Kenzo Okada

Kenzo Okada
Born(1902-09-28)September 28, 1902
Yokohama, Japan
DiedJuly 25, 1982(1982-07-25) (aged 79)
Tokyo, Japan
NationalityJapanese-American
Known forPainting
MovementAbstract expressionism, color field
Patron(s)Betty Parsons

Kenzo Okada (岡田 謙三, Okada Kenzō; born on September 28, 1902, died on July 25, 1982) was a Japanese-born American painter and the first Japanese-American artist working in the Abstract Expressionist style to receive international acclaim.[1] At the 29th Venice Biennale in 1958, Okada’s work was exhibited in the Japan Pavilion and he won the Astorre Meyer Prize and UNESCO Prize.[2]

Okada's work has been featured in retrospective exhibitions since the 1960s, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in 1965,[3] the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto in 1966,[4] the Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo in 1982,[5] the Museum of Modern Art, Toyama in 1989,[6] the University of Iowa Museum of Art in 2000,[7] and the Yokohama Museum of Art in 2003.[8] Okada’s works are also held in major American museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.

  1. ^ The Phillips Collection. Ed. Erika D. Passantino. Consulting ed. David W. Scott. Researchers Virginia Speer Burden, The Eye of Duncan Phillips: A Collection in the Making, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1999, ISBN 0300080905
  2. ^ "29th La Biennale di Venezia International Art Exhibition". The Japan Pavilion Official Website - La Biennale di Venezia. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  3. ^ Kenzo Okada Paintings, 1931–1965. Buffalo: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright-Knox Art Gallery. 1965.
  4. ^ Kenzo Okada Paintings, 1952–1965. Tokyo: Bijutsu shuppansha. 1967.
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  6. ^ Museum of Modern Art, Toyama; Meguro Museum of Art; Asahi Shinbun, eds. (1989). Okada Kenzō ten = Kenzo Okada. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbun.
  7. ^ Zlatnik, Gail, ed. (2000). Kenzo Okada: A Retrospective of the American Years 1950–1982. Iowa: University of Iowa Museum of Art.
  8. ^ Yokohama Museum of Art; Akita Senshu Museum of Art; Kobe City Koiso Memorial Museum of Art; Joshibi Art Museum, Joshibi Universitu of Art and Design, eds. (2003). Okada Kenzō ten: Seitan 100-nen kinen botsugo 20-nen = Kenzo Okada: A Retrospective. Yokohama: Yokohama Museum of Art.