2012.10.6 Sat - 11.10 Sat
opening reception on Saturday 6th October
6pm - 8pm
Gallery hour: Tue - Sat / 12pm - 7pm
Closed on Sun, Mon, public holiday

"Dream, dreaming us”
2012
etching, aquatint
imge size: 370 x 310 mm /paper size: 475 x 410 mm

"Pillow”
2012
etching, aquatint
imge size: 210 x 265 mm /paper size: 325 x 505mm

Biography

Takanobu Kobayashi
1960
Born in Tokyo, Japan
1986
Graduated from Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts
1996
Awarded VOCA’96 Encouragement Prize
Stayed in Bangkok, Thailand for one year under a grant from Agency of Cultural Affairs, Japan
1998
Stayed in Lot-et-Garonne, France for three month under Art Scope ’98, Gas-cogne Japanese Art Scholarship
1999
Moved to Bangkok
Awarded Encouragement Prize, Heizo Kanayama Commemorative Exhibition, Hyogo prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo
2002
"Toward a Place with Light−Takanobu Kobayashi” was published by Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha

~ Present
Live and Work in Bangkok and Tokyo

Solo Exhibition
2012
"35 years aniversery exhibition" The National Museum of Art, Osaka
"DOMANI 45 years aniversery special exhibition" National Museum Tokyo

2011
"Dream, Dreaming us" 100 Tonson Gallery Bangkok
"Dream Dream" United Nation University Tokyo
2012
"Garden of Painting/Japanese Art of the 00's" The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2009
"In the little Prayground-Hitstuda Nobuya and his surrounding students" Aichi Prefectual Museum of Art
2008
"Neoteony Japan contemporary artists after 1990's from Takahashi Collection" Kirishima Open-Air Museum of Art, Kagoshima
2007
"From submarine to portrait"　Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
2005
"Sight-cruising" Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa
"Kobayashi Takanobu -Behind the Picture" Osaka Seikei University, Faculty of Art and Design Gallery Space B
"Looking for Utopia: Beyond the Imagination" The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum
2004
"Art Scope, Daimler Chrysler Japan" Daimler Chrysler Contemporary Museum, Berlin
"Takanobu Kobayashi -Endless summer" Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
2003
"DOMANI" Sompo-Japan Museum, Tokyo
"TOWARD A PLACE WITH LIGHT" Kumanokodo Nakahechi Museum, Wakayama
2000
"Recent Works 23" The National Museum of Art, Osaka
"The Drop of Heat" Bangkok University Art Gallery, Bangkok
1996
"VOCA '96"　The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
etc.

Public Collection
・ The Japan Foundation
・ Silpakorn University
・ Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
・ The National Museum of Art, Osaka
・ Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
・ Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi
・ DaimlerChrysler Foundation in Japan
・ Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido
・ Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
・ Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
・ Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama
・ Takamatsu City Museum of Art
・ Vanji Museo the Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka
・ Tokyo Station Gallery
etc.

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