Agano Machiko
1953 Born in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan 1979 Complete the Post Graduate Course of Kyoto University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan 1995~Professor at Faculty of Art, Kyoto Seika University, Japan 2006 Kyoto Art and Culture Prize Present~ Professor at Faculty of Art, Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan |
Selected Solo Show
1982 Utsubo Gallery, Osaka, Japan (also in ’83,’84)
1984 Esses Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (also in ’86)
1986 Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan (also in’89, ’93,’97)
1988 Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
(also in ’91,’96,’99,’03,’06,’08’’11, ’14, ‘16)
1991 Kyoto Municipal Shijo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan (sight specific installation)
2001 Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, UK (sight specific Installation for Brighton Festival)
2007 ChushinOike Gallery (sight specific Installation for BrightonFestival)
2009 Fuller Craft Museum ,Boston, USA
Selected Group Show
1983 International Biennial of Tapestry/Musee Cantonal de Beaux-Art, Lausanne, Switzerland (also in ’87, ’92)
1984 4th Hara Annual/Hara Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1985 Art Now’85/Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Japan
1989 1st,Perth International Crafts Triennial/The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Australia (also in ’98)
1993 Shiga Annual’93 /The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
FASCINATIE TEXSTYLES2 / Das Museum Van Bonmel-Van Dam , Holland
1994 Light and Shadow-Japanese Artists in Space-
/North Dakota Museum of Fine Art, U.S.A.
1999 International Textile Competition’99 Kyoto/the Museum of Kyoto, Japan
2001 Textural Space-Contemporary Japanese Textile Art-,Brighton Museum,U.K. (tour 4places in U.K.)
Crafts in Kyoto / National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, (tour Tokyo)
2004 through the surface /The Surry Institute of Art & Design, U.K. (tour 4places in U.K.)
11th International Triennial of Tapestry, Lodz’04/Central Museum of Textile, Poland
2005 Confronting Tradition-Contemporary Art from Kyoto-
/Smith College Museum of Art, MA,USA
5th International Textile Triennial Exhibition, Belgium
“Out There”/Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK
TEXTILE ‘05 Kaunas Art Biennial/M. Zilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania “revealed” Nottingham’s contemporary textiles/Nottingham City Museums & Galleries, UK
2007 Kyoto Art and Culture Prize Show / Chushin Oike Gallery, Kyoto
17thInternational Exhibition of Contemporary Textile, Belgium
2009 “CULTEX” / Gallery F15 , Norway (tour \4places in Norway, U.K. Japan)
Contemporary Textile Art /Koumimachi Contemporary Art Gallery ,Nagano
2009 “Soft Landscape” / The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
2011- 2015 Fiber Futures- Contemporary Japanese Fiber Art Exhibition-
/Japan Society, N.Y.,U.S.A. (tour San Francisco, Finland, Denmark, Sweden ,Holland, Spain, Portuguese, France)
2015 24 th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art、Como,Itary
Public Collections
Mary-Toms-Pierre Pauli Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland
The National Museum of Osaka, Japan
Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
The Art Gallery of Western Australian Gallery, Australia
The Museum of Modern art Gunma, Japan
Rias Ark Museum of Art, Japan
Smith College Museum of Art, MA, USA
Nottingham City Museums & Galleries, UK
The National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto , Japan
The Museum of Modern Art Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan
Chushin Art museum, Kyoto Japan
Shiga Museum of Art, Shiga Japan