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Kimiyo Mishima

Kimiyo Mishima was born in 1932 in Osaka, Japan. She graduated in 1951 from theBiography

Ohgimachi Public High School 1975 in Osaka. In 1986/87, she studied in New York,supported by a grant by the Rockefeller Scholarship ACC, New York, USA. She currently
lives in Osaka, Japan.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018

Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles, USA

2017

Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, JapanMEM Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe, Japan

2016

Taka Ishii Gallery, New York, USA2014

Art Factory, Jonanjima, Tokyo, Japan

2013

Gallery Yamaki Fine Arts, Kobe, Japan

2004

Nii Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2001

Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1999

INAX Gallery, Tokyo, Japan1998

Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1992

Kasahara Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1990

INAX Gallery, Tokyo, Osaka, Japan

1989

Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1988

Gallery 16, Kyoto, Japan

1985

Gallery Ueda Warehouse, Tokyo, Japan1980

Claywork : From Traditional To Avangarde, Seibu Hall, Shiga, Japan

1974

Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan1972

Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Contemporary Art Museum, Ise, Mie, Japan

Gallery Pusu, Tokyo, Japan

Imai Gallery, Osaka, Japan1971Fujimi Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1970

Gallery 16, Kyoto, Japan

1969

Imabashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1968

Gallery 16, Kyoto, Japan

1966

Gallery 16, Kyoto, Japan

1964

Gallery 16, Kyoto, Japan

Gallery Ano, Osaka, Japan

Gallery Ano, Osaka, Japan

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Selected Group Exhibits

2018
2017

The Superlative Artistry of Japan, Japan Foundation, Cologne, Germany

2D Printers, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan

Painting on the Edge: A historical survey, Gallery Stephan Friedman, London, England

2016

CERAMIX, traveling exhibition at: Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, NL; La Maison

2015

Ancient to Modern – Japanese Contemporary Ceramics and their Sources, San Antonio

Rouge, Paris, FR; Cité de la Céramique-Sèvres, France
Museum of Art, TX, USA

Conversations: A 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Harn Museum of Art, University ofFlorida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
2014

Currents: Japanese Contemporary Art, Christie’s Hong Kong

Abstractions in Blue: Works from The Wise Collection, Worcester Art Museum,Worcester, USA

2012

Breaking the Mold, The Salon: Art and Design Fair with Joan B Mirviss LTD., New York,NY, USA

2011
2010Ceramica Viva: I Ceramisti Giapponesi Premiati a Faenza [Japanese awardees ofInternational Faenza Ceramic Festival, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Tokyo, Japan

This is not a book: Spreading of Book Art, Urawa Art Museum, Saitama and Fukui City
Art Museum, Fukui, JapanThe Magic of Ceramics: Artistic Inspiration, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga2009

Newspapers, Kanda Nissho Memorial Museum of Art, Shikaoi, Hokkaido, Japan

Vingt-cinq ceramists Japonaises contemporaines, Le Musée National de Céramique,Sèvres, France

Breaking from Tradition Japanese Ceramics Today, Harvey/Meadows Gallery, Aspen
CO with Joan B Mirviss, LTD., New York, USA

Touch Fire: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics by Women Artists, Smith College
Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, USA

World of Trick Art, Toyohashi City Museum of Art and History, Aichi and Takamatsu City
Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan2008
2007

Osaka Art Kaleidoscope 2008, Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan

Breaking the Mold/ kata o yaburu, Joan B Mirviss, LTD. New York, USA

Various Aspects of the Avant-garde Ceramic Art, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan
Hermandades Escultóricas Méxivo-Japón 2007, Museo MACAY, Mérida, Yucatán, MXDepicting Words in Art- Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection, Municipal
Museum of Art Kyoto, Japan

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Selected Group Exhibits

2007-12

Soaring Voices – Contemporary Japanese Women Ceramic Artists, The Shigaraki

Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga. Exhibition traveled to New Otani Art Museum, Tokyo,Japan; Le Musée National Céramique à Sèvres, Sèvres, France; Crocker Art Museum,

Sacramento, CA; The Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington, DC; TheCrow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, TX; Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens,
Delray Beach, FL; The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville;
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe; Western Gallery at Western Washington
University, Bellingham; City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, OK; Maui Arts and Cultural
Center, Kahului, HI, USA
2006
2006

The Quintessence of Modern Japanese Ceramics, Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum.

Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century, Japan Society, New York, USA
Tōji: Avant-Garde et Tradition de la Cèramique Japonaise, Musèe national decèramique Sèvres, France

2005

Real—Reality in Ceramics, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan

Outdoor Work setting at Benesse Art Site Naoshima, JapanMy Landscape, Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art, Japan

Exhibition of Art Puzzle Puzzle, Art of Museum of The World Child Hamada City, Japan
Women Artists of Avant Garde 1950-1975, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Contemporary Ceramics of Japan, Boston Art Museum, Boston, USA

2004

Contemporary Codex; Ceramic and Book, University Art Gallery Central, Japan

2003

The Art of Earth-Clay Work of The New Century, The National of Art, Osaka, Japan

Michigan University, Baltimore, MD; USA and some other states in the US.

2002

Japan Contemporary Ceramic 100 Year, The Gifu Prefectural Contemporary CeramicMuseum of Art, Japan

2002

Imaging the Book, Exhibition of Contemporary Art, The Library of Alexandria Egypt
Metamorphosis Art Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan

2001
2000
1999

Humor Exhibition, Toki City The Lord Mayer of Aizu prize.

The Contemporary Sculpture exhibition Japan, Ubeshi Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum, JapanThe International Ceramic Exhibition, Keramion, Germany

The Past War Period Art Kansai 1950’s-1990’s, The Wakayama Modern Art Museum, JapanThe Plate Show Round exhibition, Glasgow, England

Collection in Focus, What you see is what get on is it?, Museum of Contemporary Art,Tokyo, Japan
1998

Itinerant International Exhibition, Japan-Brazil 98-99, Art Museum of São Paulo, ModernMuseum of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

1997

The Hope, Safa Gallery, Budapest, Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemet, Hungary

Asahi Contemporary Craft, The Asahi Newspaper, Japan

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Selected Group Exhibits

1997

The Yamamura Collection, The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Japan
50 years of Contemporary Art, Museum of contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

1996

1996 Aspects of Japanese Ceramic Art, The Hakone Open-Art Museum, Japan
Sai no Kuni Chokoku Variety 1996, grand prize, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

1995

Cross Section of The Past War Period Art, The Museum of Art, Chiba City, Japan

Japanese Culture: the Fifty Past War Years 1945-1995, Asahi News Paper, Japan

International Contemporary Ceramic, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Center, Japan
Magical Viewpoint, Hirakata City Gotenyama Art Center, Japan
1994

Wind of Faenza, Toki City, JapanThe 60th Anniversary Memorial Exhibitions, Kyoto Municipal Museum Collection, The

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1993

Repetition and Multiplication in Contemporary Art from the Museum Collection, TheMetropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

Industrial Art of the World, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
1993

Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, JapanVision Illusion and Anti-illusion from the Museum Collections, the Metropolitan Museum ofArt, Tokyo, Japan
1992
1992
1991

Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Asahi contemporary craft, invited by Asahi Newspaper, Japan

Contemporary Japanese Ceramic, The Everson Museum of Art, New York, USA
International Ceramic Exhibition, National Museum of History, Taiwan.

Art Scene 1991 –Each Material, Each Expression, The Tokushima Prefectural Museum ofModern Art, Tokushima, Japan
1990

Kyoto Select Art Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Japan

Asahi Contemporary Crafts, The Asahi Newspaper. Japanese Clay Works Today, The

Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan

Aspects of Contemporary Clay Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1989

Contemporary Ceramic, The Wakayama Prefectural Modern Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

Exhibition of Collections, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan

Exhibition of Yamamura Collection, The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan
Development of Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan museum of Art, Tokyo, JP

Art Exciting 1989-Beyong the Toda’s being-, Saitama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art,Saitama, JapanThe Museum of Art Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
1989
1988

Art of Kyoto, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Japan

Exhibition of Art touchable, The Seibu Tokyo and Hyogo, Japan

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Selected Group Exhibits

1988

East-West Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition, The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Korean
Biennale International Limoges, Limoges France

Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture Exhibition 1988, Gold Prize, Gifu Toki City Culture Plaza, Japan1987Clay Sculptures from the 1950s in Japan, The Museum of Art Gifu, Gifu, Japan1986

Claywork, Seibu Hall, Shiga and Tokyo, Japan

Obje-Deviate Obje, Seibu Tsukashin Hall, Hyogo, Japan

Ceramic Now, Seibu Gallery, Tokyo. Claywork 1986, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan
Reading Objects, Gallery Iteza, Kyoto, JapanESTIU Japon 1986, Olot, Spain. Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, The Museum of Art
Syracuse, NY, USA
1985

Contemporary Ceramics, Budapest, Hungary

Yamamura Collections Exhibition, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
10 Spiez Ceramics Exhibition, Spiez, Switzerland

Osaka Contemporary Art Fair 1985, Osaka Contemporary Art Center.
Book-self Sculpture, Gallery 16, Kyoto, Japan

Toward the Museum of tomorrow, Image as environment, Hyogo Prefectural Museum ofModern Art, Kobe, Japan
1984
1983

Print of Japan, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan

International Ceramics, Budapest, Hungary

Ceramics Today, Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Contemporary Japanese Art, Musée d’ Art et d’ Historoire, Geneva, Switzerland
Contemporary Realism, Saitama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Japan

International Impact Art, The Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, The Seoul ContemporaryMuseum of Art, Japan
1982
1981
1980

Clay Work Now 1, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, JapanContemporary Japanese Ceramics, Italy, Canada and Hong Kong

Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan.
Art Now:1970-1980, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan

International Ceramics Biennial, Faenza Ceramics Museum, Faenza, Italy
International Ceramics Biennial, Vallauris, France

Simulated Landscape in Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Print of Japan, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
1979
1979

Gallery 16, Kyoto, and Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

Invited as a guest exhibitor to The British International Print Biennale, Bradford, England

Japan Today, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA

Contemporary Crafts, The Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Takasaki, Japan
Shimizu Kusuo and his Artist, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

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1978

Selected Group Exhibits

Women Japanese Artists, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Contemporary Japanese Crafts, the National Museum, of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Crafts, the National Museum, of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

1977

Contemporary Craftsmen, The Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

Contemporary Japanese Graphics Grand Prix Exhibition, Matsuya Department Store,Tokyo, Japan1976

The Fifth British International Print Biennale, Bradford, England
Japanese Ceramics, Museum of Art, Dresden, Germany

Contemporary Ceramics, touring exhibition in Australia, New Zealand

Japan Art Festival, Ueno no Mori Museum, Tokyo, and University of Seattle, Seattle, WA, US1975

International Print Biennale, Krakow, Poland

Asahi Art Now, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan

Contemporary Japanese Art Contemporary Japanese Graphic Art, The Museum ofModern Art, Ferrarea, Italy

1975
1974
1973
1972-80
1971-79

Contemporary Expression 1975, Daimaru Department Store, Kyoto, JapanThe Eleventh International Art Exhibition, Japan-Tokyo Biennale, Tokyo, Japan
International Ceramics, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Chunichi International

International Ceramic Exhibition, Faenza Ceramic Museum, Faenza, Italy

The Japan Ceramic Art exhibition, Daimaru department store, Tokyo, Japan

Touring in USA and Canada (1971, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1979), and touring in SouthAmerica (1973).

1966
1965
1964

Mainichi Shinbun Art Concour Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, JapanThe Ninth Annual Shell Exhibition, Shirokiya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan

Trends in Contemporary Japanese Paining and Sculpture, The National Museum ofModern Art, Kyoto, Japan1962
1954-69

The Third International Young Artists Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan

Asahi Young Artists Exhibition, Osaka, Japan

Dokuritsu Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art. winner of the Prize in 1961,
winner of the Grand Prix in 1963, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Japan

Permanent Installations,Ariana Museum, Geneve, Switzerland

Museum and Public Collections

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan
Asian Cultural Council, New York, USA
Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Naoshima, Japan
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Permanent Installations,Hamada Children’s Museum of Art, Hamada, Shimane, Japan

Museum and Public Collections

HAP POTTERY, Beijing, Cina
Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Hokkaido Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art, Ikeda, Shizuoka, Japan
Institute of Contemporary Art, Kunsan National University, Koera
International Ceramics Studio, Kecskemét, Hungary
Iwaki City Museum of Modern Art, Fukushima, Japan
Japanese Culture Center, Roma, Italy
Kunst Gesellschaft, Spiez, Switzerland
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
M+ Museum, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto, Japan
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA
Musee Cernoschi, Paris, FranceMuseum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
National Museum of History, Taiwan
Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
Okegawa City Park, Saitama, Japan
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville Florida, USA
SMITH COLLEGE, Northampton, USA
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu, Kagawa, JapanThe Everson Museum of Art, New York, USA
The First National Bank of Chicago, USA
The Gifu Prefectural Contemporary Ceramic Museum of Art, Gifu, JapanThe Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, JapanThe International Museum of Art, Osaka, JapanThe Japan Foundation, Tokyo, JapanThe Keramion Museum for Contemporary Ceramic Art, Germany
The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation Seoul, Korea
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, JapanThe Museum of Art, Hakodate, JapanThe Museum of Art, Olot, Spain
The Museum of Faenza, Italy
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, JapanThe Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga, Japan
The Wakayama Prefectural Modern Museum of Art, Wakayama, Japan

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Permanent Installations,Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, JapanMuseum and Public Collections

Vehbi Koç Foundation, ARTER, Istanbul, Turkey
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, USA
Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, JapanAwards

1961

Winner of the prize at Dokuritsu Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Japan

1963

Winner of the Grand Prix, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan1965

The Ninth Annual Shell Exhibition, winner of the Prize, Shirokiya Department Store,Tokyo, Japan

1974

International Ceramic Exhibition, winner of the Gold Medal, Faenza, Ceramic Museum,Faenza, Italy

1986-87

Rockefeller Fellowship, New York, USA

1988

Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture Exhibition 1988, Gold Prize, Gifu Toki City Culture

1989

International Ceramics, winner of the Copper Prize, Tajimi Gymnasium, Japan1996

Sai no Kuni Chokoku Variety 1996, grand prize, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

2001

The Contemporary Sculpture exhibition Japan, Yamaguchi Prefectural Prize and The

Plaza, Japan

Citizen Prize, Japan
Ubeshi Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum, Japan
2002

Received Yaizu Mayor’s prize at the show ‘Humor’, Shizuoka of Art, Japan