EXHIBITIONS

2016

Solo Exhibition "A Centennial Exhibition: INOUE Yuichi" in Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Art, Japan

2014

Solo Exhibition "Inoue Yuichi - Gutetsu" at Gallery 100, Taipei in Taiwan

2012

Solo Exhibition "INOUE YUICHI Hibizeppitsu" in Karuizawa New Art Museum

2010

Solo Exhibition "Yu-ichi Inoue –The calligraphy is for everyone–” at Seoul Art Center, Korea
“The Calligraphy of Yu-ichi Inoue” at The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
“Yu-ichi Inoue –Lived and Wrote–” at Chigasaki City Museum of Art, Kanagawa
“Yu-ichi Inoue” at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Hangzhou International Calligraphy Art Festival “Yuichi INOUE” at China
Academy of Art “Kanji Art –Inoue Yuichi–” at Ten Directions Art Center, China
“Yu-ichi Collectors Party” at Koyama Tomio Gallery, Tokyo
“Legacy of Yu-ichi” at Sumida Riverside Hall, Tokyo, organized by KAMIYA ART

2008

Solo Exhibition at Today Art Museum, Beijing in China

2005

Solo Exhibition "Yu-ichi and Uecker" at Langen Foundation in Germany

2000

Solo Exhibition "YU-ICHI VIVANT" at Chigasaki city museum of Art, Chigasaki, kanagawa.
Solo Exhibition "YU-ICHI-Ali" at Ciampino, Roma, Italy.
Solo Exhibition "YU-ICHI exhibition" at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and RAKU Gallery of Kyoto university of Aoyama spiral Garden hall in Tokyo

1996

Group Exhibition "Japanese Art after 1945" at Guggenheim Museum in SoHo, New York and in San Francisco Museum of Art in San Francisco, California, USA.
Solo Exhibition "YU-ICHI HIN -werke 1954 bis 1982" in Schirn Kunsthalle, Galerie im Karmeliterkloster, and Müseum für Kunsthandwerk in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Group Exhibition " ! " 93 works exhibition in JAPAN ART Gallery in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

1995

Solo Exhibition "YU-ICHI 1916-1985" at Kunsthalle Basel in Basel, Switzerland.
“Our BIG Inoue Yu-ichi” at the National Museum of Modern Arts, Kyoto in Kyoto, Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art in Fukuoka, Niigata City museum in Niigata

1994

“Japanese Art after 1945 –Scream against the sky– ” at Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Guggenheim Museum in SoHo, New York and San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, U.S.A

1993

Solo Exhibition "Subarashii HIN (Marvellously Poor)" at the Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts in Tokyo

1990

Traveling Exhibition "YU-ICHI works 1955-85" at Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art in Fukuoka, Niigata City Art Museum in Niigata, the Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art in Ehime, and Koriyama City Museum of Art in Fukushima

1989

Solo Exhibition "YU-ICHI works 1955-85" at the National Museum of Modern Art, in Kyoto

1987

Solo Exhibition "YU-ICHI's Hundred HANA (Flower)" at PARCO Gallery in Tokyo

1986

Solo Exhibition "YU-ICHI Zeppitsu" (YU-ICHI, Psyché Calligraphy-PARTING THOUGHTS) at NEWZ in Roppongi, Tokyo and Nishinomiya Citizens' Gallery in Nishinomiya, Hyogo
Solo Exhibition "YU-ICHI VIVANT" at the Seed Hall in Tokyo

1985

Group Exhibition "Adam in the Future" in SEIBU Hall in Seibu Department Store in Shibuya, Tokyo

1984

Solo Exhibition "YU-ICHI KOTOBA-GAKI (WORDWORKS)" at UNAC SALON in Tokyo and Gallery Ban Garo in Osaka

1982

Solo Exhibition "1955-and now" in Wako Hall in Ginza, Tokyo

1980

Solo Exhibition at Asahi Gallery in Kyoto.
The National Museum of Art in Osaka added Gutetsu C to its collection.

1979

Group Exhibition "JAPAN TODAY" in Chicago Cultural Center in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

1977

Solo Exhibition in Commemoration of the publication of “Sho by Yu-ichi '49-'77” in Ichibankan Gallery, Tokyo

1976

Traveling Exhibition "Sho-Modern Japanische Schreibkunst" in Germany Retired after 41 years of teaching career

1973

Group Exhibition "DEVELOPMENT OF POSTWAR JAPANESE ART Abstract and Non-Figurative" in the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

1971

Solo Exhibition to commemorate the publication of "Hana-no-Sho-Cho" in Ichibankan Gallery in Tokyo

1969

Group Exhibition "CONTEMPORARY Art Dialogue between the East and the West" in the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, in Tokyo.

1967

Group Exhibition "The 1st Japan Gendai Sho" in Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in Tokyo

1966

Group Exhibition “The First Japan Art Festival” in Union Carbide Company headquarters in New York, U.S.A.

1965

Solo Exhibition "YU-ICHI Calligraphien" in Wuppertal Kunst und Museumseverein, Wuppertal, Germay and in Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany

1963

Group Exhibition "Calligraphien Japanischer Meister der Gegenwart" in Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and in Staatliche Kunsthalle in Baden-Baden, Germany

1962

Solo Exhibition in Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany Travelling Exhibition “Contemporary Sumie” in Canada and the U.S.A.

1961

Group Exhibition at the 6th Sao Paulo Art Biennale.
Group Exhibition “1961 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture”, Pittsburgh, U.S.A. His mother passed away.

1960

Group Exhibition “Pintura Japonesa Contemporanea” in Museu de Arte moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Group Exhibition “Japanische Kalligraphie” in Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg and Museu Folkwang, Essen, Germany

1959

Group Exhibition at the Second Documenta, Kunstnach 1945 in Museum Fridericianum, Kassel in Germany

1958

Group Exhibition at “50 years of Modern Art” in Palais International des Beaux-Art “Expo in Bruxelles”, in Belgium

1957

Group Exhibition at the 4th Sao Paulo Art Biennale

1955

Group Exhibition “Japan-America Abstract Art” in National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
Travelling Exhibition in Europe, “Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy”

1954

Group Exhibition “Japanese Calligraphy” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in U.S.A.
Group Exhibition at Bokujin kai Exhibition in Tokyo

1953

Group Exhibition at the Frist Genbi Exhibition

1947

Submitted a piece to a Second Japan Calligraphy Art Academy Exhibition

COLLECTIONS

The National Museum of Art, Osaka / The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto / Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie / Institute Matsumoto City Museum of Art The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama / Chiba City Museum of Art / Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art Heydt-Museums, Wuppertal / The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Okazaki city City Museum / TODAY ART MUSEUM / Himeji City Museum of Literature / Chigasaki city Museum / Niigata City Art Museum / Sanshang Art (hangzhou) / The Museum of contemporary art D'AC of Ciampino The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma / Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe Museum Rietberg in the city of Zurich / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York