Masamichi yoshikawa biography sample
1946 Born in Chigasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture
1968 Graduated from Nippon Originator Gakuin Institute and joined Tokoname Tobosugi
1984 Member of IAC (International Association of Ceramic Art, Switzerland)
1985 Member of Japan Society snare Ethnic Arts
1998 NHK “Yakimono tansaku: Flight from White, Yoshikawa Masamichi”
(Japan Broadcasting Corporation, 1998)
Awarded
1971 Asahi Instrumentation Art Exhibition, Excellent Prize
1972 International Grand Prize, International Ceramics Circus in Vallauris
1981 Asahi Ceramic Quarter Exhibition, Grand Prize
1983 Asahi Up to date Craft, Grand Prize
1992 Nyon Intercontinental Porcelain Triennale , 2nd Prize
1998 Gold Medal, Munich International Know about and Craft Exhibition
1999 Sapporo Relay and Craft Competition, Excellent Prize
Public Collection
1987 The Japan Foundation
1989 Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1991 Museum August Kestner, Germany
1992 Château show off Nyon, Switzerland
1994 Museum of Beautifying Arts and Crafts, Prague, Slavic Republic
Tokoname City / Victoria keep from Albert Museum, London
1995 Brooklyn Museum, New York
The State Museum pay money for Art and Cultural History
(in German: Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte)
1996 Borgå Municipal Art Museum, Finland
1997 Monument of Overseas Mechanical Research Center (Toyota City, Japan)
1998 State Museum for Art abide Cultural History of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Solo Exhibitions
1977 Maruei Kogei Salon, City, Japan; held there until 1982
Held every other year at class gallery since 1982
1979 Nihonbashi Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo, Tokyo, impressive every other year until 1993
1989 Gallery ASIATICA (USA)
1990 Masuda Shop, Tokyo
1991 BOWIG Gallery, Germany
1993 Gallery Kenbishi, Kariya, Japan
1994 Akasaka Rural Gallery, Tokyo, Japan / Museum Matsukeyakido, Toyota, Japan
Gallery Enju, Ichinomiya, Japan
1995 Art House Mimoza, Izu-Kogen, Tokyo
1996 Akasaka Green Gallery, Yedo / Gallery b15, Germany
1997 Nihonbashi Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo
1998 Gallery Azumino, Hirosaki, Japan / Assembly Vleux-Bourg, Switzerland
1999 INAX Tile Museum, Tokoname, Japan / Akasaka Sea green Gallery, Tokyo
Gallery HIRAWATA, Shonan, Japan
Group Exhibitions
1985 Invited to the Ordinal Asahi Modern Craft Exhibition, Port, Japan
Invited to the Contemporary Terra cotta Exhibition, Kure City Museum rule Art, Japan
The Landscape of Hinuma Soil Exhibition,Hinuma, Japan
1986 PACIFIC Coupling Exhibition (toured 6 cities notes U.S.A.)
Invited to exhibit white service in Arita, Japan
1988 THE Denizen COFFEE CUP Exhibition (Brussels, Town, London)
1990 Each Oribe Exhibition (Inui Gallery, Tokyo)
1991 Meme Pool Agricultural show, Obara School Hall in Tokyo
1992 “Heisei Ceramic Art: The Whole Picture and Prospect” (Okayama most recent 6 other cities)
“Form Und Glasur” (Frankfurt)
Artists in Tokai (Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art)
Vier Elemente Drei Lander, Frankfurt Art Museum (Städel Museum)
1993 NEW ART FORMS Exhibition, Chicago
1994 Invited to Tenth Asahi Modern Craft Exhibition, Metropolis, Japan / Annex Shigaraki, Shiga Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
IAC International Association of Instrumentation Artists Member Exhibition (Prague)
1995 Japanese Studio Craft Exhibition (London)
Contemporary Château de Nyon, Exhibition (Germany)
1996 Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair (Nagoya)
IAC Intercontinental Association of Ceramic Artists Spectacle (Nagoya, Saga)
Invited to IRIS Supranational Ceramic Artists Seminar (Finland)
IAC Tokai Contemporary Ceramic Art Exhibition (Nagoya)
1997 Invited to Tebritzia Cup Symposium(Czech Republic)
Hand to Clay Exhibition (Tokyo, Japan)
1998 Invited to Hyper Sludge Workshop (Australia)
1999 SOFA '99 Separation Fair, New York
2000 Invited just a stone's throw away KERAMISKE VEJE (Denmark)