1945

Born in Hyogo. Japan

1967

Graduated from Kyoto City University of Fine Art, Department of Sculpture

1969

Completed the Graduate course in sculpture at Kyoto City University of Fine Art

2024

Hitoshi Nomura: Cosmic Sensibility, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka

2022

ACG Villa Kyoto Vol.009 Hitoshi Nomura Cosmic Sensibility：Photons and Expansion, ACG Villa Kyoto, Kyoto

2021

Hitoshi Nomura Space-Time and Life: Signifying Conjecture and Manifestation, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka

2018

Japanese Art Sound Archive Hitoshi Nomura: Operating Records with Tune, Intensity and Time in Mind, 1973, Art & Space Cocokara, Tokyo
Hitoshi Nomura: The History of Space-Time, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka

2017

Hitoshi Nomura: Light and Earth Time, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka

2015

Hitoshi Nomura: Contingency and Necessity, McCaffrey Fine Art, New York

2013

Hitoshi Nomura: Body/Perception, or I Who Think I Am “I”, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka

2010

Hitoshi Nomura : Making Time, McCaffrey Fine Art, New York

2009

View From Space, From Here On..., ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
NOMURA HITOSHI: Perception - Changes in Time and Field, National Art Center,Tokyo

2008

Gravitational Shape and Flavor - The Sun, Meteorites and The Body, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka

2007

Nomura Hitoshi Chrono & Chroma, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka

2006

To commemorate the publication of "Seeing: Contingency and Necessity / The Work of Hitoshi Nomura", ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
Nomura Hitoshi Cosmo-Arbor, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
Hitoshi Nomura An Introduction, Photo works 1975-92, McCaffrey Fine Art, New York

2004

Chroma & Chromatic, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka

2001

Nomura Hitoshi Transit/Reflect, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota

2000

Nomura Hitoshi Genesis of Life: The Universe, The Sun, DNA, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito
New Vision Navigator Harnessing Across America by Solar Car, Chukyo University Art Gallery C・SQUARE, Nagoya etc.

1999

Conducted the HAAS Project-Harnessing the Sun: A journey Across America by Solar Car
Mission to America & Jurassic Giant Tree in Tokyo, Gallery GAN, Tokyo

1998

One with the Cosmos, Gallery KURANUKI, Osaka

1997

SPL’s Sun Structure ’97 won in the 800-Watt Class at the Solar Car Race Suzuka ‘97

1996

CHRONO & PROTOMORPH, Chukyo University Art Gallery C・SQUARE, Nagoya
Soft Landing Meteor & DNA, Gallery GAN, Tokyo

1995

CHRONOSCORE, Espace 21, Matsuyama
CHRONOSCORE, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
CHANGE over TIME, Spiral Garden, Tokyo

1994

Exhibition in honor of the publication of a collection of his works Time-Space, Gallery KURANUKI, Osaka

1993

Founded the Solar Power Lab.(SPL), and created a solar car every year

1989

Cosmo Chronography & Photography, Gallery 16, Kyoto
Cosmo Chronography, INAX Gallery, Tokyo

1987

Recent Works 2 Nomura Hitoshi-Spin & Gravity, The National Museum of Art, Osaka

1970

Iodine and Time Table, Gallery 16, Kyoto

1969

Presented Tardiology, in which cardboard boxes collapsed under their own weight, “Kyoto City University of Fine Art: Graduation Works”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto

2023

Special Display: The Path to “Tardiology”, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto
Collection: Frame and Wave”, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
Re: Startline 1963−1970/2023 Sympathetic Relations between the Museum and Artists as Seen in the Trends in Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
ACG 20th Anniversary Vol.2, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
First Anniversary Special Exhibition, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka

2020

VISION part1: On Light / Light on: in the celebration of 25th Anniversary of the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi

2019

DECODE: Events & Materials, The Work of Art in the Age of Post-Industrial Society The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
REBORN ART FESTIVAL 2019, White shell beach, Oginohama area, Ishinomaki, Miyagi
Le Jardin Convivial (The Convivial Garden), Kyoto Botanical Gardens, Kyoto

2018

New Wave: Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1980s, National Museum of Art, Osaka
Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s–1990s, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea ['19] / National Gallery Singapore, Singapore ['19]
Surface is..., Himeji City People's Gallery Special Exhibition Room/ Egret Himeji B1, Hyogo

2017

When Attitude Becomes Form: Japanese Art of the 1970s through the Photography of Anzai Shigeo, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
JAPANORAMA- New Vision on Art Since 1970, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France [-'18]
ASSEMBRIDGE NAGOYA 2017, Minatomachi POTLUCK BUILDING, Nagoya

2016

The Universe and Art Princess Kaguya, Leonardo da Vinci, team Lab, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo / ArtScience Museum, Singapore [-'17]
ART1 2016: Stepping into Fresh Snow, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka

2015

Re: play 1972/2015 - Restaging "Expression in Film '72”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

2013

out of place, Daikakuji, Kyoto
Re: Quest Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s, Museum of Art Seoul National University, Korea

2011

Hitoshi Nomura, Sigmar Polke, Yukinori Yanagi: Works in Progress, McCaffrey Fine Art, New York

2009

MEDICINE AND ART:Imagining a Future for life and Love, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Enokura, Nomura, Takamatsu : Photographs 1968 - 1979, McCaffrey Fine Art, New York
Waiting for Video : Works from the 1960s to Today, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

2008

The Universe which Nomura Hitoshi watched, Sendai Astoronomical Observatory

2007

ART ANTI-ART NON-ART-Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan 1950-1970,
Getty Reseach Institude, Los Angeles

2005

Reconsidering Mono-ha, The National Museum of Art, Osaka

2004

TRACES Body and Idea in Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto/
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

2003

The History of Japanese Photography, The Museum of Fine Art, Huston/The Cleveland Museum of Art

2002

The Unfinished Century: Legacies of 20th Century Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

1999

ART 1999 CHICAGO, Festival Hall, Navy Pier, Chicago

1998

From out Stillness Gift from the Stars, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama

1997

GRAVITY Axis of Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka

1996

Photography and Beyond in Japan Space, Time and Memory, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

1995

CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY Texture & Touch, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo etc.
Matters and Perception 1970 Mono-ha and the Search for Fundamentals, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu etc.

1992

The 9th Sydney Biennale The Boundary Rider, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1975

9th Biennale de Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris/ Musée National d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

1970

10th International Art Exhibition of Japan(Tokyo Biennale ‘70) Between Man and Matter,
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo

Kitakyusyu Municipal Museum of Art/ The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu/ Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art/ The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto/ National Museum of Art, Osaka/ The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama/ Museum of Modern Art, Shiga/ Chiba City Museum of Art/ The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo/ Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts/ Himeji City Museum of Art/ Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art/ Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art/ Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo/ The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama/ Mori Art Museum/ Dallas Museum of Art/ Getty Research Institute/ International Center of Photography/ Musée d'Art Moderne Saint-Étienne/ Museum of Modern Art, New York/ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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