1936

Born in Osaka.

1955

Graduates from Kogei Senior High School.

1962

Joins Gutai Art Association [participates in all Gutai Exhibitions until break up in ’72].

2022

Tsuyoshi Maekawa Exhibition, Axel Vervoordt Gallery - Patio Gallery, Kanaal, Wijnegem, Belgium

2020

Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Wijnegem, Belgium
Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano

2018

Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Sotheby's S|2 Gallery, London

2017

Tsuyoshi Maekawa: In Commemoration of the Publication of MAEKAWA and MAEKAWA II, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Salon Saatchi Gallery, London
Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong

2016

Tsuyoshi Maekawa in the 1970s, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp

2015

Tsuyoshi MAEKAWA: Energy Extortionist, Whitestone Gallery, Hong Kong

2014

Maekawa - The Gutai Works, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp
Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Dominique Lévy Gallery, New York

1996

Solo Exhibition, LADS Gallery, Osaka [’99, ’01, ’03, ’06 , ’10, ’13]

1993

Solo Exhibition, Gallery Yume, Tokyo [’94, ’95, ’97, ’99, ’02, ’09]

1991

Solo Exhibition, Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo [’93, ’03]

1989

Solo Exhibition, Gallery Hanamitsu, Osaka [’90, '93]

1986

Solo Exhibition, Yamaki Art, Osaka [’88, ’90]

1983

Solo Exhibition, Hiramatsu Gallery, Osaka [’85]

1980

Solo Exhibition, Fuji Gallery, Osaka [’82]

1978

Tsuyoshi Maekawa Solo Exhibition, Tor Road Gallery, Hyogo

1977

Tsuyoshi Maekawa Solo Exhibition, Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka

1975

Solo Exhibition, Osaka Prefectural Gallery [’79]

1963

Tsuyoshi Maekawa Solo Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka

2020

Ima-koso-GUTAI, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
Ashiya Time: A Large Collection Exhibition, Ashiya City Museum of Art and History
Tsuyoshi Maekawa and GUTAI, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano

2019

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

2018

Gutai, Hauser & Wirth, New York

2017

Tsuyoshi Maekawa: In Commemoration of the Publication of MAEKAWA and MAEKAWA II（ARTCOURTGallery, Osaka）
INTUITION, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
Beyond Matter, Gagosian, San Francisco

2016

The Disappearing Figure: Art after Catastrophe, Tate Modern, London
Gutai- 3M, Lin and Lin Gallery, Taipei
Gutai-jin in Karuizawa ~Standard of Avant-garde~, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano
A Taste of Gutai: Lito & Kim Camacho Collection, Ayala Museum, Makati City, Philippines

2015

Gutai-jin in Karuizawa, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano

2014

GUTAI x INTERNATIONAL: Go Overseas, Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Hyogo

2013

Tàpies: The Eye of the Artist, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
Osaka’s Cultural Golden Age: The Gutai Pinacotheca as a Ground Experiment, Osaka University General Science Museum
50 Years of Japanese Painting, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama

2012

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

2011

Nul= 0: The Dutch Nul Group in an International Context, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, The Netherlands

2004

Gutai: A Retrospective, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art

2002

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

1999

Gutai, Jeu de Paume National Gallery, Paris

1993

Challenge of Art After the War: Jiro Yoshihara and the Gutai Group, The Museum of Art, Ehime
Gutai 2 and Gutai 3, Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Hyogo

1992

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

1990

Gutai: The Avant-Garde Group Unfinished, Shoto Museum of Art, Shibuya, Tokyo

1989

Contemporary Design - Soil, Fabric, Thread: Araki Takako, Maekawa Tsuyoshi, Hamatani Akio, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama

1986

Japanese Artists, Galerie Stadler, Paris

1985

Gutai: Action and Painting, Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, Spain/ Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia/ Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art）
Contemporary Japan Painting Exhibition, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
Action and Emotion, Painting in the 1950s: Informel, Gutai, COBRA, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Jiro Yoshihara and Gutai 1954-1972, Civic Art Centre, Ashiya, Hyogo

1982

Japanese Contemporary Artists, Paris/ Tokyo/ Kyoto
Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London

1981

Pictorial Art Now Osaka '81, Contemporary Art Centre, Osaka [’82, ’85, ’87]

1979

Jiro Yoshihara and Contemporary Aspects of Gutai, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art

1978

Art Now '78, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art

1976

1st KAC Exhibition, Osaka Prefectural Gallery

1975

30 Cubic Centimeter Box, Hakusan Gallery, Hyogo/ Gallery doi, Hyogo
The 10th Japan Art Festival Exhibition, National Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand/ National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne/ Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

1970

Gutai Japan Expo ’70, Midori Pavilion, Expo ’70, Osaka

1967

Gutai’s Austrian Exhibition, Heide Hildebrand Gallery, Klagenfurt
Gutai Small Work Exhibition, Design House, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1966

2nd International Salon of the Pilot Galleries in Lausanne, Musée Cantonal Des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Gutai Three-Person Exhibition (Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Takesada Matsutani, Shuji Mukai), Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka
Nul 1966, International Gallery Olez, The Hague, The Netherlands

1965

Groupe Gutai, Galerie Stadler, Paris/ Cologne Art Association, Cologne/ Galerie Mickery, Loenersloot, The Netherlands
Gutai Five-Person Exhibition, Daiwa Gallery, Hyogo

1964

Gutai Art Small Works Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka [’69]
Gutai Art New Small Works Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka

1962

Don't Worry, the Moon Won't Fall Down! (Gutai Art and Morita Modern Dance), Sankei Hall, Osaka

1959

8th Gutai Art Exhibition [Participates in all Gutai Exhibitions until ’68 (Venue varies)]

1982

8th Japan-France Contemporary Art Exhibition [’83, ’84 (Venue varies)]

1979

14th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum / Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art [’81, ’83, ’87]

1978

12th Japan International Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum / Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art [’82, ’86]

1962

12th Kansai Comprehensive Art Exhibition, Municipal Museum of Art, Osaka

1958

8th Modern Art Association Exhibition [’59 (Venue varies)]

1956

9th Ashiya City Exhibition [Participates in all Ashiya City Exhibitions until ’05 (Venue varies)]

1955

5th Nishinomiya City Exhibition, Hyogo [’58, ’60]

2019

54th Osaka City Citizen Award

1983

Third Prize, 4th Japan- France Contemporary Art Exhibition

1982

The National Museum of Art, Osaka Prize, 4th Japan International Art Exhibition
Second Prize, 8th Japan- France Contemporary Art Exhibition
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto Prize, 14th Japan International Art Exhibition
Grand Prize, 5th Exhibition of Contemporary Art Exhibition

1981

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Prize, 15th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan

1975

Yoshihara Prize, 28th Ashiya City Exhibition

1963

Ashiya City Art Association Prize, Turner Prize, 16th Ashiya City Exhibition

1962

Chairman's Prize, Tenyugo Frame Factory Prize, 15th Ashiya City Exhibition
Grand Prize, 12th All Kansai Art Exhibition

1960

Second Prize, 10th Nishinomiya City Exhibition

1958

Chamber of Commerce Chairman's Prize, 8th Nishinomiya City Exhibition

1955

City Council Chairman's Prize, 5th Nishinomiya City Exhibition

The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto/ The National Museum of Art, Osaka/ Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo/ Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art/ The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama/ The Miyagi Museum of Art/ Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Hyogo/ Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa/ Osaka City Museum of Modern Art/ Ueno Memorial Museum of Art, Hyogo/ Ube City, Yamaguchi/ Tate Modern, London/ The Art Institute of Chicago/ M+, Hong Kong/ LONG MUSEUM, Shanghai/ Axel & May Vervoordt Foundation, Wijnegem, Belgium