The Group 1965

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Formation1994
TypeContemporary artist group (painting, installation, performance)
HeadquartersTokyo
Location
  • Tokyo and New York
Membership
6 artists, 1 manager
Official language
Japanese, English

The Group 1965 (in Japanese: 昭和40年会 or Showa 40 Nenkai) is a Japanese contemporary art group formed by Makoto Aida, Sumihisa Arima, Parco Kinoshita, Hiroyuki Matsukage, Oscar Oiwa, and Tsuyoshi Ozawa.[1][2]

Selected exhibitions[edit]

A partial list of exhibitions since 1994:[3]

  • 1994 – Press conference performance, NHK Studio, Tokyo
  • 1994 – Nasubi Gallery: Showa 40 Nenkai (The Group 1965), Roppongi Wave, Tokyo
  • 1996 – The Group 1965 Performance, lecture, workshop, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Ehime
  • 1997–98 – The Group 1965 - The Voices from Tokyo, Galeria Metropolitana de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain / Galerie Espace Flon, Lausanne, Switzerland / ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar, Germany
  • 1999 – The Group 1965 - The Voices from Tokyo, Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo
  • 1999 – Shine or Rain, Nadiff, Tokyo
  • 2000 – The Group 1965 in Osaka, Gallery Kodama, Osaka
  • 2005 – 40 x40 Project: 40 (Sa Sip) exhibition Alternative Space Loop, Club Latino, Seoul
  • 2005 –BankART Life, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama
  • 2005 – 40 x 40 project: The Group 1965 Seven Samurais, Even, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
  • 2008 –The Group 1965's Tokyo Guide, Nadiff apart, Tokyo
  • 2011 – We are boys! Künsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 2011 – The Group 1965 Arsenalle Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 2013 – We are boys! Kamada benefit society museum of local history, Sakaide, Kagawa
  • 2013 – The Group 1965 Ogi-school Setouchi Triennale 2013, Ogishima, Takamatsu, Kagawa
  • 2016 – The Group 1965 Ogi-school Setouchi Triennale 2016, Ogishima, Takamatsu, Kagawa

References[edit]

  1. ^ Favell, Adrian (2015). "Japan and the Global Art World". In Velthuis, Olav; Curioni, Stefano Baia (eds.). Cosmopolitan Canvases: The Globalization of Markets for Contemporary Art. Oxford University Press. p. 250. ISBN 978-0-19-871774-4.
  2. ^ Matsui, Midori (2002). "The Place of Marginal Positionality: Legacies of Japanese Anti-Modernity". In Lloyd, Fran (ed.). Consuming Bodies: Sex and Contemporary Japanese Art. Lloyd, Fran. London: Reaktion Books. ISBN 978-1-86189-785-5. OCLC 671648495.
  3. ^ The Group 1965: We Are Boys!. Milan: Silvana. 2011. pp. 124–126. ISBN 978-88-366-2094-4. OCLC 769741769.