Artworks by Akio Takamori at Jeffrey Spahn Gallery on artnet

Akio Takamori

(Japanese, 1950–2017)

Akio Takamori

Seated Old Woman

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Akio Takamori

Seated Man in Yellow Robe

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Akio Takamori

Mother and Daughter

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Akio Takamori

Owl, 1985

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Biography

Timeline
Exhibitions

Timeline

1950 - 1960: Grew up in a small industrial town in Kyushu, in the south islands of Japan
1950: Born in Nobeoka, 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
: Fellowship at Keramisch Werkcentrum ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
: Fellowship at Keramisch Werkcentrum ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
1996: Associate Professor, School of Art, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2001: Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant, First Place, Evanston, IL
2003 - 2005: Hermine Pruzan Faculty Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
: Seattle Collects 2003 Purchase Award, City of Seattle, Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, Seattle, WA
2004: Professor of Art at the University of Washington in Seattle
: Currently living in Seattle, Washington
: Visual Artists Award, Flintridge Foundation, Pasadena, CA
2005: Brotman Award for Instructional Excellence, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2006: American Craft Council College of Fellows, New York, NY
: Hermine Pruzan Faculty Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
: 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)
: Transitions: 5 artists join Barry Friedman Ltd, Barry Friedman, Ltd, New York, NY
: Heads (dis)Embodied, Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA
: Art Chicago, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
: Maybe Yes, Maybe No, Harvey / Meadows Gallery, Aspen, CO
: Public Places, Private Spaces, Mesa Art Center, Mesa, AZ
: No Joke: Selections from the Pruzan Collection, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
: International Ceramics, Galerie Artworks, Antwerp, Belgium
: A Human Impulse: Figuration from the Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
: Akio Takamori: Figures in Clay, International Ceramic Studio, Kecskemet, Hungary (Solo)
: Akio Takamori: New Work, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (Solo)
: Man and Beast, Garth Clark Gallery, Long Island City, NY
: Idea of Man ll, Kunstforvm Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland
2007: Kanzan and Jittoku, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
: Northwest Figurative Clay Ceramics International, Turman Larison Contemporary, Helena, MT
: Black & White Red All Over, Michelle Mosko Fine Art, Denver, CO
: Diane and Sandy Besser Collection: A Gift to the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
: Shy Boy, She Devil and Isis: the Art of Conceptual Craft, Selections from the Wornick Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA*
: SOFA, New York 2006, New York, New York
: Human Form in Clay, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan (traveled to: The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Japan)
: A Ceramic Legacy: The Stephane Janssen and R. Michael Johns Collection, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
: 30 Ceramic Sculptors, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
: Poetic Expressions of Mortality: Figurative Ceramics from the Porter Price Collection, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
: Akio Takamori, Gallery Camion Real, Boca Raton, FL (Solo)
2006: Akio Takamori: The Laughing Monks, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (Solo)
: Process & Promise: Art, Education & Community at the 92nd Street Y, 92nd Street Y, New York, NY
2005: The Artful Teapot: 20th Century Expressions for the Kamm Collection, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
: Dual Vision: The Chazen Collection, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY (traveled to Elvehjem Museum, Madison, WI )
: The Figure in 20th Century Contemporary Ceramics, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
: Innocence, Garth Clark Gallery, New York (Solo)
: 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)
: Bare Clay, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
: Signature Vessel, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
: Double Vision, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Faculty Exhibition, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2004: Akio Takamori: New Work, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA (Solo)
: North American Ceramic Sculpture NOW, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA
: Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
: Seattle Collects: 2003 Award Winners, City Space, Seattle, WA
: Sleeping Figures, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (Solo)
: Now and Now, World Contemporary Ceramics 2nd Annual World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon World Ceramic Center, Gyeonggi Province, Korea
: Akio Takamori: Promotion to Full Professor Exhibition, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
: Shared Passion: Sara and David Lieberman Collection of Contemporary Ceramics and Crafts, Nelson Fine Art Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
: Clay Body: Claudia Fitch, Akio Takamori, Patti Warashina, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
: From the Neck Up, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
: Panopticon: An Art Spectacular, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
: Akio Takamori, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (Solo)
2003: Omnipotent, Garth Clark Gallery, New York (Solo)
: The Figure in Ceramics, Galley of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR
: The Perception of Appearance: A Decade of Contemporary American Figure Drawings, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
: The Erotic Life of Clay: A Group Exhibition of Contemporary and Historical Ceramics, San Francisco State University Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Visual Perspectives: 14 Years of the Virginia A. Groot Awards, Groot Foundation Space and SOFA at Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
: A Public Trust: Recent Acquisitions at the Museum of Art, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
: Postmodern Ceramics, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2002: Others and Self, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA (Solo)
: Clay Body Rhetoric: Ceramic Figures of Speech, Beach Museum of Art, Kansas University, Manhattan, KS
2001: Boat, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (Solo)
: Identities: Contemporary Portraiture, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
: Figuration in Clay: A Collection, McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
: Poetics of Clay, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
: Taking Measure: American Ceramic Art at the New Millennium, World Ceramic Exposition, Yoju, Korea
: Poetics of Clay: An International Perspective, Museum of Art and Design/Taideleollisuusmuseo, Helsinki, Finland
: 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)
: Ceramic National 2000: The 30th Ceramic National Exhibition, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (traveled to: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL)
: Artists Making Prints, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
: The Melba and Al Langman Collection, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
: Ensemble, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA (Solo)
2000: Akio Takamori: Figural Growth, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY (Solo)
: Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection, Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
1999: Akio Takamori: New Work, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA (Solo)
1998: Akio Takamori, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (Solo)
: Akio Takamori, Robert Else Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, CA (Solo)
1997: New Work, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY (Solo)
: Woman in Memories, Cohen/Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, MO (Solo)
1996: Master’s Touch: Akio Takamori, Tempe Arts Center, Tempe, AZ (Solo)
: New Work, European Work Center, ‘s-Hertogenbosh, Netherlands (Solo)
1994: Garth Clark Gallery, Kansas City (Solo)
: 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)
: 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)
: 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)
: Collections
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Carnegie Institute Art Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Kruithuis Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Microsoft Corporation Art Collection, Redmond, WA
Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The National Museum of History, Taipei, Republic of China
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Swiss Museum of Ceramics and Glass, Geneva, Switzerland
Hallmark Art Collection, Kansas City, MO
Museum of Contemporary Art, the Netherlands
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Republic of China
Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramic Research Center, Tempe, AZ
The Arkansas Arts Center Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AK
The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
George Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada
University of Washington, School of Law, Seattle, WA
University of Washington, Allen Center, Seattle, WA
Smithsonian Institute, Archives of American Art, New York, NY
Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT

Akio Takamori

(Japanese, 1950–2017)

Akio Takamori

Akio Takamori

Akio Takamori

Akio Takamori

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

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