ARTISTS

Mitsuko Tabe

Born in Taiwan in 1933, Mitsuko Tabe founded the "Kyushu-ha" group with Takami Sakurai, Mokuma Kikuhata and others in 1957.
She received first place for the Asahi Silver Prize at the 3rd Women's Art Exhibition in 1959 and the Gold Prize at the 3rd Nishi Nihon Excellent New Artists in Western Painting Award in 1960 for "Anger of the Fish Tribes".
From 1974 to '84, she hosted the Kyushu Women's Art Exhibition.
In 1988, she declared retirement from her role as a housewife to focus on her artistic career. For 13 years starting from 1994, she annually held exhibitions in New York and Washington D.C. Received the Fukuoka City Cultural Merit Award in 2000.
She has held numerous solo and group exhibitions.

BIOGRAPHY

Biography

1933 Born in Taiwan.
1946 Returned to Fukuoka at the end of War.
1953 Belonged to Kyushu-Ha (an Avant Garde Artist Group based in Kyushu,
active throughout the 1970s).
1960 Received the Gold Prize in The 3rd Nishi-nihon Excellent Painting Exhibition.
1997 Participated in the International Symposium about Space Time between Women
and Men at Paris.
Published Jutai Geijutsu (The Annunciation Art ), Hana Shoin Co,.Ltd.
2000 Received The 25th Fukuoka City Culture Prize.
Published Nisennen no Ringo (Apples of 2 nd millennium ), Nishinippon Shimbun Shuppan Co,.Ltd.
2002 Publishment of first catalogue.
2012 Publishment of second catalogue.
2014 Established an Art Academy in Fukuoka.
2024 Passed Away.

Solo Exhibitions

2015 Mizoe Art Gallery, Tokyo.
2013 Mizoe Art Gallery, Tokyo.
Mizoe Art Gallery, Fukuoka.
Fukuoka Art Museum.
2012 Mizoe Art Gallery, Fukuoka
2011 Ki no Kaze Gallery, Itoshima City, Fukuoka.
2010 E & C Gallery, Fukui.
2009 TOKOPORA Gallery, Fukuoka.
Y Art Gallery, Osaka.
2005 Marunouchi Gallery, New York.
2004 Gallery 58, Tokyo. ( 05, 08).
2000 Kurokawa INN Museum Opening Solo Exhibition, Amagi City, Fukuoka.
1999 1999 Adirondack Community College , State of New York.
“Spiral/ViewSpiral/View” Gallery Shirakawa, Kyoto.
1998 “The World of Mitsuko suko –Sign Language”, Gallery Okuda International, Washington, D.C (throughout ‘02).
1997 Gallery Towa-Ru, Fukuoka (through ‘8).
1994 Sawara Gallery, Fukuoka (‘96).
1994 Cast Iron Gallery, New York (through ’97).
1991 Makishin Gallery, Tokyo (through ’95).

Group Exhibitions

2015 "Revisiting Group Kyusyu ha", Fukuoka Art Museum.
2005 "Avant garde Women 1950-1975 ”, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Arts.
"Apple s in art; From Dürer to Now ”, Hiroshima Museum of Art .
2003 "Kyushu Ryoku Ten ”, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto.
2001 "Kyushu Ha Exhibition”, Fukuoka Art Museum
2000 Far Eastern Contemporary Art International Exhibition, Bourgogne, France.

Public Collections

National Museum of Women, Washington, D.C.
Adirondack Community College, State of New York.
Museum Of Contemporary Art Tokyo.
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka.
Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto.