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MASAAKI YAMADA

山田正亮


WORK



Masaaki Yamada (1930–2010) produced a series of ritualistic and meditative paintings he called 

Work 


completed between 1949 and 1989. Vigo is proud to show an exceptional group of these works at Frieze 

Masters. In December, there will be a solo show at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Tokyo from 

where the exhibition will travel to the National Gallery of Modern Art in Kyoto. 

 

In his 



Work series, Yamada was determined to produce paintings on a continuum, the whole 

being a work in progress where one painting followed another, repetitive, ritualistic and meditative. 

This practice resulted in an accumulation of works which give the unique impression of having occurred 

simultaneously.

 

The process is akin to that of the British craft potter in terms of a ritualistic daily practice where 



balance, modesty and a feeling of rightness prevails. This sustained, introverted approach within a 

closed world occupied only by the artist and his paintings, was not reflective of the changes going 

on socially and politically around him, and resulted in works produced solely in terms of their own 

internal logic. 

 

The stripes in the paintings can be understood as metaphors for space. Kunio Motoe suggested 



we look at the stripe paintings as akin to the still lives of Morandi and consider them in terms of 

meditations on existence in order to understand them more clearly. Like Morandi’s paintings the same 

thing manifests itself, just in various forms and colour relationships. 

MASAAKI YAMADA   

山田正亮

WORK   


Work C. 225   1965   (detail)   oil on canvas   45 × 38 cm / 173⁄4 × 15 in


Work C. 225   1965   oil on canvas   45 × 38 cm / 173⁄4 × 15 in


 

When visiting Japanese museums with the artist Oliver Marsden eight years ago I was introduced 

to Yamada’s work by my good friend Noriyoshi Horiuchi. I immediately bought a small grey and white 

1965 painting from a modest and gentle dealer whose exhibition we visited. The following day I went to 

see the artist at his home, spending hours looking through paintings with him. He seemed calm, kind 

and patient.

 

These very rare stripe paintings include some I saw on my first visit, and have for the most part 



come directly from the artist’s collection. Others have been purchased over the years when great 

examples became available. We have worked closely with Yohei, Horiuchi’s son, who with his siblings 

recently opened Gallery 38 in Tokyo, starting with an exhibition of the wonderful ceramicist Eiji Uematsu.

 

This exhibition stems from Vigo’s interest in nurturing artists of historical importance who are 



relatively undervalued and due reappraisal. Yohei and I look forward to sharing these works with you. 

This is the first time Yamada is being shown in the UK.



Toby Clarke   October 2016


Work C. 48   1960   oil on canvas   72·8 × 50 cm / 285⁄8 × 193⁄4 in



Work C. 203   1964   oil on canvas   80·3 × 60·1 cm / 315⁄8 × 241⁄8 in



Work C. 445   1969   oil on canvas   80·3 × 60·1 cm / 315⁄8 × 241⁄8 in



Work C. 126   1962–63   oil on canvas   80·3 × 53 cm / 315⁄8 × 207⁄8 in



Work C. 170   1963   oil on canvas   91 × 65 cm / 357⁄8 × 255⁄8 in



Work C. 178   1964   oil on canvas   100 × 73 cm / 393⁄8 × 283⁄4 in



Work C. 196   1964   oil on canvas   100 × 73 cm / 393⁄8 × 283⁄4 in



Work C. 186   1964   oil on canvas   91 × 65 cm / 357⁄8 × 255⁄8 in



Work C. 352   1968   oil on canvas   100 × 73 cm / 393⁄8 × 283⁄4 in



Work C. 282   1966   oil on canvas   65·2 × 80·3 cm / 255⁄8 × 315⁄8 in



Work C.p 162   1963   oil on paper   79 × 54 cm / 311⁄8 × 211⁄4 in



Work C.p 180   1963   oil on paper   90 × 60 cm / 353⁄8 × 235⁄8 in



Work C.p 111   1961   oil on paper   43·5 × 29 cm / 171⁄8 × 113⁄8 in



Work C.p 137   1962   oil on paper   58 × 37 cm / 227⁄8 × 145⁄8 in



Work C.p 104   1961   oil on paper   79·5 × 54 cm / 311⁄4 × 211⁄4 in



Work C.p 40   1960   oil on paper   61 × 50 cm / 241⁄8 × 193⁄4 in




RESPECT

I respect this artist’s work very much and to a 

great extent identify with its concerns. I like 

its light and wholeness, and the generating of 

complex intensity from simple means. The word 

spiritual is often used in relation to it. I think 

believably self-contained would do as well. 

However, how the physical, tangible properties 

of painting might be said to be spiritual is a 

fascinating subject, which I’m happy to explore 

in this essay. 

First I should say I’m glad Yamada, very well known 

for many decades in Japan, is now getting the 

attention he deserves in the UK, courtesy of Vigo. 

He wasn’t protected from the sight of modernism 

by any means. That’s clear. But although anyone 

informed about the history of art might see in all 

the phases of his work the influence of western 

abstract art, it’s all really his own thing. In his 

words, it’s a “self-generating” body of work. He 

regarded every painting he painted as part of a 

continuous whole. 

He was born in Tokyo, in 1930 and had just 

turned sixteen when he made his first painting

in the year of Japan’s defeat in the Second 

World War. He saw painting as a joyful activity 

contrasting with negation. Stylistically, he settled 

into landscape and still life formats, making 

pictures up out of his head. He began exhibiting 

professionally when he was nineteen. He always 

had some kind of audience but it wasn’t until 

the late 1970s that he became known throughout 

Japan because of museum exposure. 

In 1956 he embarked on a series called 

Work. 

He overlapped a few other experimental formats 



during the next forty years, but 

Work — which 

began with loose, abstracted deconstructions of 

his earlier still life formats — eventually became 

solely the stripe format, which he continued 

exploring into the late 1990s. The stripes 

emerged after the 

Work series was about three 

years underway. By the early 1960s, because of 

the stripes, he became somewhat famous in the 

then still small international art scene. It’s from 

that historic phase that the present marvellously 

calm and luminous display is selected. 

MASAAKI YAMADA   

UNBIND YOUR MIND

MATTHEW COLLINGS

Work C. 126   1962–63   (detail)   oil on canvas   80·3 × 53 cm / 315⁄8 × 207⁄8 in



5,000

Yamada produced over 5,000 paintings before his 

death in 2010 at the age of 80. The titles are for 

convenience of storing and recording, they don’t 

tell us if passion is involved in the work or not, 

or if the endeavour of a lifetime is mathematical, 

scientific or theoretical, or roughly descriptive 

of sunsets. There is a letter followed by numbers, 

with the letter standing for a particular decade: 

for example, the 1950s are B and the 1960s 

C. Sometimes the striped format is large, with 

the vertical rectangle stretched right out, and 

sometimes smaller, the vertical becomes less 

dramatic — it’s simply enough of a vertical to 

be easily seen as such, so the horizontal stripes 

can be seen as opposite. The present show is all 

Cs. They are almost entirely from the early Sixties 

and are mostly verticals a metre in height or just 

under. The exceptions are a horizontal work from 

1966 featuring a white-on-white square, and a 

1969 stripe painting in blue. Some smaller works 

on paper are also included. They are about half 

a metre in height and feature stripes applied 

in very diluted watercolour: they hover with an 

awesome beauty. 

PULSE


Typically, the oil paint is physical, it has 

substance, there’s a deliberate turbulence to it: 

slight but insistent. A pulse animates the painted 

surface. It’s part of the shape of the stripes and 

also independent of them. This rhythmic pulse 

is created by pressure of the brush and we can 

tell it’s both deliberate and also unconscious. 

It contributes to an overall effect of light. 

Yamada’s organisation of contrasting colour-

tones creates the light, certainly. But also this 

evenly distributed but not slick or streamlined 

pulse deepens the effect. 

UNIVERSE

Our minds pulse, our brains pulse, our thoughts 

pulse, and our consciousness pulses — as does 

the universe. 

BRUSHING AND WOBBLING

Preceding the stripe paintings within the 

Work 

series were paintings of simplified large shapes 



on their own in a space; or the whole space 

divided by painted lines whose placement 

reiterated the outer sides of the overall rectangle, 

as if the painting was echoing and reechoing 

itself. Then there were broken vertical bars. Every 

experiment had a delicate colour tension. And 

then finally colour was contained only in stripes. 

The typical characteristics of the stripes paintings 

include a vertical rectangle whose only marking 

is a brushy, horizontal coloured line that repeats 

up and down the entire area. The lines might be 

loose, liquid, often dripping, often bowed and 




curved, ending left and right at a slight distance 

from the sides of the paper or canvas, with the 

exact amount of empty space always slightly 

different. Plus, colours are organised tonally as 

well as by chroma. A rhythmic flicker is always 

there and is achieved by careful pacing out of 

similar contrasting elements, dark and light. 

A further typical characteristic is that colour 

isn’t pure but broken, and replete with small 

surprising bursts of activity: shadows, blips, drips 

and streaks. The reduced format constrains 

drama but also makes the whole painterly 

event intense. There is a visual kinship between 

Yamada’s confident abstraction that leads on 

and on, and the smoldering dimmed intensity of 

seemingly endless still life paintings by Morandi. 

Yamada’s stripes are loosely marked or else they 

are basically painted bands. (The latter approach 

comes in in the mid 1960s.) With the bands, it is 

no longer rhythmic, open brushing that creates 

the pulsing effect, but lines wobbling in a semi-

controlled way. 

HISTORY OF PAINTING

Yamada was never interested in fashion, 

and always avoided it. He had his own 

preoccupations. But these do, to some degree, 

as they’re manifested in his paintings, tell you 

about painting generally and its history. Our 

resources for even beginning to understand what 

we’re seeing, with Yamada, include a sense of the 

history of painting. How do we get it to lead to 

his stripes exactly? 

METAPHOR AND ANALOGY

Old master paintings always stamp out an image 

somehow — it has to be comprehended in a 

single glance — and then there are mediations 

of every aspect of the image — the more slow-

burning aesthetic matter. Broken lines in Titian

the shadows and clarities in Jacques-Louis 

David; and transitions and colour passages in 

Cézanne. Modernist abstraction transposed that 

stamped-out quality of pre-modern art into the 

realm of purity — pure form, pure gesture, pure 

colour and pure space. It’s the realm Yamada 

chose to occupy or was led by his instincts to 

do so. In the history of modernism these purities 

were not really divorced from the world but they 

did seem to be. It was natural to link them early 

on to spirit forms and thought forms, especially 

as these were middle class preoccupations of 

the day — the 1910s were the last period of the 

bourgeois fascination with Theosophy, a semi-

religious movement that preached spiritual 

evolution. The pure shapes in pioneer abstract 

art were thought by the audience for art to 

be something like enlargements of diagrams 

in Theosophy books, but they were only 

superficially so. They aren’t flat, of course, like 

imagery on a printed page. They are very physical 

and embodied, and as tangible, in fact, as the 




richly worked surfaces of Impressionist paintings 

by Monet and Pissarro that were so much a part 

of the lead-up to early abstraction. Abstract 

art revealed visual interests artists had, beyond 

depiction. This painterly realm of shape and 

colour freed from old tasks, could, in fact, lead 

back to representation, but not directly, only 

via metaphor and analogy. Patterns, structures, 

a visual order — an arrangement — they convey 

reality but at a remove.

LIGHT

A pattern reduced to simple bars of light and 



dark communicates sensation. Patterns are 

present and doing the same sensual work, in a 

bark painting by an aboriginal artist in Australia 

and also in Raphael’s 

Transfiguration in the 

Vatican. Both tell us about flickering light. 

A painting of stripes by Yamada is also a painting 

of the operation of light, and how things in the 

world are revealed by it. 

COSMOS AND LUXURY

A bark painting is inherently cosmic, and it’s 

always transcendent. By contrast, a Renaissance 

altarpiece fluctuates. Its spiritual meaning 

disappears and reappears. It tells the viewer of 

the fifteenth or sixteenth century about local 

contextual complicated power set-ups, and 

about luxury: it depicts luxury objects and is one 

itself. It is a portal to the heavenly realm but 

also propaganda for earthly powers. Modernists 

were fascinated by the purity of the bark 

painting, its compressed intensity, delighting 

in its stripping away of artifice (as they saw 

it). But modernist painting’s means, especially 

when it was purely abstract, were the separated 

left-over fragments of old representational art. 

Abstract painting was thought to be absolute 

painting, communicating truth via painting 

itself, leading to the spirit via the operations 

of absolute form. But there was a paradox to it, 

which was that spirit and the absolute, the higher 

and purer reality seeable only by those who are 

spiritually evolved, painter-philosophers, should 

be so richly sensual. 

SENSATION

“There's something strange in the fact that the 

point of departure towards absolute painting 

lies in sensations,” writes Motoe Kuneo, 

researcher in chief at Tokyo’s National Museum 

of Art, in a thoughtful essay about Yamada’s 

relationship to early modernism. With Yamada, 

the sensation is different with every work but 

also the same. It is aroused by similar means. 

There is a robust but delicate surface and a 



simple set of colours. Each of the colours 

is muted but also confidently physical and 

frank. There is a unifying format you can take 

in all at once but in whose slight irregularities 

and differences you soon find yourself getting 

beautifully lost. The format as a whole recalls 

light coming through leaves or shutters, light 

revealing an object, light distributed unevenly. 

WHAT DID HE SEE?

How are his spiritual meanings his own? Yamada 

once asked himself what it was he saw when 

he began painting at sixteen. He contrasted 

real life desolation in 1945 with “the proper 

order of things” that painting a picture involves. 

In the ensuing years he made pictures from 

memory and only rarely experimented with 

live things: people or flowers, say. What did 

it mean to sketch glasses, bottles, dishes and 

cylindrical fruits such as peaches and lemons, 

and compose spaces and objects in hatched 

shading and a spidery line — or in diluted paint, 

drawing with a loaded brush — what were his 

choices based on? He wrote out his answer: an 

overwhelming reality, his senses had been full of 

it. “There was no landscape before me, nothing 

but still life. The situation was so real I could 

not grasp it conceptually.” The reality he spoke 

of was the condition of starvation, dialectically 

opposed by the typical counter-association 

that a still life painting tends to have, that of 

eating. By painting still life pictures in 1945 he 

was painting life continuing and not ending. 

A LINE GOING BACKWARDS  

AND COMING FORWARDS

In a text written in 2005, entitled ‘Between one 

painting and another,’ Yamada reflected on the 

shadowy existence that lay before him: “The 

territory of the imagination will continue as 

something indefinite.” Once again, he thought 

about the original moment of painting sixty years 

earlier. “The perceptive responses that move 

across these two points in time flow ceaselessly 

from moment to moment, going back to the past 

in stages while making contact with the present 

at each stage and revealing the conditions of 

that time.” 

THERE IS NO TIME

In the same text he said he got some old works 

out of storage and lined them against the bright 

walls of the studio. He got lost in their details. He 

described his sensation. “A sense of sinking to the 

bottom of some sort of bitter memory, and the 

operation of time seemed to stop temporarily.” 

He saw all previous experience “condensing,” 




and it was as if he was digging down in his 

feelings to an even deeper level: “led from my 

present position to a double vision that revealed 

the background of the painting.” He couldn’t 

resist reliving “post war conditions, which were 

always accompanied by a sense of emptiness.” 

HEGEL

The early modernist abstract painters were 



impressed by the philosophy of Hegel, they 

imagined him contemplating the phenomenology 

of consciousness: pure spirit knowing itself 

through sense experience.  

ONE RHYTHMIC THING 

Yamada’s stripes connect to everything in 

existence but they come only from him. As if 

they could be his whole being embodied in 

a painterly rhythm. Rhythm: as a painter you 

appreciate it and see things in terms of it. 

Plus you have it and you make things according 

to it. In their quietness and tension it is as if 

these stripe paintings invite us to think of time 

transcended or, as we have seen, standing 

still. He painted in a certain way to begin with, 

in 1945, and then everything he did after felt 

like a clear development. In his memory, after 

so many decades in the studio, everything really 

was of a piece. Lines, forms, colours and formats, 

all connect. One work leads to another, and 

each paint stroke has a natural consequence: 

an answering stroke obeying an intuitive rhythm. 

DISCORPORATE

By the early 1960s, the dominating period 

of this display, several years had past since 

Yamada’s stripes first entirely replaced 

depicted or semi-abstracted still life subjects. 

Work C. 203, (1964), in the display, has stripes 

of dirty blue, muted pale tangerine, greenish 

and whitish misty overlays. 

Work C. 170, (1963) 

has greenish tan stripes opposing vibrant ruby 

red ones, with dirty blue intervals overlaid 

with narrow bands of fleshy white. The palette 

relates to landscape, urban and rural, and all 

kinds of objects, animate and still, as if the 

paintings are about life even though they don’t 

picture it. “Life” is out there but it has to be 

perceived to be so; it is atoms and solid things 

but also sensations, a nervous system and a 

set of ruling ideas. The stripes conveying life, 

whether they have a ragged or wobbly contour, 

are nervous, active, pulsing and vulnerable. 

They communicate simultaneously worldly 

sensuality and discorporate being.

Work C. 170   1963   (detail)   oil on canvas   91 × 65 cm / 357⁄8 × 255⁄8 in





1929 

Born in Tokyo 

1949–53  Participates in 

Yomiuri Independent show, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art

1950–56  Participates in 

Jiyu Bijutsu-ka Kyokai Association show, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art

1958 

One man show: Kyobunkan Gallery, Tokyo



1962 

One man show: Yoseido Gallery, Tokyo

1963 

One man show: Yoseido Gallery 



Participates in 

4th École de Tokyo exhibition, Jewish Center Hall, Los Angeles

1964 

Established a studio in Kamikitazawa, Tokyo 



One man show: Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo

1965 


One man show: Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo 

The Meaning of Lyricism, Gallery Cristal, Tokyo

1966 

One man show: Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo



1967 

Contemporaries, Gallery Cristal

1968 

One man show: 



The Case of White, Gallery Cristal

1969 


The 9th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan—Frontier of Contemporary Art,       

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art

1970 

Moved to a new studio in Yoyogiuehara, Tokyo 



Group show, Aoyama Gallery, Tokyo

1971 


’71 Show, Tokyo Gallery 

Contemporary Artists, Kurai, Tokyo

1972 

Modern Japanese Graphic Art, ICA, London; The National Museum of Art, Stockholm



1973 

’73 Show: Hisashi Indo, U-Fan Lee, Masaaki Yamada, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo 

Travelled to Germany and stayed in London; returned to Japan in the same year

1974 


Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan—Tradition and Today, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf 

Plan and Drawing, Gin Gallery, Tokyo

1975 

Group show, Gendai Geijutsu Kenkyuhitsu, Tokyo



1977 

Contemporary Art ’77, Gendai Geijutsu Kenkyuhitsu

MASAAKI YAMADA



1978 

One man show: 

Masaaki Yamada 1957–1978, Koh Gallery, Tokyo 

Contemporary Art ’78, Gendai Geijutsu Kenkyuhitsu

1979 

The Non-Figurative World, Satani Gallery, Tokyo 



One man show: 

Painting of the Late 1960s, Satani Gallery 

Contemporary Art ’79, Gendai Geijutsu Kenkyuhitsu

1980 


The Non-Figurative World, Satani Gallery, Tokyo 

One man show: 

New Works in Oil Pastel, Satani Gallery 

Artists Today, Yokohama Citizen Gallery, Yokohama 

Variations on Planar Painting, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka

1981 


One man show: 

Paintings of the Early 1960s, Satani Gallery; Est-Ouest Galerie d’Art, Tokyo 

The 1960s—A Decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

1982 


Moved to Kokubunji, Tokyo 

One man show: 

Paintings of the early 1960s, Kasahara Gallery, Osaka 

A Panorama of Contemporary Art in Japanese Painting, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama 

One man show: 

Masaaki Yamada 1950–1980, Satani Gallery

1983 

Art Now—Frontiers of Contemporary Art, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo 



One man show: 

Masaaki Yamada 1983, Satani Gallery; Inoue Gallery, Tokyo 

A Century of Western Painting, an exhibition sponsored by Art Exchange Association of Japan, 

Matsuzakaya Department, Tokyo

1984 

Expression in Watercolor, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo 



Japanese Contemporary Paintings 1960–1980, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma 

Exchange of Contemporary Art, Tokyo-Paris, Galerie Deniese René, Paris 

1970s Show, Kamakura Gallery 

One man show: 

Recent Watercolor Works, Satani Gallery

1985 


Exchange of Contemporary Art, Tokyo-Paris, Yurakucho Asahi Gallery, Tokyo 

Spring Show, Satani Gallery 

One man show: 

Massaki Yamada—Late 1950s Paintings, Gallery Yonetsu, Tokyo 

Japanese Contemporary Paintings, Museum of Modern Art, New Delhi 

Abstract Painting in Japan, Inoue Gallery 

Masaaki Yamada 1976, Gallery Yonetsu 

Masaaki Yamada: Watercolors and Pastels, Kabutoya Gallery, Tokyo 

The Mid-60s: A Monochrome Age, Satani Gallery

1986 


One man show: 

Late 1950s Paintings, Part II, Gallery Yonetsu 

One man show: 

Masaaki Yamada 1960–63, Inoue Gallery 

One man show: 

Massaki Yamada 1985–86, Satani Gallery 

The Message, Sogo Museum, Yokohama 

Black and White in Art Today, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama 

Contemporary Asian Art Show, The National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul 

One man show: 

Cross and Stripe 1964–67, Gallery Yonetsu

1987 


Exhibition from Ahara, Seibu and Takanawa Museums’ Collections, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama 

18th Exhibition of Japanese Contemporary Art—Aspects of Contemporary of Painting, 

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art;  

Kitayushi Municipal Museum of Art; Miyagi Museum of Art




1987 

The 19th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo 

Painting 1977–1987, The National Museum of Art, Osaka 

One man show: 

Works on Paper 1960–87, Satani Gallery

1988 


One man show: 

Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Berlin–Tokyo,  

Galerie Yonetsu; Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka 

Movements in Contemporary Japanese Art: Painting Part 2, Toyama Museum of Modern Art

1989 

One man show: 



Paintings of early 1970s, Satani Gallery 

Exhibition of Drawing Now, National Museum of Art, Osaka 

From Figurative to Abstract: Transformations and Comparisons, Laka Yamanaka Art Museum, Yamanashi 

Showa Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

1990 

Masaaki Yamada and Tadaaki Kuwuyama, Gallery Yamaguchi, Warehouse Gallery 



A Phase in 1960s Art, Gallery Veda, Tokyo 

One man show: 

Masaaki Yamada 1959, Inoue Gallery 

Drawing ’90, Kyo-ni Gallery, Tokyo 

One man show: 

New Oil Paintings 1989–1990, Satani Gallery 

One man show: New Pastel Painting, Gallery Saint-Guillaume, Tokyo 

One man show: 

Cross and Grid 1957–1990, Gallery Yonetsu 

Masaaki Yamada and Tadaaki Kuwuyama, Gallery Yamaguchi 

Minimal Art, National Museum of Art, Osaka

 Published 

Works: Yamada Masaaki, Bijyutsu Shuppan-sha Ltd., Tokyo

1991 


Moved to Kunitachi, Tokyo 

One man show: 

Late 1970s Works, Satani Gallery

1992 


One man show: Kagawa Gallery, Osaka 

One man show: 

Masaaki Yamada Works 1951–91, Satani Gallery (NICAF) 

One man show: 

Masaaki Yamada 1950s–1970s, Gallery Yamaguchi 

One man show: 

Masaaki Yamada 1951–1992, Kasahara Gallery

1993 


One man show: 

Masaaki Yamada Recent Works, Satani Gallery

1994 

One man show: 



Masaaki Yamada Still Life 1948–1955, Satani Gallery 

One man show: 

Masaaki Yamada Monochrome Works 1965–67,  

Benesse House, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa 

1995 

One man show: 



Masaaki Yamada Recent Watercolors, Satani Gallery 

Painting—Singular Object, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

1996 

One man show: 



Masaaki Yamada Works 1995, Satani Gallery 

One man show: 

Watercolor, Muse A Muse, Tokyo

1997 


One man show: 

Masaaki Yamada Works 1995, Gallery Art Point, Tokyo 

One man show: 

Masaaki Yamada Stripe Paintings from the 1960s, Satani Gallery 

One man show: Kasahara Gallery (TIaF ’97)

2000 


One man show: 

Color Watercolor 1997–2000, Kasahara Gallery

2001 

One man show: 



Color Oil Painting 1997–2000, Kasahara Gallery 

One man show: 

Grid Paintings from the 1970s, M.Art, Tokyo

2003 


One man show: 

Masaaki Yamada 1966–67 For White, M.Art

2005 

One man show: 



The Paintings of Masaaki Yamada from Still Life to Work to Color,  

Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo




PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama

Miyagi Museum of Modern Art, Sendai

Museum of Modern Art, Shiga

Museum of Modern Art, Saitama

Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art

Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki

Takamatsu City Museum of Art

The National Museum of Art, Osaka

Nerima Art Museum of Art

Fukuyama Museum of Art

Sezon Museum of Modern Art

Wakayama Prefectural Modern Art Museum

Ashiya City museum of Art and History

Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art

The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary

Chiba City Museum of Art

Osaka City Museum of Modern Art

Niigata City Art Museum

Yokohama Museum of Art

Utsunomiya Museum of Art

Tokyo International Forum

Adachi City Office

Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art

The Museum of Art, Ehime

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

Nagoya City Art Museum

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery




Published on the occasion of the exhibition

Masaaki Yamada: 

Work

at Frieze Masters, London 



5 – 9 October 2016

05.10.2016 - 08.11.2016  Kadar Brock     

gifts ungiven     Vigo     21 Dering Street 

06.10.2016 - 09.10.2016  Masaaki Yamada     

Work     Frieze Masters     Stand G20     

06.10.2016 - 08.01.2017  Henry Krokatsis     

Kabin     Frieze Sculpture Park     

06.10.2016 - 09.10.2016  Zak Ové     

Mask of Blackness     Courtyard, Somerset House (1:54)   

06.10.2016 - 09.10.2016  Ibrahim El-Salahi     

The Arab Spring Notebook      

Presented by Modern Forms     1:54 African Art Fair     Room G19A

06.10.2016 - 09.10.2016  Ibrahim El-Salahi / Zak Ové     1:54 African Art Fair     Room G10     

until 16.10.2016 

Marcus Harvey     

Inselaffe     Jerwood gallery     Hastings

until 19.03.2017 

The Boyle Family*     

Flesh     York Art Gallery

until 26.02.2017 

The Boyle Family*     

You Say You Want a Revolution?  

Records and Rebels 1966–1970     V&A Museum

  

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group shows

 

Catalogue design   Tim Barnes   herechickychicky.com



Vigo   21 Dering Street   London W1S 1AL

+44 (0) 207 493 3492     vigogallery.com     #vigogallery




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