SHINKICHI TAJIRI
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Shinkichi Tajiri: The Restless Wanderer, Bonnefanten, Maastricht, NL
A long homecoming: een eeuw Shinkichi Tajiri, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, NL
2017 Shinkichi Tajiri, Gallery Blum & Poe, Tokyo, JP
2016 Shinkichi Tajiri, The Mayor Gallery, London, UK
2015 The Wall in Our Heads, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford, PA, U.S.A.
Shinkichi Tajiri Universal Paradoxes, Japan Museum SieboldHuis, Leiden, The
Netherlands, an iniative of Shida Bliek/Tenrande Foundation
2014 The Berlin Wall Panoramas 1981, at the Falling Walls Conference: The
International Conference on Future Breakthroughs in Science and Society,
Berlin, Germany
2013 My secret Garden, at CoBrA Buiten (CoBrA in the Open), 2nd edition in the new
sculpture garden at Keukenhof Castle in Lisse, The Netherlands
Ten Rande Foundation in The Hague (by appointment only). Shida and Peter
Bliek bring the work of Tajiri to the attention of the ambassadors in
the Corps Diplomatique in the context of 100 years Peace Palace in The Hague,
The Netherlands
2012 Tajiri in het land van Peel en Maas, a show about the life of Tajiri and Baarlo at
the Streekmuseum (Local Museum), Panningen, The Netherlands.
2011 100 Photographs of the Berlin Wall, made in 1971 by Tajiri, at the Falling Walls
Conference: The International Conference on Future Breakthroughs in Science
and Society, Berlin, Germany.
2009 Seed no 4, retrospective exhibition based on the theme ‘Seeds’ at the Technical
University in Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Recording The Berlin Wall, book presentation and exhibition at UdK (University
of the Arts), Berlin, Germany
The Berlin Wall, book presentation and exhibition at VU (Vrije Universiteit),
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003 Tajiri-snelheid, erotiek, geweld, retrospective exhibition, Museum Het Valkhof,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2002 Shinkichi Tajiri: De muur (The wall), Fotokabinetten Gemeentemuseum, The
Hague, The Netherlands
2001 Tajiri, Bildhauerei gegen die Langeweile, retrospective exhibition, Gerard Marcks
Haus, Bremen, Germany
2000 Ronin, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, The Netherlands
1997 Silent Dynamism and Oneness in Multiformity, CoBrA Museum of Modern Art,
Amstelveen, The Netherlands
Dialogue: Shinkichi Tajiri, Museum Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelt,
Herning, Denmark
1995 Tajiri, Librije Hedendaagse Kunst, Broerenkerk, Zwolle, The Netherlands
1993 Tajiri, retrospective exhibition, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, The
Netherlands
1992 Photography Reexplored, Museum for Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
1991 Warriors and other sculptures, 1952-1958, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht,
The Netherlands
1990 Shinkichi Tajiri: foto's, Kunstcentrum Simera, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1989 Tajiri: Sculpturen en papierwerk op het thema knoop (Tajiri: sculptures and
paperwork on the theme knot), Galerie Schuwirth & Van Noorden, Maastricht,
The Netherlands
Knots for Meditation, Galerie Horst dietrich, Berlin, Germany
1987 Solo exhibition, Paper Knots and String Drawings, Artline, The Hague, The
Netherlands
1985 Photographic works, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1983 Shinkichi Tajiri, Galerie Collection d’Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kritzraedthuis, Sittard, The Netherlands
1979-
1980 Stereoscopic Views by Tajiri, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Double Exposure: Stereoscopic Views by Tajiri, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller,
Otterlo, The Netherlands
Doppelt belichtet: Stereoscopic Views by Tajiri, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin,
Germany
1976 Shinkichi Tajiri, Galerie Collection d'Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Travelling (1976-1978) solo exhibition of 101 daguerreotypes made by Tajiri:
Mirrors with Memories Spiegels met herinneringen, Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Travelling solo exhibition: Spiegel mit Erinnerungen, Künstlerhaus Bethanien,
Berlin, Germany / Rheinisches Landesmuseum,
Bonn, Germany / Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands / Städtische
Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany / München
Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany / Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The
Netherlands
1975 Shinkichi Tajiri: Skulpturen, Collagen, Grafiek, Galerie Nouvelles Images, The
Hague, The Netherlands
1974 Tajiri: Sculptures, drawings, graphics, books, video tapes, films, retrospective
exhibition, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tajiri: Sculptures, drawings, graphics, books, video tapes, films, retrospective
exhibition, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1971-
1972 Solo exhibition of 60 sculptures in eight museums and art centers in
Scandinavia
1971 Galerie Judith Weingarten, Amsterda, The Netherlands
1970 Tajiri and Ferdi, retrospective exhibition, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven,
The Netherlands
1968 Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Galerie Krikhaar, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Court Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
1967 Tajiri Beelden 1960-1967, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galerie Léger, Göteborg and Malmö, Sweden
Hamilton Galleries, London, England
1965 Dayton’s Gallery, St. Paul, U.S.A.
Art Institute of Minneapolis, U.S.A.
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1964 Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
Konsthallen, Göteborg, Sweden
Hamiltons Gallery, London, England
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1963 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1962 Galleria Odyssia, Rome, Italy
Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany
1961 Tajiri, Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, The Netherlands
1960 Tajiri, sculptures, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1958 Rotterdamse Kunstkring, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris, France
1957 Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany
1953 Tajiri: Plastics and gouaches of a Japanese man in Parijs,
't Venster, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1951 Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany
1945 First exhibition in Red Cross Club of Mannheim, Germany