Koji Hatakeyama

1956 Born in Toyama Prefecture
1980 Graduated from Metalwork, Department of Craft, Kanazawa College of Art

Major awards
2001 Takashimaya Art Prize, Takashimaya Cultural Foundation
2007 Grand Prize, Sano Renaissance Casting Exhibition
2012 MOA Okada Mokichi Award, MOA Museum of Art Prize

Selected Exhibitions
1991 “Koji Hatakeyama: Casting Consciousness” Gallery NOW
（1991 “Koji Hatakeyama Casting Consciousness” Gallery NOW, Toyama, Japan (solo exhibitions in ’95, ’00, ’02, ’04, ’07, ’12)
1995 “Tradition and Avant-Garde, Japanese Studio Crafts” Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2000 “Thoughts on Contemporary Vessels”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Crafts Gallery
2001 “Five Words: Machiko Ogawa, Taizo Kuroda, Koji Hatakeyama, Katsuya Ohgita, Yoshihiko Takahashi”, Gallery NOW, Toyama, Japan
2003 “Crafts Now: 21 Artists from America, Europe and Asia” ,21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
2005 “Alternative Paradise” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
2009 “Solo Exhibition” The Scottish Gallery, UK, ’09, ’11, ’14, ’16, ’18
2012 “New Footing: Eleven Approaches to Contemporary Crafts”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2012 “Contemporary Masterpieces of Crafts”, Pitti Palace Museum, Pitti Palace, Italy
2013 “Contemporary KOGEI, Now – Five Words- Machiko Ogawa, Taizo Kuroda, Koji Hatakeyama, Katsuya Senda, Yoshihiko Takahashi “, Raku Suitei Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
2015 “Solo Exhibition,” Erskine, Hall & Coe, UK, ’17
2016 “Collect,” Saatchi Gallery (UK, ’06,’07,’08,’09,’10,’11,’12,’13,’14)
2016 Crafts and Arts: Innovation of “Tradition and Avant-Garde”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Crafts Gallery
2016 “Kogei(Modern Crafts) and the Tea CeremonyⅡ”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Crafts Gallery
2017 ” 83 Treasures of the Heisei Era,” Yakushiji Temple Jikido, Nara, Japan
2017 ” Vibrancy of Kogei” Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama
2017 “Art/Nature” Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata
2022 ” Koji Hatakeyama: Bronze Founding Worlds of art “, Musée Tomo, Tokyo

Major Public Collections
Victoria and Albert Museum, U.K.
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, U.K.
National Gallery of Scotland, U.K.
Aberdeen Art Gallery, U.K.
Ashmolean Museum, U.K.
Philadelphia Museum of Art (USA)
Daish Royal Family, Denmark
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
Musée Guimet, France
Museum Angewandte Kunst, Germany
Museo de Arte Moderno, Argentina
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
The Japan Foundation, Tokyo
Musée Tomo, Tokyo
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama
Rakusuitei Museum and Gardens, Toyama
MOA Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
Shiseido Art House, Shizuoka, Japan
Yakushiji Temple, Nara
MIHO MUSEUM, Shiga
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