Institutional solo and group exhibitions
| 2018-19 | Epic Abstraction. Pollock to Herrera. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (December 17, 2018 - ongoing) |
| 2018 | YU-ICHI INOUE, La calligraphie libérée (1916-1985), Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi, France (September 29 - December 17, 2018) |
| 2018 | YU-ICHI INOUE, La calligraphie libérée (1916-1985), Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris, Paris, France (July 12 - September 15, 2018) |
| 2018 | Julius Bissier and East Asia. The Realm of my Imagination, “Ausstellungshalle” in the Augustinermuseum, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany (May 19 - September 23, 2018) |
| 2017 | Natur(en), Neuer Kunstverein Giessen, Giessen, Germany (January 21 - March 12, 2017) |
| 2017 | YU-ICHI, Nanjing Art University, China (October 13 - November 26, 2017) |
| 2016 | A Centennial Exhibition INOUE Yuichi, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan |
| 2015 | Calligraphic Abstraction, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA | 2015 | The End of Modernity in Calligraphy: From Yuichi Inoue, Lee Ufan to Zhang Yu, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan | 2015 | Far Yet Close: Calligraphy by Inoue Yuichi, Musée Tomo, Tôkyô, Japan |
| 2015 | Yuichi Inoue, Setouchi City Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan |
| 2015 | Buddha - 108 Encounteres, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2013 | Contemporary Art and Calligraphy - At the Nexus of Painting and Writing, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul Calligraphy Art Museum, Seoul, Korea |
| 2013 | Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates |
| 2012 | Inoue Yuichi: Painting with All of One’s heart, and the Avantgarde Art of Calligraphy, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Karuizawa, Japan |
| 2011 | The Art of Writing, Kurhaus-Kolonnaden, Wiesbaden, Germany |
| 2010 | Works with the Collection of Rolf Ricke, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany |
| 2008 | Works with the Collection of Rolf Ricke, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany |
| 2008 | Kanji Art of Inoue Yuichi, Shi Fang Art Museum, Zhengzhou, China |
| 2007-08 | Japan and the West, The Filled Void, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany |
| 2005 | Zeichen setzen - YU-ICHI / UECKER, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany |
| 2005 | Letter . Symbol . Gesture, Carlfriedrich Claus in the context from Klee to Pollock, Kunstsammlung Chemnitz, Germany |
| 2005 | Inoue Yuichi, Hangzhou International Calligraphy Art Festival, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China |
| 2003 | Ineffably Beautiful, The Mystical Paradox in Twentieth Century Art, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany |
| 1999 | YU-ICHI - 100 Works, Art Center Seoul, Korea |
| 1995-96 | YU-ICHI, Hin, Gallery of the Tianjin Renmin Meishu Chubanshe (Tianjin, People`s Republic of China); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany; Galerie im Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 1995 | YU-ICHI, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland |
| 1994-95 | Screams against the Sky, Japanese Art after 1945. Modernism and Transition, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama; Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA |
| 1992 | The Splendour of Poverty, Azabu Museum, Tôkyô, Japan |
| 1989 | YU-ICHI, Works 1955 - 1985, touring exhibition through six Japanese museums: The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka; Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata; The Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi; The Ehime Prefectural Museum of Art, Ehime; Koriyama City Museum of Art, Fukushima |
| 1987 | YU-ICHI, Hundred Flowers, Parco Gallery, Tôkyô, Japan |
| 1986 | YU-ICHI, Farewell Thoughts, NEWS, Tôkyô, Japan |
| 1986 | YU-ICHI Lives, SEED Hall, Tôkyô, Japan |
| 1984 | YU-ICHI, Word Images, UNAC Tôkyô, Japan |
| 1969 | Modern World Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tôkyô, Japan |
| 1965 | Inoue Yûichi, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany |
| 1963 | Writing and Image, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany |
| 1961 | 6th Biennale, São Paulo and Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (PA), USA |
| 1959 | documenta 2, Kassel, Germany |
| 1958 | 50 ans d'art moderne, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium |
| 1957 | 4th Biennale in São Paulo, Brazil |
| 1955-56 | Abstract Art – Japan and the USA, National Museum for Modern Art, Tôkyô L'encre de chine dans la calligraphie et l'art japonais contemporains, touring exhibition for Amsterdam, Basel, Paris, Hamburg and Rome |
| 1954 | Modern Japanese Calligraphy, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
| 1951 | First exhibition of own calligraphic works in Tôkyô, Japan |
2018/19, Epic Abstraction. Pollock to Herrera. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Foto: Freyberger)
2018, YU-ICHI INOUE. La calligraphie libérée (1916-1985), Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris
2018, Julius Bissier and East Asia. The Realm of my Imagination, Augustinermuseum, Freiburg, Germany
2017, Natur(en), Neuer Kunstverein Giessen, Germany
2017, Natur(en), Neuer Kunstverein Giessen, Germany
2016, YU-ICHI INOUE - A Retrospective 1955 – 1985, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2015, Far Yet Close: Calligraphy by Inoue Yuichi, Musée Tomo, Tôkyô, Japan
2015, Yuichi Inoue, Setouchi City Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
2015, Buddha – 108 Encounters, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
2015, Buddha – 108 Encounters, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
2013, Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2011, The Art of Writing, Kurhaus-Kolonnaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
Collection, Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, Germany
Collection, Museum of East Asian Art, Berlin, Germany
2007, Japan and the West, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2005, Letter . Symbol . Gesture, Carlfriedrich Claus in the context from Klee to Pollock, Kunstsammlung Chemnitz, Germany
2005, Zeichen setzen - YU-ICHI / UECKER, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
2005, Zeichen setzen - YU-ICHI / UECKER, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
2003, Ineffably Beautiful, The Mystical Paradox in Twentieth Century Art, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany
2000, YU-ICHI Symposium, Kyoto, Japan
1995, Tôkyô, Japan
1995, Tôkyô, Japan
1995, The Great Bombing of Tôkyô, Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt, Germany am Main, Germany
1995, HIN, Works 1954-1982, Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt, Germany am Main, Germany
1995, YU-ICHI, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
1994, Screams Against the Sky, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
1992, The Splendour of Poverty, Azabu Museum, Tôkyô, Japan