 3

Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, 'The State of Contemporary Art in Tohoku II', Fukushima, Japan, October 17 to November 23

Public and Special Projects

1970

WDR Westdeutsches Fernsehen, Set design for "La Vase" by Eugène Ionesco, Germany

1969

Realizes a relief sculpture, 'Monument of Metamorphosis' on the rock face of Mt. Nokogiri, Chiba, Japan

Bibliography

Monographs

2020

Rydal Jørgensen, Lærke, Colstrup, Tine (eds.), 'Tetsumi Kudo. Cultivation', Humlebaek: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2020, ill. (exh. cat.)

2013

Shima, Atsuhiko (ed.), 'Your Portrait. A Tetsumi Kudo Retrospective', Osaka: The National Museum of Art, 2013, ill. (exh. cat.)

Selected Publications

2023

Reiko, Tsubaki (ed.), 'Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living', Tokyo: Mori Art Museum, 2023, p. 104-105, ill. (exh. cat.)

2022

Dander, Patrizia (ed.), 'Future Bodies from a Recent Past—Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s', Munich: Museum Brandhorst, 2022, pp. 89-93, 231-232, ill. (exh. cat.)

Press

2024

Sam, Sherman, 'Tetsumi Kudo. Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong' [review], in: Artforum, November 2024, pp. 152-153, ill.
Yang, Wan-Ju, 'Seeing the dark corners of the future, "Tetsumi Kudo: The Cage" creates a new ecosystem of doomsday', on: artouch.com, 13 August 2024, ill.
Alvarez-Chow, Camilla, 'Tetsumi Kudo’s “Cages”', on: artasiapacific.com, 2 August 2024, ill.
Tsui, Enid, 'Tetsumi Kudo's caged phallus sculptures at Hauser + Wirth Hong Kong draw pity from women', on: scmp.com, 14 June 2024, ill.
___, 'Post-war artists reflect on the "struggle between inside and outside" Kudo Tetsumi observes the morbid world in a cage', on: news.mingpao.com, 5 July 2024, ill.
Huang, Cathy, 'Must-see exhibitions in Hong Kong in June: cage works by postwar Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo; the National Palace Museum presents treasures from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, exploring a century of French fashion history…', on: tatlerasia.com, 30 May 2024, ill.
___, 'Observations from the Cage: Tetsumi Kudo's Premier Exhibition in Hong Kong', on: hkartion.com, 16 July 2024, ill.
___, 'Exploring the Intersection of Nature, Technology, and Humanity: Tetsumi Kudo’s First Solo Exhibition in Greater China – Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong', on: martincid.com, 12 April 2024, ill.

2022

Chow, Vivienne, 'The Venice Biennale’s Main Exhibition Will Challenge the Idea of "Men as the Center of the Universe"—See the Full Artist List Here', on: news.artnet.com, 2 February 2022

___, 'Venice Biennale Reveals Artists for 2022 Edition', on: artforum.com, 2 February 2022