Fumitaka Kudo
Biography
1981 born in Niigata, Japan
Studies
2010-2011 Alimondo Ciampi Foundation grant, Specialization Course in Etching and Printmaking, International School of Specialization for the Graphic Art, Il Bisonte, Florence, Italy
2008 diploma in Sculpture, Accademia di Belle Arti of Carrara
2003 enrolling at Accademia di Belle Arti of Carrara
2002 enrolling Accademia di Belle Arti of Florence
Solo shows
2019 Eterna pura senza tempo, urated by Cristina Morangoli, Fondazione Bandera per l'arte, Busto Arsizio
2018 Smooth Shapes, urated by Chiara Gatti, Montrasio Arte, Monza, Italy
2017 Abissi_Shinkai, curated by Chiara Gatti, Galleria San Fedele, Milan, Italy
2014 Comfortable Tension, Edited by Chiara Gatti,Km0 Gallery, Innsburck, Austria
2012 Anima Visibile, Blu Gallery, Bologna, Italy
2012 Ascoltando l’anima. Le mie figure di Alimondo Ciampi, Comune di Signa, Signa, Italy
2010 Living Fossils, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan
2010 Living Fossils, curated by Chiara Gatti, Montrasio Arte, Milan, Italy
2010 Classic Style, Gallery JUROU, Kurashiki, Japan
2009 Fumitaka Kudo, EXPO EX, Senigallia, Italy
2009 Luce interiore (Inner Light), Aliprandi Gallery, Milan, Italy
2008 Luce nel vento (Light in the Wind), Ex Laundry Art Space, Sarzana, Italy
2008 Luce nell’ombra (Light in the Shadow), Grascie Art Space, Pietrasanta, Italy
Selected group shows
2019 Venti, Mediolanum, Bologna Italy
2018 Henbousuru heyanotameni, Dell’Arte, Tokyo Japan
2017 Km0 > booth A_01 at Ourselves Art Fair, KM0, Innsbruck Austria
2017 Nachlese, Maurer Ziliori Contemporary Art, Monaco di Baviera Germania
2017 Asincrono//artisti in dialogo, Montrasio Arte, Monza
2015 1°ed. del Premio di incisione "Giuseppe Maestri" | Ravenna #2015, Ravenna Italy
2015 Home in House, curata da Adelaide Santambrogio, Km0 Gallery, Innsbruck Austria
2015 Home in House, curata da Adelaide Santambrogio, Montrasio Arte, Milano Italy
2012 TERRIBILITA’ E VAGHEZZA SOLIDITA’ E IMPALPABILITA’, curated by Lucia Giardino, Villa Bertelli, Forte dei Marmi, Italy
2011 The Summer Issue, curated by Lucia Giardino, F_AIR Florence Artist in Residence, Florence
2011 Markers ∞ Mapping 2011, curated by Doron Polak, Amir Cohen, Contemporary Art Space, Venice
2011 Fine Anno 2011, Corsi di incisione della Fondazione Il Bisonte, sala del Basolato del Comune di Fiesole, Italy
2010 Il segreto dello sgurado. Premio Artivisive San Fedele 2010, San Fedele Gallery, Milan, Italy
2010 Follow the Line, curated by Orly Hoffman, MH Gallery, Givatayim, Israel
2010 Living Fossils, curated by Raffaele Bedarida, Harlem Studio Fellowship by MA, New York, USA
2006 Exhibition at the Berlin Art Center, Berlin, Germany
2005 National Prize of the Arts ’05, Rome, Italy
2005 Biennial Exhibition at Accademia di Belle Arti of Carrara, Carrara, Italy
Prizes and artists in residence programs
2016 1° Premio di Incisione «Giuseppe Maestri» | Ravenna 2015 (invited), Ravenna Italy
2012 winner of the 53゜ Premio Internazionale Bice Bugatti - Giovanni Segantini 2012, Nuova Milanese Italy
2010 selected at Premio Artivisive San Fedele 2010 (invited by Chiara Gatti), Milan Italy
2010 Harlem Studio Fellowship by Montrasio Arte artist in residence program in New York US
2009 winner of the contest for the Monument celebrating the 50th anniversary of NURC (NATO Undersea Research Center) La Spezia Italy
2004 selected for the Illustrators Exhibition 2004, Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Bologna Italy
Public space artworks and symposiums
2009 2nd International Sculptural Symposium in Swaida, Syria
sculpture: Listen to the voice of the wind (3x3 m, basalt)
2009 Monument for NATO Undersea Research Center, La Spezia Italy
sculpture: Taking the future to sea (h2x1,70x0,6 m, white marble), permanently exposed
2006 International Sculptural Symposium in Volterra, Italy
sculpture: Sospilo della vita (h70x35x20 cm, alabaster)
2nd Norberto Giannecchini Symposium of Architecture in Marina di Massa, Italy
