1911

Born in Kochi Prefecture.

1933

Completes a postgraduate course at the Kochi Prefectural School of Education.

1948-49

Meets Yoshihara Jirō at the Kobe Citizens’ Art course and begins studying under him.

1954

Helps form the Gutai Art Association [member until dissolution in ’72].

1995

Dies at the age of 84 on August 22.

2018

Masatoshi Masanobu, Axel Vervoordt Gallery Antwerp, Wijnegem, Belgium
Masatoshi Masanobu: In Commemoration of the Publication of MASATOSHI MASANOBU, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka.

2017

Masanobu Masatoshi, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp/ Hong Kong.

2015

Masanobu Masatoshi: A Gutai Painter, Ōtani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City/ The Museum of Art, Kochi.

2010

Masanobu Masatoshi: Focus on the 1960s, Gallery Yamaguchi kunst-bau, Osaka/ Gallery Yamaguchi kunst-bau, Tokyo.

2009

Masanobu Masatoshi Exhibition, HAZ, Ashiya.

1994

Masanobu Masatoshi Exhibition, LADS Gallery, Osaka.

1988

6th Masanobu Masatoshi Solo Exhibition, Atelier Nishinomiya.

1986

My Non-figurative Paintings: Focus on Old and New Small Works, Tea Room Bonton, Kobe.

1985

Masanobu Masatoshi Exhibition: Focus on Early Gutai Works, Tor Road Gallery, Kobe.

1984

3rd Masanobu Masatoshi Solo Exhibition, Gallery Adesso, Ashiya.

1981

2nd Masanobu Masatoshi Solo Exhibition, Higashimon Gallery, Kobe.

1965

Masanobu Masatoshi Solo Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka.

2020

ACG Villa Kyoto Vol.006 Masatoshi Masanobu, Shigeki Fukumoto and Oceanic art, ACG Villa Kyoto, Kyoto
Ima-koso-GUTAI, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo
Ashiya Time: A Large Collection Exhibition, Ashiya City Museum of Art and History
KMMA Collection Exhibition II: Contemporary Art Selection, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka
Exhibition and Collection 2: Expanding The Museum's History, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo

2019

The Yamamura Collection: Gutai and the Japanese Avant-Garde 1950s-1980s, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe

2018

Gutai, L’espace et le temps, Musée Soulages, Rodez
Gutai 1953-59, Fergus McCaffrey, New York

2017

INTUITION, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice.
New Acquisitions Exhibition, Ōtani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City.

2016

Collections, The Museum of Art, Kochi.
A Feverish Era in Japanese Art: Expressionism in the 1950’s and 1960’s, BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels.
A Feverish Era: Art Informel and the Expansion of Japanese Artistic Expression in the 1950s and ‘60s, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.

2014

3rd Exhibition of Collection Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
Gutai x International; Go Overseas, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History.

2013

Experimental Exhibition of Modern Art to Challenge the Mid-Winter Burning Sun: Gutai Historical Survey and Contemporary Response, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute.

2012

Gutai: The Spirit of an Era, The National Art Center, Tokyo.

2010

Power of Form: Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1950’s and 1960’s from the Collection of the Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, Shinsaibashi Gallery, Osaka City Museum of Modern Art.

2008

Arte de Japão: do Moderno ao Contemporãneo Coleção Hyogo, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba.

2004

Resounding Spirit: Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1960s, The Gibson Gallery, The Art Museum, The State University of New York at Potsdam.
Gutai: A Retrospective, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe.

2002

Artists of the Gutai Art Association, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai.

1999

Gutai, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris.

1997

Torino, Parigi, New York, Osaka. Tapié. Un Art Autre, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino/ Espace d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Toulouse et midi Pyrénées.

1996

Aspects of Post-war Art: From the Yamamura Collection, Chiba City Museum of Art.

1993

Grand Opening Exhibition at the Museum of Art, Kochi - Ark of Art, The Museum of Art, Kochi.
Art of Ashiya in the Taishō, Shōwa and Heisei Era, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History.

1992

Outdoor Exhibition Revisited, Ashiya Park.
Gutai I, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History [93 II, III ].
Artists of the Gutai Art Association, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai.

1991

Adventurers in Painting: Gutai, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka.
Gutai: Japanische Avantgarde 1954-1965, Mathildaenhöhe Darmstadt.

1990

Giappone all’avanguardia: Il Gruppo Gutai negli anni cinquanta, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome.
Gutai: Unfinished Avant-garde Group, The Shōtō Museum of Art, Tokyo.

1989

The Phantom Yamamura Collection, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe.

1985

Grupo Gutai: Pintura y Acción, Museo Español de Arte Contempoáneo, Madrid/ Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade/ Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe.
Action and Emotion, Paintings of the 1950s: Informel, Gutai, and Cobra, The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
Yoshihara Jirō and Gutai 1954-1972, Ashiya Civic Center.

1979

Yoshihara Jirō and Contemporary Aspects of Gutai, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe.

1976

Eighteen Years of Gutai Art, Osaka Prefectural Gallery.

1973

15th Anniversary Hyogo Prefecture Artists’ League Invitational Exhibition, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe.

1972

Yoshihara Jirō and His Circle, Fujimi Gallery, Osaka.

1971

Opening Exhibition of the Gutai Mini Pinacotheca, Osaka.

1970

Last Exhibition at the Original Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka.
Gutai Group presentation at the entrance to the Midorikan Pavilion in Japan Expo ’70, Suita, Osaka.

1966

2e Salon international des galeries pilotes Lausanne, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-arts Palais de Rumine, Lausanne.

1965

Groupe Gutai, Galerie Stadler, Paris/ Cologne Museum of Art/ Mickery Art House, Loenersloot, Holland.

1964

Trends in Contemporary Art: Painting and Sculpture, The Kyoto Annex Museum of The National Museum of Modern Art.
Gutai Art New Small Works Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka.

1963

Gutai Art New Works Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka. [another exhibition the same year, and twice in ’64]

1962

Grand Opening Exhibition at the Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka.

1961

Gutai Small Works Exhibition, Nakanoshima Gallery, Osaka.
Continuité et Avant-guarde au Japon, International Center of Aesthetic Research, Turin.

1960

International Sky Festival, Takashimaya Department Store Rooftop, Osaka.

1959

Arte Nuova, Circolo degli Artisti, Palazzo Graneri, Turin.
Fifteen Japanese Contemporary Artists Recommended by Tapié, Gendai Gallery, Tokyo.

1958

International Art of a New Era: Informel and Gutai, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka/ Nagasaki/ Hiroshima/ Tokyo/ Kyoto.

1957

1st Seikatsu Zōkei Exhibition, Daimaru Department Store 6F Hall, Kobe. [2nd Exhibition held in the same year]

1956

Gutai Art Small Works Exhibition, Sanseidō Gallery, Tokyo. [’64-’69, ’71 (venue varies)]
Shinkō Independent Exhibition, Shinkō Newspaper Building 3F Hall, Kobe.

1955

1st Gutai Art Exhibition, Ohara Hall, Tokyo [Participates in all Gutai Exhibitions until ’68 (venue varies)].
Experimental Outdoor Exhibition of Modern Art to Challenge the Mid-summer Burning Sun, Ashiya Park.
7th Yomiuri Independent Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.

1953

1st Genbi Exhibition, Asahi Hall 5F, Kobe. [’55, ’56 (venue varies)]

1951

9th Lapin Members’ Exhibition, Bisendō Gallery, Kobe. [10th and 11th Exhibitions held in the same year (venue varies)]

1950

9th Hyogo Prefecture Artists’ League Invitational Exhibition, Mitsukoshi Department Store, Kobe. Receives an honorable mention and recommended as an associate member. [’51 recommended as a formal member]

1949

2nd Ashiya City Art Exhibition, Buddhist Hall, Ashiya. [’50, ’51 Ten’yugō Frame Factory prize, ’52, ‘53 Board of Education prize, ’54 recommended as a formal member, ’55-’58, ‘59 Chairman of the Ashiya City Assembly Prize, ’62-’94, ’96 (Venue varies)]
23rd Kokugakai Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum/ Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts. [Participates in all Kokugakai Exhibitions until ’58 (Venue varies)]

1942

29th Kōfūkai Exhibition, Tokyo Prefectural Art Museum.

1934

RT Association Members’ Western-style Paintings Exhibition, Kochi Newspaper Building Rooftop.

Ashiya City Museum of Art & History/ Artizon Museum, Tokyo, Tokyo/ Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe/ Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art/ Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka / Ōtani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City/ The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai/ The Museum of Art, Kochi/ The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto/ The National Museum of Art, Osaka/
Axel & May Vervoordt Foundation, Wijnegem/ Les Abattoirs, Toulouse/ Musée Cantini, Marseilles/ Rachofsky Collection, Dallas/ The Art Museum, The State University of New York at Potsdam