Morino Taimei (Hiroaki)

1934 Born in Kyoto, eldest son of the Nitten potter Morino Kakô (1879-1987)
1958 Graduated from Kyoto City University of Art and Music
1960 Completed MFA program at Kyoto University of Art and Music
1962-63 Taught as an instructor of ceramics at the University of Chicago; solo exhibition in Chicago (also during 1966-68)


Awards:

1960 Grand Prize, Nitten exhibition
1966 Hokuto Prize, Nitten exhibition
1968 Membership Prize and the Foreign Minister's Prize, Japan Contemporary Arts and Crafts Exhibition
1983 Education Ministry Prize, Japan New Crafts Exhibition
1993 Education Ministry Prize, Nikkô-kai Exhibition
1996 Cultural Merit Award from the Kyoto Prefecture
1997 Cultural Merit Award from Kyoto City
2007 Japan Art Academy Award


Solo exhibitions:

1960 Gallery Fujikawa, Osaka (also 1961)
1965 Umeda Bijutsu Kôgei, Osaka
1967 Herman Art Center, Ohio
1968 Evanston Art Center, Illinois
1973 Takashimaya Department Store Gallery, Osaka (also in 1975, 1991);
Gallery Bikô, Osaka
1974 Hakuhô Umeda Gallery, Osaka
1975 Gallery Asahi, Kyoto
1978 Gallery Iteza, Kyoto
1979 Denmark Royal Museum of Crafts, Copenhagen
1980 Gallery Jeiko, Tokyo
Gallery Tôsenbô, Kyoto (also in 1983)
Gallery Ashiya, Hyôgo
1981 Akasaka Green Gallery, Tokyo (also in 1983, 1986, 1992)
1985 Gallery Shiro, Osaka
1982 Ginza Wakô Hall, Tokyo (also in 1989, 1999)
1983 Gallery Nakamura, Kyoto (also in 1986, 1994)
1989 Mitsukoshi Department Store Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
(also in 1992, 1997)
Daimaru Department Store Gallery, Kyoto
1994 Gallery Nakamura, Kyoto
1997 Gallery Dôjima, Osaka
1999 Gallery Shuman in Kyoto;
Gallery Ryôsai in Kyoto
Gallery Chemin, Kyoto
Wako Art Gallery, Tokyo
1999 Yamato Gallery, Niigata
2004 Resonance between Form and Color, Joan B. Mirviss, Ltd., International Asian Art Fair, New York

Group exhibitions:

1957 Entry to Nitten exhibition (thereafter every year)
1964 International Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramic Art, National Museum
of Modern Art, Kyoto
1967 International Ceramics Exhibition, Faenza, Italy (also in 1973 held
in France)
1971 Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition (thereafter, every year)
1976 Japan Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition, a traveling exhibition to New Zealand and Australia
Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition, Germany
1979 Japan Today: Ceramic Art Exhibition, Denver, Colorado
1982 Japan Contemporary Ceramics, a traveling exhibition to Italy (also in 1983
in Canada)
1984 Japanese Design: Its Tradition and Today, Moscow, Russia
1985 Ille Biennalle de Ceramique Contemporaine de Chateauroux, Musée Bertrand,
France
1986 Avant-garde Artists in Japan 1910- 1970, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1987 Four Aspects of Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Exhibition, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (exhibit traveled to Australia in 1988)
1988 Artists Today in Kyoto: Exhibition of Morino and Yamada Hikaru,
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Japan Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition, Portland Museum, Portland, Washington
1989 Europalia '89 Japan: the Ceramics of the Showa Tradition and Innovation,
Begium
1990 Primitivism in Contemporary Ceramics, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga
1992 La Ceramique au Japon, un Art Nateur: 58 Createurs Contemporains, Mitsukoshi Etoile, Paris; Nihonbashi, Tokyo; and others
1992 International Invitational Exhibition of Ceramic Art, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan
1993-94 Contemporary Ceramics: 1950-1990, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
Modern Japanese Ceramics in American Collection, Japan Society and three other US Museums
1994 Commemorative Exhibitions for 1200 years of Kyoto, Kyoto City Museum of Art, and Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto
International Ceramic Exhibition, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum
Message from Seven Ceramic Artists, organized by Mainichi Newspaper (also in 1996, 1999)
1995 Japan Crafts Exhibition, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Two- man exhibition, Takashimaya Gallery in New York (also in 1996)
Contemporary Crafts in Kyoto, Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto
1996 Japanese Contemporary Ceramics: Selected Works, traveling exhibit in Asia
I. A. C. '96 Japan, Saga Prefectural Art Museum, Saga
Masters of Modern Japanese Ceramics: Works of the Young Days, Enba Museum of Chinese Modern Art
Seoul Ceramic Art Biannual '97, Seoul City Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Six Ceramic Artists in Kyoto, Takashimaya Department Store galleries, Kyoto and Tokyo
Exploring Ceramics Exhibit, Tokyo, Kyoto, and others
Ceramic Art Fuji International Biannual, Nakatomi Contemporary Craft Museum, Yamanashi
Commemorative Exhibition for 120 anniversary of Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto
Ceramic Art Fuji International Biennal 2000, Nakatomi Contemporary Crafts Museum
Masters of Clay; Five Artists from Kyoto, Barry Friedman Gallery, New York, organized by Joan B. Mirviss, Ltd.
2002 Legacy of Modern ceramics: The Evolution of Japanese Ceramic Art, Museum of Modern ceramic Art, Gifu
2003 The Essence of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum
2005 Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2006 The Quintessence of Modern Japanese Ceramics, Ibaraki Ceramic Museum
Tôji: Avant-Garde et Tradition de la Cèramique Japonaise, Musèe national de
cèramique Sèvres, France


Selection of Public Collections:

Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Enba Museum of Chinese Modern Art
Japan Foundation
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New york
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
Museum of Decorative Art, Czech Republic
Museum of Decorative Art, Denmark
Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto
Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Royal Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, Korea
Spencer Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, Missouri
Vallauris Museum of Ceramics, France
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England





Selected References:

Toh; Morino Hiroaki Taimei, vol. 65, Kyoto Shoin, 1992

The Contemporary Potters and Works in Japan, vol.2 (central division), pp.64-65

F. Baekeland. Modern Japanese Ceramics in American Collection, Japan Society, 1993, pp. 164-166

Joe Earle, Contemporary Clay: Japanese ceramics for the new century, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005, pp. 64-67

Christine Shimizu, Tôji: Avant-Garde et Tradition de la Cèramique Japonaise, Editions de la rèunion des musèes nationaux, Paris, 2006

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