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Kenji Fujita
Born in New York, NY
Lives and works in Staatsburg, NY
Education
Queens College, City University of New York (MFA 1997)
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, NY, 1978
Bennington College, VT (BA 1978)
Awards/Fellowships
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Individual Support Grant, 2012-13
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Visual Art, 1998
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Sculpture, 1996
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Works on Paper, 1991
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Sculpture, 1988
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Sculpture, 1987
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Sculpture, 1984
One, Two and Three Person Exhibitions
“Pattern Language”. Kenji Fujita, Fawn Krieger, Medrie MacPhee. Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, (October, 2023)
"Cut and Cover". Devening Projects, Chicago, 2022
"Debris of Life and Mind". DD55, Cologne, 2018
"beginning, break, rapid”. Kenji Fujita, Barbara Takenaga. Curated by Sheila Pepe. Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, 2018
"Will and Weather. Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2016 (catalogue)
“Systematic Gaiety: 2000-2008”. Samson Projects, Boston, 2009 (catalogue)
“Incident Report”. Storefront Installation. Hudson, NY, 2008
“Sculpture and Works on Paper”. Rosenberg Gallery, Hofstra University, NY, 2001
“Wallflowers”. Luhring Augustine, New York, 1992
“Kenji Fujita”. Luhring Augustine, New York, 1991
“Sculpture and Works on Paper”. Schmidt/Markow Gallery, St. Louis, 1990
“Kenji Fujita”. Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, 1989
“Kenji Fujita”. Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, 1989
“Kenji Fujita”. Luhring Augustine and Hodes, New York, 1988
“Kenji Fujita”. Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, 1987
“Kenji Fujita and David Winter”. Luhring Augustine and Hodes, New York, 1987
“Kenji Fujita”. Cable Gallery, New York, 1986
“Kenji Fujita”. Cable Gallery, New York, 1985
“Michel Sauer, Kenji Fujita, Doug Sanderson”. Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, 1984
Selected Group Exhibitions
“One wall a web through which the moment walks”. Carla Accardi, Nadia Ayari, dadamaino, Gino De Dominicis,
Carla Edwards, Piero Gilardi,
Hahm Hwi, Kenji Fujita, Ellie Krakow, linn meyers, Rit Premnath, Carol Rama, Julianne Swartz, Jonathan VanDyke. Curated by Jonathan VanDyke. 1/9unosunove, Rome, (October-December 2023)
"Some of my brothers are sisters, some of my sisters are mothers, and all of my mothers are fathers, too". Yasi Alipour, Marilyn Arsem, Rina AC Dweck, Zachary Fabri, Kenji Fujita, Anthony Iacono, Alan Weiner. Curated by Sheila Pepe. Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, 2023
"Rivers, Threads, Folds". Wolf Tones (Nancy Shaver, Sterrett Smith, Maximilian Goldfarb, Pradeep Dalal), Jean-Philippe Antoine, Hawkins Bolden, Jared Buckhiester, Pam Cardwell, Dawn Cerny, Public Collectors, Kenji Fujita, Charles Goldman, Incident Report, John Jackson, Julia Klein, Ken Landauer, Tracy Miller, Carla Herrera-Prats, Tyler Rowland, Soberscove Press, Steel Stillman, David Levi Strauss, Maya Strauss, Earl Swanigan, Mose Tolliver, Peter Lamborn Wilson. Curated by Phong H. Bui and Cal McKeever. Art Cake, Brooklyn, NY, 2022
"Four Sculptors: Sarah Braman, Kenji Fujita, Roy McMakin, Richard Rezac". Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, 2022
"Subliminal Horizons". Diana Al-Hadid, Huma Bhabha, Henri Paul Broyard, Karlos Cárcamo, Lisa Corinne Davis, Melvin Edwards, Kenji Fujita, Jeffrey Gibson, David Hammons, Lyle Ashton Harris, Jennie C. Jones, Laleh Khorramian, Glenn Ligon, Adam Pendleton, Martin Puryear, Angel Otero, Tschabalala Self, Xaviera Simmons, Kianja Strobert, Carlos Vega. Curated by Alvin Hall. Alexander Gray Associates, New York and Germantown, 2021
"who knows one". Darren Bader, Kenji Fujita, Liam Gillick, Rachel Harrison, Alfredo Jaar, Zerek Kempf, Peter Kogler, Joseph Kosuth, Agnieszka Kurant, Miltos Manetas, Helen Marten, Moshe Ninio, Susan Philipsz, Magali Reus, Mika Rottenberg, Nancy Shaver, Eran Schaerf, Gwen Smith, Ettore Spalletti, Steel Stillman, Slavs and Tatars, Noncommittal, Joe Winter. Curated by Haim Steinbach. Vistamare, Pescara, Italy, 2021
"Das Haus #2", cur. D.P. Dudas. Haus Am St. Pantaleon, Cologne, 2018 (catalogue)
"Incident Report, Reports". Photo documentation. September Gallery, Hudson, NY, 2017
"Nancy Shaver: Standardization, Variation and the Idiosyncratic" (group wall). 57th Venice Biennale, 2017
"Gifts and Preoccupations". Karl Blossfeldt, Kenji Fujita, Zak Kitnick. Susanna, Germantown, NY, 2016
"Nancy Shaver:Dress the Form" (group wall). Derek Eller Gallery, New York, 2016
"Material Stackers" (collaboration with Pam Lins). The Old Room, New York, 2015
"The Look of Things". Jared Buckheister, Kenji Fujita, Beka Goedde, Sara Magenheimer, Joyce Robins, Nancy Shaver, Oliver Strand, Emi Winter. Curated by Nancy Shaver. Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
"Correspondence II". PS Hudson, Catskill, NY; CTSQ Gallery, Queens, NY, 2014
"Steel Life". Wolfgang Breuer, Matthew Buckingham and Joachim Koester, Whitney Klafin, Martin Creed, Melvin Edwards, Ida Ekblad, Sam Falls, Kenji Fujita, Wade Guyton, Allison Katz, Rita McBride, Charlotte, Posenenske, SamPulitzer, Heather Rowe, Gedi Sibony, Michael E Smith, Anicka Yi. Organized by Zak Kitnick. Michael Benevento Gallery, Los Angeles, 2012
"Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts". American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 2012
"Live at The Acropolis". Kenji Fujita, Zak Kitnick and Sam Pulitzer. The Company (Anat Ebgi), Los Angeles, 2011
"Francies Cape: The Other End of the Line". Michael Ashkin, Kenji Fujita, Richard Garrison, DeWitt Godfrey, Matt Harle, Chris Harvey, Margo Mensing, Rebecca Murtaugh, Michael Oatman, Gina Occhiogrosso, Ken Ragsdale, Nancy Shaver, Alfonso Volo. Curated by Ian Berry. The High Line, Gansevoort Plaza, New York, 2010
"Inside Walls". Organized by Ryan Muller. 431 South 5th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 2010
"History, Use and Borrowed Landscape. Curated by Nancy Shaver. John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY, 2008
“Capricious and Mercurial Systems”. A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL. Curated by Joan Giroux, 2008 (brochure)
“Square Bubbles”. Organized by Arthur Gibbons. Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY, 1996 (catalogue)
“Contemporary Wood Sculpture”. The Brooklyn Museum, NY, 1992
“Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings by Contemporary Artists”. The Brooklyn Museum, NY, 1992
“Wall Works”. Susan Landau, Santa Monica, CA, 1992
“Gunther Forg, Kenji Fujita, Robert Gober, Georg Herold, Jon Kessler, Liz Larner, Zoe Leonard”. Luhring Augustine, New York 1990
“Drawings”. Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica, CA, 1990
“Deceptively Simple”. Schmidt/Markow Gallery 1709, St. Louis, MO, 1990
"Michael Byron, Gunther Forg, Kenji Fujita, Jon Kessler, Hubert Kiecol, Stephen Prina, Christopher Wool". Luhring Augustine and Hodes, New York, 1989
“Sculpture”. Krygier-Landau Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 1989
“Group Show”. Schmidt/Markow Gallery 1709, St Louis, MO, 1989
“Aperto 88". XLIII Venice Biennale. Organized by Dan Cameron. Arsenale Exhibition (United States), 1988 (catalogue)
“Inaugural Show: Carroll Dunham, Kenji Fujita, Peter Nadin, Laurie Simmons, Meyer Vaisman”. Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, 1988
“Innovations in Sculpture 1985-88”. Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, 1988
“Synthesis--An Aspect of Contemporary Sculpture”. Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, 1987
“Time After Time”. Edward Allington, Gretchen Bender, Don Bonham, Barry Bridgwood, Saint Clair Cemin, Maureen Connor, Joel Fisher, Kenji Fujita, James Hill, Richards Jardin, Jeff Koons, Annette Lemieux, Erik Levine, Allan McCollum, Joseph Nechvatal, John Newman, Alastair Noble, Joel Otterson, Ricardo Regazzoni, Haim Steinbach, Gary Stephan, Not Vital Michael Zwack. Organized by Collins and Millazzo. Diane Brown Gallery, New York, 1986
"Louise Fishman, Kenji Fujita, Willy Heeks, Ralph Humphrey, Mel Kendrick, Bill Komoski, Barry Le Va, Judy Pfaff". Baskerville+Watson, New York, 1986
"Alan Belcher, Ashley Bickerton, Clegg & Guttmann, Kenji Fujita, Larry Johnson, Haim Steinbach, Charles Stockley, Christopher Wool". Cable Gallery, New York, 1986
“Sculpture on the Wall”. Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, 1986
“Summer Selection”. Castelli Uptown, New York, 1985
“Vernacular/Abstraction”. Philip Taaffe, Kenji Fujita, Terry Winters, Kenny Scharf, Carroll Dunham, Nancy Graves, R.M. Fischer, Ross Bleckner, Peter Schuyff, Jonathan Lasker, Stephen Mueller, Sherrie Levine, Judy Pfaff. Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, 1985 (catalogue)
“Irregulars”. Henry Street Settlement, New York. Curated by Jackie Shatz, 1984
"Christmas Present". Manhattan Art, New York, 1983
Public/Institutional Collections
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Brooklyn Museum, NY
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, CA
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
The New School for Social Research, NY
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Selected Publications and Reviews
Adams, Brooks. “Kenji Fujita at Luhring Augustine and Hodes”, ART IN AMERICA, Jan, 1989
Baker, Kenneth. “Minimalism and Runaway Wit”, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, July 11, 1987
Bellamy, Peter. THE ARTIST PROJECT (PORTRAITS OF THE REAL ART WORLD:NEW YORK ARTISTS 1981-90). Artist Project, New York, 1991
Cameron, Dan. “Kenji Fujita”, FLASH ART, Jan./Feb, 1989
Cotter, Holland. “Kenji Fujita: Luhring Augustine Gallery”, THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 24, 1992
Curtis, Cathy. “Review”, LOS ANGELES TIMES, Aug. 14: 16, 1987
Decter, Joshua. “Kenji Fujita”, ARTS MAGAZINE, April, 1991
Decter, Joshua. “Kenji Fujita”, ARTS MAGAZINE, Jan, 1989
Donohue, Marlena, “La Cienega Area”, LOS ANGELES TIMES, Feb. 10, 1989
Farber, Janet L. . "Irregular Art Beat", THE READER, May 7, 2018
Fujita, Kenji."Robert Hale: An Appreciation", DRAW IT WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED: THE ART OF THE ART ASSIGNMENT, Paper Monument, NY, 2012
Indiana, Gary. “Time After Time”, THE VILLAGE VOICE, 1985
Lloyd, Ann Wilson. "Kenji Fujita: Samson Projects", ART IN AMERICA, May, 2009
Maine, Stephen. "Kenji Fujita’s Vernacular of Accumulation", HYPERALLERGIC, Oct 8, 2016
Kitnick, Zak. "Arms or Legs or Butts or Guts", ARTNEWS, Sept 30, 2016
McClintic, Miranda. “Sculpture Today”, ART & AUCTION, May, 1988
Raynor, Vivian. “Photos and Sculpture at the Aldrich”, THE NEW YORK TIMES.Nov 27, 1988
Rubinstein, Meyer Raphael & Wiener, Daniel. “Kenji Fujita and David Winter: Sculpture as an Exact Science and Not So Exact Science”, ARTS MAGAZINE, Oct. 26-28, 1987
Saltz, Jerry. BEYOND BOUNDARIES, NEW YORK’S NEWART. Alfred vander Marck, New York, 118-124. 1987
Smith, Roberta. “Kenji Fujita’s Marriage of Sense and Nonsense”, THE NEW YORK TIMES. Oct. 21, 1988: C31
Smith, Roberta. VERNACULAR/ABSTRACTION, Exhibition Catalogue, 1985
Smith, Roberta. “Irregulars”, THE VILLAGE VOICE, 1984
Sussler, Betsy. “Kenji Fujita”, BOMB MAGAZINE. Winter, 1988
Sussler, Betsy. BOMB MAGAZINE.Spring, 1985
Upshaw, Reagan. “Kenji Fujita at Cable Gallery”, ART IN AMERICA, Sept, 1985