Artist Profile
glass
Hidenori Tsumori
Career
- 1986
- Born in Tokyo, Japan
- 2011
- Attended Public Glassmaking and Metalworking Facility's Glass Work Shop 2011 (Lecturer: Yosuke Tsusaka)
- 2012
- Graduated Tama Art University; Department of Ceramic, Glass, and Metal Works; Glass Program
- 2012
- Attended Pilchuck Glass School Summer Program (Lecturer: De La Torre Brothers)
- 2014
- Graduated Toyama City Institute of Glass Art; Glass Certification Studies Program
- 2017
- Graduated Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei Kobo
- 2017
- Started working as assistant for Toyama City Institute of Glass Art
Awards Received
- 2013
- Award of Excellence / Kitanippon Shimbun Award for Bi no Saiten, Ecchu Art Festival 2013, Three Dimensional Category
- 2014
- Award of Excellence for Toyama City Institute of Glass Art's Graduation Work Exhibition 2014
- 2015
- Hokkoku Shimbun President Award for 71st Kanagawa City Craft Exhibition
- 2015
- Miwa Judge Award for 6th Sanyo Onoda Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition
- 2015
- Selected for Meijer x Shigaraki Award Competition, Tradition and Innovation, Japanese Ceramics Now
- 2015
- TV Kanazawa President Award for 30th Contemporary Arts and Crafts of Ishikawa
- 2016
- Studio Award for Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei Kobo's Trainee Exhibition
- 2016
- Silver Prize for the International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa 2016
- 2016
- Public Collection at The World War II Museum , America, Boston
- 2017
- Judge Ronald T. Labaco Special Award for the 3rd Triennale of Kogei in Kanazawa
- 2017
- Mayor of Kanazawa Encouragement Award for the 73rd Kanazawa City Craft Exhibition
- 2017
- Selected for International Ceramics Festival '17 Mino , Japan
- 2018
- Silver Prize for Toyama International Glass Exhibition 2018
- 2018
- Kuroki Prize Award for Glass '18 in Japan
- 2019
- Grand Prize for The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa 2019
- 2019
- Horvitz Collection , America
- 2020
- Public Collection at Notojima Glass Art Museum , Japan
Exhibition
- 2014
- Hidenori Tsumori Exhibition at Gallery Q (Tokyo)
- 2015
- Hidenori Tsumori Glass Exhibition -- Konseki no Katachi -- at Ishikawa International Salon (Ishikawa)
- 2016
- "Remains of the Day ---- Hidenori Tsumori" @ Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo
- 2018
- ”Glass Artists from Hokuriku Diversifying Glass Art", Toyama Glass Art Museum / Toyama
- 2019
- "Art Miamir 2019, ’18" Yufuku Gallery, America
- 2020
- "TEFAF Maastricht 2020, ’19, ’18" Yufuku Gallery, Netherlands
From the owner
Tsumori's original work is created by mixing soil and glass. I listened to the story once. As he continued to make glass works, he said he had researched the materials, saying, "I'm tired of shining ... Is there any other expression?" As a result of considerable trial and error, they arrived at a mixture with soil. Strictly measure the soil and glass and mix.
Is it only me that his work feels like a firm discipline, even though it is an original material and shape?
Those who see his work may discover the free parts within him and the core of his incessant self.