Biography

1985

Born in Tokyo 

 

2010

Bachelor degree at Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of crafts, Textile Arts

Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan

 

Solo Exhibitions

2023
“Syncretism” KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Tokyo, Japan
“Distance” Hagi Uragami Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan
2022
“RETHINK” KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Tokyo, Japan
“Primary Colors” KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Tokyo, Japan
2021
“RETHINK” KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Tokyo, Japan
2020
“Dual Dialogue” KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Tokyo, Japan
“FORM AND COLOR” KAIKA TOKYO by THE SHARE HOTELS, Tokyo, Japan
2019
“It's always the others who die” POLA Museum Annex, Tokyo, Japan
“NORITAKA TATEHANA: Refashioning Beauty” Portland Japanese Garden, Oregon, USA
“WOODCUTS” KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Tokyo, Japan
2018
“Beyond the Vanishing Point” KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Tokyo, Japan
“Noritaka Tatehana & the Art of Japanese Scents” Kudan House, Tokyo, Japan
2017
“NORITAKA TATEHANA: RETHINK” OMOTESANDO HILLS space O, Tokyo, Japan
“NORITAKA TATEHANA: CAMELLIA FIELDS” KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Tokyo, Japan
2016
“NORITAKA TATEHANA: Aesthetics of Magic” Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2015
“NORITAKA TATEHANA: TRACES OF A CONTINUING HISTORY” Wakeijuku Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
2014
“NORITAKA TATEHANA Solo Exhibition” 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

 

Public Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
The Museum at FIT, New York, USA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
The Kyoto Costume Institute, Kyoto, Japan
  • Noritaka Tatehana, (born 1985 in Tokyo, Japan)
    Noritaka Tatehana, (born 1985 in Tokyo, Japan)

    Noritaka Tatehana

    (born 1985 in Tokyo, Japan)
    Noritaka Tatehana was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1985 to a family that ran a public bathhouse called “Kabuki-yu” in the Kabuki-cho district, but he grew up in the city of Kamakura. The future artist learned to create with his own hands as a young child under the tutelage of his mother, a creator of dolls based on the Waldorf education method. Tatehana graduated in 2010 from the Department of Crafts at Tokyo University of the Arts, specializing in textile arts. While researching the culture associated with traditional Japanese Oiran courtesans, the artist created geta (traditional wooden clogs) and kimonos using yuzen-zome, a traditional Japanese dyeing technique. Tatehana has presented his work in exhibitions such as “Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion” (The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2012), “Image Makers” (21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, 2014), and “Contemporary Japanese Crafts” (an exhibition touring Tokyo, Miyazaki, Kyoto, and Nagoya, 2020-22). He has also held various solo exhibitions, including “NORITAKA TATEHANA: Aesthetics of Magic” (Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum, 2016), “It’s always the others who die” (POLA Museum Annex, 2019), “NORITAKA TATEHANA: Refashioning Beauty” (Portland Japanese Garden, 2019), and “Distance” (Hagi Uragami Museum, Yamaguchi, 2023), as well as other exhibitions held in New York, Paris, and Belgium. Tatehana has also worked on a wide range of other projects, including producing a bunraku performance in 2016 at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Arts in Paris. His works have been acquired by internationally acclaimed institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Continuing on from his work on the second edition of the “Edo Tokyo Rethink” exhibition in 2022, Tatehana directed the third edition of “Edo Tokyo Rethink” (Koishikawa Korakuen Gardens, 2023) focusing on traditional crafts and industries of Tokyo, an event that was part of the “Edo Tokyo Kirari Project,” a cultural program organized by the city of Tokyo.