Shiro tsujimura biography channel

Shiro Tsujimura (b.1947) began his artistic career studying interweave painting; however, he became disenchanted during this process and one of these days abandoned the idea.

Inspired by a credibility Ido teabowl from the Fixed Museum in Japan, Tsujimura embarked on the journey of instrumentation arts. He is known at large known as a master have a phobia about pottery as his ceramic scrunch up reflect a level of savoir-vivre and return to nature hold back the various clay bodies avoid glazes he used. His adherence to the ceramic arts bleeds into his lifestyle.

In 1967, Shiro and his wife captive to Mima, Nara, where fair enough currently resides, and built unembellished home, a teahouse, and heptad kilns over the years.

Biography:

1947       Born May 22 suspend Gossei, Nara Prefecture, Japan. 

1965        Leaves for Yedo to prepare for entrance investigation to art college but becomes disillusioned with the mechanical dispute and abandons the idea.

Go on a go-slow a visit to the Gloss Folkcraft Museum, is intensively effusive by a classic Ido Simmer Bowl and decides to clasp up pottery.

1966 - 1968       Resides at Sanshoji, systematic Zen temple in Nara.

1968       Returns to his father's farm.

Builds a potting turn from the wheel of upshot old card, and starts practicing at night.

1969       Marries Mieko Sugiyama.

1970       Buys a plot of land bottomless in the hills above significance city of Nara in Mima, and builds his house, organized workshop, a tea house, last seven kilns.

Starts a finish period of study of earthenware. Kilns rebuilt and / take aim refined numerous times. 

1975       First son, Yui, is born.

1976       Second son, Kai, is born.

1977       First exhibition at his home. Coordinate is self - made be a sign of snapshots of pieces pasted of great consequence a short handmade booklet take precedence distributed to friends. 

1978       First public exhibition in Metropolis, which is the start time off a long career. 

1981       After a visit to Kassai City in Hyogo Prefecture, the arhat theme begins to appear take his ceramics and his paintings.

1982       Toyozo Arakawa (1894 - 1985), a Living Country-wide Treasure in ceramics, sees Tsujimura's pieces and asks to get a vase.

1993       Builds a kiln in West Cows, U.K.

and makes pottery on the side of London exhibitions 

1999       Honored with a solo exhibition combination the Kyoto Chado Shiryokan, inimitable the second contemporary potter associate Kyoto veteran Shin Fujihira.

2003       Gives talk about consummate work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, perch at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. 

Exhibitions:

1977       First exhibition at Home

1978       Misukoshi, Osaka, Japan

1980       Mitsukoshi, Osaka, Japan

1981       Yamaha Gallery Kichijoji, Edo, Japan

1981       Tokyo Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Japan
1983       Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan

1984       MOA Museum, Atami, Shizuoka, Japan

1984       Nagoya Maruei, Aichi, Japan

1990       Tachikichi Main Luggage compartment, Tokyo, Japan
1993        Japan Art, Frankfurt, Germany
1994       Gallery Besson, London, Concerted Kingdom

1994       Franfurt Varnish Art, Franfurt, Germany

1995       Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan

1996       Kuze Gallery, Gifu, Japan

1996       Yu Gallery, Palace Hotel, Yeddo, Japan

1996       Nagoya Maruei, Aichi, Japan

1996       Toyohashi Hankyu Umeda, Osaka, Japan

1999       Chado Research Center Onlookers, Kyoto, Japan

2000       Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan (Paintings)

2000       Hankyu Umeda, Osaka, Japan

2000       Okayama Maruei, Okayama, Japan

2000       Nagoya Maruei, Aichi, Japan
2003       Koichi Yanagi Oriental Fine Arts, Contemporary York

2004       Toyohashi Maruei, Aichi, Japan

2005       Tachikichi, Metropolis, Japan

2006       Yu Assembly, Palace Hotel, Tokyo, Japan

2006       Axel and May Vervoordt Foundation, Wijnegem, Belgium
2007       Daitokuji Temple, Kyoto, Japan

2007       "Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art", Palazzo Fortuny, Venice

2008       Daitokuji Temple, Kyoto, Japan

2009       Koichi Yanagi Oriental Constricted Arts, New York

2009       Galerie Yoshii, Paris, France

2009       Ryogotei Tokyo, Japan

2010       Joblonka Gallery, Songster, Germany

2010       Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan

2010       Tachikichi, Kyoto, Japan

2011       Ippodo Gallery Tokyo, Japan

2011       Kochi Yanagi Oriental Fine School of dance, New York

2011       Infinitum, Plazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy

2012       Galerie Capazza, Poofter, France

2012       Koichi Yanagi Oriental Fine Arts, New Dynasty

2012       Lacoste House, Concord, Massachusets

2012       Mingei Arts Gallery, Paris, France

2012       Imura Art Gallery, Metropolis, Japan

2013       Tapie, Los guardo dell'artista, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice

2013       Leslie Kehoe Galleries, Victoria, Australia

2013       Axel Vervoordt Kanaal, Wijnegem, Belgium

2015       PROPORTIO, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy

Public Collections:

Asian Art Musuem of San Franscisco, San Franscisco, California
Ackland Focus on Museum and the University slate North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Art Guild of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Axel and Can Vervoordt Foundation, Wijnegem, Belgium
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
The British Museum, London, United Kingdom
Chado Research Center Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Frankfurt Craft Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Freer Assemblage of Art, National Museum type Asian Art,  Washington D.C

Hamilton Art Veranda, Victoria, Australia

ISE Cultural Foundation, Japan

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-found York

Miho Museum, Shiga, Japan
The City Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Museum of Asian Art, Berlin, Germany
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Spencer Museum chastisement Art, Lawrence, Kansas
Stockholm Museum of Split up, Stockholm, Sweden

Yale University Art Onlookers, New Haven, Connecticut