Biography |
| 1944 | Born in Tokyo, Japan. |
| 1968 | Received B. F. A. from Tokyo University of the Arts. |
| 1970 | Received M. F. A. from Tokyo University of the Arts. |
| 2023 | Died in Sendai, Japan. |
Selected Solo Exhibitions |
| 1969 | Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1970 | Tamura Gallery, Tokyo |
| Walker Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1971 | Tamura Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1976 | Maki Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1977 | Maki Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1980 | Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1982 | Ichibancho Gallery, Sendai |
| 1983 | Gallery Science, Morioka |
| 1984 | Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1985 | Ryo Gallery, Kyoto |
| 1986 | Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1992 | Nagai Shoko Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1995 | Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1996 | What’s Art gallery, Sendai |
| 2000 | Rias Ark Museum, Kesennuma, Miyagi |
| 2005 | Yellow Plant Gallery, Shizukuishi, Iwate |
| 2007 | Gallery 21 + yo, Tokyo |
| 2010 | “300 Railroad Ties / Breathing Spaces” The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai |
| 2011 | The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts |
| 2012 | Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura |
Selected Group Exhibitions |
| 1968 | “Mikio Yokomori and Noboru Takayama” |
| Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1969 | “Five Events by Four” Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1970 | “Trends in Contemporary Art in Japan” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto |
| “Space Totsuka ’70” Space Totsuka, Kanagawa |
| 1971 | “The 10th International Contemporary Art Exhibition in Japan” |
| Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| 1973 | “The 11th International Contemporary art Exhibition in Japan” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| “Ten (Point) Exhibition” Space Totsuka, Kanagawa |
| “8e biennale de paris” musee d’art moderne de la ville de paris / musee nationale d’art moderne |
| 1978 | “The 6th Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture” Suma Rikyu Park, Kobe |
| “The 14th Artists of Today” Yokohama Civic Gallery |
| 1979 | “The 15th Artists of Today” Yokohama Civic Gallery |
| 1883 | “The Sculpture” Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo |
| “Challenge to Empty Particles” Gallery 21, Tokyo |
| “Five Artists in Miyagi” The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai |
| 1984 | “Trends in Contemporary Art III” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| 1985 | “Contemporary Sculpture in Wood” Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery |
| 1986 | “Mono-ha” Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1987 | “International Iron Sculpture Symposium Yahata ’87” Yahata Higashida Blast-Furnace Memorial Park, Kitakyushu |
| “Shibukawa Contemporary Sculpture Triennale ’87” Shibukawa City Park, Gunma |
| 1988 | “Film as Contemporary Art” Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo |
| 1991 | “70’s-80’s at Kamakura Gallery” Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1994 | “Mono-ha” Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1995 | “Matter and Perception 1970: Mono-ha and the Search for Fundamentals” The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu |
| “ASIANA: Contemporary Art from Far East” Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, Venic |
| 1997 | “Gwangju Biennale, Hybrid & Wood” Gwangju, Korea |
| 2000 | “Gwangju Biennale 2000, Man + Space” Museum of Gwangju, Korea |
| 2001 | “70’s Shock from Japan, Mono-ha Collection” Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa |
| “Michinoku Art Festival 2001” Michinoku Park, Miyagi |
| 2003 | “Art Miyagi 2003” The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai |
| 2005 | “Mono-ha Reconsidered” The National Museum of Art, Osaka |
| 2006 | “Space Totsuka ’70” Space 23℃, Tokyo |
| 2007 | “Tama Vivant II 2007” Tama Art University Gallery |
| 2009 | “Korean Diaspora Artists in Central Asia, China and Japan” National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea |
| 2012 | “Enku Grand Award Exhibition” The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu |
| “Mouse trap + Underground Zoo + 3.11” Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa |
| “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-Ha” Blum & Poe, Los Angeles Gladstone Gallery, New York |
| 2023 | “TAKAYAMA NOBORU 1944–2023” Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa |
| Biography: Edited by WADA Koichi (Curator, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai) |