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“FRAGILE”, Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles, USA
2024
“Kimiyo Mishima: Memories for the Future”, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo
“Kimiyo Mishima Solo Exhibition”, Sokyo Gallery and Sokyo Annex, Kyoto
2023
“MISHIMA KIMIYO: Play Watch Create”, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Gifu
2022
GINZA ATRIUM GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS, Tokyo
2021
“Kimiyo Mishima Solo Exhibition 1950s–2021”, SOKYO ATSUMI, Tokyo
“Kimiyo Mishima | Papier Collé”, MEM, Tokyo
Sokyo Annex, Kyoto
2020
MEM, Tokyo
Gallery Yamaki Fine Arts, Kobe, Hyogo
2018
Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Nonaka Hill, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2017
Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto
Gallery Yamaki Fine Arts, Kobe, Hyogo
MEM, Tokyo
“CoSTUME NATIONAL·LAB·”, by MITSUI FINE ARTS, Tokyo
2016
Taka Ishii Gallery, New York, USA
2015
“Kimiyo Mishima at ART FACTORY Jonanjima”, Tokyo
2014
“Kimiyo Mishima at ART FACTORY Jonanjima”, Tokyo
2013
“Paintings Period 1954–1970”, Gallery Yamaki Fine Arts, Kobe, Hyogo
2004
Contemporary Art Museum ISE, Watarai, Mie
Gallery Nii, Tokyo
Gallery Nii, Osaka
2001
Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
MIKIMOTO, Tokyo
1999
INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo
1998
Hillside Gallery, Tokyo
Art Front Gallery, Tokyo
1994
Galerie Pousse, Tokyo
1992
Kasahara Gallery, Osaka
1990
Galerie Pousse, Tokyo
INAX Gallery, Osaka
INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo
1989
Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1988
Gallery 16, Kyoto
1985
Gallery Ueda-Warehouse, Tokyo
1980
Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi
Gallery 16, Kyoto
1974
Minami Gallery, Tokyo
1972
Imai Gallery, Osaka
Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1971
Fujimi Gallery, Osaka
1970
Gallery Ano, Osaka
Gallery 16, Kyoto
1969
Imabashi Gallery, Osaka
1968
Gallery 16, Kyoto
1966
Gallery 16, Kyoto
1964
Gallery Ano, Osaka
Gallery 16, Kyoto
2022
“Exhibition in the permanent collection: Bodies and writing Works recently acquired by the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris”, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France
“The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art”, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
2021
“MOT Collection: Journals vol.2”, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
“Another Energy: Power to Continue Challenging – 16 Women Artists from around the
World”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“The Flames. The Age of Ceramic”, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
2020
“Collection Gallery Exhibition”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
“Collection Exhibition”, Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan
“About Object and Matter and Body -6 Views”, MEM, Tokyo, Japan
2017
“Gyeonggi World Ceramic Biennale”, Cerapia, Icheon, Korea
“2D Printers”, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan
“Chronicle, Chronicle!”, Creative Center OSAKA, Osaka, Japan
2016
“The 30th Anniversary Exhibition: Selection of Letter and Signal”, Hakodate Museum of
Modern Art, Hokkaido, Hokkaido, Japan
2015
“Contemporary from Ancient times: Japanese Contemporary Ceramics and the origin”,
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, USA
2014
“Identity and Originality”, The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Hyogo, Japan
“Wow! Excited Art & Craft”, Urasoe Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
“Currents : Japanese Contemporary Art”, Christie’s, Hong Kong
2013
“Materials and Substances”, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
2012
“The Link Between Words and Art: An Homage to Nakahara Yusuke”, Gallery Yamaki
Fine Art, Kobe, Japan
“The Fascination of ceramics x The Excitment of Art”, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural
Park, Shiga, Japan; traveled to Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Hyogo, Japan Museum
of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan
“Spring Exhibitions POP•Life embraced within”, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan
“The Japan Foundation Collection: The Japanese Modern Ceramics go around The
World”, Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan
2011
“Soaring Voices-Contemporary Japanese women ceramic Artists”, Samuel P. Harn
Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL, USA
“Ceramica Viva: I ceramisti giapponesi premiati a Faenza”, Instituto Italiano di Cultura
di Tokyo, Rome, Italy
2010
“The Newspapers”, Kanda Nissho Memorial Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan
“The Magic of Ceramics: Artistic Inspiration”, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Koka,
Shiga, Japan.
“This is not a book: Spreading of Book Art”, Urawa Art Museum, Saitama and Fukui City
Art Museum, Saitama/ Fukui, Japan
“Sculpture Path 2010 UN-SYNTAX”, Art Court Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2009
“World of Trick Art”, Toyohashi City Museum of Art and History (Toyohashi, Aichi) and
Takamatsu City Museum of Art (Kagawa, Japan) etc.
“Soaring Voices: Contemporary Japanese Women, Ceramic Artists”, Crocker Museum
of Art, Sacrament, (CA, USA) and Katzen Arts Center, American University, (Washington
D.C., USA), etc.
“Vingt-cinq Céramistes Japonaises contemporaines”, Musée National de Céramique,
Sèvres, France
1999
“Collection in Focus, What you see is what you get, or is it?”, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
“The Plate Show Round Exhibition”, Glasgow, UK
“Post War Period Art Kansai 1950s-1990s”, The Museum of Modern Art Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan
1998
“The Hope”, Safa Gallery, Budapest, Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemét, Hungary
“Itinerant International Exhibition, Japan-Brazil 98-99”, Museu de Arte de São Paulo and Museum de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) etc.
1997
“50 Years Contemporary Art”, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
“Yamamura Collection”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
“Asahi Contemporary Craft”, The Asahi Newspaper, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan
1996
“Sai no Kuni Chokoku Variety 1996”, Saitama, Japan
“Cross Section of the Post War Period Art”, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
“Aspects of Japanese Ceramic Art”, The Hakone Open-Art Museum, Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan
1995
“Wind of Faenza”, Toki City Hall, Toki, Gifu, Japan
“Magical Viewpoint”, Hirakata City Gotenyama Art Center, Osaka, Japan
“International Contemporary Ceramic”, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Center, Koka, Shiga, Japan
“Japanese Culture the Fifty Past War Years 1945-1995”, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan etc.
1994
“The 60th Anniversary Memorial Exhibitions”, Kyoto Municipal Museum Collection, Kyoto, Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1993
“Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition”, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Saitama, Japan
“Vision: Illusion and Anti-illusion from the Museum Collection”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition”, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
“Industrial Art of the World”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
“Repetition and Multiplication in Contemporary Art from the Museum Collection”, Tokyo
Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1992
“International Ceramic Exhibition 1992”, The National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan
“Contemporary Japanese Ceramic”, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, USA
“Asahi Contemporary Craft”, The Asahi Newspaper, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan
1991
“Kyoto Select Art Exhibition”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
“Art Scene 1991: Each Material, Each Expression”, The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan
1990
“Contemporary Ceramic”, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan
“Aspects of Contemporary Clay Art”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“Japanese Clay Works Today”, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan
“Asahi Contemporary Crafts”, The Asahi Newspaper, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan
1989
“Art of Kyoto: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
“Art Exciting 1989: Beyond the Today’s Being”, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan and Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
“Development of Contemporary Art”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“Yamamura Collection”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
“Exhibition of Collections”, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan
1988
“Biennale International Limoges”, Limoges, France
“East-West Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition”, The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Korea
“Art Looked with Hands”, Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo, Japan
1987
“Object: Deviated Matter”, Seibu Tsukashin Hall, Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan
1986
“ESTIU Japon 1986”, Olot, Spain
“Contemporary Japanese Ceramics”, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, USA
“Reading Objects”, Gallery Iteza, Kyoto, Japan
“Clay Work 1986”, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan
“Ceramic Now”, Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Clay Work”, Seibu Hall, Shiga and Tokyo, Japan
1985
“Print of Japan 1985”, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan
“Toward the Museum of Tomorrow, Image as environment”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
“Bookshelf Sculpture”, Gallery 16, Kyoto, Japan
“Osaka Contemporary Art Fair 1985”, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
“Yamamura Collections Exhibition”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
1984
“Ceramics Today”, Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“International Ceramics”, Budapest, Hungary
1983
“International Impact Art”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan and Seoul Contemporary Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
“Contemporary Realism”, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
“Contemporary Japanese Art”, Musée d’Art et d’Historoire, Geneva, Switzerland
1982
“Clay Work Now 1”, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, Japan
1981
“Art Now:1970-1980”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
“Contemporary Japanese Ceramics”, The National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan
1980
“Print of Japan 1980”, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan
“Simulated Landscape in Contemporary Art”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
“International Biennial of Contemporary Ceramics”, Vallauris, France
“International Ceramics Biennial”, International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Faenza, Italy
1979
“Shimizu Kusuo and his artists”, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Contemporary Crafts”, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
“Japan Today”, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
“Invited as a guest exhibitor to The British International Print Biennale”, Bradford, UK
1978
“Contemporary Craftsmen”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
“Contemporary Japanese Crafts”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
“Women Japanese Artists”, A.I.R. Gallery, NY, USA
1977
“Contemporary Japanese Graphics Grand Prix Exhibition”, Matsuya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
1976
“International Print Biennale”, Kracow, Poland
“Japan Art Festival”, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, and University of Seattle, Seattle, WA, USA
“Contemporary Ceramics”, Touring exhibition (Australia and New Zealand)
“Japanese Ceramics”, Museum of Art, Dresden, Germany
“The 5th British International Print Biennale”, Bradford, UK
1975
“Contemporary Expression 1975”, Daimaru Department Store, Kyoto, Japan
“Contemporary Japanese Graphic Art”, The Museum of Modern Art, Ferrara, Italy
“Asahi Art Now”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
1974
“The 11th International Art Exhibition”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1973
“International Cup Exhibition”, Kanazawa, touring in Japan
“Chunichi International Ceramics Exhibition”, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
“International Ceramic”, Calgary Alberta, Canada
1972-80 “International Ceramic Exhibition”, International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Faenza, Italy
1971-79 “The Japan Ceramic Art exhibition”, Daimaru Department Store, Tokyo, Japan; touring in USA and Canada (1971,73,75,77,79) and in South America (1973)
1967 “The 4th International Young Artists Exhibition”, Tokyo, Japan
1966 “Mainichi Shimbun Art Competition”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
1965 “The 9th Shell Exhibition”, Shirokiya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
1964 “The 3rd International Young Artists Exhibition”, Tokyo, Japan
“Trends in Contemporary Japanese Painting and Sculpture”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
1962 “Asahi Young Artists Exhibition”, Osaka, Japan
1954-56 “Dokuritsu Exhibition”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan