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Selected Career Exhibition Curation

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
  • Inventive Clothes 1909-1939 (1975) Curatorial Cordinator
  • Romantic Evolution (1980) Exhibition Director
Seibu - Sezon Museum of Art
  • Issey in Museum (1978)
  • Charles Rennie MacKintosh (1979)
  • Mode: Yves Saint Laurent Exhibition (1990)
  • Japanese Design, Traditional/Contemporary (1984)
  • USSR Cultural Ministry, Moscow in conjunction with Seibu-Sezon
Yurakucho Seibu Art Forum
  • HAATH: Textiles of India and Issey Miyake (1986)
  • Earth & Sky: Works from the Nagaland (1988)
  • Frida Kahlo Exhibition (1989)
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City
  • Three Women;
  • Clothing Designers of the 20th Century (1987)
Utsunomiya Museum of Art
  • Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Japanese Life Style Postwar Fashion&Design (1998-1999) Exhibition Supervision
Venice Biennale: 7th International Architecture Exhibition
Curator, Japanese Pavilion (2000)
Yurakucho Muji Gallery 3F (2004 and 2006)
Do It JIBUN DE
Musashino Art University Exhibition
  • O.C.C. - “On Conceptual Clothing”
  • University Art and Archive Library Galleries (2004)
  • Kirishima Open Air Museum Galleries (2005)
Sagacho Exhibit Space (selected exhibits)
  • Rei Naito (1984) and (1991)
  • Hiroshi Tomura (1984)
  • Kazuo Kenmochi (1985)
  • Mika Yoshizawa (1987)
  • Shinro Ohtake (1987)
  • Tadao Ando on Theatre Architecture (1988)
  • Yasumasa Morimura (1990)
  • Hiroshi Sugimoto (1988) and (1991)
  • Jarg Geismar (1991)
  • Katsuya Komagata (1992)
  • Fuku Akino (1992)
  • Anselm Kiefer's "Women of the Revolution" (1993)
  • Yohei Narumi (1995)
  • SOSIE (1996)
  • Margo Sawyer (1996)
  • Dani Karavan (1996)
  • Contemporary Art of Portugal and Japan (1997)
  • Ling Fei (1997)

Symposium Supervision

Architecture and Art (1996)
Speaker: Raphael Vinoly Tokyo International Forum
Time and Space of Artistic Direction (1996)
Speaker: Eiko Ishioka Tokyo Opera City
Director of Coincidence (1997)
Keynote Speaker: Jan Fabre Guest Speaker: Ilya Kabakov Tokyo Opera City
The World of Eiko Ishioka (2006)
Speaker: Eiko Ishioka Roppongi Hills Academy Hall

Overseas Lecture

Yabai! (2001) On the Japanese Fashion Scene
SOAS-London (The Asian Society)

Memberships on Board of Directors

  • Kyoto Costume Institute
  • Sezon Cultural Foundation
  • Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
  • Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
  • Kirishima Open-Air Museum Kagoshima

Edited Works

  • Inventive Clothes (1975) / Art Direction - Ikko Tanaka
  • East Meets West (1978) / Art Direction - Ikko Tanaka
  • Japan Color (1981) / Art Direction - Ikko Tanaka
  • Japan Design (1984) / Art Direction - Ikko Tanaka
  • And Numerous Sagacho Exhibit Space Catalogues

Books

  • Through the Flower by Judy Chicago (translation)
  • Allure by Diana Vreeland (translation)
  • Eileen Gray by Peter Adam (translation)
  • AURA of Environment (1994)

Articles

"Around the World"
Netherland Opera "Ring of the Nibelung" Asahi Newspaper Theatre Review
Proposals for the Fashion Business
Textile News (series of articles) June, August, November 1999, February 2000
Contemporary Art and Frangrance
Takasago Times
Rennovation of an Old Building with Exceptional Value
Sagacho Exhibit Space as an example Center for Urban Resources

Awards

  • Fashion Editors' Club Award (1980)
  • Mainichi Design Prize (1985)
  • Third Annual Japan Culture Foundation Award for Contemporary Art (1995)