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 HIDEO YAMAKUCHI
History
1962     Born in Yonezawa, Yamagata pref

1988     Graduated from Bunka Fashion Colleage

Born in Yonezawa City, Yamagata Prefecture, as the third generation of his family's weaving business (textile manufacturing), he combined traditional weaving techniques with digital technology in 1990. Since then, he has established his identity as an artist who expresses images through textiles.
The concept of his work is "memory. He believes that the act of expression through weaving with warp and weft threads is similar to the mechanism of memory in the brain, and he has taken up the theme of "memory in weaving," in which photographs taken by the artist himself are woven into fabrics.

代表作

Representative work

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SHISEN 1997 (W:240cm H:120cm) 
Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, U.S.A.

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SHIDA 2000  (W:190cm H:720cm) 
The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD),U.S.A.

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SEMI 1994 (W:204cm H:132cm)
Selected, Mainichi Newspaper Modern Japanese Art Exhibition 1996

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UDE 1994 (W:240cm H:120cm)  Grand Prize at the International Textile Competition1997

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MIRAI 1994 (W:240cm H:120cm)
Selected, PHILIP MORRIS Art AWARD 1996 

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GEAR 1993  (W:36m H:8m) 

Exhibited at the Kyoto City Museum of Culture "Adventurers in Technique and Sensibility" 

Exhibition

展覧会

June. 1992   Solo exhibition ”NEW WEAVE EXHIBITION” at IDÉE Co,Ltd(Aoyama, Tokyo)
April.  1994   Solo exhibition ”NEW WEAVE EXHIBITION 1994” at Tohoku University of Art & Design
July.   1994   Solo exhibition ”The new world of Textile” at PASTORAL HALL(Shuto, Yamaguchi)
Nov.   1994       Exhibit ”Exhibition of Crafts over the Century” at The Museum of Kyoto
June.  1995      Solo exhibition ”Memory of Weaving” at Shinjuku Park Tower Hall
Nov.   1996    Exhibit ”PHILIP MORRIS Art AWARD 1996” at SPIRAL(Aoyama, Tokyo)
April.  1997    Solo exhibition ”Image Weaver” at HILLSIDE FORUM(Daikanyama, Tokyo)
June. 1998    Solo exhibition ”NEXTILE” at LonHouse(NY, U.S.)
April. 2000   Exhibit “Defining Craft” at American craft museum(NY, U.S.)
July.  2000      Solo exhibition ”Plants” at Digital Art Gallery(Nishi Shimbashi, Tokyo)
Nov.  2002   Collaboration with Lennie Mace ”¥¢$” at Minna Gallery(SF, U.S.)
May. 2003    Permanent exhibits at The Metropolitan Museum of Art(NY, U.S.)
July.  2004   Solo exhibition ”Memory of Weaving 2004” at Tanseisha Gallary(Taito, Tokyo)
Aug.  2020   Solo exhibition ”Memory of Weaving 2020” at Citizen Gallary(Yonezawa, Yamagata)
June. 2021    Solo exhibition ”Memory of Weaving b&w#" at Y&Gallary(Yonezawa, Yamagata)
Oct.  2022    Solo exhibition ”Memory of Weaving Flowers2022"at Y&Gallary(Yonezawa, Yamagata)
June.2023    Solo exhibition ”Weaving Memories in Switzerland" at JAM(Luzern, Switzerland)

展覧会風景

Scenery of exhibitions

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Tohoku University of Art & Design Gallery(YAMAGATA JAPAN)

『NEW WEAVE EXHIBITION』 1994

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SHUTO PASTORAL HALL (SHUTO, YAMAGUCHI, JAPAN) 
『The New World of Textiles』1994

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Shinjuku Park Tower HOLL(TIKYO,JAPAN)
『Memory of Weaving』1996

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Yonezawa  Citizen Gallery(YONEZAWA YAMAGATA,YAPAN)
"Memory of Weaving 2020" 2020

Award

賞歴

1995       Parco Urbanart #4 Encouragement Prize

       Japan Textile Contest ‘95 Special Jury Prize

1996       Green Designing Contest Green Design Prize

       Tokyo Textile Contest`96 Grand Prix, Minister of International Trade and Industry Prize

1997       International Textile Competition '97 Kyoto ITF Grand Prize, Prime Minister Prize

2007       Monodukuri Japan Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Prize

             and many other awards

permanent exhibit    

        The Metropolitan Museum of Art(NY, U.S.)         
  Museum of Arts and Design(NY, U.S.)         Longhouse Foundation(U.S.)           Japan Federation of Shiho-Shoshi Lawyer's Associations(Japan)         
  Royal householdR(Thailand)         
  Senso-ji(Asakusa, Tokyo) etc.

Art works Selection

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Senso-ji(Asakusa, Tokyo) 50th anniversary commemoration 
altar curtain  2008

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King of Thailand Portrait Tapestry  2011
Late King Bhumibol Adulyadej 84th birthday anniversary

Book

書籍

"Memory of Weaving” by Nextile Co,Ltd

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