Biography

KURIMOTO Natsuki was born in 1961 in Osaka, Japan. He lives and works in Tokyo.

(Associate Professor of Kyoto University of Arts, Department of craft)

Collections

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, U.S.A

Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA U.S.A

Victoria & Albert Museum, London, U.K.

Kyoto City University of Arts / Argentina Museum of Modern Art

Asia & Pacific Trade Center, Osaka / Awanosato Art Forum, Tokushima

Kyoto Prefecture / Sakura Art Museum, Osaka

Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi

Exhibitions

2011   PLAY/PRAY, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi

2009   SOFA NEW YORK, New York. U.S.A.

2009   DOMANI, The National Art Center, Tokyo

2008   Art and Antiques Dubai, Dubai, U.A.E.

2008   SOFA CHICAGO, Chicago, U.S.A.

2007   The International Asian Art Fair 2007, New York. U.S.A.

2007   The International Art and Design Fair, New York. U.S.A.

2006   The International Asian Art Fair, New York. U.S.A.

2006   ART SYDNEY 06″, Sydney, Australia.

2006   Japan & Korea Urushi exhibition, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo.

2006   Transfiguration: Japanese Art Jewelry Today, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

2006   Japanese Cool 2, Lesley Kehoe Galleries, Melbourne. Australia

2005   Japanese Cool, Lesley Kehoe Galleries, Melbourne, Australia

2004   New Urushi Forms – Three Lac quer Artists from Japan -, Museum of Craft & Folk Art, San Francisco, U.S.A.

2003   The Art of Japan-Tradition & Transformation-, Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, U.S.A.

2002   Exhibition of Japanese Art Featuring, Consulate of Japan, Australia

2000   Oxford Art Festival, Oxford , U.K.

2000   VISION, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi

1999   A Grand Design, Victoria & Albert Museum, London , U.K.

1997   International Art Exhibition A Inside, Kassel, Germany

1996   The vision of Contemporary Art, The Ueno Royal Museum

1995   Japanese Studio Crafts Tradition and the Avant-garde, Victoria & Albert Museum, London , U.K.

1994   Koshimizu, Kurimoto-Beyond the Sculpture, Form and Color, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Hyogo

1994   Japanese Design, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, U.S.A.

1986   Exhibition of the Suntory Prize’89, Suntory Museum, Tokyo