Zhang Hongtu at The Mariana Kistler Beach Museum of Art

   

Zhang Hongtu’s works were shown at his solo exhibition, Culture Mixmaster Zhang Hongtu, at The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University: September 25 –  December 22, 2018.

 

Press Release at the Beach Museum of Art.

 

Internationally acclaimed artist Zhang Hongtu has called many different places home and experienced life as an outsider at different times. Hegrew up in China as a member of the Muslim minority and because of his religious and political backgrounds, suffered persecution during the regime of Chinese Communist Party founder Mao Zedong. In 1982, he moved to New York City to study art and start a new life. This large exhibition, the first solo show of the artist in the Midwest, brings together early and up-to-the-minute recent works highlighting the artist’s endeavors in expressing his hybrid cultural roots.

 

Zhang’s travels around China as a young artist, most especially his study trip to Dunhuang in the western province of Gansu, proved seminal to his development. Dunhuang was an important stop along the network of trade routes known as the Silk Road, which connected Europe and Africa to the Middle East and Asia. Through the Silk Road, Buddhism traveled from India to China, resulting in the establishment of Buddhist cave temples around Dunhuang between the fourth and fourteenth centuries. The cave temples featured painting styles different from what Zhang had learned in art school and showed signs of the mural artists’ awareness of European painting.Works on display at “Culture Mixmaster” demonstrate Zhang’s lifelong interest in the cycle of travel, immigration, transmission of ideas, and cultural cross-pollination. Included are an oil painting applying the signature style of Vincent van Gogh to a landscape scene from a famous Chinese ink painting, and a ping-pong table that requires players to avoid letting the ball fall through cut-outs in the shape of the head of Chairman Mao.

 

Major support for this exhibition is provided by a grant from the Greater Manhattan Community Foundation’s Lincoln & Dorothy I. Deihl Community Grant Program, with additional sponsorship by Anderson Bed & Breakfast and Terry and Tara Cupps.

 

Source: https://beach.k-state.edu/explore/exhibitions/culture-mixmaster.html

Culture Mixmaster Zhang Hongtu

The Mariana Kistler Beach Museum of Art

Kansas State University

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“My recent paintings were made during a pandemic. Making them was a daily meditative practice. It was like keeping a journal. French philosopher Roland Barthes draws an analogy between text and textiles (“text” comes from the Latin texere, to weave). Through a repetition of mark-making, my paintings appear woven. They are not painted to look like textile. Their appearance is a byproduct of the painting process. The completed painting is a record of my experience making it. The eye follows “threads” of paint, their accumulation creating a larger whole. My new work is paradoxical: slow yet fast, precise yet open, deliberate yet intuitive. I am freer for having made them.”

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“Art and China After 1989, Theater of the World”
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Baahng Gallery celebrates its 2020 reopening with More Than One Way Home, an exhibition featuring the gallery’s represented artists: Sophie Matisse, Janet Taylor Pickett, and Zhang Hongtu. The exhibition offers a glimpse into the struggles of the artists and their coming to terms with their individual challenges. Sophie, the great-granddaughter of Henri Matisse and step-granddaughter of Marcel Duchamp, is an American oil painter working in New York City; Janet is an African American multi-media artist working on the West Coast; Hongtu is a Muslim Chinese artist who has been working in New York since 1982. The exhibition acknowledges and affirms that home, for these artists, is not situated in nostalgia. Rather, through a cyclical process of revisitation, they find home in both the present and future potential. More Than One Way Home follows a journey through each artist’s rite of passage in life and is a compelling visualization of distinct, individual expressive forms. Baahng Gallery is open Monday thru Friday, noon to 3pm, and by appointment.



Selected works from Sophie Matisse’s ‘Be Back in Five Minutes’ series are strategically installed in the gallery. Returning to renowned paintings by Gustave Courbet, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Charles Wilson Peale through her unique lens, she appropriates and embellishes upon, or subtracts from, recognizable works from art history. The interplay between absence and presence in these haunting paintings is evocative. Featured as well is her most recent painting, ‘Homeward 1’. In this contemplative autobiographical tondo completed during the pandemic quarantine, the artist positions an errant chess piece peering out over a window ledge into the hazy verdant void, invoking solitude and the uncertain but hopeful future ahead.


‘Mappings of Memory’, a survey showcasing Janet Taylor Picket’s works, introduces selected paintings, collages, sculptures, and quilts from the 1990s through 2020. Her experiential work chronicles her journey as an African American woman, daughter, mother, and artist. Images drawn from art history, Africa, America and Europe, past and present, coexist in her often-ornate collages and paintings, defying linear timeframes and logical geographic or cultural relationships. The inclusion of the shipping crates in which the works were transported to the gallery adds a poignant historical dimension to the installation, referencing both her personal odyssey and that of her ancestors. The suggestive titles of the works on view reflect her creative vision: ‘Spirit Catchers', ‘Hot House', 'Melon Dress’, 'Exotica Botanica’, ‘Thoughtful Resilience’, and ‘She Has An Agency,’ the latter produced in 2020. These works constitute the artist’s confessional narrative circling back with newly found wisdom in life as well as in art. More Than One Way Home inaugurates Pickett’s representation with Baahng Gallery and presents her first New York exhibition.


Zhang Hongtu’s video, ‘Van Gogh/Bodhidharma’, is the centerpiece of his installation. This mesmerizing video production builds on his seven-year project (2007 – 2014), a set of 39 ink paintings that rework Van Gogh’s 39 extant self-portrait oil paintings in the style of classical Zen portraits of Bodhidharma. Revealed in both this video and the original endeavor upon which it was based are parallels in the lives and aesthetics of Zhang and Van Gogh. The artist compels viewers in both iterations of this project to reconsider Van Gogh’s fascination with Asian aesthetics, registering a more philosophical connection and inner resonance between the European post-impressionist artist and the East. Reflecting upon this project, Zhang expresses his approach as one that ‘dares to mate a horse with an ox’. Framing the video are wall texts quoting provocative passages from Van Gogh’s letters to his brother Theo and to Paul Gauguin. More Than One Way Home marks the launch of Zhang’s visionary ‘Van Gogh/Bodhidharma Project’—a quixotic effort to unite his ink paintings with the original painted portraits—and announces his official gallery representation with Baahng Gallery.

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SECRET GARDEN

SECRET GARDEN

Sophie Matisse
May 15 - June 30, 2021
SOPHIE MATISSE

MORE THAN ONE WAY HOME

Sophie Matisse
Janet Taylor Pickett
Zhang Hongtu
October 10 - November 24, 2020
SophieMatisse at the Art Newspaper

Sophie Matisse was interviewed by BBC TWO on “Becoming Matisse”

Broadcasted on Saturday, April 25, 2020, 9:15pm - 10:15pm.
Sophie Matisse, Nighthawks

SOPHIE MATISSE

Be Back in 5
April - June, 2020
Zhang Hongtu at Museo Picasso Málaga 

Zhang Hongtu at Museo Picasso Málaga 

October 3, 2023 - March 31, 2024
Madison Ave New York Picasso, Welcome to America June 15 – July 31, 2023

PICASSO, WELCOME TO AMERICA

June 15 – Sept 27, 2023
Pitches & Scripts

PITCHES & SCRIPTS

Group Exhibition
January 20 - March 11, 2023
(DE)CONSTRUCTING IDEOLOGY: THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION AND BEYOND November 13, 2022 to March 12, 2023

Zhang Hongtu lectures and exhibits at the Wende Museum

November 13, 2022 - March 12, 2023
TANGO | Summer Exhibition | July 13 - August 17, 2022

TANGO

Summer Exhibition
July 13 - August 17, 2022
Zhang Hongtu

VAN GOGH / BODHIDHARMA

Zhang Hongtu
March 25 - April 27, 2022
LOVE DIFFERENCE

LOVE DIFFERENCE

Eric Brown, Janet Taylor Pickett, Zhang Hongtu
May 15 - June 15, 2021

ZHANG HONGTU

Zhang Hongtu

ZHANG HONGTU

Zhang Hongtu was born in Pingliang, China, moved to New York City in 1982. He works in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, collage, ceramics, digital imaging, and installations. From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, Zhang created paintings, sculpture and mixed media installations using the image of Mao Zedong to express his ideas about Communist China and the Culture Revolution (1966-1976). In the past decade, his works began to question the complex relationships between the traditions of old China and the West today, as seen in his large-format Shan Shui paintings, among other works. More recently, his works have focused on the relationship between nature and the human condition.

 

Zhang has exhibited extensively across the U.S. and abroad. Recent shows include Princeton University Art Museum; Museu Picasso in Barcelona, Spain; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, Guggenheim Museum New York and a retrospective at Queens Museum in New York.

 

Education           

1982-1986         Art Students League, New York, NY, USA

1964-1969         Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, Beijing, China

1960-1964         High School Attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

2018 Culture Mixmaster Zhang Hongtu, The Mariana Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

2015 Zhang Hongtu, Queens Museum, New York, USA

The Journey Begins: Zhang Hongtu 1985‐2004, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2013 On the Road — Zhang Hongtu’s Artistic Journey, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2011 Zhang Hongtu: Shan Shui Today, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2007 Zhang Hongtu Recent Paintings, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2006 Four Seasons: Earth Above and Heaven Below, Lehigh University, PA, USA

2005 Recent Paintings by Zhang Hongtu, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York City, USA

2004 Zhang Hongtu: Selected Works — Visiting Artist Program at Marlboro College, William Holland & Drury Jr. Gallery, Marlboro College, VT, USA

Zhang Hongtu: Dialogue with the Taipei Palace Museum, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2003 Icon & Innovations: The Cross-Cultural Art of Zhang Hongtu, The Gibson Gallery, State University of New York at Potsdam, New York City, USA

2000 New Paintings, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York City, USA

1999 Repaint Chinese Shan Shui Painting, Yale-China Association, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

1998 Zhang Hongtu, New Works, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York City, USA

1996 Reflections Abroad: the Journey of Zhang Hongtu 1982-1996, Anthony Giordano Gallery, Oakdale, NY, USA

Soy Sauce, Lipstick, Charcoal, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

Chairmen Mao, Groton School, Groton, MA, USA

1995 Zhang Hongtu: Material Mao, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York City, USA

1993 Material Mao, Gallery 456, Chinese American Arts Council, New York City, USA

1992 The Angel’s Ghost, Webster Hall, New York City, USA

1985 In the Spirit of Dunhuang, Adams House, Harvard University, MA, USA

1984 In the Spirit of Dunhuang, Asian Arts Institute, New York City, USA

Zhang Hongtu — Recent New York Works, Hammerquist Gallery, New York City, USA

2018 Nobuo Sekine, Zhang Hongtu: Two Rocks, Baahng Gallery, New York, NY

2017 Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA

Self-Reimagined, Visual Arts Gallery, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, USA

Embrace or Rebel? Traditional Asian Art Techniques in Contemporary Practice, 

Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College at Old Westbury, NY, USA

2016 A Brief History of Humankind, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany

2015 China: Through the Looking Glass, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA

After Picasso: 80 Contemporary Artists, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Wild Noise: Artwork from the Bronx Museum, El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

A Brief History of Humankind, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Picasso in Contemporary Art, The Hall for Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

2014 Oil and Water: Reinterpreting Ink, Museum of Chinese in America, New York City, USA

Post-Picasso: Contemporary Reactions, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain

2013 Inspired by Dunhuang: Re-Creation in Contemporary Chinese Art, China Institute, New York City, USA

Abu Dhabi Art 2013, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2012 Abu Dhabi Art 2012, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2011 ShContemporary, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China

TINA KENG GALLERY BEIJING, Tina Keng Gallery, Beijing, China

East Meets West, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, WI, USA

2010 Urban Archives: Happy Together, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York City, USA

East/West: Visual Speaking, Paul and Hillard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, USA

2009 Here & Now: Chapter II Crossing Boundaries, Museum of Chinese in America, New York City

R/evolution, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

Tear down this Wall, National Art Club, New York City, USA

Mythologies of Contemporary Art by Three Artists: Yang Mao-Lin, Zhang Hongtu and Tu Wei-Cheng, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Outside In: Chinese + American + Contemporary + Art, Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, NJ, USA

Art, Archive, and Activism: Martin Wong’s Downtown Crossing, 7th Floor Gallery, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University, New York City, USA

2008 Reason’s Clue, Lin & Keng Gallery, Beijing; Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, USA

  Back to the Garden: Daily Life to Spiritual Vision, Crossing Art Gallery, Queens, NY, USA

   New Year Exhibition Opening Ceremony – Space B, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2007 Grand Opening Exhibition, Lin & Keng Gallery, Beijing, China

  Made in China, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

2006 On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA; Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN, USA

  Dragon Veins, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, FL, USA

   Travelers Between Cultures, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, USA

  Antiquity Modernity: Breaking Traditions, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, USA

New Chinese Occidentalism, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, USA

2005 The Way to China is the Way to America, Ji Dachun/Zhang Hongtu, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York City, USA

   Trading Place, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

On the Edge, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, CA, USA

2004 Reinventing Tradition in a New World: The Arts of Gu Wenda, Wang Mansheng, Xu Bing, and Zhang Hongtu, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg, PA, USA

Out of Time, Out of Place, Out of China: Reinventing Chinese Tradition in a New Century, University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2003 BQE, White Box, New York City, USA

A Brush With History: Contemporary Artists and Chinese Tradition,Newark Museum, NJ, USA

  Shuffling the Deck: The Collection Reconsidered, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, USA

2002 Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China

All Access, CPC Gallery, New York City, USA

   Paris-Pékin, Espace Cardin, Paris, France

AJITA-Unconquerable, the Station, Houston, TX, USA

   ConversASIAN, National Gallery, Cayman Islands

   In Memory, the Art of Afterward, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, New York City, USA

   Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, USA

2001 Cross+Overs, Market Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

   Unknow-Infinity, Taipei Gallery, New York City, USA

   China Without Borders, Sotheby’s Gallery, New York City, USA

2000 Lineage, d.u.m.b.o. Arts Center, New York City, USA

  Crossing the Line, CSPS, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA

   Word and Meaning, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA

   Conceptual Ink, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, USA

1999 TRANSIENCE, Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, IL; University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR; the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

1998 Global Roots: Chinese Artists Working in New York, Purdue University, IN, USA

   Kunming, New York, Montréal, OBSERVATOIRE 4, Quebec, Canada

1997 Kimchi Xtravaganza!, Korean American Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1996 Icons of Power, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York City, USA

1995 Body Language, Jamaica Arts Center, NY, USA

   Other Choices/Other Voices, Islip Museum, Long Island, NY, USA

Between East and West, The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT, USA

1994 Small World-Small Works, Galerie + Edition Caoc, Berlin, Germany

The Fifth Biennial of Havana, Havana, Cuba

Ad-Vance, Pfizer Corp. N.Y., curated by the Museum of Modern Art, NY, USA

   Beyond the Borders: Art by Recent Immigrants, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY, USA

  China June 4th 1989, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI, USA

1993 Teddy Bear, Potato, Lipstick and Mao, Art in General, New York City, USA

Word!, Jamaica Arts Center, NY, USA

Reflections for Peace, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX, USA

   The Curio Shop, Artists Space, New York City, USA

1992 Four Artists from China, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, USA

   China June 4th 1989, Cleveland Institute of Art, OH, USA

China June 4th 1989, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX, USA

1991 From ‘Star Star’ to Avant Garde-Nine Artists from China, Asian American Art Center, New York City, USA

   Changing Cultures, Hamilton College and Baruch College, New York City, USA

   Dismantling Invisibility, Art in General, New York City, USA

   Syncretism, Alternative Museum, New York City, USA

1990 Selection, Artists Space, New York City, USA

  Harvest 2001, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, NJ, USA

   The Decade Show (with the Epoxy Group), New Museum, New York, NY, USA

   China June 4th 1989, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York City, USA

1989 China June 4th 1989, Blum Helman Warehouse, NY, USA

   Uptown/Downtown, City Gallery, New York City, USA

Fusion Art, Ludwig Museum, Köln, Germany

1988 Thirty-Six Tactics, Alternative Museum, New York City, USA

   Eight Artists from China, The Palladium, New York City, USA

1987 Epoxy Slide Exhibition, Red Dot Outdoor Theater, New York City, USA

   Artists from China — New Expressions, Sarah Lawrence College, NY, USA

1986 Roots to Reality II, Henry Street Settlement, New York City, USA

1985 Roots to Reality I, Henry Street Settlement, New York City, USA

1984 The New Generation, Hammerquist Gallery, New York City, USA

1983 Eye to Eye, Asian Arts Institute, New York City, USA

Kaminokawa Modern Art Exhibition, Yokohama, Japan

   Painting the Chinese Dream, Brooklyn Museum, NY and City Hall, Boston, MA, USA

1982 Faces of China, American International College, Springfield, MA, USA

1980 Contemporary Artists, Beijing, China

Books

Lee and Silbergeld, ZHANG HONGTU, Expanding Visions of Shrinking World

DUKE University Press and Queens Museum

Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts. On the Road: Zhang Hongtu’s Artistic Journey. Kaohsiung: Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, 2013.

The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures: Chan Master Kuo-an Shih-yuan, Song Dynasty, Reproduced by Zhang Hongtu. Taipei: TKG Foundation for Arts & Culture, 2014.

Zhang, Hongtu, and Jerome Silbergeld. Zhang Hongtu: An On-going Painting Project. New York: On-going Publications, 2000.

Zhang Hongtu: The Art Of Straddling Boundaries. Taipei: Lin & Keng Gallery, Inc., 2007.

 

Chapters or Sections of Books

Andrews, Julia F., and Kuiyi Shen. “No U-turn: Chinese Art after 1989.” In The Art Of Modern China, 257–77. Los Angeles: The Regent of the University of California, 2012.

Barmé, Geremie R. Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader, 46, 215. New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1996.

Barmé, Geremie R., and Linda Jaivin. Introduction to New Ghosts, Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices, xxvi. New York: Times Books, 1992.

Callahan, William A. “Gender, Democracy and Representation: Asian Revolutionary Images.” In Gendering the International, edited by Louiza Odysseos and Hakan Seckinelgin, 167–68. New York: Millennium, 2002.

Clarke, David. “Reframing Mao: Aspects of Recent Chinese Art, Popular Culture and Politics.” In Art & Place: Essays on Art from a Hong Kong Perspective, 236–49. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1996.

Chang, Alexandra. “Once More: Is There An Asian American Aesthetic?” In Envisioning Diaspora: Asian American Visual Arts Collectives, 98–109. Beijing: Timezone 8 Limited, 2009.

Chang, Arnold. “From Fengshui to Fractals: A User’s Guide to Chinese Landscape Painting.” In ARTiculations: Undefining Chinese Contemporary Art, 33–61. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2010.

Chiu, Melissa. “An Expanded Chinese Art History: Internationalization of the Chinese Art World.” In Asian Art History: In the Twenty-First Century, edited by Vishakha N. Desai, 224. Williamstown: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.

———. “Theories of Being Outside.” In Breakout: Chinese Art Outside China, 8, 18, 39–72, 113, 212. Milan: Charta, 2006.

Clarke, David. “Revolutions in Vision: Chinese Art and the Experience of Modernity.” In The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture, 292–94. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Cohen, Joan Lebold. “Groups: Contemporaries.” In The New Chinese Painting: 1949–1986, 77. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987.

Delue, Rachael Z. “Neither Here Nor There: China, Global Culture, and the End of American Art.” In ARTiculations: Undefining Chinese Contemporary Art, 257. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2010.

Dutton, Michael. Streetlife China, 162–63, 172, 174, 241, 262–65. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Hallmark, Kara Kelly. “Zhang Hongtu.” In Encyclopedia of Asian American Artists: Artists of the American Mosaic, 261–65. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2007.

Hay, Jonathan. “Zhang Hongtu / Hongtu Zhang: An Interview.” In Boundaries in China, 280–98. London: Reaktion Books, 1994.

He, Xin. “Wheels: What’s New?” In New Ghosts, Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices, 409. New York: Times Books, 1992.

Huot, Claire. “China’s Avant-Garde Art: Differences in the Family.” In China’s New Cultural Scene: A Handbook of Changes, 126–41. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.

Kwon, Sowon. “Potatoes, Teddy Bears, Lipsticks, and Mao.” In Art in General Manual 1993–1994. New York: Art In General, Inc., 1994.

Lao, She. “Wheels: A Big Confucius and Little Emiles.” In New Ghosts, Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices, 404. New York: Times Books, 1992.

Lim, Michelle. “Cultural Iconography as Style.” In Outside In: Chinese x American x Contemporary Art, 270–81. New Jersey: Princeton University Art Museum, 2009.

Lin, Xiaoping. “Globalism or Nationalism?” In Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-Garde Art and Independent Cinema, 72. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2009.

———. “Globalism or Nationalism?” In Global Visual Cultures: An Anthology, 9–26. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Liu, Changhan. The Chinese Overseas Art Icons of The 100 Years, 150–51. Taipei: Artist Publication, 2000.

Liu, Xiaobo. “Wheels: On Solitude.” In New Ghosts, Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices, 384. New York: Times Books, 1992. 

McCausland, Shane. Introduction and Epilogue in Zhao Mengfu: Calligraphy and Painting for Khubilai’s China, 3, 333–37. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011.

Mittler, Barbara. “Mao Wherever You Go: The Art of Repetition in Revolutionary China.” In A Continuous Revolution: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture, 298, 299, 300–1, 311, 326–27, 306, 315. London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2012.

Ngai, Jimmy S. Y., “The Cry: Tiananmen Days.” In New Ghosts, Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices, 76, 93. New York: Times Books, 1992.

Purtle, Jennifer. “Whose Hobbyhorse?: Loading the Deck.” In Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History, 5–8. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010.

Schell, Orville. Mandate of Heaven: A New Generation of Entrepreneurs, Dissidents, Bohemians, and Technocrats Lays Claim to China’s Future, 290–91. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Silbergeld, Jerome. “An Outsider’s Outsider Comes In.” In Outside In: Chinese x American x Contemporary Art, 257–69. New Jersey: Princeton University Art Museum, 2009.

———. “Facades: The New Beijing and Unsettled Ecology of Jia Zhangke’s The World.” In Chinese Ecocinema: In the Age of Environmental Challenge, edited by Sheldon H. Lu and Jiayan Mi, 122. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009.

———. “The Space Between: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Contemporary Chinese Art.” In Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art: Cultural and Philosophical, edited by Hsingyuan Tsao and Roger T. Ames, 177–98. New York: State University of New York Press, 2011.

Sullivan, Michael. Art and Artists of Twentieth Century China, 232, 271. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996.

Tam, Vivienne. “MAO ART: Interview with Zhang Hongtu.” In China Chic, 92–4. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.

Tu, Thuy Linh Nguyen. “Material Mao: Fashion Histories Out of Icons.” In The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion, 145–48, 156–64. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.

Valjakka, Minna. “Parodying Mao: Earliest Existing Caricatures of Mao.” In Many Faces of Mao Zedong, 170. Helsinki: University of Helsinki, 2011.

Vine, Richard. “The Scene Now: Chapter 6.” In New China New Art, 198, 199, 206. New York: Prestel, 2008.

Yang, Alice. “Review: A Group Show: We Are the Universe.” In Why Asia?: Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art, 62. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Zhang, Hongtu. “Blurring the Boundary Between Yesterday and Today, for Tomorrow. In ARTiculations: Undefining Chinese Contemporary Art, edited by Jerome Silbergeld and Dora C. Y. Ching, 212–31. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2010.

———. “Live to Tell: I Don’t Want to Do Anything Pure.” In Transculturalism: How the World Is Coming Together, edited by Claude Grunitzky with Trace Magazine Contributors, 236–37. New York: True Agency, 2004.

 

Journal Articles 

ART/LIFE Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Boston-Downtown 241. Ventura: ARTLIFE, 2002.

“The Black Hole Art of Zhang Hongtu.” Postcolonial Studies 2, no. 2 (1999): 121, 165–69.

Bordeleau, Erik. “Le Political Pop: Un Art Profanatoire?” Etc.: Revue de l’Art Actuel 91 (2010–11): 21–25.

Boucher, Madeleine. “Beyond Pop: Imagery and Appropriation in Contemporary Chinese Art.” Columbia East Asia Review vol. 2 (2009): 37–55.

Callahan, William A. “Vision of Gender and Democracy: Revolutionary Photo Albums in Asia.” Journal of International Studies, vol. 27, no. 4 (1998): 1031–60.

Cline, Rob. “Mao Isn’t Just for Breakfast Anymore.” Icon (June 8, 2000).

Cohn, Don J. “Cultural Imports: Sotheby’s Brings Chinese Contemporary Art to New York.” Art Asia Pacific 48 (2006): 56–7.

Cornand, Brigitte. “Around the World.” Art Press International Edition 185 (1993): 69.

Dudek, Ingrid. “Mao in Contemporary Chinese Art.” Andy Warhol’s Mao, auction catalog (New York: Christie’s, 2006). 

Erickson, Britta. “The Contemporary Artistic Deconstruction—and Reconstruction—of Brush and Ink Painting.” Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art vol. 2, no. 2 (2003): 82–9.

“Face of Protest.” US News & World Report (September 18, 1989): 13.

Fang, Lizhi, and Richard Dicker. “Portraits of Oppression: A Leading Dissident Decries the Continued Atrocities in China.” The Sciences vol. 32, issue 5 (1992): 16–21.

Goodman, Jonathan. “Exhibition Review: Zhang Hongtu at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.” Asia-Pacific Sculpture News vol. 2, no. 2 (1996): 57–8.

———. “How Chinese Is It?” Architrave: A Journal of the Arts (1997): 43–6.

———. “Shuffling the Deck.” Art AsiaPacific 38 (2003): 84–5.

———. “Zhang Hongtu.”Art AsiaPacific 15 (1997): 91.

Hay, Jonathan. “Ambivalent Icons.” Orientations (July 1992).

Hollow, Michele C. “Access to Art.” Summit Magazine Holiday Issue (2006): 44–9. 

Hunter, Felicia. “Exhibit Features Works of Chinese Artist Who Mixed Western and Eastern Styles and Symbols.” Yale Bulletin and Calendar vol. 28, no. 7 (1999). 

Jacoby, Russell. “Whither Marxism?” Transition: An International Review 69 (1996): 100–15.

Kaylan, Melik. “Dealer’s Choice.” House and Garden (April 1999): 92.

Kelley, Robin D. G., and Betsy Esch. “Black Like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society vol. 1, no. 4 (1999): 8–11. 

Kumagai, Isako. “Chinese Artists in New York.” Bulletin of Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo 9 (2003): 15–16.

———. “Zhang Hongtu and Ji Yunfei, Chinese Artists in New York City.” Saitama University Review vol. 46 (2010): 79–88.

Lago, Francesca Dal. “Personal Mao: Reshaping an Icon in Contemporary Chinese Art.” Art Journal vol. 58, no. 2 (1999): 54.

Lee, Robert. “Editorial.” Artspiral vol. 6 (1992): 3.

Levin, Gail. “Changing Cultures: The Recent Immigration of Chinese Artists to the U.S.” Asian Art News vol. 4, no. 5 (1994): 70–73.

———. “Immigrant Artists from China at Baruch College Gallery.” Art Times (May 1991): 10–11.

Lin, Edward. “Censored!” Transpacific (June 1994): 58–61.

Marcus, David. “The Museum Takes on the Museum: Art Exhibition Offers New Perspectives on Familiar Works.” Princeton Alumni Weekly (March 26, 2003).

Newman, Cathy. “Culture: Mao Now.” National Geographic vol. 213, no. 5 (2008): 100–1.

Ng, Elaine W. “Artists on Spirituality.” Art Asia Pacific 51 (2007): 91.

Pappas, Ben. “Boppa um Mao Mao.” Forbes (January 26, 1998).

Pollack, Barbara. “China’s Desert Treasure.” Art News vol. 112, no. 11 (2013): 74–81.

Schell, Orville. “Once Again, Long Live Chairman Mao.” Atlantic (December 1992).

Shen, Kuiyi. “Landscape as Cultural Consciousness in Contemporary Chinese Art.” Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art vol. 2, no. 4 (2003): 33–40.

“Shuffling the Deck: The Collection Reconsidered.” Asian Art: The Newspaper for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries (March 2003).

Snow, Crocker. “Graphic Expressions of Protest.” The World Paper (October 1989). 

Takahashi, Corey. “Art Imitates Queens Life—Museum Exhibit Mixes Global Spirit and Local Diversity.” Newsday (September 20, 2002).

Tallmer, Jerry. “Chinese Works Bound & Unbound for Glory.” New York Post (May 10, 1991).

Weyburn, Jennifer A. “Drawing on East and West.” The Yale-China Review Centennial Issue, vol. 7, no. 3 (2002): 10–15.

Wojciechowski, Leigh Ann. “Chinese Artists: Reinventing Tradition.” Pitt Magazine (Fall 2004): 3–4.

Wu, Hung. “Afterword: ‘Hong Kong 1997’—T-shirt Designs by Zhang Hongtu.” Public Culture vol. 9, no. 3 (1997): 417–25.

Yang, Alice. “Group Show at Haenah-Kent Gallery.” Asian Art News vol. 4, no. 2 (1994): 94–5.

Zhu, Lillian. “Zhang Hongtu.” Asian Voices: Destiny vol. 7 (1994): 26–30.

 

Newspaper Articles

Alonso, Nathalie. “Back to the Garden: Daily Life to Spiritual Vision.” Queens Chronicle, April 17, 2008.

“Artist Famed for Mao’s Image Visits Hong Kong.” Hong Kong Standard, April 24, 1996.

Bischoff, Dan. “Making It Big: Summit Gallery Spotlights Massive Culture-Blending Creations by the China-born.” The Star-Ledger, September 29, 2006.

“Bridging the Cultural Gap.” The Citizen, January 15, 2001.

Cheung, Denise. “Art Meets Science in Bold Exhibition.” South China Morning Post, May 9, 1996.

Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review.” New York Times, June 22, 2001. 

Cullinan, Helen. “A Great Wall of Protest: ‘China 1989’ Exhibit Speaks Tellingly on Human Rights.” The Plain Dealer, August 27, 1992.

Dao, James. “From Shanghai to Soho: For Chinese Expatriates, It’s Art for Heart’s Sake.” Daily News, October 29, 1989.

———. “Lady in Square Reborn: Student Symbol to Stand in N.Y.” Daily News, June 8, 1989.

D’Arcy, David. “Artist’s Pointed Critique Is Barred from Beijing.” Wall Street Journal, August 21, 2008.

Dunning, Jennifer. “The Dance: ‘Silk Road,’ by Miss Yung.” New York Times, April 8, 1984.

Fisher, Harry. “East Meets West in Color.” The Morning Call, April 7, 2006.

Francia, Luis H. “Tiananmen Show Gutted.” Village Voice, July 31, 1990.

Genocchio, Benjamin. “Sampling the Diverse Output of Artists from China: An Exhibition in Summit Touches on Issues of Identity and Culture Shock.” New York Times, October 15, 2006.

Glueck, Grace. “Art in Review.” New York Times, April 29, 2005.

Harrison, Helen A. “A Painter’s Images of Mao as Reflected in a Changing China.” New York Times, November 10, 1996.

———. “ ‘This Is Long Island,’ Without Any Automobiles or People.” New York Times, April 16, 1995.

Hernandez, Barbara. “East Meets West in Baruch Art Gallery.” Ticker Perspectives, May 8, 1991.

Johnson, Ken. “A Pluralist Exhibition in the Plural Borough.” New York Times, August 23, 2002.

Johnson, Patricia C. “The Station Offers ‘Space’ for Humanistic Self-Expression.” Houston Chronicle, September 14, 2002.

Lee, Robert. “Zhang Hongtu.” Village Voice Art Issue, Spring 1989.

Lovelace, Carey. “Memories of Mao: An Emigré Focuses on the Chairman.” Newsday, November 8, 1996.

Mangaliman, Jessie. “Brushes Wielded Against Terror at Home.” New York Newsday, June 23, 1989.

Mimoni, Victor G. “Flushing Art Show Makes Smiles Bloom.” Queens Courier, March 13, 2008.

Morano, Marylou. “Chinese Artists Travel Between Cultures at VACNJ.” The Westfield Leader And The Scotch Plains—Fanwood TIMES, October 5, 2006.

“Newton Display Driven by Notion of Art for All.” Sunday Independent, January 21, 2001.

Parris, Sharon. “Changing Culture: Chinese Artists.” The Reporter, May 1991.

Pellett, Gail. “Mao’s Scorched Flowers Go West: Is There Art After Liberation?” Village Voice, May 13, 1986. 

“Ping-Pong with Chairman Mao.” The Gazette, May 5, 2000. 

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Sand, Olivia. “Profile: Zhang Hongtu.” Asian Art: the Newspaper for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries, January 2011.

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Zimmer, William. “Statement from the Chinese After Tiananmen Square.” New York Times, November 6, 1994.

 

Exhibition Catalogues

Solo 

Dialogue With the Taipei Palace Museum: Zhang Hongtu Solo Exhibition. Taipei: Lin & Keng Gallery, 2004.

Icons & Innovations: The Cross-Cultural Art of Zhang Hongtu. New York: The Gibson Gallery, 2003.

In the Spirit of Dunhuang: Studies by Zhang Hongtu. New York: Asian Arts Institute, 1984.

Recent Paintings by Zhang Hongtu. New York: Goedhuis Contemporary, 2005.

Zhang Hongtu: Material Mao. New York: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1996.

Zhang Hongtu: Recent Paintings. Taipei: Lin & Keng Gallery, 2007.

Zhang Hongtu: Shan Shui Today. Taipei: Tina Keng Gallery, 2011.

Group 

AJITA. Houston: INERI Foundation, 2002.

Art and China’s Revolution. New York: Asia Society, 2008.

The Art of Justice: Part II. White Plains: Krasdale Gallery, 1995.

Artists from China—New Expressions. New York: Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery, 1987.

Back to the Garden: Daily Life to Spiritual Vision. New York: Crossing Art, 2008.

Beyond the Borders: Art by Recent Immigrants. New York: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1994.

Changing Cultures: Immigrant Artists from China. New York: Baruch College, City University of New York, 1992.

CHINA June 4, 1989: An Art Exhibition. Flint: Buckham Gallery, 1994.

China Onward: The Estella Collection—Chinese Contemporary Art, 1966–2006. Denmark: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007.

China Without Borders: An Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art. New York: Goedhuis Contemporary, 2001.

Chinese Painting Collection of Guy Ullens de Schooten. Beijing: The Palace Museum, 2002.

Collection Remix. New York: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2005.

Contemporary Art: Travel Diary. Montreal: Galerie Observatoire 4, 1998.

Contemporary Combustion: Chinese Artists in America. New Britain: New Britain Museum of American Art, 2007.

The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s. New York: Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1990.

Dragon Veins. Tampa: Contemporary Art Museum at University of South Florida, 2006.

East/West: Visually Speaking. Lafayette: Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, 2010.

Exhibition of Chinese American Artists. Taipei: American Institute in Taiwan, 2000.

Global Roots: Artists from China Working in New York. West Lafayette: Purdue University, 1998.

Godzilla: The Asian American Arts Network. New York: Artists Space, 1993.

Here + Now: Chinese Artists in New York. New York: Museum of Chinese in America, 2009.

Hypallage: the Post-Modern Mode of Chinese Contemporary Art. Shenzhen: OCT Art & Design Gallery, 2008.

In Memory—the Art of Afterward: An International Exhibition of Works Reflecting on Loss and Remembrance. New York: The Legacy Project, 2002.

Inspired by Dunhuang: Re-creation in Contemporary Chinese Art. New York: China Institute, 2013.

Inter Mediate: Selected Contemporary Chinese American Art. New Jersey: The College of New Jersey Art Gallery, 2011.

Kimchi Xtravaganza!: A Multidisciplinary Showcase About Kimchi. Los Angeles: Korean American Museum, 1998.

Mythologies of Contemporary Art by Three Artists: Zhang Hongtu, Yang Maolin and Tu Weicheng. Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2009.

New Chinese Occidentalism: Chinese Contemporary Art in New York. New York: Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, 2005.

Oil & Water: Reinterpreting Ink. New York: Museum of Chinese in America, 2014.

On the Edge: Contemporary Art from Indonesia and China. Jakarta: The Pakubuwono Residence/Bank Mandiri PRIORITAS, 2004.

On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West. Stanford: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, 2006.

Out of Time, Out of Place, Out of China: Reinventing Chinese Tradition in a New Century. Pittsburgh: The University Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, 2005.

Outside In: Chinese x American x Contemporary Art. New Jersey: Princeton University Art Museum, 2009.

Paris-Pékin. Paris: Chinese Century, Ullens and Asiart Archive, 2002.

The Pavilion of Realism. Beijing: Other Gallery, 2010.

Post-Mao Dreaming: Chinese Contemporary Art. Massachusetts: Smith College Museum of Art, 2009.

Post-Picasso: Contemporary Reactions. Barcelona: Museu Picasso, 2014.

Reason’s Clue. New York: Queens Museum of Art, 2008.

Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennale. Chengdu: Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, 2007.

Re-do China. New York: Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, 2003.

Reinventing Tradition in a New World: The Arts of Gu Wenda, Wang Mansheng, Xu Bing and Zhang Hongtu. Pennsylvania: Schmucker Art Gallery, 2004.

Revolution. New York: China Square Publishing Inc., 2007.

R/evolution. Taipei: Tina Keng Gallery, 2009.

The Revolution Continues: New Art from China. London: Saatchi Gallery, 2008.

Roots to Reality II: Alternative Visions. New York: Alliance for Asian American Arts and Culture, and Henry Street Settlement, 1986.

Selections: Aljira & Artists Space. New York: Artists Space, 1990.

Shuffling the Deck: The Collection Reconsidered. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 2003.

Syncretism: The Art of the XXI Century. New York: Alternative Museum, 1991.

Tiananmen Memorial Art Exhibit. New York: Congressional Human Rights Foundation, 1990.

Trading Place: Contemporary Art Museum. Taipei: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005.

Transcultural New Jersey: Diverse Artists Shaping Culture and Communities. New Jersey: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 2004.

Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century. Chicago: The David and Alfred Smart Museum, 1999.

Travelers Between Cultures: Contemporary Chinese Artists in New York. New Jersey: Visual Art Center of New Jersey, 2006.

Unknown/Infinity: Culture and Identity in the Digital Age. New York: Taipei Gallery, 2001.

Urban Archives: Happy Together. New York: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2011. 

Word and Meaning: Six Contemporary Chinese Artists. University at Buffalo Art Gallery, 2000.

Works by Zhang Hongtu. Hong Kong: The HKUST Center for the Arts, 1996.

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NOBUO SEKINE AND ZHANG HONGTU: TWO ROCKS

Phase Conception by Nobuo Sekine

Jennifer Baahng Gallery is pleased to present TWO ROCKS, an exhibition for artists Nobuo Sekine and Zhang Hongtu.  The exhibition will showcase a selection of their paintings, sculptures, and multi-media installations, from the 1980’s and 1990’s.  The exhibition will run from September 20th through October 21, 2017.

TWO ROCKS showcases the work of modern sages, Nobuo Sekine and Zhang Hongtu, from the 1980’s and 1990’s, pivotal years in their contributions to art. 

September 20 – October 21, 2017

 

Opening reception:

Wednesday, September 20th, 2017

6-8pm

 

Artists in the exhibition

Nobuo Sekine

Zhang Hongtu

Biography

Zhang Hongtu

Concurrently, in the late 1980’s, Zhang, a forerunner of Political Pop Art, immigrated to New York where he would discover Pop Art against the geopolitical backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre.  Zhang is known for using various painting styles and media to produce artistic critiques of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, including through his appropriating images of Mao Zedong.  His newer works have branched into environmental concerns, and include his classical Chinese landscape paintings, which, traditionally painted in black-and-white, are added with sensuous, toxic colors. 

Born in 1943 in Pingliang, China, Zhang Hongtu is the recipient of awards, including from the Pollock Krasner Foundation in 1991 and the National Endowment for Arts in 1995.  His works have been exhibited internationally, including at Bronx Museum, Kaohsiung Museum in Taiwan, Museu Picasso in Spain, Queens Museum, The Deichtorhallen in Germany, Israel Museum, and Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Guggenheim Museum in New York will showcase Zhang Hongtu’s Vitrine, 1986-1995 in the upcoming exhibition “Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World.”   TWO ROCKS will feature paintings, sculptures, and multi-media installations by Zhang, including Self-Portrait in the Style of the Old Masters, The Red Door, and Re-Make of Ma Yuan’s Water Album (780 Years Later).

Nobuo Sekine

Sekine is a key founder of Mono-ha, a group of artists that gained prominence in Tokyo in the late 1960’s for their rejection of the traditional ideas of representation.  Primarily known as a sculptor, Sekine incorporates natural and industrial materials in his work, and his work explores the properties and interdependency of these materials with their surrounding space.  In the late 1980’s, he returned to his original training as a painter, and began creating Phase Conception – a series of “paintings” of phases.  The phases are made out of thick Japanese handmade paper, cut out, torn, pasted back onto the remaining surface, and coated with either gold leaf or black lead.  They are based on a topological geometry concept as applied to space, which is that the continuous transformation of form does not affect the sum total of the form’s mass.  

Born 1942 in Saitama prefecture, Japan.

Graduated in 1968 with a M.F.A. in Painting, studying under artist Yoshishige Saito.

From 1968 into the 1970s, Sekine worked internationally as a central figure of “Mono-ha” (translated literally as “School of Things”), a movement considered instrumental in the formation of postwar Japanese art.  Phase—Mother Earth, an earthwork first constructed in Suma Rikyu Park, Kobe, in 1968, is widely recognized as marking the beginning of Mono-ha, and as one of the most iconic works of this period in Japan.

In 1970, Sekine represented Japan in the Venice Biennale with Phase of Nothingness, consisting of a large natural stone supported by a mirrored stainless steel column.  The sculpture is now in the permanent collection of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark.  Sekine remained in Europe after the Biennale, exhibiting in Italy, Switzerland, and Denmark.  Informed by his observations on art and architecture, urban and public space in Europe, Sekine returned to Japan to establish Environmental Art Studios, a public art agency, in 1973.

From 1978 to 1979, Sekine returned to Europe for the traveling exhibition of his work Phase of Nothingness—Black.  The solo exhibition toured from the Künsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany, to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands; and the Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway.

In 1993, Sekine and Phase—Mother Earth were cited by 30 participating critics, curators, and journalists in the survey “Sengo bijutsu besuto ten” (Postwar art best ten), featured in the prominent art magazine Bijutsu Shinchō.

In 2001, Sekine was included in the exhibit Century City at the Tate Modern, London, for his critical role in the burgeoning Tokyo art scene between 1969 and 1973.  He also participated in the Gwangju Biennale, Korea, the same year.

Selected exhibitions of Sekine and Mono-ha include Reconsidering Mono-ha, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 2005; What is Mono-Ha? Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, 2007; Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, 2012; Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, 2013; Prima Materia, Punta Della Dogana, Venice, 2013; Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s,The Rachofsky Warehouse, Dallas, Texas, 2013.

Sekine is currently Visiting Professor at Tama Art University and Kobe Design University.

Selected Solo Exhibitions 

2014 Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA 

2011 Re-creations 1970/2011, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan Monogatari, Shanghai Sculpture Space, Shanghai,China 

2010 BE-UP-ART, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Center Gallery, Yokohama, Japan 

Kawagoe Gallery, Kawagoe, Japan 

2008 Gallery Bijutsu Sekai, Tokyo, Japan Gallery Art Composition, Tokyo, Japan 

PYO Gallery, Seoul, Korea 

2007 Center Gallery, Yokohama, Japan Gallery Bijutsu Sekai, Tokyo, Japan 

Shina Gallery, Kyoto, Japan 

2006 Saint Paul Gallery, Maebashi, Japan Gallery Bijutsu Sekai, Tokyo, Japan 

2005 Gallery Bijutsu Sekai, Tokyo, Japan
MANIF 11! ’05 SEOUL, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea 

2004 Movement, Feeling, Environment, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Beijing,China Art Dune, Hamamatsu, Japan 

Phase of Nothingness – Black from 78-79 solo exhibition in Europe, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan 

2003 Kawagoe City Art Museum, Saitama, Japan 

2001 Art Dune, Hamamatsu, Japan
1999 Museum Shokyodo, Aichi, Japan
1998 Saint Paul Gallery, Maebashi, Japan 

1997 Kawagoe Gallery, Kawagoe, Japan Art Dune, Hamamatsu, Japan 

1996 Archaeology of Phase – Mother Earth, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan 

1995 Gallery Art Point, Tokyo, Japan Galleri Akern, Kongsberg, Norway 

1994 Art Dune, Hamamatsu, Japan 

1993 Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan 

1992 Museum Shokyodo, Aichi, Japan
Nobuo Sekine, Soko Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 

1991 Kawagoe Gallery, Kawagoe, Japan
Tenmaya Department Store, Okayama, Japan 

Anshindo Gallery, Shizuoka, Japan Art Dune, Hamamatsu, Japan 

1990 Tenjuen, Niigata, Japan
Soko Museum, Niigata, Japan Atelier Gallery, Niigata, Japan 

Sogo Department Store, Hiroshima, Japan
Seibu Department Store – Studio 5, Tokyo,Japan Mitsukoshi Department Store, Tokyo, Japan 

1989 Kodosha, Ichinoseki, Japan Gallery Lamia, Tokyo, Japan 

Chikugo Gallery, Kurume, Japan
Mitsui Gallery, Matsudo, Japan
Gallery TAK, Yokohama, Japan
Susono Art House, Susono, Japan
Kozaido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kobundo Gallery, Obihiro, Japan Gojuichiban-kan Gallery, Aomori, Japan Gallery Picasso, Maebashi, Japan Katsuyama Isozaki Hall, Fukui, Japan Stempfli Gallery, New York, New York Umeda Modern Art Museum, Osaka, Japan 

1988 Gallery M, Obama, Japan
Art Dune, Hamamatsu, Japan 

Kozaido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Nishida Gallery, Nara, Japan
Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Anshindo Gallery, Shizuoka, Japan Gallery Kura, Kitakyushu, Japan We Gallery, Omiya, Japan 

1987 Ginza Jiyugaoka Gallery, Tokyo Gallery Te, Tokyo, Japan 

Kawagoe Gallery, Kawagoe, Japan Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 

1985 Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1983 Sekine and Environment Art Studio, Stripe House Museum, Tokyo, Japan 

1982 Sekine’s Prints and Sculptures: Cross Country 7500Km, Keneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 

1981 Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan 

1980 Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 

1978 Nobuo Sekine: Skulptor 1975-1978, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany; traveled to Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk Denmark; Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands; Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway 

1977 Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan 

Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1976 Gallery Dori, Tokyo, Japan 

1975 Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan 

1973 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 

1971 Gallery Krebs, Bern, Switzerland Gallery Birch, Copenhagen, Denmark 

1970 Galleria La Bertesca, Genova, Italy Genoa Gallery Modulo, Milan, Italy 

1969 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 

2014 Group “Genshoku” and Ishiko Junzo 1966-1971, Shizuoka PrefecturalMuseum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan 

Mono-ha, Tabloid Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Mono-ha by Anzai: Photographs 1970-1976, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo,Japan Other Primary Structures (Others 2: 1967 – 1970), Jewish Museum,
New York, NY
Mono-ha Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karuizawa, Japan
The Hara Museum Collection at 35, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan 

2013 Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
Tricks and Vision to Mono-ha, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX 

2012 Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to Haus der Kunst, Munich 

Tokyo 1955-1970, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 

Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, California The ‘70s in Japan: 1968-1982, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; traveled to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
The Artists of Mono-ha and Its Era, Rakusui-tei Museum of Art, Toyama,Japan 

2011 Gallery’s Collection Exhibition: Mono-ha, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo,Japan 

2010 Masan Munsin International Sculpture Symposium, Munsin Art Museum, Masan, Korea 

Tokyo Gallery + BTAP 60th Anniversary Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
Yanpyon Environment Festival, Korea
Printing Exhibition of Shanghai World Expo 2010, Shanghai, China 

Micro Salon 60, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan 

2009 Drawing Story I 1960–1990, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan 

2008 Tamagawa Art Line Project, Tokyo, Japan
Art Scene Revived, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan 

2007 What is Mono-ha?, Beijing Tokyo Art Project, Beijing,China
Nobuo Sekine & Mitsukuni Takimoto, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan 

2006 Public Art, Gallery NOVITA, Aomori, Japan
Memorial for Yoshiaki Tono, Gallery TOM, Tokyo, Japan 

Mono-ha: Lee Ufan, Kishio Suga, Nobuo Sekine – from the 1970’s, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 

2005 Reconsidering Mono-ha, National Museum of Art, Osaka,Japan 

2004 Kim Tschang-Yeul, Sekine Nobuo & Susumu Sakaguchi, Gallery Bijutsu Sekai, Tokyo, Japan 

The New Tokyo Gallery Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo,Japan 

2003 The 20th Anniversary of Gallery Q, Gallery Q, Tokyo, Japan 

2002 Sculpture Project, Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea
Memorial for Yoshishige Saito, Kawamura Gakuen Art Hall, Tokyo, Japan 

2001 Century, Tate Modern Art Gallery, London, UK Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 

Mono-ha, Kettle’s Yard Art Gallery, Cambridge, UK
Retrospective Exhibition for Nagaoka Museum Prize 1964-68, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata, Japan 

2000 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Modern Art of Japan: Monet de Paris, French National Mint Bureau, Paris, France 

1998 Lumieves – Light – Rediscovery of Stained Glass, TN Probe, Tokyo, Japan 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, Japan 1970-Material and Perception – Mono-ha and Artists Who Ask Root, Saint Ratienu Museum, France 

1995 Archeology of Phase – Mother Earth, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan 

Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan 

46th Venice Biennale: ASIANA Contemporary Art from The Far East, Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, Venice, Italy
Matter and Perception 1970: Mono-ha and the Search for Fundamentals, Museum of Fine Arts Gifu, Gifu, Japan; traveled to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; Museum of Modern Art Sain-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France 

1994 Landscape of Stone, Dockyard Garden, The Landmark Tower Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan 

Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Different Natures, La Virreina, Barcelona, Spain
Memorial for Yaeko Fujita: Artists and Sakura Gallery, Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Japanese Art after 1945: Scream against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama; traveled to Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
ASIANA Contemporary Art from the Far East, Parazzo, Italy 

1993 Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan Konishi Gallery, Kyoto, Japan 

Oomitsu Collection, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Differentes Natures, Visions de l’Art Contemporain, Galerie Art 4 et Galerie de l’Esplanade, Paris, France
Exposition Différentes Natures, Galerie Art La Defense, Paris, France 

1992 Avantguardie Giapponesi degli anni 70, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna di Bologna; traveled to Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 

1991 Gallery Gen-Group Show, Tokyo, Japan
70’s-80’s Contemporary Art: Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 

1990 Yokohama Business Park, Yokohama, Japan 

1989 Japanese Open-Air Sculptures, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium 

1988 Mono-ha: La Scuola delle cose, Museum Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome Italy 

Seen by Hands, Seibu Department Store, Yurakucho, Tokyo,Japan 

1987 Art in Japan since 1969: Mono-ha and Post Mono-ha, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan 

Nobuo Sekine and Koji Enokura Recent Print Works, Naruse Murata Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Gallery Group Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo,Japan 

1986 Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Lee Ufan, Nobuo Sekine, Kishio Suga: Methods of the 1970s, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Le Japon des Avant-Gardes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 

1984 Human Documents ’84/’85-3, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Art of Present Time. Wood and Paper-Dialogue with Nature, Gifu Prefectural Museum, Gifu, Japan
Development of Contemporary Sculpture, Gallery Seiho, Tokyo,Japan Sculpture Japonaise Contemporaine, Galerie Jullien-Cornic, Paris, France 

1983 Figure of Wood and Esprit, Saitama Prefectural Museum, Tokyo,Japan 

1981 Turning Point of Contemporary Art of 1960’s, National Museum of Modern
Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan Modern Japanese Sculpture, Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kanagawa, Japan 

Japanese Contemporary Art, The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
The 1960’s: A Decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan 

1980 History of Contemporary Sculpture, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan 

1977 Japan Art-Festival, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan Voices in the Modern Age 

Tokyo Gallery Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 

1976 10th International Biennale Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo, The National Museumof Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan 

1975 Contemporary Art Exhibition from 1950 to 1975, Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan 

1974 Two-Man Show with Kuniichi Sima, Gallery Coco, Kyoto, Japan 11th Tokyo Biennale, Tokyo, Japan 

Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition of 20 Artists, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Japan Art Exhibition, Germany
Contemporary Sculpture Symposium, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan 

1973 8th Japan Art-Festival, Tokyo, Japan
11th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 

1971 10th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan ArtMuseum, Tokyo, Japan 

Tokyo Gallery 1971, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 

1970 Art Exhibition of World EXPO 1970, Suita, Osaka, Japan 35th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 

Human Documents ’70-3, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 

1969 6th Paris Biennale, Paris, France
9th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1st International Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Hakone Open-Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
9 Visual Points, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tricks & Vision: Stolen Eyes, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Trend of Japanese Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Japanese Artist Drawing, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 

1968 OOXPLAN, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
8th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1st Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Suma Palace Park, Kobe, Japan 5th Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan 

1967 Two-Man Show, Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 11th Shell Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan 

OOOPLAN, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Universiad, Tokyo, Japan 

Catalogues and Monographs 

2013 Atkins, Robert. Artspeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present. New York: Abbeville Press, 2013. 

2012 Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2012. 

Mono-ha Artists and the Era. Toyama: Rakusui-tei Museum of Art, 2012. Yoshitake, Mika. Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha. Los Angeles: Blum & Poe, 2012. 

2011 Monogatari: Nobuo Sekine Arts Exhibition 1970-2011. Shanghai:Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, 2011. 

2008 Sekine Nobuo. China: Pyo Gallery, 2008.
2007 What is Mono-ha? Texts by Huang Du, Charles Merewether, Yusuke Nakahara, 

Yukihito Tabata, and Hozu Yamamoto. Tokyo: Tokyo Gallery + BTAP,2007. 2006 Sekine, Nobuo. Fukei no yubiwa. Tokyo: Tosho Shinbun,2006. 

2004 Beijing Tokyo Art Projects. Movement, Feeling, Environment: Nobuo Sekine, Environment Art Studio. Beijing: Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, 2004. 

2003 Sekine, Nobuo. Concerning with “Environment Art” Sekine. Kawagoe, Japan: Kawagoe Shiritsu Bijutsukan, 2003. 

2001 Mono-ha – School of Things. Texts by Tatehata Akira, Simon Groom, Lee Ufan, Cambridge: Kettle’s Yard, 2001. 

1996 Isō-Daichi no kōkogaku (Archaeology of Phase-Mother Earth). Nishinomiya: Ōtani Memorial Art Museum, 1996. 

Sekine, Nobuo, Masahiro Shino. “Iso, daichi” no kokogaku. Nishinomiya, Japan: Otani Memorial Museum of Art, 1996. 

1995 Kamakura Gallery. Mono-ha 1994. Tokyo: Kamakura Gallery, 1995.
1994 Munroe, Alexandra. Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky. New 

York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994. 

1992 Sekine, Nobuo. Sekine: A Message from Environment Art Studio. Tokyo:Process Architecture, 1992. 

1989 Sekine, Nobuo, and Yoshifumi Hayashi. Phase Conception II.Tokyo: Environment Art Studio; Niigata, Japan: Loft Museum Ten,1989. 

1987 Sekine, Nobuo. Sculpture of Scenery: Works of Nobuo Sekine + Environment Art Studio. Tokyo: Process Architecture, 1987. 

1986 Mono-ha. Text by Toshiaki Minemura. Tokyo: Kamakura Gallery, 1986.
1985 Sekine, Nobuo. Half-Autobiography: Art and Urban and Pictoral Fiction.Tokyo: 

PARCO Shuppan, 1985. 

1983 Sekine, Nobuo, and Environment Art Studio. From Landscape to Open Space. Tokyo: Shotenkenchiku-Sha, 1983. 

1978 Nobuo Sekine: Skulptur 1975-1978. Exh. cat. Humlebaek, Denmark: Louisiana Museum, 1978. 

Sekine Nobuo 68-78. Cat. raisonné. Text by Sekine Nobuo. Tokyo:Yuria pemuperu kōbō, 1978.
Sekine Nobuo: 1968-78. Tokyo: Julia Pempel Atelier, 1978. 

1977 Sekine Nobuo. Tokyo: Tokyo Gallery and Kaneko Art Gallery; and Nagoya: Sakura Gallery, 1977. 

1969 Sekine Nobuo. Text by Nakahara Yūsuke. Tokyo: Tokyo Gallery, 1969. 

Articles and Reviews
2014
Herriman, Kat. “The Simple Complex.” Wmagazine.com, January 16, 2014. 

2013 Barrilà, Silvia Anna. “Giapponesi graditi all’America.” Il Sole 24 Ore, no. 581 (October 2013): 20-21. 

Miyamura, Noriko, ed. Enjoy! Contemporary Art! Tokyo: Yosensha, 2013.
Ruiz, Cristina. “The Lost Decades: Why the Past Is Back to Stay.” ArtNewspaper (Art Basel ed.), June 14-16, 2013.
Cembalest, Robin. “New Perspectives on Art.” Vogue (Japan), no. 162 (February 2013): 280-81.
Russell, Heather. “Nobuo Sekine and the Japanese Mono-haMovement.” Artnet.com, March 13, 2013.
Morikawa, Manami. “Special Report: ‘Tokyo 1950-1975: A New Avant-Garde’ Exhibition.” Bijutsu Techō 65, no. 982 (April 2013): 98-112. 

2012 Akel, Joseph. “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha, GladstoneGallery.” Modern Painters 24, no. 8 (October 2012): 92. 

Balestin, Juliana. “Group Exhibitions ‘Requiem for the Sun: The Art ofMono-ha’ at Gladstone Gallery, New York.” Purple.fr, July 22, 2012.
Berardini, Andrew. “Mono-ha, the Japanese ‘School of Things’ at Blum & Poe.” LA Weekly, March 8, 2012. 

Bryan-Wilson, Julia. “Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974.” Artforum 51, no. 3 (November 2012): 269-70.
Cembalest, Robin. “New Perspectives on Art.” Vogue (Japan), no. 162 (February 2013): 280-81. 

Chang, Ian. “Requiem for the Sun.” Frieze, no. 148 (June-August 2012): 206. Chong, Doryun. Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2012.
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. “Mono-ha Revisited.” KCRW.com, February 23, 2012, http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/at/at120223mono-ha_revisited. 

Favell, Adrian. “Mono-ha in LA.” ARTiT.com (blog), February 27, 2012, http://www.art-it.asia/u/rhqiun/zMnqaA0XIdfS8NHW5v2x/.
Ferguson, Russell. “Best of 2012.” Artforum 51, no. 4 (December 2012): 218. From Postwar to Postmodern: Art in Japan 1945-1989 : Primary Documents. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2012. 

Haber, John. “Zen and the Art of Minimalism.” Haberarts.com, August 3, 2012, http://www.haberarts.com/monoha.htm.
Halperin, Julia. “Blum & Poe’s Survey Touches Off Mono-ha Mania – And It’s Coming to New York.” Artinfo.com, April 23, 2012, http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/800839/blum-poes-survey-touches-off-mono- ha-mania-%E2%80%94%C2%A0and-its-coming-to-new-york. 

Halperin, Julia. “One-Line Reviews: Our Staff’s Pithy Takes on the Mono-ha Retrospective, Summer’s First Group Shows, and More.” Artinfo.com, June 29, 2012, http://www.artinfo.com/photo-galleries/one-line-reviews-our-staffs-pithy- takes-on-the-mono-ha-retrospective-summers-first-group-shows-and-more#one- line-reviews-our-staffs-pithy-takes-on-the-mono-ha-retrospective-summers-first- group-shows-and-more/?image=2&_suid=135542772166208163063190438622. Hiro, Rika. “Exhibition Report – Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha inLA.” Bijutsu techō, no. 6 (June 2012): 212-19. 

Hiro, Rika. “‘Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha’ in Los Angeles: Encounters with Objects, Mono-ha, and the World.” Bijutsu Techō (English Supplement), no. 2 (Spring 2012): 3-5.
Johnson, Caitlin. “Mono-ha at Blum & Poe.” Los Angeles I’m Yours, April 9, 2012, http://www.laimyours.com/13859/mono-ha-at-blum-poe/. 

Kee, Joan. “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha.” Artforum 50, no. 9 (May 2012): 316. 

Knight, Christopher. “Worldly, Refined.” Los Angeles Times, March 21, 2012. Momen, Motin. “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha.”StyleZeitgeist.com (blog), July 2012, http://www.sz-mag.com/news/2012/07/mono-ha/.
Myers, Holly. “Simple, Elegant Design.” Los Angeles Times, March 9, 2012. Raffel, Amy. “Gladstone Gallery, Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha.” Workspacesllc.com (blog), July 26, 2012, http://www.workspacesllc.com/blog/gladstone-gallery-requiem-for-the-sun-the- art-of-mono-ha-until-august-3/. 

Rawlings, Ashley. “Turning the World Inside Out: A Major Survey of Mono-ha in Los Angeles.” Art in Australia 49, no.4 (Winter 2012): 580-83.
Ritter, Gabriel. “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha.” ArtAsiaPacific, no.79 (July-August 2012): 120. 

Schad, Ed. “Requiem for the Sun.” ArtReview, no. 59 (May 2012): 122-23. Yau, John. “Nobuo Sekine and Charles Ray and Their Sculptures Filledwith Liquid.” Hyperallergic.com, July 29, 2012. 

2011 Wallis, Stephen. “Mono-ha Moment.” Art in America 99, no. 11 (December2011): 65-66. 

2007 Minemura, Toshiaki. “Difference in the Development of ‘Mono’: On a Visit tothe What is Mono-ha? Exhibition in Beijing.” Mainichi Shimbun (evening edition),
June 21, 2007.
Rawlings, Ashley. “An Introduction to Mono-ha.” TokyoArtBeat.com, September 8, 2007, http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/tablog/entries.en/2007/09/an-introduction-to- mono-ha.html. 

2004 Nakano, Minoru. “Zen’ei geijutsu no jidai (4) monoha: sozai wo chokushi,
hihyōsei tsuyoku ‘bungē hyakuwa’” (Era of the Avant Garde (4) Monoha:Gazing at material, hard criticality ‘100 literary stories’). Nihon keizai shinbun, December 26, 2004.
Ōtagaki Minoru. “Art shin ko ima kyouto no jikū ni asobu 3 sekine nobuo ‘isō daichi’ to ginkakuji to kogetsudai, jyō” (Art new, old and now playing in Kyoto space-time: Sekine Nobuo and Ginkakuji, Kogetsudai, vol. 1). Kyoto shinbun,
July 3, 2004.
Ōtagaki, Minoru. “Art shin ko ima kyouto no jikū ni asobu 3 sekine nobuo ‘isō daichi’ to ginkakuji kogetsudai, jyō” (Art new old and now playing in Kyoto space- time: Sekine Nobuo and Ginkakuji, Kogetsudai, vol. 1). Kyoto shinbun, July 10, 2004.
Sugawara, Norio. “Kinyō koramu nankai? Na gendai bijutsu, mijika ni kanjiru kokoromi” (Friday column impenetrable? Contemporary art attempts at familiarity). Yomiuri shinbun (evening ed.), January 16, 2004.
Sumi, Akihiko. “Tokushū nihonn kingendai bijutsushi 1905-2005: Lee Ufanjidai
to kokkyō wo koeta ‘deai’ wo motomete” (Japanese modern art history 1905- 2005: Lee Ufan seeking encounters beyond history and borders). Bijutsu Techō, July, 22-31, 2004.
Sumi, Wakio. “’Isō Daichi’ sai-sēisaku 2003 shimatsuki” (Revisiting ‘Phase
Mother Earth’ document 2003). National Museum of Art, Osaka, no. 138 (March 2004): 3. 

2002 “Cover Hero: Environmental Artist 20 Sekine Nobuo.” Bien, no. 20 (2002):4-9. Mita, Haruo. “Bijutsu Sekine Nobuo ten toshi kūkan to kakawaruniwa” (In orderto engage with urban space). Mainichi Shinbun, April 21, 2002. 

Sasaki, Hiroko, Sekine Nobuo, Hamada Gōshi. “Talk Sairoku Sasaki HirokoX Sekine Nobuo uchinaru iro uchinaru katachi kaiga to chōkoku wo meguru orijinarityi no yukue” (Re-recording Talk Sasaki Hiroko X Sekine Nobuointernal color internal form the future of originality in painting and sculpture). Bijutsu Techō (December 2002): 151-153. 

Sawaragi, Noi. “Tokubetsu teisai sensō to banpaku kanketsuron zenpen mō hitotsu no sensō bijutsu sokoniwa itsumo ga atta” (Special article thewar and the world’s fair conclusion part one the other wartime art there were always ‘rocks’ there). Bijutsu Techō (August 2002): 147-159. 

Tsuchiya, Seiichi. “Dai 12 kai gēijutsu hyōron boshū nyūsensaku happyo 

nakushita monono arika wo megutte Saito Yoshishige, 1973, saisēsaku” (12th art criticism competition selection honorable mention on the whereabouts ofthings lost Saito Yoshishige reproduction). Bijutsu Techō (May 2002):152-159. 

2001 Cowan, Amber. “The Five Best Shows Nationwide: Mono-ha: School ofThings.” Times (London), February 6, 2001. 

Kumagaya, Isako. “Enokura Kōji ‘kabe’ sakuhin wo chūshin ni” (Centering around Enokura Koji’s ‘wall’ piece). Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Bulletin, no. 6 (2001): 23-28.
Reed, Robert. “How Mono-ha shocked the world.” Daily Yomiuri, April 19, 2001. Safe, Emma. “Mono-ha – School of Things.” Art Monthly, no 248 (July-August 2001): 34-35.
Sekine, Nobuo. “Saito Yoshishige wo otono nai hakushu de okutta” (Wegave Saito Yoshishige a silent round of applause.” Aida (October 2001): 6.
“Zenēi bijutsu no nihon Matsuri no zenya” (The avant garde’s Japan the evening before the festival). Bijutsu Techō (October 2001): 93. 

1999 Reed, Robert. “Terror in the Bronze.” Winds (January 1999):30-32. 

1997 Chiba, Shigeo. “Tsuitō Yoshida Katsuro mirukoto no hirogari” (Inmemoriam Yoshida Katsuro the expanse of looking). Hanga gējutsu, no. 106 (1997): 98-103. Sawaragi, Noi. “Rensai nihon gendai bijutsu dai 7kai ‘monoha’ towa nanika” (Series Japanese contemporary art part 7 what is ‘monoha’). Bijutsu Techō (January 1997): 163-183. 

Suzuki Kenshi. “Ki ga ringo kara ochiru kokuritsu kokusai bijutsukan ‘jūryoku sengo bijutsu no zahyōjin’ ten” (The tree falls from the apple: National Museum of Art, Osaka exhibition “Gravity coordinates of post-war art”). Bijutsu Techō (January 1997): 188-193.
Tani Arata, Mita Haruo, Sugawara Norio, and Takashima Naoyuki. “Nihon-teki hyōgen kūkan to insutarēshon” (Japanese spatial expression and installation). Bijutsu Techō (November 1997): 80-96. 

1996 Hyōgyoku, Masahiko. “Gendai bijutsushi no ‘jiken’ ou ‘bijutsu no kōkogaku’ten” (An “incident” in contemporary art). Nihon keizai shinbun, July 10, 1996.
Shiraki, Midori. “Tenhyō Bijutsu no kōkogaku—zenēi bijutsu no nijikensaikenshō” (The archeology of art—re-evaluating two incidents in the avant garde). Nihon Keizai Shinbun (Osaka ed.), July 5, 1996. 

Sugawara, Norio. “Torendo in bijutsu aitsugu ‘sengo’ kikaku kenshō womeguru taishō-teki shuhō” (Trends in art: a string of ‘post war’ shows contrast methodology in their examination). Yomiuri shinbun, July 10, 1996.
Tanaka, Sanzōu. “Mono no ninshiki saguru sugata ‘Enokura Koji isaku’ ten to ‘bijutsu no kōkogaku’ ten (bijutsu)” (The state of searching for theunderstanding 

of things exhibits ‘posthumous works by Enokura Koji’ and the ‘archeology of art’). Asahi Shinbun, June 27, 1996. 

1995 “Biji-shūi 1970nen Bushitsu to chikaku monoha to kongen wo tou sakka tachi” (Gleaning/re-examining good things 1970 Material and perception mono-ha, artists who interrogate origin). Bijutsu Techō (March 1995): 148.
Hyōgyoku Masahiko. “Bijutsu no ashimoto wo tou tamemi, ‘1970nen—bushitsu to chikaku’ ten” (Questioning the foundation of material, exhibition “1970—material and perception”). Nihon keizai shinbun, Novermber 9, 1995. 

Jacob, Mike. “The Hole and its Parts: Sculptor pursues ‘Special MentalState’” Daily Yomiuri, January 1995.
Koshimizu, Susumu. “Tokubetsu kiji shōgen monoha ga kataru monoha nokoto Yami no naka e kieteiku mae no yabu no naka e.” Bijutsu Techō (May1995). Lee, Ufan. “Tokubetsu kiji shōgen monoha ga kataru monoha kigen matawa monoha no koto” (Mono-ha talks mono-ha the origin, or about mono-ha). Bijutsu Techō (May 1995): 255-258. 

Ōi, Kenji. “Exhibition Review” Bijutsu Techō (August 1995): 173.
Sekine Nobuo. “Tokubetsu kiji shōgen monoha ga kataru monoha no koto seishun to dōgigo no monoha to genzai (ima)” (The youth and synonym of mono- ha and the present (now)) Bijutsu Techō (May 1995): 261-263.
Yoshida, Katsuro. “Tokubetsu kiji shōgen monoha ga kataru monoha no koto chottoshita chigai ga zōfuku sarete” (Mono-ha talks mono-ha: little differences that multiply). Bijutsu Techō (May 1995): 258-260. 

1993 Minemura, Toshiaki, and Sumi Akihiko. “Monoha no keisei wo meguttezenpen” (On the formation of mono-ha). Bijutsu Techō (July 1993): 182-205.
Minemura Toshiaki, and Sumi Akihiko. “Monoha no keisei wo meguttekōhen” (On the formation of mono-ha). Bijutsu Techō (August 1993): 170-181. 

1990 Sekine, Nobuo. “Rensai essei watashino katachi katachi narazaru katachi” (My form: Form that is not form). Hanga gēijutsu, no 69 (1990): 145. 

1989 Haruo, Sanada. “The Japanese Contemporary Exhibition in Belgium.” Mainichi Daily News, Aug 24, 1989. 

Yonekura Mamoru. “Suzuki Minoru chōkoku ten to sekine nobuo shinsakuten” (Sculptures by Sumi Akihiko and new works by Sekine Nobuo). Asahi Shinbun, June 9, 1989. 

1987 Akita, Yuri. “Exhibition Monoha to posuto monoha no tennkai ‘nihon bijutsu’wo meguru futatsu no ‘chikara’ 1969nen ikō no nihon no bijutsu” (Exhibition: The evolution of Monoha and post-Mono-ha, two forces in Japanese art: Japanese art after 1969). Bijutsu Techō (September 1987): 189. 

Fujita, Yaeko. “Kikikaki, garōjin, sakura no obachan (10).” Bijutsu Techō (January 1987): 98-99.
Inui, Yoshiaki, Sakai Tadayasu, Tōno Hōmei, and Yonekura Mamoru. “Zadankai bijutsu kihyō ’87aki “‘mono-ha to posuto mono-ha no tennkai’ ten hoka” (Round table talk, seasonal review, Fall ’87 “the evolution of Mono-ha and post-Mono-ha” et al.). Mizue (Fall 1987): 86-101. 

Lee, Ufan. “Tokubetsu kikō mono-ha ni tsuite.” (Special article onMonoha). Mizue (Fall 1987): 102-105.
Lee, Ufan, Takubo Kyōji, Okazaki Kanjirō, Minemura Toshiaki Kanjirō, Minemura Toshiaki, and Chiba Shigeo. “Sairoku shinpojiumu kimihananiwoshitekitaka gekironn 70~80nendai no genndai bijutsu” (Re-recording Symposium: whathave 

you been doing? Heated discussion on contemporary art from the 70s and 80s). no. 1, 2, 3, 4, Seibu geijutsukan geppō, myūjiamu repōto, vol. 8, 9, 10,11.
Millet, Catherine. “Tokushū Ponpidū no ‘zenēi geijutsu no nihon 1910-1970’ten, watashitachi no yumemita radikalizumu kikan fukanō na jiten to shite” (“Japon des avant-gardes, 1910-1970” at the Pompidou, the radicalism we dreamed of as the point of no return). Bijutsu Techō, (April 1987): 144-151. 

Minemura, Toshiaki. “Wadai Pari, ponpidū centā ‘zenēi geijutsu no nihon1910- 1970’ ten no shinsō geijutsu no kihon wo machigaetewa imasenka” (The truth behind “Japon des avant-gardes, 1910-1970” at the Pompidou Center, Paris. Could you be misunderstanding the basis of art?) Art, no. 119 (1987): 70-72. Shiraga, Kazuo and Chiba Shigeo. “Shiraga Kazuo ga kataru” (Shiraga Kazuo speaks). Geijutsu hyōron (August 1987): 5-20. 

1978 “Nobuo Sekine.” Louisiana Revy, 19, no. 1 (August 1978): 18-23.(translated sections of the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf catalog). 

1975 Yasui, Shūzō. “Sekine Nobuo shōron. Kono <isō> no shitsuyō natankyūsha” (Short essay on Sekine Nobuo. A tenacious investigator of this “phase”). Hanga geijutsu (Print arts), no. 11 (1975): 142-48. 

1973 Yasui, Shūzō. “Sekine Nobuo e no tegami” (A letter to Sekine Nobuo). Kindai kenchiku, June 1973. 

Minemura, Toshiaki. “Geijutsu jānaru: Sekine Nobuo koten” (Art journal:Sekine Nobuo solo exhibition). Obararyū sōka, June 1973. 

1972 Haryu, Ichiro. “Dialogue number 31: Sekine, Nobuo, Interviewer Haryu, Ichiro.” Mizue 9-10, no. 812 (1972): 84-101. 

1971 Ufan, Lee. “Chokusetsu genshō no chihei ni (Sekine Nobuo ron)” (From the horizon of a direct phenomenon [On Sekine Nobuo]). Pts. 1 and 2. SD, no. 74 (December 1970); no. 75 (January 1971). 

1970 Ōkubo, Takaki. “Sekine Nobuo no kūsō” (Sekine Nobuo’s phase ofnothingness). Kai, March 1970. 

1969 Ōkubo, Takaki. “Sonzai to mu o koete-Sekine Nobuo ron” (Beyond beingand nothingness – On Sekine Nobuo). Sansai, June 1969, 51-53. 

1968 Yūsuke, Nakahara. “ no episode” (The episode of the“dirt sculpture”). Geijutsu shinchō, December 1968, 43. 

Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Japan
Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshima Contemporary Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
Kanai Museum, Hokkaido, Japan
Kawagoe City Art Museum, Saitama, Japan
Louisiana Museum, Denmark
Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagaoka, Japan
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam, Holland 

Prefectural Museum, Gunma, Japan
Prefectural Museum, Omiya, Saitama, Japan Prefectural Museum, Tochigi, Japan
Riijksmuseum Kroller, Otterlo, Holland
Seibu Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Sonji Henie-Nils Onstad Culture Center, Oslo, Norway Takamatsu Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan Yokohama Business Park, Yokohama, Japan 

1969 Concour Prize, 1st International Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition,Hakone, Japan 

Prize Group Work, 6th Paris Biennale, Paris, France 

1968 Concour Prize, 8th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Asahi Newspaper Prize, Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Suma Palace Park, Kobe, Japan
First Prize, 5th Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagaoka, Japan 

1967 Commendatory Prize, 11th Shell Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan

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