HIROKO TAKEDA (Nagoya, b. 1966) is a New York-based artist from Japan, where she trained in the tradition of the Mingei Undou (Japanese Arts and Crafts Movement) and began her practice in Kyoto and Tokyo. In her sculptural and painterly idiom of weaving, Takeda explores the capacities of material, structure, and craft to realize her vision and ideas.

Takeda received an MA in Constructed Textiles from the Royal College of Art in London. She has exhibited in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Prior to opening her Brooklyn studio, Takeda was senior designer at the Jack Larsen Studio in New York. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, and has received the International Textile Award in Tokyo, the ICFF Editors Award, and the Jack Larsen Contemporary Textile Award. She has lectured on her art with Sheila Hicks in New York and is a guest lecturer at Tama Art University in Tokyo.

​​​Takeda has exhibited at Hunter Dunbar Projects, Dobrinka Salzman Gallery, Cavin-Morris Gallery, Colony, Egg Collective, Flux Factory, and Ise Foundation (NYC); Centre de design de l'UQAM (Canada); Oriel Myrddin Gallery and Smiths Row (UK); Micheko Galerie (Munich); Nishi Galllery (Melbourne); Arteque and Ozone Design Center (Tokyo); and elsewhere. Her work has appeared in Confluences in Art: from the Old and New Worlds; Weaving – Contemporary Makers on the Loom; The Perfect Imperfect; Warp and Weft: Woven Textiles in Fashion, Art and Design; Whitewall, Cultured, Architectural Digest, Surface, Metropolis, The New York Times, Dwell, Wallpaper, Curbed, Souen, Interior Design, Kinfolk, Cool Hunting, OEN, Casa Vogue, Elle Décor, Bare Journal, Interni, among other book, journal and web publications.