Suehiro Koyama

• Category
  Ceramics
• Techniques
  Bizen ware, Klin effects
• Born
  1948 -
• Membership
  Associate member, Japan Kogei Association
  

Style

Mainly producing tea ceremony vessels with designs inspired by nature.

Biography

• 1948
  Born in Bizen City, Okayama Prefecture
• 1973
  Selected for the Chunichi International Exhibition of Ceramic Arts (1978 – 1980, 1982, 1983)
  Selected for the Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition (2006, 2007)
• 1975
  Selected for the Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition (1977, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2009)
• 1981
  Solo Exhibition at Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store (holds solo exhibitions on a biennial basis from this year onward)
• 1984
  Becomes appointed artist of the Okayama Prefectural Art Exhibition
• 1985
  Selected for the 2nd “Arts of the Tea Ceremony” Exhibition at the Tanabe Museum of Art (selected 30 times from this year onward)
  Selected for the Issuikai Ceramics Exhibition (selected consecutively from this year onward)
• 1989
  Selected for the 1st Ceramics Biennale (selected consecutively from this year onward)
• 1992
  Selected for the Tanko Biennale Tea Ceremony Art Exhibition
• 1995
  Selected for the Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramics for the Tea Ceremony
• 1996
  Recommended as committee member of the Issuikai
• 2010
  Invited to the Okayama Prefectural Art Exhibition
• 2013
  Selected for the Tobiten

Awards

• 1979
  Received the Sanyo Shimbun Award at the Okayama Prefectural Art Exhibition
• 1980
  Received the Issuikai Ceramics Exhibition Award at the Issuikai Ceramics Exhibition
• 1983
  Received the Okayama Governor Award at the Okayama Prefectural Art Exhibition
  Received the Hazama Incentive Award at the Issuikai Ceramics Exhibition
• 1984
  Received the Excellence Award at the 1st “Arts of the Tea Ceremony” Exhibition at the Tanabe Museum of Art
  Received the Issuikai Honorabe Mention Award at the Issuikai Ceramics Exhibition
• 1994
  Received the Issuikai Members' Excellence Award at the Issuikai Ceramics Exhibition
• 1999
  Received the Incentive Award at the 16th “Arts of the Tea Ceremony” Exhibition at the Tanabe Museum of Art
• 2009
  Received the Sanyo Shimbun Grand Award at the Okayama Prefectural Art Exhibition