About the artist:

He was born on September 14, 1924, in Takara, a village within Shiranui, District of Udo, Province of Kumamoto, currently named city of Shiranui. The family Mabe, by tradition, was the owner of a lodging site destined to people arriving by vessel from Shimabara and Misumi. His father’s name was Soichi Mabe, who first worked in Japan as a railroad employee and afterwards as a barber. His mother’s name was Haru. She descended from a traditional farmers family. The family was made up of seven sons, being Manabu the oldest, following him Satoru, Michiko, Hitoko, Yoshiko and Sunao, having this last two brothers been born in Brazil. Tetsuya, a cousin of theirs, has also been brought up together with them after his father’s death. Manabu Mabe has immigrated to Brazil in 1934, when he was ten, on board of the vessel La Plata Maru. His wife Yoshino left to Brazil the same year, coming from Niigata. ------------------------------------------------------ EXHIBITIONS 1950 - Salão Nacional de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro 1951 - Salão Paulista de Arte Moderna - Salão Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro - Gold Medal at First Salão Linense de Artes Plásticas 1952 - Honourable mention at 47th Salão Paulista de Belas Artes - Great Silver Medal at Salão Seibi 1953 - Second São Paulo Biennial - "Purchase Award" at Salão Nacional de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro - Great Gold Medal at Salão Seibi, the "Colony Award" 1954 - International Art Exhibition, Tokyo, sponsored by Mainichi Shinbun 1955 - IV Salão Paulista de Arte Moderna - Third São Paulo Biennial 1956 - Small Silver Medal at Fifth Salão Paulista de Arte Moderna 1957 - Small Gold Medal at Salão Paulista de Arte Moderna 1958 - Great Gold Medal at Salão Paulista de Arte Moderna - "Jury Exemption Award" at Seventh Salão Nacional de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro - Galeria de Arte da Folha 1959 - "State Governor Award" at Eighth Salão Paulista de Arte Moderna - Best National Painter Award at Fifth São Paulo Biennial - "Purchase Award" at Dallas Museum of fine Arts - "Grant Award" and "Braun Award" at First Paris Biennial - International Art Exhibition, Tóquio, sponsored by Mainichi Shinbun - "Exposition des Artistes Brésiliens", at Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris - Leirner Award of Contemporary Art 1960 - "Fiat Award" at 30th Venice Biennial 1961 - Panamerican Union Exhibition, Washington - Latin American Artists Exhibit, at Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston - Japanese Art of the Americas Exhibit (PAU), Washington 1962 - Art Biennial, Córdoba, Argentina - "New Art of Brazil": Walter art Center, Minneapolis; - City Art Museum, St. Louis; - San Francisco Museum of Art; - Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center 1963 - Seventh São Paulo Biennial - "Pintura Latino-Americana" at Instituto de Arte Contemporâneo, Lima, Peru 1964 - Seibi Group exhibition at Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro 1965 - Brazilian Art Today, Royal Art College, London, and Museum Für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna - "Nippo-Brazilian Painters", Brazilian Embassy, La Paz, Bolívia - Eighth São Paulo Biennial - Japanese Artists of Brazil tour at Pan American Union, Washington, Oakland and Tokyo - "Nippo-Brazilian Painting Today", Tokyo 1966 - "Nippo-Brazilian Artists" at Museu de Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo University - "The Artist and the Machine", Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro - "Two Nippo Brazilian Painters" at Brazil-USA Cultural Institute, Washington - "Pintura y Grabado del Brasil", Museu de Arte Moderna, Mexico 1967 - Ninth São Paulo Biennial 1968 - International Art Festival, New York 1969 - Tenth São Paulo Biennial - Nippo-Brazilian Painters, at Galeria Cândido Portinari, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state - Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Illinois 1970 - Contemporary Brazilian Art, Brazilian Consulate, Milan 1971 - Eleventh São Paulo Biennial 1972 - Third Coltejer Art Bennial, Medelin, Colômbia - "One Hundred and Fifty Years of Brazil's Independence" Yakult Honsha, Tokyo 1973 - 12th São Paulo Biennial - Acervo do Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Tóquio - Japanese Artists in the Americas, at National Museum of Kyoto and Tokyo Museum - Panorama of Contemporary Brazilian Art, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo 1975 - 13th São Paulo Biennial 1977 - "Arte Actual de Ibero-America", Madrid - "Tribute to Latin American Painting", San Salvador - 14th São Paulo Biennial 1979 - Panorama of Contemporary Brazilian Art, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo - "Nippo-Brazilian Artists" at BADEP exhibition hall, Curitiba, Paraná state 1981 - FIAC 81, Paris - "Latin American Art and Japan", National Museum of Art, Osaka 1982 - FIAC 82, Paris 1984 - FIAC 84, Paris - ARCO 84, Madri - SAF 84, Stockholm - Realidade Galeria de Arte, Rio de Janeiro - "The Great Masters of Brazilian Abstract Art" Tour of Europe - "Acting Brazilian Art", Rio de Janeiro and Brasília 1985 - ICAF 85, London 1986 - ARCO 86, Madrid 1987 - FIAC 87, Paris - SAGA - Grand Palais, Paris 1988 - MUBA, Basel, Suíça - - FIAC 88, Paris 1989 - ARCO 89, Madrid 1990 - Ergane Gallery, New York 1991 - Grand Palais, Paris 1994 - Mabe a Arte de Uma Família, Joh Mabe Escitório de Arte, São Paulo 1995 - Brasil - Japão - Centenário de Amizade - Museu Metropolitano de Curitiba, Paraná - Brasil - Japão - Arte - Fundação Mokiti Okada - São Paulo 1997 - Espaço Cultural INFRAERO, Aeroporto de Cumbica, SP -------------------------------------------------------------------- AWARDS 1958 - "Great Gold Medal" at the Seventh São Paulo Modern Art Salon 1959 - "State Governor Award" at the Eighth São Paulo Modern Art Salon - "Leirner Award of Contemporary Art" - "Best National Painter" at the Fifth São Paulo Biennial - "Braun Award" at the First Paris Biennial - "Grant Award" at the First Paris Biennial - "Purchase Award" at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts 1960 - "Fiat Award" at the 30th Venice Biennial 1962 - "First Award" at the First American Art Biennial, Córdoba ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MUSEUMS Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM) Museu de Arte de Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro Museu de Nacional de Belas Artes do Rio de Janeiro Museu Manchete, Rio de Janeiro Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul Museu de Arte de Belo Horizonte The Museum of Contemoporany Art, Boston, EUA Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, EUA Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, EUA The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, EUA Lowe Art Museum, Miami, EUA Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington D.C., EUA The National Museum of Art, Kioto, Japão Rikka Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japão The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japão The Hakone Open Air Museum, Hakone, Japão Museum of Art (MOA), Atami, Japão Iwasaki Art Museum, Kagoshima, Japão Murauchi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japão Museo de Belas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela