Makoto Susa

• Category
  Metalwork
• Techniques
  Mokumegane, Hammer forming
• Born
  1975 -
• Based in
  Niigata
• Membership
  Full member, Japan Kogei Association
  

Biography

• 1975
  Tsubame City (former Yoshida Town), Niigata Prefecture
• 1994
  Joined Gyokusendo Co., Ltd.
• 2001
  Studied under Norio Tamagawa (Living National Treasure, Hammering) and learned the mokumegane technique
• 2003
  Submitted to and selected for the first time at the 43rd Traditional Kōgei New Works Exhibition (selected 6 times from this year onward)
  Submitted to and selected for the first time at the 50th Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition (selected 4 times from this year onward)
• 2009
  Becomes Full Member of the Japan Kōgei Association
• 2010
  Submitted to and selected for the first time at the 39th Metalwork Traditional Kōgei Exhibition (selected 3 times from this year onward)
• 2016
  Specially submitted to "North America Mokume-gane Exhibit in Japan 2016" held at the Tsubame Industrial Materials Museum and Yamawaki Gallery (Tokyo)
• 2018
  Retired from Gyokusendo Co., Ltd.
• 2019
  Becomes independent and builds a workshop in Sanjo City, Niigata
  Submitted to Japan-US Metalwork Artists Touring Exhibition 2019
  Exhibition at the Consulate-General of Japan in Chicago and "Tradition of Excellence: Japanese Techniques in Contemporary Metal Arts" Exhibition at the Penland Gallery, North Carolina
• 2020
  Solo exhibition (supported by the Sanjo City Young Artists Support Program)
  ”New Expressions of Tradition – Makoto Susa Exhibition"

Awards

• 2023
  Received the Sekido Museum of Art Award at the 51st Metalwork Traditional Kōgei Exhibition

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