La Lanta Fine Art

Born in 1977 in Tokyo, Japan

Education
2007
AA in Indigenous Studies, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe - Highest Honors, Focus in traditional beading

2003-2005
Native American Studies classes, University of New Mexico

2001
BA in Textile Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music

Publications
2012 Rupert Ravens’ Top 10 at the 2012 Basel Art Fairs, dArt International, Volume 15, Number 1, Fall/Winter 2012
2011 Fiber Arts, Mollie Baker. April 2011
2009 News wings, Staci Golar. March 2009
2007 Fiber Arts, Hollis Walker. Sept 2008, pp. 5-57
2008 Wheel me out, Victoria Ford. Aug 2008
2008 Pasatienpo, Elizabeth Cook-Romero. The New Mexican, Santa Fe, New Mexico, pp.42-44.

Honors and Awards

2011
Third place, “Fantastic Fiber 2011”, Yeiser Art Center, Paduca, Kentucky, For “LOVE; Female Torso”

2009
The Janine Brink Meyer Memorial Prize, “Head and Toe”, St Louis Artists Guild, St Louis, Missouri

2007
• First Place, Beadwork Division, Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta 2007, Albuquerque New Mexico, for Tabi-Moccasins
• Third Place, Beadwork Division, Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta 2007, Albuquerque New Mexico, for the Spiral Force-Japanese Moccasin
• Honors Exhibition in IAIA Museum
• Merit Award Scholarship, Institute of American Indian Art, for academic excellence

2006
Honors Exhibition in IAIA Museum

Exhibits

2016
• Solo show, The Nippon Phenomenon Project; Art Stage Singapore, Singapore

2015
• Art Jakarta, Indonesia

2014
• Singapore Art Fair
• SCOPE New York, USA

2013
• SCOPE New York, USA
• SCOPE Basel, Switzerland

2012
• SCOPE Miami, USA
• SCOPE Basel, Switzerland

2011
• Juried Show “Fantastic Fiber 2011”, Yeiser Art Center, Paduca, Kentucky, USA

2009
• SOFA Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, Missouri
• Juried Show “Head to Toe”, St Louis Artists Guild, St Louis, Missouri, USA

2008
• SOFA Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, Missouri, USA
• Solo Exhibition, Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

2007
• IAIA Students Booth, Indian Market, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
• Graduation Exhibition 2007, Primitive Edge Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
• Exhibition “Facing Reality”, Primitive Edge Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
• Exhibition “The Winter Show 2007”, Primitive Edge Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

2006
• Exhibition, The little Road Flower Gallery, Taos, New Mexico, USA
• Exhibition, Fort Collins Museum, Colorado, USA
• IAIA Students Booth, Indian Market, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
• Exhibition “The Winter Show 2006”, Primitive Edge Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

2002
Exhibition “The poetic spectacle of imaginative power”, Inter Natural Garden Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2001
Graduation Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Video Pieces
Featured artist in short film “Catching the light”, a Canadian-American production
Featured artist in short film “Coo-Contrast”, a video piece on the Space Art Project

Collections
UBS, Puerto Rico
Fidelity Investment public collection in New Mexico, USA
Private collections in Canada, Japan, Singapore, The Nethelands and the United States