Futamura Yoshimi

Exhibitions
biography

Spring 2016 Gallery Exhibition with Fujino Sachiko

Futamura, who resides in Paris, invariably draws her inspiration from nature. She has created several series of work over the past decade with titles such as Racines (roots), Rhizomes, and Vagues de terre (Earthen Waves). Her sculptural forms are intended to be reflections of nature and are infused with a vibrant living essence. She uses a blend of stoneware clays and a mixture of fired and raw granulated porcelain to create her collapsed rounded forms that appear both vegetal and geological in origin. These forms are sometimes encrusted with feldspar, and enhanced with cobalt and iron oxide glazes on the interior that are sometimes iridescent.

1959 Born in Nagoya, Japan
1979 Completed degree in Design at the Seto School of Ceramics
1981 Graduated Seto Yogyō Vocational High School with a concentration on ceramics
1984-85 Taught ceramics at the Hand Craft Ceramic Center Waragoda, Sri Lanka
1986 Moved to Paris
1994 Completed degree at Centre Artisanal de Ceramique de l’Ecole Duperre
1996 Founded her atelier in Lilas, France
2004 Artist residence in Fukui
2007 Artist in residence, Fu-ping, China
2013 Moved atelier to north-eastern Paris
Selected Collections:

Ariana Museum (Swiss museum of ceramics and glass), Geneva, Switzerland
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Musée national de céramique, Sèvres, France
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Futamura Yoshimi フタムラヨシミ
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Born 1959, Nagoya, Japan

First a student with Nagae Shigekazu at Seto Ceramic Research under Kawahara Yasutaka (b. 1936), a pupil of Tomimoto Kenkichi (1886-1963), FUTAMURA YOSHIMI is a Nagoya-born resident of Paris. She creates vibrant and evocative sculptural forms. Over the past decade, she has produced several series such as Racines (roots), Rhizomes, and Vagues de terre (Earthen Waves). To form her geologic or botanically inspired sculptures, she uses a blend of stoneware clays and either pre-fired granulated porcelain or porcelain slip. These large forms are sometimes further encrusted with feldspar and enhanced with cobalt and iron oxide glazes on the interior.
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Selected Collections:

Ariana Museum, Switzerland
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Brooklyn Museum, NY
Foundation of Ateliers d’Art de France, France
Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany
Institut Bruno Lussato et Marina Fédier, Brussels, Belgium
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Musée Cernuschi, Paris, France
Musée de Céramique d’Andenne, Belgium
Musée Français de Céramique de Fuping, China
Musée National des Arts asiatiques (Musée Guimet), Paris, France
Musée National de Céramique, Sèvres, France
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Sasama City Museum, Japan
Shimoda City Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
Smith College Museum of Art, Northhampton, MA
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
World Ceramic Exposition Foundation, Gwangju, South Korea
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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