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Shin'ichi Kamatani Biography

Shin'ichi Kamatani

Japanese

1948-2009

Biography

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Printmaker Shin'ichi Kamatami was born in Hyogo Prefecture, Honshu, Japan, in 1948. He graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1975. He exhibited internationally, including in print biennales in Tokyo and Ljubjlana. His his work is included in the collections of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Bridgestone Museum of Art and the British Museum in London, the Togichi Prefectural Museum of Art, the Saitama Prefecture Museum of Art, and more. He died on October 25, 2009.

1975 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School, Department of Printmaking

1974 Gin Gallery (Tokyo) Solo Exhibition / 9th Japan Art Festival Exhibition (Vancouver, Tokyo)

1975 Solo exhibition at Muramatsu Gallery (Tokyo)

1976 12th Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition (Bridgestone Museum of Art Grand Prize) / 11th Japan Art Festival Exhibition (Minister of Education Prize)

1977 Kaneko Art Gallery (Tokyo) Solo Exhibition (1979/1980/1982/1985/1987) / 8th International Young Artists Exhibition (Honorable Mention Award)

1978 Today's Artist Exhibition "Constructing Expression" Organized by Takahiko Okada

1979 International Print Biennale (Bratford, UK) / 11th Tokyo International Biennale (Tokyo National Museum of Art)

1981 Paper Works by Three Artists (Ueyatsu and Hamada Kiyoshi) Kaneko Art Gallery (Tokyo)

1985 Best 20 Contemporary Japanese Prints

1986 "Modern Printmaking Expressions and Techniques" Exhibition (Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo)

1987 Ljubljana International Print Biennial Exhibition (Yugoslavia)

1990 "Irrational Plane" Exhibition, organized by Takashi Hayami / Travelled to the United States as an overseas research artist sent by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, stayed there until 1991

1992 Solo exhibition at Shirota Gallery (Tokyo) (1994/1995/1997)

1994 "Fruit Conception - Tetsuro Komai and Contemporary Printmakers" Exhibition (The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama)

1998 Gallery Goto (Tokyo) (1999/2009/2011)

2002 Color Museum (Tokyo) Solo Exhibition, Organized by Takeshi Sugawara (2011)

 2009 "The Pen and I - Sai Nakazato (University of Pennsylvania) and the Cultural Overseas Trainees" Exhibition Died October 25th

2010 Gallery Goto Posthumous Exhibition (Tokyo)

2011 Junji Amano x Shinichi Kamatani "Print Expression - Silkscreen" (Tokyo)

2014 "Printmaking" (Tokyo)
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