Yamada Hikaru
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Exhibitions
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The Winter Show 2025
FORM not FUNCTION: Japanese Ceramic Sculpture 24 Jan - 2 Feb 2025Read more -
10 x 10 Past and Present
Japanese Masters of Ceramics 20 - 29 Jan 2023Read more -
KAZARI: Beyond Decoration
The Winter Show 2022 in spring 1 - 10 Apr 2022Read more -
Transcendent Kyoto
Winter 2022 4 Jan - 18 Feb 2022Read more
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The Winter Show 2021
Masterworks of Modern Japanese Porcelain 19 - 31 Jan 2021Read more -
The Winter Show 2020
KIN to GIN / GOLD+SILVER: LUSTER IN JAPANESE MODERN ART 24 Jan - 2 Feb 2020Read more -
Summer Clay: Textures of The Shoreline
1 Jul - 29 Aug 2019Read more -
Reflections of a Summer Scape
Clay, Prints and Paintings 20 Jun - 17 Aug 2018Read more
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Japanese Ceramics 1960 - Present: Function vs. Sculpture
Winter Antiques Show 2018 22 - 31 Jan 2018Read more -
Winter Antiques Show 2016
A Benefit for East Side House Settlement 22 - 31 Jan 2016Read more -
Tsubo
The Art of the Vessel 13 Mar - 20 Apr 2015Read more -
Japan in Black and White
Ink and Clay 14 Mar - 25 Apr 2014Read more
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Winter Antiques Show
A Benefit for East Side House Settlement 24 Jan - 2 Feb 2014Read more -
The Salon Art + Design
Park Avenue Armory, NYC 8 - 12 Nov 2012Read more -
Winter Antiques Show
Park Avenue Armory 20 - 29 Jan 2012Read more -
Birds of Dawn
Pioneers of Japan's Sodeisha Ceramic Movement 16 Mar - 29 Apr 2011Read more
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biography
1923 Born in Tokyo
Family moved to Gifu after Kantō Earthquake
1942 Graduated from Gifu Prefectural Middle School
1943-45 Entered Kyoto Craft School (Kyoto National Institute for Crafts and Textiles) and studied ceramics
1945 Met Yagi Kazuo
1946 Participated in organizing Young Pottery-makers’ Collective
1948 Co-founded Sōdeisha
1956 Organized Contemporary Crafts Association
1962 Opened Mon Kōbō (Corner Workshop) for utilitarian ware with Yagi Kazuo
1963 Participated in organizing Kyoto Craft Association
1979 Appointed professor at Osaka Art University (retired in 1994)
Became an official member of International Academy of Ceramics (IAC)
1990 Appointed chair of Osaka Art University, Craft DepartmentAwards:
1948 Kyōten Prize at the 4th Kyōten exhibition
Shinshō Award at the 2nd Shinshō Arts and Craft Association Competition
1950 Shinshō Award at the 4th Shinshō Arts and Craft Association Competition
1961 Japan Ceramic Society Award
1995 Kyoto City Award for Cultural Merit
1998 Eleventh Kyoto Art and Culture Award
2000 Awarded Honorary Citizen of Gifu City
2002 Twentieth Kyoto Prefectural Special Award for Distinguished Cultural Service
First Enkū Prize from Gifu Prefecture (awarded posthumously)
Selected Public Collections:
Chiba City Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse
Fukushima Prefectural Art Museum
Gifu Prefectural Museum of Art
Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art
Itami City Museum of Art
Japan Foundation, Tokyo
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Kyoto Prefectural Library and Archives
Meguro Art Museum, Tokyo
Musée national de Céramique, Sèvres France
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Kyoto
Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
National Museum of Art, Osaka
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park (Shigaraki Togei no Mori)
Takamatsu City Museum of Art
Tokoname City Board of Education
Victoria and Albert Museum, London -
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