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Hiroshi SENJU

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Waterfall　130.3×194.0cm　Japanese painting

Waterfall　104.0×116.7cm　Japanese painting

Morning of the sign　8F　Japanese painting

Ginkgo under the Moon　6F　Japanese painting

Waterfall　50P　acrylic

PROFILE
1958  Born in Tokyo, Japan
1982 BFA, Tokyo University of Arts
1984 MFA, The Graduate School of Tokyo University of Arts
1987 Completed the Ph.D. program in Fine Arts at Tokyo University of Arts
1989 The End of Dream, solo exhibition, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney, Australia
1990 History of Japanese-Style Painting, group exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan
1993 Selected on cover of Art Now Gallery Guide - New York, USA
Flatwater, solo exhibition, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, USA
1994 Hiroshi Senju: 1980-1994, solo exhibition, Takamura Museum, Yamanashi, Japan
Received 4th Kenbuchi Picture Book Award for Picture book When Stardust Falls....., Japan
1995 Hiroshi Senju, solo exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Received Honorable Mention at 46th La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
1996 Hiroshi Senju - Waterfalls Glasses, solo exhibition, The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
1998 Received Konju-hosho (Dark Blue Ribbon Medal) for Hachigatsu no Sora to Kumo (August Sky and Clouds) collected by Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
2000 Received Michiaki Kawakita Award for Life exhibited in Ryoyonome Exhibition: Painting in the 21st Century, Japan
2002 The New Way of Tea, group exhibition, Japan Society and Asia Society, New York, U.S.A
Received Grand Prize, 13th MOA Mokichi Okada Award, Japan
The Scent and Shape of Ink, group exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2003 Paintings on Fusuma at the Juko-in of Daitoku-ji Temple, group exhibition, Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Kaiga no Genzai (Present-day Art), group exhibition, Bandaijima City Museum, Niigata, Japan
Essence of Contemporary Nihonga, group exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Painting, group exhibition, Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan
Mural for the foyer of Grand Hyatt Hotel, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Art Direction for Haneda Airport(Tokyo International Airport) Domestic Terminal 2, Tokyo, Japan
2005 Lexus L-Finesse, Milano Salone. Teatro Arte, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy Fukuoka Asian Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Hiroshi Senju -77 Panels of fusuma-e for Jukoin Annex of Daitokuji Temple, solo exhibition,
2006 The 6th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
Designed dial face of a watch, Reverso, Jaeger-LeCoultre, 75th anniversary special limited edition
Naoshima Standard 2, Benesse Art Site, Kagawa, Japan
Hiroshi Senju, solo exhibition, Yamatane Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Masterpiece Collection of Yamatane Museum of Art, group exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Toyama, Japan
Paintings on fusuma at Shofuso, Philadelphia, USA
Hyakubashira wo Tateru, Kusokuzeshiki, Senju Hiroshi (Building One Hundred Pillars, Emptiness is the form, Hiroshi Senju) Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
Harukanaru Aoi Hikari, solo exhibition, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, USA
2008 Still / Motion : Liquid Crystal Painting, group exhibition, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Mie, Japan; traveling to The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan; and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Ceramic Board Mural, Akasaka Biz Tower (TBS), Tokyo, Japan
Ceramic Board Mural, Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line, Shinjuku-Sanchome Station, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Art House project Ishibashi, Benesse Art Site, Kagawa, Japan
New Light from a Far, solo exhibition, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Los Angels, USA
Out of Nature: Cliffs and Falling Water, solo exhibition, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2010 The Invitations to 20th Century Art, group exhibition, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Gifu, Japan
Masterpiece Collection of Saku Municipal Museum of Modern Art, group exhibition, Takasaki Tower Museum of Art, Gunma, Japan
Hiroshi Senju: World of Blue - Echoes of Kaii Higashiyama, Higashiyama Kaii Setouchi Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Setouchi Triennale, Kagawa, Japan
Art Direction for APEC Japan 2010, Yokohama, Japan
Art Direction for Haneda Airport (Tokyo International Airport) International Passenger Terminal and expanded Domestic Terminal 2, Tokyo, Japan
2011 Art Direction for new building of Japan Railways Hakata Station
Hiroshi Senju Museum Karuizawa Opened
Water, Fire and Earth. The Source of Creativity, group exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
The 5th Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
Vision of Nature, Lost and Found, in Asian Contemporary Art, group exhibition, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Art Direction for Gucci 90th anniversary archive exhibition at Kinkakuji Temple, Kyoto, Japan
2012 Cliffs, solo exhibition, Sundaram Tagore gallery, New York, USA
Mural for OUB Centre, Singapore
Stage Design for The Japanese Classical Dance with Orchestra, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Stage Design for Opera KAMIKAZE, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan
Mural for Ekoin Temple, Tokyo, Japan
Art Direction for Sazaedo building, Taisho University, Tokyo, Japan
Art Direction for Message Cherry Blossoms project, KITTE Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan
Day Falls/Night Falls, solo exhibition, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong
The Tale of Genji - the Skies of Heian Period, solo exhibition, Sagawa Art Museum, Shiga, Japan
Setouchi Triennale, Kagawa, Japan
Stage Design for "Jyusuke Hanayagi and Tamasaburo Bando" Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Stage Design for opera YUZURU, Performed various cities in Japan
2015 Day Falls/Night Falls, solo exhibition, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore
Ceramic Tile Mural for Public Bath at JR Onagawa Station, Miyagi, Japan
Frontiers Reimagined at 56th La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Public art project commissioned by National Palace Museum, Taiwan R.O.C
2016 Paintings on Fusuma dedicated for Juko-in in Daitoku-ji temple was open to the public along with Fusuma painted by Eitoku Kano, Kyoto, Japan
Mizu to Hikari no Genso (Illusions in Water and Light), Toindo in Yakushi-ji temple, Nara, Japan
Received Foreign Minister's Commendation for FY 2016 by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
2017 Received Isamu Noguchi Award
Hiroshi Senju was president of Kyoto University of Art & Design from 2007 to 2013, presently professor of Kyoto University of Art & Design, director of Koyodo Museum, president of "GEIJUTSU GAKUSHA" (Kyoto University of Art & Design and Tohoku University of Art & Design), member of masters committee of L'ÉCOLE of Van Cleef & Arpels, and advisor of The Tokugawa Museum.

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