EXHIBITIONS
- 1975
-
- Instrumental in bringing Inventive Clothes 1909-1939 exhibition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, to National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto with the full cooperation of Mr. Koichi Tsukamoto. After its success, the Kyoto Costume Institute (KCI) was established in 1978.
- 1976
-
- Presented One Day One Show ISSEY MIYAKE, an exhibition at the Tokyo Designer's space, Tokyo.
- 1978
-
- Participated in MA Espace - Temps du Japon, an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs during the Festival d'Automne, Paris, and subsequently at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York in 1979.
- 1979
-
- Presented Les Tissus Imprimés d'Issey Miyake, an exhibition at the Musée de l’Impression sur Etoffes, France.
- 1980
-
- Participated in The Japan Style, an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
- Participated in organizing Evolution of Fashion 1835 – 1895, an exhibition at The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
- 1982
-
- Participated in Intimate Architecture: Contemporary Clothing Design, an exhibition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
- 1983
-
- Presented ISSEY MIYAKE SPECTACLE: BODYWORKS, an exhibition at the Laforet Iikura Museum, Tokyo, the Otis/Parsons Gallery, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and in 1985 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
- 1985
-
- Participated in L'Or, la Laine et la Soie, Cotons et Plumes de paon. Les Textiles de l'Inde et les Modèles Créés par Issey Miyake, an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
- 1986
-
- Participated in HAATH: Hand Weaving of India and Issey Miyake, an exhibition at the Yurakucho SEIBU Art gallery, Tokyo and the Tsukashin Hall, Hyogo, Japan.
- 1987
-
- Participated in Fashion and Surrealism, an exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York.
- 1988
-
- Presented i.i.i. at g.g.g. Issey Miyake Posters, an exhibition at the Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo.
- Presented ISSEY MIYAKE A-ŪN, an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
- 1989
-
- Organized Issey Miyake Meets Lucie Rie, an exhibition of Dame Lucie Rie at Sogetsu Gallery, Tokyo / Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka.
- 1990
-
- Participated in Energieën(Energies), an exhibition featuring Rhythm Pleats at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
- Presented ISSEY MIYAKE PLEATS PLEASE, an exhibition at the Toko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.
- Presented TEN SEN MEN, a commemorative exhibition of the Hiroshima Art Prize at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.
- 1991
-
- Participated in Beyond Japan, an exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery, London.
- 1992
-
- Participated in Tokyo Design Marathon 1991-1995“Issey Miyake Poster”an exhibition at the Tokyo Designer's Space.Tokyo.
- Presented ISSEY MIYAKE '92 TWIST, an exhibition at the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa.
- 1994
-
- Participated in Japonism in Fashion, an exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
- Participated in Japanese Design: A Survey Since 1950, an exhibition at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA and the Galleria dell'Triennale di Milano, Italy and the Centre Pompidou, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris and the Suntory Museum Tempozan, Osaka, Japan.
- 1996
-
- Participated in The First Biennale di Firenze, an exhibition at the Palazzo Pitti: Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Italy.
- 1997
-
- Presented ISAMU NOGUCHI and ISSEY MIYAKE "ARIZONA", an exhibition at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa.
- 1998
-
- Presented ISSEY MIYAKE MAKING THINGS, an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l' art contemporain Paris that later traveled to the Ace Gallery, New York in 1999 and to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo in 2000.
- 1999
-
- Participated in Visions of the Body, an exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.
- Participated in Irving Penn regards the works of Issey Miyake Special Exhibition, an exhibition at the Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo.
- 2000
-
- Participated in UTSU, an exhibition at The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Sweden.
- 2001
-
- Presented A-POC MAKING: ISSEY MIYAKE AND DAI FUJIWARA, an exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum, Berlin.
- Participated in Radical Fashion, an exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
- Participated in Extream Beauty: The Body Transformed, an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
- 2003
-
- Presented Nannano? A-POC MIYAKE ISSEY + FUJIWARA DAI, an exhibition at the Axis gallery, Tokyo.
- 2004
-
- Participated in PTYCHOSEIS:Folds+ Pleats Drepary from Ancient Greece to 21st. Century Fashion, an exhibition at the Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece.
- Co-organized Dahomey 1967: Photographs by Irving Penn, an exhibition at the Nihon Mingeikan (Japan Folk Crafts Museum,) Tokyo.
- Participated in The Encounters in the 21st Century, an exhibition featuring a special-edition piece A-POC Kanazawa for the opening exhibition of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.
- 2005
-
- Participated in Special exhibition for the 60th anniversary of the Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima: “Toward the Future”, an exhibition at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan.
- Participated in BIG BANG : DESTRUCTION ET CRÉATION DANS L'ART DU XXE SIÈCLE, an exhibition featuring PLEATS PLEASE ISSEY MIYAKE at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
- Collaborated with Tadanori Yokoo on ISSEY MIYAKE Paris Collections 1977-1999: Invitations by Tadanori Yokoo, an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama.
- 2006
-
- Participated in Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture, an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles that later traveled to The National Art Center, Tokyo in 2007 and to the Somerset House, London in 2008.
- 2008
-
- Participated in Art of Our Time, an exhibition at The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo.
- 2010
-
- Participated in L’Histoire Idéale de la Mode Contemporaine vol.1 '70 – '80, an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
- Participated in Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion, an exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery, London.
- Participated in L’Histoire Idéale de la Mode Contemporaine vol.2 '90 – 2000, an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
- 2012
-
- Participated in Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion, an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.
- 2014
-
- Participated in Future Beauty: The Tradition of Reinvention in Japanese Fashion, an exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
- Participated in Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain 30th Anniversary exhibition Memorire Vives, with IN-EI ISSEY MIYAKE
- 2016
-
- Presented The Work of Miyake Issey, an exhibition at The National Art Center, Tokyo. (March 16-June 13)
- Participated in Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology, an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
- 2017
-
- Participated in Items: Is Fashion Modern?, an exhibition featuring A-POC QUEEN and Black Turtleneck Top (1980) at Museum of Modern Art, New York. (Oct.1-Jan.28, 2018)
- 2018
-
- Participated in Japon – Japonismes. Objets inspire, 1867-2048, an exhibition featuring IKKO TANAKA ISSEY MIYAKE Nihon Buyo and Bokugi at Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France (Nov.15, 2018-Mar.3, 2019)
- 2020
-
- Participated in Ikko Tanaka: Design for the Future, an exhibition at the Nara Prefectural Museum of Art.
- 2024
-