1958 Born in Osaka Japan (currently resides in Kobe)
1981 B.F.A. Kyoto City University of Arts
1983 M.A. Kyoto City University of Arts
Present Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts
Member of International Academy of Ceramics
Solo Exhibitions
1982,’91 Gallery Maronie, Kyoto
1984~2001,’04,’05,’06 Gallery Haku, Osaka
1986,’87,’89,’92,’94,’99 Gallery Beni, Kyoto
1986,’88 Gallery Genkai, Tokyo
1989 City Gallery, Kobe
1989,’94 Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo
1991,’93,’96, 2010, ’14, ’16 Gallery Pousse, Tokyo
1993,’95,’97 Kaibundo Gallery, Kobe
1994 Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
1996,’98,’01,’04, ’08, ’12, ’15, ’20 Gallery Meguro Tougeikan, Yokkaichi
1997 Contemporary Art NIKI, Tokyo
2001,’06, ’18 Gallery Shimada, Kobe
2001,’06 Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
2002,’05 Keihan Moriguchi, Osaka
2003 Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto
2005, 2014 Gion Konishi, Kyoto
2006, ’07, ’09 ~’21 Gallery Haku 3, Osaka
2008, ’10 Gallery Shimada deux, Kobe
2012 Seibu Ikebukuro, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
1984 Asahi Contemporary Craft Exhibition, Umeda Hankyu, Osaka, Yurakucho Hankyu, Tokyo
(’84 awarded,’89,’92 invited)
1986 International Competition Mino’86, Tajimi
1989 International Competition Mino’89, Tajimi (awarded)
1993 Contemporary Ceramics 1959-1990, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
1998 The Heart of the Creator in Contemporary Ceramic Art, The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga
The Domain of the Form – Functional Beauty and its Transmigration, Craft Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2001 Leaders of Contemporary Japanese Ceramics – Exploring Techniques and Forms for the New Century, Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, Ibaraki
2002 International Asia-Pacific Contemporary Ceramics Invitational Exhibition, Taipei County Yingko Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
JAPAN in Blekinge, Kulturcentrum, Ronneby, Sweden
Japanese Ceramics, Scharpoord Culture center, Belgium
The Legacy of Modern Ceramic Art, Part 1: From Artisan to Artist, the Evolution of Japanese Ceramic Art, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
2003 Mutsuo Yanagihara and Fourteen Radical Ceramists, The Museum of Art, Kochi
The Art of Earth – Clay Works of the New Century, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Ceramic Site ~2016, Gallery Haku, Haku3, Osaka
2004 Ceramic for Use: A New Perspective, University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, USA
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‘Collect’ The Victoria & Albert Museum London, UK
A History of Modern Crafts, Craft Gallery, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2006 The Quintessence of Modern Japanese Ceramics, Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, Ibaraki
2007 Ceramic Art Grand Prize Exhibition, Paramitra Museum, Mie
SOFA NEW YORK, Park Avenue Armory USA
Soaring Voices: Contemporary Japanese Women Ceramic Artists – The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga / 2008 Shizuoka Art Gallery, New Otani Museum / 2009 Sevres Museum, France / Crocker Art Museum, USA / ~2011 Exhibit tours USA
2008 Contemporary Figurative Arts – Life and Art – Colored by Ceramics, Higashi Hiroshima City Museum of Art
2009 Touch Fire: Contemporary Japanese ceramics by women artists, Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts, USA
2011 East-West Ceramic Collaboration V, University of Hawaii, USA
Japanese Ceramics from Ancient Times to the Present, Hekinan City Tatsukiti Fujii Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2012 2012 IAC/AIC NEW WORLD: TIMELESS VISIONS, New Mexico Museum of Art USA
2013 Form in Art, Other Forms, inner and outer, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
2014 What is Pottery? A Japan Ceramics Network joint exhibition, The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, The
Hagi Uragami Museum, The Shigaraki Ceramic Park, 2015 Ibaraki Ceramic Museum. Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
Identity & Originality, The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo
Moving Objects IAC Members exhibition, Dublin Castle, Ireland
Historic Street ART Festival in Tamba Sasayama 2014, Hyogo
2015 Fascinating Ceramics Keihan Moriguchi, Osaka
REVELATIONS, Grand Palais Paris, France
2016 Chimei : Age 50’s challenge, The Museum of Arts & Crafts・Itami, Hyogo
Ceramics in architecture and public space, IAC Members exhibition, Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, Spain
2017 Ayumi Shigematsu Keiji Ito Exhibition: Japan Ceramic Society Award Commemorative Exhibition, Kochukyo, Tokyo
2018 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale: Humanistic Return, Yingge Ceramics Museum, New Taipei City
2019 Kyoto Art and Culture Award Commemorative Exhibition, The Museum of Kyoto
2021 A Chronicle of Modern Crafts: Works from the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto Collection
Public Collection
Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum
Everson Museum of Art, USA
“Japanese House” The Museum of Modern Art, Argentina
The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga
Ishikawa Prefectural Technical Training Institute of Kutani
Craft Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
International Ceramics Studio, Kecskemet, Budapest, Hungary
Taipei County Yingko Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Takamatsu City Museum
Smith College Museum of Art, USA
The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo
New Mexico Museum of Art, USA
The Office of Public Works, Ireland
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto