1985年、東京に生まれ鎌倉で育つ。2010年、東京藝術大学美術学部工芸科染織専攻を卒業。在学中より日本の伝統文化、とりわけ江戸時代の遊女の装束文化についての研究を進め、友禅染の着物や下駄の制作に取り組んだ。

創作活動の概念として「Rethink」を掲げ、日本古来の文化や伝統工芸の技法を現代の視点から捉え直すことで、今日を生きる私たちの価値観を表現している。代表作である《Heel-less Shoes》は、花魁の高下駄に着想を得たかかとのない靴であり、身体構造と美意識の関係性を問い直す作品として国際的な評価を得た。ニューヨークのメトロポリタン美術館、ロンドンのヴィクトリア＆アルバート博物館をはじめ、世界各国の美術館に収蔵されている。
その制作はファッションとアートの境界を横断し、近年は彫刻に加えて絵画へと表現の領域を拡張している。2016年にはパリのカルティエ現代美術財団において人形浄瑠璃文楽の公演を監督するなど、舞台演出も手がける。これまでにニューヨーク近代美術館（MoMA）、東京都現代美術館、岡本太郎記念館、パナソニック汐留美術館などで作品を発表するほか、2019年より女子美術大学特別招聘教授を務める。
また、日本各地の職人との協働を通じ、伝統工芸の技法を現代の造形へと接続する試みを継続的に行っている。分野の境界を越えることで生まれる新たな表現の可能性を、今日もなお探求し続けている。

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【個展】
2025 「Obsession」KOSAKU KANECHIKA、東京
「Sacred Reflections」KOSAKU KANECHIKA、東京
「Rethinking Ancient Japanese Icons」西武渋谷店、東京
2024 「Under the Sun and Moon」KOSAKU KANECHIKA、東京
2023 「Syncretism」KOSAKU KANECHIKA、東京
「Distance」山口県立萩美術館・浦上記念館、山口

【グループ展】
2026 「身体と物質のエスノグラフィー―加速社会における遅さと深さ」Palazzo Pisani Santa Marina、ヴェネツィア、イタリア
「Beyond our Horizons: from Tokyo to Paris」la Galerie du 19M、パリ
2025 「LOVE ファッション―私を着がえるとき」東京オペラシティ アートギャラリー、東京
「GO FOR KOGEI 2025」桝田酒造店 満寿泉、富山 ほか
2024 「GO FOR KOGEI 2024 くらしと工芸、アートにおける哲学的なもの」富山市石瀬エリア、富山
「LOVE ファッション―私を着がえるとき」京都国立近代美術館、京都
「江戸東京リシンク展」旧岩崎邸庭園、東京
2023 「Iris van Herpen. Sculpting the Senses」パリ装飾芸術美術館、パリ
「Japan: Myths to Manga」Young V&A、ロンドン
「中川衛 美しき金工とデザイン」パナソニック汐留美術館、東京

【パブリックコレクション】
・ヴィクトリア＆アルバート博物館
・京都服飾文化研究財団
・国立工芸館
・ニューヨーク州立ファッション工科大学美術館
・ハイ美術館
・メトロポリタン美術館

Born in Tokyo in 1985, she grew up in Kamakura. In 2010, she graduated from the Department of Crafts, specialising in Dyeing and Weaving, at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. Whilst a student, she began researching traditional Japanese culture, particularly the costume culture of courtesans during the Edo period, and undertook the creation of Yuzen-dyed kimonos and geta.

Adopting ‘Rethink’ as the guiding concept for her creative practice, she reinterprets Japan’s ancient culture and traditional craft techniques from a contemporary perspective, thereby expressing the values of those of us living today. Her representative work, *Heel-less Shoes*, is a pair of heel-less shoes inspired by the high geta worn by oiran; it has gained international acclaim as a work that re-examines the relationship between the human body and aesthetic sensibility. Her works are held in the collections of museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Her practice transcends the boundaries between fashion and art, and in recent years she has expanded her creative scope to include painting in addition to sculpture. In 2016, she directed a performance of the Bunraku puppet theatre at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris, and she is also active as a stage director. To date, she has exhibited her work at venues including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum and the Panasonic Shiodome Art Museum; since 2019, she has also served as a Specially Appointed Professor at the Japan University of Arts.
Furthermore, through collaboration with artisans across Japan, she continues to explore ways of integrating traditional craft techniques into contemporary art forms. She remains committed to exploring the new possibilities for expression that arise from transcending disciplinary boundaries.

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[Solo Exhibitions]
2025 ‘Obsession’ KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Tokyo
‘Sacred Reflections’ KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Tokyo
‘Rethinking Ancient Japanese Icons’ Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo
2024 ‘Under the Sun and Moon’, KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Tokyo
2023 ‘Syncretism’, KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Tokyo
‘Distance’, Yamaguchi Prefectural Hagi Museum of Art and Urakami Memorial Hall, Yamaguchi
2022 ‘RETHINK’, KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Tokyo
‘PRIMARY COLORS’, KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Tokyo
2021 ‘Descending Painting’ KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Tokyo
2019 ‘It’s always the others who die’ POLA Museum Annex, Tokyo
‘NORITAKA TATEHANA: Refashioning Beauty’ Portland Japanese Garden, Oregon, USA
2018 ‘Noritaka Tatehana and the Culture of Scent in Japan’ Former Yamaguchi Mankichi Residence, Tokyo
2017 ‘Re-Think’ Omotesando Hills Space O, Tokyo
2016 ‘Noritaka Tatehana: The Aesthetics of Magical Power’ Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum, Tokyo
2015 ‘Noritaka Tatehana: Dignity and Continuity’ Former Marquis Hosokawa Residence, Wakeijuku, Tokyo

[Group Exhibitions]
2026 ‘Ethnography of the Body and Matter—Slowness and Depth in an Accelerated Society’, Palazzo Pisani Santa Marina, Venice, Italy
‘Beyond our Horizons: from Tokyo to Paris’, la Galerie du 19M, Paris
2025 ‘LOVE Fashion—When I Change My Clothes’, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
‘GO FOR KOGEI 2025’ Masuda Sake Brewery, Masuizumi, Toyama, and other venues
2024 ‘GO FOR KOGEI 2024: Daily Life, Crafts and the Philosophical in Art’ Ishise Area, Toyama City, Toyama
‘LOVE Fashion – When I Change My Outfit’ The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto
‘Edo Tokyo Rethink Exhibition’ Former Iwasaki Residence Garden, Tokyo
2023 ‘Iris van Herpen. Sculpting the Senses’ Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
‘Japan: Myths to Manga’ Young V&A, London
‘Mamoru Nakagawa: Beautiful Metalwork and Design’ Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art, Tokyo
2022 ‘Kimono’ Musée du quai Branly, Paris
‘Fantastic Fashion: The Madness of Dressing, or Surrealism’, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo
2020 ‘The Artistry of Japanese Craftsmanship’, Panasonic Shiodome Art Museum, Tokyo
‘Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2017 ‘Items: Is Fashion Modern?’, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2016 ‘Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion’, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2015 ‘SHOES: Pleasure and Pain’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2014 ‘Image Makers’, 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo
‘Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe’, Brooklyn Museum, New York
2012 ‘Future Beauty: The Future of Japanese Fashion’, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
2010 ‘JAPAN FASHION NOW’, FIT Museum, New York

[Public Collections]
・Victoria and Albert Museum
・Kyoto Costume Culture Research Foundation
・National Museum of Crafts
・Fashion Institute of Technology Museum, New York
・High Museum of Art
・Metropolitan Museum of Art

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