Artist
Artist Statement
Exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Solo exhibition at the Wall Street Journal building in NYC.
Created costumes for Broadway musical actors.
Over 90 exhibitions in the United States, centered in New York, as well as in Germany, China, Brazil, and Japan.
Natsuko Hattori is an artist using fabric to create sculptures.
She collaborated with flower artist twice for exhibits at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Also she had solo exhibition at the Wall Street Journal building, 92 street Y ,First Street Gallery, Chashima Gallery, Waterfall Gallery, and other over 90 exhibitions. Also held in US cities other than New York, Europe and Japan. She has received many awards and grants including winning the Aoki Shigeru Memorial Grand Prix Award thrice in Japan.
Since 2014, she has been holding a performance titled “Dancer in MocoMoco”, and works on spatial art by dance, music, video and photography.
In 2019, her works were exhibited in the “Reiwa” bookkeeping hall of the Japanese Consulate General in Japan. In 2020, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, a sponsor of the watch company Swatch, will be invited to Shanghai as a half-year contracted artist. Currently working actively in an atelier in New York City and Japan.
Fabric is her medium of choice because people everywhere can relate more easily to this material, which conveys warmth, natural softness and the intimate human touch. The act of wrapping is essential to her sculptures.
Her artwork begins with choosing and cutting fabric to make cotton filled balls. These vibrant, sometimes flamboyant colored balls are bounded together to make each masterpiece unique and extraordinary. Each ball represents the inner state of Mankind. The gesture of wrapping around each round ball, is an act of transformation that converts pain, sadness and despair into positive energy such as love or a prayer for comfort. She hopes her work conveys a sense of happiness and celebrates the human spirit.
Solo Exhibitions
2025
MocoMoco Sculpture Exhibition, 105MaGallery, Japan
2024
Natsuko Hattori Solo Exhibition, Cafe Musee, Japan
2019
Forever, 92nd Street Y, New York, NY
Hidamari, Consulate General of Japan in New York, NY
2017
Hidamari, Consulate General of Japan in New York, NY
2014
Natsuko Hattori Solo Exhibition, The Wall Street Journal Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Natsuko Hattori Solo Exhibition, Berkeley college, New York, NY
2012
Natsuko Hattori Solo Exhibition, Berkeley college, New York, NY
GroupExhibitions
2025
New Year's Decollation, Shinjyuku Park Tower, Tokyo, Japan
Valentine's Decollation, Shinjyuku Park Tower, Tokyo, Japan
2024
Ongagawa shinwa no geijyutsusai 2024, Operation table, Japan
Ongagawa shinwa no geijyutsusai 2024, Sawarabi garden mall, Japan
2023
Natural Impressions, Virtual Exhibition, Museu textil, São Paulo, Brazil
Peace is precious No violence, Japan Society, New York, NY
The 27th JAA Art Exhibition of Japanese and Japanese Americans Artists in NY
Toumyouden, Fukuoka, Japan (Permanent Exhibition)
2022
The 26th JAA Art Exhibition of Japanese and Japanese Americans Artists in NY
Waterfall gallery, New York, NY
Intellectual beauty, Virtual Exhibition, Museu textil, São Paulo, Brazil
2021
Waterfall Artful Living Exhibition, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, New York, NY
28th Hiroshia・Nagasaki Interfaith Peace Gathering 2021, NY
Togetherness & Oneness, WAH Center, NY
The 25th JAA Art Exhibition of Japanese and Japanese Americans Artists in NY
Bergdorf Goodman x Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, New York, NY
Light House, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, New York, NY
2020
Contrasting Shapes,Virtual Exhibition, Museu textil, São Paulo, Brazil
Art as a Service, Waterfall gallery, NY
20th Annual WAH Salon, WAH Center, NY
New Japanese Horizon, WAH Center, NY
2019
26th Annual interfaith Peace Gathering,JapanSocietyAuditorium, NY
Two persons show, Flower and Art , Inakaya NY, NY
Warp & Woof Beyond The Loom, Gold Coast Art Center, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art "Ikebana Demonstration", NY
Divide And Multiply,Walter Wickiser gallery,NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art "Ikebana Display", NY
Ikebana & MocoMoco, Consulate General of Japan in New York
JAA Art Exhibition, The Japanese American Association of New York, Inc., NY
20th Annual WAH Salon, WAH Center, NY
2018
Permanent Collection, WAH Center, NY
SJAC 2018 Exhibition, Gallery Max New York, NY
Atomic Bomb Panel & Peace Art Exhibition, Tenri Cultural Institute Gallery, NewYork, NY
The Yard: Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
Aesthetics of Dreams, Carrie Able Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Pop Goes The Weasel, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
Of Women, RAA’s Studio 7 Gallery, Breezy Point, NY
19th Annual WAH Salon Show, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
2017
SJAC 2017 Exhibition, Gallery Max New York,NewYork, NY
WAH Celebrates Volunteers, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
Peace Art and Photo Exhibition, Tenri Cultural Institute, NewYork, NY
Building Bridges, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
18th Annual WAH Salon Show, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
116 Nassau Street, The Yard, Porter contemporary, NewYork, NY
Uprise / Angry Woman, The Untitled Space, NewYork, NY
2016
Graffiti Music Arts Festival, Holy Apostles Gallery, NewYork, NY
66th Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
Border 2016, Starr Space Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
LIC Art Open, The Factory, Queens, NY
Jart 6th, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
17th Annual WAH Salon Show, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Ichigo Ichie, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
Textured Vocabulary, Chashama 266 Gallery, NewYork, NY
Hiroshima Nagasaki 70th Years Photo and Art Exhibition, West Park Presbyterian Church McAlin Hall, NewYork, NY
Tokyo Art Crossing Berlin, Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Silent Auctuin, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
WAH Bridges Self, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
Working Artists, Academic Gallery, Queens, NY
J_Art_5th, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Encounter Kichi Tono Sougu, Kurosaki Shimin Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
Dance in MocoMoco Closing Party, The Local NY Gallery, Queens, NY
Turnstiles-A Focus on Our NYC Based Artists, Porter Contemporary, New York, NY
Holiday house NYC 2014, The Academy Mansion, New York, NY
Kenichi Nakajima+Natsuko Hattori Exhibition, Ouchi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Summer Art Festival 2014, Waterfall Mansion Gallery, New York, NY
Dancer in MocoMoco, The Local NY Gallery, Queens, NY
A National Women's Art Exhibition, The Wallace Smith Theater at Oakland Community College, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Spring Art Market, Space Womb, New York, NY
Jart, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
Love Shack, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA
15th Annual WAH Salon Art Club Show, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
Pop-up Show, First Street Gallery, NewYork, NY
2013
Two-Person Show, Choga, NewYork, NY
Mirai Artists Exhibition, Consulate General of Japan, NewYork, NY
Surp Assing Edges, Spacewomb, NewYork, NY
Alternative Reality, Spacewomb, NewYork, NY
Crest Hardware Art Show, Crest Arts, Brooklyn, NY
14th Annual WAH Salon Art Club Show, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
Apple Juice 13 Varieties: A Grope Show, Gallery @ Be Fluent, NewYork, NY
J_Art_3rd, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
The Asian American And Pacific Islander Heritage Month Special Exhibit, Berkeley College Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2012
The Student Concurs-Mixed Media, The Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
J_ART 2nd, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
Spring Three Person Show, Caelum Gallery, New York, NY
The Grand Harvest, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
2011
We Are One: Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Crisis Relief Exhibition, Gallery 61, New York, NY
Art for Japan: A New York City Artist Benefit, Studio57, New York, NY
Ise Cultural Foundation Art Student Exhibition in NY 2011, Ise Cultural Foundation, New York, NY
Joy, Grace Institute, New York, NY
Awards
2012
The Student Concurs-Mixed Media First Prize, The Art Students League of New York, NY
Scholarship, The Art Students League of New York, NY
Model to Monument, Selected, The Art Students League of New York, NY
The 16th Anniversary Emerging Artists Award, WAH Center, NY
2010
The Student Concurs-Mixed Media, Second Prize, The Art Students League of New York, NY
2009
1st Shigeru Aoki Award: West Japan Art Exhibition, Ishibashi Museum, Award, Japan
2008
17th Shigeru Aoki Award Art Exhibition, Ishibashi Museum, Award, Japan
2007
40th Nishinihon Art Exhibition, Award, Japan
2006
15th Shigeru Aoki Award Art Exhibition, Ishibashi Museum, Award, Japan
47th Kitakyushu Bijyutsuka Renmeten, Award, Japan
39th Nishinihon Art Exhibition, Award, Japan
62nd Fukuoka Art Exhibition, Award, Japan
2005
46th Kitakyushu Bijyutsuka Renmeten, Mainichi News Paper Prize, Japan
Artist in Residence
2020
The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai
Another
2025
New Year decollation, Shinjyuku Park Tower, Tokyo, Japan
Valentine decollation, Shinjyuku Park Tower, Tokyo, Japan
2022
Art book, Intellectual Beauty, Textile Art and Mixed Media
2017
CD jacket , Maru, Photo Provided to Ichimijin
2015
Interfaith Peace Gathering Commemorating 70th year Hiroshima Nagasaki Atomic Bombings, NY
Event decollation for Museum of Chinese in America, NY (April)
Event decollation for Museum of Chinese in America, NY (February)
2014
Music Concert Inchimujin in MocoMoco, The Local NY Gallery, NY
Dancer in MocoMoco, The Local NY Gallery, NY
2013
Window Display in Printed Matter
Art Vetting, Selected Artists in October