about the artist

Mako Idemitsu

Chronology Abridged

Year	What happened
1940年	Born in Tokyo, Japan
1958年 - 62年	Waseda University, Tokyo
1963年 - 64年	Columbia University, New York
1965年 - 73年	Lived in California
1973年 - now	living in Tokyo, Japan

Solo Exhibition & Screening

Year	Exhibition Title	Venue	City
1974	Mako Idemitsu’s Eizou	Nirenoki Gallery	Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
1974	Solo Exhibition	Tenjosajiki	Tokyo, Japan
1974	cinémathèque No. 51 Idemitsu Mako	Image Forum	Tokyo, Japan
1975	cinémathèque No. 69 Idemitsu Mako	Image Forum	Tokyo, Japan
1978	cinémathèque No. 136 Idemitsu Mako	Image Forum	Tokyo, Japan
1979	Mako Idemitsu Video New Year’s Show	Shirakaba Gallery	Ota, Tokyo, Japan
1980	Solo Exhibition	Love Collection Gallery	Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
1982	Solo Exhibition	Video Gallery SCAN	Tokyo, Japan
1983	“Through the looking glass” Video Works by Mako Idemitsu	LAICA	Los Angeles, USA
1984	Image Forum	Image Forum	Tokyo, Japan
1986	Solo Exhibiton	Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibiton	Los Angeles, USA
1986	Video View Points	Museum of Modern Art, New York	New York, USA
1986	Whole Walls		Buffalo, USA
1986	Solo Exhibiton	Pittsburgh Filmmakers	Pittsburgh, USA
1987	Image Forum	Image Forum	Tokyo, Japan
1988	From Geisha to Samurai		Honolulu, Hawai, USA
1990	Image Forum	Image Forum	Tokyo, Japan
1993	Idemitsu Mako Works Special	Shimokitazawa Station Mae Theater	Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
1996	Idemitsu Mako Film+Video Collection	Uplink Factory	Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
1996	Study of Idemitsu Mako’s works	Setagaya Women’s Center	Setagaya,Tokyo, Japan
1996	Gender Issue Enlightenment seminar Video Talk	Sesion Suginami	Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
1997	Mako Idemitsu 1982-1997 oeuvres choisies	Articule	Montréal, Canada
1997	Mako Idemitsu Works screening	Makati Zero BF2 Media Hall	Makati, Tokyo, Japan
1998	World of Idemitsu Mako	Tachikawa City Women’s Center	Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan
1998	Dawn Cinema Club	Dawn Center	Osaka, Osaka, Japan
2000	Idemitsu Mako Works Exhibition “I Make Myself”	Kobe Art Village Center	Kobe, Osaka, Japan
2000	Idemitsu Mako Works Exhibition “I Make Myself”	The Third Gallery Aya	Osaka, Osaka, Japan
2001	Film & Video Anthology 2001 vol.1		Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
2001	Idemitsu Mako Works Exhibition “I Make Myself”	Fukuoka City Public Library Movie Hall Ciné-là	Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
2002	Mako Idemitsu Exhibition	Tiki Art Space / Image Forum	Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
2003	What A Woman Made: Idemitsu Mako	Phaidros Cafe	Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
2007	Art And Gender	Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts	Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan

Group Exhibition

Year	Exhibition Title	Venue	City
1974	Tokyo-New York Video Express	Tenjosajiki-Kan	Tokyo, Shibuya, Japan
1974	First 100 Feet Film Festival	Sabo Hall	Tokyo, Japan
1975	Video Art	Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania; The Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Ohio; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut	Pensilvania & Chicago, USA
1974	Exhibition by Underground Cinematheque group	Yasuda Seimei Hall	Shinjyuku, Tokyo, Japan
1974	The 2nd New Work Exhibition	Yasuda-seimei Hall	Shinjyuku, Tokyo, Japan
1974	16mm film Showing	Tenjosajiki-kan	Tokyo, Japan
1975	The 3rd New Work Exhibition	Yasuda-seimei Hall	Shinjyuku, Tokyo, Japan
1975	16mm film Showing	Tenjosajiki-kan	Tokyo, Japan
1976	Women Filmmakers Festival	Yasuda Seimei Hall	Shinjyuku, Tokyo, Japan
1977	Video in Tokyo	Maki Gallery	Tokyo, Japan
1977	8th International Video Festival	Continental Gallery	Lima, Peru
1978	International Video Festival	Sogetsu-kaikan	Tokyo, Japan
1978	10th International Open Encounter on Video	Sogetsu-kaikan	Tokyo, Japan
1978	4th 100 Feet Film Festival	Image Forum	Tokyo, Japan
1978	Japan Video Art Festival	Center of Art and Communication	Buenos Aires, Argentina
1978	Pan-Conceptual	Tamura Gallery	Tokyo, Japan
1979	Video from Tokyo, Fukui and Kyoto	The Museum fo Modern Arts, Long Beach Museum of Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, The Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukui	New York, USA
1979	Japan Avant Garde Film Exhibition	The Centre Georges Pompidou	Paris, France
1979	The 4th New Work Exhibition	Asahi Seimei Hall	Tokyo, Japan
1980	America Japan Video Art Exhibition	Studio200	Tokyo, Japan
1980	The 3rd Tokyo Video Festival	Victor Video Center	Tokyo, Japan
1980	The 5th New Work Exhibition	Studio200	Tokyo, Japan
1980	The Tokyo Video Festival	Studio 43	Paris, France
1981	Female Eizo Artists Special Program	Image Forum	Tokyo, Japan
1981	The 1st Experimental Films Festival	Studio 200	Tokyo, Japan
1982	The Sydney Biennial	Multiple locations	Sydney, Australia
1982	November Steps	Shimin Gallery	Yokohana, Japan
1982	Festival 82	Video Inn	Vancouver, Canada
1982	The KIJKHUIS World-Wide Video Festival	Multiple location	Holland
1982	The 2nd Experimental Video Festival	Studio 200	Tokyo, Japan
1983	The 2nd KIJKHUIS World-Wide Video Festival ??? twice ?	Multiple location	Holland
1983	Japanese Video Festival		Milan, Italy
1983	Art and Technology	Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, Toyama, Japan	Toyama, Toyama, Japan
1983	Video CD83	Cankarjev Dom	Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
1983	Asian American International Video Festival		New York, USA
1984	2e manifestation internationale de video: 2nd international video demonstration		Montbéliard, France
1984	The Exhibition of the Recent Acquisition	The Museum of Modern Art	New York, USA
1984	Ottawa International Festival of Video Art	SAW Gallery	Ottawa, Canada
1984	Montreal International Video Festival		Montreal, Canada
1984	Venice Biennale		Venice, Italy
1984	The 1984 International Video Festival	American Film Institute	Los Angeles, USA
1984	VIDEO, A Retrospective, Long Beach Museum of Art 1974-84	Long Beach Museum of Art	Long Beach, USA
1985	25 Years of Experimental Film in Japan	The Museum of Modern Art Saitama	Saitama, Japan
1985	First International Video Biannual		Vienna, Austria
1985	Continuum ’85		Melbourne, Australia
1985	Salso Film&TV Festival 8th Edition	Palazzo dei Congressi	Parma, Romagna, Italy
1985	8th International Film & TV Festival		Salsa, Italy
1985	Japan Avant-garde of the Future		Geneva, Italy
1985	Japanese Experimental Film		USA
1985	2nd Asian Art Show	Fukuoka Art Museum	Fukuoka, Japan
1985	FUKUI International Video Festival ’85	Fukui Phoenix Plaza	Fukui, Japan
1986	New Video: Japan	The Museum of Modern Art	New York, USA
1986	The Australian Video Festival	The Performance Space	Redfern, Sydney, Australia
1986	Video Cocktail 3	Hara Museum	Tokyo, Japan
1986	San Fransisco International Video Festival		San Francisco, USA
1986	International New Cinema & Video Festival		Montreal, Canada
1986	World Wide Video Festival 1986	Kijkhuis	Hague, Netherlands
1987	World Wide Video Festival 1987	Kijkhuis	Hague, Netherlands
1987	1987 Spring Show II World Wide Video Festival in Tokyo, Japanese Participating Artists	Gallery K	Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
1987	Image Forum Festival	Shibuya Seibu Seed 10F = Seed Hall	Tokyo, Shibuya, Japan
1987	10th Women Filmmakers Festival	Video Femmes	Quebec, Canada
1987	8th Documenta		Kisser, Bundesrepublik Deutschland
1987	The Art for Television	The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angels	Los Angeles, USA
1987	Infamental 7		Buffalo, USA
1987	1987 American Film Institute Video Festival		Los Angeles, USA
1988	2nd Biennial International Video Art		Colombia
1988	3rd Videonare		Bonn, Bundesrepublik Deutschland
1989	4th Contemporary Art Exhibition		Toyama, Toyama, Japan
1990	MYTH Exhibition	The Museum of Modern Art	New York, USA
1990	Montreal International Women Film Video Festival		Montreal, Canada
1990	Tendances Multiples	Centre Georges Pompidou	Paris, France
1990	European Media Art Festival	Largerhalle, Atlantis-Kinos, Abendgalerie, Dominikanerkirch	Osnabrück, Germany
1990	Mothers	IKON gallery	Birmingham, UK
1990	Moving Image Biennare	Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia	Madrid, Spain
1990	8th Fotoptica international Video Festival	Museu da Imagem e do Som	São Paulo, Brazil
1990-1993	Private Visions -Japanese Video Art in the 1980s	Japan Foundation Toronto office, Dallas Museum of Art, Ferrara Video Art Center, Stedelijk Museum, Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln, Perugia4*4, Liverpool Video Positive	Toronto, Canada; Dallas, USA; Ferrara, Italy, Amsterdam; Köln, Germany; Liverpool, Britain!, Perugia, Italy
1990	International Video Art Festival	National Art Gallery Kuala Lumpur	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
1991	Circurative Video Library Selection	The Museum of Modern Art	New York, USA
1991	Re-Framing the Family	Artist Space	New York, USA
1991	Mondial Film & Video Festival		Quebec, Canada
1991	Consumer Tools: Personal Visions	The Museum of Modern Art	New York, USA
1991	International Video Week		Geneva, Swiss
1992	ADAM and EVE in Videos and Films	The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama	Urawa, Saitama, Japan
1992	JAPAN OUTSIDE/INSIDE/INBETWEEN	Artists Space	New York, USA
1992	Festival International de Videos et de Films	Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir	Paris, France
1992	Eizou-no-Bouken Josei-no-Kojin-Eiga	Hookaido Museum of Modern Art	Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
1992	La-Plus Video & Talk Festival	Setagaya Women Center	Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
1992	Video-New World Possibility of the Media	O Museum	Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan
1993	Fukui International Video Biennale	Fukui Fine Arts Museum	Fukui, Fukui, Japan
1993	The Image of Family	Aichi Arts Center	Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
1993	Políticas De Género: feminismos representación arte media	Filmoteca de la Generalitat Valenciana	Valenciana, Spain
1993	First Generation: Women & Video, 1970-1975	22 locations in Canada, USA, Iceland, and Spain	22 locations in Canada, USA, Iceland, and Spain
1993	NiCAF ‘93 VIDEO ART MUSEUM	Pacifico Yokohama Exhibition Hall	Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
1993	SHARED TECHLINES video art from the Pacific Rim and beyond	Clocktower Theatre, Christchurch; Archway 2 Lecture Theatre,Otago University, Dunedin; Auckland City Gallery Auditorium; Continuum City Cinema, Wellington	Christchurch, Dunedin, Auckland, Wellington New Zealand
1993	Identity & Home	The Museum of Modern Art
1994	Japanese Art After1945: Scream Against the Sky	Yokohama Museum of Art	Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
1994	40. International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 1994: Retrospective of the Japanese Shrt Film 1955-1991	Otaierie Shloss	Oberhausen, Germany
1994	Women Make Waves	National Film Center Taipei	Taipei, Taiwan
1994	40th Annual Robert Flaherty Seminar	Wells College, Aurora, NY	Aurora, New York, USA
1994	Japan Experimental Film & Video 1955-1994	Kirin Plaza Osaka	Osaka, Japan
1994	Enoshima Women Film Video Forum	Kanagawa Gender Equality Center	Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
1994	The Eyes on Personal Life	Yokohama Museum of Art	Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
1995-1997巡回	Japan Today	LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART	Strandvej, HUMLEBÆK
1995-1997巡回	Japan Today	Kunstmes Hus	Oslo, Norway
1995-1997巡回	Japan Today	Waino Aaltonen Museum of Arts,	Turk, Finland
1995-1997巡回	Japan Today	Liljevalchs Konsthall	Stockholm, Sweden
1995-1997巡回	japantoday Kunst Fotografie Design	MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts	Wien, Austria
1995	Idemitsu Mako & Nakatsuji Etsuko Exhibition	Sagacho Exhibit Space	Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan
1995	Video Art in the 70’s	The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama	Urawa-shi, Saitama, Japan
1996	XVII Festival International de la Vidéo et des Arts Électroniques	Palazzo della Sopracenerina	Locarno, Swiss
1996	Image Forum Festival 1996	Shinjuku Park Tower	Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
1996	Personal. Cinema Program	Millennium	New York, USA
1996	14 de World Wide Video Festival	Theater aan het Spui	Hague, Netherlands
1997	Womens’s Film Festival in Seoul		Seoul, Republic of Korea
1997	Video Art: The First 25 Years	Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography	Tokyo, Japan
1998	11th International Film Festival Singapore		Singapore
1998	Fragile Electrons: Celebrating Twenty Years of Collecting Video Art	National Gallery of Canada	Ottawa, Ontario
1998-1999	Fragile Electrons: Celebrating Twenty Years of Collecting Video Art	Art Gallery of Nova Scotia	Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada
1999-2000	Fragile Electrons: Celebrating Twenty Years of Collecting Video Art	Mendel Art Gallery	Saskatoon, Canada
1999	vanishing points: image Forum festival at the ica	Institute of contemporary arts	London, UK
1998	Learning from Movies: Family and Gender study	Japan Association for Women’s Education	Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
1999	Liburu Festa : flexible 21 century	Wakayama Big Eye	Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan
2000	Matsudai Film Festival 2000	Matsudaimachi Furusato Kaikann	Matsudaicho, Niigata, Japan
2000	Video Act screening	Nakano Zero media hall	Nakano-ku,Tokyo, Japan
2000	How to Survive in Digital/Networked Society	Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography	Tokyo, Japan
2000	Goodby Yotsuya: The Late of 1970’s	Image Forum	Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
2000	WAN ACT 2: Let’s Talk Women’s Self-Image	Women’s Forum Yokohama	Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
2001	Osaka Eizo Festival 2001	Cine nouveau	Osaka, Osaka, Japan
2001	Chiba Civic Women’s Center Festival	Chiba City Harmony Plaza	Chiba-shi, Chiba, Japan
2001	14th Tokyo Women’s Film Festival	Tokyo Women’s Plasa	Tokyo, Japan
2002	Japanese Experimental Films 50s-70s	Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography	Tokyo, Japan
2002	Imagination & Creation Exhibition III	Kasugai City Library, Culture and Art Center	Kasugai, Aichi, Japan
2002	Eizo Expression & Gender world of Mako Idemitsu, in All Waseda Cultural Week	Waseda University	Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
2002	The 1st Women Make Sister Waves Film & Video Festival in Osaka	Step Hall	Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
2002	The Early Works of Video Art in Japan	Nagoya Port Building Assembly Hall	Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
2003	What a Woman Made: Idemitsu Mako	Phaidros Cafe	Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
2003	Talk Women’s Information “What a Woman Made” and from now on. Let’s Discuss with Mako Idemitsu	Tokyo Women’s Plaza	Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
2004	Modern Means: Continuity and Change In Art From 1880 To The Present	More Art Museum	Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
2004	Borderline Cases	Gallery A. R. T.	Tokyo, Japan
2004	Japanese Experimental Film and Video		California, USA
2005	Love and Solidality: MOT Annual 2005	Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo	Tokyo, Japan
2005	“f” media	Ewha Womans University	Seoul, Korea
2005	Avanguard Women 1950-1975 Exhibition	Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art	Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan
2005	Short Experimental Film and Video Festival		Zagreb, Republika Hrvatska
2006	Early Video Art Reflections	Nagoya Citizens Gallery Yada	Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
2007	WACK! Art and Feminisit Revolution	Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles	Los Angels, USA
2007	Radical Communication: Japanese Video Art Exhibition	The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA	Los Angels, USA
2008	Video Formes 2008		Clermont-Ferrand, France
2008	Radical Communication: Japanese Video Art Exhibition		Vancouver, Canada
2009	CINEMA DU REEL 2009 31e FESTIVALINTERNATIOANL DE FILMS DOCUMENTARIES	Le Centre Pompidou	Paris, France
2009	Here is Every Four Decades of Contemporary Art	The Museum of Modern Art	New York, USA
2009	Vital Signals	Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art	Hiroshima, Japan
2009	Vital Signals	Houston Center	USA
2009	Vital Signals	Los Angeles County Museum of Art	Los Angeles, USA
2009	Vital Signals	American Japan Center	New York, USA
2010	Vital Signals	The National Museum of Art	Osaka, Japan
2011	Japanese Video Art 1980s	The National Museum of Art	Osaka, Japan
2011~2012	Exchange & Evolution Worldwide Video 1974-1999	Long Beach Museum of Art	Long Beach, CA, USA
2012	Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012	Fukuoka Asian Art Museum	Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan
2012	Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012	Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum	Naha, Okinawa, Japan
2012	Scent of Mother’s Love	Ewha Womans University Theater	Seoul, Korea
2012	50th Ann Abor Film Festival	Michigan Theatre	Michigan, USA
2012	Ourselves Exhibition	The Australian Center for Contemporary Art	Melbourne, Australia
2013	Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012	Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art	Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan
2013	Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012	Mie Prefectural Art Museum	Tsu, Mie, Japan
2013	Love Exhibition	More Art Museum	Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
2014	MOMAT collection exhibition	The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo	Tokyo, Japan
2016	The EY Exhibition: The World Goes Pop	TATE MODERN	London, UK
2016	Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival -Women Directors in Japanese Experimental Film	Community College of Philadelphia	Philadelphia, USA
2017	The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945	Barbican Center	London, UK
2017	“Samon’s Daughters” 1 day screening	Uplink Factory	Tokyo, Japan
2017	MOMAT collection exhibition	The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo	Tokyo, Japan
2017	Japanese Expanded Cinema Project	International House Philadelphia	Philadelphia, USA
2018	Japansk Videokonst	Leksand Kulturhus	Leksand, Sweden
2018	The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2018	Tokyo Photographic Art Museum	Tokyo, Japan
2018	Local Arts “Performance of Nagoya” related exhiibition	Nagoya City Art Museum	Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
2018	Cinema Classroom 2018	National Film Archive of Japan	Tokyo, Japan
2018	Institute of Asian Performance Art: Tokyo TOKAS Project VOL. 1	Tokyo Arts And Space Hongo	Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
2018	FEMINIST AVANT-GARDE of the 1970s	The Brno House of Arts	Brno, Czech
2019	Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s–1990s	National Singapore Gallery	Singapore

Collection

Institutions where Mako Idemitsu’s works are collected/archived
Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul, Korea
Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Genova University, Genova, Italy
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
Kobe Design University, Kobe, Japan
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, USA
Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan
Mori Art Museum, Japan
Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
National Film Archive of Japan
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
SAMMLUNG VERBUND
Suny Stony Brook, New York, USA
The Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Nation Museum of Modern Art, Japan
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan
Tokushima Bunkanomori Park,Tokushima, Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, Toyama, Japan