Artists

Shihoko Fukumoto

Biography

1945: Born in Shimizu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, raised in Osaka
1963: Graduated from Western painting course, Osaka City Kogei High School
1968: B.F.A., Kyoto City University of Arts
2012: The 25th Kyoto Fine Arts Cultural Award

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022: JAPAN BLUE, Verkehr Shimizu Port Terminal Museum, Shizuoka
2021: Shihoko Fukumoto: Japan Blue 2021, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
GINZA MOTOJI, Tokyo [’16, ’13, ’11, ’08, ’06]
2020: Shihoko Fukumoto – Japan Blue and White, Amagasaki Cultural Center, Hyogo
2018: Chushin Art Museum, Kyoto
2017: Mori to Tenku, Sakura Shop, Tokyo / Takamatsu
2015: FUKUMOTO Shihoko: Japan Blue, Takashimaya Art Gallery X, Tokyo / Takashimaya Art Gallery, Kyoto
FUKUMOTO Shihoko: Japan Blue Book Release Exhibition, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2013: FUKUMOTO SHIHOKO: NATURE FROM HANDS, MEM, Tokyo
Meirin Tea Ceremony: Tocha Tea-Tasting Game in Tea Room ̶ Mist, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
2012: FUKUMOTO Shihoko: NATURAL FOLK TEXTILES - FROM MATERIAL TO CONCEPT, ARTCOURT Gallery
FUKUMOTO Shihoko - YUSOKU, SEMBIKIYA Gallery, Tokyo
2010: Shihoko Fukumoto: Indigo is the Color of My Dream, Japanese Garden, Portland
FUKUMOTO Shihoko: Blue Tea-ceremony Room, Musée de Somé Seiryu, Kyoto
2009: FUKUMOTO Shihoko: STAR LIGHT SHAWLS, Gallery Kei-fu, Kyoto
FUKUMOTO Shihoko Exhibition: Space-time within Native Work Clothing, Art Gallery X at Takashimaya, Tokyo
2008: Gallerly Tazawa, Kyoto [’05, ’00]
2007: FUKUMOTO Shihoko Exhibition: Sanctuary, Parks Hall, Osaka
2006: FUKUMOTO Shihoko, Galerie Ishibekoji Wada, Kyoto
2005: FUKUMOTO SHIHOKO DONALD JUDD, HAZ, Ashiya
SHIHOKO FUKUMOTO — MOON LIGHT, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe [’01, ’98, ’95]
Expressies in Indigo, Textielkunst van Fukumoto Shihoko, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, Rotterdam
2004: Shihoko Fukumoto, The former Matsushiro Bunbu School, Nagano
EXPRESSIONS IN INDIGO the textile art of Fukumoto Shihoko, Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London
FUKUMOTO Shihoko:“KIMONO”Exhibition, Art Gallery at Takashimaya, Tokyo/Kyoto [’99]
FUKUMOTO Shihoko: Tearoom ̶ Firmament, Hagi Uragami Museum, Hagi
2003: ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
INAX Gallery, Tokyo
2002: Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland
Japan Blue of Fukumoto Shihoko, Ikenobo Junior College Muromachi Museum of Art, Kyoto
2001: Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
2000: Aoyama Green Gallery, Tokyo ['94, '90]
Azumino Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Toyoshima, Azumino
1999: Today’s Artist 32 Shihoko FUKUMOTO, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka
1998: Gallery KURANUKI, Osaka [’97, ’92]
Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto [’94]
JAPAN BLUE, Gallery en, Takamatsu
JAPAN BLUE, Sakura Art Museum, Osaka
1996: Hiro Chikashige Gallery, Okayama
INDIGO BLUE, The Tatsuno Museum of Art, Tatsuno
1994: JR Osaka Service Gallery, Osaka
1993: SHIHOKO FUKUMOTO: shade of indigo blue, The Gallery at Takashimaya, NY/Tokyo/Kyoto
1990: SHIBORI-INDIGOBLATT Japansk textilkonst av SHIHOKO FUKUMOTO, Röhsska Museum, Gothenberg

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024: The Story of Indigo, Kurume City Museum, Fukuoka
2023: TEXTILE REVELATIONS — Oceania’s Creations, FUKUMOTO Shigeki and FUKUMOTO, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori
2022: In Between, Tosei Kyoto Gallery, kyoto
GO FOR KOGEI 2022, Shokoji Temple, Takaoka, Toyama
White and Black, Light and Shadow（Takashimaya Art Gallery, Nihombashi/Kyoto/Osaka/Nagoya）
Collection Exhibition 2: BLUE, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2021: The World of Yukata and Japanese Indigo, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa
2020: The First of the National Crafts Museum’s Grand Opening Exhibitions: Japanese Crafts－Materials, Techniques and Regionalities, National Crafts Museum, Kanazawa, Ishikawa
Collection Exhibition: Scales [1st harf), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa
250 Years of Kyoto Art Masterpieces, The Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto
Fashion in Japan Blue, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Hyogo
Japanese Wonder, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London
Small Works, Great Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London
2019: Did You See It?―Challenges from the Kids, Crafts Gallery, The National Museum of Art, Tokyo
Somé Seiryu Exhibition Retrospective, Musée de Somé Seiryu, Kyoto
Kyoto Textiles: From the 1960s to the Present, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Alchemy, Arvind Indigo Museum (at the Kasturbhai Lalbhai Museum), Ahmedabad, India
2018: Takashimaya Art Department 110th Foundation Anniversary: "Pieces of Poetry, Principles of Beauty", Nihombashi Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo
2017: Binding Threads / Expanding Threads, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art [-'18]
SUGAI Kumi, FUKUMOTO Shihoko, Isetan Shinjuku Store Art Gallery, Tokyo
2016: Crafts Arts: Innovation of "Tradition and Avant-Garde," and the Present Day, Crafts Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Iki Sui Exhibition, Somé・Seiryukan, Kyoto
Review the Seiryuten Some Exhibition Part 2, Somé・Seiryukan, Kyoto
2015: Unraveling Identity: Our Textiles, Our Stories, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, Washington
Seiryuten Somé Exhibition, Somé・Seiryukan, Kyoto [’13, ’11,’09, ’07, ’05-’92]
2014: Beauty of KŌGEI: Art Crafts in Japan, Japan Creative Centre Embassy of Japan in Singapore, Singapore
Takeshi Umehara and 25 Artists, Takashimaya, Kyoto/Osaka/Tokyo/Yokohama/Nagoya
Landscape, Takashimaya Gallery X, Tokyo
Somé and Sho, Somé・Seiryukan, Kyoto
Fukumoto Shihoko and Konishi Ikuko, Some and Hana Exhibition, Gion Konishi, Kyoto
2013: Contemporary KŌGEI Styles in Japan, Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Miami
Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2013, Main Exhibition II, Cheongju Cultural Industry Complex, Cheongju
Time Capsule of the Beauty in Kyoto, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto
The 25th Kyoto Fine Arts Culture Award Memorial Exhibition, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto
2012: The 18th MOA OKADA Mokichi Award, MOA Museum of Art, Atami
SOFA NEW YORK 2012, 〈LongHouse Award〉, Park Avenue Armory, New York
Beyond a thread - Hands working the fablic of life, Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka
GIAPPONE TERRA DI INCANTI, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze
50th Anniversary Special Exhibition, Cross Sections Chronicle, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto/The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Kyoto Kyo-Machiya Stay Arts Project Vol.1 ARTS MACHIYA 2012, Sujiyacho Machiya, Kyoto
2011: Bite-Size: Miniature Textiles From Japan and the UK, Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London
SUGIMOTO-BUNRAKU: SONEZAKI SHINJU [Special display of Trailing Mist], Kanagawa Arts Theatre Hall, Yokohama
GENDAI no SOME, Shigeki Fukumoto and Shihoko Fukumoto, Tamba City Ueno Memorial Art Museum, Tamba
2010: KEN MIHARA & SHIHOKO FUKUMOTO, Galerie Besson, London
The History of Modern Dyeing, Tsukuba Museum of Art, Tsukuba
About the tea ceremony, Craft Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
COLLECT, 〈Art Fund COLLECT Award〉, Saatchi Gallery, London
2008: From Lausanne to Beijing, 5th International FIBERART Biennale, Suzhou Art & Design Technology Institute Art Gallery, Suzhou
BLUE, Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.
2007-2008: Collezione, Arte & Arte/Kaunas Art Biennale, Mykolas Zilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas
INDIGO: A BLUE TO DIE FOR, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
2007: The Craft Gallery 30th Anniversary Exhibition II, The Power of Crafts: Outlook for the 21st Century, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Contemporary Japanese textiles and metalworks: From Materials & Artistry to Forms, Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki, Tsukuba
2006: Contemporary Kimono, Access Gallery, Curtin University, Perth
From Lausanne to Beijing, 4th International FIBERART Biennale, Suzhou Art & Design Technology Institute Art Gallery, Suzhou
Japanese Crafts, Galerie Besson, London
From the Museum Collection: A History of Modern Crafts, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2005: KAUNAS ART BIENNIAL TEXTILE 05, Kaunas
SHIBORI Textile Catalysts, Tama Art University Museum, Tama
2004: From Lausanne to Beijing, 3rd International FIBERART Biennale, The Shanghai Library, Shanghai
2003: SHIBORI- Fabric Transformed, Kunstbanken Hedmark Kunstsenter, Hamar
2002: Art House Project, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Go’o Shrine Dedication Noh, Honmura, Naoshima
From Lausanne to Beijing, 2nd International Tapestry Art Biennale, Tsinghua University, Beijing
Contemporary Art in Japan, China and Korea: the Monochromatic Aesthetics in East-Asian Contemporary Art, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka
Takashimaya Art Award Exhibition, Takashimaya, Tokyo/Yokohama/Osaka/Kyoto
New Collections, The Museum of Arts and Design, New York
2001: Textural SPACE, contemporary Japanese textile art, Foyer?? Gallery and James Hockey Gallery, Surrey, Brighton
Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton, and Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
Crafts in Kyoto 1945-2000, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Contemporary Textile, Weaving and Dyeing: Ways of Formative Thinking, The National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo
1999: 4eme Festival International de la Tapisserie, Beauvais
The Invitational Exhibition of Cheongju International Craft Biennale '99, Cheongju
1998: ASIAN AVANT-GARDE, Christies, London
1996: 1st Flax and Linen Biennale in Upper Normandy, Rouen
1992: 13th and 14th International Biennial of Tapestry, and 15th International Lausanne Biennial, Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne ['90, '87]
1986: Indigo: Natural Blue, Royal Tropen Museum, Amsterdam

Public Collections

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto / The National Museum of Art, Osaka / 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa / Victoria and Albert Museum, London / Röhsska Museum, Gothenberg / Museum of Art and Design, New York / Portland Art Museum, Portland / Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, Rotterdam / Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester / Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, etc.