Artist Profile
metal
Koji Hatakeyama
Career
- 1956
- Born in Takaoka, Japan. Based in Takaoka JAPAN.
- 1980
- Graduated from Kanazawa College of Art,Department of Metalwork
- 1985
- Established a workshop
- 2017
- Professor at Kanazawa College of Art
- 2022
- currently metal artist
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- “I create contained vessels, I try to convey the sense that something is concealed or hidden within. I try to provoke a sense of the spiritual world in my bronze boxes. The patterns and facets I create on the outside are a direct response to the landscape, real or imagined. I find that using gold or silver leaf within the interiors, there is a sense of enlightenment when opening the lid, my intention is to enter a different world, a different place. This place has no darkness. My sense of beauty is veiled in bronze.” Koji Hatakeyama
Awards Received
- 2023
- Grand Prize of the 1st Asian Contemporary Art Award, London
- 2012
- Kikuchi Kanzane Memorial Tomo Museum of Art, Tea Ceremony Contemporary Encouragement Prize
- 2012
- Received the MOA Museum Art Award
- 2007
- Grand prix Sano Renaissance
- 2001
- Received the 11th Takashimaya Art Award,Takashimaya Cultural Foundation
Exhibition
- 【Selected solo exhibitions】
- 2025
- Thomsen Gallery / New York USA
- 2025
- ArtShop Tsukibae / Japan
- 2024
- The Scottish Gallery,Edinburgh,UK (’09, ’11,’14 ’18 )
- 2024
- Nakacho Konishi /Tokyo
- 2023
- Gallery Kochukyo /Tokyo ('07, '12 ,'18 )
- 2022
- Kikuchi Kansei Memorial Tomo Art Museum /Tokyo, Japan
- 2022
- Takashimaya Gallery X, Tokyo(’08, ’13,’16)
- 2017
- Aso Bijutu, Tokyo(’14)
- 2016
- Lesley Kehoe Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
- 2015
- Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK
- 2013
- Exhibition Space,Tokyo(’02,’10) Gallery Shibunkaku, Kyoto(’11)
- 2012
- Galerie Petit Bois, Osaka(’09,’04,’01)
- 2012
- Gallery Totaku, Nagoya
- 2012
- Gallery Kochukyo, Tokyo(’07) Ippodo Gallery,Tokyo
- 2011
- Gallery Nishikawa, Kyoto(’07,’05,’03,’01,’99)
- 2008
- Kandori, Tokyo (’06,’04,’02)
- 2007
- Gallery Now, Toyama (’04,’02,’00,’95,’91) Gallery Totaku, Nagoya
- 2006
- Gallery Kai, Tokyo Kogen, Nagoya(’03,’01) Arai Atelier Gallery,Tokyo(’03,’01)
- 2005
- Takashimaya, Tokyo.Kyoto and Osaka Nanohana, Odawara(’01)
- 2004
- Seikado Gallery, Kyoto
- 2003
- Gallery Sano, Shizuoka
- 2000
- Miharudo Gallery,Tokyo
- 2000
- Gallery Planet , Nagoya
- 1999
- Gallery Naufu, Gifu
- 1998
- Galerie Pousse, Tokyo Living Design Center Ozone,Tokyo
- 1991
- Matsuya Gallery,Tokyo(’89)
- 1990
- Maronie Gallery,Kyoto
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- 2024
- 【Selected group exhibitions】
- 2024
- Asian Bronze, National Museum of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 2021
- What Colour is Metal ? ,National Museum of Design and Crafts, Dublin/Ireland
- 2020
- “Small Works, Great Artists”, Erskine Hall & Coe, London, UK(’19)
- 2020
- "COLLECT" Somerset House, London, UK
- 2019
- “Masterpiece”, London, UK(’16 ~’18)
- 2019
- “COLLECT”, Saatchi Gallery,London,UK(’09 ~’18)
- 2019
- “Decoratuve Arts in Meiji and Heisei”, Museum of Modern Greek Culture, Athens, Greece
- 2018
- “Japon - Japonismes”, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
- 2017
- The 83 Most Treasured Treasures of the Heisei Era , Yakushiji Temple, Nara, Japan
- 2017
- “Face the Material”, Takashimaya Gallery,Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Yokohama
- 2017
- “Koji Hatakeyama with Matthew Harris”, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK
- 2017
- TRESOR / Musse Basel・Basel, Switzerland
- 2016
- “PAD”, London, UK
- 2016
- “Craft Arts”, The National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo
- 2014
- Metals: The Transforming Beauty of Metals / Takaoka City Museum of Art, Toyama, Japan
- 2014
- “SOFA CHICAGO”,Navy Pier, Chicago, USA(’13)
- 2014
- “Collect”, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
- 2013
- “Japanese Craft”, Erskine Hall & Coe, London, UK
- 2013
- Contemporary Crafts - Now - Five Words, Rakusuitei Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
- 2013
- “Contemporary KOGEI Styles in Japan”, Morikami Museum, Miami, USA
- 2012
- The 18th Mokichi Okada Award Exhibition/MOA Art Museum, Atami, Japan
- 2012
- Contemporary of Tea Ceremony / Kikuchi Kanzan Memorial Chi-Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
- 2012
- “Japan-The Land of Enchantment”,The Palazzo Pittie Museums, Firenze, Italy
- 2012
- “New Footing”,The National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo
- 2011
- “Utakata”,Galerie Rosemarie Jager, Hochheim, Germany
- 2011
- “Hevy Metal”,Lesley Kehoe Galleries,Melbourne,Australia
- 2011
- “SOFA NY”,Park Avenue Armory,New York,USA(’10)
- 2010
- Shining Techniques and Beauty: Japanese Crafts Today Kagawa Prefectural Museum, Takamatsu / Ehime Museum of Art, Matsuyama
- 2010
- “A Viewpoint on Contemporary Kogei”,The National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo
- 2009
- Treasures for the Future Exhibition, Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo
- 2009
- “Raising The Bar Influential Voices Metal”,Museum of Modern Art Middlesbrough, UK
- 2008
- “Collect”,Victoria & Albert Museum,London,UK(’06,’07)
- 2008
- “A Japanese Dialogue”,The Scottish Gallery,Edinburgh,UK
- 2007
- In Time / The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Toyama, Japan
- 2007
- 30 Years of the Crafts Center / The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- 2007
- “Japanese Sppleness”, Gjethuset, Frederiksvaerk, Denmark
- 2006
- “Japanese Crafts”, Galerie Besson, London,UK
- 2005
- “Alternative Paradise”,21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
- 2004
- Asian Art Fair / Asian Society of New York, New York / USA
- 2004
- "New Movements in Crafts II", Takashimaya, Yokohama,Osaka and Nagoya
- 2003
- "Twist in Japan",Musee des Beaux-arts de Nancy,France
- 2003
- "Crafts Now - 21 Artists Each from America,Europe,and Asia", Kanazawa, Japan
- 2002
- "New Movements in Crafts I", Takashimaya, Tokyo, Kyoto
- 2002
- "Hands On",Philadelphia Museum of Art,Philadelphia,U.S.A.
- 2002
- "A History of Japanese Modern Craft",The National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo
- 2001
- “Philadelphia Craft Show”,Convention Center,Philadelphia,USA
- 2001
- "Contemporary Japanese Crafts",National Museum,Lima,Peru
- 2000
- "Utsuwa-Thoughts on Contemporary Vessels"The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo
- 2000
- “Contemporary Japanese Crafts",The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, USA
- 1999
- 100 Japanese Crafts “Now” Exhibition / Mitsukoshi Etoile, Paris / France
- 1998
- "Contemporary Japanese Crafts",National museum,Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1995
- The 1st Exhibition of “The Premonition of Beauty” / Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Yokohama, Japan
- 1995
- "Guests of Japan", Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hanburg, Germany
- 1995
- "Japanese Studio Crafts",Victoria & Albert Museum,London,UK
- 1989
- “Salon Grand Public de l'Objet d'Art Contemporaine”,SAAF, Paris, France
- 1988
- "Jugend Gestaltet", Sonderschau der Internationalen Handwerksmesse ,Munich, Germany
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- 【Public Collections】
- Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
- Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art/New York, U.S.A.
- National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
- Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum, Aberdeen, UK
- British Museum, London, U.K.
- The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
- Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
- Guimet Museum of Art, Paris, France
- Frankfurt Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt / Frankfurt, Germany
- National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia
- Museo de Arte Moderno, Bouenos Aires, Argentina
- Denmark Royal Family, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Boston, USA
- New Orleans Museum of Art / New Orleans, USA
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Los Angeles, USA
- Rijksmuseum / Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Grassi Museum of Applied Arts / Leipzig, Germany
- National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
- 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
- The Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
- Takaoka City Museum, Toyama, Japan