Fukumoto Fuku

Awards:

2001 Grand Prize, Asahi Modern Craft Exhibition, Osaka and Tokyo
2002 Grand Prize, Kyoto Prefecture Art and Craft Invitational Competition
2003 Shingin Prize (Promising Young Talent), Gotoh Commemorative Culture Award

Solo Exhibitions:

1998 Gallery Maronie, Kyoto
2000 Takashimaya Art Gallery, Kyoto
2002 Shimaya Art Gallery, Kyoto
Umeda Hankyu Art Salon, Osaka,
Hasegawa Ginza, Tokyo
2003 World Tile Museum, Aichi
INAX Galleria Ceramica Shinjuku, Tokyo
Gion Konishi, Kyoto
Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
2004 Toutouan, Tokyo
2007 INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions & Competitions:

1997 Ceramic World, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto
Taburarasa, Shijyô Gallery, Kyoto
1999 Utsuwa, TOR Gallery, Kôbe
Two-person show, Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto
2000 Beer Mugs, Gallery Nishikawa, Kyoto
2001 Kyoto Craft Exhibition, Kyoto Craft Center, Kyoto
Form with Lid, Gallery Nishikawa, Kyoto
2002 Two-person show, Sora, Tokyo
Tasting Objects, Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto
Contact; Young Artists from Japan and Korea, Modern Museum of Art, Shiga
International Ceramics Competition Mino, Gifu
Tea cups, Gallery Utsuwa-kan, Kyoto
Seven Ceramists, Kyoto Craft Center Gallery, Kyoto
Looking at Vessels, Shikisai Museum, Tokyo
2003 Floating Objects, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto and Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
Vessels, Objects, Functional works show, INAX Galeria Ceramica Shinjuku, Tokyo
Flower vessels, Gallery Suki, Aichi
2004 Vessels, Gallery Suki, Aichi
2005 White Ceramics, Gallery Utsuwa-kan, Kyoto
Vessels, Gallery Dôshima, Osaka
2006 White Gold, Flow Gallery, London
One – Bowls, Yûyûsha Gallery, Aichi
Jingdezhen Ceramics Fair, China
2007 Soaring Voices – Contemporary Japanese Women Ceramic Artists, Shigaraki Ceramic
Cultural Park, Shiga. Exhibition travels to New Otani Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Musée
National Céramique à Sèvres, France; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA;
Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington, DC; Crow Collection of
Asian Art, Dallas, TX; Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Delray Beach, FL;
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
COLLECT, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
SOFA NY with Joan B. Mirviss, Ltd. (again in 2008, 2009, 2010)
2009 Women ceramic artists who bear the 21st century, Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki
Breaking from Tradition Japanese Ceramics Today, Harvey/Meadows Gallery, Aspen, CO in
conjunction with Joan B. Mirviss, Ltd., New York
Mirai no takaramono; The Future's Treasures, Takashimaya Art Gallery, Nihonbashi, Osaka, Shinjuku, Kyoto
2010 SOFA West, Santa Fe NM with Joan B. Mirviss Ltd.



Selected Collections:

Four Seasons Hotel, Tokyo
INAX Tile Museum, Aichi
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto
Nobu Tokyo


Reference In English:

Soaring Voices – Contemporary Japanese Women Ceramic Artists; The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga, 2007, pp. 22-23 and 77.

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