Shiro Oshima

• Category
  Ceramics
• Techniques
  Blue underglaze, Porcelain underglaze painting
• Born
  1977 -
• Membership
  Associate member, Japan Kogei Association
  

Style

I use natural objects that I am attracted to in the different seasons for motifs of my designs and use porcelain clay, matte glaze and pigments.

Biography

• 1977
  Born in Toki City, Gifu Prefecture
• 2000
  Graduated from Nagoya University of the Arts, Art Division, Japanese Painting Course
  Started working at Yudachigama (Mizunami City, Gifu Prefecture)
• 2008
  Graduated from Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Industry High School, Ceramic Art Advanced Course
  Selected for the Tōkai Traditional Kōgei Exhibition (selected several times from this year onward)
• 2010
  Completed course at Seto Sometsuke Training Center (current Seto Blue and White Ceramics Center)
• 2014
  Built the Shiromon Kiln in Kasugai City, Aichi Prefecture
• 2015
  Japan Kogei Association East Japan and Tōkai Selection "The Presentness of Traditional Crafts" Exhibition at MOA Museum of Art
• 2017
  Solo exhibition "Vessels of Flowers, Plants and Little Creatures" at Gallery Kurimoto
• 2018
  Selected for the Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition
• 2019
  "To the Next Generation – Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition" at Toshin Mino Ceramic Art Museum
  Solo exhibition "Vessels of Plants, Flowers and Birds" at Kawarabanya
• 2020
  "Graduates of Seto Blue and White Ceramics Center Today – From Tradition and Beyond" Exhibition at the Seto Shinkin Bank Art Gallery
  "History of Seto Blue and White Ceramics Center – Artworks of Graduates" Exhibition at Seto Blue and White Ceramics Center
  Solo exhibition "Fruitful Vessels" at Gallery Kurimoto
• 2021
  Shiro Oshima Ceramics Exhibition at Seto Blue and White Ceramics Center
• <Group Exhibitions>
  Matsuzakaya Nagoya Store, Gallery Voice, Seto City New Century Craft Museum, Kawarabanya, Gallery NOZU, Galerie La Cachette, Nagoya Sakae Mitsukoshi, Art Space Myokoen Gallery, Naramachi Gallery Tachibana etc.
  <Permanent Exhibition>
  Teshigotoya An

Awards

• 2008
  Received the Incentive Award at the Seto City Art Exhibition
• 2015
  Received the Gifu Board of Education Award at the Tōkai Traditional Kōgei Exhibition
• 2018
  Received the Grand Award at the 1st Ceramics Painting Contest (Toki Chamber of Commerce and Industry)

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