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Zenzaburo Kojima, Roses, 1958, oil on canvas, 40.9 × 31.8cm
Zenzaburo KOJIMA
'As the Ground Holds'
We are delighted to announce Zenzaburo Kojima's participation in a group exhibition "As the Ground Holds" at Villepin Gallery in Hong Kong.
This exhibition honors artistic career of four artists from both Japan and Vietnam, Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, Zenzaburo Kojima, Lê Phổ and Mai Trung Thứ, who spent time studying art in Paris in the 1900s.
As the Ground Holds
VILLEPIN 53-55 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong
Date: May 21 (Thu) – August 8 (Sat) 2026
Tuesday to Thursday | 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Friday | 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday | 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Closed on Mondays
Web: https://www.villepinart.com/
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Spring Leisure, 1947, oil on canvas, 61 × 72.8 cm
Zenzaburo KOJIMA
'Primavera'
In Japan, when the cherry blossoms begin to bloom, the long winter has finally come to an end. The country is gently enveloped by mild high-pressure systems, and calm, peaceful days continue for a while. During this period, people go outdoors to enjoy ‘hanami,’ flower-viewing gatherings that often include eating and drinking beneath the blossoms.
However, just as the flowers reach full bloom, strong winds sometimes sweep through, scattering the delicate petals all at once. The Japanese call this ‘hanafubuki’ (shower of blossoms falling in the wind), lamenting the brief life of the blossoms and sensing the fleeting nature of beauty—‘mono no aware,’ an aesthetic sensibility typical of Japan in which we project our feelings and emotions onto the changes we perceive in things.
The term 春閑 ‘shunkan’ (spring tranquility) expresses the brief stillness between the first budding and full bloom. At the same time, it suggests a quiet sense of resignation in everyday life, the feeling that good times are fleeting, while difficult and painful times seem to linger on.
Primavera
Date: April 4 (Sat) – May 3 (Sun) 2026
Open: Tuesday to Sunday 12:00-18:00 (Closed on Mondays)
Gallery Kojima (1-5-16 Izumicho, Kokubunji, Tokyo 185-0024)
Web: https://www.gallery-kojima.jp/pickup/zenzaburokojima2026/
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MIDSUMMER DAYDREAM
Magnificent collection of Zenzaburo Kojima
An opportunity to see the masterpiece of Zenzaburo Kojima has arrived. It is our great pleasure to announce that Woman Sitting Back (Nude) will be featured in the exhibition “Fauves Shock - France and Japan” at the Kasama Nichido Museum of Art. This work is introduced as one of the great examples of Japanese Fauvism. Other works in the exhibition include paintings by Henri Matisse and Raoul Dufy.
Exhibition view at Udatsu Sushi, 2025
MIDSUMMER DAYDREAM
Magnificent collection of Zenzaburo Kojima
Date: 23.8.2025 – 12.12.2025
Venue: Udatsu Sushi
G/F, Stable Block, FWD HOUSE 1881, 2A Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
Close: Sunday and Monday
Curation: Wangsim
Udatsu Sushi
https://www.udatsu-sushi.com.hk/
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Zenzaburo Kojima, Garden, ca.1935, oil on canvas, 45.5 × 60.5 cm
Zenzaburo KOJIMA
'Pine Trees'
“Since last year, I have been fully devoted to researching pine trees. I believe that if I can depict pine trees as the way I see them, Japanese landscapes will finally come to life as oil paintings. In Japan, it is almost unthinkable to have a famous scenic spot without pine trees.”
Extract from text by Zenzaburo Kojima, Bijutsu, March issue, published in 1935, title: Prospect on Dokuritsu Exhibition (独立展予報)
Date: April 26 (Sat) – June 8 (Sun) 2025
Open: Tuesday to Sunday 12:00-18:00 (Closed on Mondays)
Gallery Kojima (1-5-16 Izumicho Kokubunji-shi Tokyo, Japan)
Web: https://www.gallery-kojima.jp/pickup/kojima-pinetrees/
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Zenzaburo Kojima, Woman Sitting Back (Nude), 1932, Gallery Kojima
Zenzaburo KOJIMA
'Fauves Shock - France and Japan-'
An opportunity to see the masterpiece of Zenzaburo Kojima has arrived. It is our great pleasure to announce that Woman Sitting Back (Nude) will be featured in the exhibition “Fauves Shock - France and Japan” at the Kasama Nichido Museum of Art. This work is introduced as one of the great examples of Japanese Fauvism. Other works in the exhibition include paintings by Henri Matisse and Raoul Dufy.
Fauves Shock -France and Japan
September 21st - December 15th, 2024
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art
Hours:9:30-17:00 Tuesday to Sunday
*10:00-16:30 from December 1
Mondays (Exceptionally, the museum will be open on September 23, October 14, November 4 and instead it will be closed on following day.)
Admission: Adults 1300 yen/ Seniors 65+ 1000 yen Collage/ High School Students 900 yen/ Junior High School 300 yen/ Elementary School Students Free.
Web: https://www.nichido-museum.or.jp/english/exhibition_english.html
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Zenzaburo Kojima, Old Pine Tree, 1929-36
Zenzaburo KOJIMA
'FLAT & So DEEP' The 131st birth anniversary exhibition
We are pleased to present Zenzaburo KOJIMA 'FLAT & So DEEP', the 131st birth anniversary exhibition. The show brings the artist's landscape paintings that the artist's creative essence -coexistance of flatness and depth - lies, which should be called 'Japanese Cubism'.
June 8th - July 14th, 2024
12:00-18:00 Tuesday to Sunday
Gallery Kojima
Zenzaburo Kojima featured in “&premium” KOJIMA
We are pleased to present Zenzaburo KOJIMA 'FLAT & So DEEP', the 131st birth anniversary exhibition. The show brings the artist's landscape paintings that the artist's creative essence -coexistance of flatness and depth - lies, which should be called 'Japanese Cubism'.
The latest issue of “&premium” No.126 publishd on 19 April features “A life with Flowers and Greens” and in the section of “Art of Flowers”, “Anemones” and Zenzaburo Kojima is introduced.
“Anemones” c.1952 38.0×45.5cm Oil on canvas
8th Yokohama Triennale “Wild Grass: Our Lives”
Zenzaburo Kojima's landscape paintings are exhibited in the ‘Jomon and New Japan Dream‘ section in Yokohama Museum of Art.
8th Yokohama Triennale “Wild Grass: Our Lives”
March 15－June 6, 2024
Yokohama Museum of Art
Open: 10:00–18:00｜Closed: Thursdays (except for April 4, May 2, June 6)
Venues: Yokohama Museum of Art (3-4-1 Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama）
Former Daiichi Bank Yokohama Branch (6-50-1 Honcho, Naka-ku, Yokohama）
BankART KAIKO (KITANAKA BRICK&WHITE 1F, 5-57-2 Kitanakadori, Naka-ku, Yokohama）
Taka Ishii Gallery “Fukei-Ga (Landscape Painting)”
Taka Ishii Gallery presents the group show “Fukei-Ga(Landscape Painting)“ featuring the works depicting landscapes by the artists Lucas Arruda, Zenzaburo Kojima, and Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato.
Fukei-Ga(Landscape Painting)
Date: March 23 – April 27, 2024
Location: Taka Ishii Gallery (complex665)
Opening hours: 12:00 – 19:00
Closed on Sun, Mon and National Holiday
>>>Taka Ishii Gallery Website
Congratulations on the 10th anniversary of The Long Museum !!
Zenzaburo Kojima's nude works are exhibited in the commemorating show.
PORTRAITS: The Tenth Anniversary of The Long Museum
2023.11.8－2024.4.21
LONG MUSEUM WEST BUND
>>>Long Museum Website
Works on Display:
“Red Background”, 1928-29, oil on canvas, 80.5×116.5cm
“Mirror”,1930, oil on canvas, 97.0×130.5cm
“Nude on Yellow Chair”, c.1931, oil on canvas, 130.2×96.0cm
130th Anniversary of the Birth Exhibition KOJIMA Zenzaburo
Zenzaburo Kojima's nude works are exhibited in the commemorating show.
Zenzaburo Kojima, East Wind, 1939, oil on canvas, 72.0 × 90.3 cm
To celebrate Zenzaburo Kojima's 130th anniversary of his birth, the big scale solo exhibition will be held at Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art.
As a Japanese Yōga artist who gets a lot of attention in not only Japan but also Asia and North America, this exhibition will mark another career highlight in his artist life.
130th Anniversary of Zenzaburo Kojima’s Birth: Hope on Canvas
Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art is pleased to present a retrospective exhibition commemorating the 130th anniversary of the birth of Zenzaburo Kojima (1893-1962), a Western-style painter born in Hakata. The exhibition features Kojima's representative works from his early to later years, including portraits, landscapes, and flower paintings.
Date: 7 October (Sat) - 10 December (Sun) 2023
Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
Web: https://fukuoka-kenbi.jp/exhibition/2023/0406_15885/
130th anniversary publication of “Kojima Zenzaburo’s selected works and Catalogue Resonné of the oil paintings, Vol. 2
We are pleased to announce the publication of the second edition this year, continuing from the 2012 edition of “Kojima Zenzaburo’s selected works and Catalogue Resonné of the oil paintings”.
Release date: October 6, 2023
Supervised by: Hidetaka Shiga（Fuchu Art Museum）
Publication: Committee to Publish Works of Zenzaburo Kojima c/o Gallery Kojima
Size: Length 28.6cm × Width 29.5cm 190 Pages all full-color printed
A list of works: 305 Oil paintings, 161 Drawings, 42 Water colors and 47 Ink paintings, etc.
Price: 15,000yen+tax
International shipping available
Please inquire via ‘contact,’ or by visiting Artsy
HIGH ART X NONAKA HILL “
BLUE WIND”
Nonaka-Hill + High Art, Arles “Blue Wind”
April 29 - July 8, 2023
19 rue de la Madeleine, 13200 Arles, France
“Blue Wind,” a group exhibition of paintings by Zenzaburo Kojima, Daisuke Fukunaga,
Ulala Imai and Hiroshi Sugito is currently on view at High Art. The four artists exhibit with Nonaka-Hill,
a Japan focused gallery in Los Angeles.
”Scene from South France”, 1925-28, Oil on canvas, 60.6x80.3 cm
“Zenzaburo Kojima - This very green”
Nonaka-Hill
September 17, 2022 - October 22, 2022
6917 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles CA 90038
Opening reception: Saturday, September 17, 2022 4-8pm
The occasion of this rare West Coast exhibition marks Zenzaburo’s first solo presentation outside of Japan and inaugurates Nonaka-Hill’s second gallery space, located at 6917 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles.
The artist’s works are exhibited in the Hiroshi Sugito’s solo show held in the same term at Nonaka-Hill’s another place in Highland avenue.
720 N. Highland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038
“Nude with tree” , 1932, oil on canvas, 97.0×162.1cm
The Echoes of Modern Art between Japan and France
Marubeni Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
November 1, 2021 - January 31, 2022
*Closed: Sundays/Public holidays/New year holiday season
Exhibition website
https://www.marubeni.com/gallery/en/exhibition/
‘Roses’ , oil on canvas, c.1955, 45.5×37.9cm
Collection Exhibition III
October 9, 2021 - January 16, 2022
Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
Exhibition website https://fukuoka-kenbi.jp/en/
‘Hakone’ , oil on canvas, c.1938, 80.5×105.5cm (image in flyer)
Kyushu-Yoga II: The Power of the Blackish Soil
Exhibition:
September 18 - December 12, 2021
Kurume City Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Exhibition website https://www.ishibashi-bunka.jp/kcam/exhibition_en/20210918-2/
Five Women (Before the Judge) , oil on canvas, 1929, 139.0×162.5cm (right image)
Zenaburo KOJIMA - Since here is “GREEN“
Exhibition :
June 5 - July 18, 2021
Gallery Kojima 1-5-16, Izumicho, Kokubunji, Tokyo 185-0024, Japan
TEL : +81-42-207-7918 e-mail : eakojima@gmail.com
Exhibition website https://www.gallery-kojima.jp/pickup/kojima-green_en/
The Voice of Cicadas, oil on canvas, 1943, 45.2 x 52.6cm (left image)
Pine trees are reverenced as a symbol of rebirth since ancient times in Japan for being ever green. Kojima painted trunks and green leaves stereoscopically with bold and massive strokes, which remind us of Jomon earthenware.He depicted the four seasons by simplifying what he saw as if he was composing haiku, traditional Japanese short poems.
Pine Trees, oil on canvas, 1936, 23.6 x 53.0cm (right image)
Roses in Persian Vase, oil on canvas, 1956, 53 x 45.4 cm
(Nothing but) Flowers
Exhibition Catalog
Title: (Nothing but) Flowers
Editors: Helen Molesworth (curator, former chief curator of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles), Hilton Als (Art Critic) 、David Rimanelli（Writer）
Spring, 2021
Publisher: Karma, NY
Available here:
https://bookstore.karmakarma.org/product/nothing-but-flowers/
Roses, oil on canvas, 1953, 53 x 45.5cm
Roses, oil on canvas, 1955, 60.6 x 50 cm
Collection show, Artizon Museum
selected museum collection show in permanent room
Artizon Museum, collection show 2021-2022
Callas and Giraffe Flowers, oil on canvas, 1954, 92x73cm
KOJIMA Zenzaburo : Catalogue Raisonne of The Oil Painting Works Vol.1 & The Selected Works
Set of two books - the first volume of the catalogue raisonne of Zenzaburo Kojima's oil paintings: includes over 1260 works, and a supplement of best selection: 150 masterpieces with the foreword by Genpei Akasegawa.
