Kawase Shinobu

1950 Born in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture
1968 Graduated from high school
Started working with his grandfather, Chikushun I, and father, Chikushun II, masters of Chinese-style blue-and-white and polychrome enamel porcelain.

Awards:

1978 Became youngest regular member of Japan Crafts Society
1981 Youngest artists to receive the Japan Ceramic Society Award
1983 Selected Artist Award, the Japan Traditional Craft Exhibition

Solo Exhibitions:

1976 Kandori, Tokyo (also fifteen times through 2009)
1985 Kochukyo, Tokyo (also in 1989, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2007)
1990 Niigata 1990: Flower vases - Ten Landscapes, Manyôdô, Niigata
1991 Asô Art, Tokyo
2005 The Beauty of Celadon: Seijaku no bi, Joan B. Mirviss, Ltd. at International Asian Art Fair
2009 Flowering Waves of Celadon Kaseiha at Joan B. Mirviss, Ltd.
Ginjo Vessel – Kawase Shinobu’s Sake Cups, Ginza Kurodatoen, Tokyo
Gallery Kochukyo, Ginza, Tokyo
2010 Kandori gallery, Tokyo


Group Exhibitions:

1969 Entry to Japan Traditional Craft and Art Exhibition for New Works (thereafter until 1982)
1974 Entry to the 21st Japan Traditional Craft and Art Exhibition, invitational; since then has been invited to participate every year
1977 Kawase Chikushun: Exhibition of Three Generations, Ôgaki Municipal Culture Hall, Ôgaki, Gifu
Chikushun Three Generations Exhibition, Kochukyo, Tokyo (also in 1979,1981,1985,1989, 1998, 2002)
1980 Japan Ceramic Society Selected Works Exhibition (thereafter participated periodically)
1983 All Japan Traditional Crafts Selected Artists Exhibition, organized by Mainichi Newspaper
Japanese Ceramics Today, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
1986 Contemporary Art Exhibition, organized by the Tokyo Art Club (annually through 2004)
1989 Father-son Three Generations Show, Ogaki Library (also in 1996)
1991 N.A.W, The Tokyo Art Club Young Men’s Association (again in 1992)
Japan Ceramics Society Award Artists exhibition (annually to 1995)
Three-person exhibition, Asô Art, Tokyo
1993 Modern Japanese Ceramics in American Collections, Japan Society, New York; New Orleans Art Museum, and Honolulu Academy of Arts,
The First Chikushun, 5th anniversary of Oiso-cho Community Library
1994 Six-artist exhibition, Matsuzakaya Gallery, Nagoya
1995 Dôgu (Functional objects), Kuroda Tôen, Tokyo
1996 Rin – Beauty of Contemporary Ceramics, Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park Museum, Shiga
Father-son Three Generations Show, Ogaki Municipal Library
Contemporary Japanese Crafts, travel exhibition sponsored by Japan Foundation, exhibited at various locations
1998 The 1st New Works by 7 Outstanding Artists, Sanyôdô, Tokyo (also in 2000, 2001)
1999 Tôbi Art Fair, Vessels for Sake, Tokyo Art Club (again in 2000-2004)
2000 Participated in "Searching the Charm of Celadon" Nezu Museum Tokyo
2001 Three-person show, Tora Tora Tora, Kandori, Tokyo
2003 Participated in the artist workshop Musée Tomo, Tokyo
2005 Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2006 Musee Tomo: Contemporary Ceramics for the Tea Ceremony—Free Creativity and Atypical Usage. Musée Tomo, Tokyo (11 works accepted)
2008 Ichigo Ichie – Tea Bowls by Five Artists, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Tokyo
2009 Kaseiha – Flowering Waves of Celadon, Joan B. Mirviss, Ltd., New York
Breaking from Tradition Japanese Ceramics Today, Harvey/Meadows Gallery, Aspen in conjunction with Joan B. Mirviss, LTD., New York
2010 “Have a Tea Break,” Kochukyo Gallery, Tokyo Art Fair
The 21st Century Exhibition of Japanese Art, Tokyo Bijutsu Club (traveled to Kyoto, Kanazawa, Toyama and Osaka)

Selected Public Collections outside Japan:
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Brooklyn Museum, NY
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University Ithaca, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Victoria &Albert Museum, London
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

References:
Gendai no nihon tôgei [Contemporary Ceramics in Japan], vol. 3 Kantô II (Kyoto: Tankôsha, 1989), pp. 110-113

Hayashiya Seizô, “Chûmoku no gendai tôgeika jûnin [Ten emerging talents in contemporary ceramics} Taiyô (Heibonsha, 1990), pp. 48-49

Exhibition Catalogue: Quiet Clarity “RIN”:Beatuty in Contemporary Ceramics. Shiga: The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, 1996, pp. 32-33

“Tokyo-yaki: Talented ceramic artists active around the Tokyo area,” Honoho Geijutsu, no. 66 (Abe Shuppan, 2001), pp. 24-27

Joe Earle, Contemporary Clay: Japanese ceramics for the new century, (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2005), pp. 70-71

“Kawase Shinobu: Seiji Forms Emanating Warmth and Softness,” Honoho Geijutsu, no. 91 (Abe Shuppan, 2007), pp. 22-27

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