Ken Matsuzaki Biography

2018
Solo Exhibition at, Kanoya Gallery, Mashiko
Solo Exhibition at, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store,Tokyo
Solo Exhibition. atPucker Gallery.Boston.MA
Solo exhibition at Goldmark Gallery .Uppingham.Rutland.UK

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2017
Solo Exhibition at, Kanoya Gallery, Mashiko
Solo Exhibition at, Yamani Ootsuka Gallery Midori, Mashiko
Presents “Five Mashiko Potters”, England
Workshop, Clay College Stoke, England
Participates in “Enjoy Sake and Pottery”, Aoki Gallery, Utsunomiya, Tochigi

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2016
Workshop, Centro De Arte Curaumilla, Chile
Establishment of Ken Matsuzaki Scholarship Program in Chile
Solo Exhibition at, Kanoya Gallery, Mashiko
Solo Exhibition at, Yamani Ootsuka Gallery Midori, Mashiko

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2015
Solo Exhibition, Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store,Tokyo

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2013
Solo exhibition at Goldmark Gallery .Uppingham.Rutland.UK
Big Vase exhibition at Aoki Gallery. Utsunomiya .Tochigi Japan
Workshop：　Hui No’eau Visual Arts Center　　Maui
　　　　　　　　　 Workshop：　Donkey Mill Art Center Hawaii I

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2012
Solo exhibition at Aoki Gallery. Utsunomiya .tochigi Japan
Big Platter exhibition at Aoki Gallery. Utsunomiya .tochigi Japan

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2011
Solo exhibition at Goldmark Gallery .Uppingham.Rutland.UK

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2010
Exploring the Exquisite exhibition.Pucker Gallery.Boston.MA

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2009
Solo exhibition at Goldmark Gallery .Uppingham.Rutland.UK
Elemental Ken Matsuzaki-PotterDVDproduced.A Goldmark Film

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2008
Burning Tradition Exhibition.Pucker Gallery.Boston.MA

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2007
Thirty Years of a living Tradition Exhibition.Goldmark Gallery.Uppinbham Rutland.UK

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2006
Transformation and Use exhibition.Pucker Gallery.Boston.MA

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2005
Solo exhibition.Ruthin Craft Center.Wales.UK
Internatioal Ceramics Festival aberyswyth.Wales.UK
Solo exhibition.Rufford Gallery Nottinghamshire.England

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2004
Elemenral Force exhibition. Pucker Gallery.Boston.MA

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2003
Turning Point:Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan exhibition.Metropolitan
Museum of Art.New York.NY

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2002
Tradition Today exhibition Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA

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2001
Japan Exhibition at Rufford 2001, Rufford Gallery, Nottinghamshire, England

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1995
Group Exhibition , Gallery Dai Ichi Arts, New York.
Six Master Potters of the Modern Age Exhibition, Babcock Gallery, New York,

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1993
Modern Japanese Ceramics Exhibition, Elysium Art, New York

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1986
Became a full member of the Kokugakai Arts Association

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1984
Received the Associate Members Award from Kokugakai Arts Association, Prize of Excellence

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1980
Received the Kokugakai Arts Association Nojima Award.1982 Became an associate member of the Kokugakai Arts Association.

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1979
Solo exhibition at Hankyu depaetment stores.Osaka. (Afterward every year)

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1978
Solo exhibition at Keio depaetment stores.Tokyo (Afterward every year)

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1977
Built a kiln and established a workshop in Mashiko, where he presently lives.

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1972
Graduated from Tamagawa University, School of Fine Arts, Tokyo, Ceramic Art major.
Began a pottery apprenticeship with Tatsuzo Shimaoka, Mashiko (Tochigi Prefecture).

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1950
Born in Tokyo, the third son of Nihoga Painter Matsuzaki Shuki.

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Exhibition in japan
Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store,Tokyo
Hankyu Department Store, Osaka
Keio Department Store, Tokyo
Takashimaya Department Store, Yokohama
Fukuya Department Store. Hiroshima
Group exhibitions with Tatsuzo Shimaoka
Matsuzaki Family Exhibitions with father and 2 brothers (Painting, Ceramics, Lacquer Ware)

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Museum Collections
Cleveland Museum of Art.Cleveland.OH
Israel Museum,Jerusalem.Israel
Metrepolitan Museum of Art.New York.NY
Museum of Fine Arts.Boston.MA
Peabody Essex Museum.Salem.MA
Sackler Museum of Art.Harvard University.Cambridge.MA
Tikotin Museum.Haifa.Israel
Victoria and Albert Museum.London.Enbland

Tochigi Prefctural Museum of Fine Arts. Tchigi.JAPAN
Mashiko Museum of Cerami Art .Tchigi.JAPAN