SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
2022 Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, CA: Ouray
2021 Art Dealers Association of America, James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY: Kikuo Saito
2021 James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY: Kikuo Saito
2019 Loretta Howard, New York, NY: Kikuo Saito: Paint with Drawing
2019 Lori Bookstein Projects, New York, NY: Lyrical Abstraction: Small Scale
2018 Lori Bookstein Projects, New York, NY: Saito: Works on Paper
2018 Loretta Howard, New York, NY: Kikuo Saito: Resonant Tension
2018 Octavia Art Gallery, Houston, TX: 40 Years
2018 Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA: Never Before Seen Paintings from the Estate
2017 Octavia Art Gallery, Houston TX
2017 Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2017 Golden Artist Colors at the Sam & Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, NY: Kikuo Saito Color and Drawing
2016 Leslie Feely, New York, NY: The Final Years
2015 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI: New Paintings
2015 Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA; Houston, TX; San Antonio, TX
2014 Leslie Feely Fine Art, New York, NY: Paintings and Works on Paper
2012 Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York, NY: Works on Paper
2012 Vision's Gallery at Asagaya Art College, Tokyo, Japan
2011 Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL: Paintings
2009 Leslie Feely Fine Art, New York, NY: Paintings
2006 Gallery Thiele, Linz, Austria: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper
2005 Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
2005 Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
1999 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham MI
1996 Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
1996 Marita Gilliam Gallery, Raleigh, NC
1996 Galerie BMB, Amsterdam, Holland
1994 Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1993 Blaffer-Robinson Gallery, Houston, TX
1993 Fort Lauderdale Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL: Kikuo Saito: A True Colorist
1993 Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London, England
1993 Eva Cohen Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Waddington & Shiell Galleries, Toronto, Canada
1992 Gallery Three, Palm Beach, FL
1987 Galerie Don Stewart, Montreal, Canada
1987 Images Gallery, Toledo, OH
1984 Il Punto Blu Gallery, Southampton, NY
1983 Hett Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
1983 Medicine Hat Museum, Alberta, Canada
1981 Galerie Ninety-Nine Bay, Harbor Islands, FL
1981 Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria
1980 S.G. Mathews Gallery, San Antonio, TX
1979 William Edward O'Reilly, Inc., New York, NY
1976 Deitcher/ O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Art Basel, James Fuentes Gallery, Miami, FL
2010 "Calder to Rauschenberg," McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
2009 "Expanding Boundaries: Lyrical Abstraction," Boca Raton Museum of Art,
Boca Raton, FL
2008 Cajetan Glil Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
2005 Gallerie D'Arte, Benucci, Rome
2004 The Art Festival for World Peace, Shanghai, China
2001 "Clement Greenberg: A Critic's Collection" Portland Art Museum Portland, Oregon
1995 "Olitski, Poons, Saito" Zeckendorf Towers New York, NY
1995 FIAC, Paris Art Fair Paris, France
1992 "Five Years" Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery London, England
1991 Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Collection, Seville and Zoragoza, Spain
1991 "Inaugural Exhibition" Salander-O'Reilly Galleries Berlin, Germany
1990 "Art '90" London Contemporary Art Far
1989 "Important Works on Paper" Meredith Long Houston, Texas
1987 Satani Gallery Tokyo, Japan
1985 "Private Treasures from San Antonio Collections" San Antonio Museum, Texas
1985 "Artist's Salute the Return of Hailey's Comet" Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1982 "Saito and Roth" Nicola Jacobs Gallery London, England
1982 "Contemporary Abstractionists" Rubiner Gallery Royal Oak, Michigan
1982 Basel Art Fair Basel, Switzerland
1981 Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada: Keller, Saito and Sutton
1981 IV Medellin Biennial, Medellin, Colombia
1981 Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany: Phoenix
1981 Gallery Ulysses, Vienna, Austria: Boxer, Olitski, Poons, Saito
1980 Dublin, Ireland: ROSC International Exhibition
1980 Andre Emmerich, New York, NY: The Next Generation: A Curator's Choice
1979 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1978 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York: Shape and Field
1977 United States Mission to the United Nations, New York, NY: Group Show
1975 Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT: Contemporary Reflections
1972 LoGuidice Gallery, New York, NY: Four Painters
1972 Andre Emmerich, New York, NY: Group Guest Show
1972 Musee Galerie, Paris, France: Group Invitation
1970 Reese Pally Gallery, New York, NY: Young American Painters
THEATER WORK
1965 modern dance, an early collaboration with Toshiro Ogawa [Lighting Designer at Waseda University], Tokyo, Japan
1966 modern dance piece with LD Toshiro Ogawa, lino Hall, Tokyo, Japan
1967 Rochelle Owen’s Futz directed by Tom O’Horgan, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York, NY
1967 Tom Paine directed by Tom O’Horgan, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York, NY
1967 Tom Eyen’s Sara B. Divine, Spoleto Festival, Spoleto, Italy
1972 Robert Wilson, Opera Comique, Paris
1972 Robert Wilson’s theatre piece at 6th Festival of the Arts, Shiraz, Iran
1973 Haftan, Byrd Hoffman Foundation, New York, NY
1976 Water Play, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York, NY
1996 Toy Garden, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
1996 Toy Garden, La MaMA Experimental Theatre Club, New York, NY
2001 Ash Garden, LaGuardia High School, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
1970 “Outside the Galleries: Four Artists”, Frank Bowling, Arts Magazine, November, Illus.
1972 “Ouverture”, Chroniqu de l’Art Vivant, Paris.
1976 New York Times, John Russell, February
1976 Arts Magazine, Judith Tannenbaum, April.
1978 Village Voice, June
1978 San Antonio Express, J.B. Sobre, June.
1979 San Antonio Express, J.B. Sobre, May.
1979 San Antonio Light, Glen Tucker, May.
1979 “Merging Ballet and Art”, Eve Lynn Sawyer, San Antonio Express, May.
1980 “Kikuo Saito”, Nina French-Fraizier, Art International, January - February, Illus.
1980 “Kikuo Saito at William Edward O’Reilly”, Phyllis Tuchman, Art in America, March, Illus.
1980 “Kikuo Saito, Handmade Papers”, Mary Smith, Art/World, March - April.
1980 “The Next Generation: A Curator’s Choice”, Kenworth Moffet, Rhineburgh Press, Inc., New York.
1980 “Art: A New Generation Joins Color-Field Ranks”, Hilton Kramer, The New York Times, September.
1981 Die Presse, Vienna, January.
1981 Weinter, Vienna, January.
1981 Wienter Zietung, January.
1981 “Clayworks Group Show”, Valtentin Tatransky, Arts Magazine, May.
1981 “Keller, Saito, Sutton”, by Russel Bingham, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada.
1981 “The Next Generation: A Curator’s Choice”, Karen Wilkin, Artsmagazine, Toronto, June.
1981 “The Next Generation: A Curator’s Choice”, Rene Mecha, Art International, March - April.
1981 “Keller, Saito & Sutton at the Edmonton Art Gallery”, Lelde Muehlenbachs, Artmagazine, Toronto, September - October,
1982 “Christensen, Hughto, Saito, Zox, Kenneth Heffel Fine Art Inc.”, Ron Glowen, Vanguard, Vancouver, Canada, April.
1982 “Another Skeleton”, Tim Hilton, The Observer, London, March.
1982 “Collecting with a Tradition”, Pamela Jablons, Diversion, New York, August.
1984 “Art; Abstract Imagery Marks Group Show”, Helen A. Harrison, The New York Times, November.
1984 “Gracefully Blending Western and Oriental Traditions”, Helen A. Harrison, The New York Times, March.
1984 “From the Studio”, Phyllis Braff, The East Hampton Star, March.
1984 “Varied Hue at Punto Blue”, Robert Long, The East Hampton Star, November.
1984 “Abstract Imagery Group Show”, Helen A. Harrison, The New York Times, November.
1985 “Kikuo Saito”, Ellen Lee Klein, Arts Magazine, April.
1986 “Kikuo Saito”, Vivien Raynor, The New York Times, April.
1986 “Kikuo Saito”, Kenworth Moffet, Moffet’s Artletter, May.
1987 “Unobtrusive Structuring Marks Kikuo Saito’s Art”, Julia Van Alst, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio, June.
1988 “Kikuo Saito”, Kenworth Moffet, Moffet’s Artletter, June.
1988 “After Minimal Art”, Teru Fujieda, Graphication, Tokyo, December.
1989 “Art Beat”, interview by Masaaki Itakura, BBC World Service, London, broadcast in Tokyo.
1989 “Kikuo Saito”, Sue Hubbard, Time Out, London, June.
1990 “The Timelessness of Great Art”, Linda Govel, Resident Magazine, February.
1996 “Playing in The Neighborhood”, The New York Times, March.