Selected Exhibitions

• 1996

  Japan Society Gallery, New York / Denver Art Museum, Colorado, USA

• 2004

  MODERN MASTERS & COLLECTION, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

• 2005

  Ars Nova-Between the Contemporary Avant-garde Art and the Crafts, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

• 2008

  JAPAN! CULTURE ＋ HYPER CULTURE Exhibition, Kennedy Center, Washington, USA

• 2009

  Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama, Japan

• 2010

  Hubei International Triennial of Lacquer Art 2010, Hubei Museum of Art, China (’13, ’16, ’19)

• 2012

  New Footing – Eleven Approaches to Contemporary Crafts, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

• 2013

  Kuroda Tatsuaki, Tanaka Nobuyuki – The Power of Lacquer, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan

  The Audacious Eye, Japanese Art from the Clark Collection, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, USA

• 2014

  TEFAF Maastricht, the Netherlands (’15, ’16, ’17, ’19, ’20, ’21)

  Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (’15)

  Art Miami 2014, Miami, USA (’15, ’16)

• 2015

  Simple Forms – Contemplating Beauty, MORI Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

  Contemporary Art in Rakusui-tei, Rakusui-tei Museum of Art, Toyama, Japan

• 2016

  Imaginary Skin, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan

  Imaginary Skin, Kanazawa Art Gummi, Kanazawa, Japan

  Fuzhou International Lacquer Art Biennial, Fuzhou Lacquer Art Research Institute, China (’18)

• 2017

   TEFAF New York, New York, USA

  OKU-NOTO TRIENNALE, Ishikawa, Japan (’21)

  Hard Bodies: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Sculpture, Minneapolis Institute of Art, USA

  Flowing Water and Tactile Water, Hagi Uragami Museum, Japan

• 2018

  KOGEI Architecture Exhibition, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

  Hangzhou International Contemporary Lacquer Exhibition, China

  Fuzhou International Lacquer Art Biennial, China

  URFORMEN – Nobuyuki Tanaka, Primordial Memories, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany

• 2019

  Images of Asia: The East as Longed-for Other in Japanese Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Japan

  URFORMEN – Nobuyuki Tanaka, Primordial Memories, Museum fur Lackkunst, Munster, Germany

  15th Anniversary Exhibition — Where We Now Stand—In Order to Map the Future, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

  West Bund Art and Design, Shanghai, China (’20, ’21)

• 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

  International KOGEI Award in Toyama 2020, Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art & Deisgn, Japan

  Expressing Lacquer, Kanazawa Nakamura Memorial Museum, Ishikawa, Japan

  Oku-Noto Triennale 2020＋, Ishikawa, Japan

  Go for Kogei, Special Exhibition I, Natadera Temple, Toyama, Japan

  The First Suzhou Craft-Art Biennale 2021, Suzhou, China

  The Armory Show, New York, USA

  ART 021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, China

• 2022

  Finale – Director’s Cut, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany

  Sunset / Sunrise, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan

  Collection Exhibition Dissecting Art! Colors, Shapes and Motifs, Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum

• 2023

  Art SG, Singapore

  POKÉMON X KOGEI Playful Encounters of Pokémon and Japanese Craft, National Crafts Museum

  “Visions of the Sky” – Kanata at Didier Aaron New York, USA

  Beyond the Abstract World: From Yufuku to Kanata: From Yufuku to Kanata, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

  Towards the Estuary: Allowing Everything to Happen, Gallery Where, Beijing, China

   

Public Collections

• Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Japan

• The Japan Foundation, Japan

• The Museum of Fragrance, Japan

• Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan

• SHISEIDO Art House, Japan

• 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

• Utatsuyama Craft Workshop, Japan

• Rakusui-tei Museum of Art, Japan

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA

• Gitter-Yelen Foundation, USA

• Brooklyn Museum of Art, USA

• Minneapolis Institute of Art, USA

• Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UK

• JT International, Switzerland

• Victoria & Albert Museum, UK

• GRASSI Museum of Applied Art, Germany

• Hubei Museum of Art, China

• Mori Art Museum, Japan

• Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA

• Fujian Art Museum, China

• The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

• Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany

• Museum für Lackkunst, Munster, Germany

• Flamingo Contemporary Art Museum, Vietnam

Selected Commission Works

• Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Japan

• Conrad Tokyo, Japan

• The Peninsula Tokyo, Japan

• Oracle Corporation, Japan

• Double Tree by Hilton, Beijing, China

• Urabandai Kogen Hotel, Fukushima