22 Facts About Tetsuya Noda

Tetsuya Noda is a contemporary artist, printmaker and educator.

Tetsuya Noda is widely considered to be Japan's most important living print-artist, and one of the most successful contemporary print artists in the world.

Tetsuya Noda is a professor emeritus of the Tokyo University of the Arts.

Tetsuya Noda is the nephew of Hideo Tetsuya Noda an oil painter and muralist.

Tetsuya Noda was born in the Shiranui Township of Uki, Kumamoto Prefecture, on 5 March 1940.

In 1965, Tetsuya Noda completed graduate course at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.

Tetsuya Noda was a student of Tadashige Ono in the art of woodblock printmaking.

In June 1971, Tetsuya Noda married Dorit Bartur, the daughter of Moshe Bartur, then the Israeli ambassador to Japan.

Since 1968, Tetsuya Noda's works have been inspired by themes of his own life.

Tetsuya Noda takes photographs of what he sees and likes, then develops and retouches them with pencil or brushes.

Tetsuya Noda's works are done using materials close at hand.

Tetsuya Noda begins by selecting a photograph, taken on the day of the title, that he manipulates in various ways.

Tetsuya Noda headed the woodblock department at Tokyo Geidai from 1991 until his retirement in 2007.

Cultural exchange and the promotion of Japanese art forms are both part of the university's mission, and Tetsuya Noda spearheaded an innovative program in which traditional Ukiyo-e master printers came each year from the Adachi Institute to work with students, providing a link between the traditional workshop system and the modern university.

Tetsuya Noda nurtured contacts with the West, and his 2004 retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Asian Art clearly showed the influence of his study of Western art, combining Mokuhanga backgrounds photo-screenprinted scenes of everyday life.

In 1998 Tetsuya Noda came to Columbia University's LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies to teach mokuhanga to New York area printmakers.

Many of the artists now teaching mokuhanga internationally studied with Tetsuya Noda, including Seiichiro Miida, Raita Miyadera, Michael Schneider, Tyler Starr, Roslyn Kean, and others from Turkey to Korea to Pakistan.

Robert Flynn Johnson, curator in charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco wrote, "it is Tetsuya Noda who stands as the most original, innovative, and thought-provoking Japanese printmaker of his era".

Tetsuya Noda strives to preserve memory with the objectivity of his camera, but then disrupts the resulting photograph with the subjectivity of his pencils and brushes before committing the memory to a print.

Tetsuya Noda's works allow us to walk through his life and make us feel as if we were part of him or his family.

The loving care that Tetsuya Noda expends on the creation of a print, making it beautiful and detailed, infusing it with mystery and uncertainty, makes me think that he is not preserving memory so much as creating the scene the way it appears in his memory.

Tetsuya Noda's works are widely collected around the world by both generalist museums and specialist museums.