Kazuo Nakamura (1926-2002, Canada)
Education
1951-1948 Central Technical School, Toronto, CA
Select Solo Exhibitions
2025 Kazuo Nakamura: Blue Dimension, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
2018 Early Works From the 1950s and 60s, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2007 Works on Paper and Sculptures, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2004 … a career survey, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2004 Kazuo Nakamura: A Human Measure, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
2002 – 2001 The Method of Nature, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa (touring Confederation Art Centre, Charlottetowne; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton), CA
2001 Gendai Gallery, Toronto, CA
1999 Topology Paintings, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1996 Number Structure, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1994 Kazuo Nakamura, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1991 Number Structure, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1984 Moore Gallery, Hamilton, CA
1975-74 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), CA
1970 Hart House, University of Toronto, CA
1970 Waddington Galleries, Montreal, CA
1970 Morris Gallery, Toronto, CA
1970-67 Waddington Gallery, Montreal, CA
1967 Morris Gallery, Toronto, CA
1965 Morris International Gallery, Toronto, CA
1962 Morris International Gallery, Toronto, CA
1958 Gallery of Contemporary Art, Toronto, CA
1956 Gallery of Contemporary Art, Toronto, CA
1956 Picture Loan Society, Toronto, CA
1956-55 Western Canada Circuit, CA
1953 Hart House, University of Toronto, CA
1952 Picture Loan Society, Toronto, CA
Select Group Exhibitions
2016 Starry Night, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2015 Director’s Choice I, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2013 Winter Solstice Painting Extravaganza, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2011 Painting: Toronto’s Modern Masters, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2008 Christmas Party, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2006 Abstract Painting, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2002 Vintage Abstraction, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
2002 15 Year Celebration, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1999 Translinear, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, CA
1997 Works on Paper, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1996 Summer exhibition, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1995 Chinese New Year Exhibition, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1993 The Christmas Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1992 The White Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1992 Ader Tajan, Art Contemporain du Canada, Espace Chapon, Paris, FR
1991 New Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, JP
1991 Group 91, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1990 Academicians Collect, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Academy House, Toronto, CA
1989 Christmas Exhibition, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1989 Seventy-Five Years (1914-1989), Art Gallery of Hamilton, CA
1988 Inaugural Exhibition, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA
1988 Christmas Exhibition, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1984 Toronto Painters of the Sixties, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
1984 Masterpieces of the 20th Century, West Palm Beach Gallery, Florida, US
1984-83 Ontario Heritage Foundation’s Firestone Collection European Tour: London (UK), Paris, FR, Madrid, ES
1981-1979 Painters Eleven in Retrospective, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, and Canadian tour, CA
1980-78 A Canadian Survey, Imperial Oil Collection, circulated by the Art Gallery of Ontario, CA
1973 Canada Art Bank Exhibition, Paris, FR
1972 Toronto Painting 1953-65, National Gallery of Canada & Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Ontario Society of Artists 101st Exhibition, Toronto, CA
1971 Painters Eleven – 1953 to 1960, Robert Mclaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, CA
1971-70 Loeb Collection, Traveling Tour
1968 Canadian Artists ’68, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
1968 Seventh Biennial of Canadian Painting, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA
1967 Centennial Exhibition of Canadian Prints and Drawings, Australian Tour Sculpture ’67, Toronto, CA
1967 Centennial Exhibition of Quebec and Ontario Painters, Ontario, CA
1967 Canadian Art of Our Time, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, CA
1967 Ontario Centennial Art, Toronto, CA
1965 Cardiff Commonwealth Festival Exhibition, Wales, UK
1965 Art & Engineering, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
1964 First Biennial, Drawings and Watercolours, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA
1964 Four Painters/Sculptors, London Public Library and Art Museum, London, UK
1964 World Show, Washington Square Gallery, New York, US
1963 Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
1963 Contemporary Canadian Painting, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, New York, US
1963 Canadian Paintings, London, UK
1963 Members’ Loan Gallery Acquisitions, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, US
1962 Canadian Painting, Polish Tour, PL
1962 Canadian Contemporary Art, KE
1962 Canadian Contemporary Art, Louisville, US
1962 Commonwealth Painting, London, UK
1962 Farleigh Dickerson University, International Seminar Exhibition, Madison, US
1961 Fifth International Hallmark Art Award Exhibition, New York and international tour
1960 Canadian, Prints, Drawings and Watercolours, American Federation of Arts, US
1960 Nakamura & Town, The Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal, CA
1959 Museum Rath, Geneva, CH
1959 Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, DE
1959 Canadian Graphics and Drawings, Belgrade, Zagreb and Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
1959 20th Biennial International Watercolour Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, US
1958 Canadian Paintings, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Texas, US
1958 International Festival of Art, New York, US
1958 Contemporary Canadian Art, Central Museum, Utrecht & Groningen Museum, NL
1957 Four Man Exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
1957 Canadian Contemporary Painting, Australian Tour, AU
1957-1956 Canadian Abstract, Smithsonian Tour, US
1956 Canadian Abstract Paintings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA
1956 Painters Eleven & American Abstract Artists’ Exhibition, Riverside Museum, New York, US
1956 Fourth International Exhibition of Drawings and Engravings, Lugano, CH
1954 Painters Eleven, Roberts Gallery, Toronto, CA
1954 Drawings & Prints: Cahen, Nakamura & Town, Eglinton Gallery, Toronto, CA
Art Fairs
2017 Papier Montreal, CA
2015 Art Toronto, CA
2014 Art Toronto, CA
2012 Armory Modern, US
2012 Art Toronto, CA
2011 Art Toronto, CA
2009 Art Toronto, CA
2004 Toronto International Art Fair, CA
2000 Toronto International Art Fair, CA
1999 Art Forum Berlin, DE
1998 Art Forum Berlin, DE
Art Biennales
1961 Second Biennal, Musee d’art Moderne, Paris, FR
1958 First Inter-American Biennale, Mexico City, MX
1955 First Biennale, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA
Bibliography
2004 Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth, US
2004 Kazuo Nakamura: A Human Measure, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
2001 Cultural Centre, Don Mills, CA
2001 Kazuo Nakamura: The Method of Nature, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, CA
1999 Translinear, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, CA
1999 Tashme 2: Early Works of Kazuo Nakamura, Gendai Gallery, Japanese Canadian
1992 Canadian Art, Spring 1992
1991 Large Ideas at Play in Nakamura’s Numbers, Kate Taylor, Globe & Mail, November 26, 1991
1991 Chugoku Shimbun, Hiroshima, JP
1990 Art Gallery of Ontario, Selected Works, CA
1988 & 1985 The Canadian Encyclopedia, Hurtig & Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton, CA
1988 A Concise History of Canadian Painting, Dennis Reid, Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1973; 1988
1987 Who’s Who in American Art, The American Federation ofY´
1987 Arts, R.R. Bowker Company, New York.
1987 Dictionary of International Biography, Melrose Press, Cambridge & London, England.
1987 The International Directory, American Biographical Institute, Marquis Who’s Who, Chicago, US
1986 A History of The Canadian Society of Painters In Watercolour, 1925-1985, Rebecca Sissler
1983 Visions: Contemporary Art in Canada, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver/Toronto, CA
1983 The Canadian Landscape, The Ontario Heritage Foundation, Firestone Art Collection, Dr. O.J. Firestone, Canada House
1983 Cultural Center, London, UK
1979 Painters Eleven in Retrospect, Joan Murray, R. McLaughin Gallery, Oshawa, CA
1978 The Permanent Collection, R. McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, CA
1978 Canadian Who’s Who, University of Toronto Press.
1978 Who’s Who in America, Marquis Who’s Who, Chicago, US
1977 Painting & Sculpture in The Museum of Modern Art, 1929-1967, Alfred H. Barr Jr., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
1976 The Ontario Community Collects, William C. Forsey, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
1975 50th Year Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolours, 1925-1975, Art Gallery of Ontario, CA
1975 Pictures From the Douglas Duncan Collection, Frances D. Barwick, University of Toronto Press, CA
1974 Nakamura (catalogue), Kay Wood, McLaughlin Art Gallery, Oshawa, CA
1974 1. Nakamura in Retrospect, Margot Samuel, Art Magazine
1970 Kazuo Nakamura, Robert Ayre, Montreal Star, May 2, 1970
1970 Art Review – Nakamura, Paul Russell, Toronto Star, October 10, 1970
1970 Art Gallery of Ontario – The Canadian Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, McGraw Hill Co., CA
1967 The Canadians 1867-1967, J.M. Careless & R. Craig Brown, The McMillan Co. of Canada, Toronto, CA
1966 Painting in Canada, J. Russell Harper, University of Toronto Press, CA
1966 Great Canadian Painting, The Canadian Centennial Library, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, CA
1965 On the Enjoyment of Modern Art, Jerrold Morris, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, CA
1961 Canadian Art, Vol. XVIII No. 3, Jan./Feb 1961
1960 The National Gallery of Canada – Catalogue of Painting and Sculpture, Volume III: Canadian School National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA
1959 Canadian Art Vol. XVI, no. 3, August 1959, The Art of Kazuo Nakamura by Andrew Bell (p. 168)
1959 An Anthology of Canadian Art, R.H. Hubbard, Oxford University Press, 960
1957 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
1956 New Accent to Canadian Art, Jock Carroll, Weekend Magazine
1955 Canadian Painting, Andrew Bell, The Studio, London,UK
1954 Canadian Art Vol. No. 4, 1954 Nakamura – Painter on Threshold by George Elliott
Collections
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., US
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, CA
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, CA
Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, CA
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, CA
London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario, CA
Hamilton Art Gallery, Ontario, CA
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario, CA
Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, CA
Sarnia Art Gallery, Ontario, CA
Rodman Hall Art Center, St. Catherines, Ontario, CA
Lugano Art Museum, Switzerland, CH
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, CA
Ontario Institute for Studies and Education, University of Toronto, CA
Hart House, University of Toronto, CA
Victoria College, Toronto, CA
Glendon College, York University, Toronto, CA
University of Western Ontario, London, CA
University of Guelph, Ontario, CA
Concordia University, Montreal, CA
University Club of Montreal, CA
Zacks Collection Art Gallery of Ontario, CA
Douglas Duncan Collection, CA
Loeb Collection, US
External Affairs, Ottawa, CA
Ontario Heritage Collection (Firestone Collection), Ottawa, CA
Ontario Centennial Collection, CA
Hallmark Collection, US
Helena Rubinstein Collection, US
David Thompson Collection, Pittsburgh, US
Philip Johnson Collection, Connecticut, US
Canadian Industries Limited Collection, Montreal, CA
Pirelli Cables Centennial Collection, Montreal, CA
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Montreal, CA
Toronto Dominion Bank Collection, Toronto, CA
Imperial Oil Collection, Toronto, CA
Readers’ Digest Centennial Collection, Montreal, CA
Northern and Central Gas Collection, Toronto, CA
Montreal Trust Collection, CA
Dominion Foundries and Steel Collection, Hamilton, CA
Rothmans of Canada Limited, CA
Jammes Richardson & Co., Winnipeg, CA
Imperial Life Assurance, CA
McMillan Bloedel Collection, Vancouver, CA
Mitsui Canada, Toronto, CA
Sumitomo Metals, Tokyo, JP
Japan Canada Society, Tokyo, JP
Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, CA
Swiss Bank Corp, CA
Canada Packers, Toronto, CA
Cassels, Brock and Blackwell(Law Firm), Toronto, CA
Commissions
Toronto Lester Pearson International Airport, (Two Sculptures), CA
Ontario Provincial Queen’s Park Complex (Mural Panel), CA
