Born in Gifu, Japan, 1981
Lives and works in Ishikawa, Japan.
Currently works as an Assistant Professor in Kanazawa College of Art, Kanazawa, Japan.
Education
2010 Ph.D., Kanazawa College of Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2007 M.F.A., Kanazawa College of Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2005 B.F.A., Kanazawa College of Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Tranquil Bodies, Sokyo Atsumi (Tokyo, Japan)
2021 Melting Bodies, Sokyo Gallery (Kyoto, Japan)
2018 A Body in Solitude, Sokyo Gallery (Kyoto, Japan)
2017 Shikkoku no Shintai, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art (Kobe, Japan)
2011 URUSHI BODY, INAX Gallery 2 (Tokyo, Japan)
2010 Galleria Finarte (Nagoya, Aichi, Japan)
2009 Gallery Art Concept, Kanazawa (Ishikawa, Japan)
2007 Gallery TE (Tokyo, Japan)
2006 Gallery TE (Tokyo, Japan)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa Civic Gallery A (Ishikawa, Japan)
Cutting edge 2024, Daiwa Kohrinbo (Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan)
2023 Ginza no Kanazawa (Tokyo, Japan)
2023 Wajima Museum of Urushi Art (Wajima, Ishikawa, Japan)
2022 Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going, MORI ART MUSEUM (Tokyo, Japan)
illusionary microcosm －Phosphorescence of four contemporary lacquer artists－, SEIKO HOUSE GINZA WAKO HALL (Tokyo, Japan)
Collection Exhibition 1 Vessels, 21st Centru Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan)
Metal and Urushi of Crafts (Toyama, Japan)
Arts Towada 10th Anniversary Exhibition: Inter+Play Season 3, Towada Art Center (Towada, Japan)
2021 GO FOR KOGEI 2021, Shokoji Temple Takaoka (Toyama, Japan)
FEMINISMS, 21th Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan)
2020 Assemble: Accumulated Techniques and Bodies, The Museum of Arts & Crafts ITAMI (Itami, Hyogo, Japan.)
Flat and Plastic: Resonated Nostalgia, Nihombashi Takashimaya Shopping Center, Artgallery X; traveled to Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Yokohama branches, Japan.
Expressing Lacquer, Kanazawa Nakamura Memorial Museum (Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan)
2019 ArtKYOTO2019, Nijo-jo Castle (Kyoto, Japan)
Design Miami 2019, Miami Beach Convention Center (Miami, FL, U.S.A.)
ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair 2019, Shanghai Exhibition Center (Shanghai, China)
4th Triennale of KOGEI in Kanazawa, 21th Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan)
Expansion of Contemporary Crafts 2019, Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum (Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan)
Expression of Method 2019: Review of Production Theory, Shiinoki Cultural Complex (Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan.)
Hubei International Triennial of Lacquer Art 2019, Hubei Museum of Art (Wuhan, China)
2018 Art International Exchange: China Exhibition, Kanazawa Citizen’s Art Center (Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan)
MATERIAL × ART, Traditional Art & Craft of Ishikawa (Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan)
Contemporary Urushi Crafts, Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum (Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan)
The Present of Urushi 2018, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store Art Special Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
The Present of Urushi Expression Vol.1, Nihombashi Takashimaya Shopping Center Artgallery X (Tokyo, Japan)
Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2018, The Niigata Saitou Villa (Niigata, Japan)
2017 Hard Bodies: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Sculpture, Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.)
The Ishikawa International Urushi Exhibition 2017, Shiinoki Cultural Complex (Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan)
Shapes and Figures, SPIRAL, Tokyo, Japan, Wacoal Study Hal (Kyoto, Japan)
2016 HATCHi to Art Tourism, The Share Hotels Kanazawa (Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan)
World of Lacquer: Cycle of Time, 3rd Hubei International Triennial of Lacquer Art 2016, Hubei Museum of Art (Wuhan, China)
Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum (Kanazawa, Japan)
Spider’s Thread -Spinning images of Japanese beauty, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (Toyota, Aichi, Japan)
2015 Fruitfulness: Contemporary Art in Toyokawa, Toyokawa City Sakuragaoka Museum (Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan)
Four Spirited Artists, Seki City Shinoda Toko Art Space (Seki, Gifu, Japan)
The Future of Lacquer: The People Who Are Following Setsuro Takahashi Takahashi Setsuro Art Museum (Azumino, Nagano, Japan)
Contemporary Arts Exhibition, Minna no Mori Gifu Media Cosmos (Gifu, Japan)
Gifu DNA, The Museum of Fine Arts Gifu (Gifu, Japan)
2014 Shizubi Project 4: The Human Form and Sculpture, Shizuoka City Museum of Art (Shizuoka, Japan)
2013 World of Great Lacquer: Origin and Flows, 2nd Hubei International Triennial of Lacquer Art 2013, Hubei Museum of Art (Wuhan, China)
2012 Resonant Uruwashi: New Vibrance in International Woman’s Urushi Art, Yamawaki Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), Kyoto City University of Arts (Kyoto, Japan), Kitakata City Museum of Art (Kitakata, Fukushima, Japan)
2011 Aizu Urushi Art Festival, Aizuwakamatsu/ Kitakata (Fukushima, Japan)
Urushi Exhibition: New Forms of Urushi, The Museum of Arts & Crafts ITAMI (Itami, Hyogo, Japan)
2010 Curving Out the Future of Lacquer: Age of the New 2010 (Ishikawa. Japan)
1st International Triennale of Kogei in Kanazawa “Network Crafting”, 21th Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan)
Aizu Urushi Art Festival, Aizuwakamatsu City (Aizuwakamatsu,Fukushima, Japan)
Lacquer: Searching for New Expressions, Kitakata City Museum of Art (Kitakata, Fukushima, Japan)
2009 Emerging Directors’ Art Fair Ultra 002, SPIRAL (Tokyo, Japan)
2008 TAMA VIVANT II 2008: Seed of Images, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan; Minatomirai Station B3F (Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan)
Kanazawa Art Platform 2008: To Create Our Own Place by Ourselves, Tsubakihara, Tenmangū Shrine (Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan)
2006 TAMA VIVANT 2006: Now Rhythm Is Overlapping, Tama Art University (Tokyo. Japan); Minatomirai Station B3F (Yokohama, Kanazawa, Japan)
45th Hokuriku Chūnichi Art Exhibition, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan)
Awards
2005 The Japan Lacquer Crafts Association Award
2019 2019 Kogei World Competition in Kanazawa, Merit Award
Collections
Kanazawa College of Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan.
Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China.
Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan.
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Pola Art Foundation, Ashigarashimo, Kanagawa, Japan.
Yishun Art Space, Shenyang, China.
Ise Cultural Foundation, Toyama, Japan.
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan.
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
National Craft Museum, Kanazawa, Ishikawa,
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.