Jun Kaneko JUN KANEKO STUDIO 1120 JONES STREET Resume OMAHA NE 68102-3205 May 2012 PHONE 402 341 4523 FAX 402 341 0309 [email protected] PERSONAL 1942 Born in Nagoya, Japan EDUCATION 1971 Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA, studied under Paul Soldner 1966 University of California, Berkeley, CA, studied under Peter Voulkos 1964 Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA, & California Institute of Art, Los Angeles, CA Studied ceramics at Jerry Rothman's studio, Paramount, CA TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1979-86 Cranbrook Academy of Art 1973-75 Rhode Island School of Design 1974 Scripps College 1972-73 University of New Hampshire GRANTS AND HONORS 2011 Master of the Media, James Renwick Alliance, Washington, DC 2010 Artist Advisory Board, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA 2008 Honorary Doctorate, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA 2006 Honorary Doctorate, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 2005 Honorary Doctorate, Royal College of Art, London, England 1996 Fellow of the American Craft Council 1994 Honorary Member of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts 1994 Nebraska Arts Council Fellowship 1985 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1979 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1967 Archie Bray Foundation Fellowship FOUNDATIONS 2000 Founder, KANEKO: Open Space for Your Mind, Omaha, NE 1985 Co-Founder, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Nagoya, Japan Arabia Museum, Helsinki, Finland Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID California State University, Sacramento, CA CityCenter Fine Art Collection, Las Vegas, NV Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY County of Santa Clara, Valley Specialty Center Medical Building, San Jose, CA Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI European Ceramic Work Center (EKWC – Europees Keramisch Werkcentrum), s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Jun Kaneko Resume – May 2012 2 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS continued Gifu-Ken Museum, Gifu, Japan Hawaii State Foundation on Culture & the Arts, Honolulu, HI Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI Incheon World Ceramic Center, Seoul, South Korea Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Lauritzen Gardens, Omaha, NE LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL Museum Het Kruithis (Museum of Contemporary Art), s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Japan Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE Nagoya City Museum, Nagoya, Japan National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA Olympic Museum of Ceramic Sculpture, Athens, Greece Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan The Banff Centre, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu, HI The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI The Marer Collection, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth, MN Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City, MO University of Missouri Columbia: Museum of Art and Archaeology, Columbia, MO University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY V & A South Kensington, London, England Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA Weber State University, Dept. of Visual Art, Ogden, UT Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan PUBLIC COMMISSONS 2011 Shanghai International Finance Center, Pudong, Shanghai, China City of Omaha, Hilton Omaha (Project 3), Omaha, NE Principal Riverwalk Hubbell Pavilion, Des Moines, IA 2010 Great Path Academy, Manchester, CT 2009 Philadelphia City Hall, Philadelphia, PA Mammel Hall, College of Business Administration, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 12 West, Gerding Edlen, Twelfth & Washington Project, Portland, OR Jun Kaneko Resume – May 2012 3 PUBLIC COMMISSIONS continued ’09 cont University of Nebraska Medical Center Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education, Omaha, NE 2008 Kaneko on Park Avenue (06/08–11/08), New York City Parks Public Art Program, New York, NY 2007 Temple Har Shalom, Park City, UT Mid-America Center, Iowa West Public Art, Council Bluffs, IA Four Seasons Resort Maui, Wailea, HI 2006 Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ University of Nebraska Foundation, Dr. C.C. & Mabel Criss Library, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Omaha, NE Bartle Hall/Convention Center, Kansas City, MO University of Connecticut, Burton Family Complex, Storrs, CT 2005 City of Omaha, Hilton Omaha (Project 2), Omaha, NE Grand Hyatt Hotel, Rippongi Tower (Project 2), Tokyo, Japan 2004 City of Omaha, Hilton Omaha (Project 1), Omaha, NE 2003 San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA San Jose Repertory Theater Plaza, San Jose, CA Western Asset Plaza, Pasadena, CA 2002 Grand Hyatt Hotel, Rippongi Tower (Project 1), Tokyo, Japan 2001 University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA 2000 Beaverton City Library, Beaverton, OR Manchester Community Technical College, Manchester, CT 1999 Mount Mercy College, Busse Center, Cedar Rapids, IA 1998 Waikiki Aquarium, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 1997 University of Connecticut, Biology and Physics Building, Storrs, CT New McCormick Center, Chicago, IL 1996 Aichi-Prefecture, Sannomaru Multiple Use Building, Nagoya, Japan 1995 North Carolina State University, Graduate Engineering Center, Raleigh, NC Yamashita Hospital (Project 2), Ichinomiya, Japan The University of Texas at San Antonio, College of Business, San Antonio, TX 1994 Maishima Sports Arena, Osaka, Japan Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT 1993 Yamashita Hospital (Project 1), Ichinomiya, Japan Aquarium Station, Massachusetts Transportation Bureau, Boston, MA University of Akron, Polsky Building, Akron, OH 1991 Doubletree Alana Hotel, Honolulu, HI 1990 Arizona State University Plaza-West Campus, Phoenix, AZ Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Terminal Four, Phoenix, AZ 1985 The Detroit People Mover, Detroit, MI OPERA PRODUCTION DESIGN 2012 The Magic Flute, Opera Omaha, Omaha, NE 2012 The Magic Flute, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco, CA Madama Butterfly, Opera Carolina, Charlotte, NC 2011 Madama Butterfly, Opera Omaha, Omaha, NE 2010 Madama Butterfly, Opera Memphis, Memphis, TN Madama Butterfly, Vancouver Opera, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2009 Madama Butterfly, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 2008 Madama Butterfly, Madison Opera, Madison, WI Madama Butterfly, Atlanta Opera, Atlanta, GA Fidelio, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 2007 Madama Butterfly, Hawaii Opera Theater, Maui, HI Madama Butterfly, Hawaii Opera Theater, Honolulu, HI 2006 Madama Butterfly, Dayton Opera, Dayton, OH Madama Butterfly, Opera Omaha, Omaha, NE EXHIBITIONS SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2012 Jun Kaneko: Sculpture, Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL Jun Kaneko, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA Jun Kaneko Resume – May 2012 4 SOLO EXHIBITIONS continued ’12 cont Jun Kaneko, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Jun Kaneko, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2011 Jun Kaneko in the Round, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC Jun Kaneko, Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO Jun Kaneko: Solo, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Kaneko On Stage: An Exhibition of Jun Kaneko’s Opera Designs for Madama Butterfly, The Kaneko, Omaha, NE Jun Kaneko Altered and Transposed: Drawings for Madama Butterfly, Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, NE Outside Kaneko, Lauritzen Gardens Botanical Center, Omaha, NE Jun Kaneko, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada Jun Kaneko Ceramics, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA Jun Kaneko, An Exhibition of Sculptures, Paintings and Drawings, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2010 Jun Kaneko, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA Jun Kaneko, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA Jun Kaneko, Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Delray Beach, FL Jun Kaneko Bronze Heads, Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL Jun Kaneko, Rosemary Berkel and Harry L. Crisp II Museum, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO Jun Kaneko: Selected Work, Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS Jun Kaneko, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ Jun Kaneko – New Work, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA Jun Kaneko, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum and