Waterfall♯20 – Etching
Hiroshi Senju was the president of Kyoto University of Art & Design from 2007 to 2013, presently a professor of Kyoto University of Art & Design, director of Koyodo Museum, member of masters committee of L’ÉCOLE of Van Cleef & Arpels, and advisor of The Tokugawa Museum.
Introduction
Morning Light
Painter. His representative work “Waterfall” has received Honorable Mention in the
painting category at the Venice Biennale in 1995. From 2007 to March 2013 served
as the president of Kyoto University of Art and Design. Currently a professor at Kyoto
University of Art and Design. Director of Koyodo Museum of Art, affiliated with Kyoto
University of Art and Design. Director of “Institute of Art,” a joint educational
institution of Kyoto University of Art and Design and Tohoku University of Art and
Design. Member of masters committee at L’ecole, School of Jewelry Arts by Van Cleef
& Arpels. In 2016, in recognition of the international reputation of “Waterfall” and
“Cliffs,” he was awarded the Foreign Minister’s Commendation FY2016. Won the
Isamu Noguchi Award in 2017. In 2018 “Senju Hiroshi: commemorating the
completion of a fusuma painting for Kongoubuji temple, Koyasan” was held at
Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art & Design, and has been toured nationwide since
then as a traveling exhibition. Hiroshi Senju & teamLab collaborative exhibition
“Waterness” at Dojima River Forum.
Limited edition
Japanese Paintings Works
Biography
| 1958 | Born in Tokyo, Japan |
| 1982 | BFA, Tokyo University of the Arts |
| 1984 | MFA, The Graduate School of Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation work purchased by Tokyo University of the Arts |
| 1987 | Completed coursework of the doctoral program at Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation work purchased by The University of Tokyo |
| 1989 | The End of Dream , solo exhibition, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney, Australia |
| 1990 | History of Japanese – Style Paint ing , group exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan |
| 1993 | Selected on the cover of Art Now Gallery Guide – New York, USA Flatwater , solo exhibition, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, USA |
| 1994 | Hiroshi Senju: 1980 – 1994 , solo exhibition, Takamura Museum, Yamanashi, Japan Received 4th Kenbuchi Picture Book Award for Picturebook When Stardust Falls….. , Japan |
| 1995 | Hiroshi Senju , solo exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Received Honorable Mention at 46th La Biennale di Venezia, Italy |
| 1996 | Hiroshi Senju – Waterfalls & Glasses , solo exhibition, The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan |
| 1998 | Received Konju-hosho (Dark Blue Ribbon Medal) for Hachigatsu no Sora to Kumo (August Sky and Clouds) which is collected by Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan |
| 2000 | Received Michiaki Kawakita Award for Life exhibited in Ryoyonome Exhibition: Painting in the 21st Century , Japan |
| 2002 | The New Way of Tea , group exhibition, Japan Society and Asia Society, New York, U.S.A. Received Grand Prize, 13th MOA Mokichi Okada Award, Japan The Scent and Shape of Ink , group exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Republic of Korea |
| 2003 | Paintings on Fusuma at the Juko – in of Daitoku – ji Temple , group exhibition, Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan Kaiga no Genzai (Present – day Art) , group exhibition, Bandaijima City Museum, Niigata, Japan The es sence of Contemporary Nihonga , group exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan Contemporary Japanese Painting , group exhibition, Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan Mural for the foyer of Grand Hyatt Hotel, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2004 | Art Direction for Haneda Airport (Tokyo International Airport) Domestic Terminal 2, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2005 | Lexus L-Finesse, Milano Salone, Milan, Italy Hiroshi Senju – 77 Panels of fusuma – e for Juko – in Annex of Daitoku – ji Temple , solo exhibition, Fukuoka Asian Museum, Fukuoka, Japa |
| 2006 | The 6th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Republic of Korea Designed dial face of a watch, Reverso, Jaeger-LeCoultre, 75th-anniversary special limited edition Naoshima Standard 2 , Benesse Art Site, Kagawa, Japan Hiroshi Senju , solo exhibition, Yamatane Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2007 | Masterpiece Collection of Yamatane Museum of Art , group exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Toyama, Japan Paintings on fusuma at Shofuso, Pennsylvania, USA Hyakubashira wo Tateru, Kusokuzeshiki, Senju Hiroshi (Building One Hundred Pillars, Emptiness is the form, Hiroshi Senju) Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan Harukanaru Aoi Hikari , solo exhibition, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2008 | Still /Motion: Liquid Crystal Painting , group exhibition, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie, Japan; traveling to The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan; and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan Ceramic Board Mural, Akasaka Biz Tower (TBS), Tokyo, Japan Ceramic Board Mural, Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line, Shinjuku-Sanchome Station, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2009 | Art House project Ishibashi , Benesse Art Site, Kagawa, Japan New Light from a Far , solo exhibition, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Los Angels, USA Out of Nature : Cliffs and Falling Water, solo exhibition, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong, China |
| 2010 | The Invitations to 20th Century Art, group exhibition, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Gifu, Japan Masterpiece Collection of Saku Municipal Museum of Modern Art , group exhibition, Takasaki Tower Museum of Art, Gunma, Japan Hiroshi Senju: World of Blue – Echoes of Kaii Higashiyama , Higashiyama Kaii Setouchi Museum, Kagawa, Japan Setouchi Triennale, Kagawa, Japan Art Direction for APEC Japan 2010, Yokohama, Japan Art Direction for Haneda Airport (Tokyo International Airport) International Passenger Terminal and expanded Domestic Terminal 2, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2011 | Art Direction for the new building of Japan Railways Hakata Station Hiroshi Senju Museum Karuizawa Opened Water, Fire, and Earth . The Source of Creativity, group exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan The 5th Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China Vision of Nature, Lost and Found, in Asian Contemporary Art , group exhibition, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong Art Direction for Gucci 90th anniversary archive exhibition at Kinkakuji Temple, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2012 | Cliffs , solo exhibition, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, USA Mural for OUB Centre, Singapore Stage Design for The Japanese Classical Dance with Orchestra, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2013 | Stage Design for Opera KAMIKAZE, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan Mural for Ekoin Temple, Tokyo, Japan Art Direction for Sazaedo building, Taisho University, Tokyo, Japan Art Direction for Message Cherry Blossoms project, KITTE Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan Day Falls/Night Falls, solo exhibition, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong The Tale of Genji – the Skies of Heian Period, solo exhibition, Sagawa Art Museum, Shiga, Japan Setouchi Triennale, Kagawa, Japan Stage Design for “Jyusuke Hanayagi and Tamasaburo Bando” Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2014 | Stage Design for opera YUZURU, performed at various cities in Japan |
| 2015 | Day Falls/Night Fall s , solo exhibition, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore Ceramic Tile Mural for Public Bath at JR Onagawa Station, Miyagi, Japan Frontiers Reimagined at 56th La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy Public art project commissioned by Southern Branch of The National Palace Museum, Taiwan R.O.C |
| 2016 | Paintings on Fusuma dedicated for Juko-in in Daitoku-ji temple was open to the public along with Fusuma painted by Eitoku Kano, Kyoto, Japan Mizu to Hikari no Genso (Illusions in Water and Light) , Toindo in Yakushi-ji temple Nara, Japan Received Foreign Minister’s Commendation for FY 2016 by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |
| 2017 | At World’s End , solo exhibition, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York Received Isamu Noguchi Award |
| 2018 | Received Award for Excellence in Art, Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia, USA. Released Octo Finissimo Hiroshi Senju from BVLGARI Following its staging at the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art & Design, Commemorating the Completion of Fusuma Pain tings for Kongobuji Temple, Koyasan will tour multiple museums in Japan. Hiroshi Senju & teamLab Collaborative Exhibition: Waterness , Dojima River Forum, Osaka, Japan Received Eagle on the World Award, JCCI, USA |
Japanese Paintings
Inquire
Limited edition
1/2
2/2
Inquire
Book of paintings
Hiroshi Senju Print Works catalogue raisonné : 1988-2015
Price：16,200yen +shipping charge
Contents：215pages 373 prints 〔include unpublished works, puclic works〕
Inquire