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

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