Tadaaki kuwayama biography channels

Tadaaki Kuwayama was born 1932 in Nagoya and passed away in 2023. After graduating from the Japanese Painting course at the Tokyo University of the Arts in 1958, he moved to the United States, and had been based in New York.

Early on, he produced works using Japanese mineral pigments and paper. After his solo exhibition at Green Gallery in 1961, he began making monochromatic acrylic paintings that were combined to make geometric forms and pioneered the American Minimalist movement in the 1960s and 1970s.

His globally acclaimed works, which are intended to be pure art and provide pure art experiences, display no subjective expression.

His solo exhibitions include Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin (2021); The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama (2012); The National Museum of Art, Osaka (2011); the 21^st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2011); the Nagoya City Art Museum (2010); the Rupertinum Museum, Salzburg (2000); the Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura and the C