german-modern-art

Katsura Funakoshi



A hat of words 1998 Farbige Aquatinta-Radierung color aquatint etching 48 x 38,2/ 70,5 x 58,2 Auflage 40 Exemplare/ Edition of 40	Smell of snow 1998 Farbige Aquatinta-Radierung color aquatint etching 35,5 x 48 cm/ 54 x 66,3 cm Auflage 40 Exemplare/ Edition of 40	Dancer-moon 1990 Radierung etching 68 x 50,2 cm/ 105 x 80,5 Auflage 30 Exemplare/ Edition of 30



DR 0418 2004 Bleistift auf Papier pencil on paper 97,2 x 90 cm	DR 0619 2006 Kohle/ Bleistift/ Contéauf Papier charcoal/ pencil/ conté on paper 39,6 x 27 cm	Dancing as a pupa (homage to the dancer) 2000 Kampferholz farbig gefasst, Marmor, Stahl Painted camphor wood/ marble/ steel 97 x 84 x 80 cm Privatsammlung/ Privat Collection

BIOGRAPHIE/ biography - Katsura Funakoshi

1951	born in Morioka City, Iwate, Japan
1975	graduated from Tokyo Zokei University (Sculpture course)
1977	completed Master Course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Sculpture course)
1984	awarded the Oyama Prize for Excellence - Towards a City with Sculpture
1985	visiting Lecturer at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Sculpture course, – 1986)
1986	stayed in London with a grant from the Agency for Cultural Affairs (- 1987)
1989	visiting lecturer at Tokyo Zokei University (sculpture course, - 2000)
1990	visiting lecturer at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Sculpture course, - 1991)
1991	awarded the First Takashimaya Art Award from the Takashimaya Cultural Foundation
1995	awarded 26th Nakahara Teijiro Prize for Excellence
1997	awarded 18th Hirakushi Denchu Prize
2000	visiting professor at Tokyo Zokei University (sculpture course)

	lives and works in Tokyo

EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN/ solo exhibitions - Katsura Funakoshi
2004	Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie., Essen, Germany (Drawings- Prints)
2003	Katsura Funakoshi Works: 1980-2003, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi (Prints)
2002	Nishimura Gallery, (Drawings) Kawatoku, Morioka (Prints)
2001	Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
2000	Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Germany Continental Gallery, Sapporo (Prints), ’02
1999	4CATS, Nagoya (Prints) Matsuya Tokyo Ginza (Drawings) Katsura Funakoshi: Sculptures and Drawings, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1998	Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo (Prints), ’99, ’00, ’01
1997	Galerie de Printemps, Printemps Ginza (Prints) Exhibition of the 18th Hirakushi Denchu Prize, Ibara Municipal Denchu Art Museum, Okayama Space TRY, Tokyo (Prints) Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka (Prints), ’99, ’01, ’03
1996	Annely Juda Fine Art, London Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
1995	Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo (Drawings) Session House, Tokyo (Prints), ’97 Printemps Ginza (Prints), ’96, ’97, ’99, ’00, ’01, ’02
1994	Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco André Emmerich Gallery, New York – ’95 Ikebukuro Seibu (Prints), ’01 Gallery Yabuki, Okayama (Prints), ’98, ’99, ’01, ’03
1993	Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo Today’s Artists V-’93/ Funakoshi Katsura, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura Shibuya Seibu (Prints), ’94
1991	Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo (Etchings) Morioka Daiichi Gallery, Iwate (Prints), ’93, ’94 Gallery Shirakawa, Kyoto (Prints), ’93, ’94, ’96, ’97, ’99, ’01 Gallery Tamura, Hiroshima (Prints, Drawings), ’94, ’96, ’99, ’00, ’02 Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1990	Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo (Drawings)
1989	COMME des GARÇONS, Tokyo Arnold Herstand & Company, New York – ’90
1988	Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
1985	Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
1982	Gallery Okabe, Tokyo

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