ARTIST

Noritaka Tatehana

Noritaka Tatehana presents a redesigned worldview by combining elements of traditional Japanese culture with those of the contemporary era. His carefully honed artistry is elegantly expressed through various media, and his creations, which nurture the sensitivities of Japanese history, tradition, and innovation, burst with endless possibilities for the future. Gaining the attention of audiences all over the globe, Tatehana is known for his ‘Heel-less Shoes’ series inspired by ‘takageta’— elevated wooden clogs worn by traditional Japanese courtesans. The artist’s 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.

Noritaka Tatehana was born in Tokyo in 1985, and is still based in Tokyo. In 2010, he graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts’ Department of Crafts, specializing in textile arts. Notable exhibitions include “Image-Makers” (21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, 2014), “Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion” (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2012), and his solo exhibition “NORITAKA TATEHANA: Aesthetics of Magic” (Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum, 2016). Tatehana has also worked on a wide range of projects, including producing a bunraku performance in 2016 at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris. In 2019, the artist held two large-scale solo exhibitions, “NORITAKA TATEHANA: Refashioning Beauty” (Portland Japanese Garden, 2019) and “It’s always the others who die” (POLA Museum Annex, 2019).

WORKS

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BIOGRAPHY

1985 Born in Tokyo
2010 Tokyo University of the Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Department of Crafts, Textile Arts
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan

CV

Solo Exhibitions

2024 “Under the Sun and Moon” KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Tokyo, Japan
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 “Descending Painting” KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Tokyo, Japan
“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

Group Exhibitions

2024 “Journey through Japan: Myths to Manga” Frist Art Museum, Nashville, USA
“Charity Auction: Place in my heart” POLA MUSEUM ANNEX, Tokyo, Japan
“DESIGNART TOKYO 2024 OFFICIAL EXHIBITION | Reframing exhibition” World Kita Aoyama Building, Tokyo, Japan
“GO FOR KOGEI 2024 Craft and Art: Philosophies for Life” Iwase area, Toyama, Japan
“Love Fashion: In Search of Myself” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
“EDO TOKYO RETHINK” Former Iwasaki Family House and Garden, Tokyo, Japan
2023 “The Hints 12 perspectives for looking at the present and the future” Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation East
Building Rising Square, Tokyo, Japan
“Iris van Herpen. Sculpture the Senses” La Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
“Charity Auction: Plastic Revives” POLA MUSEUM ANNEX, Tokyo, Japan
“Japan: Myths to Manga” Young V&A, London, UK
“KIMONO Kyoto to Catwalk” Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland
“Nakagawa Mamoru: Design and the Lustrous Beauty of Metal” Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
“EDO TOKYO RETHINK” Koishikawa Korakuen Gardens, Tokyo, Japan
2022 “Spring is around the corner” POLA Museum Annex, Tokyo, Japan
“SHOES: ANATOMY, IDENTITY, MAGIC” The Museum at FIT, New York, USA
“Kōgei meets Contemporary Art: Works of Nakagawa Mamoru and Tatehana Noritaka” MOA Museum of Art,
Shizuoka, Japan
“Beguiling Beni: Safflower Red in Japanese Fashion” Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
“Master Swordsmith Kunihira Kawachi: 50 Years of Work” TORAYA Kyoto Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
“EDO TOKYO RETHINK” Online Exhibition
“Contemporary Japanese Crafts” Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
“MODE SURREAL: A Crazy Love for Wearing” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2021 “Contemporary Japanese Crafts” Miyazaki Art Center, Miyazaki, Japan / Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
“EDO TOKYO RETHINK” Online Exhibition
2020 “Contemporary Japanese Crafts” Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan 
“The Magic of Alice in Wonderlamd Exhibition” Shizuoka City Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan / Niitsu Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
“Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk” Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
“Ballerina: Fashion’s Modern Muse” The Museum at FIT, New York, USA
2019 “The Magic of Alice in Wonderland Exhibition” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan / Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan / SOGO Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan / Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
“Marche et démarche. Une histoire de la chaussure” La Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
“Exhibitionism: 50 Years of The Museum at FIT” The Museum at FIT, New York, USA
2018 “Pink: The History of a Punk, Pretty, Powerful Color” The Museum at FIT, New York, USA
“Japon – Japonismes. Objets Inspirés, 1867-2018” Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
“Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion” Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, USA
“Heaven or Hell?” Cube Design Museum, Kerkrade, Netherlands
2017 “Items: Is Fashion Modern?” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
“HI! FASHION” National Design & Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
“Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion” Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
“KOGEI Future forward” Nihombashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Japan
2016 “Shoes: Pleasure and Pain” Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, USA
“Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
“PREVIEW: A GROUP SHOW OF REPRESENTED ARTISTS” SPACE TGC, Tokyo, Japan
Fashion Gallery in National Museums Scotland, Scotland, UK
“Haute-à-Porter” Fashion Museum Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium
2015 “‘GENESIS’. DESIGNER SHOES OF THE FUTURE” Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
“IRIS VAN HERPEN: TRANSFORMING FASHION” High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
“FOOTPRINT - THE TRACKS OF SHOES IN FASHION” MoMU / ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
“SHOES: Pleasure and Pain” Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2014 “Boutique! Thinking about fashion, through art” Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
“Nirvana” Mudac, Lausanne, Switzerland
“Dance & Fashion” The Museum at FIT, New York, USA
“Killer Heels” Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
“SHOWcabinet: Noritaka Tatehana” SHOWstudio, London, UK
“Image-Makers” 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo, Japan
“Future Beauty: The Tradition of Reinvention in Japanese Fashion” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
2013 “Future Beauty: Avant-Garde Japanese Fashion” Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, USA
“Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
“Fetishism in Fashion” Arnhem MoBA 2013, Arnhem, Netherlands
“SHOWcabinet: Daphne Guinness” SHOWstudio, London, UK
“Shoe Obsession” The Museum at FIT, New York, USA
2012 “Future Beauty” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2011 “DAPHNE GUINNESS Collection Exhibition” The Museum at FIT, New York, USA
2010 “JAPAN FASHION NOW” The Museum at FIT, New York, USA

Projects

2024 “Edo-Mokuhanga × Noritaka Tatehana Fifty-seven Stations of the Tokaido” Restaurant “Chigetsu”, Tokyo, Japan
“Zen and Art ʻNoritaka Tatehanaʼ ‒Rethinking the Traditional Japanese Culture‒” Fujisan Tokoji Temple Okuri, Gifu, Japan
2022 “Masterclass: Tokyo Crafts” Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
“Louis XIII “Masters of Time: Chapter 2 - UKIYO” The Peninsula Tokyo, Japan
2019 “WINDOW ‘A Celebration of New Beginnings’” PALACE HOTEL TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan
2018 “Pink Petals HANAMI SPRING FESTIVAL” PALACE HOTEL TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan
TRADING MUSEUM COMME des GARÇONS Paris, Paris, France (Installation work)
2017 TRADING MUSEUM COMME des GARÇONS Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan (Installation work)
“Prayers TANABATA STAR FESTIVAL” PALACE HOTEL TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan
2016 “TATEHANA BUNRAKU: The Love Suicides on the Bridge” Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
2015 IRIS VAN HERPEN F/W 2015-16 collection collaboration, Paris Fashion Week, Paris, France
2014 TRADING MUSEUM VOMME des GARÇONS Paris, Paris, France (Installation work)
“Interactive Cinderella Shoe” Omotesando Hills, Tokyo, Japan
TRADING MUSEUM COMME des GARÇONS Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan (Installation work)
2012 COMME des GARÇONS Seoul, Seoul, South Korea (Installation work)
2011 TRADING MUSEUM COMME des GARÇONS Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan
“Gaga's Workshop” Barney's New York Madison Avenue Store, New York, USA
DOVER STREET MARKET, London, UK (Installation work)
TRADING MUSEUM COMME des GARÇONS Paris, Paris, France (Installation work)
TRADING MUSEUM COMME des GARÇONS Omotesando, Tokyo, Japan (Installation work)
Exhibition of works in collaboration with Dom Pérignon, Tokyo, Japan

Public Collections

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
The Kyoto Costume Institute, Kyoto, Japan
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
The Museum at FIT, New York, USA
National Crafts Museum, Kanazawa, Japan
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

PRESS

EXHIBITIONS

Noritaka Tatehana Under the Sun and Moon

2024.11.22 Fri - 12.26 Thu

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ARTIST WEBSITE

https://www.noritakatatehana.com/