TOEKO TATSUNO
   
   
Toeko Tatsuno who began her career as an artist in the 1970s with oil painting, incorporated mechanical lines into her canvases, such as those ruled lines to be found in notebooks or on graph paper. During this time she
also began to make screen prints.

From the 1980s, with oil painting the main focus, Tatsuno pushed her way forward with large scale canvases which, with their very strong colours and forms, were full of a tremendous vitality. This feeling was evident in her one person exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art and the "Japanese Contemporary Art 1985-1995" exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, among others.

However, in recent years, her work while possessing that strength of her previous paintings also holds a softer form concealed inside. There appears what seems to be another figure of Tatsuno as she repeats over and over again these calm thoughts.

Tatsuno made her first prints with Edition Works in 1992. The collaboration then continued from 1993~1997 and then again in 2001.


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5 prints

2004
silkscreen/etchings


monotype
(sold out)
2005
monotype
   
   

1992 / Dec-17-93 / Mar-1-94
(a few)
etching
   
May-19-2005
2005
monotype
   
 
 
 
Biography
1950
1972

1974
1974-75

Born in Okaya, Nagano
Graduated from B.A. course in the Dept of Oil Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Completed M.A. course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Assistant, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Lives in Tokyo
   
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1973
1976
1978

1982
1987

1989
1990
1991
1995
1998
2001
Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo
Gallery 16, Kyoto
Gallery Takagi, Nagoya
Koh Gallery, Tokyo
Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London  
Art Now Gallery, Goteborg
Satani Gallery, Tokyo('93,'95,'97)
Goto Museum, Matsudo
Gallery Yonetsu, Tokyo('92)
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
   
Selected Group Exhibitions
1977

1979

1980
1984

1987
1989
1990
1991


1992-93

1994



1995


1998
2001
"Exchange Exhibition of American and Japanese Artists", 80 Langton Street Gallery, San Francisco; Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery
"The 11th International Biennial Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo", National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and tours
"Art Today '80", Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo
"Hara Annual IV", Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
"Metaphor and/or Symbol", National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; National Museum of Art, Osaka
"Painting 1977-1987", National Museum of Art, Osaka
"Europalia '89 Japan", Museum van Hedendaagse, Ghent, Belgium
"Minimal Art", National Museum of Art, Osaka
"Large Size Prints", Shirota Gallery, Tokyo
"Line in Contemporary Art: The Destination of Eyes and Hands", Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
"Paintings from the Showa Era: Part 3", Miyagi Museum of Art
"Avanguardie Giapponesi degli anni 70", Galleria Comunale d'arte Moderna di Bologna; Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
"Japanese Art after 1945: Scream against the Sky", Yokohama Museum of Art; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York and tours
"La Conception du Fruit", Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
"The 22nd Bienal de Sao Paulo", Brazil
"Art in Japan Today 1985-1995", Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
"Mito Annual '95 Discover Paintings; Works and Language", Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito
"Allegory of Seeing", Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo
"The Contemporary Japanese Art Scene Art/Ecosystem", Utsunomiya Museum of Art
"Tsubaki-Kai 2001", Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
Collections 
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
Adachi Ward
Iwaki City Art Museum
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Museum of Art, Kochi
National Museum of Art, Osaka
National Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
Takamatsu City Museum of Art
Chiba City Museum of Art
Tokyo International Forum
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
Nagoya City Art Museum
Niigata City Art Museum
Nerima Art Museum
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Fukoaka City Bank
Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles
Main Galleries 
Nishimura Gallery
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