Tetsuya Noda
Tetsuya Noda | |
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野田 哲也 | |
Noda at opening of Your Hand in Mine | |
| Born | 5 March 1940 Uki, Kumamoto, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation(s) | Print artist, Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University of the Arts |
| Awards | International Grand Prize at 1968 6th International Biennial Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo, Grand Prize at 1977 Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubliana, 2015 Awarded The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon by the Emperor of Japan |
Tetsuya Noda (野田 哲也, Noda Tetsuya; born 5 March 1940) is a contemporary artist, printmaker and educator. He is widely considered to be Japan’s most important living print-artist, and one of the most successful contemporary print artists in the world. He is a professor emeritus of the Tokyo University of the Arts. Noda is most well-known for his visual autobiographical works done as a series of woodblock, print, and silkscreened diary entries that capture moments in daily life. His innovative method of printmaking involves photographs scanned through a mimeograph machine and then printed the images over the area previously printed by traditional woodblock print techniques onto the Japanese paper. Although this mixed-media technique is quite prosaic today, Noda was the first artist to initiate this breakthrough. Noda is the nephew of Hideo Noda an oil painter and muralist.