Tadanori Yokoo
- Introduction
- Tadanori Yokoo (横尾 忠則, Yokoo Tadanori, born 27 June 1936) is a Japanese graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker and painter. His practice stands on while tests the border between art and design. In a playful and dazzling signature style, Yokoo manifested frequent engagements with visual and cultural elements from both within Japan and overseas in his work.
- Wikidata
- Q3513688
- Introduction
- Yokoo embraced a pop art aesthetic in Japan during the 1960s, designing posters, books covers, and illustrations for corporations. Since the 1980s he has painted in an abstracted figurative style, and has collaborated with the fashion designer Issey Miyake.
- Nationality
- Japanese
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Actor, Graphic Designer, Textile Designer, Illustrator, Painter, Poster Artist
- Name
- Tadanori Yokoo
- Ulan
- 500060125
Exhibitions
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From the Collection:
1960–1969 Mar 26, 2016–Mar 19, 2017
MoMA
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Making Music Modern: Design for Ear and Eye
Nov 15, 2014–Jan 18, 2016
MoMA
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Hand Signals: Digits, Fists, and Talons
Apr 5–Sep 8, 2013
MoMA
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Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde
Nov 18, 2012–Feb 25, 2013
MoMA
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Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000
Jul 29–Nov 5, 2012
MoMA
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Tadanori Yokoo has
20 exhibitionsonline.
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Tadanori Yokoo Smiling mouth with moustache, Recital at Kyoto Festival Hall 1964
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Tadanori Yokoo B:1/B:2 1964
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Tadanori Yokoo Vocal Group Niji 1964
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Tadanori Yokoo Made in Japan, Tadanori Yokoo, Having Reached a Climax at the Age of 29, I Was Dead 1965
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Tadanori Yokoo Asahi Beer 1966
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Tadanori Yokoo The Rose-Colored Dance, A La Maison De M. Civecawa (Poster for a performance by Tatsumi Hijikata's butoh dance company) 1966
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Tadanori Yokoo Poetry By Mutsuo Takahashi 1966
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Tadanori Yokoo 16th Exhibition Of Japan Advertising Artists Club c. 1956-66
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Tadanori Yokoo 16th Exhibition of Japan Advertising Artists Club c. 1956-66
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Tadanori Yokoo Yukio Mishima, The Aesthetics of End 1966
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Tadanori Yokoo Koshimaki-Osen 1966
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Tadanori Yokoo The City and Design, The Wonders of Life on Earth, Isamu Kurita 1966
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Tadanori Yokoo Takarazuka, Grand Revue 1966
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Tadanori Yokoo Stranger From The Wilderness 1967
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Tadanori Yokoo Ballad Dedicated To An Amputated Little Finger 1967
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Tadanori Yokoo Yakuza Films: One Movement of Postwar Japanese Cinema 1968
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Tadanori Yokoo This is America 1968
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Tadanori Yokoo New York 1968
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Tadanori Yokoo Poster for a Happening 1968
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Tadanori Yokoo Diary of a Shinjuku Burglar 1968
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Tadanori Yokoo The Trip 1968
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Tadanori Yokoo Poster for a Noh Play 1969
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Tadanori Yokoo Landscape No. 5 (1969)
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Tadanori Yokoo Landscape No. 13 (1969)
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Tadanori Yokoo Koshimake Osen 2, Fire in a Long-sleeved Kimono 1969
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Tadanori Yokoo 3 Illustrations for "Killed By Roses" (A Book Of Portraits Of Yukio Mishima) 1969
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Tadanori Yokoo Illustration for container for Eikoh Hosoe's "Ordeal By Roses" 1969
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Tadanori Yokoo Europe, Tokyo English Center c.1965
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Tadanori Yokoo The Silly Generation 1970
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Tadanori Yokoo Exhibition of the Work of Ekin 1970
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Tadanori Yokoo Anniversary Performance of the Garumella Dance Company 1970
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Tadanori Yokoo "Art Now" 1971
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Tadanori Yokoo Poster For National Bunraku Theatre 1971
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Tadanori Yokoo Chisetsu Yumiharizuki 1971
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Tadanori Yokoo Untitled (1971)
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Tadanori Yokoo Poster For National Bunraku Theatre 1971
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Tadanori Yokoo Greeting 1972
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Tadanori Yokoo Clear Light (1975 calendar) (1974)
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Tadanori Yokoo Untitled(graphic image) 1974
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Tadanori Yokoo, Columbia Records Album cover for Santana, Amigos 1976
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Tadanori Yokoo Nihon Buyo 1981
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Tadanori Yokoo Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai Unknown
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Tadanori Yokoo Tadanori Yokoo 1986
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Tadanori Yokoo Yamato Takeru 1988
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Tadanori Yokoo Japanese Society for the Rights of Authors, Composers, and Publishers 1988
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Tadanori Yokoo Tadanori Yokoo: Total Graph-ty 1988
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Tadanori Yokoo Fancydance 1989
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Tadanori Yokoo Are You Ready For Fresh Air?, Vitar 1989
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