Tadahito Nadamoto

Tadahito Nadamoto is a Japanese graphic artist, illustrator and painter born on Feb 12, 1926. He started his professional career as a graphic designer at Sanyo Electric Railway Co, in 1956 and joined Yoshio Hayakawa's design office in 1961. He is the founder of the Tokyo Illustrators Club (TIC), which was formed alongside Tadanori Yoko, Aquirax Uno, and Makoto Wada in 1965. He made his way to Tokyo in 1967 and opened his own studio in Roppongi when he became a freelance illustrator. He is also the founder of the Tokyo Illustrators Society (1988).

He has received numerous awards including the Gold Medal of the SDA (1970), Kodansha Cultural Award in Publishing (1979), New York Japan Graphic Design Award (1983), Magazine Award of the Fuji Sankei Group (1983), and Kuwasawa Design Award (2008). He was the first illustrator to receive the Purple Ribbon Medal in 1993 and he has also received the Order of the Rising Sun (4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette) in 2003. He is also the first Japanese illustrator to hold an exhibition in Seoul in 1983.

1981 New York
1982 Seoul
1992 Tokyo (Ginza Graphic Gallery)
2001 Tokyo (Ginza Graphic Gallery)
2002 Tokyo (HB Gallery)
2009 Tokyo (Ginza Graphic Gallery)
2010 Tokyo (Gallery SER)
2011 Tokyo (Gallery House Maya)
2015 Tokyo (Gallery Ef)
2016 Tokyo (Horiuchi Gallery)
2017 Tokyo (Peter's Gallery)
2019 Kobe (BB PLAZA MUSEUM OF ART)