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KONDO TAKAHIRO
(b. 1958)
Kondô Takahiro was born into a lineage celebrated for
their traditional sometsuke (cobalt blue-and-white porcelain)
ceramics, as grandson of Kondô Yûzô (National
Living Treasure) and son of Kondô Hiroshi. Despite this
weighty heritage, Takahiro has not confined himself to the strictures
of this ancient tradition. For the last twelve years "Water"
has been a recurrent theme, which has led him to devise a unique
mixed-metal ("silver mist") glaze of silver, gold
and platinum that represents "water born out of fire."
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1958
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Born in Kyoto. |
| 1982 |
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Graduated from the Literature
Department, Hôsei University |
| 1985 |
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Completed training at Kyoto
Ceramics Training School |
| 1986 |
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Completed training at Kyoto
Industrial Research Institute |
| 2002-3 |
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Masters of Design and Applied
Arts, Edinburgh College of Art |
Awards:
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1986 |
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Nikkei Newspaper Award, Japan
Traditional Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Kinki District |
| 1994 |
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Kyoto City Emerging Artists
Award |
| 2003 |
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Inglis Allen Masters of Design
Award, Edinburgh College of Art |
Solo
Exhibitions: |
1990 |
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Sao Paolo Museum of Art, Sao
Paolo, Brazil |
1992 |
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Azabu Bijutsu Kôgeikan,
Tokyo |
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Gallery Sanjô, Kyoto |
1993 |
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Osaka Contemporary Art Center,
Osaka |
1994 |
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Gallery Yûgen (also in
1996) |
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Takashimaya Gallery, Tokyo and
Kyoto |
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Gallery Ryoko, Kyoto |
1995 |
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Yoshikô, Kyoto |
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Ginza Wakô, Tokyo (also
in 1996, 2000) |
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Scotland National Museum, Edinburgh,
England |
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Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto (also
in 1997, 1999) |
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Takashimaya Gallery, Kyoto and
Okayama (also in 1997, 2001,2002) |
1997 |
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Gallery Okumura, Tokyo |
1999 |
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Gallery 213, Paris, France |
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Gallery Kôgen, Nagoya,
Aichi (also in 2001) |
2000 |
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Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh |
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Takashimaya Gallery, Kyoto |
2001 |
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Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo |
2002 |
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Namba Takashimaya Gallery, Osaka |
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Celestial Ceramics; The
Art of Kondo Takahiro, Barry Friedman
Gallery, New York, organized by Joan B. Mirviss, Ltd. |
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Wako Art Gallery, Tokyo |
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Akasaka Yu Gallery, Tokyo |
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Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo |
2003 |
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Blue Mist: the Works of
Takahiro Kondo, the Paramita Museum |
2004 |
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The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh,
England |
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Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo |
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The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
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Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo |
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Collect, Victoria &Albert Museum, London |
2005 |
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Kondô Takahiro/ Silver Mist at Barry Friedman Gallery, New York, organized by Joan B. Mirviss Ltd |
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Journey from Ceramics: Works 1985-2005, Ginza Wako Hall, Tokyo |
2006 |
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Shinra Banshô (All of Creation), Tenmaya Art Gallery, Fukuoka, Okayama and Hiroshima |
Group
Exhibitions: |
1985 |
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Cheramisuta (also in
1986, 1987) |
| 1987 |
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New "Takumi" Crafts
Exhibition, Kyoto City Museum (also in 1988) |
1988 |
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"Wan" (Bowls)
Exhibition, Kyoto Daimaru (also annually from 1987 to 1991) |
1989 |
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Ceramic Frames Exhibition,
Kobe OLD & NEW, Gallery Sanjô |
| 1990 |
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Kondô-kai (Works
by the Kondo Family), Kyoto Takashimaya |
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Yûfû-kai
(Works by the Yûfû Group), Osaka Matsuzakaya
(annually thereafter) |
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Junkô-kai (Works
by the Junkô Group), biannual exhibition, Sendai,
Hiroshima and Yokohama |
| 1991 |
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Two-person show with Kondo Hiroshi,
Daimaru Gallery, Kobe |
| 1992 |
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Innovative Crafts for Flower
and Tea Exhibition, Isetan Museum, Tokyo |
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THE WALL Exhibition,
Kyoto, Tokyo, and Mashiko |
| 1993 |
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20th Century Japanese "Blue
& White", Fitzwilliam Museum,
England
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JOURNEY EAST, Moscow
National Museum, Russia |
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Three Generations of Contemporary
Blue & White Ceramics – Works by Kondô Yûzô,
Hiroshi, and Takahiro, organized by Asahi Newspaper;
exhibited in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Yamaguchi, Kochi, and
Nagoya |
| 1994 |
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Contemporary Ceramicists
in Kyoto Today, Daimaru Museum , Kyoto (annually thereafter) |
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Beyond Vessel, Robert
MacDougal Museum, New Zealand |
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Le Parfum, Gallery
KOUKI, Paris, France |
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Kyoto New Artists Awardees Exhibition,
Kyoto Shijô Gallery |
| 1996 |
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Selected Avant-garde Art,
Kyoto City Museum, Kyoto |
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Autour de la Terre,
Vendôme, France |
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Fire, Clay, and Works,
Izu Oshima, Tenkawa, Maui, and etc. |
| 1997 |
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Gifts from the Heart Exhibition,
Tokyo Spiral, Tokyo |
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International Contemporary Art
Festival ’97, NICAF, Tokyo |
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Moon, Fire, Water Exhibition,
Gallery Okumura, Tokyo |
| 1998 |
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Fire, Earth, Water Works,
Maui, Kamakura, and Dewa |
| 1999 |
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Three Generations of Modern
"Blue & White," Eki Museum, Kyoto |
| 2000 |
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Three-person show with Namiki
Tsunenobu, Senju Hiroshi, and Kondô Takahiro, Gallery
Okumura, Tokyo |
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The Exhibition of Chinese
Blue and White porcelain and Modern Japanese Kondô
Sometsuke, Palace Museum, Beijing |
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Senju Hiroshi, Ikenobô
Yuki, and Kondô Takahiro; Connected Across Time by
Imagination, Nanba Takashimaya Grand Hall, Osaka |
| 2001 |
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Two-person show with Ichino
Masahiko, Kôgei Ima, Tokyo |
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Masters of Clay: Five Artists
from Kyoto, Barry Friedman Gallery,
New York, organized by Joan B. Mirviss, Ltd. |
| 2002 |
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International Asia-Pacific Contemporary
Ceramics Invitational Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan |
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16/16, Anniversary
Ceramics Exhibition, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, England |
| 2005 |
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Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
Lecture / Demonstration :
- CCA (California College of the Arts), Oakland
Sponsored by The California College of the Arts Ceramics Guild, DeAnza College Ceramics Department, The Clay and Glass Arts Foundation, Orchard Valley Ceramic Arts Guild
Selected Public Collections:
- Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
- Cultural Foundation of the New York Times, New York
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Paper Museum, Tokyo
- Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, England
- Sao Paolo Museum, Brazil
- Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
- Miho Museum, Shiga Prefecture
Paramita Museum
References:
Three Generations of Contemporary Blue & White Ceramics
- Works by Kondô Yûzô, Hiroshi, and Takahiro,
Asahi Newspaper, 1993
Takahiro Kondô; Blue time 1200, Nennendô,
1994
Kondô Takahiro; Painter and Potter, National
Museums of Scotland, 1995
Three Generations of Contemporary Blue & White Ceramics
- Works by Kondô Yûzô, Hiroshi, and Takahiro,
Eki Museum Kyoto, 1999
Robert Yellin, "Ceramic Scene; Quality so good you
can smell it," The Japan Times, Saturday July
10, 1999
Kondô Takahiro '91 - '99; Time and Space,
Imura Art Gallery, 1999
Surmounting Tradition; The Exhibition of Chinese Blue
and White Porcelain and Japanese Modern Kondô Family
Ceramic Art, The Memorial Publication/Exhibition held
at the Palace Museum in Beijing, 2000
Ginga 21 The Galaxy; Takahiro Kondô Exhibition,
Takashimaya, 2001
Takahiro Kondô; Kyoto, Tôgei Today,
Honoho Geijutsu, no. 68 (Abe Shuppan 2001), pp. 30- 33
Blue Mist: The Works of Takahiro Kondô. Mie:
Paramita Museum, 2003
Joe Earle; Contemporary Clay: Japanese ceramics for the new century, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005, pp.62-63. <Return
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