Mitaka City Gallery of Art - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Mitaka City Gallery of Art. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
Koichi Tanikawa Exhibition
[6][1]- Media: Illustration - Painting - Sculpture
- 2011-09-03 - 2011-10-23
This exhibition introduces visitors to the multifaceted career of Koichi Tanikawa (1938-) with a showcase of his paintings, wax art, painted dishes, ceramic objects and posters.More »
"Daumier et Grandville Exhibition: The Golden Age of Caricature and Illustration" Exhibition
[9][1]- Media: Prints
- 2011-04-16 - 2011-05-29
This exhibition looks at the dual geniuses of Honoré-Victorin Daumie and J.J. Grandville, who were near contemporaries, and introduces the 19th century French art born from the masses, not the art world. The...More »
Richard Gorman "Paintings and Prints"
[4][2]- Media: Painting - Prints
- 2010-09-11 - 2010-10-24
Born in Dublin in 1946, Richard Gorman is one of Ireland's most representative painters. His abstract works, featuring simple forms and pure colors, have won high acclaim in Europe and the US. On display...More »
"Shape of the Artist, Shape of Passion" Exhibition
[1][1]- Media: Painting
- 2010-07-17 - 2010-08-29
This exhibition showcases newly acquired works from the collection by Hamae Sakurai (1908-2007) and Tazuko Tanaka (1913-), two Japanese female painters with a connection to Mitaka, as well as pieces by...More »
Alfons Maria Mucha Exhibition
[22][2]- Media: Illustration - Prints
- 2010-05-22 - 2010-07-04
This exhibition, organized with the kind support of museums in the Czech Republic and France, commemorates the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Art Nouveau artist Alfons Maria Mucha. On display are...More »
Torinkai Ink Painting Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Drawing
- 2010-02-16 - 2010-02-21
Atelier-Franc Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Drawing
- 2010-02-09 - 2010-02-14
"The Yoshidas : A Family Journey in Art" Exhibition
[3][1]- Media: Painting
- 2009-08-29 - 2009-10-12
7 members from 4 generations of Yoshida family, including the master of modern landscape painter Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950), chose to pursue a career as a painter. This is the first exhibition in Japan...More »
Nyokyu Makishima "Place for God and Buddha"
[2][1]- Media: Painting
- 2009-07-25 - 2009-08-23
Born in Ashikaga City, Tochigi Prefecture, Nyokyu Makishima (1892-1975) was a Buddhist painter known for his vibrant use of color and modeling techniques often employed in Western painting. Nyokyu's father...More »
Raoul Dufy Exhibition
[5][1]- Media: Painting
- 2009-04-18 - 2009-06-28
Born in Le Havre, a port town in France, Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) studied at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris. Moving into an apartment in Montmartre in 1900, he started painting in earnest. During...More »
Aiou "Rainbow Celebration"
[4][2]- Media: Painting - Prints
- 2009-01-06 - 2009-02-11
Aiou is an artist who has been active as a "rainbow creator" since his days in New York in the mid-60s, having painted every available object around him in rainbow colors. This exhibition showcases...More »
"60th Anniversary of Osamu Dazai's Passing: Message from Mitaka" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Other
- 2008-11-22 - 2008-12-21
This exhibition focuses on Osamu Dazai's literary activities in Mitaka and his time-tested oeuvre. Contact: Yuzo Yamamoto Memorial Hall 0422(42)6233More »
Kazuto Miura + Masao Sekiguchi "Time for Snapshots"
[4][2]- Media: Photography
- 2008-09-06 - 2008-10-19
At the Shigeo Gocho exhibition held in 2004 at the Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Shigeo Gocho (1946-1983) was introduced as a photographer who captured 1960s-80s Japan in line with his own personal life,...More »
「End of Shogunate Ukiyo-e Prints from the Nakau Collection: Festivity of Greater Edo - The World of Hokusai, Hiroshige, Kunisada and Kuniyoshi" Exhibition
[3][4]- Media: Prints - Art Talk
- 2008-04-26 - 2008-06-08
Developed in the late 17th century, ukiyo-e printmaking is a popular art that was well loved by Edo citizens. Early Ukiyo-e were set in kabuki stages and depicted actors and beautiful female roles, and...More »
"Kaiju Monsters and Art - Toru Narita's Art and Influence on Kaiju Art" Exhibition
[7][1]- Media: Illustration - Sculpture - Art Talk
- 2007-09-08 - 2007-10-21
Monsters and beasts are not real. Toru Narita strived to design and express the forms of these "kaiju" in a uniquely Japanese way that was different from the western image of a "monster." He entered Musashino...More »
Maurice Utrillo "The Poetry of Montmartre"
[14][1]- Media: Painting
- 2007-04-28 - 2007-07-08
Maurice Utrillo was born in Paris in 1883. He was the illegitimate child of Susanne Valadon who later became Renoir's model, Lautrec's lover and van Gogh's friend and finally got started on her path as...More »
Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava Exhibition
[14][4]- Media: Illustration
- 2007-01-20 - 2007-03-11
The Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava (BIB), which takes place every year in the Slovakian capital, is the world's biggest exhibition of picture book illustrations, bringing together veteran illustrators...More »
Horin Fukuoji Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2006-10-07 - 2006-10-22
Horin Fukuoji (1920-) is reknowned for his paintings depicting the Himalayas. The world's tallest mountain range captured his imagination as a young boy, and continued to be his inspiration for over 20...More »
Kwak Duck-Jun "The Sun and Kwak"
[5][0]- Media: Photography - Prints
- 2006-07-26 - 2006-08-26
Kwak Duck-Jun, born in 1937 in Kyoto, creates prints and photographs on the theme of 'the relation between me and the world' in a humorous and cynical fashion. The series displayed in this exhibition consists...More »
Yajuro Takashima Exhibition
[7][3]- Media: Painting
- 2006-06-10 - 2006-07-17
For the 30th anniversary of his death, 100 works and reference materials will be exhibited to chronicle Yajuro Takashima's career from adolescence to his very last work, 'Lilies'. Yajuro Takashima was...More »
The Eyes of a Poet - Manabu Ohoka Collection
[1][2]- Media: Painting
- 2006-04-15 - 2006-05-28
Makoto Ohoka (1931-) is best known for his series of poems "Occasional Songs" published in Asahi Shinbun from 1979. He received many awards for them. Since the late 1950s, he has worked as an art critic...More »
From the Mitaka City Collection
[1][0]- Media: Painting
- 2006-03-21 - 2006-03-29
An exhibition of 38 works by abstract painters Hamae Sakurai (1908- ), Tazuko Tanaka (1913- ), and Hiroshi Sakai (1931- ), who all have connections with Mitaka City.More »
Yasuji Tanioka: Japanese Morning and Round Horizon
[6][0]- Media: Graphics - Illustration
- 2005-09-10 - 2005-10-23
Cartoon writer Yasuji Tanioka created popular short stories in the 70s. The phrases used by his characters became widely known and trendy, and the extremely simplified style and unrestrained expression...More »
Courbet Museum Exhibition
[1][2]- Media: Painting - Other
- 2005-04-06 - 2005-06-05
Gustave Courbet was a Realism artist who had an important impact on the middle of the 19th century. Some of his oil paintings, paper works and other collected works from the Courbet Museum in France will...More »
Modern Japanese Sculptors from 1960
[0][2]- Media: Sculpture
- 2005-02-05 - 2005-03-21
This exhibition presents four Japanese sculptors who began their careers between 1945 and 1960. The sculptors include Tomonori Toyofuku (1925-), Shu Eguchi (1932-), Eisaku Tanaka (1933), and Hisayuki Mogami...More »
Shigeo Gocho - Part 1
[0][1]- Media: Photography
- 2004-09-11 - 2004-10-24
This exhibition includes Gosho`s works from the three volumes of photograph collection for the first time and also his student project from research institute years.More »
