Jun Kaneko - Biography | Sokyo Gallery

1942 Born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.

Currently, lives and works in Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Education

1971 Claremont Graduate School, studied under Paul Soldner (Claremont, CA, USA)

1966 University of California, studied under Peter Voulkos (Berkeley, CA, USA)

1964 Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA, & California Institute of Art (Los Angeles, CA, USA)

Studied ceramics at Jerry Rothman's studio (Paramount, CA, USA)

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Jun Kaneko, Gail Severn Gallery (Ketchum, ID, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Selected Works, Traver Gallery (Seattle WA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Amarillo Museum of Art (Amarillo, TX, USA)

2022 Garden of Resonance: The Art of Jun Kaneko, Portland Japanese Garden, Portland, OR Jun Kaneko, Gerald Peters Contemporary (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

Jun Kaneko: New Work - Heads / Dangos / Slabs, Austin Art Projects, Palm Desert, CA 2021 JUN KANEKO, Traver Gallery (Seattle, WA, USA)

FORM: Jun Kaneko, KANEKO, Omaha, NE Jun Kaneko, Gail Severn Gallery (Ketchum,ID, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Locks Gallery (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

2020 Jun Kaneko, Bale Creek Allen Gallery (Austin, TX, USA)

The Space Between: Frank Lloyd Wright | Jun Kaneko, Albright-Knox Gallery at the Darwin D. Martin House Complex (Buffalo, NY, USA)

2019 Jun Kaneko: Dot in Space, Frank Museum of Art, Otterbein University (Westerville, OH, USA)

Jun Kaneko: An Abundance of Presence, Gerald Peters Gallery (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Austin Art Projects (Palm Desert, CA, USA)

2018 Jun Kaneko: Juxtapositions, Assemblage, (Lincoln, NE, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Visual Language, Traver Gallery (Seattle, WA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Gallery Fukuzumi (Osaka, Japan)

Jun Kaneko, Locks Gallery (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Blurred Lines, Akron Art Museum (Akron, OH, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Line and Color, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, University of Nebraska Medical Center (Omaha, NE, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Sherry Leedy Gallery (Kansas City, MO, USA)

2017 Capturing the Scent of Rain, David and Gladys Wright House (Phoenix, AZ, USA)

Jun Kaneko at Desert Botanical Gardens, Desert Botanical Gardens (Phoenix, AZ, USA)

Ceramic Works of Jun Kaneko, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, Japan Butterfly’s Friends, Hall of Nations, Kennedy Center (Washington D.C., USA)

Jun Kaneko: Wall Works, Sherry Leedy Gallery (Kansas City, MO, USA)

2016 Jun Kaneko, Rena Bransten Gallery (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Cedarhurst Center for the Arts (Mount Vernon, IL, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Scaled, Duane Reed Gallery (St. Louis, MO, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Mirage, Edward Cella Art and Architecture (Los Angeles, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Gerald Peters Gallery (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Sokyo Gallery (Kyoto, Japan)

Jun Kaneko, Austin Art Projects (Palm Desert, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Locks Gallery (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

2015 Jun Kaneko, Rena Bransten Gallery (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Dixon Gallery and Gardens (Memphis TN, USA)

2014 Jun Kaneko: Kyoto 2014, Sokyo Gallery (Kyoto, Japan)

Jun Kaneko, Hall of Nations, Kennedy Center (Washington D.C., USA)

Jun Kaneko, Gerald Peters Gallery (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

Jun Kaneko: A Stage for a Shared Dream, Locks Gallery (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Black and White, Bentley Projects (Phoenix, AZ, USA)

2013 Jun Kaneko, Sherry Leedy Gallery (Kansas City, MO, USA)

Special Project: Fremont Dangos 1992-1995, KANEKO (Omaha, NE, USA)

Stacked: An Exploration in Density and Line, KANEKO (Omaha, NE, USA)

Legends, Myths and Truths: Jun Kaneko, Millennium Park, Boeing Galleries (Chicago, IL, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Baker Sponder Gallery (Boca Raton, FL, USA)

2012 Art Palm Beach, Jun Kaneko, Elaine Baker Gallery (Boca Raton, FL, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Imago Galleries (Palm Desert, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Locks Gallery (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Rena Bransten Gallery (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Regis Master, Northern Clay Center (Minneapolis, MN, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Dangos, Heads, Paintings, Bentley Gallery (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)

2011 Kaneko On Stage: An Exhibition of Jun Kaneko’s Opera Designs for Madame Butterfly, KANEKO (Omaha, NE, USA)

Jun Kaneko Altered and Transposed: Drawings for Madame Butterfly, Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, NE, USA)

Outside Kaneko, Lauritzen Gardens Botanical Center (Omaha, NE, USA)

Jun Kaneko, GardinerMuseum (Toronto, ON, Canada)

Jun Kaneko: In the Round, The Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC, USA)

Jun Kaneko Ceramics, Sonoma County Museum (Santa Rosa, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko: An Exhibition of Sculptures, Paintings and Drawings, Carl Solway Gallery (Cincinnati, OH, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Duane Reed Gallery (St. Louis, MO, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Sherry Leedy (Kansas City, MO, USA)

2010 Jun Kaneko, Reading Public Museum (Reading, PA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Museum of Arts and Sciences (Macon, GA, USA)

Ceramic Sculptures of Jun Kaneko, Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens (Delray Beach, FL, USA)

Jun Kaneko Bronze Heads, Elaine Baker Gallery (Boca Raton, FL,USA)

Jun Kaneko, Rosemary Berkel and Harry L. Crisp II Museum, Southeast Missouri State University (Cape Girardeau, MO, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Selected Work, Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art (Biloxi, MS, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Bentley Gallery (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)

Jun Kaneko: New Work, Imago Galleries (Palm Desert, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Large Clay Works, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA, USA)

2009 Jun Kaneko, Perelman Building, Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Commonwealth Plaza (Philadelphia,PA, USA)

Jun Kaneko: New Paintings and Dangos, Gebert Contemporary (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Intimate Relationships, Locks Gallery (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Mobile Museum of Art (Mobile, AL, USA)

Kaneko in Tokyo, Gallery Kasahara, Middle Town Garden (Tokyo, Japan)

Kaneko in Tokyo, Gallery Kasahara, Shinwa Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan)

Play's the Thing: The Paintings and Objects of Jun Kaneko, Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, NE, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Arkansas Arts Center (Little Rock, AR, USA)

Jun Kaneko, San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose, CA, USA)

Crosscurrents: Jun Kaneko & David Kuraoka, Maui Arts and Culture Center (Kahului, HI, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Elaine Baker Gallery (Boca Raton, FL, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Drawings, Gallery Ham (Nagoya, Japan)

2008 Jun Kaneko, Boise Art Museum (Boise, ID, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Dangos, Roof Garden Installation, Locks Gallery (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Hill Gallery (Birmingham MI, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (Montgomery, AL, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art at the Midland Center for the Arts (Midland, MI, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Sculpture and Painting, Traver Gallery (Seattle, WA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, The Art Center (St. Petersburg, FL, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Imago Galleries (Palm Desert, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Gerald Peters Gallery (Dallas, TX, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Elaine Baker Gallery (Boca Raton, FL, USA)

Madama Butterfly, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) (Atlanta, GA, USA)

2007 Jun Kaneko, Museum of Texas Tech University (Lubbock TX, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Elaine Baker Gallery (Boca Raton, FL, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Memorable Selections, Bentley Gallery (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Bronze, Canvas, Ceramic, Paper, Gebert Contemporary (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Sherry Leedy Gallery (Kansas City, MO, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Knoxville Museum of Art (Knoxville, TN, USA)

Jun Kaneko: New Glass, Bullseye Connection Gallery (Portland, OR, USA)

2006 Jun Kaneko, Schuster Center for the Performing Arts (Dayton, OH, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Madame Butterfly, Dayton Visual Arts Center (Dayton, OH, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Beyond Butterfly, The Dayton Art Institute (Dayton, OH, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Drawings and Prints, Museum of Nebraska Art (Kearney, NE, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Dangos and Glass, Chiaroscuro Gallery (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Selected Works 1989-2005, National Museum of Art (Osaka, Japan)

Jun Kaneko: Selected Works 1989-2005, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art (Gifu, Japan)

Jun Kaneko: Platters, Holter Museum of Art (Helena, MT, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Maurine Littleton Gallery (Washington D.C., USA)

Jun Kaneko Exhibition, Gallery Kasahara, Chuden Chioyoda Building (Nagoya, Japan)

Jun Kaneko, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV Jun Kaneko: Beyond Butterfly, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Madama Butterfly, Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha, NE, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Bentley Projects (Phoenix, AZ, USA)

Tropical Reflection: Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture by Jun Kaneko, The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center (Honolulu, HI, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Elaine Baker Gallery (Boca Raton, FL, USA)

2005 Jun Kaneko, Gerald Peters Gallery (Dallas, TX, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO, USA)

Grand Opening, Bentley Projects (Phoenix, AZ, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Millenia Gallery (Orlando, FL, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Salt Lake Art Center (Salt Lake City, UT, USA)

Jun Kaneko Sculpture, William Traver Gallery (Seattle, WA, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Small Objects and Constructions, Chiaroscuro Gallery (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Ceramic Sculpture, The Laura Russo Gallery (Portland, OR, USA)

2004 Heads, Imago Galleries (Palm Desert, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Braunstein/Quay Gallery (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Chiaroscuro Gallery (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Fay Gold Gallery (Atlanta, GA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Rochester Art Center (Rochester, MN, USA)

Jun Kaneko, William Traver Gallery (Seattle, WA, USA)

2003 Jun Kaneko, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art (Sedalia, MO, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA Jun Kaneko, Gallery Brandstrup (Oslo, Norway)

Jun Kaneko, Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha, NE, USA)

Bronze heads & Ceramic Sculpture, Klein Art Works (Chicago, IL, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Maurine Littleton Gallery (Washington, DC, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Pewabic Pottery (Detroit, MI, USA)

2002 Ceramic Sculpture and Paintings, Carson-Masuoka Gallery (Denver, CO, USA)

Glass, Bullseye Connection Gallery (Portland, OR, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Holter Museum (Helena, MT, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (Kalamazoo, MI, USA)

Gail Severn Gallery (Ketchum, ID, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Bentley Gallery (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)

Jun Kaneko, LewAllen Contemporary (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Nicolaysen Art Museum and Discovery Center (Casper, WY, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Laura Russo Gallery (Portland, OR, USA)

　　　Jun Kaneko, William Traver Gallery (Seattle, WA, USA)

Jun Kaneko: On the Edge and In the Round, San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery (San Francisco, CA, USA)

2002 On the Edge and In the Round, Montalvo Gallery (Saratoga, CA, USA)

2001 Jun Kaneko - Glass, Bullseye Connection Gallery (Portland, OR, USA)

Dangos and Slabs, Klein Art Works (Chicago, IL, USA)

Jun Kaneko: New Sculpture, Bentley Gallery (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Frank Lloyd Gallery (Los Angeles, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Klein Art Works (Chicago, IL, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Laura Russo Gallery (Portland, OR, USA)

Ceramic Forms and Painterly Surfaces: The Recent Work of Jun Kaneko, Tyler Museum of Art (Tyler, TX, USA)

Tropical Energy, Honolulu Academy of Arts (Honolulu, HI, USA)

Jun Kaneko, University of Wyoming Art Museum (Laramie, WY, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Dangos in the Garden, LongHouse Reserve (East Hampton, NY, USA)

2000 Jun Kaneko, Durango Arts Center (Durango, CO, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Fay Gold Gallery (Atlanta, GA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Imago Galleries (Palm Desert, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Klein Art Works (Chicago, IL, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Monumental New Works, William Traver Gallery (Seattle, WA, USA)

1999 Jun Kaneko, LewAllen Contemporary (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Northern Clay Center (Minneapolis, MN, USA)

Jun Kaneko, The Art Center in Hargate, St. Paul’s School (Concord, NH, USA)

1998 Jun Kaneko: New Ceramic Sculpture, Bentley Gallery (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)

Jun Kaneko: New Ceramic Sculpture & Painting, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Center of the Earth Gallery (Charlotte, NC, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Dorothy Weiss Gallery (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko: New Paintings and Works on Paper, 1979-1997, Klein Art Works (Chicago, IL, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Large Scale Ceramic Heads, Klein Art Works (Chicago, IL, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis and Clark College (Portland, OR, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Stroke Gallery (Osaka, Japan)

Jun Kaneko, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Inc. (Fort Worth, TX, USA)

1997 Jun Kaneko, Susanne Hilberry Gallery (Birmingham, MI, USA)

1996 Jun Kaneko, Gallery Kasahara (Osaka, Japan)

Jun Kaneko, Dorothy Weiss Gallery (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Between Light and Shadow, Dutch Series, Frans Halsmuseum (Haarlem, The Netherlands)

Jun Kaneko, Horwitch LewAllen Gallery (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Klein Art Works (Chicago, IL, USA)

1995 Jun Kaneko, Gallery Takagi (Nagoya, Japan)

Jun Kaneko, Gallery Kasahara (Osaka, Japan)

Jun Kaneko, Klein Art Works (Chicago, IL, USA)

1994 Jun Kaneko, Bentley Gallery (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Dorothy Weiss Gallery (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, LewAllen Gallery (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Indigo Gallery (Boca Raton, FL, USA)

1993 Jun Kaneko: Ceramics Sculptures, Evanston Art Center (Evanston, IL, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Gallery Takagi (Nagoya, Japan)

Jun Kaneko, Leedy Voulkos Gallery (Kansas City, MO, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Susanne Hilberry Gallery (Birmingham, MI, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Ceramic Sculpture, Klein Art Works (Chicago, IL, USA)

1992 Jun Kaneko, Dorothy Weiss Gallery (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Helen Drutt Gallery (New York, NY, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Klein Art Works (Chicago, IL, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Mark Masouka Gallery (Las Vegas, NV, USA)

1991 Jun Kaneko, Brendan Walter Gallery (Santa Monica, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Gallery Kasahara (Osaka, Japan)

Jun Kaneko, Gallery Takagi (Nagoya, Japan)

1990 Jun Kaneko: Large-Scale Ceramic Works, Blue Star Space (San Antonio, TX, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Dorothy Weiss Gallery (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Klein Art Works (Chicago, IL, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Southwest Craft Center (San Antonio, TX, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Susanne Hilberry Gallery (Birmingham, MI, USA)

1989 Jun Kaneko, Brendan Walter Gallery (Santa Monica, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Galerie Barbara Silverberg (Montreal, QC, Canada)

Jun Kaneko, Gallery Takagi (Nagoya, Japan)

Jun Kaneko, New Gallery (Omaha, NE, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Sioux City Art Center (Sioux City, IA, USA)

1988 Jun Kaneko, Paul Klein Gallery (Chicago, IL, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Large Scale Ceramic Works, The Kansas City Contemporary Art Center (Kansas City, MO, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Susanne Hilberry Gallery (Birmingham, MI, USA)

Jun Kaneko: New Work, Dorothy Weiss Gallery (San Francisco, CA, USA)

1987 Jun Kaneko, Arabia Gallery (Helsinki, Finland)

Jun Kaneko, Dorothy Weiss Gallery (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Gallery Kasahara (Osaka, Japan)

Jun Kaneko, Gallery Takagi (Nagoya, Japan)

Jun Kaneko, Heath Gallery (Atlanta, GA)

Jun Kaneko, Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska (Lincoln, NE, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Susanne Hilberry Gallery (Birmingham, MI, USA)

1986 Jun Kaneko, Paul Klein Gallery (Chicago, IL, USA)

The Omaha Project: Jun Kaneko, Museum of South Texas (Corpus Christi, TX, USA)

Jun Kaneko, The Polka Dot Sidewalk, Museum of South Texas (Corpus Christi, TX, USA)

1985 Jun Kaneko, Laumeier Sculpture Garden (St. Louis, MO, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Paintings, Drawings, Ceramics, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota (Duluth, MN, USA)

1984 Jun Kaneko, Fabric Workshop Gallery (New York, NY, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Helen Drutt Gallery (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Morgan Gallery (Kansas City, MO, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Public First National Bank (Belleville, IL, USA)

1983 Jun Kaneko, Gallery Takagi (Nagoya, Japan)

Jun Kaneko, Helen Drutt Gallery (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Norman Fire House Art Center (Norman, OK, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Quay Gallery (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Large Scale Ceramic Sculpture & New Drawing, Ree Schonlau Gallery (Omaha, NE, USA)

Jun Kaneko: Clay & Drawings, Yaw Gallery (Birmingham, MI, USA)

1982 Jun Kaneko, Betty Moody Gallery (Houston, TX, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Morgan Gallery (Shawnee Mission, KS, USA)

Jun Kaneko, New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University (Alfred, NY, USA)

1981 Jun Kaneko, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan Jun Kaneko: Parallel Sounds, Contemporary Art Museum (Houston, TX, USA)

Jun Kaneko, The Banff Centre, Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff, AB, Canada)

Jun Kaneko, Helen Drutt Gallery (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

1980 Jun Kaneko, Gallery Toen (Shigaraki, Japan)

1979 Jun Kaneko, Clayworks Studio Workshop (New York, NY, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Gallery Takagi (Nagoya, Japan)

1978 Jun Kaneko, Gallery Takagi (Nagoya, Japan)

1977 Jun Kaneko, Coa Gallery (Kyoto, Japan)

1975 Jun Kaneko, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI, USA)

1971 Jun Kaneko, Mori's Form (Osaka, Japan)

1969 Jun Kaneko, El Dorado Gallery (Nagoya, Japan)

Group Exhibitions

2024 POP! Color Stories from the Permanent Collection, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA 2023 REVEAL: Recent Acquisitions 2020-2023, American Museum of Ceramic Art (Pomona, CA, USA)

Contemporary/Traditional: Selections from the Basch Glass Collection, Sarasota Art Museum, Ringling College of Art and Design (Sarasota, FL, USA)

Elevation: Kaneko and Contemporary Ceramics, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University (Detroit, MI, USA)

Jun Kaneko & Kiki Smith, Gail Severn Gallery (Ketchum, ID, USA)

Collect 2023, Somerset House (London, UK)

2022 Landscapes: Jun Kaneko, Kasuhito Kawai, Kimiko Mishima, Toru Ishii, Yoon Heechang, Sokyo Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)

Pure Form: Japanese Sculptural Ceramics, Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide, Australia)

California Clay: The Big Bang, Clarinda Carnegie Art Museum (Clarinda, IA, USA)

2021 Global Asias: Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Traveling exhibition (scheduled through 2023): Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State, University Park, PA; Knoxville Museum of Art (Knoxville, TN, USA); Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY; Yellowstone Art Museum,

Billings, MT; USC Pacific Asia Museum (Pasadena, CA, USA).

With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932, Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA)

A Delicate Balance: Public Art Exhibition in Sonoma Plaza (Sonoma, CA, USA)

The Floating Bridge: Postmodern and Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY, USA)

Objects: USA 2020, R & Company (New York, NY, USA)

The Rule of Three, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art (Sedalia, MO, USA)

2019 Art for All, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University (Portland, OR, USA)

Influence, KANEKO, Omaha, NE In Hawai’i, Hawaii State Art Museum (Honolulu, HI, USA)

Height x Width x Depth: Sculpture from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, Bradbury Art Museum (Little Rock, AR, USA)

Rites of Spring, Longhouse Reserve (East Hampton, NY, USA)

Tending the Fires: Recent Acquisitions in Clay, Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA, USA)

Seattle Art Fair: Jun Kaneko, John Kiley, Jane Rosen, exhibited by Traver Gallery at Centurylink Field (Seattle WA, USA)

Cool Clay, Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Ceramics, Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, CA, USA)

2018 The Elaine and Sidney Cohen Collection of Contemporary Ceramics, Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, CA, USA)

Humanistic Return: The Spiritual Origin of Ceramic Art, Yingge Ceramics Museum (Taipei City, Taiwan)

Art In the Garden, Montgomery Museum of Fine Art (Montgomery, AL, USA)

Adornment, Museum of Nebraska Art (Kearny, NE, USA)

Compelled to Tell: Color, Museum of Nebraska Art (Kearney, NE, USA)

2017 Platform Series: An Incident, The Armory Show (New York City, NY, USA)

Emphasized, Eye on the Scale, Hawaii, State Art Museum (Honolulu, HI, USA)

When Altitude Becomes Form: Japanese Art of the 1970’s through the Photography of Anzai Shigeo, The National Museum of Art (Osaka, Japan)

2016 Passion & Obsession: From the Collection, KANEKO (Omaha, NE, USA)

Cranbrook Ceramics +/- 25 Years, ASU Art Museum (Tempe, Arizona, USA)

Magical Designs for Mozart’s Magic Flute, New York Public Library for Performing Arts (New York, NY, USA) and Kent State University Museum (Kent, OH, USA)

National Ceramics Invitational, William Traver Gallery (Seattle, WA, USA)

Function, Form, and Fantasy: Ceramics from the Dr. Robert and Deanna Harris Burger Collection, Flint Institute of Arts (Flint, MI, USA)

Clay Through Time: Ancient to Contemporary Ceramics, Flint Institute of Arts (Flint, MI, USA)

Rites of Spring, Longhouse Reserve (East Hampton, NY, USA)

The Once and Future: New Now, Sherry Leedy Gallery (Kansas City, MO, USA)

Time + Space: Beginnings, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE, USA)

2015 Art Seen: A Juried Exhibition of Artists from Omaha to Lincoln, Joslyn Museum of Art (Omaha, NE, USA)

The Familiar and the Indefinable in Clay: The 71st Scripps College Ceramic Annual, Scripps College (Claremont, CA, USA)

Glazed and Diffused, Ferrin Contemporary (North Adams, MA, USA)

Honoring the Past, Embracing the Future, American Museum of Ceramic Art (Pomona, CA, USA)

Plates, Platters, & Discs: Selection from the Collection, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art (Sedalia, MO, USA)

Passport 2015, Japantown (SanFrancisco, CA, USA)

2014 Seasons of Sculpture VII (Sarasota, FL, USA)

Identity and Originality: New Collection of Modern Ceramics, Museum of Ceramic Art (Hyogo, Japan)

Shades of White, William Traver Gallery (Seattle, WA, USA)

Resurfaced and Reformed: Evolutions in Studio Ceramics, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth (Duluth, MN, USA)

Raku Ceramics, Sedona Art Center (Sedona, AZ, USA)

2013 Crafting Contemporary: Selections from the Daphne Farago Collection, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA, USA)

Art as Mammel, University of Nebraska at Omaha (Omaha, NE, USA)

2012 Provenance: In Honor of Arlene Schnitzer, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon (Eugene, OR, USA)

Marks and Conversations IV, Gail Severn Gallery (Ketchum, ID, USA)

Color, Gail Severn Gallery (Ketchum, ID, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Bean Finneran, Gail Severn Gallery (Ketchum, ID, USA)

2011 2011: Artists from the Center, Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts (Helena, MT, USA)

Big Ass Sculpture Show, Rena Bransten Gallery (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Handmade for Japan, Online Benefit for Japan Auction 20th Century Ceramics: From Kenkichi TOMIMOTO to Kazuo YAGI, The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo (Sasayama, Japan)

The Soldner Society, The Heights Waterfront (Tampa, FL, USA)

Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection, Dayton Art Institute (Dayton, OH, USA)

Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art & Design, Museum of Arts & Design (New York, NY, USA)

2010 Collection 2: Focus on Recent Acquisitions, The National Museum of Art (Osaka, Japan)

EXcenTriCA, LongHouse Reserve (East Hampton, NY, USA)

Innovations and Change: Great Ceramics from the Arizona State University Art Museum, Columbia Museum or Art (Columbia, SC, USA)

Sculpture: Intimate to Monumental, Gail Severn Gallery (Ketchum, ID, USA)

Drawing On Sculpture, Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas (Irving, TX, USA)

2009 Inspiration, William Traver Gallery (Tacoma, WA, USA)

Clay Canvases: The Fine Art of Painted Ceramics, Gardiner Museum Toronto (ON, Canada)

Glass Education Network 2009: Jun Kaneko and Therman Statom, Nagoya University of Arts (Nagoya, Japan)

A Passionate Observer: A Tribute to Helen Drutt, The Clay Studio (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Crosscurrents: Jun Kaneko and David Kuraoka, Maui Arts & Culture Center (Kahului, HI, USA)

2008 Sculpture: A Wyoming Invitational, University of Wyoming Art Museum (Laramie WY, USA)

Generations: Works by Jun Kaneko and Toshiko Takaezu, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter

Academy (Exeter, NH, USA)

NewNow, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson Community College (Overland,KS, USA)

Recent Work by Gallery Artists, Laura Russo Gallery (Portland, OR, USA)

Hot Color, Cool Glass, Arkansas Arts Center (Little Rock, AR, USA)

On Existence, The Museum of Fine Arts (Gifu, Japan)

Jun Kaneko-Therman Statom, Gail Severn Gallery (Ketchum, ID, USA)

New, Novel and Never Shown before 2008: Recent Gifts to the Collection, Racine Art Museum (Racine, WI, USA)

ConTempoRarities, The Contemporary Museum (Honolulu, HI, USA)

2007 Uncommon Objects, Hawai’i State Art Museum (Honolulu, HI, USA)

All the Difference: Works in Clay, Emily Davis Gallery, Mary Schiller Myers School of Art, The University of Akron (Akron, OH, USA)

Innovation and Change: Great Ceramics from the Ceramic Research Center, Arizona State University Art Collection, Fort Wayne Museum of Art (Fort Wayne, IN, USA)

Bold Expressions in Modern Art: The Buddy Greenberg Collection, Wichita Art Museum (Wichita, KS. USA)

Grand Opening 07/07/07, Gebert Contemporary (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory (New York, NY, USA)

Shy Boy, She Devil and Isis: Selections from the Wornick Collection, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA, USA)

Sculptors on Paper, Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, NE, USA)

Actor! Actor! The Intersection of Art and Theater, Palo Alto Art Center (Palo Alto, CA, USA)

New Works 2007: Celebrating Recent Gifts to RAM, Racine Art Museum (Racine, WI, USA)

2006 Contemporary American Crafts, Art in Embassies Exhibition, American Embassy (Seoul, South Korea)

A Ceramic Legacy: The S. Janssen and R.M. Johns Collection, Arizona State University Museum (Tempe, AZ, USA)

Bentley Projects (Phoenix, AZ, USA)

(3-person)10th Anniversary Exhibition, The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center, (Honolulu, HI, USA)

Jun Kaneko and Michael Sarich, Stremmel Gallery (Reno, NV, USA)

Clayarch Int’l Architecture/Ceramic Exhibition, Gimhae Museum (Gimhae, South Korea)

ClayFusion: Ceramists Work in Glass, Jun Kaneko Sushi Plates, Bullseye Connection Gallery (Portland, OR, USA)

Ceramics: Frank Boyden, Jun Kaneko, Geoffrey Pagen, Don Reitz, Laura Russo Gallery (Portland, OR, USA)

2005 Jun Kaneko & Douglass Freed, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO, USA)

Contemporary Kiln-Glass: A Survey of Works from the Bullseye Glass Co. Collection and the Bullseye Connection Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington IL, USA)

25th Anniversary Exhibition, Fay Gold Gallery (Atlanta, GA, USA)

Japan/USA: A Cross Cultural Exchange, Santa Fe Clay (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

Laura Russo Gallery (Portland, OR, USA)

(3-person) Chiaroscuro (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

(2-person) Transformations: The Language of Craft, National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australia)

2004 Inaugural Exhibition, Bentley Projects (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)

Sculpture Garden, Gail Severn Gallery (Ketchum, ID, USA)

Studio Glass International, Concordia University (Seward, NE, USA)

Summer Group Show of Gallery Artists, Laura Russo Gallery (Portland, OR, USA)

The Secret History of Clay, Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, United Kingdom)

All Fired Up: A Contemporary Ceramics Experience, Reed Whipple Cultural Center (Las Vegas, NV, USA)

2003 The Character of Clay: Jun Kaneko & Bean Finneran, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID 100 Treasures of Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA)

Clay, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (Atlanta, GA, USA)

Concentus, National Museum of Decorative Arts (Oslo, Norway)

Group Exhibition, William Traver Gallery (Seattle, WA, USA)

Shared Passion: Sara and David Lieberman Collection, Arizona State University Art Museum (Tempe, AZ, USA)

W. Wegman, J. Bartlett, J. Kaneko, Imago Galleries (Palm Desert, CA, USA)

2002 The Erotic Life of Clay: A Group Exhibition of Contemporary and Historic Ceramics, SFSU Fine Arts Gallery (San Francisco, CA, USA)

25th Anniversary Exhibit, William Traver Gallery (Seattle, WA, USA)

Accent on Ceramics, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (Phoenix, AZ, USA)

Coming of Age, Mint Museum of Craft and Design (Charlotte, NC, USA)

Contemporary American Ceramics 1950-1990, Aichi Ceramic Museum (Nagoya, Japan) National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Tochigi Ceramic Museum (Tochigi,Japan)

Evidence: Invitational, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO, USA)

J. Kaneko, T. Fawkes, M. Bauer, M. Kosuge, Laura Russo Gallery (Portland, OR, USA)

Poetics of Clay: An International Perspective, Philadelphia Art Alliance (Philadelphia, PA, USA) touring to the Museum of Art and Design/Taideteollisuusmuseo (Helsinki, Finland)

Sculptural Clay Invitational, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art (Sedalia, MO, USA), Setagaya Museum (Tokyo, Japan)

T. Statom, J. Kaneko, L. González Palma, R. Goethals, Gail Severn Gallery (Ketchum, ID, USA)

Untitled, Imago Galleries (Palm Desert, CA, USA)

2001 Generations in Clay, Center of Earth Gallery (Charlotte, NC, USA)

RSVP MONA, Museum of Nebraska Art (Kearney, NE, USA)

Poetics of Clay, Philadelphia Art Alliance (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

World Ceramic Exposition 2001 Korea (Seoul, South Korea)

High Fire: Significant Ceramic Sculpture, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Arts (Kansas City, MO, USA)

Jun Kaneko, Ralph Paquin, Harper Center for the Arts (Clinton, SC, USA)

Clay Feast (Gulgong, Australia)

2000 Goro Suzuki, Jun Kaneko, Gallery Kasahara (Osaka, Japan)

Two Masters of Modern Ceramics: Jun Kaneko and Irvin Tepper, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art (Boston, MA, USA)

(2-person) Color and Fire, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA, USA)

Everson Ceramic National, Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY, USA)

LewAllen Contemporary (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

Wonder & Discovery, Shigaraki Sculpture Park (Shigaraki, Japan)

The Summer Show, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art (Kanas City, MO, USA)

1999 Biennial Exhibition of Public Art, Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY, USA)

Contemporary Clay, Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH, USA)

Imago Galleries (Palm Desert, CA, USA)

Rare Earth, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (Cedar Rapids, IA, USA)

Contemporary Clay: Master Teachers/Master Students, Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH, USA)

Contemporary American Ceramics and Glass, Seto Ceramics and Glass Art Center (Aichi, Japan)

Mud and Fire, University of Wisconsin (Eau Claire, WI, USA)

Horizons, Center of the Earth Gallery (Charlotte, NC, USA)

1998 Klein Art Works (Chicago, IL, USA)

Le Geste et la Couleur, Musée Magnelli (Vallauris, France)

Crossing Cultures, LewAllen Contemporary (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

EKWC, Centro de Artesanía e Deseño de Galicia (Lugo, Spain)

Summer Show, Leedy Voulkos Gallery (Kansas City, MO, USA)

A Fire for Ceramics, Hand Workshop Art Center (Richmond, VA, USA)

SOFA Chicago: Sculpture Objects Functional Art, Navy Pier (Chicago, IL, USA)

1997 Invitational Ceramic Exhibition, University of Wisconsin (White Water, WI, USA)

Society of Arts and Crafts Centennial, Clay Exhibition (Boston, MA, USA)

Sculptors & Their Drawings, Dorothy Weiss Gallery (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Masters in Clay, Academy of Art (Leuven, Belgium)

A New Expression of the Earth, Fundación Luís Seoane (A Coruña, Spain)

1996 Peter Voulkos & Jun Kaneko: Shigaraki Project, Kenji Taki Gallery (Nagoya, Japan)

Chico State University (Chico, CA, USA)

Fine Art of Craft and Sculpture, LewAllen Gallery (Santa Fe, NM, USA)

6-person show, Salt Lake Art Center (Salt Lake City, UT, USA)

K'96 International Ceramic Art, South Carelian Art Museum (Lappeenranta, Finland)

Made in Kent, Kent State University (Kent, OH, USA)

1995 Anne Reed Gallery (Sun Valley, ID, USA)

Ryoji Koie, Goro Suzuki, Jun Kaneko, Maruei Gallery (Nagoya, Japan)

1994 International Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition, Aichi Prefecture Ceramic Museum (Seto, Japan)

KPMG: Peat Marwick Collection, Renwick Gallery (Washington D.C., USA)

New Craft Forms, Exhibition for Winter Olympics (Lillehammer, Norway)

Revolution in Clay: The Marer Collection of Contemporary Ceramics Traveling exhibition (through 1996): Scripps College (Claremont, CA, USA); Ringling School of Art and Design ; Sunrise Museums (Charleston, WV, USA); Kalamazoo Institute of Art (Kalamazoo, MI, USA) ; Canton Art Institute (Canton, OH, USA) ; Laguna Gloria Art Museum (Austin, TX, USA) ; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University (Wichita, KS, USA) ; Museum of Arts and Sciences (Macon, GA, USA) ; Fine Arts Museum of the South (Mobile, AL, USA)

　 The Ritual Vessel: Traditions Intertwined, Perimeter Gallery (Chicago, IL, USA)

Contemporary American Ceramics: From the Dean Thompson Collection, Gallery of Art, Johnson County Community College (Overland Park, KS, USA)

SOFA: Sculpture Objects & Functional Art, River Exhibition Hall (Chicago, IL, USA)

Wave of the Cloth, Painted Bride Art Center (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

1993 Contemporary Ceramics 1950-1990, Aichi Prefecture Museum of Art (Nagoya, Japan)

Clay 1993: A National Survey, William Traver Gallery (Seattle, WA, USA)

1992 Continuity and Transformations: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, Everson Museum of Arts (Syracuse, NY, USA)

The 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery Kasahara (Tokyo, Japan)

Ceramic Work Invitational Exhibition, Cheltenham Center for the Arts (Cheltenham,PA, USA)

　　 Yokohama International Art Fair, Gallery Kasahara (Yokohama, Japan)

New Art Forms, Exposition, Navy Pier (Chicago, IL, USA)

1991 International Ceramic Invitational Show, Shigaraki Ceramic Park (Shigaraki, Japan)

Ceramic Work - Part I, Otsuka Ceramic Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

Building a Permanent Collection, Gallery of Art, Gallery of Art, Johnson County Community College (Overland Park, KS, USA)

Keepers of the Kiln: Seven Contemporary Ceramic Artists Traveling exhibition (through 1993): University of Nevada (Las Vegas, NV, USA) ; Hunter Museum of Art (Chattanooga, TN, USA) ; Albany Museum of Art (Albany, GA, USA); University of Colorado (Colorado Springs, CO, USA); Madison-Morgan Cultural Center (Madison, GA,USA) ; Tampa Museum of Art, (Tampa, FL, USA) ; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum (Wausau, WI, USA) ; Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum,

(Logan, KS, USA)

Beyond Serving, Moira James Gallery (Green Valley, NV, USA)

Walls: Large-scale Ceramic Sculpture, Eight Variations, Utah State University (Logan, UT, USA)

1990 Jun and Fumi Kaneko, Mark Masuoka Gallery (Las Vegas, NV, USA)

Jun and Fumi Kaneko, Leedy Voulkos Gallery (Kansas City, MO, USA)

In Otuska Ceramic, Gallery Maronie (Kyoto, Japan)

Høvikodden Fjord Project and Høvikodden International, Høvikodden Art Center (Oslo, Norway)

Midlands Invitational, Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha, NE, USA)

In Otuska Ceramic, Otsuka Ceramic Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)

1989 Craft Today USA, American Craft Museum (New York, NY, USA)

International traveling exhibition (1989-1993): Taidetollisuusmuseoi-Museum of Applied Arts (Frankfurt, Germany) (Nov 30-Feb 25, 1990) Museum fur Kunsthandwerk (Warsaw, Poland) (Mar 22-Apr 22, 1990) Zacheta Gallery (Lausanne, Switzerland) (May 30- Sept 2, 1990) Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Moscow, USSR) (Oct 23-Dec 2, 1990) Museum of Decorative Applied and Folk Art (Ankara, Turkey) (Jan 22-Feb 8, 1991) State Painting and Sculpture Museum (Oslo, Norway) (Mar 15-Apr 28, 1991) The Oslo Museum of Applied Art (Ghent, Belgium) (May 30-Jul 28, 1991) St. Peter's Abbey (Berlin, Germany) (Oct 16-Nov 16, 1991) Amerika Haus Berlin (Athens, Greece) (Dec 8-Jan 11, 1992) Eommex Cultural Center-The Zappeoin (Bratislava, Slovakia) (Feb 19-Mar 29, 1992) Slovak National Gallery (Leipzig,Germany) (May 2-Aug 23, 1992) Grassi Museum (Barcelona, Spain) (Sept 17-Oct 25, 1992) Sala Sant Jaume of the Fundació la Caixa (Lisbon, Portugal) (Dec 3-Jan 31, 1993) Gulbenkian Foundation Museum

Two Modern Masters Jun Kaneko and William Harper, Society for the Art in Crafts (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

Mirror Images: Reflections in Clay, Craft Alliance Gallery, St Louis, MO

Natasha Nicholson Works of Art, Madison, WI

Kansas City Collects Contemporary Ceramics, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

45th Scripps Ceramic Annual, Scripps College, Claremont, CA

Recent Acquisitions, Weber State College, Ogden, UT

1988 A Fine Place to Work: Legacy of the Archie Bray Foundation, Arkansas Decorative Arts

Museum, Little Rock, AR

East Meets West, International Ceramic Show at the 1988 Olympics, Seoul, South Korea

Expression in Color: Ceramics, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

Jun Kaneko, Fumi Kaneko, The Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY

Sheldon Sampler: Private Choices, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE

Power Over the Clay: American Studio Potters (Michigan statewide traveling exhibition,

through 1989): Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit ; Northern Michigan University, Marquette ;

Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon ; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo ; Hope

College, Holland ; Midland Center for the Arts, Midland ; Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson

Nagoya Museum Masterpieces Collection, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan

The Kansas Contemporary Art Center, Kansas City, MO

1987 Clay Revisions: Plate, Cup, Vase, American Federation of Arts, circulating exhibition

Claywork Now III ’87, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan

A Decade of Pattern, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Osaka Contemporary Art Fair ’87, Osaka City Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan

Contemporary American Ceramic Show, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul,

South Korea Japanese/American Craft Invitational, Morikami Museum, Delray Beach,

The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK

American Ceramics Now,Twenty-Seventh National Exhibition, Everson Museum of Art,

Syracuse, NY

1986 Claywork II, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

Clay AZ Art International Ceramic Conference, Arabia Museum, Helsinki,

Finland

Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Show, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, Seibu Museum, Otsu, Shiga-Ken and Tokyo, Japan

Contemporary Arts: An Expanding View, The Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ; The Squibb

Gallery, Princeton, NJ

Michigan NEA Fellowships, 1965-1985, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI

Craft Today, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

1985 Claremont Influences, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

Surface, Function, Shapes: Selections from the Earl Millard Collection, Southern Illinois

University at Edwardsville, IL

Four Artists/Belleville, General Bank and First National Bank, Belleville, IL

1984 7 Ceramai, Hope College, Holland, MI

‘Aha Hana Lima '84 Invitational, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI

Corpus Christi Invitational, Corpus Christi State University, Corpus Christi, TX

Directions in Contemporary American Ceramics, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA

Forms That Function, Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY Scripps Clay Connection, Scripps

College, Claremont, CA

Earth & Fire: The Marer Collection of Contemporary Ceramics, Montgomery Gallery,

Pomana, CA

Vision of Cranbrook Today, Grand Rapids Museum, Grand Rapids, MI

Visiting Artists II, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

A Contemporary Cranbrook Vision, CDS Gallery, New York, NY

Hadler/Rodriguez Gallery, New York, NY

Platters and Related Forms, University Gallery, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville,

1983 NCECA Conference, American Arts Inc., Atlanta, GA

American Clay Artists, Philadelphia, PA Anagama Show, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI

Japanese Contemporary Ceramics, traveling exhibition organized by the Japan Foundation

and National Museums of Canada: Koffler Gallery, Toronto ; Musée du Québec ; Centre des

arts visuels, Montréal ; Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina ; Fine Art Gallery, University of British

Columbia, Vancouver ; Kamloops Public Art Gallery.

Cranbrook Ceramics: 1950-1980, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills,

Cranbrook Today, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI

Japanese Dynasty ’83, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

The Alternative Space, Ree Schonlau Gallery, Omaha, NE

RISD: Leadership in Crafts, Craftsman's Gallery, Scarsdale, NY

Student Choice, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Alice Aycock /Jun Kaneko, Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL

1982 Artwear Exhibition, Virginia Beach Art Center, Virginia Beach, VA

3-person show, Bennington College, Bennington, VT

Jun Kaneko, Goro Suzuki, Minnesota Clay Company, Plymouth, MN

Michigan Ceramic '82, Eastern Michigan University, Ann Arbor, MI

Painted Surface,Ceramic Invitational, Birmingham Art Association, Birmingham,

Convergent Territories, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre of Fine Art, Banff, AB,

Canada

Nuove Forme della Ceramica Giapponese ’82, Palazzo delle Esposizioni- Faenza, Faenza,

Italy, and Instituto Giapponese di Cultura, Rome, Italy

1981 Art Materialized: Selections from the Fabric Workshop(Traveling exhibition through 1984): The New Gallery for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; The Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, SC; The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; USF Art Galleries, Tampa, FL; The Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, CA; Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta; Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL

25th Ceramic National Exhibition, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (Arcadian

Landscaping Prize) Gallery Shiro, Osaka, Japan

Maronie Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

1980 Art for Use at Winter Olympics, Lake Placid and Contemporary Craft Museum, Lake Placid,

Homage to Josiah Wedgwood Ceramic Invitational, Museum of the Philadelphia Civic

Center, Philadelphia, PA

Ceramic Invitational, Muskegon Community College, Muskegon, MI

Ceramic Invitational, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Eighth Biennial Craft Invitation, Illinois State University, Normal, IL

Fabric Invitational, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

1979 A Century of American Ceramics, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

1978 Art Now '78, Invitational Exhibition, Hyogo Modern Art Museum, Japan

Nikko Securities Building, Nagoya, Japan

1977 Bird's Eye View of Contemporary Japanese Art 1977, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

1976 The Fred and Mary Marer Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

The Fred and Mary Marer Collection, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia

The Fred and Mary Marer Collection, Newcastle City Art Gallery, Newcastle,

Australia

1975 Jun and Fumi Kaneko, Cooper Gallery, Newport, RI

1974 Jun Kaneko, Norm Schulman, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

San Diego Museum Ceramic Invitational, San Diego, CA

Clay Things: East Coast Invitational, Moore College of Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

The Fred and Mary Marer Collection, Scripps College, Claremont, CA

1973 First Ceramic Invitational, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

1972 27th Ceramic National, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

Invitational Exhibition, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

Pennsylvania State University Ceramic Invitational, University Park, PA

1971 Clay Plus: 10 ceramic sculptors, State University of New York, NY College of Arts and

Science, Genesee, NY

Contemporary Ceramic Art of America, Canada, Mexico & Japan, National Museum of

Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

1970 Ceramics, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

Cerritos Ceramic Annual, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA

Collegiate Show, San Bernardino, California (First Prize)

Art in Other Media: Ceramic, Glass, Textile, Wood, Burpee Museum of Art, Rockford, IL

Ceramics 70, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

1969 Objects U.S.A., Johnson Wax Collection, Contemporary Crafts Museum, New York, NY

Selector, six Japanese artists for Scripps College Invitational Ceramic Show, Claremont,

1968 25th Ceramic National Exhibition, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (Arcadian

Landscaping Prize)

Peter Voulkos & Jun Kaneko, David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

Downey Museum Annual Art Exhibition, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA (First prize

in Crafts)

National Invitational Crafts Exhibition, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Third Ceramic Invitational, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA

California Design X, Collection of Sacramento State College, Pasadena Museum, Pasadena,

Satoshi Ogawa & Jun Kaneko, El Dorado Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

1967 5th Annual Southern California Exhibition, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

Media Explored 1967, Laguna Beach Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

Kiyo Gallery, Gardena, CA

1966 24th Ceramic National Exhibition, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (Arcadian

Landscaping Prize)

Annual Scripps College Ceramic Invitational Exhibition, Scripps College,Claremont, CA

Craftsman U.S.A. '66, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY (National Merit

Award)

1965 7th Miami National Ceramic Exhibition, University of Miami, Miami, FL

1964 23rd Ceramic National Exhibition, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

1963 Zaiya Invitational Painting Show, Japan

16th Chubu Niki Exhibition, Nagoya, Japan (First Prize)

1962 15th Chubu Niki Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan

16th Niki Exhibition, Nagoya, Japan (Nagoya Times Prize)

1961 14th Chubu Niki Exhibition

Awards

2021 International Sculpture Center Lifetime Achievement Award

2018 Commendation from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan

Honorary Doctorate, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

Gold Medal for Consummate Craftsmanship, American Craft Council

2011 Master of the Media, James Renwick Alliance, Washington, D.C.

2010 Artist Advisory Board, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2008 Honorary Doctorate, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA

2006 Honorary Doctorate, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NR

2005 Honorary Doctorate, Royal College of Art, London, England

1996 Fellow of the American Craft Council

1994 Honorary Member of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts

Nebraska Arts Council Fellowship

1985 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

1979 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

1967 Archie Bray Foundation Fellowship

Public Collections

Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Nagoya, Japan

Arabia Museum, Helsinki, Finland

Aria (formerly CityCenter) Fine Art Collection, Las Vegas, NV

Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

The Banff Centre, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada

Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID

California State University, Sacramento, CA

Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA

Cedarhurst Center for the Art, Mount Vernon, IL

Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI

Cornell Museum of Fine Art, Winter Park, FL

Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY

Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN

Europees Keramisch Werkcentrum, s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI

Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN

Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA

Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Gifu-Ken Museum, Gifu, Japan

Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI

Hawaii State Foundation on Culture & the Arts, Honolulu, HI

Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI

Incheon World Ceramic Center, Seoul, South Korea

Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE

Lauritzen Gardens, Omaha, NE

LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

Menard Art Museum, Komaki, Japan

Miami University, Oxford, OH

The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL

Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Québec, Canada

The Museum het Kruithuis, s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

The Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY

The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Japan

The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan

The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan

The Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE

The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, Japan

Nagoya City Museum, Nagoya, Japan

The National Crafts Museum, Kanazawa, Japan

The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia

The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS

Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ

Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI

Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA

The Ritz-Carlton, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Scripps College (The Marer Collection), Claremont, CA

Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan

Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth, MN

Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX

University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA

University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City, KS

University of Missouri Columbia: Museum of Art and Archaeology, Columbia, MO

University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY

Victoria and Albert Museum South Kensington, London, England

Weber State University, Dept. of Visual Art, Ogden, UT

Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan

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