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Masaaki Yamada

Biography

2016 “endless: The Paintings of Yamada Masaaki” The National Museum of Modern Art / Tokyo(MOMAT), The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (MOMAK)

2010 Died at the age of 81

1958 Solo exhibition at the Tokyo Ginza Kyobunkan Gallery/Tokyo

1950 Graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan College of Technology

1929 Born in Ebara-cho, Ebara-gun, Tokyo

Solo Exhibitions

2016

endless: The Paintings of Yamada Masaaki, The National Museum of Modern Art / Tokyo(MOMAT), The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (MOMAK)
2005

The Paintings of Masaaki Yamada, from “Still Life” to “Work” to “Color”Fuchu Art Museum / Tokyo

Solo Exhibition, COLOR-MUSEUM / Tokyo

2003

M・Art / Tokyo

2001

Masaaki Yamada Color 1997-2000, Gallery Kasahara / Osaka

2000

Masaaki Yamada - Color -, Gallery Kasahara / Osaka

1994

Masaaki Yamada Monochrome Painting 1965-67, Benesse House Museum / Kagawa

1992

Masaaki Yamada1950'S-1970'S, Gallery yonezu / Tokyo
Masaaki Yamada1951-1992, Gallery Kasahara / Osaka

1990

Masaaki Yamada Exhibition of Pastel 1990, Galerie Saint Guillaume / Tokyo

1989

Masaaki Yamada STRIPES1959-1974, Gallery yonezu / Tokyo

1983

Inoue Gallery / Tokyo

1979

Gallery Satani / Tokyo( Held annually from 79 'to 97)

1978

Masaaki Yamada 1957-1978, KOH Gallery / Tokyo

1965

TSUBAKI-KINDAI Gallery / Tokyo

1964

Nantenshi Gallery / Tokyo

1962

Yoseido Gallery / Tokyo(62', 63)

1958

Kyobunkwan Gallery / Tokyo

Group Exhibitions

2005

CUBISM IN ASIA: Unbounded Dialogues, The National Museum of Modern Art / Tokyo (MOMAT), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art /  Korea, Singapore Art Museum / Singapore

2004

Remaking Modernism in Japan 1900- 2000, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT)

2002

The Unfinished century: Legacies of 20th century art, The National Museum of Modern Art / Tokyo (MOMA)

1995

Painting-Singular object, The National Museum of Modern Art / Tokyo (MOMAT)
The National Museum of Modern Art /  Kyoto (MOMAK)

1990

Minimal Art, The National Museum of Art / Osaka

1989

Exhibition of Drawing Now, The National Museum of Art, Osaka (NMAO)

1988

TOKYO-BERLIN, Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition, Alte Nationalgalerie / Berlin, Germany

1987 

The 19th Bienal International de São Paulo / Brazil.

Painting 1977-1987, The National Museum of Art  / Osaka (NMAO)
The18th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum / Tokyo etc..

1984

TOKYO-PARIS, Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition / Paris, France

1981

The 1960's - a decade of change in contemporary Japanese art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto / Kyoto

1980

Today’s Artist [Emotion and Composition], Yokohama Civic Art Gallery / Kanagawa 

1979

Paintings of the late 1960s, Gallery Satani / Tokyo

1974

Japan -Tradition and Gegenwart, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf / Germany

1950

The 16th Art Exhibition by Jiyu Bijutsu (50'~56)

1949

The 1st Japan Independent (49'~53)

Publishing

1990

"WORKS YAMADA MASAAKI" (BIJUTSU SHUPPAN-SHA CO.,LTD)

Public Collection

Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art

Aomori Museum of Art Ashiya City

Museum of Art Utsunomiya

Museum of Art Ehime

Museum of Art Osaka Nakanoshima

Museum of Art  (Scheduled to open in 2021)
Ohara Museum of Art Kitakyushu
City

Museum of Art Kyoto National

Museum of Modern Art National

Museum of Art Saitama Prefectural

Museum of Modern Art Shiga Prefectural

Museum of Modern Art Color Museum Takamatsu City

Museum of Art Chiba City

Museum of Art Tsukuba University Ishii Collection

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

Tokyo International Forum

Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Museum Of contemporary art Tokyo

Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art

Nagoya City Museum of Art

Niigata City Museum of Art

Nerima Ward Museum of Art

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art

Fuchu City Museum of Art Paula Museum of Art

Miyagi Prefectural Museum of Art

Yokosuka Museum of Art

Yokohama Museum of Art

Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art

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