Nobuyuki Tanaka

1959 Born in Tokyo
1983 B.F.A., Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1985 M.F.A., Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
2003 Received the 14 th Takashimaya Art Award, Takashimaya Culture Foundation
2012　Received the 18th MOA Mokichi Okada Prize craft arts section award
　Present : Professor,Kanazawa　College　of Art,Japan

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1989 Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo ,Japan(also in ’90,’96)
1992 Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo
1993 Moris Gallery, Tokyo
1994 Masuda Studio, Tokyo
1996 Gallery Pousse, Tokyo
1998 Gallery Maki, Tokyo
1999 EXHIBITION SPACE, Tokyo
2004 KOICHI YANAGI Oriental Fine Arts, New York, USA (also in 08’ 11’ 15)
2005 life/art ’05, SHISEIDO Gallery, Tokyo
2009　「Inspired by urushi 」NIZAYAMA FOREST ART MUSEUM, Toyama ,Japan
2010 「The Tactile Memory」Takashimaya Art Gallery X, Tokyo
2014　「NOBUYUKI TANAKA New Works」KENJI TAKI Gallery, Tokyo
2016 　「Imaginary Skin,」The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
　　　 「 Imaginary Skin」Kanazawa Art Gummi, Tokyo
2017 「 Imaginary Skin」Gallery NOW, Toyama
「NOBUYUKI TANAKA New Works」KENJI TAKI Gallery, Nagoya
2018 「NOBUYUKI TANAKAーUrformen　 Primordial Memoryー,
Museum Pfalzgalarie Kaiserslautern,Germany
2019 「NOBUYUKI TANAKAーUrformen　 Primordial Memoryー,
Museum fur Lackkunst, Munster, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions
1987 The 5th Asahi Contemporary Crafts Exhibition, Tokyo
Japanese Lacquerware－In Relation to Space, Wacoal Ginza ArtSpace, Tokyo,Japan
1988 LACQUER ART & CRAFT, Shibuya Seibu Craft Gallery, Tokyo
1989 Japan Design Competition Ishikawa, Ishikawa Industrial Exhibition
Hall (also in’93),Ishikawa,Japan
Memorial Exhibition for Shigeo Miki,Exhibition Room of Tokyo
National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo,Japan
1991 Contemporary Sculpture－12 fresh artists－, KSP Gallery, Kanagawa
URUSHI WORK 1991, Shibuya Seibu Craft Gallery, Tokyo,Japan
1993 Nuances in Lacquer－70 Years of Innovations, Crafts Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo,Japan
1994 Contemporary Japanese Lacquerware Artists, Studio Com, Kyoto,Japan
Vessels for Taste and Desire, Gallery Isogaya, Tokyo,Japan
Contemporary Japanese Lacquerware, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall Gallery,Kanagawa,Japan
Spirit and Form of Asia－Material and Imagination－, NTT Credo Hall, Hiroshima,Japan
The Domain of the Medium, Crafts Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo,Japan
1995 Three Dimensional Miniature Works－on the Wall, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto / Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo,Japan (also in ’96,’97)
The Vision of Contemporary Art ’95, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo,Japan
Power of the Earth, Gallery of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Toride, Ibaraki,Japan
1996 The Presentiment of Beauty, Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo/Osaka / Kyoto / Kanagawa,Japan
Rainbow and Shimmering Bridge : Contemporary Japanese Lacquerware,
Japan Society Gallery, New York / Denver Art Museum , Denver,Colorado,USA
The 1st Japan-Korea Friendship Exhibition of Modern Lacquer Works,Lotte Art Gallery, Busan, Korea / Kanazawa City Cultural Hall, Ishikawa,Japan
Message to Those Yet To Be Born, Space Katachi, Tokyo,Japan
Contemporary Japanese Crafts, The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo
World Urushi Exhibition－Its Origin and Oresent, Fujita Vente Museum,Tokyo,Japan
1998 Nature as Object－The 3rd Australia International Craft Triennial, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth,Australia
The 2nd Japan-Korea Friendship Exhibition of Modern Lacquer Works, Daejeon, Korea / Gallery Sowaka, Kyoto,Japan
Contemporary Fragrance Vessels, The Museum of Fragrance,Toyoda, Shizuoka,Japan
1999 The Genealogy of Craft Objects, Crafts Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo,Japan
2000 Japanese Contemporary Urushi Art Exhibition, Museum Jan Van Der Togt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands / Ishikawa Wajima Urushi
Art Museum,Ishikawa,Japan
The International Asian Art Fair, New York (also in ’01)
The 3rd Japan-Korea Friendship Exhibition of Modern Lacquer Works, Gwangju, Korea / Exhibition Space, Tokyo,Japan
Objets Plastiques, Ornaments, and Other Contemporary Works
Classified into a Group between Crafts and Sculptures, Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama,Japan
2001 Art Works on the Desk Top IX, Contemporary Art NIKI, Tokyo
VISION : Selected Works from The Collection of Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi,Japan
life/art ’01, SHISEIDO Gallery, Tokyo (also in ’02,’03,’04),Japan
2002 Traditional and Innovation : Ceramic and Lacquer, Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hirosima, Japan
2003 New Movements in Craft I－Respective Forms－, Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo/Kyoto,Japan
Texture and Its Meaning, Kanazawa College of Art,Kanazawa,Japan
Contemporary Progressive Crafts, Hiroshima Citizen’s Interchange,Hirosima,
　　　　Japan
Plaza Gallery (also at Tanabe Municipal Museum of Art, Wakayama,Japan
( also in’04)
2004 Objects Intended for the Desk Top X, Contemporary Art NIKI, Tokyo,Japan
New Movements in Craft II－Respective Forms－, Takashimaya ArtGallery, Yokohama / Osaka / Nagoya,Japan
MODERN MASTERS & COLLECTION, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa,Japan
2005 Ars Nova－Between the Contemporary Avant-garde Art and theCrafts,Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo,Japan
2006 Station 2006 Vol.1 Sendai, The Eyes / Gaze of People Waiting, Sendai Station, Miyagi,Japan
Japan & Korea Lacquer Arts Exhibition, Tokyo National University ,TokyoArt Museum, Tokyo / Ishikawa Wajima Urushi Art Museum, Japan
2007 Uchu-Miezu, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi,Japan
Cheongju International Crafts Biennale 2007, Crafts: A Mode of Life, Cheongju, Korea
Roppongi Crossing 2007, Future Beats in Japanese Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo,Japan
2008 JAPAN! CULTURE＋HYPER CULTURE Exhibition, Kennedy Center, Washington D.C. , USA
2010 Firast International Triennale of Kogei in Kanazawa
,21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,Kanazawa ,Japan
China Hubei International Lacquer Triennial 2010,Hubei Museum of Art,China
AIZU URUSHI ART FESTIVAL ,Fukushima Museum,Japan
2011 Contemporary Japanese Lacquerware,URASOE ART MUSEUM,Okinawa
　　 Silent Echoes;Collection1,21th Century Museum of Contemporary
Art,Kanazawa,Japan
Urushi Exhibition ;Style of New Lacquer , The Museum of Arts ＆Crafts,Itami
　　　　　AIZU　URUSHI ART FESTIVAL2011 ,Fukushima,Japan
2012　 The destination of the figurative arts－A material tells Rakusui-tei Museum of Art　Exhibition,Toyama,Japan
The 18th MOA Mokichi Okada Award：Prospecting the Future of Nihonga and Kogei Grand Prix of Painting Section　、MOA MUSEUM OF ART
New Footing Eleven Approaches to Contemporary Crafts, The National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo ,Japan
125 th Anniv.Event Tokyo　University　of　the Arts,URUSI 　ART history and the future, Tokyo,Japan
AIZU　URUSI 　ART　FESTIVAL2012,Fukusima
2013　　Kuroda Tatsuaki,Tanaka Nobuyuki－The Power of Lacquer,Toyota Municipal
　　　　Museum of Art,Aichi,Japan
　　　　2013 International Lacquer Art Exhibition,　Gukje Art Museum Keimyung
University Korea
　　　 Hubei International Triennial of Lacquer Art2013　WORLD OF GREAT LACQUER ORIGIN AND FLOWS, Hubei Museum of Art,China
Deployment of the present age craft,Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum Ishikawa,Japan
　　　　Contemporary Kogei Styles in Japan, Morikami　Museum and Japanese Gardens,Florida
　　　　「The Audacious Eye: Japanese Art from the Clark Collections」Minneapolis
　Institute of Arts,Minnesota
2014　　TEFAF Maastricht, MECC, Maastricht, the Netherlands (also in 15’16）
COLLECT , Saatchi Gallery, London, UK(also in 15）
　　　　Art　Miami 2014, Art Miami Pavilion,　Miami,USA（also in 15’16）
2015　　Simple Forms― Contemplating Beauty, MORI　ART MUSEUM,Tokyo,Japan
　　 Future of lacquer, Takahashi Setsuro Art Museum of Azumino, Japan
Contemporary Art in RAKUSUITEI , Toyama, Japan
2016 FUZHOU-INTERNATIONAL LACQUER ART BIENNAL, Fuzhou Museum, China　　　　
2016 Hubei international Triennial of Lacquer, Hubei Museum of Art, China
Craft Arts : Innovation of “Tradition and Rvant-Garde” and the Present Day
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Imaginary Skin, The Royal Museum Gallery/Tokyo,
Kanazawa Artgummi/Ishikawa
2017 KOGEI Future Forward, Mitsukoshi`s main store in Nihonbashi,Tokyo,Japan
OKU-NOTO TRIENNALE,Ishikawa,Japan
「HARD BODY CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE LACQUER SCULPTURE」
Minneapolis Institute of Arts,Minnesota,USA

Selected Collections
　　　　The National of Museum Modern Art,Tokyo,Japan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi,Japan
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa,Japan
MORI ART MUSEUM,Tokyo,Japan
Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum,Japan
The Japan Foundation, Tokyo,Japan
The Museum of Fragrance, Toyoda, Shizuoka,Japan
SHISEIDO Art House, Shizuoka,Japan
Utatuyama Craft Workshop,Ishikawa,Japan
Rakusui-tei Museum,Toyama,Japan
Metroporitan Museum,New York,USA
Gitter-Yelen Foundation, New Orleans,USA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York,USA
Minneapolis Institute of Arts,Minnesota,USA
Victoria and Albert Museum,UK
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK
　　　　Grassi Museum,Leipzig,Germany
HUBEI Museum of Art、China
Fujian Art Museum of Art,China
　　　　Philadlphia Museum of Art,USA　　　　　　
Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern,Germany
Museum of Lacquer Art , Germany

Selected Commission Works
JT International, Geneva, Switzerland　
Chugai Pharmaceutical Co.,Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Conrad Tokyo, Japan The Peninsula Tokyo,Japan
Oracle Corporation Japan, Tokyo,Japan
Double Tree By Hilton, Beijing, China
Urabandai Kogen Hotel,Fukusima,Japan