Sanae Takahata

Born in Maebashi City, Gumma Prefecture, Japan; Sanae Takahata began showing her work in Paris in 1977. In 1981 she moved to New York City and showed her work under contract with the Zoma Gallery. She has also shown her work in Seattle, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka and Kyoto. A detailed listing of her exhibitions is presented below.

Solo Exhibitions

1979 1979 First exhibition featuring oil paintings,
gouache paintings,Myrna Myers gallery, Paris Gumma Public Culture Center,Maebashi City, Gumma
1982 'Puffs from Passing Incarnations' featuring oil paintings,
Zoma Gallery, New York
1984 "Peaceful Place" featuring oil paintings Fusuma,
Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo
1985 Galerie Chimera,
Tokyo (featuring oil paintings and masks)
1985 "Seeking for Tomorrow's Face" featuring Masks, Sagacho bis, Tokyo
1987 Penryn Gallery,
Seattle (featuring oil paintings and terracotta sculptures)
1988 Insync Gallery, Seattle (featuring terracotta sculptures)
1988-1989 Exhibiting and selling "Wearable art objects"
at Seattle Museum storeand Tacoma Museum Store
1989 "Enpoo yori kita hitobito" featuring oil paintings
and terracotta sculptures
Gallery Saho and gallery Tomosu, Tokyo
1990 Styling Gallery, SEIBU Umeda LOFT,
Osaka (featuring terracotta sculptures)
"Deep Freeze" featuring oil paintings
and F.R.P. sculptures, ST Spot, Yokohama
1991 "Tokyo series"-Tokyo before the bubbling economy burst-
featuring oil paintings
The Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, Tokyo
1995 "Intimate Reflections 1991-1995" featuring oil paintings,
Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo
1996 "Intimate Reflections 1991-1995" Traveling Exhibition
F-ritz Art Center, Maebashi, Gumma
Honenin Temple (hojyo and Kodo), Kyoto
1997 "My Sister's Room" Artist Place Mischief, Takasaki,Gumma
1998 "Prehistoric Moon" Artist Place Mischief, Takasaki, Gumma
1999 The Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, Tokyo
2001 Gallery Bonoa, Naha city, Okinawa
2002-2005 Open studio Exhibition, Ningyocho Art Studio,
Ningyocho, Tokyo
2006 "WEAR ME" featuring dress shaped objects and masks,
Galerie Omotesando
2006 "WEAR ME" Honenin Temple,
Hojo Room, Kyoto (July 12th ~July 20th)
2008 "WEAR ME" OC Gallery , West Kowloon
"WEAR ME" Economist Gallery, The Fringe Club, Hong Kong
2008 "The Spell and The Butterflies" Gallery Saoh & Gallery Tomos , Tokyo
2009 Sanae Takahata Exhibition featuring "Intimate Reflections", "WEAR ME", "Mindscape" State-of-the-Arts Gallery, Hong Kong

Group Exhibitions

1977 1977 Salon d'Autome, Grand Palace, Paris
Myrna Myer Gallery, Paris
Three person Exhibition, Myrna Myer Gallery, Paris
1978 Le Salon, Grand Palace, Paris
1979 Le Salon, Grand Palace, Paris
1980 Awarded first prize for oil painting in an artist competition
sponsored by Kaneda Gallery, Tokyo
1981 Zoma Gallery, New York
Takahata became a Zoma Gallery artist
and had group exhibitions in New York,
Florida and Philadelphia.
1983 1983 "Japan Dynasty '83" featuring Fusuma screens,
sponsored by John Wanamaker Department Store,
Philadelphia "Arcadia Chelsea Space Show" featuring Fusuma Screens,
sponsored by Arcadia Chelsea Company, New York
1984 1984 "Japan Festival" sponsored by
Bloomingdale Department Store, New York
1988 "Masks" featuring terracotta sculptures,
Hartness-Schoos Gallery, Seattle
1989 - 1990 Neo Persona Gallery, New York
1990 1990 Galerie Chimera, Tokyo
"Ijigen Muse" featuring oil paintings,
F.R.P. sculptures sponsored by Taiyo Kogei Company
Traveling exhibition in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka
1996 1996 Phillip Morris Art Award, Tokyo
"Jyomo Art Prize" sponsored by Jyomo Newspaper Company, Gumma
2001 2001 "Tokyo International Learning Community Art Auction"
Australia Embassy, Tokyo
2007 "Wearable Art Exhibition" Gallery Saoh, Tokyo

Publication

1995 "A na ta ta chi" NHK Publisher. Inc. Tokyo 1995
Text by: Chizuko Ueno
Afterword by: Kazuko Koike
2010 "Women and the Arts"
Editors : Rebecca Jennison & Soko Miki
Daisan shokan Publisher

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