Inoue Yuichi(1916-1985) 1916 Born in 1985 Died of liver cancer on 15 June

Selected Solo Exhibitions 2016 ART BASEL 2016 : Inoue Yuichi, Gallery 100, Hong Kong Inoue Yuichi, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, 2015 So Close and Far Away, Musée Tomo, Tokyo, Japan 2014 Gutestu, Gallery 100, Taipei, Taiwan 2012 Yuichi, Japan Art, Galerie Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt, Germany Yuichi, Ningbo Museum of Art, 2010 Yuichi, Tokushima Kenritsu Bungaku Shodokan, Japan 2008 Kanji Art of Inoue Yuichi, Shi Fang Art Museum, Zhengzhou, China 2005 Inoue Yuichi, Hangzhou International Calligraphy Art Festival, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China 2000 Yuichi Vivant, Chigasaki City Museum of Art, Kanagawa Yuichi Ali, d’Ac Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Ciampino, Italy 1999 Inoue Yuichi – Calligraphy Is for everyone, Seoul Art Center, Korea 1995 Yuichi: 1916-1985, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland 1989 Yuichi works 1955-85, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Travels to Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka; Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata; The Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi; The Ehime Prefectural Museum of Art, Ehime; Koriyama City Museum of Art, Fukushima 1986 Yuichi: Zeppitsu (Yuichi, Psyché Calligraphy-Parting Thoughts), NEWZ, Tokyo; Travels to UNAC SALON, Tokyo; Nishinomiya Citizen’s Gallery, Hyogo Yuichi and Yen Chen Ch’ing, NEWZ, Tokyo 1965 Yuichi, Galerie Rudolf ZWIRNER, Cologne, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions 2015 Calligraphic Abstraction, Seattle Art Museum, Asian Art Museum, Seattle The End of Modernity in Calligraphy: From Yuichi Inoue, Lee Ufan to Yu, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei 2013 Portrait of Destroyed City, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan Sharjah Biennal 11, Sharjah Art Museum, United Arab Emirates 2011 Inoue Yuichi Sho, University City Art Museum of GAFA, Guangzhou, China 2009 Ink Painting, Calligraphy: The Third Abstraction, Contrasts Gallery, , China 2005 Hangzhou International Calligraphy Festival, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China 2004 War and Art, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan 1994 Japanese Art after 1945: Scream against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan; Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA 1988 Stamp of War and Repose of Souls, Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan 1982 1955 and Now, Wako Hall, Tokyo, Japan 1979 Japan Today, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA 1976 Sho-Modern Japanische Schreibkunst, traveling in Germany 1973 Development of Postwar Japanese Art: Abstract and Non-Figurative, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan 1972 6th Japanese Modern Calligraphy, Saitama Hall, Saitama, Japan 1969 Modern World Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan 1967 1st Japan Gendai Sho, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 1966 1st Japan Art Festival, Union Carbide Company Headquarter, New York, USA 1965 Yu-Ichi Calligraphien, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany 1963 Schrift und Build, Kalligraphien Japanischer Meister der Gegenwart, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Baden-Baden, Germany 1962 Contemporary Sumie, traveling in Canada and USA 1961 6th Biennale, Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 1960 Pintura Japonesa Contemporanea, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Japanische Kalligraphie, Kunstverein Freiburg, Museum Folkwang, Freiburg, Essen, Germany 1959 Documenta 2, Kassel, Germany 1958 50 Ans d’Art Moderne, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels 1957 4th Biennale, Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1955 Japan-America Abstract Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy, traveling in Europe 1st Public Exhibition of Bakujin, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Japan 1954 Japanese Calligraphy, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 1950 3rd Shodo Geijutsuin Exhibition, Japan

Public Collections The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo The National Museum of Art, Osaka The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba Langen Foundation, Nuess Museum Rietberg, Zurich