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Masaomi Yasunaga

Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1982.

Biography

Lives & works in Iga-shi, Mie Prefecture
While at University, Yasunaga established his creative direction at the laboratory ofSatoru Hoshino, a coterie of the avant-garde ceramic group “Sodeisha”. While pottery isoften made of clay and baked in a kiln, Yasunaga takes the form of pottery using glaze
for his creations instead. Yasunaga masters creativity by combining unique raw materials
such as feldspars, glass and metal powders, with his own methods such as creating
glazed vessels with increased viscosity which are then pit fired in sand.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1982

Born in Osaka

1988

Moves to Nabari, Mie Prefecture

2000

Admission to the Osaka Sangyo University Department of Environmental Design

2003

Start a pottery to enter the Satoru Hoshino laboratory

2006

Receives Masters Degree in Environmental Design from Osaka Sangyo University

2007

Establishes a pottery studio in Iga

2010

Becomes a creative resident at The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park 2020

2011

Newly builds a firewood kiln2013

Becomes a creative resident at ARCTICLAY 3rd SYMPOSIUM in Posio, Finland

2014

Becomes a creative resident at National Tainan University of the Arts

2020

Artist-in-residence at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park

2023

Masaomi Yasunaga: Clouds in the Distance, Lisson Gallery, London

石拾いからの発見 / discoveries from picking up stones, Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles

Masaomi Yasunaga: In Holding Close, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn, Alabama

2022

Intersection of Dreams, Palomar, Pognana Lario

2021

Masaomi Yasunaga, Lisson Gallery, East Hampton

2020

Empty Parade, wad Cafe, Osaka

Looking Afar, Lisson Gallery, New York

Masaomi Yasunaga, Piao Piao Gallery, Tiwan

SODA, ocoge, Okayama

To things that exist, to things that don't exist, gallery YDS, Kyoto

Yasunaga Masaomi: Contemporary Artifacts, Utsuwa Note, Saitama
2019

Empty Landscape, Libby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver

Empty Things, complete Works, Geneva

Masaomi Yasunaga: A Shadow of the Eternity, Utsuwakan, Kyoto

2018www.nonaka-hill.com

Masaomi Yasunaga, Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles

Memory of Orient, Gallery Utsuwa Note, Kawagoe, Saitama

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

2017
2017
2016
2015
2015
2014

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Masaomi Yasunaga Exhibition, Garb Domingo, Okinawa
arid landscapes, pragmata, Tokyo

Ceramics of Masaomi Yasunaga, Utsuwa Kyoto Yamahon, Kyoto
Masaomi Yasunaga Exhibition, Gallery uchiumi, Tokyo

Ceramics of Masaomi Yasunaga, Utsuwa Kyoto Yamahon, Kyoto
Masaomi Yasunaga: Ceramics, Art Salon Yamagi, Osaka

Ceramics of Masaomi Yasunaga, Utsuwa Kyoto Yamahon, Kyoto
Masaomi Yasunaga: Ceramics, Art Salon Yamagi, Osaka

Masaomi Yasunaga Exhibition: Production at Yaso and Daily Work”, wad, Osaka
Masaomi Yasunaga Exhibition, Gallery Uchiumi, Tokyo

Masaomi Yasunaga Exhibition, Gallery Utsuwakan, Kyoto

Masaomi Ysunaga: Pottery Trilogy, Gallery Yamahon, Mie Prefecture
Masaomi Yasunaga: Ceramics, Art Salon Yamagi, Osakasand dunes, pragmata, TokyoHollow, Piao Piao Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2013

The corpse, National Tainan University of the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan

Ceramics of Masaomi Yasunaga, Utsuwa Kyoto Yamahon, Kyoto

Masaomi Yasunaga: Pottery Exhibition – Yakimono Biyori, TRI Gallery Ochanomizu, Tokyo
Masaomi Yasunaga: Ceramics, Art Salon Yamagi, Osaka

Masaomi Yasunaga Pottery Exhibition – Work by sand mold, and then”, Gallery uchiumi, Tokyo

Selected group Exhibitions

2023

CHAOS curated by Alex May, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Los Angeles

Enamel & Body / Ceramics, Ginza Maison Hermès Le Forum, TokyoKeramik – Seyni Awa Camara, Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Martin Disler, Bettina Pousttchi,
Rosemarie Trockel, Masaomi Yasunaga, Buchmann Galerie, Belrin
2022Nobuya Hoki and Masaomi Yasunaga, Ratio 3, San Francisco
A Matter of Life and Death, Thomas Dane, Naples

Romantic Progress, Museum of Moden Ceramic Art Gifu, Tajimi
2021
2020

not titled (not “Untitled”), Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles
SIZED, Los Angeles

Sea Change, Ratio 3, San Francisco

OBJECT&THINGS at The Noyes House, Connecticut

Sterling Ruby and Masaomi Yasunaga, Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles

Permanent Installations,
Museum and Public Collections

The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
Ariana Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

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