Tanabe Chikuunsai IV

Graduated from the art department of Osaka Craft High School

Graduated from Tokyo Art University, majored in sculpture

Graduated from Oita Prefecture Bamboo Craft Training Center

Rookie Award, Newcomer Exhibition in Sakai City

Labor Ministry Award, All Japan Technical Exhibition
Oita Governor Award, Bamboo Craft Exhibition
Family Exhibition, Cortland Jessup Gallery, Boston, MA

Sakai Mayor Award, Sakai Art Exhibition

Yomiuri Television Award, All Kansai Art Exhibition
Y-G Art Exhibition, Irohani Gallery
Bridge Exhibition, Florence Lynch Gallery, NY
Solo Exhibition, Cortland Jessup Gallery, NY
Bamboo Works Exhibition, Osaka Modern Art Center

Solo Exhibition, Wacol Gallery, Tokyo
BRIDGE Exhibition, Sakai City Hall and Wellington Art Hall
SPOERRI Exhibition, Volkerkunde Museum, University of Zurich
Japan-Holland Cultural Exhibition, Laikus National Museum, Leiden University

Exhibit and Workshop at the Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA

Demonstration at Seattle Art Museum, WA
Hin: The Quiet Beauty of Japanese Art, Grinnell College, IA and Chicago Cultural Center, IL
The Tanabe Family: Four Generations of Bamboo Artists, Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute, Hanford, CA
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

The Next Generation, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA

The Tanabe Lineage: Four Generations, TAI Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters, Japan Society, New York, NY

Many Shapes of Bamboo III, Oita Prefectural Art Museum

Received the Bavarian States Prize
Modern Masters, Handwerkskammer for Munich und Oberbayern, Munich

ZEN: Tanabe Shochiku & WakamiyaTakashi, TAI Modern, Santa Fe, NM
Demo, Ruth Funk Textile Center, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL
Workshop, Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Delray Beach, FL

Solo Exhibition, Mingei Japanese Arts, Paris
The 44th Japan Traditional Crafts Kinki Exhibition / Traditional Japanese Crafts Kinki Prize
Bamboo × Lacquer, Takashimaya Art gallery, Osaka and Tokyo
MODERN TWIST Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art, Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts, Melbourne, FL
Bamboo installation Beyond connection, French guest house, La Celle-Saint-Cloud
Takashimaya Art Prize

Solo Exhibition/ Bamboo installation GODAI, Guimet Museum, Paris
Craft Arts: Innovation of Tradition and Avant-Garde, and the Present Day, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Biennale des Antiquaires , Grand Palais, Paris
The 63rd Japan Traditional Crafts Exhibition / Japan Crafts Association Encouragement Prize

Masterpieces of Japanese Bamboo Art, TAI Modern at Joan B Mirviss LTD, New York, NY
Solo Exhibition/ Celebration of becoming Chikuunsai 4th, Osaka/Tokyo
Bamboo-Fiber built Japan, Japan House, Sao Paulo
Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Fendre L’ Air, Musee du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, Paris
Lines and Shapes, Lines and Spaces: The Bamboowork of Iizuka Rokansai and Tanabe Chikuunsai, Musée Tomo, Tokyo, Japan

Masterpieces of Bamboo Art: Katsushiro Soho and Fujinuma Noboru, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan

Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Guimet Museum, Paris
Japan Imperial Household Agency, Tokyo
Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Morikami Museum, Miami, FL
Museo Nacional de Arte, Bolivia
Museum Fine Art, Boston, MA
Peruano-Japonés Centro Cultural, Peru
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
San Francisco Asian Art Museum, CA
Seattle Museum of Art, WA
The British Museum, London
The Museum of Fine Arts Gifu
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, Hanford, CA
Victoria and Albert Museum, London