Kanako Iwai

1938 -
  • Textiles
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  • Awards at Japan Kōgei Assoc. Exhibitions : 3

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    • Category
      Textiles
    • Techniques
      Stencil dyeing
    • Born
      1938 -
    • Based in
      Kanagawa
    • Membership
      Full member, Japan Kogei Association
      President of Kounan Dyeing Workshop
    Kanako Iwai

    Style

    Mainly producing kimonos with designs in stencil resist picture dyeing, but also producing kimonos with stencil resist picture dyeing and tie-dye combined.

    Biography

    • 1938
      Born in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture
      Studied Japanese painting from her teens under Yuki Ogura
    • 1965
      Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting, Japanese Painting major
    • 1968
      Stayed in Detroit, Michigan, USA ( up to 1971)
    • 1972
      Studied textiles at Tokyo Institute of Craft and Design ( up to 1974)
    • 1979
      Studied under Yoshitaro Kamakura, Holder of Important Intangible Cultural Property for "Stencil Dyeing"
      Selected for the New Artists' Textiles Exhibition for the first time
    • 1980
      Selected for the Textiles Traditional Kōgei Exhibition for the first time
      Selected for the Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition for the first time (selected several times from this year onward)
    • 1984
      Becomes Full Member of the Japan Kōgei Association
    • 2002
      Took part in the Bingata Dyeing Successors Training Program by Yuko Tamanaha, Holder of Important Intangible Cultural Property for "Bingata" and learned the double-side dyeing technique(– 2003)
    • 2007
      Solo exhibition at Wako Hall, Ginza (also in 2012 and 2016)

    Awards

    • 1994
      Received the Japan Kōgei Association Award at the Textiles Traditional Kōgei Exhibition
    • 2012
      Received the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education Award at the 46th Textiles Traditional Kōgei Exhibition
    • 2018
      Received the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education Award at the 52nd Textiles Traditional Kōgei Exhibition
    • 2019
      Received the Japan Kōgei Association Incentive Award at the 66th Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition

    Public Collections

    • Japanese Traditional Dyeing and Weaving Promotion Foundation
    • - Formal kimono "Dandelion"
    • - Formal kimono "“Flower Garden of Queen Consort”
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