Kondô Takahiro

1958 Born in Kyoto
1982 Graduated from the Literature Department, Hosei University
1994 Kyoto City Emerging Artist Award
2002-3 Master of Design and Applied Arts awarded, Edinburgh College of Art
(supported by the Japanese Ministry of Culture Overseas Study Grant)
2003 Inglis Allen Masters of Design Award, Edinburgh College of Art

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1990 The Sao Paolo Museum of Art, Brazil
1992 The Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, Tokyo
1993 Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka
1995 National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh
1999 Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto
2000 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2002 Celestial Ceramics, Barry Friedman Ltd (collaboration with Joan B Mirviss) NY
2003 Paramita Museum, Mie Prefecture
2004 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2005 Silver Mist, Barry Friedman Ltd (collaboration with Joan B Mirviss) NY
Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto
2006 Gallery Cellar, Nagoya
2007 Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto
Metamorphose
Paramita Museum, Mie
Nariwa-cho Museum, Okayama
Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
TRANS-FORM, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
2008 Transformations, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Transformation, Barry Friedman Ltd (collaboration with Joan B Mirviss) NY
Hamilton Art Gallery, Australia
2010 Self Portrait, The Museum of Arts and Crafts, Itami
Reflections, Barry Friedman Ltd, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1992 20th Century Japanese Blue & White, Kondo Family, Fitzwilliam Museum, UK
1994 Beyond Vessel, Robert McDougel Gallery, New Zealand
1996 Selected Avant-garde Art, Kyoto City Museum, Kyoto
1999 The Kondo Family, Three Generations of Modern Blue & White,
Eki Museum, Kyoto
2000 The Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain and Modern Japanese Kondo Sometuke, The Palace Museum, Beijing
2001 Masters of Clay, Barry Friedman Ltd, organised by Joan B Mirviss, NY
2002 International Asia-Pacific Contemporary Ceramics Invitational Exhibition, Taipei Yingko Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
2005-6 Contemporary Clay, Japanese Ceramics for the New Century, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Japan Society, NY
2008 Celebrating Kyoto, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2009 Mirai no takaramono; The Future's Treasures, Takashimaya Art Gallery, Nihonbashi, Osaka, Shinjuku, Kyoto
2010 DOMANI, The Art of Tomorrow, The National Art Center, Tokyo

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Americas
Sao Paolo Museum, Brazil
Brooklyn Museum, NY
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison WI
Cultural Foundation of the New York Times, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
Museum of Art and Design, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence RI
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence KS
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT

Australia
Art Gallery NSW, Sydney
Hamilton Art Gallery
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Japan
Miho Museum, Shiga Prefecture
Paramita Museum, Mie Prefecture
Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki

United Kingdom
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh
Ulster National Museum, Belfast

References:

Three Generations of Contemporary Blue-and-white Ceramics – Works by Kondô Yûzô, Hiroshi, and Takahiro, Asahi Newspaper, 1993

Takahiro Kondô; Blue time 1200, Nennendô, 1994

Kondô Takahiro; Painter and Potter, National Museums of Scotland, 1995

Three Generations of Contemporary Blue-and-white Ceramics – Works by Kondô Yûzô, Hiroshi, and Takahiro, Eki Museum Kyoto, 1999

Robert Yellin, “Ceramic Scene; Quality so good you can smell it,” The Japan Times, Saturday July 10, 1999

Kondô Takahiro ’91- ’99; Time and Space, Imura Art Gallery, 1999

Surmounting Tradition; The Exhibition of Chinese Blue-and-white Porcelain and Japanese Modern Kondô Family Ceramic Art, The Memorial Publication/Exhibition held at the Palace Museum in Beijing, 2000

Ginga 21 The Galaxy; Takahiro Kondô Exhibition, Takashimaya, 2001

“Takahiro Kondô; Kyoto, Tôgei Today,” Honoho Geijutsu, no. 68 (Abe Shuppan 2001), pp. 30- 33

Blue Mist: The Works of Takahiro Kondô. Mie: Paramita Museum, 2003

Joe Earle, Contemporary Clay: Japanese ceramics for the new century, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2005, pp.62-63

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