Matsutani

Takesada Matsutani is a Japanese, contemporary, mixed-media artist born on January 1, 1937 in Osaka, Japan. He was a member of the Gutai group from 1963 to the dissolution of the group in 1972. His well-known work involves a technique of blowing a gust of air into a puddle of vinyl wood glue, creating bulges, bubbles, and drips, then covered by patient strokes of graphite pencil. Matsutani's works are represented in a large number of prestigious art museums and collections around the world. In 2002 the artist, who has lived a large part of his childhood in Nishinomiya, received the Nishinomiya City Cultural Award.

Matsutani Takesada enters in 1954 the class of traditional painting (Nihonga)at the Ôsaka Municipal High School of Crafts Arts (Ôsaka Shiritsu Kogei Gakkô). But, suffering from tuberculosis from 1951 to 1959, he frequently misses school and decides to study Japanese painting on his own, discovering at the same time Western contemporary art through books and magazines. During his long days of confinement, the artist also develops an interest in textures, leading to works close to Surrealist collages and inspired by the images seen on the ceiling of his bedroom.

Matsutani first presents his work at the 8th Nishinomiya Art Exhibition in June 1957, attracting the attention of a judge from the Nihonga section, Shôsaku Arao, who offers to become his teacher. Arao is a painter both faithful to tradition and interested in Western art (particularly in abstraction and cubism). He has a great influence on his pupil, who starts creating and exhibiting Western style works as well as Nihonga.

From 1959, Matsutani attends the drawing class of the Nishinomiya Civic Art Class, where he makes the acquaintance of Sadamasa Motonaga (1922-2011), one of the members of the Gutai association. Matsutani therefore participates in Gutai's exhibitions from 1960. Jirô Yoshihara, the founder and mentor of the association is not immediately impressed by Matsutani's works, but finally accepts the young artist in the association in 1963, on the occasion of Matsutani's first solo exhibition, at the Gutai Pinacotheca in Ôsaka. From then on, Matsutani participates to all of Gutai's group shows, until the dissolution of the association in 1972.

From the beginning of the 1960s, Matsutani shifts from Nihonga to a more abstract style, experimenting with materials. Vinyl adhesive becomes his favourite tool, covering the canvas in circles or bubbles (of which some burst), created by spreading air into the material with a straw, before drying the glue with a fan or an hair-dryer. Matsutani takes part of his inspiration in the organic shapes observed through a microscope in the laboratory of a friend. Very sensuous, the works are infused with a latent eroticism.

Matsutani's first Parisian works are close to the contemporary researches of Hard-Edge. In 1967, Matsutani enters the Atelier 17, Stanley William Hayter's engraving studio. Matsutani becomes Hayter's assistant and meets at the studio his future wife, American artist Kate Van Houten. Despite Hayter's predilection for colour, Matsutani admits having mostly understood during his years at the studio the potentials and the evidence of black, already perceived while he was studying Japanese traditional art. Black and white, which the artist considers as characteristics of Japanese culture, therefore prevail in Matsutani's works. After his years at the Atelier 17, Matsutani focuses on silkscreen, and shares a studio in Montparnasse with Kate Van Houten. A large part of his work then consists in taking photographs of his Objects, made with canvas and glue, and to recreate these pictures in silkscreen. Matsutani also works at the time for other artists, such as Kumi Sugai.

At the end of the 1970s, Matsutani goes back to three dimensional works combining vinyl adhesive and gaphite pencil. Patiently covering the canvas or paper with pencil strokes, the artist questions the concepts of space and time, immobility and movement. Remaining most of the time faithful to the two dimensions of canvas or paper work, he brings life to the surface, letting vinyl adhesive inflate or flow, leaving the door open to unexpected results, full of sensuality and of an unusual tactility.

From 1979, Matsutani has been regularly making installations, covering long bands of paper with strokes of graphite pencil, only breaking this regular rhythm at the end of the paper with the help of White Spirit. At other times, ink slowly falls out of pierced and hung canvas bag, drop by drop covering a piece of canvas or paper stretched underneath. These in situ works take their surrounding space into account, leading a silent dialog with it. In 2000, Matsutani created the set of the theater play Blesse, ronce noire, written by Claude Louis-Combet and presented at the theatre of Evreux.

•  "Matsutani Takesada" by Zéno Bianu et Catherine Zittoun, Editions Dumerchez - ADN / France, 2016. Edition of 50.
• Clayton, Hashigakari, translated by Eda Takaomi, Tandem Editions, Belgium/ Estepa, France, 2010. Edition of 25 English-Japanese copies/25 English-French.
• White, Kenneth, In the Kansai, Akié Arichi Editions, Paris, 2009. Edition of 40.
• Shinozaki, Toshiyasu, Une Goutte, translated by Marie Benedic. Atelier 915, Yokohama, Japan, 2008. Edition of 28.
• Valente, José Angel, Cincos Sones Para Tambor Solo, translated by Jacques Ancet, Akiko Yamaguchi, Nitabah Éditions , Paris, 2008. Edition of 18 Spanish-English copies/18 Spanish-French.
• Fukutomi, Takeo, Straw Hat, Estepa Editions, France, 2004. Edition of 250.
• Eshleman, Clayton, Bands Of Blackness, translated by Eda Takaomi Eda, Jean-Jacques Viton, Tandem Editions, Belgique/Estepa Editions, France, 2002. Edition of 25 English-Japanese copies/25 English-French.
• Van Houten, Kate, Streams, translated by Maeno, Monique Pierre, Galerie Keller Editions, Paris, Pitney Bowes, 1990. Edition of 40 copies, 1990.
• Guillevic, Eugene, Automne, Nitabah Editions, Paris, 1987. Edition of 24.

• 1962 Takesada Matsutani Painting Exhibition, YMCA Annex, Kôbe, Japan.
• 1963 Takesada Matsutani, Gutai Pinacotheca, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1965 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Daiwa, Kôbe.
• 1965 Gallery Kôbe, Kôbe, Japan.
• 1966 Art Series Seven, Gallery Kiyamachi, Kyôto, Japan.
• 1967 Matsutani, The Art of Plastic, Shinanobashi Gallery, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1968 Takesada Matsutani, Galerie Zunini, Paris, France.
• 1969 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Ariadne, Vienna, Austria.
• 1970 Takesada Matsutani, Galerie Lahumière, Paris, France.
• 1970 Takesada Matsutani, Shinanobashi Gallery, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1970 Takesada Matsutani, Station Gallery, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1971 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Iteza, Kyôto, Japan.
• 1971 Artist Studios Open Day, Paris, France.
• 1971 Takesada Matsutani, Station Gallery, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1972 Takesada Matsutani, Galerie Alain Oudin, Paris, France.
• 1972 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Fujibi, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1972 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Kasahara, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1973 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Iteza, Kyôto / Shinanobashi Gallery, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1973 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Tor Road, Kôbe, Japan.
• 1974 Takesada Matsutani, Fukuya Department Store, Hiroshima, Japan.
• 1974 Takesada Matsutani Gallery Coco, Kyôto, Japan.
• 1975 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Muramatsu, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1976 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Kasahara, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1976 De l’objet à l’image sérigraphique, Galerie Eiko, Paris, France.
• 1976 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Watari, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1976 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Murakami, Kitakyûshû, Japan.
• 1976 Takesada Matsutani, Liberal Art Gallery, Hiroshima, Japan.
• 1977 Takesada Matsutani, Kitani Circus, Kôbe, Japan.
• 1978 Matsutani. Perspectives Japonaises, Galerie Alain Oudin, Paris, France, performance with choreographer Karine Saporta.
• 1978 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Mumon, Miyazaki, Japan.
• 1978 Takesada Matsutani, Works on Paper,Gallery Don Soker-Kaseman/Upstairs Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
• 1979 Takesada Matsutani Gallery Marina Dinkler, Berlin, Germany.
• 1979 Takesada Matsutani, Art Space Baku, Fukuoka, Japan.
• 1979 Takesada Matsutani, Concorde Nejima, Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, Japan.
• 1979 Le Geste de Matsutani, Galerie Ojima, Paris, France.
• 1980 Takesada Matsutani, La Cuvée – Association de l’Art contemporain, Lachassagne, France.
• 1980 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery 212, Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, Japan.
• 1980 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Motomachi, Kôbe, Japan.
• 1980 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery S-65, Aalst, Belgium.
• 1980 Takesada, Matsutani, Gallery Heide Hildebrand, Klagenfurt, Austria.
• 1981 Enpitsu ni yoru kuro no sekai [Un monde noir au crayon], Gallery Kaneko Art, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1981 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Kôbe Age, Kôbe, Japan.
• 1981 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Liberal Art, Hiroshima, Japan.
• 1982 Enpitsu ni yoru kuro no sekai II [Un monde noir au crayon II], Gallery Kaneko Art and Kaneko Art G1, Tôkyô and Gallery Asahi, Kyôto, Japan.
• 1982 Takesada Matsutani, Wetering Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• 1982 Works on Paper, Gallery Don Soker-Kaseman, San Francisco, USA.
• 1982 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Ten, Fukuoka, Japan.
• 1982 Takesada Matsutani, Gendaikko Center, Miyazaki, Japan.
• 1983 Stream, Gallery Marina Dinkler, Berlin, Germany.
• 1983 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery S-65, Aalst, Belgium.
• 1983 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Beni, Kyôto, Japan.
• 1983 Takesada Matsutani, Gendaikko Center, Miyazaki, Japan.
• 1983 Today’s Artists No. 12: Matsutani Takesada 1981-83, Ôsaka Contemporary Art Center, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1984 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Dimple, Miyazaki, Japan.
• 1984 Matsutani: Recent Paintings and Drawings, Galleries Don Soker Gallery et Bannam Place, San Francisco, USA.
• 1984 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Seika, Nagasaki, Japan.
• 1985 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Adesso, Ashiya, Japan.
• 1985 Takesada Matsutani, Galerie Faust, Genève, Suisse.
• 1985 Stream, Galerie Monochrome, Aachen, Germany.
• 1985 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Adesso, Ashiya, Japon.
• 1985 Takesada Matsutani, Galleries Kaneko Art & Kaneko Art G1, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1986 Takesada Matsutani, Contemporary Art Center, Honolulu, USA.
• 1986 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Marina Dinkler, Berlin, Germany.
• 1986 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Motomachi, Kôbe, Japan.
• 1986 Takesada Matsutani, Gendaikko Center, Miyazaki, Japan.
• 1986 Matsutani: Zrichnungen, Bilder, Objekte, Gallery Japan Art, Frankfurt, Germany.
• 1987 Takesada Matsutani, Espace Galerie Crédit Agricole/ Galerie DES-Licearium, Poitiers, France.
• 1987 Stream, Espace Japon, Paris, France.
• 1987 Matsutani, Galerie Keller, Paris, France.
• 1988 Takesada Matsutani : peintures, installations, Pablo Neruda Contemporary Art Center, Corbeil-Essonnes, France.
• 1988 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Marina Dinkler, Berlin, Germany.
• 1988 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Japan Art, Frankfurt, Germany.
• 1989 Searching for a New Trend in Contemporary Art, Art Space Baku, Fukuoka, Japan.
• 1989 Matsutani, Atelier Nishinomiya, Nishinomiya, Japan.
• 1989 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Adesso, Ashiya, Japan.
• 1989 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Agi Schöningh, Zurich, Switzerland.
• 1989 Europalia ’89, Japan in Belgium: Solo Exhibition, Galerie d'art actuel, Brussels, Belgium.
• 1989 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Ishiyacho, Kyôto, Japan.
• 1989 Stream '89, Galleries Kaneko Art Gallery and Kaneko Art G1, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1991 Takesada Matsutani, Galerie Keller, Paris, France.
• 1991 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Motomachi, Kôbe, Japan.
• 1991 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Suzukawa, Hiroshima, Japan.
• 1991 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Japan Art, Frankfurt, Germany.
• 1992 Matsutani Stream-Ashiya-92, City Museum of Art and History, Ashiya, Japan.
• 1992 Takesada Matsutani, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre, Brussels, Belgium.
• 1992 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Ishiyacho, Kyôto, Japan.
• 1992 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Kaneko Art and Kaneko Art G1, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1993 Takesada Matsutrani, Galerie Pascal Polar, Bruxelles, Belgium.
• 1993 Takesada Matsutani, Galerie Rosa Turetsky, Genève, Switzerland.
• 1993 Takesada Matsutani, Galerie Vingt-Sept, Toulouse, France.
• 1993 Takesada Matsutani: Works from the 1960s to Today, Ôtani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan.
• 1994 Matsutani in the 60s, Gallery Tor Road Kôbe, and Gallery Tsubaki Modern, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1995 Stream/Mercuri, Galerie J. Mercuri, Paris, France.
• 1995 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Seika, Nagasaki, Japan.
• 1995 Matsutani Prints ’67- ’94, Gallery Tsuji, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1995 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Yume-kairo, Tokushima, Japan.
• 1996 Dessin–Objet–Tableau, Galerie Rosa Turetsky, Geneva, Switzerland.
• 1996 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Japan Art, Frankfurt, Germany.
• 1996 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Kaneko Art, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1997 Matsutani: Waves, Arts Gambetta, Metz, France.
• 1997 Matsutani: Waves, Galerie Cour Carrée, Nancy, France.
• 1997 Matsutani: Waves, Gallery Accostage, Takamatsu, Japan.
• 1998 Année francaise au Japon, Cloître des Dames Blanches, La Rochelle, France.
• 1998 Matsutani. Action-Temps-Espace, Fondation DANAE – Diffusion Attitudes Nouvelles Art et Espaces, Jarnac, France.
• 1998 Takesada Matsutani, Galerie Eric le Gallot-Espace 061, Rouen, France.
• 1998 Année française au Japon, Musée d’Orbigny, Orbigny, France.
• 1998 L’Art dans les chapelles 2000, Saint-Gildas, Carnoët, France.
• 1999 Matsutani’s Prints, 1960-1988, City Museum of Art and History, Ashiya, Japan.
• 1999 Takesada Matsutani: Recent Work, Gallery Don Soker, San Francisco, USA.
• 1999 Matsutani’s Prints, Gallery Adagio, Ashiya, Japan.
• 1999 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Kaneko Art, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 2000 Stream, Gallery K.I.S.S., Okayama, Japan.
• 2000 Bilder, Buchobjekte, und Zeichnungen, Gallery Edition Hundertmark, Koln, Germany.
• 2000 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Kaneko Art, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 2000 Matsutani Waves, Ôtani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan.
• 2000 Takesada Matsutani, Street Gallery, Kôbe, Japan.
• 2001 Matsutani. Wave 2, Gallery Motomachi, Kôbe, Japan.
• 2001 Joint-Kobe, Gallery Mssohkan, Kôbe, Japan.
• 2001 Matsutani Wave.5, Gallery Takechi, Kumamoto, Japan.
• 2001 Matsutani. Waves Paris-Miyazaki, Gendaikko Museum, Miyazaki, Japan.
• 2002 Takesada Matsutani, Cairns Regional Gallery, Australia.
• 2002 Matsutani, Recent Work, Gallery Don Soker, San Francisco, USA.
• 2003 Takesada Matsutani, Atelier RIKA, Kôchi, Japan.
• 2003 Takesada Matsutani, Galerie Guislain États d’Art, Paris, France.
• 2003 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Hosokawa, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 2003 Bands of Blackness, Gallery LADS, Ôsaka/Gallery Yume, Tôkyô/Gallery Kaneko Art, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 2004 Matsutani Takesada, from 1959 to present, Gallery Accostage, Takamatsu, Japan.
• 2004 Bands of Blackness 2004, Gallery Hiro Chikashige, Okayama, Japan.
• 2004 Galerie Guislain-Etats d'Art, Paris, France.
• 2005 Matsutani. Stream of Time, Art Space KAN, Kyôto, Japan.
• 2005 Matsutani, Ichi, Street Gallery, Kôbe, Japan.
• 2005 Works on Paper, Gallery Yasokawa, Kôbe, Japan.
• 2006 Matsutani-Cercle, Galerie Faider, Brussels, Belgium.
• 2007 Matsutani–rétrospective, Centre culturel André Malraux, Agen, France.
• 2007 Takesada Matsutani, Espace du dedans, Lille, France.
• 2007 Matsutani-Cercle, Galerie Guislain États d’Art, Paris, France.
• 2007 Takesada Matsutani, Gendaikko Museum, Miyazaki, Japan.
• 2007 Matsutani-Light in a Line, Gallery Kaneko Art, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 2008 25ème semaine d'art contemporain, Philippe Amiel : artistes et collectionneurs, Takesada Matsutani, Centre culturel Pierre Grach, Saint-Mandé, France.
• 2008 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Negen Punt Negen, Roeselare, Belgium.
• 2009 Takesada Matsutani, Galerie E.G.P., Paris, France.
• 2009 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt, Germany.
• 2009 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Tamura, Hiroshima, Japan.
• 2010 Takesada Matsutani, Galerie Faider, Brussels, Belgium.
• 2010 Matsutani Takesada. Stream, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan.
• 2010 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Tsubaki Modern, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 2011 Around the Circle, Cohju Contemporary Art, Kyôto / Gallery Horizon, Colera, Spain.
• 2011 Takesada Matsutani, Galerie Espace du dedans, Lille, France.
• 2011 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Kai, Kôbe, Japan.
• 2012 Takesada Matsutani, Espace muséographique George Baccrabère, Institut Catholique de Toulouse, France.
• 2012 Takesada Matsutani, Galerie Jean Greset, Besançon, France.
• 2012 Matsutani – Des années 60 à nos jours, Galerie Jean-Luc et Takako Richard, Paris, France.
• 2012 Takesada Matsutani – Around the Circle 3, Gallery LADS, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 2012 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Tsubaki Modern, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 2013 Matsutani, Gutai Spirit Forever, Gallery Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, New York,USA.
• 2013 Takesada Matsutani. A Matrix, Gallery Hauser & Wirth, Londres, UK.
• 2015 Matsutani - Currents, Ôtani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan.
• 2015 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA.
• 2016 Takesada Matsutani, Gallery Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland.
• 2016 Matsutani, Tsubaki Modern Gallery, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 2016 Matsutani to no Aida, Matsutani Film Project 10 years, Art Space Kan, Kyôto, Japan.

• 1957 8th Nishinomiya City Exhibition (Nihonga section), Yasui Elementary School, Nishinomiya, Japan.
• 1958 New Faces Award, 5th Society for the Fine Arts Exhibition, Municipal Museum of Art, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1959 6th Society for the Fine Arts Exhibition, Municipal Museum of Art, Ôsaka, Japan. Award & invitation to be an associate member.
• 1959 Shuji Mukai and Takesada Matsutani, Makita Mingei, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1960 9th Gutai Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1960 7th Society for the New Fine Arts, Musée municipal d'art d'Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1961 10th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1962 11th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1962 Inaugural Exhibition of the Gutai Pinacotheca, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1963 Gutai bijutsu shinsaku ten [Gutai Art New Works Exhibition], Gutai Pinacotheca, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1963 12th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1963 13th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1964 14th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1964 Gutai bijutsu shinsaku ten [Gutai Art New Works Exhibition], Gutai Pinacotheca, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1964 Gutai, Small Works Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1964 Nippon Independents, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1964 Gutai bijutsu shohin ten [Gutai Art Small Works Exhibition], Gutai Pinacotheca, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1964 Gutai bijutsu shinsaku ten [Gutai Art New Works Exhibition], Gutai Pinacotheca, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1965 Five Gutai Artists in Kôbe, Daiwa Gallery, Kôbe, Japan.
• 1965 15th Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1965 16th Gutai Art Exhibition, Keio Department Store, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1965 Groupe Gutai, Galerie Stadler, Paris, France / Mickery Arthous, Loenersloot, The Netherlands / Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany.
• 1965 Gutai bijutsu shohin ten [Gutai Art Small Works Exhibition], Gutai Pinacotheca, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1966 NUL 1966 Art Exhibition (Nul Negentienhonderd zesenzestig),International Gallery,Olez, The Hague, the Netherlands.
• 1966 Gutai Exhibition of 3 Members: Mukai, Matsutani, Maekawa, Gutai Pinacotheca, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1966 2e Salon International des Galeries Pilotes, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Art Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• 1966 17th Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Ôsaka / Takashimaya Department Store, Yokohama, Japan.
• 1966 Gutai bijutsu shohin ten [Gutai Small Art Works Exhibition], Taikodô Gallery, Kôbe, Japan.
• 1966 The Art of Plastic, Shinanobashi Gallery, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1966 First Mainichi Art Competition, City Museum of Art, Kyôto, Japan.
• 1967 11-kai Mainichi senbatsu bijutsu-ten [11th Art Exhibition of the Mainichi Newspaper], Daimaru Department Store, Kyôto, Japan.
• 1967 Gutai Small Works Exhibition in Holland, Design House, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• 1967 18th Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1967 Gutai Group Ôsaka Japan, Experiment Studio, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• 1967 Gutai Group Exhibition, Galerie Heide Hildebrand, Klagenfurt, Austria.
• 1967 19th Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Ôsaka/Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyô, Japan.
• 1968 20th and 21st Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1968 Contemporary Art Exhibition Only in the Night, Hôtel Miyazaki Kankô, Miyazaki, Japan.
• 1968 23rd Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, City museum of modern art, Paris, France.
• 1968 1st International print biennale, City museum of modern art, Paris, France.
• 1968 Group show, Azuma Gallery, Kyôto, Japan.
• 1968 52nd Annual Exhibition of the Society of Canadian Painters, Etchers and Engravers, City Hall Library, Toronto, Canada.
• 1968 1st International Print Exhibition & VII Premio Internacional de Dibujo Joan Miro, Palais de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain.
• 1968 VI Internationale Grafik Ausstellung,Europahaus, Vienna, Austria.
• 1968 Takesada Matsutani, Mitsu Sugai, Galerie Zunini Paris, France.
• 1968 Peintres japonais, Galerie Argos, Nantes, France.
• 1968 1st Alençon International biennale, Galerie de la Halle du Pré, Alençon, France.
• 1968 1st British International Print Biennale, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, United Kingdom.
• 1968 Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway.
• 1968 Gutai bijutsu shohin ten [Gutai Small Art Works Exhibition], Gutai Pinacotheca, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1969 25 Artists from Atelier 17, Museum of Modern Art/ Negev Museum, Haifa / Beer-Shava, Israël.
• 1969 9-kai Gendai Nihon Bijutsu ten 9th Exhibition of Japanese Contemporary Art], Museum of Contemporary Art, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1969 25e Salon de Mai, City Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France.
• 1969 International Exhibition of Graphic arts, Modern Art Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• 1969 Gendai bijutsu no douko [Trends in Contemporary Art], National Museum of Modern Art, Kyôto, Japan.
• 1969 Atelier Nord,1er Festival International de Peinture, Maison de la Culture, Reims, France.
• 1969 1st International Festival of Painting, Château-Musée Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France.
• 1969 Hommage au silence, Tirolerkunst-Pavillon, Innsbruck, Austria.
• 1969 53rd Annual Exhibition of the Society of Canadian Painters, Etchers and Engravers, The Library of the City Hall, Toronto, Canada.
• 1969 7th International Printmaking Exhibition, Europahaus, Vienna, Austria. Third Prize.
• 1969 L’estampe japonaise à l’Atelier 17, Galerie R Cruise, Paris, France.
• 1969 La maison de l'Iran à Paris présente des artistes asiatiques : Ado, Sato, Maeda, Tabuchi, Ung-No-Lee, Zao-Wu-ki, Matsutani, Galerie Roger & Gallet, Paris, France.
• 1969 Art contemporain japonais, Galerie A3, Centre du commerce, Guebwiller, France.
• 1969 Gutai bijutsu shohin ten [Gutai Art Small Works Exhibition], Gutai Pinacotheca, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1970 Gen Gutai Pinakoteka Saishû Ten [The Final Exhibition at the Original Gutai Pinacotheca], Gutai Pinacotheca, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1970 3rd International Biennale of Graphic Arts, Krakow, Poland.
• 1970 Exhibition at the entrance of Expo ’70 Midori Pavilion by the Gutai Group, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1970 Gutai bijutsu hanga 8-nin ten [An Exhibition of Prints by Eight Gutai Artists], Galerie Iteza, Kyôto, Japon (exposition itinérante).
• 1970 International Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA.
• 1970 2e Biennale internationale de l’estampe, City Modern Art Museum, Paris France.
• 1970 3e Salon International des Galeries Pilotes, Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland / City Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France.
• 1970 1st American Print Biennale, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chili.
• 1970 4th Preliminary show of Japanese Art Festival, Modern Art Museum, Munich, Germany.
• 1970 7th International Biennial of Prints, National Museum of Modern Art, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1970 XIX, Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, Spain.
• 1970 Environnement, Espace Roche & Bobois Décor Intérieur, Paris, France.
• 1971 10th Contemporary Japanese paintings exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tôkyô / City Museum of Art, Kyôto / Cultural Center, Aichi, Japan.
• 1971 42nd Northwest Printmakers International Exhibition, Seattle Art Museum, États-Unis.
• 1971 10-kai Gendai nihon-bijutsu ten [10th Contemporary Japanese Painting Exhibition], Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tôkyô / City Museum of Art, Kyôto / Culturel Center of Aichi, Nagoya, Japan.
• 1971 International Print Exhibition '71, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• 1971 European Painting Award, Casino-Kursaal, Ostend, Belgium.
• 1971 Konnichi no 100-nin ten [100 artists of Today], Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kôbe, Japan.
• 1971 Gutai bijutsu shohin ten [Gutai Art Small Works Exhibition], Gutai Mini Pinacotheca, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1971 Japan Art Festival, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil / Palace of Fine Arts, Milano, Italy.
• 1972 13e Salon Grands et Jeunes d’Aujourd’hui, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
• 1972 6th Preliminary Show of Japan Art Festival, Museum of Permanente, Milano, Italy.
• 1972 Gutai bijutsu 17-nen no kiroku [Seventeen Years of Gutai Art], Gutai Mini Pinacotheca, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1972 Ibiza Biennale of Graphic Arts '72, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ibiza, Spain.
• 1972 3rd International Exhibition of Original Drawings, Modern Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia.
• 1972 4th International Biennale of Graphic Arts, Narodowe Museum, Krakow, Poland.
• 1972 3rd British International Print Biennal, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, United Kingdom.
• 1972 36th International Exhibition of Graphic Arts of Today, Venice Biennale, International Gallery of Modern Art, Ca'Pesaro, Venice, Italy.
• 1972 1st Norway International Biennal of Graphic Arts, Fredrikstad Library, Norway.
• 1972 S.W. Hayter, Prints from Atelier 17, Paris, Yager Gallery, Birdwick College, New York, USA.
• 1972 18th National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA.
• 1973 1st British International Drawing Biennal, Teesside Museum, United Kingdom.
• 1973 Japanese Prints of Today, Boston City Hall Gallery, USA.
• 1973 1st California College of Arts and Crafts World Print Competition '73, San Francisco Museum of Art, USA.
• 1973 Takesada Matsutani and Teizo Ogaki, Lumley Cazalet Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
• 1974 4th International Exhibition of Original Drawings Moderna Galerija Rijeka, Croatia.
• 1974 4th British International Print Biennal,Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, United Kingdom.
• 1974 2nd Norway Biennal of Graphic Arts, Fredrikstad Library, Norway.
• 1974 The artist as Selector,Oxford Gallery, Oxford, United Kingdom.
• 1974 College Women's Association of Japan 19th Annual Print Show, Tôkyô American Club,Japan.
• 1974 Takesada Matsutani and S.W. Hayter, Tor Road Gallery, Kôbe, Japan.
• 1974 Contemporary Japanese Print Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico.
• 1974 5th International Biennal of Graphic Arts, Narodowe Museum, Krakow, Poland.
• 1974 Ibiza Biennal of Graphic Arts '74, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ibiza, Spain.
• 1975 Hachiro Iizuka, Minoru Onoda and Takesada Matsutani, Doi Gallery, Himeji, Japan.
• 1975 2nd Miami International Print Biennal, The Metropolitan Museum and Art Center,Miami, USA.
• 1975 Young Artists: YA17, Union Carbide Building, New York,USA.
• 1975 International Exhibition of Graphic Arts, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• 1975 Graphica Creativa ’75, Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland.
• 1976 Gendai hanga 4-nin ten, Kumi Sugai, S.W. Hayter, Takesada Matsutani, Kate Van Houten [Contemporary Print Exhibition, four artists, Kumi Sugai, S.W. Hayter, Takesada Matsutani, Kate Van Houten], Galerie Nishinomiya, Hyôgo, Japon.
• 1976 5th British International Print Biennal, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, United Kingdom.
• 1976 5th International Exhibition of Original Drawings, Moderna Galerija, Rijeka, Croatia.
• 1976 3rd Norway International Biennal of Graphic Arts, Fredrikstad Library, Norway.
• 1976 Matsutani and Toshi Yonemura, contemporary Japanese Print Collection, Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, USA.
• 1976 4th International Biennal of Graphic Arts, Frechen, Germany.
• 1976 Gutai-bijutsu no 18-nen [Art Gutai, 18 year], Prefectural Gallery, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1976 6th International Biennal of Graphic Arts, Narodowe Museum, Krakow, Poland.
• 1976 Gendai bijutsu 13-nin ten [Contemporary Art '76, Exhibition of 13 artists], Sanchika Gallery, Kôbe, Japan.
• 1977 Sadaharu Horio, Takesada Matsutani, Sang-Hwa Chung, Makio Yamaguchi, Nishinomiya Gallery, Nishinomiya and Tor Road Gallery, Kôbe, Japan.
• 1977 International Exhibition of Graphic Arts, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• 1977 2nd California College of Arts and Crafts World Print Competition, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA.
• 1978 Surrealism 1978, Its One-Hundred-Year History, Milwaukee Art Center, USA.
• 1978 Junij ‘78, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia / Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• 1978 4th Norway International Biennal of Graphic Arts, Fredrikstad library Norway.
• 1978 2e Biennale internationale de l’estampe, Château de l’Ermitage, Condé-sur-l’Escaut-Bon-Secours, Belgique.
• 1978 S. W. Hayter, Exhibition of Atelier 17, Paris, The University of Georgia Library, Athens, USA.
• 1978 7e Salon des œuvres sur papier et d’objets, Centre culturel Jacques Prévert, Villeparisis, France.
• 1978 7th International Biennal of Graphic Arts, Narodowe Museum, Krakow, Poland.
• 1979 Prints from Paris, 9 Contemporary Printmakers, The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, United Kingdom.
• 1979 Contemporary Japanese Print Exhibition, San José Museum, USA.
• 1979 Pari no gaka tachi [Painters in Paris]: Takesada Matsutani and Jean-Claude Reynal, Imabashi Gallery, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1979 6th British International Print Biennal, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, United Kingdom.
• 1979 International Exhibition of Graphic Arts, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• 1979 Livres d’artistes, Galerie NRA, Paris, France.
• 1979 Yoshihara Jiro to Gutai no sonogo [Jirô Yoshihara and Today's Aspects of Gutai], Hyôgo Prefecture Museum of Modern Art, Kôbe, Japan.
• 1979 5 Kanagawa hanga andepandan [5th Kanagawa Print Independents Exhibition], Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Yokohama, Japan.
• 1979 Art Now ’79, Hyôgo Prefecture Museum of Modern Art, Kôbe, Japan.
• 1980 Obliques et angles, Galerie Alain Oudin, Paris, France.
• 1980 Junij ‘80, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• 1980 Boomerang, Abbaye de Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe, France.
• 1980 7th International Exhibition of Original Drawings, Moderna Galerija, Rijeka, Croatia.
• 1980 2nd Listowel International Print Biennal, Saint Patrick Hall, Listowel, Irland.
• 1980 Hokusai’s Enkel, Marina Dinkler Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
• 1980 Gravures contemporaines japonaises, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France.
• 1980 Tendances de la Recherche Japonaise, La Cuvée-association de l’art contemporain, Lachassagne, France.
• 1980 8th International Biennal of Graphic Arts, Narodowe Museum, Krakow, Poland.
• 1980 Nippon no kindai hanga–hanga no miryoku 2 [Japanese Modern Prints–Echantment of Prints 2], Hyôgo Prefecture Museum of Modern Art, Kôbe, Japan.
• 1980 Nippon no hanga [Japanese Prints], Tochigi Prefecture Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan.
• 1981 Artists Today 2 : Matsutani and Van Houten, Atelier Global Gallery / Gendaikko Center, Miyazaki, Japan.
• 1981 2-kai Kokusai inpakuto ato fesutibaru [2nd International Impact Art Festival], Municipal Museum of Art, Kyôto, Japan.
• 1981 International Exhibition of Graphic Arts, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• 1981 Gendai no bijutsu 13-nin ten [Contemporary Art Exhibition of 13 Artists], Striped House Museum, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1981 L’Art vivant à Paris, Mairie du 18e arrondissement, Paris, France.
• 1981 Art Now 1970-1980, Hyôgo Prefecture Museum of Modern Art, Kôbe, Japan.
• 1981 On paper, Art House, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• 1982 Sols, voûtes, espaces entre deux, American Center, Paris, France.
• 1982 27e Salon de Montrouge, Le Beffroi, Montrouge, France.
• 1982 9th International Print Biennal, Ekspozycja Pavillon, Krakow, Poland.
• 1982 Kindai-nippon no bijutsu: 1945-nen-ikou Shozo-sakuhin ni yoru zenkan-chinretsu Kaikan 30-shunen kinen-ten 1 [30th Anniversary Exhibition from the Museum Collection, Modern Japanese Art, 1945-, Part 1], National Museum of Modern Art, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1982 8th International Exhibition of Original Drawings, Moderna Galerija, Rijeka, Croatia.
• 1982 Drawings of 6 Artists: U-Fan Lee, Takesada Matsutani, Kiyoshi Hamada, Kishio Suga, Masafumi Maita and Tadashi Kawamata, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1983 Forme nouvelle, Galerie Alexandra Monet, Brussels, Belgium.
• 1983 28e Salon de Montrouge, Le Beffroi, Montrouge, France.
• 1983 Un regard sur l’art japonais d’aujourd’hui, Rath Museum, Geneva, Switzerland.
• 1983 Japan '83 Body Art Book, Gendaikko Center/ Fujiki Hospital Gallery, Miyazaki, Japan.
• 1983 4-kai Kokusai inpakuto ato fesutibaru [4th International Impact Art Festival '83, Municipal Museum of Art, Kyôto, Japan.
• 1983 Echange international, Galerie Le Dessin, Paris, France.
• 1983 1st Chinese International Print Exhibition, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan.
• 1984 Papyrus, Papier, Théâtre des arts, Cergy-Pontoise, France.
• 1984 Livres d’artistes, Livres objets, Sigma Laine Center, Bordeaux, France.
• 1984 29e Salon de Montrouge, Le Beffroi, Montrouge, France.
• 1984 6th European Print Biennal, Musée de l’impression sur étoffes, Mulhouse, France.
• 1984 9th International Exhibition of Original Drawings, Galerija moderna, Rijeka, Croatia.
• 1984 La Cuvée–association de l’art contemporain, Lachassagne, France.
• 1984 7th Norway International Biennal of Graphic Arts, Fredrikstad Library, Norway.
• 1984 2 Gendai-bijutsu 5-nin ten: Horio Sadaharu, Miyazaki Toyoharu, Matsutani Takesada, Chung Sang-Hwa, Yamaguchi Makio [2nd Five-Persons Exhibition of Contemporary Art], Tor Road Gallery, Kôbe, Japan.
• 1984 Salon d’automne, Lyon ’84, Municipal Halls, Lyon, France.
• 1984 Livres d’artistes, Caroline Corre Gallery, Paris, France.
• 1984 10th International Print Bienna, Narodowe Museum, Krakow, Poland.
• 1984 5 Kokusai inpakuto ato fesutibaru [5th International Impact Art Festival], Kyôto, Japan.
• 1984 Kansai, Gendai sakka no kiseki: Gendai-bijutsu 1950–1970 [Kansai, Trajectories of Contemporary Artists: 1950-1970], Seibu Department Store, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1985 Endai-hanga no kiseki [Trajectory of Contemporary Prints], Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan.
• 1985 International Art Collection Junij, and successive experimental exhibitions of Junij, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• 1985 Tendances de la recherche japonaise, La Cuvée - Association de l'Art Contemporain, Lachassagne, France.
• 1985 Takesada Matsutani & Aliska Lahusen, Rosa Turetsky Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland.
• 1985 30 ans de rencontres, de recherches, de partis-pris, 1955–1985, Galerie Stadler, Paris, France.
• 1985 Takesada Matsutani & Shigeaki Koshino, Point à la ligne, Paris, France.
• 1985 Nippon no hanga [Japanese Prints], Tochigi Prefecture Museum of Art, Utsunomiya, Japan.
• 1985 Gravure, grands formats {Engraving, Big Formats], City Museum of Modern Art,Liège, Belgium.
• 1985 Yoshihara Jirô to Gutai 1954-1972 [Jirô Yoshihara and Gutai 1954-1972], Citizen Center, Ashiya, Japan.
• 1985 6-kai Kokusai inpakuto ato fesutibaru [6th International Impact Art Festival], Municipal Museum of Art, Kyôto, Japan.
• 1985 Grupo Gutai: Pintura y Acción [Gutai Group: Painting and Action], Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, Spain / Savremene Umernosti Museum, Belgrade, Yougoslavia / Hyôgo Prefecture of Modern Art, Kôbe, Japan.
• 1986 Brigitte Cardinal & Takesada Matsutani, Galerie Raymond Cordier, Paris, France.
• 1986 Jeunes artistes japonais, Espace art, Chalon-sur-Saône, France.
• 1986 Jeunes Sculpteurs, Port d’Austerlitz, Paris, France.
• 1986 Shin-shuzo-hin ten [New collection], Kitakyûshû Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japon.
• 1986 Tendances de la recherche japonaise, La cuvée–association de l’art contemporain, Lachassagne, France.
• 1986 10th International Exhibition of Original Drawings, Moderna Galerija, Rijeka, Croatia
• 1986 Présence des formes, Les Angles, Avignon, France.
• 1986 Le Japon en France, Espace et Toile, Paris, France.
• 1986 Gendai no shiro to kuro [Black & White Today], Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan.
• 1986 5-nin no sakka ni yoru shiro to kuro ten, Kawamata Tadashi, Kitamura Ko, Hamada Kiyoshi, Suga Kishio, Matsutani Takesada, [Black and White by Five Artists], Kaneko Art Gallery, Tôkyô, Japon.
• 1986 11th International Print Biennal, Ekspozycja Pavillon, Krakow, Poland.
• 1987 1986 Japon Passé-Present, Centre de la Vieille Charité / Musée Cantini, Marseille, France.
• 1987 The Artist’s Notebook, Atelier Nishinomiya, Nishinomiya, Japan / Akiyama Gallery, Tôkyô Japan / Brea Gallery, Los Angeles, USA / Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, France.
• 1987 Ephémère, Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpétrière, Paris, France.
• 1987 10 artistes japonais en France, Centre artistique de Mont-de-Marsan, France.
• 1987 Tendances de la recherche japonaise, La Cuvée–Association de l’art contemporain, Lachassagne, France.
• 1987 Présence des Formes, The Architect, Les Angles, Avignon, France.
• 1988 Guillevic avec les autres, Médiathèque municipale, Avignon, France.
• 1988 43e salon de Mai,Grand Palais, Paris, France.
• 1988 Tendances de la recherche japonaise, La Cuvée–Association de l’art contemporain, Lachassagne, France.
• 1988 Ripopée 1, Centre de la gravure et de l’image imprimée, La Louvière, Belgium.
• 1988 Gendai Nihon bijutsu no doko–kaiga part 2 [A current of Contemporary Art in Japan - Painting, Part 2], Modern Art Museum, Toyama, Japan.
• 1988 11e International Exhibition of Original Drawing, Galerija Moderna, Rijeka, Croatia.
• 1988 Livres objets, Centre artistique de Vire, France.
• 1989 Europalia '89: Japan in Belgium: Takesada Matsutani and Seiji Onishi, Galerie Pascal Polar, Brussels, Belgium.
• 1989 Dessin de Sculpteur, Galerie Patrick, Vannes, France.
• 1989 Matsutani & Matsuo, Nouveaux Gallery, Pusan, Korea.
• 1989 Hiroshima, City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan.
• 1990 Atelier Nord, Galerie Anne Breivik, Oslo, Norway.
• 1990 45e Salon de mai, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
• 1990 Dess(e)in de sculpteur, Galerie municipale Édouard Manet, Gennevilliers, France.
• 1990 Giappone all’avanguardia, il Gruppo Gutai negli anni Cinquanta, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Roma, Italy.
• 1990 Gutai: Mikan no zenei shudan [Gutai: The Avant-Garde Group Unfinished], Shôtô Art Museum, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1990 Ôsaka Triennale 1990 International Competition, MyDome, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1991 Point de Vue: tradition et avant-garde japonaises, Galerie 16, Paris, France.
• 1991 Takesada Matsutani & Kate Van Houten, Installation Stream-Mortagne, Crypte de Toussaint, Mortagne-au-Perche, France.
• 1991 Kaiga no bokenshatachi "Gutai" [Adventurers of Painting "Gutai"], Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan.
• 1992 Gutai bijutsu kyokai no sakkatachi [Artists of Gutai Art Association], Miyagi Prefecture Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan.
• 1992 Livres d’artistes, Galerie Keller, Paris, France.
• 1992 Drawing in the 90s, Katonah Art Museum, New York,USA.
• 1993 Gutai II: 1959–1965, City Museum of art and History, Ashiya, Japan.
• 1993 Gutai Suite, Palace of Fine Arts, School of Fine Arts, Galerie Vingt-sept,Toulouse, France.
• 1993 Gutai III: 1965–1972, City Museum of art and History, Ashiya, Japan.
• 1993 Intérieurs, 100 œuvres sélectionnées de collections privées d’art moderne, Contemporary Art Center / Goya Museum, Castres, France.
• 1993 7 artistes japonais de Paris: Toshimitsu Imai, Bukichi Inoue, Tetsumi Kudo, Takesada Matsutani, Satoru Sato, Takashi Naraha et Yasukazu Tabuchi, Noroit Cultural Center, Arras, France.
• 1993 11 Japanese Artists in Europe, Galerie Janus Avivson, London, UK.
• 1993 Challenge of Art After the War: Jiro Yoshihara and the Gutai Group, Ehime Prefecture Art Museum, Matsuyama, Japan.
• 1994 Acquisitions de 1992-1993 du Fonds départmental d'art contemporain de Seine Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France.
• 1994 Signe–Langage–Peinture, Galerie Akié Arichi, Paris, France.
• 1994 Kansai no bijutsu [Kansai Art 1950–1970], Hyôgo Prefecture Museum of Modern Art, Kôbe, Japan.
• 1994 Jikan/Bijutsu: 20-seiki bijutsu ni okeru jikan no hyôgen [Time in Contemporary Art], Modern Art Museum, Shiga, Japan.
• 1995 Takesada Matsutani & Horio Sadaharu, Galerie Vingt-sept, Toulouse, France.
• 1995 Livres d’artistes, Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris, France.
• 1996 20-seiki heno yokan - Nippon no gendai bijutsu 50-nin ten [20th Century - An Exhibition of 50 Contemporary Japanese Artists], Navio Museum, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1996 Relaciones, 10 artists from 3 continents, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo, San José, Costa Rica.
• 1996 Espagne–France–Japon, Galerie Cour Carrée, Nancy, France.
• 1996 Kaiga no kouzo–isshoku ichikeitai [The structure of Painting - One Color, One Form],Bunpôdô Gallery, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1996 Hanga no 1970-nendai [Prints of the 1970s], Shoto Art Museum, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1996 Mémoire de la Mer, La Halle aux grains, Mortagne-au-Perche, France.
• 1996 Chimériques polymères, le plastique dans l’art contemporain, Modern Art Museum, Nice, France.
• 1996 Sengo-bijutsu no danmen ten Hyogo-kenritsu-bijutsukan-shozo Yamamura korekushon kara [After-War Art from the Yamamura Collection in the Hyôgo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art], City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan.
• 1997 Takesada and Suga Kishio, Galerie Kaneko Art, Tôkyô, Japon.
• 1997 Traces dans le temps, Galerie Akié Arichi, Paris, France.
• 1997 Artistes japonais contemporain, Espace Bateau-Lavoir, Paris, France.
• 1997 Juryoku-Sengo bijutsu no zahyo-jiku [Gravity – Axis of Contemporary Art], The National Museum of Art, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 1998 Matsutani & Kanno: Monochromes, Palais des Congrès, Paris / Cultural Center, Le Mans, France.
• 1998 Image et rythme, Galerie Akié Arichi, Paris, France.
• 1998 Kishio Suga, Takesada Matsutani and Kiyoshi Hamada: Prints and Drawings, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 1998 Takesada Matsutani and Sadaharu Horio, Art contemporain du Japon : la tentation du blasphème, Espace Écureuil, Toulouse / Galerie Le Rire bleu, Figeac, France.
• 1998 Artistes japonais à Paris, Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, France.
• 1998 Renaissance of Black and White, Three Artists Living in France, Gallery Accostage, Takamatsu / Juzansô, Kyôto / Komai-Tei, Kyôto, Japan.
• 1998 Sozai to hyogen [Material and Expression], City Museum of Art, Himeji, Japan.
• 1998 New Prints of Europe, Guandong ARt Museum, China.
• 1998 Japanese Contemporary Artists, Pfeiffer Gallery, Nidzica-Zamek, Poland.
• 1999 L’Arbre, Galerie Akié Arichi, Paris, France.
• 1999 Gutai, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France.
• 1999 Matsutani & Kate van Houten, Fondation DANAE – Diffusion Attitudes Nouvelles Art et Espaces, Jarnac, France.
• 1999 Hommage à Geo, City Hall Cultural Center, Saint-Mandé, France.
• 1999 Gendai-Hanga. 21-nin no houko: Genda-hanga nyûmon [The Axis of 21 printers in Japan – Introduction to 20th Century Prints], National Art Museum, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 2000 Création du Fonds DANAE, Fondation DANAE – Diffusion Attitudes Nouvelles Art et Espaces, Jarnac, France.
• 2000 Blesse, Ronce Noire de Claude Louis-Combet, Évreux National Theater, Évreux, France (art set).
• 2000 2-nin ten: [sochi] – [hado-II] – Jidai o kakenuketa sakka – [Gensho Takasaki et Takesada Matsutani = [arrangement] – Vague-II, Gallery Accostage, Takamatsu, Japon.
• 2000 XXXIInd International Painting Festival: Japon visions contemporaines, Castle Museum, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France.
• 2000 Minoru Kano, sculpteur, et Takesada Matsutani, peintre, Embassy of Japan, Paris, France.
• 2000 Métamorphose du livre, 1999–2000 : 10 ans de la bibliothèque, Antony City, Manoir du Boulanc, Antony / Art Center, Verderonne, France.
• 2000 Sugai Kumi, S.W. Hayter, Matsutani Takesada, Musée Gendaikko, Miyazaki, Japan.
• 2000 Anzai Shigeo no me 1970–1999 Shashin ga toraeta gendai- bijutsu no 30-nen [Recording on Contemporary Art by Shigeo Anzai 1970–1999], Ôsaka, Japan.
• 2000 Dokyumento Gutai Part 1 [Document on Gutai Part 1], City Museum of Art and History, Ashiya, Japan.
• 2001 Dokyumento Gutai Part 2 [Document on Gutai Part 2], City Museum of Art and History, Ashiya, Japan.
• 2001 3-nin no shohin-ten–shinsaku ni yoru [3 artists, latest small works]– Oyama Bishin, Hamada Kiyoshi, Matsutani Takesada, Kaneko Art 2, Tôkyô, Japon.
• 2001 Ôsaka-shiritsu kindai-bijutsukan Korekushon ten 2001-Bijutsu Panorama.Ôsaka [Collection of Ôsaka City Museum of Modern Art 2001 : Ôsaka Art panorama in the 20th Century],ATC Museum, Ôsaka,Japan.
• 2001 22, Galerie Satellite, Paris, France.
• 2001 Merci Bernard, Galerie municipale Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, France.
• 2001 De l’unique aux multiples, Centre d’arts plastiques Albert Chanot, Clamart, France.
• An artist from France Meets Two Japanese Contemporaries - The Renaissance of Black and White, Konishi House, Ôsaka, Japan.
• Monochromes: Takesada Matsutani, Daniel Pontoreau, Baioku Taguchi, Hosokawa Gallery, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 2002 Parcours d’automne, confrontation humanisme et nature, La Tannerie, Saint-Julien-les-Metz, France.
• 2002 Gabriel Belgeonne, Matsutani : aquarelles et dessins, La Cour royale, Brussels, Belgium.
• 2002 Gutai bijutsu kyokai no sakka Korekushon kikaku ni yoru [From the Collection: Artists of the Gutai Group], Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan.
• 2002 Pages 6, Salon de bibliophilie contemporaine, Espace Austerlitz, Paris, France.
• 2002 DESS[E]INS, Albert Chanot Plastic Arts Center, Clamart, France.
• 2003 Au-delà de l’arbre…, Galerie Akié Arichi, Paris, France.
• 2003 Marché de la poésie, Place Saint Sulpice, Paris, France.
• 2003 Abstrait TRAIT Abstrait, Espace culturel, Rignac, France.
• 2003 1953–2003, 50 ans–50 œuvres–50 ans de Création, Galerie du Haut-Pavé, Paris, France.
• 2003 20 ans de la Semaine d’Art Contemporain de Saint-Mandé, Centre culturel de l’hôtel de ville, Saint-Mandé, France.
• 2003 Terre Inconnue, Galerie Satellite, Paris, France.
• 2003 Noir Blanc, Galerie Guislain États d’art, Paris, France.
• 2004 Les Soirées de Mercure, Galerie Weiller, Paris, France.
• 2004 Métamorphoses du livre, Bibliothèque Forney, Hôtel de Sens, Paris.
• 2004 Ano atsui jidai me o samasu! Kessei 50-shunen kinen Gutai kaiko-ten [Gutai Retrospective Exhibition: 50th Anniversary], Hyôgo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kôbe, Japan.
• 2004 2-kai Ato ga motarasu junsui purasebo-koka Part I, II, III (Placebo-All that Art Can Provide Part I, II, III] H.O.T. Gallery, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 2004 Resounding Spirit, Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1960s, The Gibson Gallery Collection, State University of New York, Potsdam, USA.
• 2004 Les Rendez-Vous de Cardet : Exposition Energie, Centre d’Art Le Village, Cardet, France.
• 2004 Marché de la Poésie, Place Saint-Sulpice, Paris.
• 2004 Musée éphémère 2004, Espace d’art contemporain Saint Martin, Montélimar, France.
• 2004 Takesada Matsutani & Kate Van Houten, Galerie Art and Tea, Tatsuno, Japan.
• 2004 Hanga: Tozai-koryu no nami [Hanga: Waves of East-West Cultural Interchange], University of Arts Museum, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 2005 Les Soirées de Mercure 2nd edition, Galerie Weiller, Paris, France.
• 2005 L’estampe contemporaine, Galerie du Cloître, School of Fine Arts, Rennes, France.
• 2005 Métamorphoses du livre, Aragon Public Library, Choisy-le-roi, France.
• 2005 Vis-à-Vis : Matsutani et Tony Soulié, Galerie Le Rire bleu, Figeac, France.
• 2005 Matsutani Happening, Squat Extra Muros, former Country-Club, Saint-Julien-les-Metz, France.
• 2005 Livres en mai, Lycée Henri IV, Paris, France.
• 2005 5e Salon du Livre d’artiste[s] en Languedoc-Roussillon, Carré Livres d’Art[istes], Carré d’Art Library, Nîmes, France.
• 2006 Les Soirées de Mercure 3e édition, Galerie Weiller, Paris, France / Gallery Bunkamura, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 2006 Peintures et Performances,Takesada Matsutani & Germain Rosez, Espace Arsenal, Metz, France.
• 2006 Black & White-Kuro no naka no iro-Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery shuzo-hin ten 022 [Black and white: Colors in Black – from the Terada Collection 022], Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tôkyô, Japon.
• 2007 Takesada Matsutani and Kinichi Shinomiya, Gallery Accostage, Takamatsu, Japan.
• 2007 Les Soirées de Mercure 4e édition, Galerie Weiller, Paris, France.
• 2007 Resounding Spirit, Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1960s, The Gibson Gallery Collection and Live Art Festival, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada.
• 2007 Peinture japonaise, Espace Saint-Jacques, Saint-Quentin, France. Performance ‘Stream’ (17 March), with music from Alain Kremski
• 2007 L’Arte e il Torchio / Art and the Printing Press, Museo civico ala Ponzone, Cremone, Italy.
• 2007 Livres d’artistes, Art Center, Manoir du Boulanc, Verderonne, France.
• 2007 Metanoia 1: Art contemporain spiritualité extrême-orientale, Galerie Metanoia, Paris, France.
• 2008 Les Soirées de Mercure 5e édition, Galerie Weiller, Paris, France.
• 2008 1984-2007 Association amicale des ressortissants japonais en France, Artistes Grand Prix Exposition, Galerie Akie Arichi, Paris.
• 2008 Guillevic avec les Autres 1907-1997, Rennes métropole Library, Rennes, France.
• 2008 Projet Akebono, exposition franco-japonaise d’estampes, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France.
• 2008 Just a Glance 3, Gallery Cour Carrée, Paris, France.
• 2008 Dominique Coffignier and Matsutani Takesada, Art Forum Jarfo, Kyôto, Japan.
• 2008 Matsutani peinture, Geoffroy de Montpellier sculpteur, Saint Martin Contemporary Art Space, Montélimar, France.
• 2008 Taiwan International Invitational Mini-Prints and Mini Drawings Exhibition, NINU Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.
• 2009 Pour fêter les 20 ans de la Galerie Akié Arichi, Galerie Akié Arichi, Paris, France.
• 2009 Cosmos, Galerie Jean Greset, Besançon, France.
• 2009 Échange des œuvres lot-et-garonnaises et celles de Nishinomiya, Nishinomiya Kitaguchi Gallery, Nishinomiya, Japan.
• 2009 Métamorphoses du Livre, Galerie la Passerelle, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France.
• 2009 27e Marché de la poésie, Place Saint-Sulpice / Galerie Akie Arichi, Paris, France.
• 2010 Katachi no chikara Kodo-keizai-seicho no bijutsu hen-Ôsaka-shiritsu-kindai-bijutsukan korekushon o chushin ni [Power of Form: Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1950s and 1960s from the Collection of the Ôsaka City Museum of Modern Art], City Museum of Art, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 2010 Hirogaru Imagination [Broaden Your Imagination], City Museum, Riverwalk Gallery, Kitakyûshû Japan.
• 2010 Daremo yaranai koto wo yare! [Do Something No One’s Ever Done Before!], Kwansei Gakuin University Museum Planning Space, Nishinomiya, Japan.
• 2010 Collection 3 Nihon Bijutsu [Japanese Art] 1950 – 2010, National Museum of Art, Ôsaka, Japan.
• 2011 The Spirit of Gutai, Horio and Matsutani, Galerie Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt, Germany.
• 2011 Takesada Matsutani / Ralphe Petty, Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa, Japan.
• 2011 Creativity Versus Art, Art Horizon, Colera, Spain.
• 2011 Une fois, une rencontre, Le Radar – Espace d’Art actuel, Bayeux, France.
• 2011 Matsutani–Kate Van Houten, Galerie 49, Saumur, France.
• 2012 Gutai: The Spirit of an Era, National Arts Center, Tôkyô, Japan.
• 2012 A Visual Essay on Gutai, Hauser & Wirth Gallery, New York, USA.
• 2012 Bogart, Gorchov, Matsutani – Painting Towards Three Dimensions, Galerie Richard, New York, USA.
• 2012 Michel Nitabah, La Passion de l’Édition, Roybet Fould Museum,Courbevoie, France.
• 2012 Exposition franco-japonaise d’estampes, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France / Nishinomiya Kitaguchi Gallery, Nishinomiya, Japon.
• 2012 Taiwa suru bijutsu / Zenei no Kansai [Artistic Interactions: Avant-garde Kansai], Ôtani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan.
• 2012 Karuizawa no kaze ten-Nippon no gendai-ato 1950-ima [Wind of Karuizawa: Japanese Contemporary Art 1950-2012], Karuizawa New Art Museum, Karuizawa, Japan.
• 2012 Toki no kioku [Art and Memories], Tatsuno Art Project 2012, The Warehouse-Higashimaru, Tatsuno, Japan.
• 2012 Matsutani and Kishida, Galerie Akie Arichi, Paris, France.
• 2013 2013 The Collection: Gutai progress, City Museum of Art and History,Ashiya, Japan.
• 2013 Gutai: Splendid Playground, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA.
• 2013 Korekushon hanga ten [Collection of Prints]: Sugai Kumi/Matsutani Takesada, City Museum of Art and History,Ashiya,Japan.
• 2014 Paris: 25 Years, Galerie Richard, New York, USA.
• 2014 Made in Japan, l'art japonais dans les collections du Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image imprimée de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, La Louvière, Belgium.
• 2014 Liens et Empreintes, La Grande Galerie, Savasse, France.
• 2014 Japon, Abbaye Saint-André – Contemporary Art Center, Meymac, France.
• 2015 Nouvelle présentation des collections modernes (1905-1965), Pompidou Center, Paris, France.
• 2015 Trois artistes japonais :Takesada Matsutani, Setsuko Nagasawa, Yoshimi Futamura, Château de Courcelles, Montigny-les-Metz, France.