Artists
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Sculpture
Yamamoto Yusuke
Graduating from Musashino Art University's department of Industrial, Interior & Craft Design, Yusuke Yamamoto moved to Tokyo and has been a prolific exhibitor of sculptures in Japan. His unique take on a juxtaposition of animals and objects in everyday life has caught the eye of many a collector.
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Sculpture
Yabuuchi Satoshi
Yabuuchi Satoshi is Japan’s foremost Manga sculptor and a veteran of contemporary, anime-influenced art. His work features audacious, mischievous, “Doji” (sacred children) carved from Japanese cypress with natural pigments and Japanese lacquer, in strikingly realistic three dimensional figures with expression-filled faces, whose brash antics have an innocent, humorous, impish quality.
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Sculpture
Karen Kang
Karen Kang, a New York based sculptor working primarily in stone, is known for her simple and sensitive abstract forms. Jonathan Goodman’s review in Sculpture magazine said, “Kang’s intensely lyrical approach to art and nature is in no way anachronistic or deliberately antiquated”.
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Sculpture
Toyota Youji
Born in Toyama Prefecture, Youji Toyota is a wood sculptor who lives in Minamibousou in the Chiba prefecture of Japan. He graduated from the Tokyo Formative University and has been known for his maverick exhibitions since 1996.
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Ceramic
Shimizu Ushio
Ushio Shimizu is a fourth generation Bankoyaki Ceramist, who decided not to follow in the traditional footsteps of his predecesors and instead created his own dynamic style by putting white glaze on black. His bold design is inspired by the martial arts, Budoh, in which he used to win competitions during school days.
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Paper Stones
Mary Stacy Mazzone
Mazzone is an American artist living in Italy, specializing in the creation of paper stones. Over a lifetime of observing, holding, treasuring stones she has come to associate the aesthetic search for the sublime in nature with a striving to understand the inner spirit of things.
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Ceramic
Takayama Dai
Dai Takayama hails from a family of potters in the Mie prefecture of Japan and has been an active artist since apprenticing in 1996. After mastering the technique of ceramic for five years in Kyoto, he joined the research group of earth ware to visit Tanzania. The trip influenced his stoneware style and gave advent to his own signature style of "Primitive Modern".
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Ceramic
Takayama Kou
Kou Takayama is the precursor of a family of potters in the Mie prefecture, embarking on a tradition since 1962 when he apprenticed under Yuji Kondo and Shouji Kamorita. He went independent in 1967 and hasn't looked back. He hardly ever explains about his pottery but it is self explanatory--subtle yet powerful.
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Acryl & Rice Paper
Kondo Miyuki
Acryl and Rice paper artist from Tokushima, Japan, who has been experimenting with new possibilities of wood block prints. Since 1999, her explorations with wood in exhibitions have won awards and accolades all over Japan. Her most recent exhibition at the Woodblock Print Association received the "Azechi Umetarou Prize".
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Ceramic
Yasuhisa Kohyama
The traditional wood-firing techniques of historical potters from his native Shigaraki, are evident in the work of Yasuhisa Kohyama (b. 1936). He has played an important part in reviving the use of the traditional Japanese "Anagama" wood fired kiln, being the first potter in the area to build such a kiln since medieval times. Kohyama's powerful and sculptural work has been exhibited widely in Japan and overseas including at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Galerie Besson first showed his work in 1992.
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Ceramic
Takayama Kazou
Coming soon.
A list of interesting Japanese artists whom Art Miya has chosen to represent in the United States.
- Artist Persuasions:
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- Acryl & Rice Paper (1)
- Ceramic (5)
- Paper Stones (1)
- Sculpture (4)
