Kōji Enokura

Koji Enokura obtained his MFA in painting from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1968, and subsequently taught there from 1975 until his passing in 1995.

He held numerous solo exhibitions at various Japanese galleries and museums during his lifetime, including the Saito Memorial Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art and the National Museum of Art, Osaka, in 1994. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, held a significant retrospective of his work in 2005.

Enokura's art has also been featured in important surveys such as Re: Quest - Japanese Contemporary Art since the 1970s, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Korea, 2013; Reconsidering Mono-ha, National Museum of Art, Osaka, 2005; Avanguardie Giapponese degli Anni 70, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, 1992, and Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, 1993; Venice Biennale, 1978; Biennale of Sydney, 1976; Paris Biennale, 1971; and Tokyo Biennale '70: Between Man and Matter, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1970.