Kyoko Asakura

Kyoko Asakura (朝倉 響子) 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
 * "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
 * "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
 * "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