Artist Profile
japanese-lacquer
Shinya Yamamura
Career
- 1960
- Born in Chofu city, Tokyo
- 1986
- Graduated Kanazawa College of Art, Graduate School
Awards Received
- 1986
- Jewelry Category Award for Asahi Modern Craft Exhibition
- 1996
- Silver Prize for The International Lacquer Japan Design Competition 96 (current Ishikawa International Urushi Exhibition)
- 2006
- Lacquer Material Award for Craft Competition in Takaoka
- 2010
- Ishikawa Design Award
- 2019
- Ishikawa TV Award
Exhibition
- 1996
- 1996-2021 22 times at Takashimaya, Fukuya, IPPODO GALLERY NEW YORK, Gonza IPPODO Salon, Gallery Ten, SILVER SHELL, Exhibition space, Sanshundo Gallery, etc
- 2008
- Reviving Edo Cosmetic Tools--Itabeni Exhibition (Isetan Honten Beni Museum, Tokyo)
- 2012
- Art Crafting Towards the Future (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa)
- 2013
- International Symposium on Urushi (Buffalo University, USA)
- 2014
- Re Discovering Lacquer Exhibition (Portland Japanese Garden, USA)
- 2015
- Hokuriku Art Crafting Towards the Future (Wako Hall, Tokyo)
- 2015
- NY Art Crafting Towards the Future (Museum of Arts and Design, NY)
- 2016
- International Contemporary Urushi Art Exhibition (Ottchil Art Museum, South Korea)
- 2016
- RVALUE NIPPON PROJECT Exhibition (Panasonic Shiodome Museum, Tokyo)
- 2017
- "Essence of urushi" (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo)
- 2017
- "KOGEI Future Forward" Exhibition (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo)
- 2018
- Present Lacquer 2018 Exhibition (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo)
- 2018
- International Science Counsel, National Lacquer Invitation Exhibition in Keishu (Keishu, China)
- 2019
- Tainan Art Museum 1st Hall Exhibition "The Glory of Tainan"(Tainan Art Museum, Taiwan)
- 2020
- “Utsuwa” from Hokuriku (The Museum of Arts and Crafts Itami, Hyogo)
- 2020
- The power of the new Urushi Exhibition (Matsuzakaya Nagoya, Aichi)
- 2021
- Contemporary Lacquer Art Exhibition (Kanazawa Nakamura Memorial Museum)
- 2021
- Future of Industrial Beauty -- Material, Expression, Decoration Exhibition (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store, Tokyo)
- 【Public Collection】 Victoria & Albert Museum, National Gallery of Scotland, Los Angeles County Museum, Clark Center for Japanese Art, Seattle Art Museum, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology, Asia Gallery of Smithsonian Museum, The Walters Art Museum, TOFF Art Gallery, Fengyuan Museum of Lacquer Art, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Hiroshima City University, Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei Kobo, Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum, ISE Cultural Foundation