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Kan Yasuda
Kan Yasuda was born in the city of Bibai on Japan's nothern island Hokkaido in 1945. He received a master's degree in sculpture from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1969. He moved to Italy in 1970 on a fellowship from the Italian Government and studied with Professor Pericle Fazzini at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Afterwards he set up his studio at Pietrasanta in nothern Italy, world famous for its superior quality marble. There he continues to live and work at marble and bronze sculptures.
| 1973 | Gallery 88, Rome, Italy |
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| 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" Milan, Italy |
| 1994-95 | "Marble and Bronze", Yorkshire Sculpture Park, U.K. |
| 1995 | Berkeley Square Gallery, London, U.K. The Economist Plaza, London, U.K. Open-Air, Pietrasanta, Italy |
| 1997 | Open-Air, Marina di Pietrasanta, Italy |
| 1999 | Open-Air, Torre del Lago Puccini, Italy |
| 2000 | "Florence, Sculptures in the City", Florence, Italy |
| 2001 | "Sculptures at the Teien", 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, Sapporo, Japan "Kan Yasuda", Villa La Versiliana, Pietrasanta, Italy |
| 2004-05 | "Sculpt the Opera, Madam Butterfly", Pisa Airport, Pisa, Italy |
| 2005 | "Amare la vita e' costruire la pace", Assisi, Italy |
| 2007-08 | "Touching the Time", Rome, Italy |
| 2011 | "Touching the Time", Turin, Italy "Touching the City", Sapporo, Japan |
| 2011-12 | "The Contemporary Myth", Taormina, Italy |
| 2012 | "Touching", Gallery TOM, Tokyo, Japan "Touching", Arte Piazza Bibai, Hokkaido, Japan |
| 2014 | "Kan Yasuda", Eykyn Maclean, New York, USA |
| 2016 | "Touching Time", Christie's, New York, USA "Touching the Time", Pisa, Italy |
| 2017 | "Between Sky and Water", Aman Venice, Venice, Italy "Kan Yasuda's Bronze Exhibition" - Connecting time and time" Arte Piazza Bibai, Hokkaido, Japan |
| 1975 | "The Second Biennial Dantesca", Ravenna, Italy |
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| 1977 | "The Fifth Quadrennial", Rome, Italy "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, Milan, Italy |
| 1983 | "Art in Hokkaido", Arbata, Canada "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", Florence and Parma, Italy "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 "Sculpting between Carrara and Pietrasanta", Marina di Carrara, Italy |
| 1990 | "Sculptors", Bernay, France "Sculpture Path for the World Cup '90", Milan, Italy |
| 1991 | "Art and Architecture: Proposals for the Urban Environment", Milan, Italy |
| 1993 | "The Appearance of Void", Pietrasanta, Italy |
| 1995 | "Time Machine: ancient Egypt and contemporary art", Egyptian Museum 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 "Open-Air Exhibition", Pisa, Italy |
| 1999 | "Illumination", Florence, Padua, Turin and Palermo, Italy "CUMA 4000 Sculpture and Architecture of Nineties", Cuma, Italy "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 "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 "Homage to the Earth: Busan Biennale", Busan, South Korea "Bad Ragartz", Bad Ragaz, Switzerland "Marble of Work", Seravezza, Italy "Springs of Life", San Giuliano Terme, Italy |
| 2009 | "Bad Ragartz", Bad Ragaz, Switzerland |
| 2012 | "Bad Ragartz", Bad Ragaz, Switzerland |
| 2012-13 | "Sculpture Promenade 2012", 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 "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 |
| 1992 | The 42nd Minister of Education and Culture Award for New Artist, Japan |
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| 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 The 15th Murano Togo Award for the Arte Piazza Bibai project, Japan Award for Poem of Alpi Apuane, Italy |
| 2003 | Special Award of Tuscany, Italy |
| 2006 | Order of the Star of the Italian Solidarity (The honor of the Italian Republic) |
| 2009 | Japan Awards, Italia Japan Foundation |
| 2010 | Hokkaido Shinbun Cultural Award, Japan Giacomo Puccini Award, Puccini Foundation, Italy Award of Commiccioner for Cultural Affairs, Japan |
| 2013 | Hokkaido Culture Award, Japan |
| 2015 | Lifetime Achivement Award of Hokkaido, Japan |
| 2020 | Architectural Institute of Japan Culture Award |
