Miwa Kazuhiko

1951 Born in Hagi City, Yamaguchi as the third son of Miwa Kyusetsu
1975-81 Studied at San Francisco Art Institute

Solo exhibitions:

1987 Ever Dusting Destruction, Gallery Ueda, Tokyo
1988 Seibu Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo
1989 Ground of the Imagination, Gallery Ueda, Tokyo
1991 Dreams in White, Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
1992 Dreams in White ‘92, Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
Clay-Metamorphosis in White, Takanawa Seibu Gallery, Takanawa, Tokyo
1996 Shining Circle, Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
1997 The Dead End of Dean End, Saitôan Loft Gallery, Hagi
2000 Dance in White, Kuroda Tôen, Shibuya, Tokyo
Tea Room of Miwa Kazuhiko: REI, Uragami Memorial Hall, Yamaguchi
Prefectural Hagi Museum, Hagi, Yamaguchi
2002 Nihonbashi Matsuzakaya Art Gallery, Tokyo


Group exhibitions:

1984 What One Sees in Large Earthenware; Modern Ceramic Art II, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi
1987 Object in Imaginary Space, Seibu Art Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo
1988 Objects for On & Around the Desk, Seibu Art Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo
Eastern & Western Modern Ceramic Art, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Fire which Transforms, joint exhibition with Nakagawa Yukio, Gallery Saitôan, Hagi
1989 Art Exciting ‘89, Saitama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Urawa, Saitama
Exhibited at Queensland Museum of Art in Queensland, Australia
1990 ’Primitivism’ in the Contemporary Ceramics, Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, the Shigaraki Ceramic Culture Park, Shiga
Nishi-Seto Contemporary Arts, the Ehime Prefectural Museum of Art, Matsuyama, Ehime
1991 Various Solid Expressions, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi
1992 58 Contemporary Ceramic Artists in Japan, Mitsukoshi Étoile, Paris, France and Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
The Vision of Japanese Ceramic Arts, Seibu Art Galleries, Ikebukuro, Tokyo and Kobe, Hyôgo
1993 A Hunch of Materia, Masuda Studio, Tokyo (also in '96, '97)
1996 Artworks in Imaginary Space, Contemporary Art NIKI, Tokyo
Tradition and Innovation in Miwa kiln, Matsuzakaya Art Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi
Contemporary Ceramics from Sanyo and San’in Region III, Higashi-Hiroshima Municipal Museum, Horoshima
2000 Tea Room – REI, Uragami Memorial Hall, Yamaguchi Prefectural Hagi Museum, Yamaguchi
400 Years of Hagi Ware, Paris, France
Contemporary Ceramics from Sanyo and San’in Region IV, Higashi-Hiroshima Municipal Museum, Hiroshima
2002 Charaku san’nin ten; Three Tea Pots Masters, with Suzuki Gorô and Kakurezaki Ryûichi, Seigetsudô Gallery, Tokyo
Artists from Hometown, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum, Yamaguchi
Asia Pacific Contemporary Ceramics, Taipei Contemporary Ceramic Art Museum, Taiwan
2003 Contemporary Master Ceramists of Western Japan, Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, Ibaraki
2005 NHK Heart Exhibition, NHK Tokyo
2006 Ceramic Art Grand Prize Exhibition, Paramita Museum

References:
Toh; Miwa Kazuhiko, vol. 90, Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin, 1993

“Miwa Kazuhiko; Dead End,” Toward a 21st Century Renaissance in Ceramics, vol. 2, Dôhôsha, pp. 265- 291

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

Nihon Tôgei-ten (Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition 2009), Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbun, 2009: pp. 50

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