Naoya Hatakeyama

Naoya Hatakeyama was born in 1958 in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. He studied under Kiyoji Otsuji at the University of Tsukuba’s School of Art and Design, and completed his postgraduate studies at the same university in 1984. Since then, he has been based in Tokyo and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Japan and abroad. In 1997, he won the 22nd Kimura Ihei Award for his photobook Lime Works (Synergy Geometry, 1996), which depicts limestone mines, lime factories and cement plants scattered throughout Japan, and the exhibition “Maquettes” at Gallery NW House. Hatakeyama participated in the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001 and received the 42nd Mainichi Art Prize. In 2012, he received the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Art Encouragement Prize for his large-scale solo exhibition “Natural Stories” (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum), which looked back on his career from his early works to Rikuzentakata, a portrait of his hometown after the Great East Japan Earthquake. At Venice Biennale’s 13th International Architecture Exhibition, he was awarded the Golden Lion for his participation in the Japanese Pavilion. His publications include BLAST (Shogakukan, 2013), Kesengawa (Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2012), and Rikuzentakata 2011-2014 (Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2015). His works are included in the collections of Tate, London; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; Swiss Foundation for Photography, Winterthur; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Tokyo Photographic Art Museum; and the National Museum of Art, Osaka.