PAUL KUHN GALLERY TAKAO TANABE b. Prince Rupert, British Columbia, 1926 Lives & works in Parksville, British Columbia EDUCATION 1946 - 1949 Winnipeg School of Fine Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1951 - 1952 Brooklyn Museum of Art, (with Hans Hoffman), Brooklyn, New York 1953 - 1954 Banff School of Fine Art, Banff, Alberta 1954 Emily Carr Foundation Scholarship to Central School of Arts & Crafts, London, England 1959 Tokyo University of Fine Art- under Isao Hirayama on 1979 - 1983 Head of Drawing & Painting, Artist in Residence, Banff School of Fine Art, Banff, Alberta COLLECTIONS National Gallery of Canada Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Art Gallery of Ontario Confederation Art Centre, Charlottetown, P.E.I. London Regional Art Gallery Albright -Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Department of External Affairs, Ottawa Ontario Canada Council Art Bank Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Alberta Art Foundation Bank of Montreal Alberta House Collection, London, England Montreal Museum of Fine Arts University of Calgary Petro Canada, Calgary Glenbow Museum, Calgary The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary University of Regina Hart House, University of Toronto Imperial Oil, Toronto Carlton University, Ottawa MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph Dalhousie University, Halifax Owens Art Gallery, Sackville Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal Art Gallery of Windsor SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2008 Banners, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Alberta 1999 Peace River, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta 1996 Columbia Plateau Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta 1993 - 1999 Recent Works, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta 1987 Recent Prints, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Alberta Canada House Cultural Center, London, England Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 1986 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia 1985 The West Coast- New Paintings. Paul Kuhn Fine Arts, Calgary, Alberta Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York 1984 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia 1982 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia 1981 Mira Godard Gallery, Calgary, Alberta 1980 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton Ontario Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 1979 Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta Mira Godard Gallery, Calgary, Alberta The Alberta Landscape, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta 1978 University of Calgary Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta 1977 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario 1976 Marlborough Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Takao Tanabe 1972-76 The Land, Norman McKenzie Gallery, Regina, 1976 Changing Visions: the Canadian Landscape, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario (Traveling exhibition) 1975 Marlborough Gallery, Rome, Italy 1974 Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. Aspects of Canadian Art, Albright -Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York 13 Canadians, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York 1973 Marlborough Godard Gallery, Montreal, Quebec 1972 Marlborough Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario McKintosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario 1971 Galerie Godard Lefort, Montreal, Quebec 1970 Multiples, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1968 7th Canadian Biennal, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario 1967 Lofthouse Galleries, Ottawa, Ontario Takao Tanabe, touring exhibition, Atlantic Provinces 1965 Takao Tanabe, touring exhibition, Western Provinces 1963 Canadian Biennial, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario 1961 New Design Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia 1960 Nihonbashi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1959 Art Gallery of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia Canadian Biennial, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario 1958 Brussels Worlds Fair, Belgium,Milan Triennale, Italy Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia 1956 Guggenheim International Exhibition, Paris, France, New York 1953 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Sao Paolo Biennial, Brazil 1952 Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba .