Shozo Michikawa

SHOZO MICHIKAWA (b. 1953)

Shozo Michikawa was born in Hokkaido in 1953. He studied at Aoyama Gakuin University, from where he graduated in 1975. He lives and works in Seto, Aichi. He has exhibited widely in Japan and also in the Philippines, Mongolia, France, New York and London. In 2005 he was honoured with an exhibition at the Forbidden City in Beijing.

Though his techniques are diverse, Michikawa always strives to create ‘functional’ pieces. He writes "no matter how styles change I always insist on creating pieces that can actually be used. Pottery was originally an integral part of people's lives.”

Above: Shozo Michikawa preparing a charcoal firing

Curriculum Vitae.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
1995 1996 1997 2000 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009	Tobu Department Store Gallery, Tokyo Hiraya Gallery, Manila Hiraya Gallery, Manila Tokyu Department Store Gallery, Tokyo Hankyu Department Store Gallery, Osaka Mitsukoshi Department Store Gallery, Kurashiki Art Gallery, Ulan Bator, Mongolia Tobu Department Store Gallery, Tokyo Izukan Gallery Manila Matsuzakaya Department Store Gallery, Shizuoka Tobu Department Store Gallery, Tokyo Galerie Besson, London Izukan Gallery, Manila Forbidden City, Beijing Shandong Museum, Shandong, China Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, USA Puls Contemporary Ceramics, Brussels Tokyo Eizo Gallery, Tokyo Thirty Years, Thirty Pots, Galerie Besson, London Gallery Clara Scrimini, Paris Gallery hu, Nagoya Tokyo Eizo Gallery, Tokyo Art Gallery Oyama, Tokyo Nature into Art, Galerie Besson, London
Selected Group Exhibitions:
1996 1999 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2008 2009	101 Pitcher Exhibition, Terres de Provence, Paris Gallery Pots, Galerie Besson, London Accompaniments of Tea, Daiichi Gallery, New York Summer Exhibition, Galerie Besson, London Japanese Ceramics, Galerie Besson, London Maiden Bridge Exhibition, Maiden Bridge Farm, Lancaster Galerie Besson, SOFA Chicago Ceramica Mosaico, Ravenna Shozo Michikawa & Joy Brown, Signature Gallery Shop, Atlanta Japanese Crafts, Galerie Besson, London A Japanese Dialogue, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh Made to Think: Work by West Dean Tutors, Sussex Barn Gallery, England Twenty Years - Twenty Pots, Galerie Besson, London The Art of Japanese Craft: 1875 to the Present, Philiadelphia Museum of Art Soft Beauty of Traditional Shinos, Concord University, West Virginia
Workshops:
1996 1997 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009	Higham Hall, Cumbria Technical University of Philippines, Manila Mongolia Art College, Ulan Bator Technical University of Philippines, Manila Higham Hall, Cumbria University of Philippines, Diliman A Kiln Park for Cumbria, Penrith University of Philippines, Diliman Atelier Cirkel, Belgium Odyssey Center for the Ceramic Arts, Asheville, USA Higham Hall, Cumbria West Dean College, Sussex Higham Hall, Cumbria Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina West Dean College, Sussex Higham Hall, Cumbria Aberystwyth, Wales Atelier Cirkel, Belgium Keramik & Topferschule, Gordola, Switzerland West Dean College, Sussex Higham Hall, Cumbria
Awards and Distinctions:
1990 1991 1992 1994 2005	Kashiki Exhibition, Sapporo Design Competition, Seto The Bowl Exhibition, Tokyo Seikiokuero Craft Exhibition, Kyoto Ceramica Mosaico Exhibition, Ravenna, First Prize
Public Collections
Qinglingsi Temple, Xi'an, China China-Japan Exchange Center, Beijing, China Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA

Exhibitions at Galerie Besson

Shozo Michikawa: Nature into Art	8 Jul - 5 Aug 2009
Twenty Years - Twenty Pots	Sep - Oct 2008
Shozo Michikawa: Thirty Years, Thirty Pots	Sep 2007
Japanese Crafts	Sep 2006
Shozo Michikawa	Jul 2004
Japanese Ceramics	Jan - Feb 2004

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