Aki Rusu
b. 1976
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2025 | Tosei Kyoto Gallery, Kyoto, Japan |
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| 2024 | Kochukyo, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2023 | Takashimaya, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2022 | Gallery Tougendo, Miyagi, Japan Gallery Meguro Ceramic Art Museum, Mie, Japan |
| 2021 | Kochukyo, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2020 | Takashimaya, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2019 | Gallery Tougendo, Miyagi, Japan Gallery Meguro Ceramic Art Museum, Mie, Japan |
| 2018 | Rusu Aki Special Exhibition within the Collection Exhibition Venue, Crafts Gallery, The National Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan Yakata Yūsai, Tokyo, Japan Takashimaya, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2017 | Contemporary Ceramics, Kandori, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2016 | Gallery Tougendo, Miyagi, Japan Gallery Okariya, Tokyo, Japan Gallery Meguro Ceramic Art Museum, Mie, Japan |
| 2015 | Takashimaya, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2014 | Kakiden Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Gallery Tougendo, Miyagi, Japan |
| 2013 | Gallery Okariya, Tokyo, Japan Gallery Meguro Ceramic Art Museum, Mie, Japan |
| 2012 | Sabi no Keshiki: Tea Room of Rusu Aki, Hagi Uragami Museum, Japan Gallery Tougendo, Miyagi, Japan |
| 2012 | Gallery Okariya, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2011 | Gallery Okariya, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2010 | Gallery Meguro Ceramic Art Museum, Mie, Japan |
| 2009 | Gallery Satsu, Tokyo, Japan Akasaka Inui Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2008 | Metal Art Museum Hikarinotani, Chiba, Japan |
| 2007 | Akasaka Inui Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2006 | Gallery Meguro Ceramic Art Museum, Mie, Japan |
| 2003 | Contemporary Art Niki, Tokyo, Japan |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2025 | Skin and Viscera: Self, World, and Time, Tainan Art Museum, Taiwan |
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| 2022 | Contemporary Metalwork: The metamorphosis of Metals, Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan |
| 2020 | Tansuiou Award Exhibition: Contemporary Japanese Metalwork, Sekido Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2019 | Museum Collection Exhibition, 20 Passions for Crafting Crafts, Crafts Gallery, The National Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan Art Miyagi 2019, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Japan The 21st Mokichi Okada Award Exhibition, MOA Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan |
| 2016 | Auspicious Celebration of Lives, Oita Prefectural Art Museum, Japan |
| 2014 | The 19th Mokichi Okada Award Exhibition, MOA Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan |
| 2009 | Pianissimo: Tanaka Migiwa and Rusu Aki — from the Winter Shore, Chigasaki City Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan |
| 2007 | The Crafts Gallery's 30th Anniversary Exhibition II, The Power of Crafts: Outlook for the 21st Century, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Contemporary Japanese Textiles and Metalworks: From Materials and Artistry to Forms, Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki, Japan |
| 2004 | Expanding Art Tsukuba 2004, Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki, Japan |
Selected Public Collections
Hagi Uragami Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan
Kikuchi Kanjitsu Memorial Tomo Museum, Tokyo, Japan
National Crafts Museum, Kanazawa, Japan
Takashimaya Archives, Osaka, Japan
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Selected Awards
| 2020 | International Kogei Award in Toyama Excellence Award |
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| 2017 | The 34th Satoh Artcraft Research & Scholarship Foundation Tansuiou Award, Grand Prize |
| 2016 | Contemporary Japanese Crafts The Kikuchi Kanjitsu Prize Ⅱ The 27th Takashimaya Art Prize |
| 2003 | The 11th Japan Contemporary Arts Encouragement Award, Japan Cultural Arts Foundation |
| 2001 | 21st Century Art Award 2001, Kumamoto Broadcasting Prize, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art |
Selected Art Fairs
| 2025 | Curation⇄Fair Art Kudan 2025, Kudan House, Tokyo, Japan Asia Week, New York, USA |
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| 2024 | Ko + Gei 2024, Tokyo Art Club, Japan Salon Art + Design, New York, USA Asia Week, New York, USA |
| 2021 | Kogei Art Fair Kanazawa 2021, Hyatt Centric Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan |