Yasuhisa Kohyama

Continuing on the testimonials:

Yasuhisa Kohyama is an internationally recognized artist who has made great strides in his mature career to enliven and at the same time, preserve a national art form, contributing to its “pride of place,” in his country’s ceramic culture. Kohyama’s sophisticated forms and their typically unglazed surfaces are exquisitely Japanese in character and more specifically, of his native Shigaraki – where at their traditional source in Kohyama’s anagama kiln his beautiful works are created. The sculpturally explicit vessel forms of Kohyama are at the same time purely “modern” in their characteristically smooth, sleek, dramatic, and nature inspired abstractions. They are truly the works of a transposed but never wholly transplanted creative spirit!

— Ronald Andrew Kuchta Editor
American Ceramics

Yasuhisa Kohyama Public Collections

1982: The Cleveland Museum Of Art, Ohio
1992: Everson Museum Of Art, New York
1993: Museum Het Princesshof, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
1993: Het Kruithus Museum Voor Hedendaagse Kunst, S-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
1993: European Ceramic Work Center, ‘S-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
1993: Museum Fur Kunst Und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany
1994: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam The Netherlands
1994: Cleveland Institute Of Art, Ohio, USA
1994: Kent University, Ohio, USA
1995: The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
1997: Stork-On-Trent City Museum, Staffordshire, England
1997: Smart Museum, Chicago Institute Illinois, USA
1998: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York, USA
1999: The Gardiner Museum Of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada
2001: The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga, Japan
2002: Philadelphia Museum Of Art, Pennsylvania, USA
2O05: Museum Of Arts And Design, New York, USA