Tetsumi kudo

Tetsumi Kudo’s X-rated cages, terrariums and aquariums shocked the art world, influencing everyone from the Chapman brothers to Mike Kelley. Francesca Gavin looks back on the life and work of a true art rebel

Osaka-born Tetsumi Kudo's oeuvre has been the subject of a number of major international retrospectives since his death in 1990, and these indicate the artist's increasing postwar historical significance. The current National Museum of Art, Osaka retrospective is magisterial. With more than 600 pages,...

In a wide-ranging practice spanning four decades, post-war Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo (1935 –1990) explored the human experience, interrogating the

Tetsumi Kudo, 1963

Cultivation by Radio-activity in the Electronic Circuit - Tetsumi Kudo — Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Contemporary Art Library includes documentation of 14 projects including Tetsumi Kudo from as early as 2008.

Tetsumi Kudo. Fossil in Hiroshima. 1976. Embossing with spray paint additions and artificial fly from a set of five embossings with spray paint additions. sheet: 25 3/4 x 19 5/8" (65.4 x 49.9 cm). Peter Bramsen, Paris. Peter Bramsen, Paris. The Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Endowment. 55.2014.5. © 2025 ADAGP, Paris + ARS, New York. Series. Drawings & Prints

‘My main concern is ‘observation.’ I observe you, myself, and all other human beings the same way a doctor observes guinea pigs.’—#TetsumiKudo ‘Tetsumi Kudo. Cages,’ on view at our📍Hong Kong gallery, brings together a selection of Kudo’s signature cages made between 1966 and 1980. These works are significant for their inclusion of an everyday object like the birdcage, which contextualizes his assemblages within the realm of the domestic. Plan your visit through 31 August at the link in…

This Autumn, Hauser & Wirth London will host an exhibition of works by Tetsumi Kudo (1935 – 1990) mounted in conjunction with Andrea Rosen Gallery.

Tetsumi Kudo