桝本佳子

Born Hyogo in 1982
2007: Completed Master's degree in Ceramics at Kyoto City University of Arts
2010 Guest Artist, Philadelphia University of the Arts
2013 Victoria and Albert Museum Residency Programme Artist

Major Group Exhibitions
2018 Ascending Art Annual #2 Matsuri, Matsuru (Spiral Gallery)
2019 Aichi Triennale 2019 (Nagoya City Art Museum)
2021 Gift, Gift, (Hachinohe City Museum of Art Opening Exhibition)
2023 Pokémon x Crafts Exhibition (National Museum Crafts Gallery, traveling thereafter)

Major solo exhibitions
2021 Blue Birds/Blue Ceramics (Wacoal Study Hall Kyoto)
2022 Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter (Chiso Gallery/Kyoto)
2024 Laboratory (Candy Bar Gallery/Kyoto, solo exhibition also to be held in 2022)

statement
I am interested in and create vessels that are made only to be displayed and not used, even though they are in the form of vessels intended to be used. For example, excessively decorated vases that are not suitable for use.
In Japan, as a new framework for art is being created, such strange existences are being recognized and accepted without any sense of incongruity.
I create these "vessels" with the idea of how to make them even stranger and more interesting.
By enlarging, cutting, or compressing decorative motifs applied to vessels, I explore forms that go beyond the framework of a "vessel" and are "but not a vessel."

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