Akio Takamori (Japanese, –2017)

Timeline

1950
Born in Nobeoka, Japan
1950–1960
Grew up in a small industrial town in Kyushu, in the south islands of Japan
1974
Moved to the United States
1976
Earned B.F.A. under Ken Ferguson at the Kansas City Art Institute
1978
Earned M.F.A. from Alfred University
1986
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship Grant
1988
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship Grant
1992
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship Grant
1993
Associate Professor, School of Art, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1993
Fellowship at Keramisch Werkcentrum ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
1996
Associate Professor, School of Art, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1996
Fellowship at Keramisch Werkcentrum ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
2001
Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant, First Place, Evanston, IL
2004
Professor of Art at the University of Washington in Seattle
2004
Currently living in Seattle, Washington
2004
Visual Artists Award, Flintridge Foundation, Pasadena, CA
2003–2005
Hermine Pruzan Faculty Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2003–2005
Seattle Collects 2003 Purchase Award, City of Seattle, Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, Seattle, WA
2005
Brotman Award for Instructional Excellence, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2006
American Craft Council College of Fellows, New York, NY
2006
Hermine Pruzan Faculty Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2006
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
2007
Contemporary Northwest Art Award Finalist, Portland Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2008
Neddy Artist Fellowship, Tacoma Art Museum, Seattle, WA

Exhibitions

2012
People / Alphabet, Barry Friedman, Ltd, New York, NY
2009
Contemporary Craft Museum, New York (Solo)
2008
Alice / Venus, Barry Friedman, Ltd, New York, NY (Solo)
2008
Transitions: 5 artists join Barry Friedman Ltd, Barry Friedman, Ltd, New York, NY
2008
Heads (dis)Embodied, Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA
2008
Art Chicago, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008
Maybe Yes, Maybe No, Harvey / Meadows Gallery, Aspen, CO
2008
Public Places, Private Spaces, Mesa Art Center, Mesa, AZ
2008
No Joke: Selections from the Pruzan Collection, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
2008
International Ceramics, Galerie Artworks, Antwerp, Belgium
2008
A Human Impulse: Figuration from the Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
2007
Kanzan and Jittoku, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2007
Diane and Sandy Besser Collection: A Gift to the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2007
Black & White Red All Over, Michelle Mosko Fine Art, Denver, CO
2007
Northwest Figurative Clay Ceramics International, Turman Larison Contemporary, Helena, MT
2007
Shy Boy, She Devil and Isis: the Art of Conceptual Craft, Selections from the Wornick Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA*
2007
Idea of Man ll, Kunstforvm Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland
2007
Man and Beast, Garth Clark Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2007
Akio Takamori: New Work, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (Solo)
2007
Akio Takamori: Figures in Clay, International Ceramic Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary (Solo)
2006
Akio Takamori: The Laughing Monks, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (Solo)
2006
Akio Takamori, Gallery Camion Real, Boca Raton, FL (Solo)
2006
Poetic Expressions of Mortality: Figurative Ceramics from the Porter Price Collection, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
2006
Process & Promise: Art, Education & Community at the 92nd Street Y, 92nd Street Y, New York, NY
2006
30 Ceramic Sculptors, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
2006
SOFA, New York 2006, New York, New York
2006
A Ceramic Legacy: The Stephane Janssen and R. Michael Johns Collection, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2006
Human Form in Clay, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan (traveled to: The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Japan)
2005
The Artful Teapot: 20th Century Expressions for the Kamm Collection, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
2005
Dual Vision: The Chazen Collection, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY (traveled to Elvehjem Museum, Madison, WI )
2005
The Figure in 20th Century Contemporary Ceramics, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
2005
Innocence, Garth Clark Gallery, New York (Solo)
2005
Between Clouds of Memory, Akio Takamori, a Mid-Career Survey, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ*+ (traveled to: Marylhurst University, The Art Gym, Portland, OR (2006), Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA (2006), Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI (2007)) (Solo)
2004
Akio Takamori: New Work, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA (Solo)
2004
Bare Clay, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
2004
North American Ceramic Sculpture NOW, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA
2004
Seattle Collects: 2003 Award Winners, City Space, Seattle, WA
2004
Faculty Exhibition, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2004
Double Vision, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
2004
Signature Vessel, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
2004
Sleeping Figures, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (Solo)
2003
Omnipotent, Garth Clark Gallery, New York (Solo)
2003
Akio Takamori, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (Solo)
2003
From the Neck Up, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Panopticon: An Art Spectacular, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2003
Shared Passion: Sara and David Lieberman Collection of Contemporary Ceramics and Crafts, Nelson Fine Art Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2003
Clay Body: Claudia Fitch, Akio Takamori, Patti Warashina, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
2003
Now and Now, World Contemporary Ceramics 2nd Annual World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon World Ceramic Center, Gyeonggi Province, Korea
2003
Akio Takamori: Promotion to Full Professor Exhibition, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2002
Others and Self, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA (Solo)
2002
Postmodern Ceramics, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2002
A Public Trust: Recent Acquisitions at the Museum of Art, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2002
Clay Body Rhetoric: Ceramic Figures of Speech, Beach Museum of Art, Kansas University, Manhattan, KS
2002
The Erotic Life of Clay: A Group Exhibition of Contemporary and Historical Ceramics, San Francisco State University Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002
The Perception of Appearance: A Decade of Contemporary American Figure Drawings, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2002
Visual Perspectives: 14 Years of the Virginia A. Groot Awards, Groot Foundation Space and SOFA at Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
2002
The Figure in Ceramics, Galley of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR
2001
Boat, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (Solo)
2001
Identities: Contemporary Portraiture, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
2001
Figuration in Clay: A Collection, McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
2001
Poetics of Clay, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
2001
Taking Measure: American Ceramic Art at the New Millennium, World Ceramic Exposition, Yoju, Korea
2001
Poetics of Clay: An International Perspective, Museum of Art and Design/Taideleollisuusmuseo, Helsinki, Finland
2000
Akio Takamori: Figural Growth, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY (Solo)
2000
Ensemble, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA (Solo)
2000
Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection, Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
2000
Artists Making Prints, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2000
Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (traveled to: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO)
2000
Ceramic National 2000: The 30th Ceramic National Exhibition, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (traveled to: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL)
2000
The Melba and Al Langman Collection, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1999
Akio Takamori: New Work, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA (Solo)
1998
Akio Takamori, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (Solo)
1998
Akio Takamori, Robert Else Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, CA (Solo)
1997
New Work, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY (Solo)
1997
Woman in Memories, Cohen/Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, MO (Solo)
1996
Master’s Touch: Akio Takamori, Tempe Arts Center, Tempe, AZ (Solo)
1996
New Work, European Work Center, ‘s-Hertogenbosh, Netherlands (Solo)
1994
Garth Clark Gallery, Kansas City (Solo)
1994
Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles (Solo)
1993
Garth Clark Gallery, New York (Solo)
1992
Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles (Solo)
1991
Garth Clark Gallery, New York (Solo)
1990
Blue and White, Garth Clark Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (Solo)
1989
Garth Clark Gallery, New York (Solo)
1989
Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY (Solo)
1988
Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles (Solo)
1987
Garth Clark Gallery, New York (Solo)
1986
Garth Clark Gallery, New York (Solo)
1986
Esther Saks, Chicago (Solo)
1985
Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles (Solo)
1984
Garth Clark Gallery, New York (Solo)
1983
Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles (Solo)
1980
Himawari Gallery, Miyazaki, Japan (Solo)
English (US)

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