Yoshihisa Kitatsuji

Yoshihisa Kitatsuji was born in Osaka-fu in 1948 and graduated from the Faculty of Design at Tama Art University in 1972. While attending school, he began experimenting with drawing through repetition and misalignment and memory and reiteration, to see how “works” would be created. He exhibited his work at the 9th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan in 1969, the 5th Japan Art Festival in 1970, the Kyoto Biennale in 1972, the 8th Paris Biennale and International Exhibition of Young Artists in 1973, and more. From the 1980s, his work underwent a shift to object sculptures and the like characterized by symbolism and narrative. He exhibited work at the “Recent Works 3 Yoshihisa Kitatsuji (The National Museum of Art, Osaka) in 1987, “the Middelheim/Japan Contemporary Japanese Sculpture Exhibition” (Antwerp) in 1989, and “Art Today Transfiguration of Sculpture” (The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama) in 1991. He also held retrospectives on the 1970s to the 1980s and exhibitions of new works at 3 venues in Tokyo, including Nabis Gallery. A solo exhibition, which was a compilation of his work through the 1980s to 1990s, was held at Gallery LA FENICE in Osaka from 1998 to 1999, and “The Garden of Visitors” was held at The National Museum of Art, Osaka in 2000. In recent years, he has been experimenting again with how “works” are created through painting.