Japanese

TATSUO IKEDA
池田 龍雄

1928 Born in Saga, Japan
1948 Enrolled at Tama College of Fine Arts (now Tama Art University).
Participated in the avant-garde art movement "Seiki no Kai (Century Society)" alongside Taro Okamoto, Kiyoteru Hanada, and Kobo Abe.
1950 Co-founded the "Producers’ Roundtable with On Kawara.
1954 Gained attention when Kobo Abe introduced his work "Amimoto", exhibited at the Yomiuri Independent Exhibition.
2011 Appeared in the art documentary film "ANPO."
2020 Passed away from aspiration pneumonia at the age of 92.


Exhibitions at FUMA Contemporary Tokyo |
BUNKYO ART

2025Shigeo Ishii "Perfect Crime: Black Painting" + Tatsuo Ikeda, On Kawara
2017Japanese Avant Garde 1950-1970 + Contemporary Art
201735th Gallery Anniversary Tatsuo Ikeda Exhibition
2014"Works on Paper: Collection"
2013Boiling: 1950s / ’60s A Cross-Section of Japanese Art
2009Artists Shuzo Takiguchi Loved
2006Collection Exhibition
2006A Hole Beneath the Roots — The 1950s and 60s
2005Shigeo Ishii / Tasuo Ikeda ― The 1950s and 60s
2002The M Collection Exhibition
2002Museum Piece Class Collection Exhibition ―
The 1950s and 60s
2002Shigeo Ishii / Tasuo Ikeda Drawing on paper
― The 1950s and 60s

Selected Exhibitions

2025"Collection 1" The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2025"Collection Exhibition 2025-Ⅰ" Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
2025MOT Collection 30th Anniversary Exhibit "Nine Profiles: 1935→2025" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
2024"The Possiilities of Linear Expression" The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2024"Tatsuo Ikeda 1986-88" Galerie Tokyo Humanité
2023"Tatsuo Ikeda - The artist who fights and plays" Saga Prefectural Art Museum
2022"Tasuo Ikeda: BRAHMAN" Fergus McCaffrey Tokyo
2021"Between Collectivism and Individualism - Japanese Avant Garde in the 1950s and the 1960s" Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
2020"Collection: The Aesthetics of Contemporary Japan" The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2019"Tatsuo Ikeda - Position of Place" Tokyo Art Museum
2018"Ikeda Tatsuo: An Elliptical Visionary" Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo
2017"Tatsuo Ikeda: The Universe Within a Box" Galerie Tokyo Humanité
2016"ECCE HOMO –The Human Images in Contemporary Art-" The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2014"We Are Real 1920s-1950s" Musashino City Kichijoji Art Museum, Tokyo
2013"Tatsuo Ikeda - Drawing the Phases of Place" Galerie Tokyo Humanité
2012"Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde" Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
2012"10th Art Program Ome 2012" Ome Municipal Museum Of Art, Tokyo
2012"Tatsuo Ikeda Exhibition" Maruki Gallery For The Hiroshima Panels, Saitama
2010"Collection 3 Japanese Art 1950-2010" The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2010"IKEDA TATSUO The Trajectory of Postwar Avant-garde Art" Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
2010"IKEDA TATSUO The Trajectory of Postwar Avant-garde Art" Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki
2010"IKEDA TATSUO The Trajectory of Postwar Avant-garde Art" Yamanashi Prefetural Museum of Art
2009"Tatsuo Ikeda Exhibition" Galerie Tokyo Humanité
2008"Collection 3" The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2007"The 30th Anniversary: Collection of the National Museum of Art, Osaka" The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2006"IKEDA Tatsuo New Works 2006" Galerie Tokyo Humanité
2005"Collection 3" The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2005"Drifting Objects of Dreams - The collection of Shuzo Takiguchi" Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
2004"Remaking Modernism in Japan 1900-2000" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
2004"IKEDA Tatsuo New Works 2004" Galerie Tokyo Humanité
2003"The Power of Kyushu : World Art Born on the Island of Kyushu" Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto
2001The 21st Exhibition Homage to Shuzo Takiguchi Tastuo Ikeda "Drift Ashore" Satani Gallery, Tokyo
2001"IKEDA Tatsuo New Works - 24 HEADS" Galerie Tokyo Humanité
2000"Homage to Taro Okamoto from seven artists" Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki
1999"Tatsuo Ikeda" Galerie Tokyo Humanité
1998"To and From Shuzo Takiguchi" The National Museum of Art, Osaka
1998"Art and Dance by Hijikata Tatsumi" IKEDA Museum of 20th Century Art, Shizuoka
1997"The 20th Anniversary Exhibition From The Permanent Collection" The National Museum of Art, Osaka
1997Art of Nerima '97 "Tasuo Ikeda and Hiroshi Nakamura Exhibition" Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo
1995"Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years" Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
1992"Japanese Modern Art 1945-1985" Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
1990"Figures in Contemporary Art From the Collection of The National Museum of Art, Osaka" Kintetsu Art Hall, Osaka
1988"REPORTAGE ART in JAPAN" Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
1988"Sōzu Exhibition" INAX Gallery, Tokyo
1987"Tatsuo Ikeda Exhibition: Series 'Brahman' Chapter 9 Flexure 1986-1987: Post-war works 1951-1969" Galerie Tokyo Humanité
1986"Japon des avant gardes 1910-1970" Centre Pompidou, Paris
1985"Reconstructions:Avant−GardeArt in Japan 1945−1965" Modern Art Oxford, UK
1985"The World of Ikeda Tatsuo" IKEDA Museum of 20th Century Art, Shizuoka
1982"Art Critic Takiguchi Shūzō and His Favorite Postwar Arts" Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
1981"1950s Exhibition" Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
1954The first solo exhibition at Yoseido Gallery, Tokyo

Public Collections

National Museum of odern Art, Tokyo; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo; Yamanashi Prefetural Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, Toyama; Saga Prefectural Art Museum; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts; Nogoya City Art Museum; Fukuoka Art Museum, etc.

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