Shihoko Fukumoto
b. 1945
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2022 | Japan Blue, Verkehr Shimizu Port Terminal Museum, Shizuoka, Japan |
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| 2021 | Shihoko Fukumoto: Japan Blue 2021, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, Japan Ginza Motoji, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2020 | Shihoko Fukumoto – Japan Blue and White, Amagasaki Cultural Center, Amagasaki, Japan |
| 2018 | Chushin Art Museum, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2017 | Mori to Tenku, Sakura Shop, Tokyo and Takamatsu, Japan |
| 2016 | Ginza Motoji, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2015 | Fukumoto Shihoko: Japan Blue, Art Gallery X at Takashimaya, Tokyo and Takashimaya Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan Fukumoto Shihoko: Japan Blue Book Release Exhibition, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, Japan |
| 2013 | Fukumoto Shihoko: Nature from Hands, MEM, Tokyo, Japan Meirin Tea Ceremony: Tocha Tea-Tasting Game in Tea Room Mist, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan Ginza Motoji, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2012 | Fukumoto Shihoko: Natural Folk Textiles - from Material to Concept, Artcourt Gallery, Osaka, Japan Fukumoto Shihoko - Yusoku, Sembikiya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2011 | Ginza Motoji, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2010 | Shihoko Fukumoto: Indigo is the Color of My Dream, Japanese Garden, Portland, Oregon, USA Fukumoto Shihoko: Blue Tea Ceremony Room, Musée de Somé Seiryu, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2009 | Fukumoto Shihoko: Star Light Shawls, Gallery Kei-fu, Kyoto, Japan Fukumoto Shihoko Exhibition: Space-time within Native Work Clothing, Art Gallery X at Takashimaya, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2008 | Gallery Tazawa, Kyoto, Japan Ginza Motoji, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2007 | Fukumoto Shihoko Exhibition: Sanctuary, Parks Hall, Osaka, Japan |
| 2006 | Fukumoto Shihoko, Galerie Ishibekoji Wada, Kyoto, Japan Ginza Motoji, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2005 | Gallery Tazawa, Kyoto, Japan Fukumoto Shihoko, Donald Judd, Haz, Ashiya, Japan Shihoko Fukumoto — Moon Light, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Expressions in Indigo, Textielkunst van Fukumoto Shihoko, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2004 | Shihoko Fukumoto, The former Matsushiro Bunbu School, Nagano, Japan Expressions in Indigo, the Textile Art of Fukumoto Shihoko, Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London, UK Fukumoto Shihoko: “Kimono” Exhibition, Art Gallery at Takashimaya, Tokyo & Kyoto, Japan Fukumoto Shihoko: Tearoom Firmament, Hagi Uragami Museum, Hagi, Japan |
| 2003 | Artcourt Gallery, Osaka, Japan Inax Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2002 | Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA Japan Blue of Fukumoto Shihoko, Ikenobo Junior College Muromachi Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2001 | Shihoko Fukumoto — Moon Light, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2000 | Gallery Tazawa, Kyoto, Japan Aoyama Green Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Azumino Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Toyoshima, Azumino, Japan |
| 1999 | Fukumoto Shihoko: “Kimono” Exhibition, Art Gallery at Takashimaya, Tokyo & Kyoto, Japan Today’s Artist 32 Shihoko Fukumoto, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan |
| 1998 | Shihoko Fukumoto — Moon Light, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Gallery Kuranuki, Osaka, Japan Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan Japan Blue, Gallery en, Takamatsu, Japan Japan Blue, Sakura Art Museum, Osaka, Japan |
| 1997 | Gallery Kuranuki, Osaka, Japan |
| 1996 | Hiro Chikashige Gallery, Okayama, Japan Indigo Blue, The Tatsuno Museum of Art, Tatsuno, Japan |
| 1995 | Shihoko Fukumoto — Moon Light, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
| 1994 | Aoyama Green Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan JR Osaka Service Gallery, Osaka, Japan |
| 1993 | Shihoko Fukumoto: Shade of Indigo Blue, The Gallery at Takashimaya, New York, USA; Tokyo & Kyoto, Japan |
| 1992 | Gallery Kuranuki, Osaka, Japan |
| 1990 | Aoyama Green Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Shibori-Indigoblatt Japansk textilkonst av Shihoko Fukumoto, Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2024 | Machiko Ogawa | Shihoko Fukumoto, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK The Story of Indigo, Kurume City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan |
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| 2023 | Small Works, Great Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Textile Revelations — Oceania’s Creations, Fukumoto Shigeki and Fukumoto, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan |
| 2022 | In Between, Tosei Kyoto Gallery, Kyoto, Japan Go for Kogei 2022, Shokoji Temple, Takaoka, Toyama, Japan White and Black, Light and Shadow, Takashimaya Art Gallery, Nihombashi, Kyoto, Osaka and Nagoya, Japan Collection Exhibition 2: Blue, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan |
| 2021 | The World of Yukata and Japanese Indigo, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan |
| 2020 | Small Works, Great Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Japanese Wonder, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK The First of the National Crafts Museum’s Grand Opening Exhibitions: Japanese Crafts－Materials, Techniques and Regionalities, National Crafts Museum, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan Collection Exhibition: Scales, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan 250 Years of Kyoto Art Masterpieces, The Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan Fashion in Japan Blue, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Hyogo, Japan |
| 2019 | Did You See It?―Challenges from the Kids, Crafts Gallery, The National Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan Somé Seiryu Exhibition Retrospective, Musée de Somé Seiryu, Kyoto, Japan Kyoto Textiles: From the 1960s to the Present, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan Alchemy, Arvind Indigo Museum (at the Kasturbhai Lalbhai Museum), Ahmedabad, India |
| 2018 | Glass, Textiles, Lacquer & Ceramic, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Binding Threads / Expanding Threads, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Takashimaya Art Department 110th Foundation Anniversary: "Pieces of Poetry, Principles of Beauty", Nihombashi Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2017 | Binding Threads / Expanding Threads, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Sugai Kumi, Fukumoto Shihoko, Isetan Shinjuku Store Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2016 | Crafts Arts: Innovation of "Tradition and Avant-Garde," and the Present Day, Crafts Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Iki Sui Exhibition, Somé・Seiryukan, Kyoto, Japan Seiryuten Some Exhibition Part 2, Somé・Seiryukan, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2015 | Unraveling Identity: Our Textiles, Our Stories, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, Washington DC, USA Seiryuten Somé Exhibition, Somé・Seiryukan, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2014 | Beauty of Kögei: Art Crafts in Japan, Japan Creative Centre, Embassy of Japan in Singapore, Singapore Takeshi Umehara and 25 Artists, Takashimaya, Kyoto, Osaka, Tokyo, Yokohama & Nagoya, Japan Landscape, Takashimaya Gallery X, Tokyo, Japan Somé and Sho, Somé・Seiryukan, Kyoto, Japan Fukumoto Shihoko and Konishi Ikuko, Some and Hana Exhibition, Gion Konishi, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2013 | Contemporary Kögei Styles in Japan, Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Miami, Florida, USA Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2013, Main Exhibition II, Cheongju Cultural Industry Complex, Cheongju, South Korea Time Capsule of the Beauty in Kyoto, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan The 25th Kyoto Fine Arts Culture Award Memorial Exhibition, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan Seiryuten Somé Exhibition, Somé・Seiryukan, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2012 | The 18th MOA Okada Mokichi Award, MOA Museum of Art, Atami, Japan SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA Beyond a Thread - Hands Working the Fabric of Life, Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan Giappone Terra di Incanti, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy 50th Anniversary Special Exhibition, Cross Sections Chronicle, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto & The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Kyoto Kyo-Machiya Stay Arts Project Vol.1, Arts Machiya 2012, Sujiyacho Machiya, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2011 | Seiryuten Somé Exhibition, Somé・Seiryukan, Kyoto, Japan Bite-Size: Miniature Textiles From Japan and the UK, Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London, UK Sugimoto-Bunraku: Sonezaki Shinju (special display of Trailing Mist), Kanagawa Arts Theatre Hall, Yokohama, Japan Gendai no Some, Shigeki Fukumoto and Shihoko Fukumoto, Tamba City Ueno Memorial Art Museum, Tamba, Japan |
| 2010 | Ken Mihara & Shihoko Fukumoto, Galerie Besson, London, UK The History of Modern Dyeing, Tsukuba Museum of Art, Tsukuba, Japan About the Tea Ceremony, Craft Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Collect art fair, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK |
| 2009 | Seiryuten Somé Exhibition, Somé・Seiryukan, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2008 | From Lausanne to Beijing, 5th International Fiber Art Biennale, Suzhou Art & Design Technology Institute Art Gallery, Suzhou, China Blue, Textile Museum, Washington, DC, USA |
| 2007 | Seiryuten Somé Exhibition, Somé・Seiryukan, Kyoto, Japan Collezione, Arte & Arte/Kaunas Art Biennale, Mykolas Zilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania (2007-08) Indigo: A Blue to Die For, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK (2007-08) The Craft Gallery 30th Anniversary Exhibition II, The Power of Crafts: Outlook for the 21st Century, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Contemporary Japanese Textiles and Metalworks: From Materials & Artistry to Forms, Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki, Tsukuba, Japan |
| 2006 | Contemporary Kimono, Access Gallery, Curtin University, Perth, Australia From Lausanne to Beijing, 4th International Fiber Art Biennale, Suzhou Art & Design Technology Institute Art Gallery, Suzhou, China Japanese Crafts, Galerie Besson, London, UK From the Museum Collection: A History of Modern Crafts, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2005 | Seiryuten Somé Exhibition, Somé・Seiryukan, Kyoto, Japan (each year from 1992 - 2005) Kaunas Art Biennial Textile 05, Kaunas, Lithuania Shibori Textile Catalysts, Tama Art University Museum, Tama, Japan |
| 2004 | From Lausanne to Beijing, 3rd International Fiber Art Biennale, The Shanghai Library, Shanghai, China |
| 2003 | Shibori - Fabric Transformed, Kunstbanken Hedmark Kunstsenter, Hamar, Norway |
| 2002 | Art House Project, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Go’o Shrine Dedication Noh, Honmura, Naoshima, Japan From Lausanne to Beijing, 2nd International Tapestry Art Biennale, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Contemporary Art in Japan, China and Korea: the Monochromatic Aesthetics in East-Asian Contemporary Art, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan Takashimaya Art Award Exhibition, Takashimaya, Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka & Kyoto, Japan New Collections, The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA |
| 2001 | Textural Space, Contemporary Japanese Textile Art, James Hockey & Foyer Galleries, Farnham, UK Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton, and Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK Crafts in Kyoto 1945-2000, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Contemporary Textile, Weaving and Dyeing: Ways of Formative Thinking, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1999 | 4eme Festival International de la Tapisserie, Beauvais, France The Invitational Exhibition of Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju, South Korea |
| 1998 | Asian Avant-Garde, Christies, London, UK |
| 1996 | 1st Flax and Linen Biennale, Upper Normandy, Rouen, France |
| 1992 | International Biennial of Tapestry and International Lausanne Biennial, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, France |
| 1990 | International Biennial of Tapestry and International Lausanne Biennial, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, France |
| 1987 | International Biennial of Tapestry and International Lausanne Biennial, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, France |
| 1986 | Indigo: Natural Blue, Royal Tropen Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
Public Collections
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA
Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden
Takashimaya Historical Museum, Osaka, Japan
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Publications
Fukumoto, Shihoko, Fukumoto Shihoko Japan Blue, Works by Fukumoto Shihoko, 2015, edited by Todate Kazuko, Himeno Kimi and Yagi Mitsue