Nishimura Yuko
Stir 02 (edition 10) 36 x 36 in Japanese paper on wood panel
Major Exhibitions 2009
Group Exhibition, Made by Hand: Mori Hanae and Young Artists, Contemporary Art Center−Art Tower Mito
2008
Folded Light, Folded Shadow, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2007
Japan Month in Houston: Contemporary Japanese Arts and Crafts, Houston, TX
It’s all in the fold: more than just origami, Columbia College Chicago, Center for Book & Paper Art, Chicago, IL
The Arts of Folding, KEIKO Gallery, Boston, MA
Folded Form, Mori Hanae Foundation−Open Gallery, Tokyo
Major Awards 2006
Tsukuba University Art Award
2004
The 54th Modern Art Exhibition, Tokyo Prefectural Museum, Tokyo (and '05)
Major Public Collections Tsukuba University, Tokyo / Shangri-La Hotel, Tokyo Major Publications Boston Globe ('08), Fiber Arts: Contemporary Textile Art and Craft ('08), Kateigaho Japanese Edition ('07), Hideki Mitsui, New Theory of Art and Design: Rikuyosha ('06), Attitude Interior #8, Portugal ('06), Kateigaho international ('06), Naomi Asakura Paper, Bijutu Shuppan ('01), Techniques and Shapes in Crafts, Kodansha('01), Asahi Shimbun ('00)
photography by Otomo Yosuke
Moving On 12 x 6 x 17他 in granite
Ito Hirotoshi
Major Exhibitions 2009
The Perfect Fit—Shoes Tell Stories, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Solo Exhibition, Marble and Stone Sculpture, Gallery East, Australia
MIASA EXHIBIT, Mendocino, CA
2007
Japan Month in Houston: Contemporary Japanese Arts and Crafts, Houston, TX
Solo Exhibition, Tennozu Aisle, Tokyo
2006
Solo Exhibition, Pleasure of Paradox, KEIKO Gallery, Boston, MA
Solo Exhibition, Laughing Stone, Asahi Museum, Nagano
1992
Abitare II Tempo, Verona, Italy
Major Awards 2002
The Fifth Trick Art Competition ('00, '97)
1987
Atelier Nouveau Competition ('89)
Major Public Collections Matsumoto City Library, Nagano / Shiroyama Park, Matsumoto, Nagano / Saint Paul Church, Karuizawa, Nagano / Hofukuji, Shigamura, Nagano / Love and the People's Path, Nerima, Tokyo / Chihiro Museum, Azumino, Nagano Major Publications SBC Shinetsu Broadcasting ('09), The West Australian ('09), Yomiuri Shimbun (07'), Asahi Shimbun ('03)
Matsunaga Tomomi Folding Screen 110 x 130 x 39 in aluminum, wood, linen and silver leaf
Major Exhibitions 2009
Solo Exhibition, Gion Konishi, Kyoto
2008
Touching Warms the Art, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
Created the screens for the contemporary NOH theatre, NOH-BALLET played by Umewaka Rokuto and Maya
Plisetskaya, Kamigamo Shrine, Kyoto
Contemporary Japanese Jewelry, KEIKO Gallery, Boston, MA
2006
KATACHI: The essence of Japanese Design, Flow Gallery, London, UK
2002-01
Contemporary Japanese Jewelry, Craft Council, London, UK
Art Work by Linen, pfo Gallery, Pusan, Korea
1999
Flower Vase by Linen & Jewelry, Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland
1998
Art Work by Linen, Hosomi Art Museum, Kyoto
1992
Bamboo Artwear, Main Street Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991
YUGO, The Art Director’s Club Gallery, New York, NY
Major Publications Nikkei Shimbun ('08) Asahi Shimbun ('06) Kateigaho ('06) Contemporary Japanese Jewelry, Merrell Publishers ('01) YUGO, Oak Publish Service ('91)
Takahashi Tomoko Among the Lotuses, a Dragon Rhapsodizes 72 x 90 in pigment ink and silver leaf
Major Exhibitions 2009
L’espoir Exhibition, Tokyo, Ehime and Fukui
2005
Ph. D Course, Thesis Exhibition, Tokugawa Museum, Nagoya and Gotoh Museum, Tokyo ('06)
2004
Takamura kai Exhibition, Tokyo ('08,'06)
Major Award 2001
Ataka Award, Tokyo University of the Arts
Major Publication Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
Sugiura Keita
Black Forest: Acts of Reverence #11 (edition 10) 36 x 28 in photography, pigment print
Major Exhibitions 2009
Pinchuk Art Center, Kiyv, Ukraine
Black Forest: Acts of Reverence, KEIKO Gallery, Boston, MA
Dark Forest, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
~MORI~ Dark Forest, CASHI, Tokyo
2008
Forest' cafe uenodan, Okayama
2007
Miracle, Tokyo and Okayama
Major Awards 2009
Grand Prize, Mr. I Award by Okayama Prefecture
2008
Judge Victor Pinchuk Prize, GEISAI MUSEUM 2
Bronze Medal, GEISAI 11
Major Publication Boston Globe ('09)
Fukumoto Shigeki
Major Exhibitions 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 1999 1995 1993 1987
4th International Fiber Art Biennale, Suzhou, China Japanese Rozome Masters, Mass College of Art, Boston, MA Bellevue Arts Museum, WA / Textile Museum, DC RIMPA, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo BATIK exhibition 2003, Museum voor IndustriĂŤle Archeologie en Textiel, Gent, Belgium The National Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia Crafts in Kyoto (1945-2000), The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo Beyond the Sea: Song, Burm-Soo and Fukumoto Shigeki Dual Exhibition, ll-Min Museum, Seoul, Korea Japan Studio Crafts: Tradition and the Avant-Garde, V&A Museum, London, UK Small Works in Fiber, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 13th International Biennial of Tapestry, Lausanne, Switzerland ('92)
Major Awards 1992 1984 1983
Grand Palais, Exposition France-Japan, Paris ('89, '88, '87, '86, '84) Grand Prize, 38th Kyoto Prefectural Arts & Crafts Exhibition First Prize, Mayor's Award, Kyoto Art Exhibition
Major Public Collections The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto / The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Il-min Museum, Seoul, Korea / Place Hotel, Tokyo / ANA Hotel, Tokyo / Hotel Okura, Kobe Major Publications The Technical Arts Hold Excitement in the 21st Century ('03), Fukumoto Shigeki: Rozome-Collected Works 1989-1998 ('98) Japan and the Art of Dyeing ('96), The Traditional Pottery of Oseania ('94), Shigeki Fukumoto: Roketsuzome- Collected Works 1981-1988 ('88)
L: FUJIN (God of Wind) 95 x 276 in dyed fabric on wood panels R: RAIJIN (God of Thunder) 95 x 276 in dyed fabric on wood panels
Hasegawa Hisae
Stream 15¾ x 39½ in silver leaf and indigo dye on gauze on wood panel
Major Exhibitions 2008
Solo exhibition, Gallery Shiko, Tokyo
2006
Solo exhibition, Gallery Yori, Tokyo
2005
Solo exhibition, Gallery Shiko, Tokyo
2003
Solo exhibition, Gallery Shiko, Tokyo
2001
Solo exhibition, Gallery Sao, Tokyo
1982
Solo exhibition, Harvard Yenching Library, Cambridge, MA
Major Public Collection Friedkin Companies Inc. Toranomon Kenko Fukushikan, Tokyo Nippon Medical School Hospital, Tokyo
Tamamoto Nana Affection 45 x 35¼ x 1½ in oil, acrylic, fabric and shell on canvas
Major Exhibitions 2009
MI Gallery, Osaka
2007
Sakano Machi Museum, Toyama / Takaoka City Museum, Toyama
2006
Kariya City Art Museum, Aichi
2004
Fukui City Art Museum, Fukui
2003
Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki
2002
Toyama Kenminkaikan Museum of Art, Toyama / O Art Museum, Tokyo
Major Awards 2006
Honor Award, Grand Concours International ('05), Espace Paul Cézanne, France
2005
Fédération Nationale de la Culture François, France
2004
New Face Award / Grand Concours International, France
2003
French Republic Honorary Award / Grand Concours International, France
Major Public Collections Galerie GAM’ART, France / MI Gallery-Mitori International Co.,Ltd, Osaka / Yoso Sangyo Shimbun, Co.,Ltd, Osaka Major Publications Journey of Mask, Bungeisha / Senshoku α / Asahi Shimbun / Tokyo Shimbun / Fukui Shimbun / Mainichi Shimbun
Tanaka Kazuhiko
Dreamscapes large: 4 x 5 x 3 in / small: 1½ x 2 x 2 in stone clay, acrylic, metal and stone
Major Exhibitions 2009
SOFA New York ('08)
2008
SOFA Chicago
DREAMSCAPES, KEIKO Gallery, Boston, MA
Promo-arte Gallery, Tokyo
2007
LIFESCAPES, KEIKO Gallery, Boston, MA
MIZUHO Bank, Street Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo
Major Publications Kateigaho ('06) DENTSU Magazine, Advertising ('07) Public Collection Dai-ichi Life Information Systems Co.,Ltd ('08)
Lapis Blue Room 98½ x 94½ x 83 in lacquer, silver leaf, wood and metal
HAKO-IE 91 x 94 x 86 in paulownia wood, plywood and paper
Studio Eyes
Major Exhibition 2007
Sakamoto Project, KEIKO Gallery, Boston, MA ('05)
1989
Messe Frankfurt
Major Awards Gold Medal, Good Design Award ('08) Selected for creative 300 small businesses which sustain the development of Japanese future ('06) Good Design Award ('01, '84) Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Prize, Monozukuri Nippon Grand Award ('05) Good Design Plus Award, Messe Frankfurt ('89) Excellence Award, International Design Exposition ('89) Silver Medal, Japan Design Competition, Ishikawa ('89) Major Public Collection Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Designed by Yoshiko Doi
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