- Names
- ノグチ, イサム
- NOGUCHI, Isamu (index name)
- Isamu Noguchi (display name)
- イサム・ノグチ (Japanese display name)
- いさむ のぐち (transliterated hiragana)
- 野口勇
- Date of birth
- 1904-11-17
- Birth place
- Los Angeles, California
- Date of death
- 1988-12-30
- Death place
- New York City, New York
- Gender
- Male
- Fields of activity
- Sculpture
Biography
- 1935
- New Sculpture by Isamu Noguchi, Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, 1935.
- 1946
- Fourteen Americans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1946.
- 1949
- Isamu Noguchi, Egan Gallery, New York, 1949.
- 1950
- Isamu Noguchi sakuhin ten, Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi, Tokyo, 1950.
- 1952
- Isamu Noguchi ten (Exhibition of Isamu Noguchi), The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, 1952.
- 1961
- Noguchi: Weightlessness, Daniel Cordier & Michel Warren Gallery, New York, 1961.
- 1963
- Isamu Noguchi, Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., New York, 1963.
- 1965
- Noguchi Stone Sculpture, Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., New York, 1965.
- 1968
- Isamu Noguchi, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1968.
- 1970
- Isamu Noguchi, Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., New York, 1970.
- 1978
- Noguchi's Imaginary Landscapes, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Denver Art Museum and Cleveland Museum of Art and Detroit Institute of the Arts and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1978–1980.
- 1980
- 75th Birthday Exhibition, Landscape Tables, 1968–1979, André Emmerich Gallery, New York, 1980.
- 1980
- 75th Birthday Exhibition, Recent Stones 1978–1979, Pace Gallery, New York, 1980.
- 1985
- Isamu Noguchi ten: Akari to ishi no kūkan (Isamu Noguch: Space of Akari and Stone), Yurakucho Art Forum, 1985.
- 1986
- Isamu Noguchi: What is Sculpture?, 42nd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, 1986.
- 1992
- Isamu Noguchi ten (Isamu Noguchi Retrospective 1992), The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 1992.
- 1996
- Isamu Noguchi/Louis Kahn ten: Yume no randosukēpu (Play mountain: Isamu Noguchi + Louis Kahn), WATARI-UM, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 1996.
- 1996
- Isamu Noguchi to Kitaōji Rosanjin (Isamu Noguchi・Rosanjin Kitaoji), Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo and The Museum of Art, Kochi and The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura and Fukuyama Museum of Art, 1996.
- 2001
- Isamu Noguchi Sculptural Design, Design Museum, London and Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany and Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain and Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris and MART, Trento, Italy and Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands and Isamu Noguchi Fondation, New York and Seattle Art Museum and Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, 2001–2006.
- 2003
- Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics: A Close Embrace of the Earth, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. and Japan Society Gallery, New York and Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, 2003–2004.
- 2004
- Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 2004–2005.
- 2007
- Design: Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi, The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York, 2007–2008.
- The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York
- The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum Japan, Kagawa Prefecture
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
- The Kagawa Museum
- The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
- Ken Domon Museum of Photography, Yamagata Prefecture
- Sogetsu Kaikan, Tokyo
- 1953
- Takiguchi Shūzō, Hasegawa Saburō, and Isamu Nogushi. “Noguchi.” Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppansha, 1953. [Artists Writing].
- 1967
- Fuller, R. Buckminster. “Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor’s World.” London: Thames and Hudson, 1967. [Artists Writing].
- 1969
- Noguchi, Isamu. “Isamu Noguchi: Aru chōkokuka no sekai.” Translated by Ogura Tadao. Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppansha, 1969. [Artists Writing].
- 1979
- Hunter, Sam. “Isamu Noguchi.” London: Thames and Hudson, 1979.
- 1987
- Noguchi, Isamu. “The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum.” New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. [Artists Writing].
- 1989
- Miwa Hideo, Satō Dōshin, and Yamanashi Emiko. “Kindai nihon bijutsu jiten.” Supervised by Kawakita Michiaki. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1989, 27.
- 1992
- Ashton, Dore. “Noguchi, East and West.” New York: Knopf, 1992.
- 1994
- Noguchi, Isamu. “Isamu Noguchi: Essays and Conversations.” Edited by Diane Apostolos Cappadona, Bruce Altshuler. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1994.
- 1994
- Altshuler, Bruce, ed. “Isamu Noguchi. Modern Masters Series.” New York: Abbeville Press, 1994.
- 1997
- Ashton, Dore. “Hyōden Isamu Noguchi (Noguchi, East and West).” Translated by Sasaya Sumio. Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1997.
- 2000
- Duus, Masayo. “Isamu Noguchi: Shukumei no ekkyōsha.” 2 vols. Tokyo: Kodansha, 2000. (“Isamu Noguchi: Shukumei no ekkyōsha. Kōdansha bunko.” 2 vols. Tokyo: Kodansha, 2003).
- 2000
- Torres, Ana Maria. “Isamu Noguchi: A Study of Space.” New York: Monacelli Press, 2000.
- 2000
- Torres, Ana Maria. “Isamu Noguchi kūkan no kenkyū (Isamu Noguchi: A Study of Space).” Translated by Satō Takahiro, Sakuma Yūichi. Tokyo: Marumo Shuppan, 2000.
- 2001
- Winther Tamaki, Bert. “Art in the Encounter of Nations: Japanese and American Artists in the Early Postwar Years.” Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2001.
- 2004
- Duus, Masayo. “The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders.” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.
- 2004
- “Isamu Noguchi seitan 100-nen. X-knowledge-mook, vol.4 no. 2.”Tokyo: X-knowledge, 2004.
- 2004
- “A Century of Isamu Noguchi: Āto & dezain kai ni ima nao kagayaku, Iwamu Noguchi Densetsu. Casa Brutus Extra Issue.” Tokyo: Magazine House, 2005.
- 2011
- Sadao, Shoji. “Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi: Best of Friends.” Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2011.
- 2013
- Lyford, Amy. “Isamu Noguchi’s Modernism: Negotiating Race, Labor, and Nation, 1930–1950.” Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.
- 2015
- Herrera, Hayden. “Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi.” New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
- 2018
- Noguchi, Isamu. “Isamu Noguchi essei.” Translated by Kitadai Miwako. Tokyo: Misuzu Shobō, 2018.
- 2018
- Herrera, Hayden. “Ishi o kiku: Isamu Noguchi no geijutsu to shōgai (Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi).” Translated by Kitadai Miwako. Tokyo: Misuzu Shobō, 2018.
- 2018
- Niimi Ryū. “Isamu Noguchi: Niwa no geijutsu eno tabi.” Tokyo: Musashino Art University Press, 2018.
- 2019
- Tokyo Bunkazai Kenkyūjo (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties). “Isamu Noguchi.” Nihon Bijutsu Nenkan Shosai Bukkosha Kiji. Last modified 2019-06-06. https://www.tobunken.go.jp/materials/bukko/9909.html
- 2021
- Niimi Ryū. “Motto shiritai Isamu Noguchi. Shōgai to sakuhin.” Tokyo: Tokyo Bijutsu, 2021.
- 2021
- Matsugi Hiromi. “Isamu Noguchi no kūkan geijutsu: Kiki no jidai no dezain.” Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2021.
- 2026
- The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. Accessed January 9, 2026. https://www.noguchi.org/
日本美術年鑑 / Year Book of Japanese Art
「イサムノグチ」『日本美術年鑑』平成元年版(280頁)世界的な彫刻家として活躍した日系米人イサム・ノグチは、12月30日午前2時半(日本時間同日午後4時半)肺炎のため入院中のニューヨーク大学付属病院で死去した。享年84。1904(明治37)年11月17日、英米詩壇にヨネ・ノグチとして知られた詩人野口米次郎とアメリカの女流作家レオニー・ギルモアの長男として、ロサンゼルスに生まれる。1906(明治39)年家族とともに帰国、少年期を過ごし、小学校卒業後19...
Wikipedia
Isamu Noguchi (野口 勇, Noguchi Isamu, November 17, 1904 – December 30, 1988) was a Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public artworks, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces, some of which are still manufactured and sold.In 1947, Noguchi began a collaboration with the Herman Miller company, when he joined with George Nelson, Paul László and Charles Eames to produce a catalog containing what is often considered to be the most influential body of modern furniture ever produced, including the iconic Noguchi table which remains in production today. His work lives on around the world and at the Noguchi Museum in New York City.
- 2026-01-19
