Itô Motohiko

Awards:

1966 Won entry to the 6th Contemporary Ceramic Art Exhibition
1969 Second Prize, the 3rd Art and Craft exhibition at the Ibaragi Prefecture Art Festival (Awarded First Prize in '73; Itaya Hazan Award in '85; committee from '74 and '86-'89; jury for '75, '78, '81, '85, '88)
Won Award of the President of the Ibaragi Culture and Welfare Agency
1974 Tokyo Board of Education Award, the 21st Japan Traditional Craft Exhibition
1975 Asahi Shimbun-sha Award, Japan Traditional Craft Exhibition
Encouragement Prize, the 2nd Traditional Craft Exhibition
1984 Asahi Newspaper Award, the Japan Traditional Art and Craft Exhibition
1988, 92 Committee Award, the Japan Traditional Art and Craft Exhibition
1999 Purple Ribbon Medal
2001 Committee Award, Japan Traditional Crafts New Works Exhibition


Solo exhibitions:

1973 Isetan Gallery, Shinjuku, Tokyo (annually till '80)
1975 Mune Craft Gallery in Ginza Tokyo (thereafter biannually till now)
1976 Imai Gallery, Hokkaido
1977 Kandori, Akasaka, Tokyo (thereafter biannually till now)
1980 Fujinoya, Sano, Tochigi (thereafter biannually '83-'96, '97, '99, '01)
1987 Mitsukoshi Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo (thereafter in '89, '93, '95, '98, ' '00)
Takashimaya Gallery, Nanba, Osaka (thereafter annually to present)
1989 Bon Berta Isejin Art Salon, Mito, Ibaraki
1995 Craft Salon Kokô, Kanda, Tokyo
2000 Academia Platonica
2001 Ibaraki Ceramic: Itô Motohiko, Ibaraki Ceramic Museum, Ibaraki
Solo exhibitions at various locations in Tokyo, JR Nagoya, Takashimaya Department Store Gallery, Osaka, etc.






Group exhibitions:

1969 Kasama Ware Craft 7 Artists Exhibition, Matsuzakaya Department Store Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo
The 20th Ibaraki Craft Exhibition (annually thereafter)
1970 Four-person exhibition, Isetan Department Store Gallery, Shinjuku, Tokyo (also in '71, '72)
1973 The 20th Japan Traditional Art and Craft Exhibition (participated till '99)
The 13th Japan Traditional Crafts New Works Exhibition (participated in '74, '76-'80, and '82-'98)
1983 Japanese Ceramics Today: Masterworks from the Kikuchi Collection, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C. and Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Thirty Years of Traditional Crafts, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1984 Contemporary Art in Ibaraki, Ibaraki Prefectural Museum of Art, Ibaraki (also in '89)
1985 Group exhibition, Mito Kyôsei, Mito, Ibaraki (also in '91, '00)
1989 The 1st New Forms of the Tea for the New Generation, Mitsukoshi Department Store Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
1990 Two-person exhibition, Jôyô Geibun Center, Ibaraki
1991 The 11th Japan Ceramics Exhibition (thereafter biannually till '01)
1992 Ceramics of Japan: 100 Selected Products of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Mitsukoshi Ètoile Gallery, Paris, France and Mitsukoshi Department Store Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
1997 Yakimono Tanbô(Ceramic Hunt) Exhibition, organized by NHK
1998 The 1st Contemporary Ibaraki Artists Exhibition, Ibaraki Prefectural Cultural Center, Ibaraki
Commissioned wall piece at Ibaraki Prefectural Hall
2000 Currents of Ibaraki Ceramics, Ibaraki Ceramic Museum, Ibaraki
Commissioned wall piece at Mito 2nd High School, Mito, Ibaraki
2006 Cool & Sopshisticated: Contemporary Master Ceramists of Eastern Japan,,
Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, Ibaraki


Selected References:

Works of Ito Motohiko, (Published by Ito Motohiko, 2001)

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