1951
Born in Iwate
1975
Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University (Sculpture course)
1977
Completed Master Course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Sculpture course)
1984
Awarded the Excellence Prize at the OYAMA―Towards a City with Sculpture
1986
Stayed in London under a grant from the Agency for Cultural Affairs (-'87)
1991
Awarded the First Takashimaya Art Award from Takashimaya Cultural Foundation
1995
Awarded the 26th Nakahara Teijiro Excellence Prize
1997
Awarded the 18th Hirakushi Denchu Prize
2003
Awarded the 33rd Nakahara Teijiro Prize
2004
Released the documentary film which shows his creation process, near equal funakoshi katsura
2009
The 50th Mainichi Art Award
The 59th The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Art Encouragement Prize
Solo
Exhibitions
1982
Gallery Okabe, Tokyo
1985
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo ('88,'90,'91,'93,'95,'96,'01,'02,'06,'08)
1989
COMME des GARÇONS, Tokyo
Arnold Herstand & Company, New York (-'90)
1991
Annely Juda Fine Art, London ('96)
1993
Today's Artists V―'93 Funakoshi Katsura, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura
1994
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
André Emmerich Gallery, New York （-'95）
1997
Exhibition of the 18th Hirakushi Denchu Prize, Ibara Municipal Denchu Art Museum, Okayama
1999
Katsura Funakoshi: Sculpture and Drawings, Annely Juda Fine Art, London;
Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany; Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Germany (-'00)
2003
Katsura Funakoshi Works:1980―2003, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts; Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art; Takamatsu City Museum of Art; Iwate Museum of Art; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (-'04),
Katsura Funakoshi Prints 1987―2002, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo
2005
Katsura Funakoshi Ernst Barlach: A Map of the Time, Annely Juda Fine Art, London; Ernst Barlach Haus, Humburg, Germany
For Deep Line (Drawings), Tokyo Zokei University Gallery, Tokyo
2006
Cité du Livre, Aix-en-Provence, France
2007
Katsura Funakoshi, Speaking to His Own Face, Listening to the Faces of Others, Tohoku University of Art & Design, Yamagata
2008
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
Summer Villa: The Sculptures, Drawings, and Prints of Katsura Funakoshi in Art Deco Space, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
ANDO GALLERY, Tokyo
Group
Exhibitions
1976
Exhibition of New Figurative Sculpture, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (-'85)
1984
OYAMA―Towards a City with Sculpture, Hakuo Women's Junior College, Tochigi
1985
TAMA VIVANT'85, Tama Art University Hachioji campus 1 Bldg. Gallery, Tokyo; gallery SPACE 21, Tokyo
1986
ART IN TOKYO'86 IMA Vol.1, Factory (Sapporo Beer Ebisu Storage), Tokyo
New Trends in Contemporary Sculpture―10 New Outstanding Sculptors of America and Japan, Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo and Osaka; Sapporo Art Park; Salvatore Alla, New York (-'87)
1988
La Biennale di Venezia
1989
Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art et al. (-'91)
XX Bienal de São Paulo
1990
Toyama Now'90, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
New Wave of Wood Sculptures, Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art
Japanische Kunst der Achtziger Jahre, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany et al.
1991
A Current of Contemporary Art in Japan―Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
1992
Documenta Ⅸ, Kassel, Germany
The 9th Biennale of Sydney
1994
Contemporary Human Figure, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art
1995
Art in Japan Today, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years, Meguro Art Museum; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
1996
Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany
The 45th Anniversary, Part1―A Dialogue between Tools and Arts, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura
1999
Image of Sculpture, Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture in honor of Teijiro Nakahara Noontime Meditation: Contemporary Japanese Art having Inner Sight, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
Destruction and Construction 1999, Chinretsukan Gallery, The University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
2000
Skulpturen von Künstlern aus 4 Kontinenten, Der Pavillon des Heiligen Stuhls auf der Expo 2000, Hannover, Germany
Shanghai Biennale 2000, Shanghai Art Museum
2001
Art for the Spirit: Eyes Searching for Eternity, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art Between Earth and Heaven: New Classical Movements in the Art of Today, The Ostend Museum of Modern Art, Belgium
2002
Sculptors of Eastern Japan, Tokyo Station Gallery
2005
Asian Potential: Art Nursed by Sea and Islands, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
2007
Vital Signs: Reality of nine contemporary artists, Yokosuka Museum of Art
2008
Self / Other, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
