Kaneta Masanao

1953 Born in Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture
1977 Graduated from Department of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of Education, majored in sculpture
1979 Completed degree in sculpture in the Fine Art Research Department of the graduate school of Tsukuba University
1981 Participated in Hagi International Sculpture symposium (stone carving)
1985 Became an official member of the Japan Art and Crafts Institute
1989 Symposium of Asobi at Gallery Saitoan, Hagi, Yamaguchi
1991 Retired from the Japan Arts and Crafts Institute
1994 Featured on NHK Television station, “The Ceramics of Japan”
1998 Featured on NHK Television, “Yakimono Tambo”
2000 Became Assistant Professor at Tsukuba University
2005 Become the 8th generation of Tenryûsan Kiln


Awards:

1981 Award of Excellence, Kyûshû Yamaguchi Ceramics Exhibition
Yamaguchi Prefecture Governor’s Award, Western Japan Ceramics Exhibit
1983 Iwataya Isetan Award, Crafts Exhibition
1984 Mainichi Shibun Award, Kyûshû Yamaguchi Ceramics Exhibition
1989 Received the Michisuke Sugi Award
Miyazaki Prefecture Governor’s Award, Western Japan Ceramics Exhibition
1990 The MITI Minister’s Award, Western Japan Ceramics Exhibition
1996 Award of Promotion and Encouragement for Art and Culture in Yamaguchi Prefecture
1999 Enargia Award for Contemporary Arti
2004 Yamaguchi Prefectural Culture Contribution Award

Solo exhibitions:

1981 Seibu Department Store Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo
1983 Kuroda Tôen, Tokyo
1984 Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Nihonbashi Tokyo (also 1986, 2003 and 2005)
1985 Daimaru Art Gallery, Tottori
1986 Sun Gallery, Nagoya
1988 Fukuya, Hiroshima
1991 Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Osaka
1992 Matsue Ichibata, Matsue
1993 Daimaru Art Gallery, Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto

1995 Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1996 Gallery Kurimoto, Nagaoka
1997 Gallery Sheale, Utsunomiya
Sun Gallery Sumie, Nagoya
1998 Akasaka Yû Gallery, Tokyo
1999 WORK 99, Gallery Saitôan, Hagi
2000 WORK 2000, Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Nihonbashi Tokyo
2001 WORK 2001, Hankyû Art Gallery, Osaka
2002 Gallery Ryôsai, Kyoto
Kokura Tamaya, Fukuoka
Gallery Teruyama, Tokyo
Denenchôfu, Tokyo
2005/6 Solo installation of tea room at Hagi Uragami Museum
2006 Tachikichi Gallery, Kyoto
Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
2008 Kaneta Masanao/ New Works, Joan B. Mirviss, Ltd.

Group exhibitions:

1990 Chigusa-kai Exhibition, Hotel Okura, Tokyo
1992 Contemporary Ceramics II, Higashi Hiroshima Museum of Art, Hiroshima
1993 Three Contemporary Artists in Hagi, Takashimaya Art Gallery, Okayama
1995 The Hagiyaki, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi
1996 Art Works on the desk IV, V, Contemporary Art NIKI, Tokyo
1998 Three Contemporary Artists in Hagi, Takashimaya Department Art Gallery, Osaka
2001 400 years of Hagi Ware, Suntory Museum, Tokyo and Hagi Uragami Museum, Yamaguchi
2002 The Legacy of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu Museum of Modern Ceramics, Gifu
2003 Contemporary Master Ceramists of Western Japan, Ibaragi Ceramic Art Museum, Ibaraki
2006 Saza - Beyond the Mountains, Yamaguchi Prefectural Hagi Uragami Museum, 2006
2006/7 Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century, Japan Society, New York
2009 Breaking from Tradition Japanese Ceramics Today, Harvey/Meadows Gallery, Aspen in conjunction with Joan B. Mirviss, LTD., New York

Select Public Collections:

Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Brooklyn Museum of Art
The Japan Foundation, Tokyo
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Ceramic Art, Gifu
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Philadelphia Art Museum, PA
Yale University Art Gallery
Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi
Yamaguchi Prefectural Hagi Uragami Museum
Yokohama Sogô Museum of Art, Yokohama

References:

Toh: Kaneta Masanao, vol. 29. Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin, 1992.

Wege zur Japanischen Keramik: Tradition in der Gegenwart, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst zu Berlin, 2005

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