SANAE TAKAHATA
Sanae Takahata was born in Gunma province in Japan. Right after graduating from high school, she bought a one-way ticket to Paris, where she made her debut at a gallery in 1977. Then she moved to the United States and quickly signed a contract with a New York gallery. She returned to Japan at the end of the nineteen-eighties and settled in Tokyo. She received a very exclusive invitation to present her work at the Honen-in Temple in Kyoto in 2006.
Her paintings and sculptures have been extensively exhibited in galleries and museums around the world. Her artworks illustrate Y.O.U.A.L.L (A.NA.TA.TA.CHI) – Healing from Ego, written by Chizuko Ueno (NHK Book, 1995) and Women and Art, edited Rebecca Jennison and Soko Miki (Daisan Shokan, 2009).
Sanae Takahata is a free spirit and an independent woman. She neither knows borders nor belongs to a specific art circle.
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