Katsuhiro YAMAGUCHI

In 1960, Yamaguchi, Morio Shinoda, Kakuzo Tatehata and Bushiro Mori founded Modern Sculpture Group. In 1966, Yamaguchi exhibited “C-Relationship” at the 7th Modern Art Exhibition. He was awarded the Grand Prix at the 4th Nagaoka Modern Art Exhibition in 1967. Yamaguchi throughout the 1970s and 1980s continued to found and participate in a variety of art groups, among them Environmental Planning (with Arata Isozaki and Kotaro Usugane, 1968), Video Place (with Nobihiro Kawanaka, Hakudo Kobayashi and Fujio Nakaya, 1972), and Arts Unis (1982). At the EXPO Osaka 1970, Yamaguchi acted as the chief producer of the Mitsui Group’s pavilion, transforming it into a “total theater stage” experience. He also exhibited "Cube of Light." At the 11th Modern Art Exhibition, he contributed “Las Meninas No. 1." Yamaguchi became a professor of art at Tsukuba University in 1977, a position which he held until 1992 when he transferred to Kobe Design University as a professor of visual communication (until 1999). Since 1990, he also engaged in the planning and realization of Awaji Art Village. In 2001 he collapsed from illness but continued his work while rehabilitating. A retrospective was held at the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Art in 2006. He passed away in 2018.