Akemi Kawai Bizen ware／Okayama Prefecture

Biography

Grandson of Touko Konishi

Graduated from Musashino Art Junior College

Trained at Okayama Prefectural Industrial Research Institute Ceramic Center

Studied under Haruyama Kanai and Yoshiyuki Matsui

Exhibited at Ginza Matsuya, Odakyu, Tokyu, Yokohama Sogo, and other department stores.

Many solo exhibitions at Ginza Matsuya, Odakyu, Tokyu, Yokohama Sogo, and other department stores.

Group exhibitions of women's traditional crafts at Aoyama, Tokyo, Across Fukuoka, etc.

Awards

1978: Selected for the Women's Ceramic Art Exhibition, and 11 times since.

Selected for the Issuikai Ceramic Art Exhibition in 1980, and 8 times since.

1994: Selected for the Flower Vessels Exhibition, and seven times since then.

1995: Selected, Nissin Foods Menpachi Grand Prize Exhibition

1996 Grand Prize, Hana no Utsuwa Exhibition, and three times since then

1997: Not appraised at the Flower Utsuwa Exhibition

Invited to participate in the Tokyo Dome Tableware Festival National Exhibition of Selected Excellent Works by Artists

1998 Encouragement Prize, Women's Ceramic Art Exhibition

2009 Sosaikai Exhibition, Ishinomaki Mayor Prize

2010 Selected, 57th Japan Traditional Crafts Exhibition

Sosaikai Exhibition, Shusaku Prize, 2010

2011 Women's Ceramic Art Exhibition, Kyoto Governor Prize

2015 Expo '70 Milano, Italy, Supporting Exhibition

2008 Selected for exhibition at Salone del Mobile, Italy, Ranked 7/60 in the popularity vote

Selected, Design and Techniques of Contemporary Japanese Ceramics 2019, 2019

2023 Selected, Exhibition of Traditional Japanese Crafts, Chugoku Branch, Japan

2023 Selected, Exhibition of Japan Traditional Crafts, Ceramic Division, Japan

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