MATSUSHIMA Sakurako
present | Professor, Utsunomiya University |
1997-95 | Post-graduate study: Central Art and Craft Academy, Chinese Art and Crafts Department |
1992-1 | Post-graduate study: Tokyo University of the Arts, Metal Chasing Department |
1991 | M.F.A., Tokyo University of the Arts, Japanese Lacquer Department |
1989 | B.F.A., Tokyo University of the Arts, Japanese Lacquer Department |
1965 | Born in Tokyo |
Solo Exhibitions
2018 | The Nature of Urushi, Keiko Art International |
2015 | Yakata Yusai, Tokyo, |
2012 | Gallery Pousse, Tokyo, (’08, ’03, ’00, ’98, ’95, ‘93) |
2009 | Gallery Kunugi, Tokyo |
2007 | Arai Atlier & Gallery, Tokyo |
1992 | nfomuse, Tokyo |
Group Exhibitions
2018 | Urushi no Genzai (Japanese Lacquer at Present) 2018, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo |
2017 | Hard Bodies: Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Sculpture, Minneapolis Institute of Art, U.S.A. |
2016 | Craft Arts: Innovation of "Tradition and Avant - Garde," and the Present Day, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo |
2015 | Dialogue with Materials: Contemporary Japanese Arts an Crafts, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey |
2014 | Dialogue with Materials: Contemporary Japanese Arts an Crafts, Ahmed Adnen Saygun Sanat Merkezi, Izmir, Turkey
The 60th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between Myanmar and Japan “Japan-Myanmar Lacquer Art Exhibition” Commemorating 60 Years Friendship and 10 Years Exchange Program |
2012 | New Vibrance in International Woman’s Urushi Art, Tokyo, Kyoto, Fukushima |
2010 | Urushi Art Festival, Special Exhibition, Urushi no Chikara, Fukushima Prefectual Museum International Womans Lacquer Art Exhibition in Beijing |
2006 | Super Ecstacy, Kanagawa Prefectual Gallery, Yokoham Japan & Korea Urushi Arts Exhibition, The University Art Museum, Tokyo National University of the Arts Transfiguration: Japanese Art Jewelry Today. The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo |
2004 | New Urushi Forms: Three Lacquer Artists from Japan. Museum of Craft and Folk Art San Francisco, USA |
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA.
- Hiroshima City University, HIroshima
- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, U.S.A.
- Four Seasons Hotel Lion Palace, St Petersburg, Russia
- Japan’s Urushi Art and its Current State Urushi Works in Myanmar, Catalogue of Resonant Uruwashi 2012
- Urushi Works in Myanmar
- Resonant Uruwashi: New Vibrance in International Women’s Urushi Art」 Kim Schuefftan, KEBANA International, Vol.57 Issue.3 pp.50-59, 2013