Ryuji Ujike

• Category
  Ceramics
• Techniques
  Inlay ceramics, Ash glaze
• Born
  1952 -
• Based in
  Tokyo
• Membership
  Full member, Japan Kogei Association
  

Style

Coloring with clay

Biography

• 1952
  Born in Ota Ward, Tokyo
• 1971
  Graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Meguro High School
• 1974
  Left Nihon University, College of Humanities and Sciences, Department of Psychology and entered Togei Art Institute
• 1976
  Entered Musashino Art University, Department of Industrial, Interior and Craft Design
• 1980
  Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Industrial, Interior and Craft Design
• 1982
  Establishes a kiln in Meguro, Tokyo
• 1984
  Selected for the Japan Crafts Exhibition ('84 '85 '96 '97 '98 '99 '00)
  Selected for the Ceramics Design Competition ('84 '85)
  Part-time instructor at Sugino Gakuen Ceramics Workshop (- 1986)
• 1985
  Selected for Asahi Modern Craft Exhibition ('85 '86 '00)
• 1986
  Selected for the International Ceramics Festival Mino ('86)
• 1988
  Member of Nagatani Seito Co., Ltd. (an Iga ware pottery in Mie Prefecture) (- 1990)
• 1990
  Associate instructor at Yokohama City Ceramics Center (- 1992)
• 1996
  Selected for the Craft Competition in Takaoka ('96 '97)
• 1997
  Selected for the Kanazawa Kogei Competition ('97)
• 1999
  Selected for the East Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition (39th, 41st, 43rd, 47th)
• 2003
  Selected for the Nagasaki Ceramics Exhibition (33rd)
• 2007
  Selected for the Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition (54th, 56th, 58th, 62nd, 63rd, 66th, 67th)
• 2008
  Selected for the Issuikai Ceramics Exhibition (70th - 73rd)
• 2009
  Selected for the Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition (20th, 22nd - 24th)
  Selected for the East Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition (49th, 50th, 53rd - 60th)
• 2013
  Selected for the Tobiten held by the Ceramic Art Society of Japan (1st - 4th)
• 2015
  Becomes Full Member of the Japan Kogei Association
• 2016
  Submitted to the Ceramics Traditional Kōgei Exhibition (44th - 49th)

Awards

• 1985
  Recieved the Chairman of the Kanazawa Chamber of Commerce Award at the International Design Fair Kanazawa
• 1987
  Received the Special Jury Award at the Ceramics Design Fair Seto
• 1999
  Received the Asahi Shimbun Award at the Hokkaido Ceramics Exhibition
• 2002
  Received the Silver Award at the Hokkaido Ceramics Exhibition