Mishima Kimiyo 三島 喜美代 1932-2024

Born in Osaka, Japan

Mishima Kimiyo was one of the most prominent and widely exhibited woman sculptural ceramists. Over the past forty years, her work has been shown at museums throughout the world. Like many women clay artists, she began as a painter. In her work, clay became the canvas for silk-screen and transfer renderings of "breakable printed matter"-discarded newspapers, magazines, cardboard boxes and posters. As her work developed, she honed her techniques and enlarged her perspective to create monuments to popular culture, focusing on the theme of printed information and wastefulness in a comical, political, and critical fashion. Sensitive to the state of the environment and the overwhelming flow of information in the world, Mishima created work that compelled viewers to take notice and even action.