Yamada Hikaru

Awards:

1948 Kyôten Exhibition Prize, the 4th Kyôten exhibition
Shinshô Award, the 2nd Shinshô Art and Craft Association Competition
1950 Shinshô Award, the 2nd Shinshô Art and Craft Association Competition
1961 Japan Ceramic Association Award
1990 Became a director of Osaka Art University Craft Department
1995 Award for his distinguished cultural service for Kyoto City
1998 Received the 11th Kyoto Art and Culture Award
2000 Awarded as an honored citizen of Gifu city


Solo Exhibitions:

1957 Muramatsu Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo
1967 Sei Art and Craft Gallery, Tokyo
1976 Asahi Gallery, Kyoto
1981 Isetan Department Store Gallery, Shinjuku
Gallery Nakamura, Kyoto
1983 Naniwa Gallery, Osaka
1985 Sei Gallery, Roppongi, Tokyo
1987 Toaroad Gallery, Kobe
Gallery Nakamura
1988 Gallery Mori, Ginza, Tokyo, (also in 1989 and 1992)
1990 Yamada Hikaru Clay Works, Gallery Yamaguchi, Osaka
1991 Isetan Department Store Gallery, Shinjuku, Tokyo (also in 1997)
1993 Gallery Nakamura, Kyoto
Itami Municipal Museum, Osaka, also in Gifu Prefectural Museum, and Meguro-ku Museum, Tokyo in 2000
1994 Gallery Mori, Ginza Tokyo
2000 Masuda Studio, Tokyo


Group Exhibitions:

1945 The 1st Kyoten exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum
1946 Nitten exhibition, Tokyo Prefectural Museum (also in 1947)
The 2nd Kyoten exhibition, National Museum, Kyoto
1947 Young Ceramic Artist Group exhibition (three times until 1948)
1948 Sôdeisha exhibition,Takashimaya, Osaka
1950 The 2nd Sôdeisha exhibition (exhibited annually in Kyoto)
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics Exhibition, Paris, France
1951 The 5th Sôdeisha exhibition, Ginza Wakô (thereafter, held exhibitions annually in Tokyo)
1952 Suzuki Osamu and Yamada Hikaru exhibition, Kyoto Prefectural Gallery
1955 Suzuki Osamu and Yamada Hikaru exhibition, Mimatsu Shobô Gallery, Shimbashi, Tokyo
1962 The 3rd International Ceramic Exhibition, Prague, the Czech Republic
1963 Survey of Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1964 The 7th New Generation of Ceramics, Gotô Museum, Tokyo
International Ceramic Exhibition, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (also traveled to Kurume, Kyoto and Nagoya)
1967 Exhibited a work called "Tôheki" (ceramic wall)
Organized a ceramic artist group, "Shin Tôjin" and held its first group exhibition at Kyoto Prefectural Gallery
1968New Generation of Contemporary Ceramics, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo
1970 Contemporary Ceramics: Europe and Japan, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1971 The 1st Japanese Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition, Daimaru Department Store Gallery, Tokyo (also traveled 6 other locations) (participated until the 14th exhibition)
Contemporary Ceramics: the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Japan, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo
1972 Contemporary Ceramic Art of Japan, a traveling exhibition to the U.S. and Canada
The 30th Faenza International Ceramic Exhibition, Italy
1976 Contemporary Ceramic Art of Japan, a traveling exhibition to New Zealand and Australia
1976 Moderne und alte Keramik aus Japan, Eastern Germany
1977 Sôdeisha 30th Anniversary the 40th Sôdeisha Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum
1978 Contemporary Japanese Crafts, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Contemporary Craft Artist Exhibition: Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum
1979 SODEISHA: Avant-garde Japanese Ceramics, a traveling exhibition to Australia (8 locations)
1983 Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, a traveling exhibition to Canada (5 locations)
The 35th Anniversary, the 46th Sôdeisha exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum
1985 Yamada Hikaru & His Students, Masuda Studio, Tokyo
1986 Clay, Image & Form 1981-1985, Seibu Department Store Gallery, Ôtsu and Yûraku-chô Art Forum, Tokyo
1986 Japon des Avant Gardes: 1910-1970, Le Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1987 Craft Art in 1960's, Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art
Ceramica Japoneza Contemporana, Romania
1988 Today's Artists 8: Yamada Hikaru and Morino Taimei, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
The 40th Anniversary of Sôdeisha exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
1990 Currents of Ceramics: from Kyoto, Takashimaya Department Store Gallery, Nihonbashi and 3 other locations
Contemporary Ceramics: 1980-1990, Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
1991 The Move of Contemporary Crafts 1945-70: Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
1993 The 45th Anniversary of Sôdeisha exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
1995 Craft in Life: Modern Crafts in 1950-1960, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1998 The 50th Anniversary of Sôdeisha exhibition, '98 Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto. Dissolution of Sôdeisha
1999 The 11th Kyoto Art and Culture Award Exhibition
2001 Crafts of Kyoto: 1945-2000, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Tokyo
Deceased
2002 The 20th Kyoto Prefectural Special Award for designated service for culture
The 1st Enku Award Exhibition, Gifu Prefectural Museum and Rapirosu Roppongi Oribe Hall, Tokyo
2003 Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics, Smithsonian Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Washington D.C. and 2 other locations
2005 Exhibited and published, Contemporary Clay: Japanese ceramics for the new century, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2006 Tôji: Avant-Garde et Tradition de la Cèramique Japonaise, Musèe national de cèramique Sèvres, France

References:

Exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Clay: Japanese ceramics for the new century, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2005, pp.14-19

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

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