Biography
1953 | Born in Hagi City as the eldest son of 7th Kaneta Sanzaemon |
1977 | Graduated from Department of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of Education |
1979 | Tsukuba Graduate School of Arts Graduate School , Department of Fine Arts Completed |
1981 | Participated in Hagi International Sculpture symposium (stone carving) |
1985 | Became an official member of the Japan Art and Crafts Institute (’91 Retired) |
1989 | Hagi City Education and Culture Promotion Award |
1994 | Featured on NHK Television, “Japanese pottery Travelogue” |
1996 | Award of Promotion and Encouragement for Art and Culture in Yamaguchi Prefecture |
1998 | Featured on NHK Television, “Exploring Yakimono” |
1999 | Enargia Award for Contemporary Art (Energia Culture and Sports Foundation) |
2000 | Became Associate Professor at Tsukuba University (’03 Retired) |
2004 | Yamaguchi Prefectural Culture Contribution Award |
2005 | Become the 8th generation of Tenchozan Kiln |
2014 | Yamaguchi Prefecture Award (Artistic/Cultural Merit) |
2016 | Tenchozan kiln started 200 years anniversary |
etc.
Solo exhibitions
1983 | Ginza Kurodatōen, Tokyo |
1984 | Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Nihonbashi Tokyo ( ’86、’89、’94、’00、’03、’06、’09、’12、’15、’18、’21、’24) |
1992 | Ichibata, Matsue |
1993 | Daimaru Art Gallery, Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto |
1995 | NewYork Girth Clark Gallery |
1996 | Gallery Kurimoto, Nagaoka |
2000 | Gallery Kizan, Denenchōfu Tokyo(’02、’14) |
2001 | Hankyū Art Gallery, Osaka |
2006 | Saza – Beyond the Mountains,Solo installation of tearoom at Hagi Uragami Museum |
Robert Yerin Yakimono Gallery, Kyoto | |
2008 | Joan B. Mirviss Ltd., NewYork ( ’15、’19) |
JR Nagoya Takashimaya Art Gallery, Nag9ya ( ’13、’16、’20) | |
2010 | Takashimaya Art Gallery, Osaka( ’13、’16) |
2017 | Atelier Hiro, Osaka( ’22、’25) |
2022 | AWAI THE COVER NIPPON, IMPERIAL HOTEL ,Tokyo |
Galerie Friedrich Müller , Frankfurt |
etc.
Group exhibitions
1990 | Chigusa-kai Exhibition, Hotel Okura, Tokyo |
1995 | The Hagiyaki, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi |
1999 | Japanese Pottery- The Rising Generation From Traditional Japanese Kilns,Organized by Japan Foundation |
2000 | 400 years of Hagi Ware (Japanese Cultural Center in Paris) |
2001 | 400 years of Hagi Ware, Suntory Museum, Tokyo and Hagi Uragami Museum,Yamaguchi |
2002 | The Legacy of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu Museum of Modern Ceramics, Gifu |
2003 | Contemporary Master Ceramists of Western Japan, Ibaragi Ceramic Art Museum,Ibaraki |
2006/7 | Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century, Japan Society, NY |
2008-2009 | Generosity in Clay: Modern Japanese Ceramics from the Natalie Fitz-Gerald Collection, Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture, Hanford, CA |
2009 | Breaking from Tradition Japanese Ceramics Today, Harvey/Meadows Gallery, |
Aspen in conjunction with Joan B. Mirviss, LTD., NY | |
2010 | Contemporary Ceramics for the Tea Ceremony- Free Creativity, Musée Tomo, Tokyo |
2014 | The Betsy and Robert Feinberg Collection: Japanese Ceramics for the Twenty-first Century, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
Japan in Black and White: Ink and Clay (Asia Week New York), Joan B.Mirviss Ltd., NY | |
Tradition on Fire: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from Paul and Kathy Bissinger Collection, Asian Art Museum San Francisco, CA | |
2015 | Salon: Art+Design, Park Avenue Armory, NY |
2018 | Asian Ceramics from the Slunecko Collection, MAK, Wien |
2019 | GOGYŌ, Park Avenue Armory, N |
etc.
Public Collections
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
The Japan Foundation, Tokyo
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY
Philadelphia Art Museum, PA
Yale University Art Gallery, Conn Connecticut
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Cincinnati Museum of Art
Portland Museum of Art
Arkansas Art Center Cincinnati Museum of Art
Yamaguchi Prefectural Hagi Uragami Museum
Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
Yokohama Sogō Museum of Art, Yokohama
The Huntington Library, Art Museum
etc.