Biography

Takuji Hamanaka

Born 1968, Hokkaido Japan
Lives and works in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

 

One Person Exhibitions:

2015 Owen James Gallery, NY 

 

Group Exhibitions: 

2015 Estampes aventureuses, Gallery Grand E’terna, Paris, France

2014 Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY 
         These Arabesques, Associated, Two person show with Ryan Brennan, Brooklyn NY
         Abstract American Mokuhanga, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 
         Galerie Brun Leglise, Gravure Contemporaine. Artistes du Manhattan Graphics Center, Paris, France

2013 NYFA Curatorial, Warburg Realty, New York, NY

2012 Theo Ganz Studio, Prints Without Pixels, Beacon NY
         The National Academy of Fine Art, New Delhi, India 

2011 International Print Center New York New prints 2011/Autumn, NY, traveled to University of Texas at Austin in 2012
         Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
         Benefit Art Exhibition for Japan Disaster Relief fund   
         The Japanese American Association of New York, 

2010 International Print Center New York New prints 2010/Spring, NY International
         Print Center New York New prints 2010/Autumn, NY, traveled to University of Texas at Austin 
         I will cut thru: Pochoirs, Carvings, and other cuttings Center for Book Arts, NY, Traveled to Sarah Lawrence, Bronxville, NY 

2009 The Rahway Guild of the Arts, New Jersey
         International Print Center New York New prints 2009/winter, New York Traveled to Columbia College Chicago
         “Print Types “ Park University Parkville, Missouri 

2008 “Japanese –American printmakers” Ft. Hays state University, Hays, Kansas
          Albrecht-Kemper Museum of art St. Joseph, Missouri 

2006 20 Anniversary Exhibition Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, New York 

2005 Pyramid Atlantic Fall collector’s weekend Silver Spring. Maryland Arts Atrium Gallery 

         Moku Hanga at Union: Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Woodcut College, Union College, Schenectady, New York 

2004 International Print Center New York New prints 2004/autumn, NY 2003 Center for contemporary printmaking, CT

2002 The Rotunda Gallery, NY

2000 The Rotunda Gallery, NY 

1999 Montserrat College of Art Gallery, MA


Collections:

Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, NY       
Whitman College Museum collection, Walla Walla, WA

 

Grant, Residency:

2014 Open Studio Residency, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Maine 
         Open Studios, Museum of Arts and Design, New York

2013 Barbara and Thomas Putnam Fellow at MacDowell Colony, NH

2011 New York Foundation for the Arts, Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts 


Additional:

2014 Panelist, New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship