solo shows
2023
- Perrotin, Paris, France (upcoming)
2022
- Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
- IZUMI KATO - Parasitic Plastic Plamodels, WATARI-UM, Tokyo, Japan
- Izumi Kato - From the Sea, Item Éditions, Paris, France
2021
- Stand by You, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA
- Perrotin, New York, USA
2020
- Perrotin, Paris, France
- IZUMI KATO – Ukiyoe Preview, Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan
- Exhibition from the Red Brick Art Museum Collection – Izumi Kato, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
2019
- IZUMI KATO – LIKE A ROLLING SNOWBALL, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma / Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
- Perrotin, Shanghai, China
- Like A Rolling Stone, Item Éditions, Paris, France
- Fundación Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Mexico
2018
- Perrotin, Seoul, South Korea
- Izumi Kato, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
- Perrotin, Hong Kong, China
2017
- Lithographs, Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan
- New Prints and Drawings, Item Éditions, Paris, France
- Take Ninagawa, Tokyo, Japan
2016
- Galerie Perrotin, New York, USA
2014
- Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
- Soft Vinyl Sculptures, CAPSULE; SUNDAY, Tokyo, Japan
- Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong, China
2012
- SOUL UNION DELUXE, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
2011
- The View from After, COMME des GARÇONS Six, Osaka, Japan
- Paintings and Sculptures, ARATANIURANO / NADiff Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2010
- KATO Izumi − Journeying into Each Day, The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
- SOUL UNION, ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan
2008
- The Riverhead, The Ueno Royal Museum Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007
- Dear Humans, ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan
- MOKU, Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, Japan
2006
- Murata & Friends, Berlin, Germany
2005
- HADAKA NO HITO, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
- Galleria Enrico Astuni, Pietrasanta, Italy
2004
- Murata & Friends, Berlin, Germany
- αM PROJECT Vol.5, art space kimura ASK?, Tokyo, Japan
2003
- ai gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Drawings 1996-2003, 23GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2002
- Galleria Chimera, Tokyo, Japan
2001
- ai gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Murata & Friends, Berlin, Germany
- Criterium 46 – Izumi Kato, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
- Drawings 1995-99, 23GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2000
- 23GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
- ai gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1999
- SAMAZAMA NA ME 98 Izumi Kato, IBM-KAWASAKI City Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
1998
- GALLERY LE DÉCO, Tokyo, Japan [also ’97, ’96]
1995
- ai gallery, Tokyo, Japan
group shows
2023
- Uraraka Painting Festival, Tokyo, Japan
2022
- Hawaiʻi Triennial, Honolulu, USA
- Assembly 1: Unstored, ASSEMBLY, Monticello, New York, USA
- Regarde-moi, Perrotin, Paris, France
- Un Été au Havre, Le Havre, France
- Reborn Art Festival 2021-22, Ishinomaki City, Oshika Peninsula, Miyagi, Japan
2021
- Art Karnival, K11 MUSEA, Hong Kong, China
- A Nexus of Rainbows: Works from the Hara Museum and the Hara Rokuro Collections, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
- Space Mounting, Kyoto Museum of Crafts and Design, Kyoto, Japan
- Collection Exhibition 1: Inner Cosmology, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
- Oketa Collection: 4G, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
- Next World – Taguchi Art Collection × Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan
- Just Looking, Still Looking, Always Looking, Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao, China
2020
- Garden of Life: Eight Contemporary Artists Venture into Nature, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
- On the Frontline of Contemporary Art: from the Taguchi Art Collection, Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan
- Unconstrained Textiles: Stitching Methods, Crossing Ideas, Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (CHAT), Hong Kong, China
- SCAI 30th Anniversary Exhibition, SCAI PARK, Tokyo, Japan
2019
- My Name is Tokyo Kai and I am an Artoholic, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
- Portraits: Selection from the Hara Museum Collection, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
- CONTACT: Where the World Meets Japanese Art and Culture, Kiyomizu-dera Temple, Kyoto, Japan
- NMAO collection with Alberto Giacometti II, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
- Thousand-Armed Guanyin, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
- Weavers of Worlds - A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2018
- Bubblewrap, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
- MOMAT Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- An Enchanting Future, Le Consulat, Paris, France
- Contemporary Sculpture Art Works from Xin Dong Cheng Collection, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China
- 10th Anniversary, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo, Japan
- Contemporary Art of the 21st Century – Taguchi Art Collection, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
- My Favorites: Toshio Hara Selects from the Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
- Takahashi Collection – Face and Abstraction, Kiyoharu Art Colony, Yamanashi, Japan
- Contemporary Wood-Caved Netsuke, The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam
- The Ubiquity of Borders: Japanese Contemporary, Gallery Baton, Seoul, South Korea
2017
- The Riddle of Art: Takahashi Collection, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
- Japanorama. New vision on art since 1970, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
- THE ART SHOW – Art of the New Millennium in Taguchi Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Gunma, Japan
- GLOBAL NEW ART – The Essence of Taguchi Art Collection, Woodone Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
- ART VACANCES, Kagoshima Islands, Kagoshima, Japan
- TAKAHASHI COLLECTION – Mindfulness 2017, Yamagata Museum, Yamagata, Japan
- PLAY, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
- TAKAHASHI COLLECTION, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
- Spring Fever, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo, Japan
2016
- Living in Figures – Izumi Kato x Chen Fei, Nizayama Art Park Power Plant Museum, Toyama, Japan
- Traces of a Dream – Selections of the Hara Museum Collection, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
- ART VACANCES – Izumi Kato, Paramodel, Mrs. Yuki, Gallery Hiramine, Kagoshima, Japan
- TAKAHASHI COLLECTION, Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui, Japan
- It’s Our Permanent Collection!, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
- THE COLLECTION OF THE TAKAMATSU ART MUSEUM EXHIBITION CELEBRATING THE MUSEUM’S REOPENING A CONCISE GUIDE TO LIFE WITH JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY ART, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
- S-HOUSE Museum Project, S-HOUSE Museum, Okayama, Japan
2015
- STANCE or DISTANCE ? − Connecting Myself to the World, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
- COSMOS/INTIME La Collection Takahashi, Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, Paris, France
- Messages – Takahashi Collection, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan
- TAKAHASHI COLLECTION: Mirror Neuron, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Taguchi Art Collection − A Walk around the Contemporary Art World after Paradigm Shift, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Gifu, Japan
2014
- Red Bull Music Academy Tokyo 2014, Red Bull Music Academy, Tokyo, Japan
- Rokko Meets Art 2014, Mount Rokko National Park, Hyogo, Japan
- Twentieth Anniversary Special MOT Collection: Contacts, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Taguchi Art Collection: TAG−TEN, Matsumoto City Museum Of Art, Nagano, Japan
- Mindfulness! – TAKAHASHI COLLECTION 2014, Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
2013
- Traveling Art in Mimasaka Province, Shurakuen Garden, Okayama, Japan
- Visceral Sensation – Voices So Far, So Near, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
- Wonderful My Art – Artists of the Takahashi Collection, Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan
- Re:Quest – Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
- MISUGOSHITEKITAMONO, sendai mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan
2012
- Parallel Far East Worlds, A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu, China
- Rokko Meets Art 2012, Mount Rokko National Park, Hyogo, Japan
- The 35th Anniversary of the National Museum of Art, Osaka: the Allure of the Collection, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan
- Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia; Haifa Museum of Art, Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa, Israel
2011
- Pathos and Small Narratives − Japanese Contemporary Art, Gana Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
- JALAPAGOS, MITSUBISHI ESTATE ARTIUM, Fukuoka, Japan
- MOT Collection Silent narrator: on plural stories, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Taguchi Art Collection − Global New Art, Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
- The Most Requested Top 30 / 10 Years of Takahashi Collection, Takahashi Collection Hinode; TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
- Be Alive! – Selections from the Hara Museum Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
- Art in an Office, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2010
- Living With Art – Contemporary Art From Japan and Taiwan, Yi&C Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan, China
- New Kore Shizuoka – New and Previous Collections and Art Closely Connected to Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
- Fifth Anniversary Exhibition: Garden of Painting – Japanese Art of the 00s, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan
2009
- Being Seeing Feeling – Selections from the Hara Museum Collection, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
- Dorodoro, Doron – The Uncanny World in Folk and Contemporary Art in Asia, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
- Long Season, Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, China
- TOYOTA ART COLLECTION 2008, Kuragaike Art Salon, Toyota Kuragaike Commemorative Hall, Aichi, Japan
2008
- Forwards 08 – Daimler Awards for Contemporary Art in Germany, Japan, South Africa and USA, Daimler Contemporary Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Kankai Pavilion Opening Exhibition – Beyond Time, Beyond Space, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
- neoteny japan – From TAKAHASHI Collection, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima; Sapporo Art Museum, Hokkaido; The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo; The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata; Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita; Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori; The Museum of Art, Ehime, Ehime, Japan [–’10]
- Art Scope 2007/2008 – Faces of Existence, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
- Selections from the Hara Museum’s Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2007
- Venice Biennale 52nd International Art Exhibition Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense curated by Robert Storr, Italian Pavilion at Giardini, Venice, Italy
- Painting as Forest: Artist as Thinker, Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan
- MOT Annual 2007 – From a World as Large as Life, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2006
- The Child, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2005
- GLOBAL PLAYERS – Deutsche und japanische Kunst der Gegenwart, BankART1929, Yokohama, Japan; Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany [’06]
- Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture, Japan Society, New York, USA
- Izumi KATO, Junya SATO, Yuken TERUYA, 14-1 Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
2004
- Galleria Enrico Astuni, Pietrasanta, Italy
- lonely planet, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
- Body, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover, Germany
2003
- ZONE – Clairvoyants in this threatening age, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
- The 1st Magical Art Exhibition ‘Magic Room’, PROJECT ROOM, Tokyo, Japan
2002
- Pro Tsubo, Theodor-Zink-Museum, Kaiserslautern, Germany; Neue Galerie Landshut, Germany [’04]
- VOCA The Vision of Contemporary Art 2002, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2000
- Four Emerging Artists, Theatres des SENS, Tokyo, Japan
1997
- ‘Bi’ and ‘Jutsu’, Ai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
public collections
- Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao, China
- Bernard Buffet Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
- Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (CHAT), Hong Kong, China
- Colección SOLO, Madrid, Spain
- Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
- Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
- Japigozzi Collection, Geneva, Switzerland
- K11, Hong Kong, China
- Long Museum, Shanghai, China
- Longlati Foundation, Hong Kong, China
- Miniature Museum, Den Haag, the Netherlands
- Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan
- The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan
- The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan
- Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
- S-HOUSE Museum, Okayama, Japan
- SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, USA
- Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
- Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China
- Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo, Japan
- Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Tokyo, Japan
- Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
- Toyota Motor Corporation, Aichi, Japan
- Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
- 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
- Zhiguan Museum of Fine Art, Beijing, China
