Japanese Page KOTARO  FUKUI ·  Biography 1969 Born in Tokyo 1994 Graduated from Tama Art University of Fine of Arts. M.F.A, Tokyo, etc 1995 9th the Year 2001 Aogaki Japanese Art Award, Tokyo Shinbun Prize, Ginza Yokyo Arthall 2000 “The 2nd Young Artists Exchange Korea and Japan” Korean Cultural Service, Korean Embassy in Japan, Tokyo 2001 “The 20th Sompo Japan Fine Art Foundation Outstanding Rising Artists Exhibition” Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo (and 2008) 2002 1st the Amuse Artist Audition Grand Prix Award 2003 Agency for Cultural Affairs, 2003 The Selected works of purchasing, “A I” Exhibiting “MI Art” in Italian Art Fair, Milano 2004 “Agency for Cultural Affairs 2003 The Selected works of purchasing” The Japan Academy, Tokyo “The 38th Agency for Cultural Affairs Modern Art Selecting Exhibition” Iwate Museum of Art, etc A book of “KUROTORI NO HAOTO” Works of Fukui Kotaro Solo exhibition “KUROTORI NO HAOTO (The flapping of bird’s wings)” (Osaka, Fukuoka, Hyogo, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Hiroshima) 2005 Solo exhibition “Broken Flower” Toho Art, Tokyo Solo exhibition “Flightless” West Wood Gallery, New York Japanese restaurant “KACHO” produced by Amon Miyamoto, a painting on a fusuma in main dining room Personality of “The Moon and The Ostrich of Fukui Kotaro”, Tokyo FM 2006 “Promising Japanese Traditional Painting - from Modem to Present day –” Saku Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Nagano and The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata The Medal with a Dark Navy Blue Ribbon by Cabinet Office Government of Japan Solo exhibition “Flightless N.Y to JAPAN” (Tokyo, Kyoto, Hyogo, Saitama, Osaka, Miyagi, Aichi, Hokkaido, Fukuoka) Solo exhibition “Silent Flower” Toho Art, Tokyo 2007 Solo exhibition “Passion Flower” Toho Art, Tokyo Exhibiting works in Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo (and 2009) Exhibiting works in Art Fair in Shanghai (and 2008), a painting on a Rover Solo exhibition “From Ostrich to Flower Series” Shinjuku Takashimaya Gallery (The Opening), Tokyo 2008 Collaboration novel and picture with 12 novelists “MIRAI SHOHEN SYOSETSU” in Tokyo Shinbun and Chunichi Shimbun every month (from January to December) Eyes of West and East, Michiaki Kawakita Prize, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo Solo exhibition “The 40th anniversary Shibuya Seibu” Shibuya Seibu, Tokyo Solo exhibition “Ostriches and Silent Flowers” Crossing Art Gallery, New York Exhibiting works in Art Basel Miami Beach 2008, Miami Beach Convention Center, Florida Set up an atelier in New York Japan Fashion Week in TOKYO 2008 Special KIMONO show “The descent of Japanese KABUKUMONO” by United Arrows Ltd. and KONDAYA GENBEI, body painting of models 2009 Solo exhibition “Ostriches and Silent Flowers” by the first Japanese artist at Asian Arts & Culture Center, Maryland A book of “HANA” Works of Fukui Kotaro 2010 Solo exhibition “Ostriches and Silent Flowers” by the first Japanese artist at Chelsea Art Museum, New York 2011 Solo exhibition “The 150th anniversary Japan-Germany exchange” Kreuzherrnsaal, Germany “Top Runner – Young Power of Japanese Painting” Takasaki Tower Museum of Art 2012 Solo exhibition “New Collection : Flower and Bird of KOTARO FUKUI ”The Museum of Art, EHIME Exhibiting works in The Museum of Art, EHIME, a painting on a BMW Solo exhibition “Ostriches and Silent Flowers” Inart Space, Taiwan Solo exhibition “Ostriches and Silent Flowers” Shinseido Tokyo Berlin Art Box GmbH, Berlin 2013 “Collection of Yokohama Museum of Art” Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa “New Collection of The 2012” The Museum of Art, EHIME, Ehime The Medal with a Dark Navy Blue Ribbon by Cabinet Office Government of Japan Solo exhibition “Book of Paintings Publication Commemoration” Takashimaya (Nihombashi, Kyoto, Nagoya, Osaka, Shinjuku, Yokohama) A book of “DACHO” Works of Fukui Kotaro A finished “Wind God and Thunder God, Kaze / Toki” (big mural) Okada Museum of Art, Kanagawa 2014 Solo exhibition in Tobi Art Fair 2014, Gallery Eizendo and Art Gallery Natsume (at the same time) 2015 “The 21st Century Exhibition of Japanese Art” Tokyo Art Club, Tokyo, etc A picture book “DACHO” Text of Tsutsui Yasutaka, Picture of Fukui Kotaro Solo exhibition “Picture Book Publication Commemoration” (Takamatsu, Ginza, Asahikawa, Nihonbashi, Hiroshima, Nagoya, Tokorozawa, Otsu, Shinsaibashi, Ueno, Fukuyama, Sapporo) 2016 “Original x Real 2016” Tokyo Art Club, Tokyo, etc (every year since) “Nihonga, on the new wave – The masterpieces of SAKU Municipal Museum of Modern Art -” Tenshin Memorial Museum of Art, IBARAKI “Fine of SUMI – Artists of Black” Fudenosato Kobo, Hiroshima Exhibiting works in Art Taipei 2016 (and 2017, 2018) 2017 Exhibiting works in Art Stage Singapore 2017 (and 2018) “Sketch and Decoration” The Museum of Art, EHIME, Ehime “Portrait Expression Ⅱ” The Sato Museum of Art, Shinjuku Fukui’s DACHO appeared in German movie “Me and Kaminski”, directed and wrote by Wokfgang Becker 2018 “Nihonga in picture books” Akino Fuku Museum, The Sato Museum of Art, Shinjuku Exhibiting works in Art New York 2018 Painting visual images of Takashimaya’s Mid-year and End-of-year Gifts Solo exhibition “Book of Paintings Publication Commemoration” (Nihombashi, Kyoto, Osaka, Yokohama, Shinjuku, Sapporo, Ginza, Fukuoka, Abeno, Matsuyama, Ginza) A book of “ICHIGA ICHIEN” Works of Fukui Kotaro ·  Collections The Japanese government’s Agency for Cultural Affairs The Museum of Art, Ehime Saku Municipal Museum of Modern Art The Hiratsuka Museum of Art The Sato Museum of Art Yokohama Museum of Art Okada Museum of Art Nichinan Art Museum Sakura Art Museum Hyogo Prefecture, Aogaki cho Kojima Art Room Ehime Prefecture, Matsuyama city Habu primary school Asian Arts & Culture Center at Towson University