Izumi Kato

b.1969 Japan

Izumi Kato was born in 1969, in Shimane, Japan. He graduated from the Department of Oil Painting at Musashino University in 1992. He now lives and works between Tokyo and Hong Kong. Since 2000’s, Kato has garnered attention as an innovative artist through exhibitions held in Japan and across the world. In 2007, he was invited to the 52nd Venice Biennale International Exhibition, curated by Robert Storr.

Children with disturbing faces, embryos with fully developed limbs or ancestor spirits locked up in bodies with imprecise forms – the creatures summoned by Izumi Kato are as fascinating as they are enigmatic. Their anonymous silhouettes and strange faces with absent features are above all simple forms and strong colours. Their elementary representation, an oval head with two big, fathomlessly deep eyes shows no more than a crudely figured nose and mouth.

Izumi Kato

b.1979 Japan

Izumi Kato was born in 1969, in Shimane, Japan. He graduated from the Department of Oil Painting at Musashino University in 1992. He now lives and works between Tokyo and Hong Kong. Since 2000’s, Kato has garnered attention as an innovative artist through exhibitions held in Japan and across the world. In 2007, he was invited to the 52nd Venice Biennale International Exhibition, curated by Robert Storr.

Children with disturbing faces, embryos with fully developed limbs or ancestor spirits locked up in bodies with imprecise forms – the creatures summoned by Izumi Kato are as fascinating as they are enigmatic. Their anonymous silhouettes and strange faces with absent features are above all simple forms and strong colours. Their elementary representation, an oval head with two big, fathomlessly deep eyes shows no more than a crudely figured nose and mouth. Bringing to mind primitive arts, their expressions evoke totems and the animist belief that a spiritual force runs through living and mineral worlds alike. The aura that they exude seems to manifest the first movement of life while the intensity of their expression gives us access to a knowledge of man founded less on reason than on intuition. Embodying a primal, universal form of humanity, these magical beings invite viewers to identify themselves as if looking in a mirror.

加藤泉

b.1979 Japan

加藤泉1969年生於日本島根縣，1992年畢業於武藏野大學油畫系，現於東京居住及創作，作品曾在日本及世界各地展出，2000年起開始受外界注意，被評為創新藝術家，2007年更參加第五十二屆威尼斯國際藝術展覽。

從1990年代末至今，加藤泉一直致力追求衍變的藝術語言。他以繪畫為起點，分別在2003年及2012年把樟木雕塑和軟塑膠雕塑納入到創作實踐中。加藤泉的作品特徵鮮明——人像輪廓普適，時而雌雄同體，四肢纖長，姿態詭譎。這些彷彿源自異世界的人像，皆由藝術家用手指將油畫顏料塗抹在畫布上而來。

加藤泉的新世界都是由主題加上背景組成，人像都是大頭瘦身，活像變種外星兒童，或未經進化的原始生物。這些抽象主題令人感受到原始人性，簡樸的表現方式更易引發對於存在感的反思。在人生基本面相與現實豐富多采之間，加藤泉築起一道心理橋樑，深深打動觀者。他的人像沒有多餘枝節，無表情無性別，但其粗獷原始的能量，足以令觀者直視那動人的空白面貌。

加藤泉的石雕系列始於2016年，而最新的織物系列則受到了紅磚美術館的建築空間的啟發，根據展覽空間定製而成，旨在描述自我、他人和自然之間的密切聯繫。

自2000年代起，加藤泉藉其不斷創新的作品在日本和世界各地的展覽中贏得了廣泛關注。 2007年，他受邀參加了由羅伯特·斯托爾策展的第52屆威尼斯雙年展。加藤泉的作品已在眾多國際知名博物館和機構展陳，包括法國梅斯蓬皮杜中心、日本金澤21世紀美術館、日本東京原美術館、日本東京都現代美術館、日本東京國立近代美術館、日本大阪國立國際美術館、德國柏林戴姆勒當代藝術收藏、俄羅斯莫斯科現代美術館、以色列海法美術館、美國紐約日本協會、香港大館、紅磚美術館（北京）等。

2019

IZUMI KATO – LIKE A ROLLING SNOWBALL, Hara Museum, Tokyo and Gunma, Japan (~2020)
Popping now, Gin Huang Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Perrotin, Shanghai, China
Like A Rolling Stone, Item Gallery, Paris, France
Fundación Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Mexico (~2020)
CONTACT connecting art exhibition of art in Japan and the world, Kiyomizu-dera Temple, Kyoto, Japan
Weavers of Worlds – A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

2018

Perrotin, Seoul, South Korea
Izumi Kato, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
Perrotin, Hong Kong, China
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

Lithographs, Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan
New Prints and Drawings, Item éditions, Paris, France
Take Ninagawa, Tokyo, Japan
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

Galerie Perrotin, New York, USA
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

Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
Soft Vinyl Sculptures, CAPSULE; SUNDAY, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong, China
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, Korea
MISUGOSHITEKITAMONO, sendai mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan

2012

SOUL UNION DELUXE, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
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

The View from After, COMME des GARÇONS OSAKA (Six), Osaka, Japan
Paintings and Sculptures, ARATANIURANO; NADiff Gallery, Tokyo

Izumi Kato

<div class="article-cv"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> 2019<ul class="article-cv-item"><li>IZUMI KATO – LIKE A ROLLING SNOWBALL, Hara Museum, Tokyo and Gunma, Japan (~2020)</li><li><b>Popping now, Gin Huang Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan</b></li><li>Perrotin, Shanghai, China</li><li>Like A Rolling Stone, Item Gallery, Paris, France</li><li>Fundación Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Mexico (~2020)</li><li>CONTACT connecting art exhibition of art in Japan and the world, Kiyomizu-dera Temple, Kyoto, Japan</li><li>Weavers of Worlds – A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan</li> </ul> 2018<ul class="article-cv-item"><li>Perrotin, Seoul, South Korea</li><li>Izumi Kato, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China</li><li>Perrotin, Hong Kong, China</li><li>Bubblewrap, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan</li><li>MOMAT Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan</li><li>An Enchanting Future, Le Consulat, Paris, France</li><li>Contemporary Sculpture Art Works from Xin Dong Cheng Collection, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China</li><li>10th Anniversary, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo, Japan</li><li>Contemporary Art of the 21st Century – Taguchi Art Collection, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan</li><li>My Favorites: Toshio Hara Selects from the Permanent Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan</li><li>Takahashi Collection – Face and Abstraction, Kiyoharu Art Colony, Yamanashi, Japan</li><li>Contemporary Wood-Caved Netsuke, The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam</li><li>The Ubiquity of Borders: Japanese Contemporary, Gallery Baton, Seoul, South Korea</li> </ul> 2017<ul class="article-cv-item"><li>Lithographs, Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan</li><li>New Prints and Drawings, Item éditions, Paris, France</li><li>Take Ninagawa, Tokyo, Japan</li><li>The Riddle of Art: Takahashi Collection, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan</li><li>Japanorama. New vision on art since 1970, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France</li><li>THE ART SHOW – Art of the New Millennium in Taguchi Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Gunma, Japan</li><li>GLOBAL NEW ART – The Essence of Taguchi Art Collection, Woodone Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan</li><li>ART VACANCES, Kagoshima Islands, Kagoshima, Japan</li><li>TAKAHASHI COLLECTION – Mindfulness 2017, Yamagata Museum, Yamagata, Japan</li><li>PLAY, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan</li><li>TAKAHASHI COLLECTION, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan</li><li>Spring Fever, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo, Japan</li> </ul> 2016<ul class="article-cv-item"><li>Galerie Perrotin, New York, USA</li><li>Living in Figures – Izumi Kato x Chen Fei, Nizayama Art Park Power Plant Museum, Toyama, Japan</li><li>Traces of a Dream – Selections of the Hara Museum Collection, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan</li><li>ART VACANCES – Izumi Kato, Paramodel, Mrs. Yuki, Gallery Hiramine, Kagoshima, Japan</li><li>TAKAHASHI COLLECTION, Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui, Japan</li><li>It’s Our Permanent Collection! , Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan</li><li>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</li><li>S-HOUSE Museum Project, S-HOUSE Museum, Okayama, Japan</li> </ul> 2015<ul class="article-cv-item"><li>STANCE or DISTANCE ? − Connecting Myself to the World, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan</li><li>COSMOS/INTIME La Collection Takahashi, Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, Paris, France</li><li>Messages – Takahashi Collection, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan</li><li>TAKAHASHI COLLECTION : Mirror Neuron, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan</li><li>Taguchi Art Collection − A Walk around the Contemporary Art World after Paradigm Shift, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Gifu, Japan</li> </ul> 2014<ul class="article-cv-item"><li>Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France</li><li>Soft Vinyl Sculptures, CAPSULE; SUNDAY, Tokyo, Japan</li><li>Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong, China</li><li>Red Bull Music Academy Tokyo 2014, Red Bull Music Academy, Tokyo, Japan</li><li>Rokko Meets Art 2014, Mount Rokko National Park, Hyogo, Japan</li><li>Twentieth Anniversary Special MOT Collection: Contacts, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan</li><li>Taguchi Art Collection : TAG−TEN, Matsumoto City Museum Of Art, Nagano, Japan</li><li>Mindfulness! – TAKAHASHI COLLECTION 2014, Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan</li> </ul> 2013<ul class="article-cv-item"><li>Traveling Art in Mimasaka Province, Shurakuen Garden, Okayama, Japan</li><li>Visceral Sensation – Voices So Far, So Near, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan</li><li>Wonderful My Art – Artists of the Takahashi Collection, Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi, Japan</li><li>Re:Quest – Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea</li><li>MISUGOSHITEKITAMONO, sendai mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan</li> </ul> 2012<ul class="article-cv-item"><li>SOUL UNION DELUXE, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan</li><li>Parallel Far East Worlds, A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu, China</li><li>Rokko Meets Art 2012, Mount Rokko National Park, Hyogo, Japan</li><li>The 35th Anniversary of the National Museum of Art, Osaka: the Allure of the Collection, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, Japan</li><li>Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia; Haifa Museum of Art, Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa, Israel</li> </ul> 2011<ul class="article-cv-item"><li>The View from After, COMME des GARÇONS OSAKA (Six), Osaka, Japan</li><li>Paintings and Sculptures, ARATANIURANO; NADiff Gallery, Tokyo</li></ul><ul class="article-cv-item"> </ul> </div>