SHINKICHI TAJIRI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 United States of Abstraction. American Artists in France, 1946-1964, Musée d’Arts de Nantes,
France
United States of Abstraction. American Artists in France, 1946-1964, Musée Fabre, Montpellier,
France
2020 Resurrected Matter - Postwar expressions in the works of Tadeusz Kantor, Shinkichi Tajiri and
Jaap Wagemaker, Museum of Art, Timisoara, Romania
Ben Cobra, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, the Netherlands
International Pop, Mayor Gallery, London, UK
Meet the Icons of Modern Art, 125 years Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
100 Keyworks in the Public Space: Sentinals, Venlo, the Netherlands
2019 Pinball Wizard - The work and life of Jacqueline de Jong, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands
Signs of Freedom, Limburgs museum/Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, the Netherlands
Jazz era in the Fifties, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Istanbul Experimental film Festival, screening of The Vipers film, Istanbul, Turkey
2018 Lost, Loose, Loved: Foreign Artists in Paris 1944-1968, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Out of Office: Art in Business, Singer Museum, Laren, the Netherlands
Manzoni in Holland, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, the Netherlands
2017 Then They Came For Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII and the Demise of
Civil Liberties, Alphawood Gallery, Chicago, USA
Art Zuid, fifth edition of the international Sculpture Biennale, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands
Sculptures 2017, Sculpture Garden at the Anningahof Estate, Zwolle, the Netherlands
2016 ZEN - Eugène Brands / Shinkichi Tajiri, Gallery Krikhaar, Salernes, France
Dans l’atelier, l’artiste photographié, d’Ingres à Jeff Koons, Petit Palais, Paris, France
Screening of The Vipers film during the exhibition: the Beat Generation, Centre Pompidou,
Paris, France
Miró & Cobra, Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Van Armando tot Tajiri - Ontdekkingen van een verzamelaar, Jan Cunen Museum, Oss, the
Netherlands
2015 Gimme Shelter, Forten en Ficties in Laagland (Gimme Shelter, Forts and Fictions in
Lowland), Kunstfort (Art Fort) biVijfhuizen, the Netherlands
The Wall in Our Heads, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford, PA, U.S.A. (Oct. 23 – dec.13)
The Avantgarde Won’t Give Up - Cobra & Its Legacy, Gallery Blum & Poe, New York, USA
(Sep. 9 - Oct.17)
Miro & Cobra, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, the Netherlands
The Avantgarde Won’t Give Up - Cobra & Its Legacy, Gallery Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
(Nov. 5 - Dec. 23)
Miró & Cobra, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, the Netherlands
The World Goes Pop, Tate Modern, London, UK
2014 The Wall in Our Heads, 25th commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Goethe institute,
Washington DC, U.S.A.
2013 The World of Manga, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, the Netherlands an iniative of
Shida Bliek/Tenrande Foundation
Ik hou van Holland (I love Holland), Dutch art after 1945, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, the
Netherlands
Hundertwasser und Japan, Unteres Belvedere Museum (Lower Belvedere Museum), Vienna,
Austria. Two sculptures and the film Vipers of Tajiri were part of this exhibition
Johan van der Keuken / Up to the light. Film- maker and photographer, Eye Museum,
Amsterdam. Presented the film Tajiri he made in 1962, 16 mm, b/w, 10 minutes.
Hundertwasser, The Straight Line is Godless, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, the
Netherlands. Two sculptures and the the Vipers of Tajiri were part of this exhibition and
some personal letters and photos
2012 Cobra, 1000 Days of Free Art, traveling exhibition which premiered at the Sakip Sabansci
Museum,Istanbul,Turkey. Works are on loan from the Cobra Museum of Modern Art,
Amstelveen, the Netherlands
Pop Art in Europa, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Cobra, under the eyes of a passionate. Carte blanch to Gilbert Delaine (Sous le regard d’un
passionné. Carte blance à Gilbert Delaine), LAAC Lieu d’Art et d’Action Contemporaine,
Dunkerque, Belgium
Tajiri meets Sabine Weiss & Leonard Freed, photography exhibition, Museum Het Valkhof,
Nijmegen, the Netherlands
2011 Art Zuid, second edition of the international Sculpture Biennale, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands
2010 Vaders en Zonen (Fathers and Sons), sculptors choose sculptors, Museum Beelden aan Zee,
Scheveningen, the Netherlands
Beeld Hal Werk, sculpture exhibition in an abandoned factory: the Kromhouthal van Stork,
Amsterdam-north, the Netherlands
2009 Art Zuid, first edition of the international Sculpture Biennale, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Een Stoet van Beelden (A Procession of Sculptures), ten sculptors, Kröller-Müller Museum,
Otterlo, the Netherlands
2008 Freedom: American statuary art, Den Haag Sculptuur 08, Lange Voorhout, The Hague, the
Netherlands
2005 De Paleistuin: Den Haag sculptuur 2005, contemporary Dutch sculpture, The Hague, the
Netherlands
2003 De magnetische tijd: Videokunst in Nederland 1970-1985 ( The Magnetic Time: Video art in
the Netherlands 1970-1985)
Nederlands instituut voor Mediakunst (Dutch Institute for Media Art), Amsterdam, the
Netherlands
Cobra in the Hermitage: The past of the present, Cobra and contemporaries from the
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in the Hermitage’s Petrovskaya Gallery, The State Hermitage
Museum St. Petersburg, Russia
Chez Zadkine: Zadkine en zijn Nederlandse leerlingen (Zadkine and his Dutch pupils), Singer
Museum, Laren, the Netherlands
2002 Van Cuypers tot Dibbets, 100 years art in Limburg, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, the
Netherlands
Focus Paris, bekering tot abstract (Focus Paris, Conversion to Abstract), Cobra Museum of
Modern Art, Amstelveen, the Netherlands
2001 Tajiri & Family, exhibition of works by Tajiri, Ferdi, Giotta, Ryu, Tanéa and Shakuru in Cobra
Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, the Netherlands
Tajiri & Family, ABP, Heerlen, the Netherlands
2000 Unfinished Past: coming to term with the Second World War in the visual arts of Germany
and the Netherlands, neues Museum, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, Nürnberg,
Germany
De voorstelling: Nederlandse kunst in het Stedelijk Paleis, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam,
the Netherlands. Curator Rudi Fuchs and guest curator Queen Beatrix
1998 Cobra en de beeldhouwkunst (Cobra and Sculpture), Cobra Museum of Modern Art,
Amstelveen, the Netherlands
Dialogue: Shinkichi Tajiri, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Else Alfelt 1948-1998, Museum
Carl-Henning pedersen & else Alfelt, Herning, Denmark
1997 De kunst van het verzamelen (The Art of Collecting), Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels,
Belgium
Blijvend in verbeelding: de verwerking van de Tweede Wereldoorlog in de beeldende kunst
(Fixed in Imagination: the processing of World War II in the Visual Arts),
Stichting Literatuur & Kunst, Maatschappij, at Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam and
Zuidhollands Verzetsmuseum (Zuidhollands Resistance museum), Gouda, the Netherlands
1996 Cobra & The Stedelijk, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Grupo Cobra: obras de la colleccion del Stedelijk Museum de Amsterdam, curator Rudi
Fuchs, Fundación La Caixa, Madrid, Spain
1995 Werken op papier uit de collectie van ABN AMRO Bank (Works on paper from the collection
of ABN AMRO Bank), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1994 Het Grote Gedicht – Nederlandse Beeldhouwkunst 1945-1994 (the Great Poem – Dutch
Sculpture Art 1945-1994), Grote Kerk, the Hague, the Netherlands
Veertien Nederlandse Papierkunstenaars (Fourteen Dutch Paper Artists), Koninklijke
Bibliotheek Den Haag (National Library of the Netherlands), The Hague, the Netherlands
1993 Cobra Liège 93, Musée d’Art Moderne Liège, Belgium
1992 Art for ASAP (Amsterdam Society for Aids Prevention), exhibition and auction in Beurs van
Berlage, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Het beeld van de eeuw, Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the
Netherlands
1990 Sierhuis and Tajiri, Sonsbeek i.A.C., Arnhem, the Netherlands
1989 Tajiri-students-multi-media-mail-art-exhibition, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany
1988 Cobra 40 Years Later (Collection Stuijvenberg) nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1987 Berlin von aussen (Berlin from outside), NGBK, Berlin, Germany
Cobra, Instituto Universitario Olandesa (Dutch University institute), Florence, Italy
Klasse Tajiri (Class Tajiri), Galerie Christofer Weber, Berlin, Germany
Cobra (collection Stuijvenberg), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
1986 Cobra (Collection Stuijvenberg), Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Cobra, Amerikahaus (America House), Berlin, Germany
1985 Das Aktfoto, München Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany
1984 L’Art à Paris 1945-1966, Centre national des Art plastiques, Paris, France
COBRA (Collection Stuijvenberg), Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela
1983 De bevrijding van het beeld (The Liberation of the Image), Dutch Sculpture 1945-1960,
Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1982 Cobra, Musée des Arts Modernes, Paris, France
Seeing Double: A survey of Contemporary Stereoscopic Imagery, VSW: Visual Studies
Workshop, Rochester, New York, U.S.A. a.o. Lorran Meares
60-’80 Attitudes/concepts/images, a selection from twenty years of visual arts, Stedelijk
Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1980 Klasse Tajiri (Class Tajiri), DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany
1979 Makes Machine no.9, height 580 cm. commissioned by DAF Trucks
1978 Fotografie in Nederland 1940-75, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1977 Beelden Buiten 1977/78, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1975 Galerie Pegasus, Berlin, Germany
1973 Japanese Artists in Europe, national Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Video tapes and Films, neue Galerie im Alten Kuhrhaus, Aachen, Germany
1972 Kunst uit Holland (Dutch Art), Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Japanese Artists in Europe, national Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, Japan
Kunst na 1945 (Art after 1945), Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Gent (Museum of
Contemporary Art in Ghent), Belgium
1971 Sonsbeek buiten de perken / Sonsbeek 71, park Sonsbeek, Arnhem, the Netherlands
1970 World Expo, Osaka, Japan
Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
1969 Tajiri, Lucebert, Appel, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Nelson Rockefeller Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.
Kunst und Museumverein, Wuppertal, Germany
Nederlandse beeldhouwkunst ’64/’69', Centraal Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Profile IX. Niederländische Kunst Heute, Städtische Kunstgalerie, Bochum, Germany
1968 Science Fiction, Kunstverein, Düsseldorf, Germany
Reiche des Phantastischen, Städtische Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, Germany
Dokumenta IV, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Parc Middelheim, 6th Biennale for sculpture, Antwerp, Belgium
1967 Galerie Krikhaar, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Expo 67, Montreal, Canada
1966 Cobra 1948/51,Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Parc Sonsbeek, 5th international sculpture exhibition, Arnhem, the Netherlands
Beelden Buiten (Sculptures Outdoor), dépendance galerie Espace, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1964 Dokumenta III, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Balans (Balance), Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, the Netherlands
Collectie Bo Boustedt, beeldhouwwerken, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands
12 beeldhouwers uit Nederland, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1963 Tokyo Biennale, Tokyo, Japan. Awarded Mainichi Shibum prize for sculpture
150 jaar Nederlandse kunst, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Beeldhouwkunst 1813-1963 in Nederland, Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, the Netherlands
1962 World Expo, Seattle, U.S.A. in the American section of the exhibition Art since 1950
The 31st Biennale of Venice, Dutch Pavillion, Venice, Italy. Together with the painters
Jaap Wagemaker en Corneille
1961 Art of Assemblage, Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), New York, U.S.A.
Bewogen beweging, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands
10 Sculptors, new London Gallery, London, England
Tajiri and Lucebert, Galerie Blance, Stockholm, Sweden
Parc Middelheim, 6th Biennale for sculpture, Antwerp, Belgium
International Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture, Carnegie institute, Pittsburgh,
U.S.A.
17e Salon de Mai, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Kunst van Heden (Art of now), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Yasse Tabuchi, Shinkichi Tajiri, Ulf Trotzig, S.d.S. Hallen, Malmö, Sweden
1960 America Cultural Center (Centre Culturel Americain), Paris, France
Sculpture of the 20th century, Grosvenor Gallery, London, England
L’Art Hollandais après la guerre, palais des Beaux Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
1959 Documenta II, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Parc Middelheim, 5th Biennale for sculpture, Antwerp, Belgium
Group A’dam, Galerie im Hause Behr, Stuttgart, Germany
Verbondenheid der kunsten liga nieuw beelden, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1958 Parc Sonsbeek, 4th international sculpture exhibition, Arnhem, the Netherlands
Group ’53, Düsseldorf, Germany Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
Trends in Contemporary Dutch Art, Arts Council, London, England
Facetten van de Hedendaagse Beeldende Kunst, Rijksmuseum Twente, Enschede,
the Netherlands
1957 Phases, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany
Nederlandse Beeldhouwkunst, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
1956 Troisième Exposition Phases, Galerie Klèber, Paris, France
5 sculpteurs (5 sculptors), Galerie de Beaune, Paris, France
1954 Phases, Galerie Facchetti, Paris, France
American Artist, University Illinois, Illinois, U.S.A.
Tajiri en Sugai, Galerie d’Aujourd’hui, Brussels, Belgium
1953 Galerie Hutter, Basel, Switzerland
VI Salon d ’Octobre, Galerie Craven, Paris, France
Galerie du dragon, Paris, France
1951 Zimmergalerie Franck, Frankfurt, Germany
Salon de Mai, Paris, France
Salon des Jeunes Sculpteurs, Paris, France
Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Paris, France
The 2nd International Exhibition of Experimental Art (COBRA), palais des Beaux Arts, Liège,
Belgium
1950 Tajiri et Doucet, Galerie Colette Allendy, Paris, France
1949 Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France
1st International Exhibition of Experimental Art (COBRA), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam,
the Netherlands
Galerie Saint-placide, Paris, France
Galerie de Mai, Paris, France
1947 Chicago Artists and Vicinity, Art institute of Chicago, U.S.A.
Momentum, Chicago, U.S.A.