Kijuro Yahagi

Born in Yamagata Prefecture in 1952. Completed the course of the Graduate School of Architecture, Waseda University. Instructor of Keio University and Waseda University. Carrying out architecture, landscape design, product design, graphic design, wayfinding design (sign system), photography, fine art, furniture design, sculpture and criticism.

Awards
Winning a prize of Poster Competition for The 80th birthday of Bertolt Brecht/ 1978, the special prize at the 3rd International Poster Biennale Warsaw, Poland in 1980, the gold prize at the 13th International Poster Biennale Warsaw, Poland in 1990, ADC award and Hara Hiromu award at Tokyo Art Directors Club, the 3rd Kuwasawa Award in 1995, 26th Kodansha Book Design Prize in 1995 in 1995, Masaru Katsumi Award etc.

Art
Photography: HIDDEN JAPAN (Takenaka Corporation/1993), VENT NOUVEAU (Nisshinbo/India [1994], Tunisia [1996]), For Contax Calendar (1995), Figure with Memory (CCGA Center for Contemporary Graphic Art/2002), TURKANA (El Molo tribe in Kenya/Nisshinbo/1998), Central America (Takeo co., ltd./2004), INFLUENTIAL (Central America/Nisshinbo/2004)
Sculpture: Imaginary Boundary Planes/Objects (metal/2006), Memory of Gravity (Inada stone/2007), Polyphony Point (Inada stone/2008), Time and Memory (Inada stone and wood/2008), Imaginary Boundary Planes/Objects [I, II, III, IV] (metal/CONCCURD YOKOHAMA/2008)
Kinetic Art: Flickscape (1983)
Mirror Art: Cube Dance (1981), Flying Scape (Permanent collection of Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo/1982)
Drawing: Muso Window (1983-84)
Conceptual Art: Shot by a sight (5 works/1988), Events presented themselves to me in their logical sequence (10 works/1989), to the best of one's memory (8 works/1990), Perceiving by sight (5 works/1992), thin-skinned (6 works/1993), One's Point of View (10 works/1994), Hidden Accumulated Vision (10 works/1998), View Points of Intersection (10 works/1999), Existence Appearance through Insight (5 works /2000), Perceiving a View (2002), Piercing One’s Eyes (2002), Piercing Memories [I, II] (2002), Magnetic Vision (100 works/2009), The Space of Magnetic Vision (10 works/2014), Fragment (2 works/2020), Universe (2 works/2020)
Movie: Flickscape (1983), Human and Robot Exhibition (Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris/2003)
Installation: Peerless Black and White (sculpture), Peerless Black and White: Highway Landbridge surface painting (Takashimaya SC/1984), SIZZLING LIVES (Kasuga station, Toei Oedo Line/1999), CROSSING HEARTS (cooperated with Hidetoshi Ono/Hongo-sanchome station, Toei Oedo Line/2000), Perceiving by Sigh (IC PROJECT/Osaka/2007), Imaginary Boundary Planes/Objects (Mediations Biennale/ZAMEK Culture Center/Poznan, Poland/2010)

Exhibition
Image Mirror II (Shot by a Sight/G7 GALLERY/1988), Kijuro Yahagi: Events presented themselves to me in their logical sequence./ginza graphic gallery/1988), Image Mirror III (to the best of one’s memory/Axis Gallery/1990), Image Mirror IV (Perceiving by sight/AXIS Gallery/Suntory Malt’s Club/1992), The 6th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh (Shot by a Sight/Osmani Memorial Hall, Dhaka/1993), Winners of the 13th Poster Biennale in Warsaw (Królikarnia Palace, Warsaw/1994), One Aspect of Contemporary Japanese Design (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea/1994), Design Forum (One’s Point of View/Matsuya Ginza/1994), Kijuro Yahagi CONTAX CALENDAR 1995 (Ginza Contax Salon/1995), Kijuro Yahagi: View Points of Intersection (ginza graphic gallery/1999), HIDDEN JAPAN (Traveling Exhibition organized by the Japan Foundation/1999-2012), Masaru Katsumi Award Winner’s Exhibition (Existence Appearance through Insight/Matsuya Ginza Design Gallery/2000), Kijuro Yahagi: Touching, Piercing, and Tracing with Vision (Center for Contemporary Graphic Art/2002), Central America (TAKEO MIHONCHO HONTEN, Tokyo/2004), The Sculpture of Kijuro Yahagi: Imaginary Boundary Planes/Objects (Hillside Forum/2006), WHY NOT? Chair of Kijuro Yahagi (Tokyo Design Center/2007), WHY NOT? Furniture of Kijuro Yahagi (Hillside Forum/2009), Kijuro Yahagi: Magnetic Vision (100 New Works/ginza graphic gallery/2009), Kijuro Yahagi: Magnetic Vision 60/100 New Works (kyoto ddd gallery/2009), Architecture by Kijuro Yahagi (AIJ[Architectural Institute of Japan] Gallery/2010), Kijuro Yahagi The New Ways of Meeting the World (The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama/2021-2022), etc.

Conceptual Poster (101 posters/1980-84)

Graphic Design
Applied Poster: Sent of the Sword (Takeuchi Studio/1978), The 80th Birthday of Bertlt Brecht in 1978 (Kijuro Yahagi Inc./1978), Kijuro/ Galerie412 (Kijuro Yahagi Inc./1978), YUICHI WAKAKI Guitar Recital (Yuichi Wakaki/1978), Thoughts and Action (The Japan Foundation/1982), Lecture and Discussion with Joseph Beuys (The Japan Foundation/1982), Photography in Contemporary Art (The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo/1983), Exhibition of Nature, Human, Dialogue (Takashimaya department store/1983), Hosen Gakuen College: Graduated works from:to (Hosen Gakuen College/1984), Chuchotement et Obscurité Kikuya Solo Poster (Kijuro Yahagi Inc./1984), "'85 Hinuma" ('85 Hinuma Committee/1985), Contemporary Landscape (The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo/1985), Close-up of Japan (The Mitsui Group/1985), Beer Hall Heartland (Kirin Brewery Company/1986), Ben Shahn (ISETAN/1991), Tokyo Tower Project (Tokyo Tower Project/1987), Swiss Artists in Residence in Japan (Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo/1987), How to wrap 5 eggs (Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo/1988), Russian Icons. 13-19C. (Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo/1992), Jannis Kounellis (ICA International Contemporary Arts, Nagoya/1987), Mario Merz (ICA International Contemporary Arts, Nagoya/1988), On Kawara Again and Against (ICA International Contemporary Arts, Nagoya/1989), SAPPORO SUCLUPTURE GARDEN (Sapporo Sculpture Garden/1987/1988/1989), I Can Remember Atmosphere of That Museum. (Nagoya City Art Museum/2000), GEORGES ROUSSE (Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum/2001), NEO-FORMA (NEO-FORMA PROJECT/1989), THE STENBERG BROTHERS AND RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE [Exhibition] (T Laboratory All Fashion ArtCo., Ltd./2001), THE STENBERG BROTHERS AND RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE (Laboratory All Fashion ArtCo., Ltd./2001), Morisawa (MORISAWA/1989), Kijuro Yahagi Exhibition (ginza graphic gallery/1989), Kijuro Yahagi Exhibition (ginza graphic gallery/1999), YOSHIO HAYAKAWA (ginza graphic gallery/2006), THE WARSAW WIND 1966-2006 GOLD PRIZE WINNING ENTRIES FROM THE WARSAW INTERNATIONAL POSTER BIENNALE (ginza graphic gallery/2007), Kijuro Yahagi: Magnetic Vision (ginza graphic gallery/2009), Kijuro Yahagi: Magnetic Vision (Kyoto ddd gallery/2009), Raymond Savignac (ginza graphic gallery/2011), RODCHENKO Innovator of Russian avant-garde (ginza graphic gallery/2012), Tomaszewski The Poetic Spirit (ginza graphic gallery/2013), Bridge Over Troubled Water (ginza graphic gallery/2016), Roman Cieslewicz (ginza graphic gallery/2017), DNP Graphic Design Archive Collection VIII Masayoshi Nakajo Posters Freshly Picked from the Archives (Center for Contemporary Graphic Art/2019), What's Karl Gerstner ? Thinking in motion (ginza graphic gallery/2019), DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion Poster (DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion/2017), Giappone La Biennale di Venezia,1990 Endo Toshikatsu (The Japan Foundation/1990), Giappone La Biennale di Venezia,1990 Saburo Muraoka (The Japan Foundation/1990), La Biennale di Venezia,1991 (2 posters/The Japan Foundation/1991), Against Nature: JAPANESE ART IN THE EIGHTIES (The Japan Foundation/1991), SD REVIEW 1991 (Kajima/1991), Joseph Beuys Poster Collection (3 posters/The Kawasaki City Museum[trial work]/1991), Marcel Duchamp Graphics Exhibition (2 posters/BIGI ART SPACE/1991), Magdalena Abakanowicz (ATM Contemporary Art Gallery, Mito/1991), The Sting of Satire (The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama/1992), James Turrell (The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama/1997), Robert Mapplethorpe (3 posters/ATM Contemporary Art Gallery, Mito/1992), WINE RESTAURANT from DANCE (Kirin Brewery Company/1992), NOIJECT (3 posters/Saburo Teshigawara+KARAS/1993), BONES IN PAGES (Saburo Teshigawara+KARAS/1993), DAH-DAH-SKO-DAH-DAH (Saburo Teshigawara+KARAS/1993), Josef Hoffmann und die Wiener Werkstätte (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art/1996), Tadasu Yamamoto (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art/2012), Toyota Municipal Museum of Art OPEN (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art/1995), MUSEUMS BY YOSHIO TANIGUCHI (Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery/2005), Resurrection of Topos 1 (Resurrection of Topos Project/1995), Resurrection of Topos 2 (Resurrection of Topos Project/1996), Resurrection of Topos 3 (Resurrection of Topos Project/1997), Locus Design Forum (Locus Design Forum/2012), NTT Communication Center OPEN (ICC InterCommunication Center/1997), ICC InterCommunication Center Poster (ICC InterCommunication Center/1997/1999), ICC BIENNALE'99 (ICC InterCommunication Center/1999), International Symposium “Le Corbusier and Japan” (The Organizing Committee of The International Symposium “Le Corbusier and Japan”/1997), Beads in Africa (The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura and Hayama/2012), MOHOLY-NAGY" IN MOTION" (The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura and Hayama/2011), MOHOLY-NAGY" IN MOTION" (2 posters/Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art/2011), MOHOLY-NAGY" IN MOTION" (The Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto/2011), Neo-Dada Japan 1958-1998 (Oita City and Oita City Board of Education/1998), The 5th National Cultural Festival, Ehime 90 (Agency for Cultural Affairs/1990), Rétrospective Robert Bresson (Mikiko Tomita/1999), The 16–25th Tokyo Summer Festival (Arion-Edo Foundation/2000–2009), Lautrec, Birth 100th Anniversary Exhibition (Musée Towlouse-Lautrec/2001), toward FORUM (2 posters/Tokyo International Forum/2003), The Sculpture of Kijuro Yahagi "Imaginary Boundary Planes/Objects" (Kijuro Yahagi Inc./2006), Special Exhibition "Beyond Japan" (Yoshiro and Yoshio Taniguchi Museum of Architecture, Kanazawa/2020), Kijuro Yahagi The New Ways of Meeting the World (The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama/2021), Saul Steinberg: Lines that Transform the Real World (ginza graphic gallery/2021), Hosoya Gan－Beyond G (ginza graphic gallery/2022) etc.
Book/Catalog: VISIONS OF JAPAN (Victoria and Albert Museum/1991), Beads in Africa (The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Hayama/2012), etc.

Collection of Works
Aru ongakuka no himitsu no himitsu [Secrets of the secrets of a musician] (picture book/private edition/1978), Kijuro Yahagi: Selected Works (Kijuro Yahagi Inc./1978), PASSAGE: Kijuro Yahagi (The Asahi Shimbun/1999), Kijuro Yahagi [ggg Books 50] (Trans Art/2002), Kijuro Yahagi: Touching, Piercing, and Tracing with Vision (Center for Contemporary Graphic Art/2002), The Sculpture of Kijuro Yahagi: Imaginary Boundary Planes/Objects (Kijuro Yahagi and Associates Inc./2006), KIJURO YAHAGI: Attractive Vision (A de S Publishing/2009), Kijuro Yahagi The New Ways of Meeting the World (The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama), etc.

Architectural Design
LA TERRACE TRICOLOR (1995), International Broadcasting Center for Nagano Olympic Games (co-designed with Takenaka Corporation/1997), LA TERRACE SEPT CARRÉES (1998), House in Horiuchi (2000), House in Ichikawa (2003), CONCCURD YOKOHAMA (2008)

Furniture
BALLOON (2007), BROAD (2007), CRESCENT (2007), CURRENT (2007), LEAN (2007), LINE (2007), SWEEP (2007), 111S (2008), 111T (2008), etc.

Wayfinding (Sign System)
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (1986), TEPIA (1989), The New Otani Garden Court (1991), NTT InterCommunication Center (1997), Odate Dome Park (1997), Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi (2001), The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama (2003), Tokyo International Forum (sign system renewal/2004), Shimane Arts Center (2005), Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo (wall sign/2005), The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa Campus, Building of Environmental Studies (2006), CONCCURD YOKOHAMA (2008), Shoyo Plaza, Yamagata (2010), Tokyo Institute of Technology Library, Ookayama (2011), D. T. SUZUKI MUSEUM (2012), The Japanese Sword Museum (2018), The Okura Tokyo (2019), OKURA MUSEUM OF ART (2019), Yoshiro and Yoshio Taniguchi Museum of Architecture, Kanazawa (2019), etc.

Lightning Design
KY-T Louver (Tokyo International Forum, 2003/ room lamp, 2004/ CONCCURD YOKOHAMA, 2008, etc.)

Exhibition Design
Joan Miró (Isetan Museum of Art/1980), Egon Shiele and Wien fin-de-siecle (The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura/1986), Recent Projects [Fumihiko Maki] (IFA, Paris/1987), Visions of Tomorrow: New York and American Industrialization in the 1920s-30s (Isetan Museum of Art/1988), Edgar Degas (Isetan Museum of Art/1988), Agam (Isetan Museum of Art/1989), Retrospective Magritte (Mitsukoshi Museum of Art/1994), Yoshio Hayakawa: Witness to the Dawn of Japanese Design (ginza graphic gallery/2006), Le Corbusier vu par Galerie Taisei, 1992-2007 (Galerie Taisei/2007), DNP Graphic Design Archives Collection III: Shigeo Fukuda’s Visual Jumpimg (ginza graphic gallery/2010), Toryo (Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum/Gallery A4/2011), Raymond Savignac Exhibition (ginza graphic gallery/2011), MOHOLY-NAGY IN MOTION (The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama/2011), Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1932 (Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art/2011), RODCHENKO -Innovator of Russian avant-garde- (ginza graphic gallery/2012), Beads in Africa (The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama/2012), Locus Design Forum (Hillside Forum/2012), Henryk Tomaszewski Exhibition (ginza graphic gallery/2013), Bridge Over Troubled Water: ggg Exhibition Posters 1986-2016 (ginza graphic gallery/2016), Roman Cieślewicz Melting Mirage (ginza graphic gallery/2017), Paula Scher: Serious Play (ginza graphic gallery/2019), What’s Karl Gerstner? Thinking in Motion (ginza graphic gallery/2019), Saul Steinberg: Lines that Transform the Real World (ginza graphic gallery/2021-22), Hosoya Gan－Beyond G (ginza graphic gallery/2022) etc.

Architectural Photography
hiroba (catalog/cover photo/Kinki society of architects/1992-93), Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (catalog/1995), Le Corbusier (catalog/100 photos/1996), Álvaro Siza: Thinking by means of drawing (The architectural culture [catalog]/all photos/1997), Fumihiko Maki (PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS/some photos/1997), Hillside Terrace (Asakura Real Estate/1997), FH Figurative Horizon [Giuseppe Terragni (1998), Johannesburg Duiker (1999), Brinkman and Van dear Vlugt (2000), Hans Scharoun (2004)] (A de S Publishing), Dutch Modernism (The architectural culture [catalog]/all photos/2001), KENCHIKU TOKYO (catalogs/all photos/2001-10), FH Collection series [Gerrit Thomas Riedveld (1993), Le Corbusier (Chandigarh, India/1994), Louis Kahn (Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, Dhaka, Bangladesh/1995), Álvaro Siza (1996), Herzog and de Meuron (1997), Peter Zumtor (1998), Johannes Duiker (2000), Brinkman and Van der Vlugt (2001), Hans Scharoun (2004)] (A de S Publishing), etc.

Writing and Editing
Signe de B [vol. 1-11] (New Prince Tour Bus/editor-in-chief/1990-94), Shinra eizo [Forests of Moving Images] (co-author: Naoya Yoshida/Bungeishunju/1994), Tenzai suru chushin: Souzou wo meguru 10 no taiwa [Scattered Centers. 10 Dialogues about Creation] (co-editor: Tsutomu Mizusawa/Shunjusha/1995), Heimen kukan shintai [Plane, Space, Body] (Seibundo-shinkosha/2000), Tachushin no shiko [Multicentral Thinking] (Seibundo-shinkosha/2002), Kukan kenchiku shintai [Space, Architecture, Body] (X-Knowledge/2004), Kenchiku shokubai shintai [Architecture, Media, Body] (X-Knowledge/2006), Nihon no dezain no reimeiki no shouin - Hayakawa Yoshio [Yoshio Hayakawa, Witness to the Dawn of Japanese Design] (TransArt/2006), Kukan to katachi ni kanno suru shintai [Responsive Body to Space and Form] (co-editors: Takashi Kurihara, Sanae Tsujimoto/Tohoku University Press, Sendai/2010), Shishoku: Tachushin, tashiten no shiko [Perceiving a View: Multi-central and Multi-perspective Thinking] (Sayusha/2014), etc.