ARTCOURT Gallery

Artists

Yasue Kodama

Biography

1961
Born in Hyogo Prefecture
1984
B.A., Fine Art, Kyoto City University of Arts, Oil Painting Course
1986
M.A., Fine Art, Kyoto City University of Arts, Painting Course

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023
MEM, Tokyo ['18, ’16, ’14, ’11]
2022
O Gallery eyes, Osaka [’20, ’18, ’16, ’13, ’11, ’09, ’07, ’05]
2020
Gallery 21yo-j, Tokyo [’12]
Tor Road Gallery, Hyogo [’19-’14, ’12, ’10-’08, ’06-’02, ’00-’98, ’94, ’86]
2015
Art Space Niji, Kyoto [’10, ’09, ’05, ’89, ’86]
2014
Deep Rhyme – the note of water, Gallery Circulo, Saga
2008
Gallery 21+yo, Tokyo [’94, ’92]
2003
sora / ao (“sky / blue”), CASO (Contemporary Art Space Osaka), Osaka
2002
hana iro (“flower color”), Saison Art Program Gallery, Tokyo
2000
blue in blue, Gallery KURANUKI, Osaka
1997
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1996
Ishiyacho Gallery, Kyoto [’93, ’92, ’90]
1995
Skydoor Art Place Aoyama, Tokyo
1994
Art Site, Fukui

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
ACG Villa Kyoto Vol.017: "Goldfish and Lemon" Yasue Kodama and Chihiro Yoshioka, ACG Villa Kyoto
2023
Satoshi Kawata, Yasue Kodama, Tomoko Takagi, Hitoshi Nakazato, Yasuyoshi Botan, Hiroshi Mizuta, Chihiro Yoshioka and more – ACG 20th Anniversary Vol. 4, ARTCOURT Gallery. Osaka
2022
Kyoto Fine Arts Cultural Award Memorial Exhibition, The Museum of Kyoto
2021
Gazing into the Dark, Touching the Light, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2020
Staring: Miwa Kawai, Yasue Kodama, Hisako Masuda, Satoko Watanabe, The Tokushima Modern Art Museum
2019
Observation: Artists Confronting the Wonder of Looking Intently, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi
2018
Monet's Legacy: Beyond the Impressionism, Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi / Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa
2014
Quintet: Five-Star Artists, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo
2013
Playback Artist Talks, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2012
New Incubation 4 Yurameki Tokeyuku: Yasue Kodama & Tetsuji Nakanishi, Kyoto Art Center
2010
Primary Field Ⅱ, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Kanagawa
2009
Kobe Biennale 2009 Guest Artists Exhibition: LINK – Flexible Deviation, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
2007
Dialogues – Painters' Views on the Museum Collection, The Museum of Modern Art Shiga
2005
Tsubaki-kai 2005, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo [’04-’01]
2002
Theatre of Our Lives, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
2001
The Very Last, Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Cologne, Germany
2000
Kyoto Prefectural Culture Awards Exhibition, The Museum of Kyoto
1999
An Overview Contemporary Japanese Painting, Tokyo Station Gallery
1998
The Vision of Contemporary Art: New Artists of Two Dimensions (VOCA '98), The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo [’97, ’96, ’94]
1996
Japanese Contemporary Art: At the Water's Edge – Susumu Koshimizu & Yasue Kodama, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Kanagawa
1994
Light and Shadow: The Sense of Ephemerality, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
1993
Two persons exhibition: Naofumi Maruyama and Yasue Kodama, Gallery KURANUKI, Osaka
1990
Artists in Hyogo '90, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art

Awards

2021
The 34th Kyoto Fine Arts Cultural Award
2010
The 18th KAMETAKA Fumiko Memorial-Akusosha Prize
2005
Hyogo Prefecture Art Encouragement Prize
1999
The 17th Kyoto Prefecture Cultural Priz〈e Encouragement Award〉
1993
'93 Artists of Next Generation〈 Second Grand Prize〉
1991
'91 Artists of Next Generation〈Grand Prize〉
1986
Annual Exhibition 1986 Kyoto City University of Art〈s Graduate School Award and Kayo Award〉

Public Collections

Oita Prefectural Art Museum / The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama / The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art / The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama / Busan Museum of Art / Kyoto Prefecture / Shiseido Art House / Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery / Chushin Art Museum, Kyoto

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