SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
- 2019
- Heroes and People in the Japanese Contemporary Art, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
- 2018
- 1968: Art in the Turbulent, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
- 2016
- L’image volée (The Stolen Image), Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
- 2015
- The Principles of Art by Genpei Akasegawa, Chiba City Museum, Chiba ; Oita City Museum, Oita ; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
- 2013-2014
- Hi-Red Center: the Documents of Direct Action, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya; Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
- 2012
- Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
- 1999
- Out of Actions/Between Performance and the Object, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan ; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Global Conceptualism, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
Worthless, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Republic of Slovenia - 1994-1995
- Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Kanazawa, Japan ; Guggenheim Art Museum Soho, New York ; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
- 1986
- Japon des avant-gardes 1910-1970, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- 1985
- Reconstruction: Avant-Garde Art in Japan 1945-1965, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; Edinburgh Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA / Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA / The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan / The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan / Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan / Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, Toyama, Japan / The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan / Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan / Nagoya City Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan / Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
BIBLIOGRAPHY & AWARDS
- 1998
- Essay, The Power of the Elderly, received the Best-known Award in 2001
- 1993
- Novel, Fairy Sakura, Laity Sakura, received JTB Travel Literature Award
- 1990
- Screenplay, Rikyu, was nominated Screenplay of the Year, the Japan Academy Film Prize
- 1987
- Essay, The Adventures on the Streets of Tokyo, received the Essay Award of Kodansha Ltd.
- 1983
- Novel, Yukino, received the New Writer Award of the Noma Literary Prize
- 1981
- Novel, My Father Disappeared, received the 84th Akutagawa Prize
- 1979
- Novel, Touch of Your Skin, received the New Writer Award of Chuokoron-sha