mako idemitsu
chronology mako portrait
1940 Born in Tokyo, Japan
1958-62 Waseda University, Tokyo
1963-64 Columbia University, New York
1965-73 Lived in California

-Presently

living in Tokyo, Japan
selected individual exhibitions
2007 "Arts and Gender", Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
2003 "What a Woman Made", Phaidros Cafe, Tokyo
2002 Image & Gender The world of Mako Idemitsu, Waseda University, Tokyo
2002 ”Mako Idemitsu Exhibition”, Toki Art Space & Image Forum, Tokyo
2001 "I Create-I Create Myself" , Fukuoka City Public Laibrary, Fukuoka
2000 "I Create-I Create Myself", Kobe Art Village Center, Kobe & The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka
1997 Nakano Zero Hall, Tokyo (film & video)
1996 Uplink Factory, Tokyo (film & video)
1993 The City Museum of Takamatsu, Takamatsu, Japan (film & video)
EKIMAE Theater, Tokyo (film & video)
1992 Tokyo-to Women Information Center, Tokyo (film & video)
1990 Image Forum, Tokyo (video)
1988 "From Geisha to Samurai" The Academy of Art, Honolulu, USA (video)
1986 Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition (LACE), Los Angeles, USA (video)
"VIDEO VIEW POINTS" The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (video)
Hallwalls, Buffalo, USA (video)
Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, USA (video)
1984 Image Forum, Tokyo (video)
1983 Los Angeles Institue of Contemporary Art (LAICA), Los Angeles, USA (video)
1982 Video Gallery SCAN, Tokyo (video)
1980 Gallery Love Collection, Nagoya, Japan (video)
1979 Shirakaba Gallery, Tokyo (video)
1978 Image Forum, Tokyo (film)
1977 Shirakaba Gallery, Tokyo (video)
1975 Tenjosajiki, Tokyo (film)
1974 Nirenoki Gallery, Tokyo (film)
Tenjosajiki, Tokyo (film)
selected group exhibitions
2008 " VIDEOFORMES" 23rd New Media & video Art Festival Clermont-Ferrand 2008, Clermont-Ferrand, Frence
2007

" WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution", MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art
The Geffen Contemporary , Los Angeles , California, USA
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washinton D.C., USA
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, in Long island City, NY, USA
Vancouver Art Gallery, in Vancouver, B.C., Canada

2005 "mot annual 2005 - life actually", Museum Contemporary Tokyo of Art
2004 "Modern Means", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
"Borderline Cases - Women on the Borderlines", Gallery A.R.T. Tokyo
"Japanese Experimental Film & Video", University of California, Irvine, USA
2002

Imagination &Create III: The Family, Kasugai City Library, Culture and Art Center, Kasugai
"Japan Experimental Film '50s -'70", Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
The Early Works of Video Art in Japan, ISEA 2002, Nagoya
The 1st Women Make Sister Waves Film & Video Festival in Osaka, Toyonaka Step Hall, Osaka
2001 "Film & Video Anthology 2001 vol.1" Kyotozokei Art College Hall, Kyoto
Osaka Film Festival 2001 J-Ladies, Osaka
The 14th Tokyo International Woman's Film Festival, Tokyo Women's Plaza, Tokyo
B-semi Weekend Session 2001, B-semi Schooling System
Chiba City Woman Center Festival, Chiba 
2000 Matsudai Film Festival 2000, Niigata
WAN ACT 2, Yokohama Women's Forum, Yokohama
Project MAO+, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Good-bye Yotsuya! The Late of 1970s, Image Forum, Tokyo
1997 The 1st Women's Film Festival in Seoul, Seoul, Korea (film)
Video Art: The First 25 Years, Images and Technology Gallery Exhibition
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo (video)
Articule Gallery in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (video)
Fragile Electrons, Ottawa, Canada (video) 
1996 Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, Yokohama, Ohsaka, Japan (video)
17th Video Art Festival de Locarno, Locarno, Switzerland (video)
The KIJKHUIS World-wide Video Festival, Holland (video) 
1995 Japan Today, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Strandvel, Denmark (video)
Video Art 1970, Saitama-kenritsu Museum of Modern Art, Urawa, Japan (video) 
1994 Japanese Art After 1945, The Yokohama Museum, Yokohama, Japan (video)
Oberhusen Short Film Festival, Otaierie Shloss, Oberhusen, Germany (video)
The Women's International Film Festival, Taipei, Taiwan (video)
The 40th Annual Robert Flaherty Seminar, Aurora, New York, USA
1993 The Image of Family, The Center of Aichi-ken Cultural Information, Nagoya, Japan (video)
Politicas de Genero, Generalitat Valenciana, Valenciana, Spain (video)
Winds of the Media from Asia, Fukui, Japan (video)
The First Generation, Women and Video, 1970-75, Shared Techlines Art Space, New Zealand (video)
Identity and Home, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (video)
1992 The Image Women Create, Yokohama Women's Forum, Yokohama, Japan (video)
About me and About you, The Personal Films by Women, Japan: Outside/ Inside/ In Between, Artists' Space, New York, USA (video)
Video, The New World - The Possibility of the Media, O Museum, Tokyo (video)
Adam & Eve, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan (video)
Centre Audivisuel Simone de Beauvoir International Festival Video and Films, Paris, France (video)
1991 Selection from the Circulative Video Library, La Mondiale de Films et Videos, Quebec, Canada (video)
Consumer Tools: Personal Visions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (video)
4' Semaine International de Video, Saint-Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland (video)
1990-93 Private Visions (Japanese Video Art in the 1980's)
1990 "MYTH", Museum of Modern Art, New York (video)
The Montreal International Festival of Films and Videos by Women, Montreal, Canada (video)
Tendances Multiples, The Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (video)
Europe Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany (video)
The "Mothers" Show, Ikon Gallery, Birmington, England (video)
The First Moving Image Biennial, The 8th Fotoptica International Video Festival, Museu da Image Do Som, Sao Paulo, Brazil (video)
1989 Image Forum Festival, Tokyo (video)
The 4th Modern Art Today, Toyama, Japan (video)
The KIJKHUIS World-Wide Video Festival, Holland (video)
1988 Asian American International Video Festival, New York, USA (video)
3 Videonale, Bonn, Germany (video)
1987 10th Festival des Filles des Vues, Quebec, Canada (video)
TAMA VIVANT '87, Seed Hall, Tokyo (video)
Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany (video)
The 1007 Art Video Festival, Los Angeles, USA (video)
The Artist for Television, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA (video)
Infermental 7, Buffalo, USA (video)
1986 New Video: JAPAN, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (video)
The Australian Video Festival, Sydney, Australia (video)
The KIJKHUIS World-Wide Video Festival, Holland (video)
Video Cocktail 3, HARA Museum, Tokyo (video)
San Francisco International Video Festival, San Francisco, USA (video)
The 15th International Festival of New Cinema and Video, Montreal, Canada (video)
1985 First International Video Biannual, Vienna, Austria (video)
Continuum '85, Melbourne, Australia (video)
8th International Film & TV Festival, Salsa, Italy (video)
Japan Avant-garde of the Future, Geneva, Italy (video)
Japanese Experimental Film, USA (film)
2nd Asian Art Show, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (video)
FUKUI International Video Festival '85, Fukui, Japan (video)
1984 The Exhibition of the Recent Acquisition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (video)
Ottawa International Festival of Video Art, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Canada (video)
Montreal International Video Festival, Montreal, Canada (video)
The 1984 International Video Festival, American Film Institute, Los Angeles, USA (video)
VIDEO, A Retrospective, Long Beach Museum of Art 1974-84, Long Beach, USA (video)
1983 Japanese Video Festival, Milan, Italy (video)
Art and Technology, Toyama, Japan (video)
Asian American International Video Festival, New York, USA (video)
1982 The Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia (video)
The KIJKHUIS World-Wide Video Festival, Holland (video)
November Steps, Shimin Gallery, Yokohana, Japan (video)
Festival 82, Video Inn, Vancouver, Canada (video
1981 The 1st Experimental Films Festival, Studio 200, Tokyo (film) 
1980 The Tokyo Video Festival, Studio 43, Paris, France (video) 
1979 Video from Tokyo, Fukui and Kyoto, The Museum fo Modern Arts, New York, USA (video)
Japan Avant Garde Film Exhibition, The Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (film) 
1978 International Video Festival, Sogetsu-kaikan, Tokyo (video)
Japan Video Art Festival, Center of Art and Communication, Buenos Aires, Argentina (video) 
1977 Video in Tokyo, Maki Gallery, Tokyo (video)
8th International Video Festival, Continental Gallery, Lima, Peru (video) 
1975 The 3rd Shinsaku-ten, Yasuda-seimei Hall, Tokyo (film) 
1974 New York Tokyo Video Express, Tenjosajiki, Tokyo (video)
The 2nd Shinsaku-ten, Yasuda-seimei Hall, Tokyo (film) 
installation
2005 "Past Ahead" "mot annual 2005 - life actually", Museum Contemporary Tokyo of Art
2004 "Past Ahead""Borderline Cases: For Women on the Borderlines", presented by F.A.A.B (Feminist Art Action Brigade)and A.R.T (Artist Residency Tokyo), Tokyo
"REAL? MOTHERHOOD""Woman Issue", Tikotin Museum of Japanese, Haifa, Israel
2002 "Mako Idemitsu Exhibition" Toki Art Space & Image Forum, Tokyo
2000 "STILL LIFE" Kobe Art Village Center, Kobe
"REAL? MOTHERHOOD" The Third Gallery Aya , Osaka
1995 "Mako Idemitsu & Etsuko Nakatsuji" Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo
1993 "STILL LIFE" Met Hall, Tokyo
1987 "Long, Long, ago" Seed Hall, Tokyo
1983 "Chiekosan" Toyama Kenritsu Museum, Toyama, Japan
1979 "Norichan" Shirakaba Gallery, Tokyo
1977 "Women" Shirakaba Gallery, Tokyo
1976 "Grand Mother, Mother, Dauther" Seibu Department, Tokyo
permanent collections
Miyagi Kenritsu Museum, Miyagi, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Ottawa National Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, USA
Genova University, Genova, Italy
Fukuyama Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Nagoya-shi Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Kobe Design University, Kobe, Japan
Toyama Kenritsu Museum, Toyama, Japan
Tokushimaken Bunkanomori,Tokushima, Japan
The Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
Suny Stonybrook, New York, USA
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan 
awards and grants
Special Prize The 3rd Tokyo Video Festival, Tokyo(1980)
Mention Special du Jury categorie "EXPERIMENTAL" La mondiale de film et videos, Quebec, Canada(1991)
Prix Procirep Section Fiction Festival International de Videos et Films, Centre Audivisuel Simone de Beauvoir, Paris, France(1992)
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