Shozo Michikawa
b. 1953
Solo Exhibitions
| 2023 | Shozo Michikawa, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Tazutazushi: Peering beyond the tradition, Sokyo Atsumi, Tokyo, Japan |
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| 2022 | Shozo Michikawa: Haiku in Clay, Silverlens, Manila, Philippines Shozo Michikawa, Sokyo Lisbon, Portugal |
| 2021 | Shozo Michikawa (online only), Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Shozo Michikawa, Hostler Burrows, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2020 | Shozo Michikawa: Sasama, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK |
| 2019 | Power of Passion, Galerie Hu, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Shozo Michikawa, Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2018 | 40ans de Shozo Michikawa, Mizen Fine Art International, Paris, France 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt, Germany 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Officine Saffi, Milan, Italy |
| 2017 | Forty Years, Forty Pots, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Shozo Michikawa, Lacoste Gallery, Concord, USA Nature into Art, Silverlens Gallery, Manila, Philippines |
| 2016 | Nature into Art, Di Legno Gallery, Singapore Shozo Michikawa, Galerie Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt, Germany Shozo Michikawa Cerámica Contemporánea, Centro Cultural, Corporación Cultural Las Condes, Santiago, Chile Shozo Michikawa, Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza, Italy Nature into Art, Seto Ceramics and Glass Art Center, Seto, Japan |
| 2015 | Shozo Michikawa: The Forbidden City, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Ballades en Terres, Mizen Fine Art, Paris, France Shozo Michikawa, Puls Contemporary Ceramics, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2014 | Shozo Michikawa, Galerie Friedrich Müller, Frankfurt, Germany Shozo Michikawa, Hélène Aziza, Paris, France Nature into Art, Gallery Hu, Nagoya, Japan |
| 2013 | Shozo Michikawa, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Shozo Michikawa, Peter Kummermann, Geneva, Switzerland Shozo Michikawa, Nihonbashi Mitukoshi Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2012 | Shozo Michikawa, Galerie Hélène Porée, Paris, France Nature into Art, Materia, Quebec, Canada |
| 2011 | Shozo Michikawa, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Shozo Michikawa, Puls Contemporary Ceramics, Brussels, Belgium The Nature of Clay, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, USA Shozo Michikawa, Terre Rossa, Leipzig, Germany Nature into Art, Gallery Hu, Nagoya, Japan |
| 2009 | Nature into Art, Galerie Besson, London, UK Shozo Michikawa, Art Gallery Oyama, Osaka, Japan |
| 2008 | Shozo Michikawa, Gallery Hu, Nagoya, Japan Shozo Michikawa, Clara Scremini Gallery, Paris, France |
| 2007 | Thirty Years, Thirty Pots, Galerie Besson, London, UK Thirty Years, Thirty Pots, Izukan Gallery, Manila, Philippines Shozo Michikawa, Tokyo Eizo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2006 | Shozo Michikawa, Puls Contemporary Ceramics, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2005 | Shozo Michikawa, Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, USA Returning to Nature's Simplicity and Truth, Shandong Museum, Shandong, China Returning to Nature's Simplicity and Truth, Forbidden City, Beijing, China Shozo Michikawa, Izukan Gallery, Manila, Philippines Shozo Michikawa, Wa-noi, Shizuoka, Japan |
| 2004 | Shozo Michikawa, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 2003 | Shozo Michikawa, Tobu Department Store Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Shozo Michikawa, Matsuzakaya Department Store Gallery, Shizuoka, Japan Shozo Michikawa, Izukan Gallery, Manila, Philippines |
| 2001 | Shozo Michikawa, Tobu Department Store Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Shozo Michikawa, Ulaanbaatar Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia |
| 2000 | Shozo Michikawa, Mitsukoshi Department Store Gallery, Kurashiki, Japan Shozo Michikawa, Tobu Department Store Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1997 | Shozo Michikawa, Tobu Department Store Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Shozo Michikawa, Hiraya Gallery, Manila, Philippines |
| 1996 | Shozo Michikawa, Hiraya Gallery, Manila, Philippines |
| 1995 | Shozo Michikawa, Hankyu Department Store Gallery, Osaka, Japan |
Group Exhibitions
| 2023 | International Ceramics, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Small Works, Great Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Japanese Ceramics, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Fog Design + Art, San Francisco Art Fair Philippines, represented by Silverlens Gallery New Collection, Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, Japan The Root Collection, Minneapolis Institute of Art, USA Frieze Masters, London, represented by Guild Gallery in New York Wood-Fired Ceramics, Japan Art, Frankfurt, Germany |
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| 2022 | Small Works, Great Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Fog Design + Art, San Francisco, USA TEFAF New York, represented by Hostler Burrows, USA Art Basel, represented by Taka Ishi Gallery, Switzerland New York Salon Art + Design, represented by Hostler Burrows, USA |
| 2021 | Small Works, Great Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Tougei no Shias, Mosaic Tile Museum, Tajimi, Japan Art Basel, Hong Kong, represented by Taka Ishi Gallery Design Miami/Basel, represented by Pierre Marie Giraud Céramique Japonaise, La Borne, France |
| 2020 | NOMAD (represented by Officine Saffi), St. Moritz, Switzerland Main Dishes, Officine Saffi, Milan, Italy Bienal Internacional de Cerámica de Marratxí, Marratxí, Spain |
| 2019 | Manpower, Shozo Michikawa and Hans Vangsø, A Petersen Collection & Craft, Copenhagen, Denmark Design Miami, Pierre Marie Giraud, Miami, USA Design Basel, Pierre Marie Giraud, Basel, Switzerland TEFAF, Pierre Marie Giraud, Maastricht, The Netherlands Art Fair Tokyo, Sokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2018 | 60th Edition of the Faenza Prize, MIC in Faenza, Italy About a Vase, Museo Montelupo, Italy Nihon Now, Galerie Du Don, Le Fel, France Modern Masters, Munich, Germany Masterpieces - 400 Years of Japanese Ceramics, Höganäs, Sweden |
| 2017 | Design Basel, Pierre Marie Giraud, Basel, Switzerland Art Fair, Silverlens Gallery, Manila, Philippines Love and Violence, Mizen Fine Arts, Padova City Museum, Padova, Italy |
| 2016 | Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, Officine Saffi, Milan, Italy Singapore Contemporary Art Show, Di Legno, Singapore |
| 2015 | International Ceramics, Shimada City Museum, Shimada, Japan International Ceramics, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK |
| 2014 | Artceram, Sèvres, France Japanese Ceramics, Erskine Hall & Coe, London, UK The Tea Bowl Show, The Oxford Ceramics Gallery, Oxford, UK ICC Delhi 2014 Art Fair, Delhi, India |
| 2012 | International trade fair, Modern masters, Munich, Germany The World in a Cup, NCECA, Seattle, USA SOFA, Erskine, Hall & Coe, New York, USA COLLECT, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK Han Hyang Lim Onggi Museum, Heyri, Korea |
| 2011 | Pots from Seven Countries, Galerie Besson, London, UK Art of Pacific Asia Show, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, USA International Ceramics Exhibition, Sasama, Japan |
| 2010 | SOFA, Galerie Besson, New York, USA COLLECT, Galerie Besson, London, UK Pots & Paper, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany Summer Exhibition, Galerie Besson, London, UK Keramicos Collection, Harlem, The Netherlands |
| 2009 | The Art of Japanese Craft 1870 to the Present, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA Soft Beauty of Traditional Shino, Concord University, Athens, West Virginia, USA SOFA, Galerie Besson, Chicago, USA |
| 2008 | A Japanese Dialogue, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, UK Tutor Exhibition, Sussex Barn Gallery, Chichester, UK The Great North Art Show, Ripon, UK Twenty Years, Twenty Pots, Galerie Besson, London, UK International Ceramics, Giroussens, France SOFA, Galerie Besson, New York, USA |
| 2006 | Japanese Crafts, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 2005 | Ceramica Mosaico, Ravenna, Italy Summer Exhibition, Galerie Besson, London, UK The Signature Shop & Gallery (with Joy Brown), Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| 2004 | Maiden Bridge Exhibition, Maiden Bridge Farm, Lancaster, UK Japanese Ceramics, Galerie Besson, London, UK SOFA, Galerie Besson, Chicago, USA |
| 2003 | Summer Exhibition, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 2002 | Accompaniments of Tea, Daiichi Gallery, New York, USA |
| 1999 | Gallery Pots, Galerie Besson, London, UK |
| 1996 | 101 Pitcher Exhibition, Terres de Provence, Paris, France |
Public Collections
Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, California, USA
China-Japan Exchange Center, Beijing, China
Crocker Art Museum, California, USA
Faenza International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy
Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, Ibaraki, Japan
Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, European Museum of Modern Glass, Coburg, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, USA
Musée Cernuschi, Paris, France
Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza, Italy
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Lyon, France
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA
Qinglingsi Temple, Xi’an, China
Shimada City Museum, Shimada, Japan
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Worchester Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA
Selected Workshops
| 2022 | Workshop, Lehmhuus, Basel, Switzerland Workshop, Cordes sur Ciel, France Workshop, Prometer, France Workshop, Barclays, Los Angeles, USA Lecture and Demonstration, Portland Art Museum, USA Workshop, Clay College, Stoke-on-Trent, UK Lecture and Demonstration, Minneapolis Institute of Art, USA |
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| 2021 | Lecture and Demonstration, Japan Foundation, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2020 | Israeli Ceramic Symposium, Jerusalem, Israel |
| 2019 | West Dean College, Chichester, UK (each year since 2007) |
| 2017 | Lecture at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK Lecture at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA Art Director of the International Ceramic Art Festival Sasama (ICAF), Shizuoka, Japan |
| 2016 | Workshop at Oxford University, Oxford, UK |
| 2015 | Art Director of the International Ceramic Art Festival Sasama (ICAF), Shizuoka, Japan |
| 2013 | Art Director of the International Ceramic Art Festival Sasama (ICAF), Shizuoka, Japan |
| 2012 | Higham Hall, Cumbria, UK (each year since 2003) |
| 2011 | Art Director of the International Ceramic Art Festival Sasama (ICAF), Shizuoka, Japan MMAQ, Quebec, Canada Ceramique dela Gare, France Keramik-und Topferschule, Gordola, Switzerland Glencairn Pottery, Ireland Wood-fired Workshop, North Carolina Ecole Prometer, France Atelier Circle 2, Brasschaat, Belgium |
| 2010 | Keramik-und Topferschule, Gordola, Switzerland Werk Shule, Oldenburg, Germany Keramicos, Netherlands Kigbeare, Devon Ecole Prometer, France |
| 2009 | Keramik-und Topferschule, Gordola, Switzerland International Ceramics Festival, Aberystwyth |
| 2007 | Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina, USA |
| 2005 | Odyssey Center for the Ceramic Arts, Asheville, USA Atelier Cirkel, Belgium University of Philippines, Diliman |
| 2004 | A Kiln Park for Cumbria, Penrith University of Philippines, Diliman |
| 2003 | Technical University of Philippines, Manila |
| 2001 | Mongolia Art College, Ulan Bator |
| 1997 | Technical University of Philippines, Manila |
| 1996 | Higham Hall, Cumbria, UK |
Shozo Michikawa has held workshops all over the world including those in Belgium, France, Ireland, Hungary, Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Chile, the USA, Canada, the Philippines, Indonesia, Mongolia, South Korea and Singapore. |
Awards & Distinctions
| 2022 | Encouragement Public, Paris, France |
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| 2019 | Finalist, LOEWE Craft Prize, LOEWE Foundation, Spain |
| 2018 | Gold Medal, International Craft Fair, Munich, Germany Selected for inclusion within the special exhibition, Ceramics Now: The Faenza Prize is 80 Years Old, International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Faenza, Italy |
| 2005 | First Prize, Ceramica Mosaico Exhibition, Ravenna, Italy |
| 1991 | Shinpei Asai Prize, Design Forum in Seto, Seto, Japan |