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Born
1926, Vancouver
Lived and worked in Toronto until his passing in 2002
Education
1948-51 Central Technical School, Toronto
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2004
... a career survey, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto
Kazuo Nakamura: A Human Measure, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
2001 - 2002
The Method of Nature, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa (touring Confederation Art Centre, Charlottowne; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton) (catalogue)
Gendai Gallery, Toronto (catalogue)
1999
Topology Paintings, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto
1996
Number Structures, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto
1994
Kazuo Nakamura, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto
1991
Number Structure, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto
1984
Moore Gallery, Hamilton
1974-75
Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery, Oshawa, (touring Musee D'Art Contemporain, Montreal; London Public Library & Art Gallery, London; Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax; Rodman Hall Art Center, St. Catherines; Agnes Etherington Art Center, Kingston
1970
Hart House, University of Toronto
Waddington Galleries, Montreal
Morris Gallery, Toronto
1967-70
Waddington Gallery, Montreal
Morris Gallery, Toronto
1965
Morris International Gallery, Toronto
1962
Morris International Gallery, Toronto
1958
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Toronto
1956
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Toronto
Picture Loan Society, Toronto
1955-56
Western Canada Circuit
1953
Hart House, University of Toronto
1952
Picture Loan Society, Toronto
Selected Group Exhibitions
2002
15 Year Celebration, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto
1999
Translinear, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton
1997
Works on Paper, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto
1996
Summer exhibition, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto
1995
Chinese New Year Exhibition, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto
1993
Christopher Cutts Gallery, The Christmas Show, Toronto.
1992
The White Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto
1992
Ader Tajan, Art Contemporain du Canada, Espace Chapon, Paris
1991
New Canadian Embassy, Tokyo
1991
Group 91, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto
1990
Academicians Collect, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Academy House, Toronto
1989
Christmas Exhibition, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto
Seventy-Five Years (1914-1989), Art Gallery of Hamilton
1988
Inaugural Exhibition, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Christmas Exhibition, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto
1984
Toronto Painters of the Sixties, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Masterpieces of the 20th Century, West Palm Beach Gallery, Florida
1983-84
Ontario Heritage Foundation's Firestone Collection European Tour: London (UK), Paris, Madrid
1979-81
Painters Eleven in Retrospective, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, and Canadian tour
1978-80
A Canadian Survey, Imperial Oil Collection, circulated by the Art Gallery of Ontario
1973
Canada Art Bank Exhibition, Paris
1972
Toronto Painting 1953-65, National Gallery of Canada & Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Ontario Society of Artists 101st Exhibition, Toronto
1971
Painters Eleven - 1953 to 1960, Robert Mclaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
1970-71
Loeb Collection, Traveling Tour
1968
Canadian Artists '68, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Seventh Biennial of Canadian Painting, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1967
Centennial Exhibition of Canadian Prints and Drawings, Australian Tour
Sculpture '67, Toronto
Centennial Exhibition of Quebec and Ontario Painters, Ontario
Canadian Art of Our Time, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba
Ontario Centennial Art, Toronto
1965
Cardiff Commonwealth Festival Exhibition, Wales (UK)
Art & Engineering, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1964
First Biennial, Drawings and Watercolours, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Four Painters/Sculptors, London Public Library and Art Museum, London
World Show, Washington Square Gallery, New York
1963
Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Contemporary Canadian Painting, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, New York
Canadian Paintings, London (UK)
Members' Loan Gallery Acquisitions, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (NY)
1962
Canadian Painting, Polish Tour
Canadian Contemporary Art, Kenya
Canadian Contemporary Art, Louisville (KY)
Commonwealth Painting, London (UK)
Farleigh Dickerson University, International Seminar Exhibition, Madison (NJ)
1961
Fifth International Hallmark Art Award Exhibition, New York and international tour
Second Biennal, Musee d'art Moderne, Paris
1960
Canadian, Prints, Drawings and Watercolours, American Federation of Arts, US
Nakamura & Town, The Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal
1959
Museum Rath, Geneva (CH)
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
Canadian Graphics and Drawings, Belgrade, Zagreb and Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
20th Biennial International Watercolour Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, NY
1958
Canadian Paintings, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Texas
First Inter-American Bienniale, Mexico City
International Festival of Art, New York
Contempoary Canadian Art, Central Museum, Utrecht & Groningen Museum, Netherlands
1957
Four Man Exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Canadian Contemporary Painting, Australian Tour
1956-57 Canadian Abstract, Smithsonian Tour, U.S.A.
1956
Canadian Abstract Paintings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Painters Eleven & American Abstract Artists' Exhibition, Riverside Musuem, New York
1956
Fourth International Exhibition of Drawings and Engravings, Lugano, (CH) (prize winner).
1955
First Biennal, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1954
Roberts Gallery, Painters Eleven, Toronto
Drawings & Prints: Cahen, Nalamura & Town) Eglinton Gallery, Toronto
Art Fairs
2004
Toronto International Art Fair
2000
Toronto International Art Fair
1999
Art Forum Berlin
1998
Art Forum Berlin
Bibliography
Canadian Art Vol. No. 4, 1954 Nakamura - Painter on Threshold by George Elliott, 1954
Canadian Painting, Andrew Bell, The Studio, London (UK) 1955
New Accent to Canadian Art, Jock Carroll, Weekend Magazine, 1956
L'Art Contemporain Au Canada, J.R. Ostigny, Prisme Des Arts, Paris, France 1957
Canadian Art Vol. XIV, no. 2, Winter, 1957, Young Painters of Toronto, Robert Fulford.
Canadian Art Vol. XVI, no. 3, August, 1959, The Art of Kazuo Nakamura by Andrew Bell (p. 168).
An Anthology of Canadian Art, R.H. Hubbard, Oxford University Press,960
Canadian Art, Vol. XVIII No. 3, Jan./Feb. 1961.
On the Enjoyment of Modern Art, Jerrold Morris, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1965.
Painting in Canada, J. Russell Harper, University of Toronto Press, 1966.
Great Canadian Painting, The Canadian Centennial Library, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1966.
The Canadians 1867-1967, J.M. Careless & R. Craig Brown, The McMillan Co. of Canada, Toronto, 1967.
Kazuo Nakamura, Robert Ayre, Montreal Star, May 2, 1970.
Art Review - Nakamura, Paul Russell, Toronto Star, October 10, 1970.
A Concise History of Canadian Painting, Dennis Reid, Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1973; 1988.
Nakamura (catalogue), Kay Wood, McLaughlin Art Gallery, Oshawa, 1974.
K. Nakamura in Retrospect, Margot Samuel, Art Magazine, 1974
50th Year Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolours, 1925-1975, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1975.
Pictures From the Douglas Duncan Collection, Frances D. Barwick, University of Toronto Press, 1975.
The Ontario Community Collects, William C. Forsey, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1976.
Painters Eleven in Retrospect, Joan Murray, R. McLaughin Gallery, Oshawa, 1979
Visions: Contemporary Art in Canada, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver/Toronto, 1983.
The Canadian Landscape, The Ontario Heritage Foundation, Firestone Art Collection, Dr. O.J. Firestone, Canada House
Cultural Center, London England 1983
The Canadian Encyclopedia, Hurtig & Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton, 1985 & 1988
Chugoku Shimbun, Hiroshima, Japan, 1991.
The National Gallery of Canada - Catalogue of Painting and Sculpture, Volume III: Canadian School National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1960.
Art Gallery of Ontario - The Canadian Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, McGraw Hill Co., 1970.
Painting & Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, 1929-1967, Alfred H. Barr Jr., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1977.
The Permanent Collection, R. McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, 1978
Canadian Who's Who, University of Toronto Press.
Who's Who in America, Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Illinois.
The International Directory, American Biographical Institute, 1987 Marquis
Who's Who, Chicago, Illinois.
Who's Who in American Art, The American Federation ofY´
Arts, R.R. Bowker Company, New York.
Dictionary of International Biography, Melrose Press, Cambridge & London, England.
A History of The Canadian Society of Painters In Watercolour, 1925-1985, Rebecca Sissler, 1986.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Selected Works, 1990
Large Ideas at Play in Nakamura's Numbers, Kate Taylor, Globe & Mail, November 26, 1991
Canadian Art, Spring 1992
Translinear, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, 1999
Tashme 2: Early Works of Kazuo Nakamura, Gendai Gallery, Japanese Canadian
Cultural Centre, Don Mills, Canada, 2001
Kazuo Nakamura: The Method of Nature, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, 2001
Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2004
Kazuo Nakamura: A Human Measure, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2004
Collections
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba
Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, N.B.
London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario
Hamilton Art Gallery, Ontario
Kitchner-Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario
Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario
Sarnia Art Gallery, Ontario
Rodman Hall Art Center, St. Catherines, Ontario
Lugano Art Museum, Switzerland
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
Ontario Institute for Studies and Education, University of Toronto
Hart House, University of Toronto
Victoria College, Toronto
Glendon College, York University, Toronto
University of Western Ontario, London
University of Guelph, Ontario
Concordia University, Montreal
University Club of Montreal
Zacks Collection Art Gallery of Ontario
Douglas Duncan Collection
Loeb Collection
External Affairs, Ottawa
Ontario Heritage Collection( Firestone Collection), Ottawa
Ontario Centennial Collection
Hallmark Collection, U.S.A.
Helena Rubenstein Collection
David Thompson Collection, Pittsburgh
Philip Johnson Collection, Connecticut
Canadian Industries Limited Collection, Montreal
Pirelli Cables Centennial Collection, Montreal
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Montreal
Toronto Dominion Bank Collection, Toronto
Imperial Oil Collection, Toronto
Readers' Digest Centennial Collection, Montreal
Northern and Central Gas Collection, Toronto
Montreal Trust Collection
Dominion Foundries and Steel Collection, Hamilton
Rothmans of Canada Limited
Jammes Richardson & Co., Winnipeg
Imperial Life Assurance
McMillan Bloedel Collection, Vancouver
Mitsui Canada, Toronto
Sumitomo Metals, Tokyo, Japan
Japan Canada Society, Tokyo, Japan
Department of External Affairs, Ottawa
Swiss Bank Corp. (Canada)
Canada Packers, Toronto
Cassels, Brock and Blackwell(Law Firm), Toronto
Commissions
Toronto Lester Pearson International Airport, (Two Sculptures)
Ontario Provincial Queen's Park Complex (Mural Panel)
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