Hiroaki Tsutsui

• Category
  Ceramics
• Techniques
  Pale blue porcelain, Porcelain underglaze painting, White porcelain
• Born
  1951 -
• Membership
  Full member, Japan Kogei Association
  

Style

Mainly producing porcelain. Being charmed by the colors of the rivers in Azumino, Nagano where I grew up, I mainly produce seihakuji (pale blue porcelain). I use styluses and bamboo sticks that I make myself to carve patterns to detail. The shape of the vessel is also very important to me.

Biography

• 1951
  Born in Omachi City, Nagano Prefecture
• 1972
  Accepted as techinical trainee at the Ishikawa Prefecture Industrial Promotion Association
  Starts to study how to make Kutani ware in Komatsu City (trains for 4 years)
• 1976
  Moves to Kyoto and studies under Uichi Shimizu and Mitsuyuki Kawase (4 years)
• 1978
  Selected for the first time for the Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition (selected 24 times from this year onward)
• 1979
  Selected for the Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition
• 1980
  Builds kiln in Hotaka, Azumino City, Nagano Prefecture
• 1983
  Becomes Full Member of the Japan Kogei Association
  First solo exhibition at Nihombashi Takashimaya (5 times in total up to today)
• 1987
  Artwork purchased by the Japan Foundation
• 1993
  Submitted to the "Modern Japanese Ceramics in American Collections" Exhibition held by the New York, Japan Society
• 1996
  Submitted to "New Expression in Porcelain: Development in the 1990s" Exhibition at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
• 1999
  NHK TV program "Yakimono Tanbo" (including talk with movie director HANI Susumu) broadcasted
• 2000
  Artwork dedicated to Ise Jingu
  Submitted to "Modern Crafts of Shinshu" Exhibition sponsored by the Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum (current Nagano Prefectural Art Museum)
• 2003
  Artwork added to the collection of Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum (current Nagano Prefectural Art Museum)
• 2006
  Selected for the 2nd Kikuchi Biennale
• 2012
  Artwork added to the collection of Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum
• 2013
  Submitted to exhibition at Onishi Gallery, New York
  Artwork added to the collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
• 2014
  Submitted to exhibition at Onishi Gallery, New York
  Artwork exhibited at the Embassy of Japan in Washington D.C.
  Received the Honorable Mention Award at the 15th Tokyo - New York Friendship Ceramic Competition
• 2018
  Exhibition at the Kyu Otagiri House (Prefectural Treasure) in Suzaka City, Nagano
• 2019
  Solo exhibition at the Imperial Hotel Plaza, Hana Asagi
  Artwork dedicated to Hotaka Jinja (Azumino City, Nagano Prefecture)
• 2020
  Artwork added to the collection of Shizuoka Ceramic Art Museum
• Solo exhibitions
  Takashimaya (Nihombashi, Osaka Namba, Kyoto, Gifu)
  Niigata Mitsukoshi
  Onuma (Yamagata, Yonezawa)
  Daiwa (Kanazawa, Niigata)
  Maruhiro Department Store
  Inoue Department Store (Matsumoto)
  Nagano Tokyu
  Nomura Art Museum (Kyoto)
  Kuroda Touen (Ginza)
  Central Gallery (Nagoya)
  Kyu Otagiri House (Suzaka City, Nagano)
  Hana Asagi (Imperial Hotel Plaza)

Awards

• 1978
  Received the Nikkei Incentive Award at the Kinki Traditional Kōgei Exhibition (received the same award in 1979)
• 1985
  Received the Asahi Shimbun Award at the 32nd Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition
• 1996
  Awarded at the International Art Grand Prize Exhibition '96 in Italy
  Received the 7th Matsumoto Arts and Culture Association Grand Prize
• 2003
  Received the Excellence Award at the KITAOJI Rosanjin Exhibition "Tableware Contest"
• 2007
  Received the Issuikai Award at the Issuikai Craft Exhibition

Public Collections

• The Japan Foundation
• Ise Jingu
• Nagano Prefectural Art Museum
• Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
• Hotaka Jinja (Azumino City, Nagano)
• Shizuoka Ceramic Art Museum