Kan Yasuda
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| Kan Yasuda | |
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| Born | Bibai, Hokkaido, Japan |
| 🏫 Education | Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Academy of Fine Arts |
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| Known for | Sculpture |
| 🏅 Awards | Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity |
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Kan Yasuda (Japanese: 安田 侃; 1945-) is a sculptor from Hokkaido, Japan. He is known for sculptures carved from marble and bronze, featuring gentle curves and voluminous forms[1], and often of monumental scale.[2] He is considered by some to be Japan's greatest living sculptor.[3]
He currently works mainly in a studio in the northern Italian town of Pietrasanta [4], a town renowned for its superior marble sourced by artists such as Michelangelo.[5] Prominent exhibitions of his work include "Myomu" in the Sapporo rail station, "Tensei Tenmoku" in Tenerife[6], and "Arte Piazza Bibai" in his birthplace of Bibai, which displace over 40 of his works.[7]
Biography
Kan Yasuda was born in Bibai on the island of Hokkaido in 1945[8]. He obtaining a master’s degree in sculpture under the guidance of Yasutake Funakoshi at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music[9]. In 1970, he received a fellowship from the Italian government and moved to Rome where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, a student of Pericle Fazzini[10].
Exhibitions
As sourced from [1][1]
Solo Exhibitions
| Year | Exhibition Title | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Gallery 88 | Rome, Italy |
| 1975 | Time's Gallery | Rome, Italy |
| 1976 | Daido Gallery | Sapporo, Japan |
| 1978 | Marui Imai Gallery | Sapporo, Japan |
| 1984 | Galleria Retina | Sapporo, Japan |
| 1985 | Gallery Ueda Warehouse | Tokyo, Japan |
| 1987 | Tokeidai Gallery | Sapporo, Japan |
| 1991 | "Sculpture Path" | Milano, Italy |
| 1994–1995 | "Marble and Bronze" (held to 1995) | Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, U.K. |
| 1995 | Berkeley Square Gallery | London, U.K. |
| 1995 | The Economist Plaza | London, U.K. |
| 1995 | "Open-Air" | Pietrasanta, Italy |
| 1997 | "Open-Air" | Pietrasanta, Italy |
| 1999 | "Open-Air" | Torre del Lago Puccini, Italy |
| 2000 | "Firenze, Sculptures in the City" | Firenze, Italy |
| 2001–2002 | "Sculptures at the Teien" (held to 2002) | Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2003 | "Sculptures of Kan Yasuda: Tie to the Sky, Link with the Earth" | Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Arte Piazza Bibai, Hokkaido, Japan |
| 2003 | "Kan Yasuda materia eterea" | Villa La Versiliana, Pietrasanta, Italy |
| 2004–2005 | "Sculpt the Opera, Madam Butterfly" (held to 2005) | Pisa Airport, Pisa, Italy |
| 2005 | "Amare la vita e' costruire la pace" | Assisi, Italy |
| 2007–2008 | "Touching the Time" (held to 2008) | Trajan's Market, Roma, Italy[11] |
| 2011 | "Touching the Time" | Torino, Italy |
| 2011 | "Touching the City" | Sapporo, Japan |
| 2011–2012 | "The Contemporary Myth" (held to 2012) | Taormina, Italy |
| 2012 | "Touching" | Gallery TOM, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2012 | "Touching" | Arte Piazza Bibai, Hokkaido, Japan |
| 2014 | "Kan Yasuda" | Eykyn Maclean, New York, USA[12] |
| 2016 | "Touching the Time" | Christie's, New York, USA |
| 2016 | "Touching the Time" | Pisa, Italy |
| 2017 | "Between Sky and Water" | Aman Venice, Venice, Italy |
| 2017 | "Kan Yasuda's Bronze Exhibition – Connecting time and time" | Arte Piazza Bibai, Hokkaido, Japan |
| 2022 | "Touching the Time" | Arte Piazza Bibai, Hokkaido, Japan |
| 2023–2025 | "FORMA SUONO ANIMA" (held to 2025) | Viareggio, Italy |
| 2025 | "Oltre la Forma" | Pietrasanta, Italy[13] |
| 2025 | "Forms of the Unconscious" | Ippodo Gallery, New York |
Group Exhibitions
| - Year | - Exhibition Title | - Location |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | "The Second Biennial Dantesca" | Ravenna, Italy |
| 1977 | "The Fifth Quadrennial" | Rome, Italy |
| 1977 | "Sculptors and Artisans in a Historical Center" | Pietrasanta, Italy |
| 1979 | "14 Japanese Artists in Italy" | Rome, Italy |
| 1980 | "Japanese Contemporary Artists" | La Triennale di Milano, Milano, Italy |
| 1983 | "Art in Hokkaido" | Arbata, Canada |
| 1983 | "Sculpture Yesterday and Today" | Pietrasanta, Italy |
| 1984 | "International Open-Air Sculpture Exhibition" | Les-Gets, France |
| 1985 | "Sculpture in Transit" | Montignoso, Italy |
| 1986 | "Japanese Artists in Italy" | Firenze and Parma, Italy |
| 1986 | "Massa International Sculpture, Malaspina Castle" | Massa, Italy |
| 1988 | "Sculptures from Carrara, Massa and Pietrasanta" | Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, U.K. |
| 1989 | "Idioms of Contemporary Sculpture" | Verona, Italy |
| 1989 | "Sculpting between Carrara and Pietrasanta" | Marina di Carrara, Italy |
| 1990 | "Sculptors" | Bernay, France |
| 1990 | "Sculpture Path for the World Cup '90" | Milano, Italy |
| 1991 | La Triennale di Milano | Milano, Italy |
| 1993 | "The Appearance of Void" | Pietrasanta, Italy |
| 1995 | "Time Machine: ancient Egypt and contemporary art" | Egyptian Museum Turin, Turin, Italy |
| 1996 | "G'96 International Open-Air Sculpture Exhibition" | Lake Maggiore, Switzerland |
| 1997 | "The Fertile Stone Three Sculptors in Zola Predosa" | Zola Predosa, Italy |
| 1998 | "Omaggio a Nivola" | Nuoro, Italy |
| 1998 | "Open-Air Exhibition" | Pisa, Italy |
| 1999 | "Illumination" | Firenze, Padua, Turin and Palermo, Italy |
| 1999 | "CUMA 4000 Sculpture and Architecture of Nineties" | Cuma, Italy |
| 1999 | "Les Champs de la Sculpture 2" | Paris, France |
| 2000 | "Bad Ragartz" | Bad Ragaz, Switzerland |
| 2001 | "Vibration: United Senses" | Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsunomiya, Japan |
| 2002 | "Pietrasanta, Sculptor and Sculpture" | Pietrasanta, Italy |
| 2005 | "Vetro e Scultura, 20 artisti interpretano Venini" | Chiesa di Sant'Agostino, Pietrasanta, Italy |
| 2005 | "Nostalgy of Future" | Chiesa di Sant'Angelo, Pietrasanta, Italy |
| 2006 | "Sculture en Plein Air" | Limone Piemonte and Cortile d'Onore della Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, Turin, Italy |
| 2006 | "Homage to the Earth: Busan Biennale" | Busan, South Korea |
| 2006 | "Bad Ragartz" | Bad Ragaz, Switzerland |
| 2006 | "Marble of Work" | Seravezza, Italy |
| 2006 | "Springs of Life" | San Giuliano Terme, Italy |
| 2009 | "Bad Ragartz" | Bad Ragaz, Switzerland |
| 2012 | "Bad Ragartz" | Bad Ragaz, Switzerland |
| 2012–2013 | "Sculpture Promenade 2012" (held to 2013) | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, U.K. |
| 2015 | "Bad Ragartz" | Bad Ragaz, Switzerland |
| 2017 | "Kan Yasuda- A Grateful Glance Exhibition" | Arte Piazza Bibai, Hokkaido, Japan |
| 2018 | "Kan Yasuda'- A Grateful Glance Exhibition – with Samiro Yunoki" | Gallery TOM, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2018 | "Bad Ragartz" | Bad Ragaz, Switzerland |
| 2019 | "A Birthday – Yunoki Samiro and his companies" | Galerie Etienne de Causans, Paris, France |
| 2020 | "Sculptors gathering in the Jingu Forest" | Meiji Shrine, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2021 | "Three-person exhibition" | Gallery Shirokane, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2021 | "Bad Ragartz" | Bad Ragaz, Switzerland |
| 2024 | "Bad Ragartz" | Bad Ragaz, Switzerland |
Honors
As sourced from [2][1]
| Year | Award | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | The 42nd Minister of Education and Culture Award for New Artist | Japan |
| 1994 | International Award for Sculpture | Italy |
| 1995 | Award of Pietrasanta of the World | Italy |
| 2001 | Special Award of Puccini Foundation | Italy |
| 2002 | The 9th Inoue Yasushi Cultural Award | Japan |
| 2002 | The 15th Murano Togo Award for the Arte Piazza Bibai project | Japan |
| 2002 | Award for Poem of Alpi Apuane | Italy |
| 2003 | Special Award of Tuscany | Italy |
| 2006 | Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity (The honor of the Italian Republic)[14] | Italy |
| 2009 | Japan Awards, Italia Japan Foundation | Japan/Italy |
| 2010 | Hokkaido Shinbun Cultural Award | Japan |
| 2010 | Giacomo Puccini Award, Puccini Foundation | Italy |
| 2010 | Award of Commissioner for Cultural Affairs | Japan |
| 2013 | Hokkaido Culture Award | Japan |
| 2015 | Lifetime Achievement Award of Hokkaido | Japan |
| 2020 | Architectural Institute of Japan Culture Award[15] | Japan |
| 2025 | Noguchi Award [16] | United States |
Public Collections
Kan Yasuda's sculptures are held in public collections worldwide, including:[3][1]
International
- SEIKOO – APEC Naru Park, Busan, South Korea
- TOUCHSTONE – Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, United Kingdom
- SEITAN – Yorkshire Sculpture Park, United Kingdom
- TENSEI, TENMOKU – Garachico, Tenerife, Spain
- KIMON – Don Luigi Giussani Park, Miano, Italy
- ISHINKI – Torre del Lago Puccini, Viareggio, Italy
- ISHINKI – Trajan Market, Imperial Forum Museum, Roma, Italy
- MYOMU – Pietrasata Station, Pietrasanta, Italy
- TENPI – Boboli Gardens, Uffizi Galleries, Firenze, Italy
- TENPI – 1251 Avenue of the Americas, New York, United States
- KIMON – City Garden, St. Louis, United States
- TOUCHSTONE – Aurora Place, Sydney, Australia
Japan
Hokkaido
- Kan Yasuda Sculpture Museum – Arte Piazza, Bibai
- One is Two – Sapporo Dome
- GEN – Sapporo Art Park
- ISHINKI – Hokkaido Governor's Official Residence, Sapporo
- MUKAYU, TENPI – Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo
- SOKYO – Sapporo Concert Hall KITARA
- MYOMU – Sapporo Station[17]
- SEITAN, SEIBO, TENPI, TENPI – Sapporo Soseigawa Park
- SEITAN – Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo
- KAZE, MYOMU, ISHINKI – Hakodate Goryoukaku Hospital
- TENPI – Asahikawa Station
- SHINSEI – Kitahiroshima Ryokuyo Park
- TENPI – Iwamizawa Higashiyama Park
- ISHINKI – Iwamizawa City Hall
- Deep Impact Gate – Northern Horse Park, Tomakomai
- YAMA no HI – Garo Family Park, Bibai
- SHOSEI – Bibai Station
- FUBUKI – Naie City Park
- TENKOSAN – Arai Memorial Museum of Art, Iwanai
- KIMON, ISHINKI – Higashikawa Elementary School
- TENPI – Higashikawa Bunka Gallery
- TENPI – Higashikawa Satellite Office
- SEITAN – Higashikawa KITORON
- KAISEI, ISHINKI, MUEN no HI – Lake Toya
Other Prefectures
- TENPI – Aiina Center, Iwate
- SHOSEI – Sakata City Museum of Art, Yamagata
- KAZE – Hitachi City Public Plaza, Ibaraki
- TENYU – Kawaguchi City West Public Hall, Saitama
- TENSEN – Teganuma Hydro Plaza, Chiba
- TENSEN – Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art, Chiba
- KAZE – Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum, Tokyo
- SEISHI YUKAN – Tokyo Shigoto Center, Tokyo
- SHOSEI – Tornare Nihonbashi Hamacho, Tokyo
- TENKU – Mitsubishi Corporation Headquarters, Tokyo
- TENPI, SOKYO – Ishibashi Foundation Art Research Center, Tokyo
- ISHINKI, MYOMU – Tokyo Midtown, Tokyo
- SEITAN – Tokyo Midtown Hibiya, Tokyo
- ISHINKI, MYOMU – Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo
- KIMON, TENPI – Shibuya Cultural Center OOWADA, Tokyo
- ISHINKI – Jindaiji Temple, Tokyo
- ISHINKI – Tama Center, Tokyo
- KIMON, MUKIYU, SHINSEI – Choenji Temple, Kanagawa
- TENSEN – Nisseki Yokohama Building, Kanagawa
- TENPI – Yokohama International Swimming Pool, Kanagawa
- KIMON, KAISEI, MUKAYU, TENSEN – Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa
- TENPI – Niigata Toki Messe, Niigata
- KIMON – Takaoka OTOGI NO MORI Park, Toyama
- TENSEI, TENMOKU, CHIJIN – Sezon Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagano
- ISHINKI, TENSHO – Nakatsugawashi Tsukechi Community Center, Gifu
- TENKOSAN – Okazaki Central Park, Aichi
- One is Two – Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi
- TENPI – Hyogo Performing Arts Center, Hyogo
- TENPI – Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Kagawa
- TENSEN – Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, Miyazaki
Publications and Catalogs
- KAN YASUDA Sculpture (English/Japanese texts), Leonardo-De Luca Editori, 1991. Distributed by Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei), 1995. ISBN 4532680018 / ISBN 978-4532680015
- The Sculpture of Kan Yasuda (texts in English/Italian/Japanese). Stamperia Artistica Nazionale, 1998. ISBN does not exist.
- KAN: Florence Sculptures in the City 2000 (texts in Italian/English). Florence, Polistampa, 2000. ISBN 8883042166 / ISBN 978-8883042164
- 安田侃の芸術広場 アルテピアッツァ美唄 (in Japanese) 120頁,北海道新聞社出版, 2002. . ISBN 4894532093 / ISBN 978-4894532090
- Kan Yasuda: Materia Etera. Title and photographs by Romano Cagnoni, La Versiliana, Pietrasanta 2003
- 聖なるルネサンス 安田侃 (in Japanese). 共同文化社, 2003 ISBN 4877390820 / ISBN 978-4877390822
- また来ます。. (in Japanese), 求龍堂、2005. ISBN 4763005200 /ISBN 978-4763005205
- 安田侃、魂の彫刻家 (in Japanese). 、集英社, 2005. ISBN 4087747263 / ISBN 978-4087747263
- Kan Yasuda: Touching Time (texts in Italian/English). Milan, Skira Editore, 2007. ISBN 8861304494 /ISBN 9788861304499. Catalog of the Rome exhibition 2007-2008
- G. Rossetti, "Kan Yasuda: Transfigurations of Space," in F. Mazzei and P. Carioti (eds.), East, West, and Surroundings...Written in Honor of Adolfo Tamburello . Naples, Il Torcoliere - Graphic Workshops - University Publishing House, University of Naples "L'Orientale," 2010. ISBN 9788895044668
References
- ↑ "2025 Benefit and Isamu Noguchi Award". The Noguchi Museum. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
- ↑ "Kan Yasuda | Carrara Marble & Bronze | Japanese Sculpture | Ippodo Gallery TOKYO - NEW YORK". Ippodo Gallery. Retrieved 2025-11-20.
- ↑ Wright ·, Chris (2016-07-25). "Lessons With One of the World's Greatest Abstract Artists". Gear Patrol. Retrieved 2025-11-20.
- ↑ https://www.kan-yasuda.co.jp/profile/
- ↑ "Pietrasanta, Tuscany. Italy - Discover the town of marble and art". Love From Tuscany. Retrieved 2025-11-20.
- ↑ "Tensei Tenmoku (Door without a door) Kan Yasuda". Escultura En La Calle. Retrieved 2025-11-20.
- ↑ "Interview with sculptor Kan Yasuda. Works of art at Sapporo Station loved by many people, the impressive outdoor park "Arte Piazza Bibai" | List of Articles | Tourist Attractions". Welcome to Sapporo. Retrieved 2025-11-20.
- ↑ https://www.kan-yasuda.co.jp/profile/
- ↑ https://www.kan-yasuda.co.jp/profile/
- ↑ https://www.kan-yasuda.co.jp/profile/
- ↑ "Google Search". www.google.com. Retrieved 2025-11-20.
- ↑ "Kan Yasuda - New York - Exhibitions - Eykyn Maclean". www.eykynmaclean.com. Retrieved 2025-11-20.
- ↑ Bonuccelli, Ilaria (2025-07-16). "L'intervista. A Pietrasanta le 35 sculture di Kan Yasuda. Il valore dell'esperienza 'Oltre la forma'". Agenziaimpress.it (in italiano). Retrieved 2025-11-20.
- ↑ "Portale storico della Presidenza della Repubblica". archivio.quirinale.it (in italiano). Retrieved 2025-11-20.
- ↑ "The Hokkaido Shimbun Press - "Kan Yasuda awarded Architectural Institute of Japan award" World famous sculptor Kan Yasuda (75), who is currently based in Italy, received the Architectural Institute of Japan's Culture Award. Yasuda's art works of white marble and bronze are on display not only in Japan but in various places worldwide. The sculptor has garnered praise for creating attractive public places. "I am very honoured and happy," Yasuda said. This award started in 1986 and Yasuda is only the third sculptor to receive it. The smooth and beautifully streamlined shapes attract people to his works. In the various places where his gently rounded sculptures are installed, children are often seen climbing or lying on them. The Arte Piazza Kan Yasuda Sculpture Museum in Yasuda's hometown of Bibai City (https://goo.gl/maps/4w7oKaExRaVQq3Qq6) has indoor and outdoor displays of his works and is highly regarded by the Architectural Institute of Japan for "creating a rare landscape that penetrates the heart." https://artepiazza.jp/ Photo:Kan Yasuda at Higashiyama Park, Iwamizawa #thehokkaidoshmbunpress #hokkaidonewspaper #hokkaidotourisum #bibai #iwamizawa #sculptures | Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2025-11-20. External link in
|title=(help) - ↑ "2025 Benefit and Isamu Noguchi Award". The Noguchi Museum. Retrieved 2025-11-19.
- ↑ Matsumoto, Nao (2021-03-08). "「とりあえず妙夢でいい？」って、それどこ？札幌駅の待ち合わせで白い石が選ばれるワケ". 北海道Likers (in 日本語). Retrieved 2025-11-19.
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