Ogata Kamio

Exhibitions
biography

The unique and optically stunning marbleized ceramics of Ogata Kamio have earned this rural artist membership positions in two craft societies in Japan and entry into many international exhibitions, despite the remote Hokkaido origin. Ogata’s chosen technique is neriage in which an assemblage of hundreds of paper-thin layers of colored clay is thrown creating a single vessel with distinct, striated, linear patterns. Ogata further heightens the affect by creating multi-ridged, folded, and pleated forms that showcase the already optical effects of his uniquely refined neriage ware, fashioning works that completely depart from their ancient Chinese predecessors.
1949 Born in Iwamizawa-city, Hokkaidō
1983 Built a kiln in Shinshinozu village, Hokkaidō
1992 Became an official member of Hokkaidō Ceramic Art Association
1994 Retired from teaching ceramics at the Shinshinozu Institute for Handicapped People
2003 Invited to join as official member of Nihon Kōgeikai (Japanese Crafts Society)

Awards:

1984 Entry to All Hokkaidō Ceramic Exhibition (thereafter every year until '00)
1988 Awarded Hokkaidō Newspaper Prize, Japan Ceramic Exhibition: New Works (also in '95 and ‘05)
1998 Awarded Judge Special Prize, Third Mashiko Ceramics Competition, Tochigi
(also in '00)
2000 Entry to the Crafts Competition, Takaoka
Awarded the Judge’s Special Prize, Mashiko Ceramic Exhibition
2005 East Japan Area Prize, 45th Traditional Art Crafts New Work Competition
Oribe Silver Prize, at the Contemporary Tea Ceramics Exhibition
2012 Awarded Special Prize, Dentō kōgei no takumi (Masters of Traditional Crafts),
Palace Hotel, Tokyo

Selected public collections:

Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin,WI
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
Ogata Kamio
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(1949-2022)
The unique and optically stunning marbleized ceramics of Ogata Kamio earned this Hokkaido artist membership positions in two craft societies in Japan and entry into many international exhibitions, despite his rural birthplace.

Ogata’s chosen technique was neriage in which an assemblage of hundreds of paper-thin layers of colored clay was thrown, creating a single vessel with distinct, striated, linear patterns. Ogata further heightened the effect by creating multi-ridged, folded, and pleated forms that enhanced the already optical effects of his uniquely refined neriage ware, fashioning works that completely departed from their ancient Chinese predecessors.

Ogata strove to create a rhythmic sensibility within each vessel. The many fine layers of graduated blues, grays, and whites coupled with the pleated surfaces create an optical illusion of movement thus re-enforcing the idea of rippling waves moving around or through the vessel.
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"When thinking about wave patterns on the surface, came into my mind was the black river in Kōrin’s byōbu screen, Red and White Plum Blossoms. I wanted to create a river in my works. In the process of making it, I also noticed an optical illusion."

OGATA KAMIO
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Selected Public Collections:

Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, WI
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
Newark Museum, NJ
Saint Louis Art Museum, MO