Ôno Kôtarô

Associations:

Member of Japanese Tradition al Art Crafts Association
Director of Takikawa Ceramic Center, Hokkaido

Awards:

1980 Mitsukoshi Prize and Hokkaidô News Company Prize, the 20th Traditional Crafts Exhibition
1983 Hokkaidô News Company Prize, the 23rd Traditional Crafts Exhibition
1994 Entry to Fletcher Challenge Exhibition, Auckland, New Zealand
1995 Gold Prize, the 1st Modern Ceramics for Tea-Ceremony Exhibition, Toki
2000 Grand Prize, the 6th Pottery for Sake vessel Exhibition
Toki Oribe Grand Prize, the 2nd Modern Ceramics for Tea-Ceremony Exhibition
2002 Grand Prize, Modern Ceramic Exhibition
Gold Prize, the 15th Industrial Design for Life in Northern Cities Competition
Hamada Shôji Prize, the 4th Mashiko Ceramics Competition
Northern Cities Art Exhibition
2003 Bronze Prize, the 16th Industrial Design for Life in Northern Cities Competition
2004 Judge's Special Prize at the 5th Mashiko Ceramic Competition
2007 Kikuchi Biennale II, Musee Tomo, Tokyo


Solo exhibitions:

Held solo exhibitions in Tokyo, Sapporo, Asahikawa and many other locations. Annual
shows at Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo.

Group exhibitions:

1984 Invited to Art of Hokkaidô exhibition, Hokkaidô Prefectural Museum of Modern Art (also in '85 and '86)
1990 Invited to Traditional Beauty: Wood and Ceramics, Hokkaidô Prefectural Museum of Art, Asahikawa
1999 Asahi Contemporary Crafts Exhibition
2004 Work enters the collection of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation.
Exhibited at Metropolitan Museum of Art 6/2004
2006 Kikuchi Biennial, Tomo Museum, Tokyo
Kan, Auckland Museum of Art, New Zealand
Japan Ceramics Show, Daimaru Museum, Tokyo and Shinsaibashi Daimaru
Museum, Osaka

Public Collections in the US:

Mary Griggs Burke Foundation
New Orleans Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

Public Collections outside of the US
Auckland Musem, New Zealand
Ceratopia Toki
Mashiko Ceramic Museum

References:

Exhibition Catalogue: Nihon Tôgei-ten (Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition 2007), Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbun, 2007: pp. 63

Exhibition Catalogue: Nihon Tôgei-ten (Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition 2009), Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbun, 2009: pp. 88

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