Mitsutoshi Hanaga
1933
Born in Otsuka, Tokyo.Japan.
1958
Graduated from Bunka Gakuin Art Department. Published photographs about social problems, avant-garde artworks and performances in photo magazines and art magazines. Since ‘60, he had actively taken documentary photo of young artists, small theater movement, Butoh(Contemporary Japanese dance), environmental pollution, and student protest.
1964
Published photos of young artists in “Life” and “Life International”.
1982
Exhibit photographs in Festival d’Avignon in France.
1983
Invited to photograph exhibition at Pompidou Centre in Paris.
1984
Solo exhibition at Paris headquarters of UNESCO.
Group exhibition at Gallery White in Israel.
Invited to Venice Biennale of Video.
1985
Participate in Butoh festival.
Invited to Horizont Festival in Berlin.
1999
Died in December.
Solo Show:
2014
Art Fair Tokyo 2014 OUTLINE (Booth:L46, Gallery Kochuten, Aoyama Meguro) Introduced his documentary works at the exhibition, “Total Recall – works of Mitsutoshi Hanaga- ( 1959-1999 )”
Mitsutoshi Hanaga, GALLERY KOCHUTEN, Nagoya
2015
An exhibition, “Mitsutoshi HANAGA: The documentation photography of the Japanese avant-garde art and performance (1964-1973)” was held at Aoyama Meguro.
2016
“Mitsutoshi Hanaga Archives Project” Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo
2017
“ART FAIR TOKYO 2017” Aoyama Meguro x Gallery Kochuten Booth
“Mitsutoshi Hanaga 1000” NADiff A/P/A/R/T, Ebisu, Tokyo
For releasing a new book: “Mitsutoshi Hanaga 一〇〇〇” Solo show of Mitsutoshi Hanaga, Gallery Kochuten, Nagoya
“Paris Internationale 2017” Aoyama Meguro Booth
“Mitsutoshi Hanaga 1000 in Paris” Aoyama Meguro Yoroido
Group Show:
2015
His works were exhibited in the exhibition titled “Performing Arts in Asia” held at Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, Korea.
Also exhibited in the exhibition “The EY Exhibition: The World Goes Pop” held at Tate Modern, London during 2015 and 2016.
2016
His works were exhibited in the exhibition “Butoh Photography” held at Weltkunstzimmer, Dusseldorf.
Also exhibited in “The Emergence of the Contemporary: Avant-Garde Art in Japan, 1950-1970” held at Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro.
His works are scheduled to be exhibited in an exhibition at Fri Art: Centre d’art de Fribourg in Switzerland.
“ART PHOTO TOKYO -edition zero-” Kayabacho, Tokyo
2018
“1968 : Art in the Turbulent Age” (Traveling exhibition)
Sep. – Nov. Chiba City Museum of Art (35 photographs)
Dec. Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art
“Sasaki Kosei Archive : 1928 – 2018” Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Kumamoto
“Awakenings Art in Society in ASIA 1960s-1990s” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2019
“1968 : Art in the Turbulent Age” (Traveling exhibition)
Feb. Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
“RADICALISM-IN-THE-WILDERNESS” Japan society, New York
The Other Activities:
2016
A book written by Reiko Tomii “Radicalism in the Wilderness: International Contemporaneity and 1960s Art in Japan” (Cover photo: Mitsutoshi Hanaga) was published by The MIT Press.
Releasing a new book: “Mitsutoshi Hanaga 一〇〇〇”
2018
Talk show of “Engaged Critic, Radical Art: Yoshida Yoshie in Art and Performance.” UCLA, L.A.
2019
Talk show of “Following His Father’s Footsteps: Taro Hanaga with Reiko Tomii and Tom Looser” Asia Art of America, New York