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Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024

Mineral Vein, Shibunkaku, Kyoto, Japan

2023

Darkness and Starlight, Nakacho Konishi, Tokyo, Japan

2022

Red Earth, Joan B Mirviss Ltd, New York, USA

2018

Into the Earth: The Clay Art of Ogawa Machiko, Joan B Mirviss Ltd, New York, USA

2017

Machiko Ogawa, Japan Art - Galerie Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt, Germany

Machiko Ogawa, Shibunkaku, Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan

2016

Machiko Ogawa, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK

2015

Machiko Ogawa: Crystals and Memories, Shibunkaku, Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan

2014

Lunar Fragments: Ceramic Sculpture of Ogawa Machiko, Joan B Mirviss Ltd, New York, USA

2013

Machiko Ogawa: Du temps cristallisé, Shibunkaku, Kyoto, Japan

2011

Machiko Ogawa: Archetypal Vessels, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan

2009

Fire and Ice: The Dynamic Clay Art of Ogawa Machiko, Joan B Mirviss Ltd, New York, USA

2002

Machiko Ogawa: Li2O • NaO • CaO • Al2O3 • SiO2 Breathing Bubbles, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura and Hayama, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Machiko Ogawa | Shihoko Fukumoto, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK

Art Basel, represented by Galerie Frank Elbaz, Basel, Switzerland

Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA (2023-24)

2023

Japanese Ceramics, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK

Small Works, Great Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK

International Ceramics, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK

Shiryū Morita / Machiko Ogawa, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France

Worlds in Balance: Art in Japan from the Postwar to the Present, Okura Shukokan Museum of Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan

Enamel and Body / Ceramics, Ginza Maison Hermès, Tokyo, Japan

2022

Ten Great Works, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK

Small Works, Great Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK

Toucher le feu: Femmes céramistes au Japon, Musée Guimet, Paris, France

2021

Small Works, Great Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK

MOMAT Collection Special: Masterpieces of Japanese Art from the End of the 19th Century to the Present, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

2020

Small Works, Great Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK

2019

Small Works, Great Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK

2018

New Forms, New Voices, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA

Primal Water: An Exhibition of Japanese Contemporary Art, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas, USA

2017

Twelve Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK

2016

International Ceramics, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK

Craft Arts: Innovation of "Tradition and Avant-Garde," and the Present Day, Crafts Gallery, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

Installations

2019

Time unearthed Q-2018, National Museum of Qatar, Doha, Qatar

Public Collections

Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, New York, USA

Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA

Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

Gitter-Yelen Collection, USA

Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, USA

Musée Guimet, Paris, France

Musée Tomo, Tokyo, Japan

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura and Hayama, Japan

Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan

Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, Japan

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, USA

Sōgetsu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan

Tokyo Opera City Art Foundation, Tokyo, Japan

Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA

Awards

2018

Gold Prize, The Japan Ceramic Society Award

2010

Award of Excellence, The 3rd Musée Tomo Award

2008

The 58th Minister of Education and Culture Award for Fine Arts

2001

The Japan Ceramic Society Award

1992

New Artist Encouragement Award of the Takashimaya Culture Trust Fund

Education

1972-75

Spent three and a half years learning local pottery-making techniques as a research assistant for her anthropologist husband in various parts of West Africa

1969-71

Studied Ceramics at l'École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d'Art, Paris, France

1969

Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan