Biography

Exhibitions
Selected Exhibitions
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1996
Japan Society Gallery, New York / Denver Art Museum, Colorado, USA
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2004
MODERN MASTERS & COLLECTION, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
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2005
Ars Nova-Between the Contemporary Avant-garde Art and the Crafts, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
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2008
JAPAN! CULTURE + HYPER CULTURE Exhibition, Kennedy Center, Washington, USA
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2009
Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
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2010
Hubei International Triennial of Lacquer Art 2010, Hubei Museum of Art, China (’13, ’16, ’19)
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2012
New Footing – Eleven Approaches to Contemporary Crafts, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
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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
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2015
Simple Forms – Contemplating Beauty, MORI Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Art in Rakusui-tei, Rakusui-tei Museum of Art, Toyama, Japan
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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)
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2017
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
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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
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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
- 2020
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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
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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
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2023
POKÉMON X KOGEI Playful Encounters of Pokémon and Japanese Craft, National Crafts Museum
“Visions of the Sky” – Kanata @ DIDIER AARON New York
Kanata Three Year Anniversary Commemorative Exhibition – Beyond the Abstract World: From Yufuku to Kanata
Awards
2003 Takashimaya Art Award, Takashimaya Culture Foundation
2012 The 18th MOA Mokichi Okada Prize craft arts section award
2021 Excellence in Creative Award, China National Arts and Crafts Society
Public Collections
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
田中信行
Nobuyuki
Tanaka
Nobuyuki
Tanaka

Tanaka
- 1959 Born in Tokyo
- 1983 B.F.A., Tokyo National University of the Arts
- 1985 M.F.A., Tokyo National University of the Arts
- Currently lives and works in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture
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WorksWorks
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Orga 2022 S-2 (2022)
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Flowing Light, Feeling Form (2019)
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Tactile Memory (2019)
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Tactile Memory 2021
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Inner side - Outer side (2005)金沢21世紀美術館蔵
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FLOW V (2018)
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Inner side - Outer side 2014-1(2014)
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Imaginary Skin I(2016)
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Archetype(2016)
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Inner side - Outer side 2014-2 (2014)
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Primordial Memory (2017)
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Inner side - Outer side (2015)
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Imaginary Skin II (2016)
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Imaginary Skin Ⅲ (2016)
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Flowing Water and Tactile Water II(2012)
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FLOW III(2012)
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Flowing Water and Tactile Water No.7(2018)
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Flowing Water and Tactile Water No.8(2018)
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Flowing Water and Tactile Water No.4(2018)
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Flowing Water, Feeling Water No.6(2017)
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Flowing Water and Tactile Water No.5(2017)
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Inner side―Outer side 2014-IV (2014)
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Inner side―Outer side (2016-S)