Artist Profile
japanese-lacquer
Kenta Toyoumi
Career
- 1988
- Born in Osaka
- 2007
- 2007 Graduated from Osaka Prefectural Tennoji High School
- 2013
- 2013 Graduated from Kanazawa College of Art, Department of Crafts
- 2015
- 2015 Completed Master's program in Arts and Crafts, Graduate School of Arts and Crafts, Kanazawa College of Art
- 2018
- 2018 Completed Doctoral program, Department of Arts and Crafts, Graduate School of Arts and Crafts, Kanazawa College of Art, Doctoral degree in Lacquerware
- 2018
- 2018 Full-time Lecturer, Department of Art, Koubungakuen Girls' High School (-2020)
- 2020
- 2020 Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop, Lacquer Craft Workshop, Expert (-Present)
Awards Received
- 2022
- Jury's Special Prize, The 5th Kanazawa World Crafts Triennial, Kanazawa, Japan
- 2021
- The 44th Kanazawa Lacquer Ware Exhibition, Ishikawa Products Association Chairman's Prize
- 2016
- Next Generation Crafts Exhibition 2016, Jury Prize, Shinseido Prize
Exhibition
- 2014
- Solo Exhibition "Someday" by Kenta Toyoumi, Galerie Tokyo Yumanite bis, Tokyo, Japan
- 2014
- The 1st CAF Award", TABLOID GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
- 2015
- Pioneering the Future of Lacquer Art: A Time of Renewal 2015, Wajima Lacquer Art Museum, Ishikawa, Japan
- 2015
- Solo Exhibition Kenta Toyoumi "Kai" Galerie Tokyo Yumanite Lab, Tokyo, Japan
- 2015
- Next Generation Craft Exhibition 2015, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
- 2016
- Solo Exhibition Kenta Toyoumi "Adam hated apples" morgenrot, Tokyo, Japan
- 2017
- Crystallizing Urushi - Essence of Urushi -," Mitsukoshi Department Store, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
- 2019
- Ute Mono - Jote - Exhibition," Shinseido, Tokyo, Japan
- 2020
- Solo Exhibition Kenta Toyoumi "Yu-en - Inherited Lacquer Bone", Yusai Museum, Tokyo, Japan
- 2021
- Art Fair Tokyo 2021," Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan
- 2021
- Concerto of Arts and Crafts - Taiwan and Kanazawa Arts and Crafts Exchange Exhibition," Tainan City Museum of Art, Taiwan
- 2021
- Kenta Toyoumi "When All the Sounds of the World Disappear," Galerie Tokyo Yumanite Tokyo, Japan
- 2022
- Art Fair Tokyo 2022, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan
- 2022
- The 5th Kanazawa World Craft Triennial 2022 Kanazawa World Craft Competition, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Civic Gallery A & B, Ishikawa, Japan