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Zenzaburo Kojima

Zenzaburo Kojima ​(b. 1893, d. 1962) sought to formalize a “distinctively Japanese oil painting” throughout his career. During a 3-year period of study in France and Italy, Kojima immersed himself in movements like Fauvism and Venetian Renaissance painting, eventually choosing to explore the Western genres of landscape, still-life, and nude. At the same time, he aimed to retain an identifiably Japanese character in his work, drawing influence from ukiyo-e prints and adapting traditional Japanese subjects like seasonal change and natural simplicity.

 

Kojima’s solo exhibitions include the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, traveling to The Annex Museum of the National Museum of Modern Art (1964); Fukuoka Art Museum (1993, 2012); The Shoto Museum of Art (1998); Fuchu Art Museum (2007). His works are included in the collections of the National Museum of Korea, Seoul; the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Kanagawa; Mie Prefectural Art Museum; Busan Museum of Art; and Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa among others.

Single work, Zenzaburo Kojima

Born 1893, Fukuoka, Japan
Died 1962, Chiba, Japan

EDUCATION

1914

Hongo Institute of Painting

SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2007

Fūchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Pastoral Splendor: Zenzaburo Kojima

1998

Shibuya Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo

1994

Mie Prefecture Art Museum, Tsu, Japan

1993

Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan; Chiba Sogo Department Store, Chiba, Japan; The Museum of Modern Art Ibaraki, Ibaraki, Japan, Kojima Zenzaburo Centennial Memorial Exhibition

1964

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020

Karma, New York, (Nothing but) Flowers

Independent Art Fair, New York, Alvaro Barrington, Dike Blair, Marley Freeman, Zenzaburo Kojima

2015

Galerie Nichido, Taipei/Tokyo, Taiwan and Japanese Masters of Modern Art

2013

Long Museum Pudong, Shanghai, Clues of Asia: Asian Contemporary from Long Collection

2012

Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan, Breathing Landscape
Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Among the Four Seasons: Spring, Spring

2006

National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Modern Japanese Art from the Museum Collection

2003

Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan, Commemorative Exhibition Vol. 3: The Power of Kyushu

1976

Museum City of Tokyo, Tokyo, The Twelfth Dokuritsu Exhibition

1952

The Japan International Art Exhibition

1922

8th Nika Association Art Exhibition

 

AWARDS

9th Nika Association Award

 

COLLECTIONS

National Museum of Korea, Seoul
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Kanagawa
Mie Prefectural Art Museum
Busan Museum of Art
Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa
Kurume City Art Museum

 

PUBLICATIONS

2020

Alvaro Barrington, Dike Blair, Marley Freeman, Zenzaburo Kojima
Texts by Jim Lewis, Tim Griffin, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
Karma, New York
54 pages, softcover
11 × 8 1/2 inches
Edition of 500

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