Kitamura Junko

1956 Born in Kyoto.
1982 Completed MFA program at the Kyoto City University of Art


Awards:

1980 Purchase prize, Kyoto City University of Art Exhibition
1986 Purchase prize, Kyoto Selective Exhibitions of Arts and Crafts
1990 Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award (also in '92)
1997 Varazdin Prize, World Triennial Exhibition of Small Ceramics, Zagreb


Solo exhibitions:

1980 Gallery Maronie, Kyoto (thereafter, every year through '85, and '87)
1987 Minami Aoyama Green Gallery, Tokyo (also in '89 and '92)
1990 Gallery Nakamura, Kyoto (also in '00)
1991 Gallery Koyanagai, Tokyo (also in '92)
1992 Garth Clark Gallery, New York (also in '93 and '95)
1999 Contemporary Art NIKI, Tokyo


Group exhibitions:

1984 Kyoto Arts and Crafts Exhibition, the Kyoto Culture and Art Center (also in '86)
1985 Kyoto Selective Exhibitions of Arts and Crafts, the Kyoto Culture and Art Center
Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition, Daimaru Department Store Gallery (also in '87)
Kyoto Art Exhibition, the Kyoto Municipal Museum, Kyoto
Ceramic Plaque 22, Wako Gallery, Tokyo
1986 The Vessel '86, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto
1992 Contemporary Art & Crafts in Kyoto, Kyoto
International Ceramics Festival '92, Mino
1993 The Eighth Rice Bowl Exhibition, Kyoto
1994 Duo show with Akiyama Yô, Gallery Koyanagai, Tokyo
1997 World Triennial Exhibition of Small Ceramics, Zagreb, Croatia
1998 Dialogue with Clay-The Spirit of Contemporary Ceramics, Rias Ark Museum of Art
Kesennuma
2002 Art Exhibition of Selected New Artists 2002, Kyoto Municipal Museum
The Legacy of Modern Ceramic Art, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
2003 Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition 2003 XVII, Tokyo and Osaka
2004 The Shape Cut Our-Japanese Contemporary Ceramic Art, Museum of Modern
Ceramic Art, Gifu
Books or Objects for the space on the table XI ’04, Contemporary Art NIKI, Tokyo
2005 Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century, Museum of Fine Arts
Boston
2006 The Quintessence of Modern Japanese Ceramics, Ibaraki Ceramics Art Museum
Modern Japanese Crafts from the Museum Collection: A History of Modern Crafts>,
The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Tokyo
The Sense of Woman, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto
Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century, Japan Society,
New York
2007 Soaring Voices – Contemporary Japanese Women Ceramic Artists, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga. Exhibition travels to le musée National Céramique à Sèvres, Sèvres, France; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; The Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington, DC; The Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, TX; Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Delray Beach, FL; The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2008-2009 The Dauer Collection, California State University, Sacramento, University Library Gallery
2009 Touch Fire: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics by Women Artists, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Mirai no takaramono; The Future's Treasures, Takashimaya Art Gallery, Nihonbashi, Osaka, Shinjuku, Kyoto



Public Collections:

Kyoto Prefecture, Kyoto
British Museum, London, U.K.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, Ibaraki
Kyoto City University of Art, Kyoto
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.


Selected References:

“Ceramic Artists in Kyoto; Kyoto Kôgei Today’,” Honoho Geijutsu, no.68, (Abe Shuppan, 2001). p. 49

Exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Clay: Japanese ceramics for the new century, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2005, pp. 68-69

Soaring Voices – Contemporary Japanese Women Ceramic Artists; The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga, 2007

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