Special thanks to Hiro Gallery in Tokyo and Izukogen for this great biography of the artist:

• 1917 Born in Kumamoto Prefecture.
• 1939 Graduated from Tokyo School of Fine Arts.
• 1956 Exhibited by invitation at The 2nd Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan. Ghost Brought Back to Life and Vice-Principal Mr. D. received an award.
• Exhibited at the ? Mostra Internazionale di Bianco e Nero 1956-Lugano. Elegy for a New Conscript: Sentinel received the second prize.
• 1960 Exhibited by invitation at The 4th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan. A Group of the Blind won the award of excellence.
• 1962 Received The 2nd Fukushima Award for Deranged Man.
• 1964 Visited Europe.
• 1965 Returned from Europe.
• Became an honorable member of the Florence Art Academy, Prints Division
• 1975 Chimei Hamada Copper Print Exhibition held at Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art. All the works from 1938 through 1975 shown.
• 1979 Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art held “CHIMEI HAMADA” copper print exhibition. All works shown.
• Albertina National Museum of Art, Vienna, Austria organized Chimei Hamada Exhibition where self-nominated 100 copper prints were displayed. Exhibition also shown at Graz State Museum of Modern Art, Graz, Austria.
• Traveled to Europe for the opening at Albertina National Museum of Art.
• On the way home, visited Paris.
• 1980 The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura organized “Chimei Hamada Copper Prints?From Elegy for a New conscript to Deal”. All copper prints exhibited.
• 1989 On occasion of the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, awarded Grade de Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
• 1993 Exhibits at the Japan Gallery of The British Museum, London. Self-nominated 100 copper prints and 16 sculptures shown.
• 1994 Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art held “CHIMEI HAMADA” exhibition. All copper prints and sculptures shown.
• 1996 Held an exhibition, All About Chimei Hamada, which traveled from the Odakyu Museum of Art to the Museum of Modern Art, Toyama; the Shimonoseki City Art Museum; and the Itami City Museum of Art. (Produces by The Asahi Shimbun Co.)
• 2000 Held Chimei Hamada: Satire through Sculpture exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura. All 52 sculptures and 25 prints shown.
• 2001 Held an exhibition, Chimei Hamada: Exploring Humans through Print and Sculpture, at Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art.
• Works displayed with Goya’s at the exhibition at Komagane Kogen Art Museum.
• 2005 Held an exhibition of new works and sculptures at Hiro Gallery, Tokyo, Gallery Nii, Osaka and Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto.
• 2006 Held Chimei Hamada exhibition at Homma Museum of Art, Yamagata.
• 2007 Held an exhibition, Chimei Hamada-Infinite Human Love, at Okawa Museum of Art, Gunma.
• 2008 Works placed at Uffizi Gallery in Florence and became the first Japanese Artist whose works were placed there.
• Uffizi Gallery organized Chimei Hamada exhibition which is the first Japanese artist’s one-man show.
• 2009 Held Chimei Hamada exhibition at Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art.
• 2010 Held “The World of HAMADA Chimei -Elegy and Humor in Prints and Sculpture-“ at The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama in Kanagawa.