EDUCATION and CAREER
1980 Graduated from Metal Casting Course, Department of Craft Design,
Kanazawa College of Art and Crafts, Kanazawa
1983-85 Studied at Tokyo Glass Art Institute, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture
1987 Invited Artist, Swedish Center Foundation Glass Workshop in Hokkaido
1993 Invited Artist, Ausglass Workshop, Canberra, Australia
1995-96 Studied in Europe, supported by Gotoh Memorial Foundation
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS and AWARDS
1986 The International Exhibition of Glass Craft ’86,
Industrial Gallery of Ishikawa Prefecture, Kanazawa, *Grand Prize, Asa Brandt Prize
1990 Glass Art ’90 at the Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture,
*Prize for Fine Work
1991 World Glass Now ’91, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, toured
to other cities, *Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art Prize
1992 Design Visions, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1993 Neues Glas in Japan, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany
1994 World Glass Now ’94, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, toured to other cities;
Glass Art Now Exhibition, Akita Senshu Museum of Art, Akita;
The Suntory Prize ’94, Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo;
5th Gotoh Memorial Prize, *Emerging Artist Prize
1996 The Suntory Prize ’96, Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo
1998 Glass Art in Our Time, Niigata City Art Museum
1999 2000 Years of Japanese Glass, Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo/Osaka
2000 Japanese Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition, Onoda Sunpark, Onoda, Yamaguchi Pref,
2001 Studio Glass, Himeji Ctiy Museum of Art, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,
Kanazawa Collections, Kanazawa Citizen’s Art Center
2002 Two Thousand Years of Light and Color: Painted Glass from Ancient Egypt
To Art Glass, Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo