Biography

Exhibitions

Selected Exhibitions

2003
METALLFORMEN, Germany and Italy
2005
Exempla, Germany
2007
Solo Exhibition, Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (’10)
2008
A Japanese Dialogue, Scottish Gallery, UK

Collect, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2009
Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (’10, ’11, ’12, ’13, ’14, ’15)

Quest Gallery, Bath, UK
2012
Art Fair Tokyo, Japan (’13, ’21)

New Footing: 11 Approaches to Contemporary Craft, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
2013
TEFAF Maastricht, The Netherlands (’14, ’15, ’16, ’17, ’18, ’19, ’20, ’21, ’22, ’23)

Artfully Connected, Embassy of Sweden, Tokyo, Japan
2014
Art Stage Singapore, Singapore (’15, ’16, ’17)

Solo Exhibition, Asia Week New York, USA

Clark Art Institute Opening Exhibition, USA

Art Miami, USA (’15, ’16, ’17, ’18, ’19)
2015
Japan!, Paris, France
2016
Spring Masters New York, USA

EAF Monaco, Monaco

Art Taipei, Taiwan
2017
TEFAF New York Spring, USA

Modern Japanese Design, Manchester Art Gallery, UK
2018
Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, USA

Seattle Art Fair, USA (’19)
2019
Decorative Arts in Meiji and Heisei: Crafting Beauty Across 150 Years, Museum of Greek Modern Culture, Greece

Silhouettes of Tomorrow, Yufuku Gallery, London, UK
2020
Opening Ceremony, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan
2021
The Secret Show, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

RE:OPENING CEREMONY, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

The Armory Show, New York, USA
2022
Masterpiece London, UK
West Bund Art and Design, Shanghai, China
2023
Art SG, Singapore

Awards

1997　Ataka Prize, Tokyo University of the Arts
1999　Prize, National Japan Gold & Silver Works Exhibition
　　　Salon de Printemps Prize, Tokyo University of the Arts
　　　Prize, 33rd International Enamelling Art Exhibition
2000　Grand Prize, Japanese Crafts Exhibition
　　　Prize, 34th Japan Enamelling Art Exhibition
2001　Toyota Cultural Prize, Aichi Prefecture
　　　Gold Prize, I.H.M TALENT, Germany
　　　Vielun Prize, TALENT, Germany
2002　Award, Japan Jewellery Arts Competition 2002
2005　Juror's Special Prize, 7th National Ceramics Competition, Mino
2010　Art Fund Prize, Collect (’11)
2012　Nominated, Okada Mokichi Prize, MOA Museum of Art (’14)
2021　Toyota City Art Award of Merit

Public Collections

Toyota City, Japan
Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
Victoria & Albert Museum, UK
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, UK
Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, UK
The National Museum of Modern Art, Japan
The Enamel Arts Foundation, USA
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA
The Yale University Art Gallery, USA
Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany
The Design Museum, Germany
Peabody Essex Museum, USA

武山直樹 Naoki
Takeyama Naoki
Takeyama

Yume no Yume (To Dream a Dream) (2014)

H28.5 x W48.3 x D37.8 (cm)

Naoki
Takeyama

Profile

1974 Born in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
1999 Tokyo University of the Arts, MFA
Lives and works in Toyota

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Naoki Takeyama (b. 1974 –) is a charismatic artist who wields the ancient technique of enamelling metal with an electric modernity, his highly distinctive creations calling to mind the avant-garde and asymmetrical designs of world-famous Japanese fashion designers of the 1980’s.

Head of his class at the prestigious Tokyo University of the Arts, Takeyama has been recognised with a flurry of awards since his debut at the age of 24, while winning myriad awards since, with recent acquisitions by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 2008, the Birmingham and Plymouth Museums of Art in 2011, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo in 2012, the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2014, the Yale University Museum of Art and the Grassi Museum in Leipzig, Germany in 2015. Takeyama’s metalwork is widely seen as a stunning reinterpretation of an age-old art, ultimately proposing to metal a wealth of new possibilities.