Works

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Gozo Yoshimasu

Born 1939 in Tokyo.

1963 BA, Japanese Literature, Keio University, Tokyo

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025: “Yoshimasu Gozo Exhibition: ‘A, i, u, e, o, no, a!’,” Signal, Tokyo

2024: “Ne No Ne,” Signal, Tokyo

2023: “Footnotes—Gozo Yoshimasu According Gozo Yoshimasu According Gozo Yoshimasu,” Maebashi City Museum of Literature, Gunma
“Huhengengo he—Shijin Yoshimasu Gozo no sekai ten,” Yasushi Inoue Memorial Hall, Asahikawa City, Hokkaido

2022: “Voix,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
“Shijin Yoshimasu Gozo Akutagawa Ryunosuke e no Kyokan,” Tabata Memorial Museum of Writers and Artists, Tokyo

2021: “Dear Monster,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2017: “The Echoes from the Abyss: The Poems of Gozo Yoshimasu,” Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi; Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Naha; Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo
“Yoshimasu Gozo: Fire Embroidery – Beyond Ishikari Sheets” (Sapporo International Art Festival 2017), Hokkaido University Museum, Sapporo

2016: “The Voice Between: The Art and Poetry of Yoshimasu Gozo,” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025: 36th Bienal de São Paulo, “Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice”
“Blumen,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2024: AWT Focus 2024, “Earth, Wind, and Fire: Visions of the Future from Asia” (curated by Mami Kataoka), Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo
“One Single Book,” Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo

2023: AWT Focus 2023, “Worlds in Balance: Art in Japan from the Postwar to the Present” (curated by Kenjiro Hosaka), Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo
“15,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2021: Manchester International Festival, “Poet Slash Artist”

2019: MOT Annual 2019, “Echo after Echo: Summoned Voices, New Shadows,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Reborn Art Festival 2019, “Texture of Life,” Miyagi

2018: “Sharjapan: The Poetics of Space,” Al Hamriyah Studios, Sharjah

2017: MOT Satellite 2017 Spring, “by the deep rivers,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

2015: Shinano Primitive Sense Art Festival, Nagano

2014: Aomori Earth 2014, “Part 2: Knotted Poems, Stone Fence,” Aomori Prefecture Museum of Art

2010: Avant-Garde Entertainment Movie Festa Japan, Nara Prefecture Cultural Hall

2006: Paraty Poetry Festival, Rio de Janeiro

2002: “The Melting Point: Group Show by Poets and Sculptors,” Urawa Museum of Art, Saitama

1996: International Poetry Festival of Medellín, Colombia

1991: 21st Bienal de São Paulo

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Exhibitions