Kyoko Asakura

Japanese sculptor (1925–2016)

Kyoko Asakura (Japanese: 朝倉響子, Hepburn: Asakura Kyōko, 9 December 1925, Tokyo – 30 May 2016, Tokyo^[1]) was a Japanese sculptor. Her birth name was written 矜子. She was the second daughter of sculptor Fumio Asakura and sister of stage designer and painter Setsu Asakura.

Career

1948 - Nitten Excellence
1956 - withdrew from Nitten
1979 - 7th Nagano prefecture Outdoor Sculpture Award
1982 - Teijiro Nakahara Excellence Award.

Solo Exhibition

1960 - Bungeishunjū gallery, Tokyo
1962 - Takashimaya, Osaka prefecture
1967 - Gallery Cube, Tokyo
1970 - Gallery Universe, Tokyo (also in 1973, 1978, 1981)
1985 - Shibuya PARCO, Tokyo / Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata Prefecture
1988 - Shibuya PARCO, Tokyo (also in 1993)
2000 - Modern Sculpture Center, Tokyo
2000 - Fumio Asakura Memorial Hall, Oita Prefecture
2003–2004 - Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka prefecture
2010 - Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

Public space collection

"ANNE", New Chitose Airport, Hokkaido
"Futari", Sendai West Park, Miyagi prefecture^[2]
"Raleigh", Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita Prefecture
"MARI", Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo
"Mari and Sherry", Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Tokyo
"Jill", Nihonbashi Plaza Building, Tokyo^[3]
"Fiona and Arian", Education Forest Park, Tokyo
"NIKE", "Summer", Tokyo Sumitomo Twin Building, Tokyo
"I am a juvenile newspaper", Arisugawa-no-miya Memorial Park, Tokyo
"Tomorrow (Kanji: "Dinner on Sun Candle")", Tokyo Metropolitan Hiroo Hospital, Tokyo
"Woman", Machida station, Tokyo
"CONNECTION", Fuchu City Hall, Tokyo
"Nicola", street of Himeji
"Ann and Michelle", Fuchu Forest Park, Tokyo
"NIKE '83", Joinus Forest, Kanagawa
"Nike and Nicola", Yokohama Citizens' Cultural Center, Kanagawa
"Michelle", Kawaguchi Western Park, Saitama^[4]
"Raleigh", "Mary and Cathy", Sakura Station, Chiba
"Lecture", Nagano-shi Shiroyama Park Children's amusement park, Nagano
"Hitotsuki", Takaoka-shi Sogo-dori, Toyama
"RAQUEL", Sakae Park, Aichi
"Jill", Midosu Sculpture Street, Osaka
"Flower", Hotel Grand Hill Ichigaya, Tokyo
"Vanessa", Hotel Grand Hill Ichigaya, Tokyo
"Lisa", Hotel Grand Hill Ichigaya, Tokyo

Work Collection

Asakura Kyoko Sculpture Collection and Waves, Photo book · Narahara Kazutaka, PARCO Publishing, 1980
Kyoko, Photo book, Shigeo Anzai, PARCO publication, 1985

References

^ "彫刻家の朝倉響子さんが死去". 産経新聞. 31 May 2016. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
^ "●朝倉響子「二人」 - カエサルの世界". ●朝倉響子「二人」 - カエサルの世界 (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 November 2018.
^ "Midosuji.biz ：ジル／朝倉響子". www.midosuji.biz (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 November 2018.
^ "朝倉響子 / ミッシェル "Michelle"". @ART (in Japanese). 6 December 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2018.