FUKUMOTO Shigeki

1989-15	Professor of Osaka University of Arts
1970	M.F.A., Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto
1968	B.F.A., Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto


Solo Exhibitions
2018	In Commemoration of the Publication of TO DYE, PERCHANCE TO DREAM, FUKUMOTO SHIGEKI: COLLECTED WORKS 1983 -
              2017(tankosha 2017), Chushin Art Museum, Kyoto
2017	ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2016	The Museum of Kyoto
                Gallery Keifu, Kyoto ('04)
                 Shredded Message: Cloth Inlay/ Mosaic, Keiko Art International
2011	NOHOHON: Book Art by Fukumoto Shigeki, Senbikiya Gallery, Tokyo
2010	Book Art by Fukumoto Shigeki, Gallery Aoi-Kaze, Kyoto
                  Book Art by Fukumoto Shigeki, Library of Osaka University of Arts, Osaka
2009	ROZOME, Cloth Inlay and Book Biding, Blanche Ikeda, Osaka
2007	Gallery Haku, Osaka (also in '05)
2004	Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
2003	Toyonaka City Gallery, Toyonaka
2002	Chushin Oike Gallery, Kyoto
1996	Aoyama Green Gallery, Tokyo
1995	Orie Gallery, Tokyo
1994	Senbikiya Gallery, Tokyo
                 Studio COM, kyoto
1992	HASEKO Gallery, Tokyo
                  Kyoto Brighton Hotel Annex Gallery, Kyoto
1991	The Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, Tokyo
                 Gallery Maronie, Kyoto (also in '84, '83)
                 Gallery KURANUKI, Osaka
                 Gallery Muu, Kyoto
                 Senbikiya Gallery, Tokyo
1989	Tanakaya Gallery, Aomori
                   Ikeda City Gallery, Tokyo
                   Heart and Art Dream, Hyougo
1988	Nihonbashi Takashimaya Tapestry Gallery, Tokyo
                   Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
                   Senbikiya Gallery, Tokyo
1987	Tsukashin Seibu Craft Salon, Hyougo
                   Yao Seibu Arts Gallery, Osaka
1986	Orie Gallery, Tokyo
                   Senbikiya Gallery, Tokyo
                   Gallery Nakamura, Kyoto
1985	Ina Gallery 2, Tokyo
                   Gallery Ten, Tokyo
                   Juraku Craft-kan, Kyoto ('84)
*Numerous exhibitions were held around the world.

Group Exhibitions
2018	Binding threads / Expanding Threads, The Art of Creating "Between-ness", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
2017	The Box Project: Uncommon Threads, Racine Art Museum, WI, Textile Museum, Washington DC
2016	IKI SUI, Seiryu-kan, Kyoto
                   Essence of Rimpa Appearing in Japanese Painting Circles in Kyoto - Humor and Wit -, 
                 Kyoto Prefectural Insho-Domoto Museum of Arts, Kyoto
2015	Essence of Rimpa Appearing in Japanese Painting Circles in Kyoto - Humor and Wit -, 
                 Kyoto Prefectural Insho-Domoto Museum of Arts, Kyoto
                   Emba Awards- Past and Present, UENO Memorial Museum, Tanba City, Kyoto
2014	Creation from HAIKU: calligraphy and Deying, Seiryu-kan, Kyoto
                   8th International Fiber Art Biennale, Nantong, China
2013	Maestros of Contemporay KOGEI, Tanabe City Museum of Art, Wakayama
                   Function and Expression in Dyeing and Weaving: Japan and Polan, Cheongju, International Biennale, S.Korea
                   Contemporary KOGEI Styles in Japan, Morikami Museum and Japanese Garden, FL, U.S.A.
                   New Acquisitions, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA, U.S.A.
2012	Beyond a thread – Hands working the fabric of life, Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
                   GIAPPONE TERRA DI INCANTI, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze
2011	The Contemporary SOMÉ: FUKUMOTO Shigeki and FUKUMOTO Shihoko, Tamba Municipal Art Museum
                   STREAMING: from Textile to Clay, KEIKO Gallery, Boston
2010	The History of Modern Dyeing, Tsukuba Museum of Art
2009	Pearls of arts in Kyoto, Chusin Art Museum, Kyoto
2008	Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo
                   Hanayagi no Katachi, TAKASHIMAYA, Art Gallery X, Tokyo
                   SOFA Chicago (also in '07, '06)
2007	Blue Wind Group Show for 26 artists, Gallery Aoi-Kaze SOME-RIMPA, Seiryukan, Kyoto
                   Japan Month in Houston, Art Exhibition, contemporary Japanese Arts and Crafts
                   There is Life After SOFA, KEIKO Gallery, MA
                   SOFA New York
                   Contemporary Japanese Textiles and Metalworks: From Material and Artistry to Forms, Tukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki
                   Azabu Juban Art Textile—Textile works by 30 artists, Tokyo
                   Museum Collections of Modern Art—Craft and Photography, Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto
                   The explorers of beauty, Osaka University of Arts Faculty Exhibition, Art Court Gallery, Osaka
                   4th International Fiber Art Biennale (Suzhou), China
                   Modern Dying—SOME.SEIRYUTEN: Footsteps for Fifteen Years, Seiryukan, Kyoto
                   Chusin art foudation 20th anniversary, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto
2005	Japanese Rozome Masters, Boston / Washington D.C. / Seattle
                   Rozome Masters From Kyoto, Massachusetts College of Art Boston, MA / KEIKO Gallery, MA
2004	Siryukai Dye Works Exhibition ('91–'03)
                   RIMPA, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
                   From Lausannne to Beijing—3rd International Fiber Art Biennale, Shanghai
                   Hyogo International Competition of Painting, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
2003	BATIK exhibition 2003, Museum voor Industriele Archelogie en Textiel, Gent, Germany
                   BATIK—Widening the Perspective, Galerie Smend, Cologne, Germany
2002	Contemporary Japanese Crafts—Materials and Way of Formative Thinking Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia / 
                 The National Museum, Jakarta
                   From Lausannne to Beijing—International Tapestry Art Biennale, Beijing, China
2001	Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2001, Cheongju, China
                   Crafts in Kyoto [1945-2000], The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto / Tokyo
                   Contemporary Textiles—Weaving and Dyeing: Way of Formative Thinking, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2000	Osaka Vision 21, Osaka
1999	50 MAITRES—Le arts appliques dans le Japon contemporain,—Espace des arts, Mitsukoshi Etoile, Paris
                   The Genealogy of Craft Objects, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
                   Beyond the Sea; Song, Burm-Soo and Fukumoto Shigeki Dual Exhibition' ll-Min Museum, Seoul, Korea / ABC Gallery, Osaka / 
                  The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto
1998	HOT WAX! Fukumoto and Dyrenforth, Leading East/West Batik Artists, Studio COM., Kyoto / Sembikiya Gallery, Tokyo
1997	International Batick Exhibition and Seminar, Anshun, China
1997	Dunia Batik Conference and Exhibition, Yogyakarta, Indonesia / ABC Art Concours, ABC Gallery, Osaka ('86–'96)
1995	Japan Studio Crafts: Tradition and the Avant-Garde, V&A Museum, London
1994	Contemporary Textile Design–Dyeing, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
                   Contemporary Stencil Dyeing and Printing—The Repetition of Patterns, Craft Gallery, Tokyo / The National Museumn of Modern Art, Tokyo
1993	International Triennial Competition of Painting, Osaka ('90)
1993	New Departures—An International Exhibition of Wax Resist Art, Edwin's Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
                   Small Works in Fiber, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
                   CETRA Exhibition Hall, Taipei, Thailand
                   Taipei International Exhibition of Traditional Arts and Crafts 1993, Taipei, Thailand
1992	7th International Triennale of Tapestry, Lodz, Poland
                   15th International Lausannne Biennial, Lausanne, Switzerland
                   Exhibition of Modern Best Art ('87–'91)
                   Exposition “France-Japan”, Grand Palais, Paris('84–'91)
1987	13th International Biennial of Tapestry, Lausanne, Switzerland
1984	38th Kyoto Prefectural Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Kyoto
1983	Kyoto Art Exhibition, Kyoto
*Numerous exhibitions were held around the world.

Awards
2008	Award for artwork, The Japan Society of Design
2002	Outstanding Performance Award, International Fiber Tapestry Art Biennale, Beijing
2001	Invited Artists Prize, Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2001, Korea
2000	Grand Prize, Osaka Vision 21 (painted on folding screens), Osaka
1992	Awarded six times, Exposition “France-Japan”, Grand Palais, Paris ('84–'92)
1991	Grand Prize, Exhibition of Modern Best Art
1990	Bronze Prize, International Triennial Competition of Painting, Osaka
                   Grand Prize, ABC Art Concours, ABC Gallery, Osaka
1988	Emba Museum Prize, Exhibition of Modern Best Art
1984	Grand Prize, 38th Kyoto Prefectural Arts & Crafts Exhibition, Kyoto
1983	Mayor's Award / Grand Prize, Kyoto Art Exhibition, Kyoto

Collections/ Public Art
Costen Foundation for Academic Research, Los Angeles
The National Museum of Modern Art，Tokyo
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, U.S.A.
Il-min Museum, Seoul, Korea
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto
Osaka Foundation of Culture, Osaka
Osaka 21st Century Association, Osaka
Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka
The Chushin Art Foundation, Kyoto
Hikami-cho Museum, Hyougo
Kameoka City Hall, Kyoto
Kusatsu City Hall, Gunma
Seiryukan, Kyoto

Publications
2017	To Dye, Perchance to Dream, Fukumoto Shigeki: Collected Works 1983-2017
2016	Urges/ Urgings (susume), Notes on a Theory of the Art of Japanese Dyeing (SOMÉ)
2007	The Technical Arts Hold Excitement in the 21st Century
1998	FUKUMOTO SHIGEKI: Rozome—Collected Works 1981–1988
1996	Japan and the Art of Dyeing
1994	The Traditional Pottery of Oseania
1988	Shigeki Fukumoto: Roketsuzome—Collected Works 1981–1988
1985	The Fantastic Costume art of Oceania
1976	Melamesian Art

My signature style, cloth inlay mosaic, was developed around 1992 without any particular concept, and only as just an experiment. Until then, I had been dyeing only large pieces of fabric, and felt that cutting them into pieces was taboo.

However, I realized that if I employed a very old, traditional technique used in mounting scroll painting--which involves applying thin Japanese washi (paper) as a backing--then I could shred the fabric and easily reassemble these pieces into a new format.　This technique prevents the fabric from fraying. And if then another layer of backing is applied to the reassembled pieces it is possible to cut the reassembled fabric at a different angle. Consequently, repeating this process makes it possible to create incredibly complicated geometrical patterns, like a mosaic.

This technique allowed me to create works of art that were innovative—cloth inlay mosaic. It is almost impossible to employ this technique with other materials, and I think this makes my cloth inlay very special. There have been times when I thought I should not continue working on such time consuming pieces, but my fascination with cloth inlay mosaic has now continued for more than twenty years, and I continue to discover new stages as I explore this technique.

I confess I am a very impulsive person, and I think this makes it possible for me to continue to work in this very tedious manner because I am always in a hurry to discover the end of a task that is endless.