is a Japanese artist known for his images of samurai in modern everyday or comical situations.

Biography

Noguchi was born in 1980 in

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, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from

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in 2003 specializing in oil painting, going on to complete graduate school there in 2005. Since his youth, Noguchi has been inspired by science fiction, samurai films, history, and plastic models, and he uses these as influences in his paintings and sculptures. He was first inspired by a photo of a samurai taken around the end of the

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, as well as by the works of Kobori Tomoto. His works have appeared in over 15 solo exhibits since his first in 2008. Two books featuring his works were published in 2014.

Exhibits

;Solo *"Noguchi Tetsuya Exhibit" (Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair (TCAF), 2008) *"Positive Contact" (Matsuzakaya Art Museum,

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Nagoya Branch, 2011) *"Noguchi Tetsuya Exhibit" (Gallery Tamae, 2011) *"Noguchi Tetsuya Exhibit: Noguchi Tetsuya's Warrior Identification Guide" (Nerima Ward Art Museum, 2014) *"Noguchi Tetsuya Exhibit: Noguchi Tetsuya's Warrior Identification Guide" (Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Art Museum, 2014) *"The Historical Odyssey" (

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International Terminal, 2015) *"Sleep Away" (Art Fair Tokyo, 2015) *"Noguchi Tetsya's Works: Journey to Another World" (Gallery Tamae, 2015) *"Human Silhouette" (Art Fair Tokyo, 2016) *"Antique Human" (Gallery Tamae, 2016) *"Drawing Exhibit: Armor and Pencil" (Gallery Tamae, 2017) *Works Exhibit: Armored Neighbor: Armor-clad Neighbors" (Gallery Tamae, 2017) *"Putting Love Over Medieval Times" (Pola Museum Annex, 2018) *"Within Armor: Toyama Version" (Mori Shusui Museum of Art, 2019) *"This Is Not a Samurai" (Arsham Fieg Gallery, New York, 2019) *"This Is Not a Samurai" (Takamatsu Art Museum / Gunma Museum of Art /

Kariya City Art Museum opened in Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan in 1983. The collection focuses on local, modern, post-war, and contemporary art, and includes some 3,441 works by 168 artists, as of April 2020. See also * List of Cultural Properties of Japan - pain ...

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, 2021)

Bibliography

* (February 2014, Kyūryūdō, ) * (February 2014, Seigensha, )

Reception

Noguchi's work has been described as "archival, historical and yet happily contemporarily comical", and having "technique...so exquisite that it elevates the work entirely out of the realm of parody". His works are sometimes mistaken as being actual historical works due to their detail and style.

Awards and recognition

Noguchi has received the following awards and recognition:

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Noguchi, Tetsuya 1980 births 21st-century Japanese painters 21st-century Japanese sculptors Male painters Male sculptors Nihonga painters People from Takamatsu, Kagawa Living people