Nishihata Tadashi

1948 Born in Hyogo, Japan
1969 Started producing ceramics
1990 Jury at Japan Art and Craft Exhibition, Kinki Area
Member of Japan Arts and Crafts Association
2011 Official member of Nikkô Kogei kai

Awards:

1976 Hyogo Encouragement Prize for Artists
1988 Matsushita Award, the Japan Art and Craft Exhibition, Kinki Area
1990 Encouragement Award, Plastic Arts for the Way of Tea Exhibition (also in 1997, 2007, 2008)
1991 Grand Prize, Plastic Arts for the Way of Tea Exhibition (also in 2005, 2006)
1992 Excellence Award, Plastic Arts for the Way of Tea Exhibition (also in 1993, 1996)
Encouragement Award at Hyogo New Talent of Arts Award
1994 Won Grand Prize, Chanoyu no zôkei Exhibition organized by the Tanabe Museum of Art
1997 Encouragement Award, Plastic Arts for the Way of Tea Exhibition
2005 Won Grand Prize, Chanoyu no zôkei Exhibition organized by the Tanabe Museum of Art (also in 2006 for third time)

Solo exhibitions:

1993 Sogo Art Gallery, Hiroshima (also in 1995 and 2004)
Shuman Gallery, Kyoto (and in 1995)
1994 Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, (also in 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2005)
1999 Gallery Dôjima, Osaka (also in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009)
2001 Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Fukuoka
2004 Touching Stone, Santa Fe, New Mexico (also in 2006, 2008 and 2010)
2006 Matsuyama Takashimaya Art Gallery, Kagawa
2008 Yokohama Takashimaya Art Gallery, Kanagawa (and in 2010)
Nishihata Tadashi’s 40th Career Anniversary, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Tokyo
2009 Sendai Mitsukoshi, Art Gallery Miyagi
2010 Kôbe Sogo Art Gallery, Hyogo

Group exhibitions:

1978 Entry to the Japan Art and Craft Exhibition, Kinki Area
1986 Entry to the Japan Traditional Art and Craft Exhibition (also in 1988-1996 and 1998-1999)
1989 Entry to the Japan Ceramic Exhibition (also in 1991)
1992 Invited in the 100 Contemporary Ceramics of Japan, sponsored by NHK, Paris
2005 Won entry to Yakimono in Hyôgo Exhibition, Akashi City Culture Museum
Exhibited and published, Fascination of Ceramics, Masterpieces of Modern Japanese Pottery from the Gisela Freudenberg Collection, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, Germany
2006-07 Exhibited and published, Contemporary Clay: Japanese ceramics for the new century, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (exhibited then traveled to Japan Society, NY)

2007 Nitten (also in 2009 and 2011)
Ceramics from Hyogo, Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo
2008 Shapes of Ceramics V, Gallery Kurimoto, Nagaoka city, Niigata prefecture
2010 Third Musée Tomo Prize, Contemporary Ceramics for the Tea Ceremony- Free Creativity, Musée Tomo, Tokyo
2010-11 One thousand and one cups/ contemporary ceramics/ trip around the world from India to Switzerland:, Traveling exhibition the work of international clay artists with numerous destinations including Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland; Musée de l’art et de l’industrie, Roubaix, France., and other museums in India, China and Korea. [represented by ten cups]

References:

Hasebe, Mitsuhiko, and Nakanodo Kazunobu, eds. Nihon no togei , Ima hyakusen [La Céramique au Japon, un Art Majeur 58 Créateurs Contemporarins]. NHK, 1992: Pl.38.

Exhibition Catalogue: Yôhen Tanba: Nishihata Tadashi sakutô ten [Changed by the Flame: Nishihata Tadashi’s Potteries] (Tokyo: Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, 1994)

Earle, Joe, Contemporary Clay: Japanese ceramics for the new century, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2005), pp. 38-39

Exhibition Catalogue: Nihon Tôgei-ten (Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition 2007), Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbun, 2007: pp. 45

Exhibition Catalogue: Nihon Tôgei-ten (Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition 2009), Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbun, 2009: pp. 45

Gabriel Umstatter, et. al. One thousand and one cups, contemporary ceramics, trip around the world from
India to Switzerland. (Geneva: La revue de la céramique et du verre, 2010), pp. 200-201 and 298..


Selected public collections:

British Museum, London
Higashi-Hiroshima City Museum of Art, Hiroshima
Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo
Museum of Fine Art, Boston
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Tanabe Museum of Art, Matsue, Shimane

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