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Kentaro Kawabata

Biography

Born 1976 in Saitama, JapanLives and works in Gifu, Japan
After graduating from the Tajimi City Pottery Design and Technical Center in 2000,
Kawabata began winning awards for his work, including the Kamoda Shoji Award at theMashiko Pottery Exhibition (2004) and the Paramita Museum Ceramic Award (2007). Hiswork has been the subject of numerous solo and grounp exhibitions at highly-reputed
ceramic institutions, including the National Museum of Modern Art’s Crafts Gallery (“ThePower of Decoration: A Viewpoint on Contemporary Kôgei (Studio Crafts)”, 2009), theIbaraki Ceramic Art Museum (“Phenomenon of Contemporary Ceramic”, 2014), and theMuseum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu (2004, 2010).

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1998

Diploma, Tokyo Designer Institute, Ceramic Department, Tokyo

2000

B.F.A., Tajimi city Pottery Design and Technical Center Gifu, Japan

2021

凸凹 Bumpy, Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles
Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto

2020“isyoken gallery vol.10: Kentaro Kawabata”, Gifu

2019

Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo
Gallery Utsuwakan, Kyoto

2018

Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles

2017

Hello from the Hollows2, Sokyo, Kyoto, Japan

Inside out, Silver Shell, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Kurimoto, Nigata, Japan
Gallery Utsuwakan, Kyoto (2015, 2010, 2008)
Touka, Miyazaki, Japan (2015, 2013)2016

SAVOIR VIVRE, Tokyo (2015, 2012, 2009, 2007, 2005, 2004, 2003)
Ouka Shorin, Nagano, JapanArt Biotop, Tochigi, Japan

2015

Organ, 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Organ, Nihonbashi Takashimaya Gallery X, Tokyo2014

SILVER SHELL, Tokyo
Gallery Suki, Gifu, Japan (2005)
Bougatei, Nagano, Japan (2012, 2010, 2008, 2006)

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Kentaro Kawabata

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2014

MIZEN Fine Art, Paris
Gallery Moegi, Tochigi, Japan (2010)2013

Matsuzakaya, Nagoya, Japan
Sinsaibai Daimaru Tousei, Osaka (2010, 2008)
Kuroda Touen, Tokyo (2011, 2009, 2006, 2004)
Kawatake Touki, Saga, Japan

2012

Ouka Syorin, Nagano, Japan (2008)
Keiko Gallery, Boston (2009)
Gallery SOU, Hokkaido, Japan
Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo
Gion Konishi, kyoto (2009)

2011

Akamanma, Gunma, Japan (2007)
K-HOUSE, Tokyo
Rakusuitei, Toyama, Japan
Gallery Ikuko, Okayama, Japan2010

Tourin Syunyou, Gifu, Japan (2006, 2002)
Ginza Mitsukoshi, Tokyo
Gallery Hashimoto, Tokyo
Meguro Tougeikan, Mie, Japan (2006)

2008

Karakoram, Fukuoka, Japan

2007

Gallery Kouketsu, Gifu, Japan (2005, 2003)
White Gallery, Kagoshima, Japan (2005, 2003)
Tsuchi-no-hana, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2003

Galleria Ceramica, Tokyo

2021

Lucy Bull, Kentaro Kawabata, High Art (Paris), Art Basel MIami Beach, Miami
Sized, Los Angeles

2017
2016

See Change, Ratio 3, San Francisco

Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale (GICB), Icheon, Korea
PUNK, Rakusuitei Museum of Art, Toyama, Japan

Even if contemporary art ended, Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto

CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE CRAFTS The Kikuchi Kanjitsu Prize Ⅱ, Musee-Tomo, Tokyo2015

8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo2014

Phenomenon of Contemporary Ceramics, Ibaraki Ceramic Art museum, Japan

TAKASHIMAYA MUSEUM of ILLUSION, Takashimaya, Tokyo; Kyoto; Nagoya; Osaka
Berlin-Koigswinter and Tenri Kultur Werkstatt, Cologne
Dialogue with Materials: Contemporary Japanese Arts an Crafts, Ahmed Adnen Saygun
Sanat Merkezi, Izmir, Turkey

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Kentaro Kawabata

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013

La ceramique japonaise, Paris

Traditional and Contemporary, Historical Museum, Pavlikeni, Bulgaria

2012
2010
2009

Two Billion Light -Years of Solitude, Art Gummi Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Ceramics Now Exhibition, 3rd edition, Galateea Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Sculptures Objects Functional Art + Design Fair, Chicago (2007)

Secret Relationship between Ceramics and Colors, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, JapanThe Power of Decoration a Viewpoint on Contemporary Kôgei, Crafts Gallery National
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo2008

The Gyeonggi World Ceramic Biennale, Korea

Contemporary Ceramic in Tokai Area for the young artists, Aichi Prefectural CeramicMuseum, Japan

2005
2004

AwardsIzushi Porcelain Competition (2004, 2002)

Hanayagi-no-katachi, Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo

Mino International Ceramic Competition, Gifu, Japan (2002)

Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibition (2003, 2002)

MINO CERAMICS NOW, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan

2003

Carouge International Ceramic Exhibition, Switzerland

2007

Grand Prize, Paramita Museum Ceramic Exhibition, Japan

2004

Kamoda Shoji Award, Mashiko Ceramic Exhibition, Japan

2002

Judges Award, Mashiko Ceramic Exhibition, Japan

2001

Grand Prize, Oribe-no-kokoro, Japan

Permanent Installations,Museum and Public Collections

Gifu Contemporary Ceramics Museum
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Toki City
Mashiko Ceramic Museum
Anadolu University
National Museum of Asian Art, Berlin
Fairfield University
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