Artist
Takanobu Kobayashi
1960 Born in Tokyo, Japan
Live and Work in Bangkok and Tokyo
1986 Graduated from Aichi Prefectures University of Art
1996 Awarded VOCA’96 Encouragement Prize
Granted a scholarship for artist from Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan
Stayed in Bangkok for one year
1998 Stayed in Lot-et-Garonne, France by Japan Art Scope '98
2002 Toward a Place with Light - Takanobu Kobayashi” was published by Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha
Selected Group Exhibition
2011
“Dream Dream” United Nation University, Tokyo
2010
"Garden of Painting / Japanese Art of the 00s" The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2009
"In the Little Playground-Hitsuda Nobuya and his surrounding students" Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
2008
"Neoteny Japan contemporary artists after 1990’s from Takahashi Collection" Kirishima Open-Air Museum, kagoshima
2007
"From submarine to portrait" Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
2006
"Mono to Kokoro" Nishimura Gallery
2005
"Sight-cruising" Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa
2004
"Takanobu Kobayashi -Endless Summer" Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
2003
"The Drop of Heat" Bangkok University Art Gallery, Nishimura Gallery
2000
"Recent Works 23, Takanobu Kobayashi" National Museum of Art, Osaka
1998
"SEVENTY FIVE DAYS" Muse des Beaux-Arts d' Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, France
