Founded in 1975 as Artist Union, AU is comprised of artists from a wide range of fields, including painters, critics,
and architects who were active in the 1960s, and has continued to carry on the trends of postwar Japanese avant-garde art, including Gutai.
In 1976, Shozo Shimamoto was appointed as the executive director, and in accordance with this spirit of "doing what no one else has done",
the organization has continued to promote creative art to the world,
and has established itself as an organization that expresses the freedom and infinite possibilities of artistic expression.
In 1980, the name was changed from Arteist Union to Art Unidentified, and although there are many aspects of the organization that are immature,
it has become a fertile ground for new creations, and even after Shimamoto's death, the organization continues to carry on that spirit.
(International)
Italy / France / Finland / Belgium / Ukraine / USA / Czechoslovakia /
Brazil / Uruguay / Hong Kong / Taiwan / Beijing / Others
(Japan)
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art / Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum /
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art / Osaka Municipal Museum of Art /
Kintetsu Department Store / Daimaru / GINZA SIX / Shin-Nishinomiya Yacht Harbor / Others
ARTIST miu I U-GO I Yutaka Edo I Etsushi Ohno
Takehiro Kawatani I Sumiko J Kim I Tsubasa Kono
Takaaki Shiomi I Shu I Yuhei Takada
Fumiko Tanaka I Theo Haze I Masanori Nakao
Hiroshi Nagare I Motoo Nomura I Kohei Matsui
Mao Matsuda I Mitsunobu Miyamoto I Tomohiro Yagi
LION
1-1-10 Koshienguchi,
Nishinomiya City,
Hyogo Prefecture, 663-8113
art.unidentified@gmail.com