Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 | Kunitsukami, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (UPCOMING) |
2014 | Ippitsu-Nyuukon Exhibition, Parco Museum, Tokyo, Japan “Rhyme 2″ Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo”Process through to the original -Sketch” Roppongi Hills A/D Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2013 | Rough Sketch and Print, Tengai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2012 | Rhyme, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2011 | ENGIMONO -Lucky Charm-, G-tokyo 2011, Tokyo, Japan |
2009 | FURYU-EXTRAVAGANT, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2008 | Fighting Spirit, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2006 | Made in Japan, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2005 | Bunshin, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2004 | Deceptive Spirits of Mountains and Rivers, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2003 | Tenmyouya Hisashi, The Reed Space, New York City, New York, USA Kabuku, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Gakyo, NADiff, Tokyo, Japan |
2002 | NEO Japanese Painting, DEPOT, Tokyo, Japan |
2001 | Tenmyouya Hisashi, Progetto, Tokyo, Japan |
2000 | Japanese Spirit, Harajuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 | COOL JAPAN, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
2016 | 「Impacts! 勢み」, Gallery Ohrin, Ibaraki, Japan |
2014 | Winners of the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan Hisashi Tenmyouya × Indieguerillas, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore 「Impacts! 勢み」Japan Art Festival, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art × Mizuma Art Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
2013 | Ikeda Manabu & Tenmyouya Hisashi, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin, USA ZIPANGU: The Surge of Japanese Contemporary Art, Takasaki Museum of Art, Gunma, Japan (traveled to: Hachinohe City Museum of Art, Aomori; Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan) Wonderful My Art - Artists of the Takahashi Collection, Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan |
2012 | Look East! Japanese Contemporary Art, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore TDW-Art Ito Jakuchu Inspired, Meiji Jingu Gaien Environmental Design Tent, Tokyo, Japan |
2011 | WABISABI, Oroshimachi Art Festa 2011, Noh-BOX, Miyagi, Japan TDW-ART Jalapagos, Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan 2011 Taguchi Art Collection GLOBAL NEW ART, Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan ZIPANGU - 31 spirited artists cutting through new territories of Japanese contemporary art, Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo, Japan (traveled to: Takashimaya Osaka, Japan and Takashimaya Kyoto, Japan) The Most Requested TOP 30 – 10 Years of Takahashi Collection, Takahashi Collection Hinode, Tokyo, Japan Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, Japan Society, New York City, New York, USA |
2010 | BASARA, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan 17th Sydney Biennale, The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia The Adventurer of Images: Korea-Japan Modern Representative Artist Exhibition, Hyundai Department Store, Gyeonggi, South Korea SugiPOP!, Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA |
2008 | neoteny japan - From Takahashi Collection, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan (traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan; Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata, Japan; Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan; Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan; The Museum of Art Ehime, Ehime, Japan) Off The Rails, Mizuma & One Gallery, Beijing, China |
2007 | Heroes in Warrior Paintings, Nagano Prefectural Art Museum, Nagano, Japan |
2006 | Berlin-Tokyo / Tokyo-Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany MOT Annual 2006: No Border, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
2005 | Gundam: Generating Futures, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan (traveled to: Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan; Kawara Museum, Aichi, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan; Kyoto International Manga Museum, Kyoto, Japan) |
2003 | Japan: Rising, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida, USA The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990-2003 (curated by Lawrence Linder), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York, USA 6th Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan |
2002 | Kyosai plus one, Kawanabe Kyosai and Tenmyouya Hisashi, Kawanabe Kyosai Memorial Museum, Saitama, Japan |
2001 | One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art, Bronx Museum, Bronx, New York, USA (traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany) 8th Lichtex Biennale, Aoyama Spiral Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
1998 | JACA ’98, Fujita Museum, Tokyo, Japan (traveled to: Havana Asia Oceania Research Center, Havana, Cuba) |
1997 | JACA ’97, Fujita Museum, Tokyo, Japan (traveled to: Kiev Ukraine Art Academy, Kiev, Ukraine; Bratislava Municipal Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia) |
1993 | URBANART #2, PARCO Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan (traveled to: Nagoya, Japan and Osaka, Japan) |
1990 | JACA ’90, Isetan Museum, Tokyo, Japan (travled to: São Paolo Museum, São Paolo, Brazil) 11th Japan Graphic Exhibition, PARCO Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan (traveled to: Nagoya, Japan and Osaka, Japan) |
Awards
2003 | Excellence Prize, the 6th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art |
2001 | Encouragement Prize, the 8th Lichtex Biennale |
1997 | Special Prize, the JACA '97 Exhibition |
1990 | Kiyoshi Awazu Judge's Prize, the 11th Japan Graphic Exhibition |
Public Collections
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin, USA Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA |
Publication
2014 | Masterpiece, catalogue (English/Japanese), Seigensha Art Publishing, Inc. |
2010 | Basara - Japanese Art Theory Crossing Borders: From Jomon Pottery to Decorated Trucks, catalogue (English/Japanese), Bijutsu Shuppan-sha Co., Ltd. |
2007 | 「Kamon」King of Mountain, catalogue (English/Japanese) |
2006 | Samurai Nouveau (New People Artist Series Volume 4), DVD (Japanese with English subtitles), B.B.B. Inc. Tenmyouya Hisashi, catalogue (English/Japanese), Kawade Shobo Shinsha |
2004 | Kabuki-mono, catalogue (English/Japanese), Parco Co., Ltd |
2003 | Japanese Spirit, catalogue (English/Japanese), Gakken Co., Ltd |