Born in 1944, in Iwate, Japan
Education
1968
BFA Tamara Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Solo Exhibitions
2016
'Kishio Suga', Chelsea, New York
'Karla Black and Kishio Suga : A New Order', Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
'Situations', Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy
2015
Kishio Suga: New Works, 8/ Art Gallery/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kishio Suga: New Works, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Kishio Suga: Situated Latency, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Blum & Poe, New York, NY, USA
Perimeter (Entai), 1985, Blain | Southern, London, UK
Kishio Suga: 1980s, Gallery Cocon, Tokyo, Japan
Shane Campbell Gallery, Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL
2014
Kishio Suga: Situated Underlying Existence, Corps de Garde, Colmar, France
The “Origin of Situation” as Disclosed by “Things,” Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
2013
A/D Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Collection: Lee Ufan, Takeda Art Co., Tokyo, Japan
2012
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Placement of the Hidden Currents, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
2011
Keio University, Hiyoshi Campus Gallery, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2010
Art Gallery Kanazawa College of Art, Ishikawa, Japan Gallery Cocon, Tokyo, Japan
Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Space Hongjie, Seoul, Korea
Gallery 604 J/Gallery 604 H, Busan, Korea
Micro Salon 60, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2009
Le Cose Esistono, Margini Arte Contemporanea, Massa, Italy
Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Drawing Story I 1960-1990, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2008
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
New Works, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London, UK
Art Scene Revived, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2007
New Works, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
2006
New Works, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Airflow, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2005
Uncertain Void: Installation by Kishio Suga, Iwate Museum of Art, Morioka, Japan
Gallery Shilla, Daegu, Seoul, Korea
New Works, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
2004
Released Unit, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
New Works, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Reliefs, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The New Tokyo Gallery Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2003
Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
New Works, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
2002
Air-Construction-Distance, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2001
Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2000
Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1999
Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Stance, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
1998
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The 20th Anniversary of Gallery Saiensu, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Masuda Studio, Tokyo, Japan
Version Kishio Suga, The Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, Japan
Part I: Kishio Suga, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; traveled to
Itami City Museum of Art, Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan; Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Yokohama, Japan; Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Sugar’s Collection: Kishio Suga, Gallery San, Yokohama, JapanSurrounded Scenery, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Masuda Studio, Tokyo, Japan
1996
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Along the Collected Edge and Centered Border, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1995
Plain Class, Plain Plinth, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
On Primitivism of Objects and Inevitability of Construction, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
A Question for Foundation: Art in 70’s: The 7th Exhibition, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Framed Multiple, M Gallery, Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
RESTRIZIONE: Sostenere le cose, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1994
Kishio Suga: New Works, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gathered Scenery, Surrounded Edges, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1993
Scenic Intervals 1993, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Edges Hold Existence, Ushibuchi Museum, Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Gathered Space, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
1992
Edges Hold Existence, Plaza Gallery, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan
Differentiated Sky, Kaneko Art G1, Tokyo, Japan
Installation, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
PROTRUSION, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Surrounded Space—Supported Dimension, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1991
Memorial Exhibition for the Completion of Pointillists’ Sky, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Scenic Intervals, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Along the Plain Scenery, Gallery Art Soko, Tokyo, Japan
Along the Plain Scenery, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Paper Works 1990 (A piece of paper reveals scenery), Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Soko Tokyo Gallery: New Generation, Soko Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1990
Peripheral Field, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
New Works: Paintings, Sculptures, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Waxing-Space-Waning, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Body Edges, Hino Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Both Edges of the Space, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Around Circumstance, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Concept Space, Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
1989
Heineken Village, Tokyo, Japan
Three Dimension, Kaneko Art G1, Tokyo, Japan
A Contact Point of Action and Objects, Kintetsu Department Store, Osaka, Japan
Scenic Confliction, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1988
Outlines of Gathering, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Out of Multiple Surroundings, Kaneko Art G1, Tokyo, Japan
Circumference of Consideration (Shikō no Shui), Off Gallery, West Berlin, West Germany
Circumstance, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1987
Supportive Outlines, Kaneko Art G1, Tokyo, Japan
PROTRUSION, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1986
Materials Supplied, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Square Pond, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1985
Contact Unit, Kaneko Art G1, Tokyo, Japan
Metallic Pond, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Supporting the Sky, Soo Gallery, Daegu, Korea
1984
Materials Supplied, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
A Belt of Wavy Lines, Komai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1983
Support for Assembly, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Existence of Contact/Entering the Space, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1982
Three for Supporting Lines, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Division for the Space, Kaneko Art G1, Tokyo, Japan
Installation, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
1981
PROTRUSION, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
DENOTATION, Satou Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Place-Dependent Location, Gallery Hinoki, Tokyo, Japan
1980
Fact-Space, Gallery Lumiere, Yamagata, Japan
Paper Works 3: As Fact, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Both Edges of the Space, Gallery Kitano Circus, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Object: Location, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Paper Espression, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1979
Gap of the Entrance to the Space (Part 1), Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gap of the Entrance to the Space (Part 2), Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Difference in Rhythm, Box Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Collection-Space-Order, Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Small Works, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1978
Wooden Works, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Circumference, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Neutral Order, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1977
Continuous Existence, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Theory of Activation, Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Gallery Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1976
Interval-Situation, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Space Differentiated, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Continuous Process, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1975
Phase of Acquisition, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Law of Multitude, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Paper Works I, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Situation: Dependent, Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Gallery ‘76, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1974
Location of Dependency, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Fieldology, Gallery 16, Kyoto, Japan
1973
Gap in Dependency, Satou Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Cause of Situation, Morioka City Hall, Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Order of Dependence, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1972
Open Exhibition, Joshu-ya Building, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
Left-Behind Situation, Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Situation of Facing Existence, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1971
Abandoned Order, Satou Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1970
Soft-Concrete, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Parallel Strata, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1968
Transferred Space, Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibitions
2016
Robert Morris and Kishio Suga, Blum & Joe, Tokyo, Japan
2015
‘Construction / Destruction’, organized with Olivier Renaud-Clément, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
2014
Micro Salon 2014, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
The Hara Museum Collection at 35, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Mono-ha Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karuizawa, Japan
1974, Part Two: A Turning Point in Postwar Japanese Art, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Japon, Abbaye Saint André, Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac, France
Takahashi Collection 2014: Mindfulness!, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Erasure: From Conceptualism to Abstraction, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong and City University, Hong Kong
Imaginative Geometry, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Kishio Suga, Yoko Sawai, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka, Japan
Group exhibition by Tomio Koyama Gallery, TOLOT/heuristic SHINONOME, Tokyo, Japan
Mono-ha, Tabloid Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Mono-ha by Anzai: Photographs 1970-1976, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
Other Primary Structures (Others 2: 1967 - 1970), Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Abstract Drawing, Drawing Room, London, UK
Exhibition for Retiring Professors at Kanazawa College of Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Geometric Perspectives on Japanese Abstraction, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
Chronicle 1964–2014: History of Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Lee Ufan + Kishio Suga Print Exhibition, Tezukayama Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2013
Layers of Artistic Expression, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Connecting_Unfolding, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Out of Doubt: Roppongi Crossing 2013, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
Tricks and Vision to Mono-ha, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX, USA
Re: QuestJapanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Micro Salon 2013, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2012
Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
The ’70s in Japan: 1968–1982, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; traveled to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
The Artists of Mono-ha and Its Era, Rakusui-tei Museum of Art, Toyama, Japan
Collection: ’70s Japan—Mono-ha, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mona-ha, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2011
Villa Tokyo, various locations in Kyobashi, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery’s Collection Exhibition: Mono-ha, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2010
Contemporary Art of China and Japan, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea
MOT Collection, Enter Here—What Do You See?, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Currents in Japanese Contemporary Wood Sculpture, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Hokkaido, Japan
Tokyo Gallery + BTAP 60th Anniversary Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2009
No Man’s Land, Ambassade de France au Japon, Tokyo, Japan
2008
Mediations Biennale, National Museum, Poznań, Poland
2007
What Is Mono-ha?, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Beijing, China
2006
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Fukutake House, Tokamachi, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Mono-ha: Lee Ufan, Kishio Suga, Nobuo Sekine—from the 1970s, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2005
Reconsidering Mono-ha, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2004
Remaking Modernism in Japan 1900–2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2002
Two Mono-ha Artists: Lee Ufan and Kishio Suga, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2001
Mono-ha: School of Things, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK; traveled to Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, UK
Global Visions: Art after 1980, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2000
3rd Gwangju Biennale, Biennale Hall, Jungoei Park, Gwangju, Korea
1998
Art/Ecosystem: The Contemporary Japanese Art Scene, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
1997
Gravity: Axis of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Beyond the Form, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
1996
Prints of the 1970’s, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Collection in Focus: 12 Installation Pieces, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Inside of Works, Outside of Works, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1995
Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan; Hyogo Prefectural, Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
Matter and Perception 1970: Mono-ha and the Search for Fundamentals, Museum of Fine Arts Gifu, Gifu, Japan; traveled to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; Museum of Modern Art Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France
46th Venice Biennale: ASIANA Contemporary Art from the Far East, Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, Venice, Italy
Kishio Suga + Mika Yoshizawa: Standing and Boundary of Place, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1994
Japanese Art after 1945: Scream against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan; traveled to Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
The Domain of the Medium: New Approaches to the Medium in Art, Craft, Design, Crafts Gallery, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
8th Triennale India, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
La Conception du Fruit, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
1993
Yoshihisa Sankawa + Kishio Suga, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992
Avanguardie Giapponesi degli anni 70, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna di Bologna; traveled to Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1991
Movement of Contemporary Art in Japan: Three-Dimensional Works, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
The World of Box: Do It Yourself, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
70’s–80’s Contemporary Art: Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1989
Japanese Ways, Western Means, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Art Exciting ’89, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; traveled to Queensland Museum, Queensland, Australia
20th Biennale Middelheim: Japan, Europalia ’89, Middelheim Open-Air Museum for Sculpture, Antwerp, Belgium
The Space: Material, Tension, Vacancy in Japanese Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Wounded Surfaces: Lee Ufan, Kishio Suga, Koichi Ebitsuka, Mika Yoshizawa, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1988
Monoha: La scuola delle cose, Museum Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Films by Contemporary Japanese Artists, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1987
2nd Biennale Japan Ushimado International Art Festival, Ushimado, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
State of Contemporary Art from North Eastern Japan 2, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan
TAMA VIVANT ’87: From Thingness to Narrative, Seed Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Art in Japan since 1969: Mono-ha and Post-Mono-ha, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1986
Japon des avant gardes: 1910–1970, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
22nd Artists Today: Apocalypse in Contemporary Art: From the Depth of Soul, Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Black and White in Art Today, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Seoul-Asia Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea
Contemporary Japanese Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2nd Tokyo Open-Air Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Kinuta Park, Tokyo, Japan
Seeing New Developments in Space and Materials, Institut Franco-Japonais, Tokyo, Japan
Lee Ufan, Nobuo Sekine, Kishio Suga: Methods of the 1970s, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1985
21st Artists Today: When Installations Become Form, Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
2nd Asian Art Show, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Beauty of Wood: Between Painting and Sculpture, Asahikawa Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan
40 Years of Japanese Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Construction in Japanese Paper, Halle Sud, Geneva, Switzerland
Contemporary Sculpture in Japan: Wood, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1984
Trends of Contemporary Japanese Art 1970–1984: Universality/Individuality, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
State of Contemporary Art from North Eastern Japan, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan
2nd TOYAMA NOW ’84, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Human Documents ’84/’85, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Japanese Contemporary Paintings, 1960–1980, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Takasaki, Japan
Sculpture in Modern Japan, 1968–1980s, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, Japan
1983
A Panorama of Contemporary Art in Japanese Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
The Front of Contemporary Japanese Art, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
A Sense of Contemporary Japanese Art 2: An Encounter with the Sights around Us, Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Permanent Collection 2 Art of Today: Japan-England, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Shape and Spirit in Wood Works, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
1982
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
4th Biennale of Sydney, Video/Performance Section, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia
ARTEDER ’82, Mikeldi Gallery, Bilbao, Spain
1981
Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan: Trends of Japanese Art in the 1970s, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
A Sense of Contemporary Japanese Art 2: An Encounter with the Sights around Us, Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
16th São Paulo Biennale, Parque Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil
Performance in Video, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
1st Parallel Art Exhibition, Ohara Center of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Yoin: Ideas from Japan Made in Australia, Gryphon Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
1980
Variations on Planar Paintings, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Contemporary Graphics 1980, Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Utsunomiya, Japan
Shell Art Exhibition, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1979
15th Artists Today, Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Lisbon International Show ’79, Galeria de Belem-Lisboa, Centro de Arte Contemporânea (Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis), Porto, Portugal
1978
14th Artists Today, Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
38th Venice Biennale, Japan Pavilion, Venice, Italy
1977
13th Artists Today, Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Japan and America: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall Gallery, Yokohama, Japan, and 80 Ranton Street Gallery, USA
Projects/Performances/Conferences, Parachute Revue and Institut d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Space, Galeria Akumulatory 2, Pozna, Poland
1976
2nd Biennale of Sydney: Recent International Forms in Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Seven Italian Artists and Seven Japanese Artists: Procedures Based on New Consciousness, Italian Culture Center, Tokyo, Japan
Ima: Now Exhibition, Ewing Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Kyoto Biennale: Contemporary Art by Seven Art Critics, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
1975
Japanese Contemporary Sculpture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA
1974
Japan Art Exhibition, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; traveled to Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Sweden; Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Oslo, Norway
Universe (Cosmos): Image Experiments in Serigraphy by Contemporary Japanese Artists, São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo, Brazil
Japan: Tradition und Gegenwart, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
1973
8th Japan Art Festival Exhibition, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
8e Biennale de Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, and Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
1972
1st Contemporary Japanese Graphics Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
1st International Art Exhibition, Il Centro Gallery, Naples, Italy
1971
4th Contemporary Japanese Sculpture Exhibition, Ube Museum of Outdoor Sculpture, Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
10th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1970
5th Japan Art Festival Exhibition, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; traveled to Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (toured under the title Contemporary Japanese Art)
7th Artists Today, Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
August 1970: Aspects of New Japanese Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Trends in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
1968
9 Visional Points, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1967
11th Shell Art Award, Shiroki-ya Grand Hall Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
4th International Young Artists Exhibition, Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
Performance
Note that on March 6, 2004, Suga renamed all his “events” as “activations.”
2006
The System of Plural Clauses, Fukutake House, Tokamachi, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Competitive Plural Causes, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Itamuro, Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Concurrent Correspondence, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2005
Divided Rhythm, Iwate Museum of Art, Morioka, Japan
2004
Edge of the Space, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
1998
Gathered Release-Restriction, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Towards Stability and Instability, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Open Exhibition, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, Japan
Separation-Union-Stability-Location: Visual Intervals, Itami City Museum of Art, Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
1997
Gathered Release-Restriction, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1995
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Distribution of Polysemy, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1990
Along Intervals, Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Surrounding Construction, Concept Space R2, Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
1987
EXTEND: 50th Anniversary of Tama Art University: TAMABIVENTS Studio 200, Tokyo, Japan
1986
Revealed Way to the Sky—The Contact Point Is Deep, Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
1984
The Edges Move, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
1981
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
1980
Whole of Transferred Individuals, Gallery Lumiere, Yamagata, Japan
Lines in Existence, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Object-Location, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Object-Space, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1979
Yokohama City Gallery, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
1978
Adaptation-Circumstances-Transition-Substance, Tama Art University, Hachioji Campus, Tokyo, Japan
38th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1977
Inokashira Park, Tokyo, Japan
Theory for Activation, Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Theory for Creating Sites, Tokiwa Park, Tokyo, Japan
1976
Differentiated Movement—Continuous Existence, Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Tokyo, Japan
Site and Wisdom—Gathering of Distance, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
Soko—Sorezore no ichi ni, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
For the Side Corners, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Phase Getting Fulfilled, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1975
Gathered Space, Maki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Natural Order, Tokiwa Park, Tokyo, Japan
1974
Location of Dependency, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Fieldology, Gallery 16, Kyoto, Japan
1973
Order of Dependency, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Parallel View—Adjustable Existence, studio of the artist, Shimizu, Tokyo, Japan
Public Collections
Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan
Asahikawa Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan
Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea
Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Fuchu City, Hiroshima, Japan
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan
Iwate Museum of Art, Morioka, Japan
Kahitsukan Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
Kiyosato Museum of Contemporary Art, Yamanashi, Japan
M+, Kong Hong, China
Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Sapienza, Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Rakusui-tei Museum of Art, Toyama, Japan
Reijo Art Museum, Shikoku, Japan
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Japan
Tate Modern, London, UK
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan
Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Yamaguchi, Japan
Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
Awards
1970
Grand Prize, 5th Japan Art Festival
1967
11th Shell Art Prize
