SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Painting as Performance / Performance as Painting, KinoSaito, Verplanck, NY
Kikuo Saito: Cloud Paintings, KinoSaito, Verplanck, NY
Kikuo Saito, James Fuentes, New York, NY
2019 To Paint with Drawing, Loretta Howard, New York, NY (catalog)
Lyrical Abstraction: Small Scale, Lori Bookstein Projects, New York, NY
2018 Works on Paper, Lori Bookstein Projects, New York, NY
Kikuo Saito: Resonant Tension, Loretta Howard, New York, NY (catalog)
40 Years, Octavia Art Gallery, Houston, TX
Never Before Seen Paintings from the Estate, Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles, CA
2017-18 Works from the Estate, Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Kikuo Saito, Octavia Art Gallery, Houston, TX; New Orleans, LA
2016-17 Color and Drawing, Golden Artist Colors at the Sam & Adele Golden Gallery, New
Berlin, NY (catalog)
2016 The Final Years, Leslie Feely, New York, NY (catalog)
2015 New Paintings, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Kikuo Saito, Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA; Houston, TX; San Antonio, TX (catalog)
2014 Paintings and Works on Paper, Leslie Feely Fine Art, New York, NY (catalog)
2012 Works on Paper, Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York, NY (catalog)
Vision's Gallery, Asagaya Art College, Tokyo, Japan
2011 Paintings, Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2010 New York Design Center, New York, NY
2009 Paintings, Leslie Feely Fine Art, New York, NY
2006 Recent Paintings and Works on Paper, Gallery Thiele, Linz, Austria (catalog)
Paintings, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
2005 Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
2004 Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
2002 Stephen Gallery Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
1999 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham MI
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York
1998 Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
1997-98 Recent Paintings, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY (catalog)
1997 Gallery Thiele, Linz, Austria
1996 Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
Marita Gilliam Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Galerie BMB, Amsterdam, Holland
1995 Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London, England
1994 Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1993 Kikuo Saito: A True Colorist, Fort Lauderdale Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Blaffer-Robinson Gallery, Houston, TX
Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London, England
Eva Cohen Gallery, Chicago, IL
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
1992 Gallery Three, Palm Beach, FL
Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
1991 Recent Paintings, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY; Beverly Hills, CA (catalog)
1989 Galerie Don Stewart, Montreal, Canada
Eva Cohon Gallery, Chicago, IL
Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London, England
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
Images Gallery, Toledo, OH
1988 Waddington & Shiell Galleries, Toronto, Canada
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
1987 Galerie Don Stewart, Montreal, Canada
Images Gallery, Toledo, OH
Eva Cohen Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986 Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
1985 Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
1984 Il Punto Blu Gallery, Southampton, NY
1983 Hett Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
1982 Medicine Hat Museum, Alberta, Canada
1981 Galerie Ninety-Nine Bay, Harbor Islands, FL
Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria
Hett Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
1980 S.G. Mathews Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
1979 William Edward O'Reilly, Inc., New York, NY
S.G. Mathews Gallery, San Antonio, TX
1978 William Edward O'Reilly, Inc., New York, NY
S.G. Mathews Gallery, San Antonio, TX
1977 William Edward O'Reilly, Inc., New York, NY
1976 Deitcher/O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY (Nov/Dec)
Deitcher/O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY (Feb/March)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Calder to Rauschenberg, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
On Paper: Painted, Printed, Drawn, Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Expanding Boundaries: Lyrical Abstraction, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Group Show, Leslie Feely Fine Art, New York, NY
2008 Cajetan Glil Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
Art Festival for World Peace, Yokohama, Japan
2005 Gallerie D'Arte, Benucci, Rome
Yellowbird Gallery, Newburgh, NY
Salon III, The Loft at 81 Leonard, New York, NY
2004 The Art Festival for World Peace, Shanghai, China
2001 Clement Greenberg: A Critic's Collection, Portland Art Museum Portland, OR
1998 Abstraction II, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
Galerie Thiele, Linz, Austria
1996 Twentieth Anniversary, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Abstractions, Barbara Scott Gallery, Miami, FL
1995 Olitski, Poons, Saito, Zeckendorf Towers New York, NY
Steven Gallery Gallery, New York, NY
Toys R Art, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
1994 Group Show, Vero Beach Centre for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
Group Show, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
1993 Abstraction, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
Group Show, C.S. Schultz Gallery, Milburn, NJ
1992 Five Years, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery London, England
Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Abstract Painters Who Paint Landscapes, Schulte Gallery, South Orange, NJ
1991 Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Collection, Seville and Zoragoza, Spain
Inaugural Exhibition, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Berlin, Germany
Gallery Uysses, New York, NY
15th Anniversary Exhibition, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Gallery Selections, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
1990 Group: 1990, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London, England
Turmac Tobacco Company B.V., Zevenaar, Netherlands
Stewart Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
1989 Important Works on Paper, Meredith Long Houston, Texas
Art for All, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London, England
Silvermine Gallery, Stamford, CT
Paperworks, John Szoke Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Satani Gallery Tokyo, Japan
New Abstract Prints, Associated American Artists, New York, NY
John Szoke Gallery, New York, NY
Kathleen Laverty Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
Waddington & Shiell Galleries, Toronto, Canada
1986 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
1985 Private Treasures from San Antonio Collections, San Antonio Museum, Texas
Artist's Salute the Return of Hailey's Comet, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Griffin-Hallery Gallery, Washington Depot, CT
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
1984 Martha White Gallery, Louisville, KY
Hett Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
Il Punto Blue Gallery, Southampton, NY
Artists Choose Artists, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
1983 Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
1982 Saito and Roth, Nicola Jacobs Gallery London, England
Saito, Slone, and Zox, Gallery One, Toronto, Canada
Contemporary Abstractionists, Rubiner Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
Martha White Gallery, Louisville, KY
Ken Heffel Fine Arts, Vancouver, Canada
1981 Keller, Saito, and Sutton, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
Watson de Nagy, Houston, TX
IV Medellin Biennial, Medellin, Colombia
Phoenix, Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany
Boxer, Olitski, Poons, Saito, Gallery Ulysses, Vienna, Austria
Clayworks Studio Workshop, New York, NY
Uniquely Painted Prints, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
Rubiner Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Ivory Klimpton, San Francisco, CA
1980 ROSC International Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
The Next Generation: A Curator's Choice, Andre Emmerich, New York, NY
Inaugural Exhibition, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
1979 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Gallery Ninety-Nine, Bay Harbour Islands, FL
Watson de Nagy Gallery, Houston, TX
1978 Shape and Field, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
1977 Group Show, United States Mission to the United Nations, New York, NY
1976 Deitcher/O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
Group Show, Gray Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
1975 Contemporary Reflections, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Invitational, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
1973 LoGuidice Gallery, New York, NY
Group, Soho Center for the Visual Arts, New York, NY
1972 Contemporary Reflections, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Four Painters, LoGuidice Gallery, New York, NY
Group Guest Show, Andre Emmerich, New York, NY
Group Invitation, Musee Galerie, Paris, France
Group, LoGuidice Gallery, New York, NY
Group, SohoCenter for the Visual Arts, New York, NY
Invitational, Meadow BrookArt Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
1970 Young American Painters, Reese Pally Gallery, New York, NY

THEATER WORK
2001 Ash Garden, LaGuardia High School, New York, NY
1996 Toy Garden, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
Toy Garden, La MaMA Experimental Theatre Club, New York, NY
1976 Water Play, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York, NY
1973 Haftan, Byrd Hoffman Foundation, New York, NY
1972 Robert Wilson, Opera Comique, Paris
Robert Wilson’s theatre piece at 6th Festival of the Arts, Shiraz, Iran
1967 Rochelle Owen’s Futz directed by Tom O’Horgan, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New
York, NY
Tom Paine directed by Tom O’Horgan, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York, NY
Tom Eyen’s Sara B. Divine, Spoleto Festival, Spoleto, Italy
1966 modern dance piece with LD Toshiro Ogawa, lino Hall, Tokyo, Japan
1965 modern dance, an early collaboration with Toshiro Ogawa [Lighting Designer at Waseda
University], Tokyo, Japan

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 Kikuo Saito (monograph), James Fuentes Press, New York
2019 Bridget Gleeson, “In ‘The Final Years,’ See the Last Works of a Celebrated Japanese Painter
and Set Designer,” Artsy, September
John Dorfman, “Setting the Scene,” Art & Antiques, March
John Dorfman, “Kikuo Saito: To Paint with Drawing,” Loretta Howard, New York, Sept–Oct
2016-17 Jim Walsh, “Cutting Water,” Sam & Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, NY, Sept–March
2016 Bridget Gleeson, “In ‘The Final Years,’ See the Last Works of a Celebrated Japanese Painter
and Set Designer,” Artsy, September
2015 Karen Wilkin, “Kikuo Saito: A Restless Spirit,” Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA; Houston,
TX; San Antonio, TX
Stephanie Preweda, “Japanese painter Kikuo Saito’s colorful works on display in
Birmingham,” The Oakland Press, June
2014 Joshua Cohen, “Reflections,” Leslie Feely Fine Art, New York, March–May
2012 Karen Wilkin, “Kikuo Saito: Works on Paper,” Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York, Nov–Dec
2006 Karen Wilkin, “Kikuo Saito: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper,” Gallery Thiele, Linz,
Austria, June–July
1997-98 Karen Wilkin, “Kikuo Saito: Recent Paintings,” Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, Dec–Jan
1996 “Playing in The Neighborhood,” The New York Times, March
1991 Karen Wilkin, “Kikuo Saito,” Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, November
1990 Linda Govel, “The Timelessness of Great Art,” Resident Magazine, February
Graphication, Tokyo, February, Illus.
Group: 1990, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY, Illus.
1989 “Art Beat,” interview by Masaaki Itakura, BBC World Service, London, broadcast in Tokyo
Sue Hubbard, “Kikuo Saito,” Time Out, London, June
1988 Teru Fujieda, “After Minimal Art,” Graphication, Tokyo, December
Kenworth Moffet, “Kikuo Saito,” Moffet’s Artletter, June
1987 Julia Van Alst, “Unobtrusive Structuring Marks Kikuo Saito’s Art,” The Blade, Toledo, Ohio,
June
1986 Kenworth Moffet, “Kikuo Saito,” Moffet’s Artletter, May
Vivien Raynor, “Kikuo Saito,” The New York Times, April
1985 Ellen Lee Klein, “Kikuo Saito,” Arts Magazine, April
1984 Helen A. Harrison, “Art; Abstract Imagery Marks Group Show,” The New York Times,
November
Robert Long, “Varied Hue at Punto Blue,” The East Hampton Star, November
Helen A. Harrison, “Abstract Imagery Group Show,” The New York Times, November
Helen A. Harrison, “Gracefully Blending Western and Oriental Traditions,” The New York
Times, March
Phyllis Braff, “From the Studio,” The East Hampton Star, March
1982 Pamela Jablons, “Collecting with a Tradition,” Diversion, New York, August
Ron Glowen, “Christensen, Hughto, Saito, Zox, Kenneth Heffel Fine Art Inc.,” Vanguard,
Vancouver, Canada, April
Tim Hilton, “Another Skeleton,” The Observer, London, March
1981 Lelde Muehlenbachs, “Keller, Saito & Sutton at the Edmonton Art Gallery,” Artmagazine,
Toronto, Sept–Oct
Karen Wilkin, “The Next Generation: A Curator’s Choice,” Artsmagazine, Toronto, June
Valtentin Tatransky, “Clayworks Group Show,” Arts Magazine, May
Rene Mecha, “The Next Generation: A Curator’s Choice,” Art International, March–April
Die Presse, Vienna, January
Weinter, Vienna, January
Wienter Zietung, January
Russel Bingham, “Keller, Saito, Sutton,” The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
1980 Nina French-Fraizier, “Kikuo Saito,” Art International, Jan–Feb, Illus.
Phyllis Tuchman, “Kikuo Saito at William Edward O’Reilly,” Art in America, March, Illus.
Mary Smith, “Kikuo Saito, Handmade Papers,” Art/World, March–April
Kenworth Moffet, “The Next Generation: A Curator’s Choice,” Rhineburgh Press, Inc.,
New York
Hilton Kramer, “Art: A New Generation Joins Color-Field Ranks,” The New York Times,
September
1979 J.B. Sobre, San Antonio Express, May
Glen Tucker, San Antonio Light, May
Eve Lynn Sawyer, “Merging Ballet and Art,” San Antonio Express, May
1978 Village Voice, June
J.B. Sobre, San Antonio Express, June
1976 John Russell, New York Times, February
Judith Tannenbaum, Arts Magazine, April
1972 “Ouverture,” Chroniqu de l’Art Vivant, Paris
1970 Frank Bowling, “Outside the Galleries: Four Artists,” Arts Magazine, November, Illus.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
AT&T, New York, NY
Blain & Co., Boston, MA
Baxter Corp., Greenfield, IL
Buchanan Ingersoll, Pittsburgh, PA
Carnegie Center, Princeton, NJ
Chevron Oil, Dublin, CA
Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
The Edmonton Art Gallery, Canada
Estée Lauder, New York, NY
Frost Brother, San Antonio, TX
H&R Block, Kansas City, MO
H.J. Heinz, Pittsburgh, PA
Henly Group, New York, NY
Hines International, Boston, MA
Houston Industries, Houston, TX
Impact Rug Inc., Montreal, Canada
International Business Machines, New York, NY
International Minerals and Chemicals Corp.,
Chicago, IL
J.P. Morgan Chase Collection, New York, NY
The Lincoln Savings Bank, New York, NY
Midland Finance Company, Chicago, IL
Mitsui & Co., New York, NY
Mony Financial Services, Teanack, NJ
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Nova Southeastern University, FL
Northrop, Los Angeles, CA
Pepsico, New York, NY
Pfizer Inc., New York, NY
Queens University, Canada
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art,
Sarasota, FL
Siemens, Germany
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Netherlands
TRW Corp., New York, NY
Ulster Museum, Ireland
Unicorn American, New York, NY
University of Lethbridge, Canada
U.S. Equities, Chicago, IL
World Bank, Washington, DC