Ogawa Machiko 小川 待子 b. 1946
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Exhibitions
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The Winter Show 2026
Reflections in Black & White: Japanese Art in Ink and Clay January 22 - February 1, 2026Read more -
The Winter Show 2025
FORM not FUNCTION: Japanese Ceramic Sculpture January 24 - February 2, 2025Read more -
The Winter Show 2024
Taking Space, Making Space January 19 - 28, 2024Read more -
10 x 10 Past and Present
Japanese Masters of Ceramics January 20 - 29, 2023Read more -
Red Earth
New Work by Ogawa Machiko September 14 - October 28, 2022Read more -
Listening to Clay
An exhibition by artists featured in the latest book by Alice & Halsey North and Louise Cort July 20 - August 26, 2022Read more -
KAZARI: Beyond Decoration
The Winter Show 2022 in spring April 1 - 10, 2022Read more -
The Winter Show 2019
The Five Elements - Gogyō: Five Japanese Masters of the Art of Clay January 18 - 27, 2019Read more -
Ogawa Machiko
Into The Earth: The Clay Art of Ogawa Machiko November 6 - December 14, 2018Read more -
Japanese Ceramics 1960 - Present: Function vs. Sculpture
Winter Antiques Show 2018 January 22 - 31, 2018Read more -
Timeless Elegance in Japanese Art: Celebrating 40 Years!
Asia Week New York March 9 - April 14, 2017Read more -
Ogawa Machiko
Lunar Fragments November 13 - December 19, 2014Read more -
The Salon Art + Design
Park Avenue Armory, NYC November 8 - 12, 2012Read more -
The French Connection
Futamura Yoshimi, Katsumata Chieko, Nagasawa Setsuko, Ogawa Machiko, & Sakurai Yasuko June 7 - August 24, 2012Read more -
SOFA:WEST (Santa Fe)
July 8 - 11, 2010Read more -
Eastern Departures
Ceramic Artists of Eastern Japan November 11 - December 4, 2009Read more -
Touch Fire
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics by Women Artists October 9, 2009 - February 28, 2010Read more -
Ogawa Machiko
Fire and Ice September 16 - October 23, 2009Read more -
Breaking the Mold / Kata O Yaburu
Leading Japanese Women Ceramists November 8 - December 15, 2007Read more
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Publications
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Japan Now
Three displays at Gardiner Museum of contemporary Japanese ceramics Joan B Mirviss Read more -
Listening to Clay
Conversations with Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists 2022 Read more -
New Forms, New Voices
Japanese Ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Collection New Orleans Museum of Art Read more -
Radical Clay
Contemporary Women Artists from Japan 2023 Read more -
RED EARTH
New Work by Ogawa Machiko 2022 Read more -
The Allure of Japanese Contemporary Ceramics
Joan B. Mirviss 2019 Read more -
The Betsy and Robert Feinberg Collection
Japanese Ceramics for the Twenty-first Century 2014 Read more -
Touch Fire: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics by Women Artists
Smith College Museum of Art 2009 Read more -
Vessel Explored / Vessel Transformed
Tomimoto Kenkichi and his Enduring Legacy 2019 Read more
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News
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Radical Clay exhibition at Art Institute of Chicago featured in Ceramics NOW
January 12, 2024'This show brings together artists on the cutting edge of invention in terms of materials, glaze, and technique, and we are thrilled to recognize their...Read more -
Radical Clay exhibition celebrates Japanese women ceramic artists
Opening December 16, 2023 at the Art Institute of Chicago December 16, 2023Radical Clay celebrates 36 contemporary ceramic artists-all women-through 40 stunning, virtuosic pieces. Since World War II, women have made influential contributions to the ceramics field...Read more -
Asia Week New York is a New York Times weekend arts highlight
What to See in NYC Galleries Right Now September 15, 2022THE NEW YORK TIMES | WHAT TO SEE IN NYC GALLERIES RIGHT NOW VARIOUS LOCATIONS Asia Week New York Sept. 14-23. Asia Week New York,...Read more -
Ogawa's work is in Galerie Magazine
The Artful Life: 5 Things Galerie Editors Love This Week September 14, 2022Asia Week New York Features the Finest Treasures from Across the Globe... including a sculptural vessel form by Ogawa Machiko on view at Joan B...Read more -
Consulate General of Japan in New York features Ogawa Machiko
RED EARTH is an exhibition on their September calendar September 14, 2022この度、ジョーンBマービスでは、小川待子の個展、Red Earthを開催いたします。小川待子は1946年、札幌に生まれ、東京芸術大学卒業後、西アフリカでの制作経験を経て、日本だけでなく国際的に活躍している作家です。今回の個展では、西アフリカの広大な大地をイメージする赤い粘土を使用し、亀裂や割れ、荒い石の混在でできた赤い器（うつわ）や茶碗は、遺跡の発掘品を思い出すような作品に仕上がっております。 Asia Week New Yorkの一貫としてオンラインギャラリートークも９月１５日午後５時（東部時間）に開催予定。詳細は、ウェブサイトまで。Read more -
Latest Ogawa Machiko works in Ceramics Monthly
September 8, 2022New work from RED EARTH on exhibition at Joan B Mirviss LTD is featured in the September 2022 print issue of Ceramics Monthly magazine. Ceramics...Read more -
How Japan’s Best Ceramists “Listen” to Clay
Review in Hyperallergic September 6, 2022HYPERALLERGIC How Japan’s Best Ceramists “Listen” to Clay BOOKS REVIEWS | by Lauren Moya Ford August 31, 2022 Listening to Clay sheds light on how...Read more -
Ceramics Now magazine highlights Listening to Clay
August 11, 2022The latest exhibition at Joan B Mirviss LTD in honor of the publication by Alice and Halsey North and Louise Allison Cort is featured in...Read more -
Listening to Clay exhibition and event in ArtDaily
July 25, 2022Asia Week New York and Joan B Mirviss LTD present Listening to Clay: The Artists, Curators, and Collectors Who Listen ArtDaily Monday, July 25, 2022...Read more -
Listening to Clay event spotlighted in Auction Daily
July 19, 2022New York: Asia Week New York–in partnership with Joan B Mirviss LTD–will celebrate the publication of Listening to Clay: Conversations with Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists,...Read more -
Toucher le feu: Femmes céramistes au Japon now open at Musée Guimet
A new exhibition of women ceramic artists from Japan now open in Paris's Musée Guimet June 27, 2022The latest exhibition at Musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet in Paris spotlights the remarkable careers and innovative clay works of Japanese women artists...Read more -
Japan Ceramic Society
Ceramics by The Japan Ceramic Society Award Winners February 6, 2020The Japan Ceramic Society awards the Japan Ceramic Society Prize to artists who have achieved outstanding work, and the Japan Ceramic Society Gold Prize to...Read more -
Winter Show 2019
Caviar Affair January 3, 2019Connoisseur, collector, curator or simply an admirer of beauty- all are beneficiaries of the current golden age of Japanes ceramics. Standing at the center of...Read more -
Art + Perception
Into The Earth: The Clay Art of Ogawa Machiko November 9, 2018'Ogawa does not so much use clay to achieve self-expression as make herself the means through which the clay reveals its inner strength' The ceramics...Read more -
Asian Art Newspaper
Into The Earth: The Clay Art of Ogawa Machiko November 8, 2018This is the third solo show of the female artist at the gallery. Featuring two main bodies of work, the show focusses on her minerology...Read more -
The New York Times
A Showcase for Browsers and Buyers November 17, 2014Praise for Ogawa Machiko's latest body of work, in the New York Times review of The Salon: Art + Design. 'Contemporary art by living artists...Read more -
Artdaily.org
The French Connection: Five Japanese women ceramists and their passion for France at Joan B. Mirviss Ltd. June 19, 2012NEW YORK, NY.- This exhibition titled The French Connection: Five Japanese Women Ceramists and their Passion for France, explores the dramatically increasing importance of Japanese...Read more -
Art of the Times
The French Connection: Five Japanese Women Ceramists and their Passion for France June 19, 2012By Nami Hoppin An exhibition at the Joan Mirviss Gallery in New York explores the dramatically increasing importance of Japanese women artists on the global...Read more -
Antiques and the Arts Weekly, June 2012
Five Japanese Women Ceramists At Joan B. Mirviss Ltd Gallery June 15, 2012New York City - 'The French Connection: Five Japanese Women Ceramists and Their Passion for France' is at Joan B. Mirviss Ltd through August 3....Read more -
Editor at Large
NYC gallery presents work by Japan's leading ceramicists June 7, 2012Now on view at Joan Mirviss Gallery are 'The French Connection: Five Japanese Women Ceramicists and a Passion for France' and 'Guided by the Brush'....Read more -
ArtNews June 2012
"The Female Glaze," Stephanie Murg June 7, 2012For centuries, women in Japan were not even permitted to touch a kiln, lest their 'impurity' taint whatever was baking. Yet in the past decade,...Read more -
materialicious: shelter, materials & objects
Japan’s Foremost Female Artists on View in New York June 4, 2012Ceramics and calligraphy—considered Japan’s most significant art mediums—traditionally have been male-dominated art forms, and only recently have women been allowed to pursue these areas of...Read more -
Robb Report
Japan’s Foremost Female Artists on View in New York June 4, 2012Ceramics and calligraphy—considered Japan’s most significant art mediums—traditionally have been male-dominated art forms, and only recently have women been allowed to pursue these areas of...Read more -
ArtNews June 2012
Guided by the Brush & The French Connection May 24, 2012Guided by the Brush: Paintings and Lithographs by SHINODA Toko and The French Connection: Five Japanese Women Ceramists and their Passion for France. Presented by...Read more -
Asian Art: Breaking the Mold
by Martin Barnes Lorber November 30, 2007For many years, Joan has been known as a private dealer with respected expertise in Japanese screens, paintings, wood prints and contemporary and modern ceramics....Read more
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Roughly hewn sculpture with two clay types, torn rims and glass-glaze, 2011. 11 7/8 x 33 7/8 x 18 1/2 inches. Chazen Museum of Art, 2016.25.
