FUJINO SACHIKO (b.1950)

Fujino Sachiko began her studies in the fashion-design department at the Fujikawa Design School in after which she embarked on a career as a fashion designer and fabric dyer. A pottery class first introduced her to the ceramic world and resulted in her enrollment at the Tetsukayama Junior College, where she became the pupil of the pioneering female ceramic artist Asuka Tsuboi (b. 1932). Fujino’s ceramics reflect her background in textiles in the crimping, folding, and tucking of her gently textured stoneware. She enhances this effect through the use of an airbrush device that sprays slip and occasionally colored glaze, adding depth to the otherwise unadorned surface. Her work is owned by many museums in this country.

1950 Born in Kyoto 1971 Graduated in Fashion Design from Fujikawa Design School, Kyoto 1986 Graduated from Ceramic Course of Tetsukayama Junior College, Kyoto

Awards:

2004 Awarded the Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award, New Zealand

Solo Exhibitions:

1990 Gallery Fuga, (also in 1995) 1992 Gallery Hourai, (also in 1996) 1994 Gallery Somarie, Osaka 1994 Shima Museum, Mie 1994 Gallery Circus Circus, (also in 1999) 1995 Gotenyama Art Hall, Osaka (also in 1996) 1995 Hankyū Art Salon, Osaka (also in 1997, 1999) 1997 Art Gallery, 1999 Gallery Maronie, Kyoto 2001 Gallery Amano, Osaka 2003 Gallery Uji, Kyoto Art Space Kan, Kyoto Hanshin Art Salon, Osaka (also in 2005) 2005 Chiba Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Chiba Kintetsu Art Gallery, 2010 Gallery Yuragi, Kyoto 2011 Base of the Expression, Gallery Kiku, Osaka 2012 Desert Bloom: Form and Motion in Clay, the Ceramic Sculpture of Fujino Sachiko, Joan B. Mirviss LTD at TAI Gallery, Santa Fe

Selected Group Exhibitions:

1987 Women Ceramists, Kyoto City Museum of Art, Awarded Grand Prize 1989 Mino International Ceramic Art Exhibition, Tajimi Cultural Center Japanese Ceramic Art Exhibition, Tokyo (also in 1991, 1995) Asahi Modern Craft Exhibition (also in 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993)

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Kyoto Craft Biennale, Nagoya (also in 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995) 1990 Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibition, (also in 1991, 1992) Kyoto Arts and Crafts Biennale, Kyoto Prefectural Center for Arts and Culture (also Awarded in 1994) 1992 Kyoto Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Kyoto Prefectural Center for Arts and Culture Contemporary Ceramic and Sculpture Exhibition, Ceratopia, Toki City, 1994 Flecher Challenge Exhibition, Auckland Museum, New Zealand 1997 Kyoto Arts and Crafts Selected Exhibition, Kyoto Cultural Museum 1998 Esprit for the 21st Century Exhibition, Gallery San, Kyoto 2000 Williamsburg Bridges Japan, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, New York 2001 Faenza International Ceramics Competition, Italy The 1st Republic of Korea World Ceramic Biennial Exhibition, Korea, Awarded Special Prize 2005 E. Inamori and Fujino Sachiko, Uji Gallery, Kyoto Ceramics and Trees, Gallery Undeux, Kōgei-bijutsu Sōkōkai Show, Kyoto Museum 2007 Coffee cups, Tea cups, Hoshikaya Gallery, Wakayama Breaking the Mold: Kata O Yaburu, Leading Japanese Women Ceramists, Joan Mirviss, Ltd., New York 2007-12 Soaring Voices – Contemporary Japanese Women Ceramic Artists, Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, The Shigaraki Cultural Park, Shiga. Exhibition traveled to New Otani Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Musée National Céramique à Sèvres, Sèvres, France; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; The Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington, DC; The Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, TX; Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Delray Beach, FL; The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ; Western Gallery at Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, OK; Maui Arts and Cultural Center, Kahului, HI 2008-09 Celebrating Kyoto: Modern Arts from Boston’s Sister City, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2010 The 23rd Kyoto International Exchange Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Awarded Kyoto Shimbun-sha Prize 2011 Kyoto craft artists association’s 65th anniversary exhibition, Kyoto Prefectural Center for Arts & Culture (Kyoto bunka kaikan), Kyoto 25th Kyoto Art Festival 2011, International Exhibition of Art and Design (Kokusai Kōryū Sōgōten), Kyoto City Museum of Art (Awarded Kyoto Newspaper Prize) Kōgei-bijutsu Sōkōkai “Miniature” Exhibition. Takashimaya Art Gallery, Kyoto 2012 Art Festival 2012, Amagasaki City Cultural Center 2013 Fired Earth, Woven Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics and Bamboo Art (MFA Publications: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2013). Exhibition Catalogue. 2014 The Betsy and Robert Feinberg Collection: Japanese Ceramics for the Twenty-first Century, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Selected Public Collections:

Aprica Central Research Center, Nara

JOAN B MIRVISS LTD JAPANESE FINE ART 39 EAST 78TH STREET, 4TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY 10075 Phone: 212-799-4021 Fax: 212-721-5148 www.mirviss.com

Faenza International Museum of Ceramic Art, Italy Ichon World Ceramic Center, Korea Kyoto City Cultural Museum, Kyoto Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL Sumitomo Electronic Industries Company, Tokyo Tajimi City, Gifu Toki City, Gifu Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

References (English Language):

Soaring Voices – Contemporary Japanese Women Ceramic Artists, Shiga: The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, 2007, pp. 34-35, cat. no. 37-39.

Exhibition Catalogue, Kyoto Kōgei-bijutsu Sakka Kyōkai 65-shūnen (Kyoto Craft Artists Association’s 65th Anniversary), Kyoto: Kyoto Prefectural Center for Arts & Culture.

Mintz, Robert with Contributions by Betsy and Robert Feinberg and Joan B Mirviss. The Betsy and Robert Feinberg Collection: Japanese Ceramics for the Twenty-first Century. Exhibition Catalogue. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 2014.

Fired Earth, Woven Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics and Bamboo Art (MFA Publications: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2013). Exhibition Catalogue.

JOAN B MIRVISS LTD JAPANESE FINE ART 39 EAST 78TH STREET, 4TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY 10075 Phone: 212-799-4021 Fax: 212-721-5148 www.mirviss.com