NORIKO TOMITA
Fiber Artist
I have fixated on familiar materials such as everyday items and discarded objects in my practice. I believe that everyday items clearly reflect the aesthetic sense and ways of thinking of a country. My works appear to be made from special materials, but can be seen as "forms of everyday items liberated from recognition." From my interest in everyday items and fibers as a starting point, I use trial and error while observing their materials and structure to create my works.
I consistently focus on the relationship between materials and methods, but I do not only involve textile itself, but evoke textile expression in a broad sense. My encounters with materials in daily life have led me to pursue "the definition of textile creation" outside its usual boundaries of common textile production such as weaving and knitting.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Tokyo, Japan
-Awards
・Selected for a funded residency program The Farm Margaret River, Australia, 2026
・Selected as a 2025 Fellow Akademie Schloss Solitude in the Visual Sphere of Practice, Germany, 2025
・Won TXT Prize 2017 in 19th International Mini Textile Exhibition "Nearby-Faraway", Slovakia, 2017
・Won Second Place in "Small Expressions", the Handweavers Guild of America, Inc. (HGA), USA, 2013
・Won "Special Award" in 8th International Biennial of Textile Miniatures "Thoughts -that is...", Lithuania, 2013
・Won "Excellent works" in 6th International Mini Textile Exhibition, Ukraine, 2013
・Won Second Prize in The 3rd International Contemporary Textile Art Competition "Continere", Belgium, 2011
・Invited to Awashima Artist in Residence, Japan, 2011
-Teaching Experience
・Invited as a visiting lecturer, Da-Yeh University, Taiwan, 2012
-Publications
・Shuttle SPINDLE & DYEPOT (HGA), USA, 2013
・LA PALABRA y el HOMBRE, Mexico, 2011
・Textile Forum Magazine "Como-Miniartextil", 2010
-Education
・M.F.A., Textile Design Course, Tama Art University, Japan, 2010
・B.F.A., Textile Design Course, Tama Art University, Japan, 2007
-Selected Exhibitions, Artist in Residences, others
2025 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2025 Weave Wave, FX Gallery and Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
2024 Contemporary Textile Art Biennial Contextile Artistic Residencies, Portugal
2023 Desert 23°S (La Wayaka Current), the Atacama Desert, Chile
2022-2023 12 Baltic Mini Textile Gdynia 2022, Gdynia City Museum, Paland
2022 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Niigata, Japan
2018-2019 Textile Art of Today, Slovakia, toured Hungary, Czech and Poland
2018 TXT Prize 2017 in 20th International Mini Textile Exhibition, Slovakia
2016 Contemporary Textile Art Biennial Contextile, Guimarães, Portugal
2016 Setouchi Triennale, Awashima Marine Museum, Japan
2015 The 5th Riga International Textile and Fibre Art Triennial Diversity&Unity, Latvia
2015 Tama Art University 80th Anniversary 1935-2015, Japan
2015, 2019, 2021 BankART Artist-in-Residence, Yokohama, Japan
2014 The 10th International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art Scythia 10, Ukraine
2014 Rokko Meets Art, Japan
2012 TEXTILE PRESENT" Akibatamabi 21, Tokyo, Japan
2011 The 6th Biennial International Textile Art World Textile Art, Mexico
2011 The Japan Contemporary Fiber Art Exhibition, Tama Art University Museum
2011 The 3rd International Contemporary Textile Art Competition Continere, Belgium
2010, 2013, 2020 Como-Miniartexil, Italy
2010, 2012 Valcellina Award 2009 /2011, Italy