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Naomi Shioya

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I began making my cast work when I was in France. I could only make my work of blown glass until then. Before that time I felt that making beautiful glass was vain work.I began making my cast work when I was in France. I could only make my work of blown glass until then. Before that time I felt that making beautiful glass was vain work.

During one year I made poems instead of glass. Then suddenly my poems had glass-like form and color. While I was in Marseilles, France, I made twenty pieces, and continued to write poems. After the travel, I wrote new poems in Japan while I was making the rest of the work. During this time I showed sixteen new pieces that I made while thinking the moon was in exile after the travel.

Artist Statement
Naomi Shioya

BORN

1961 Tokyo, Japan

EDUCATION

1985 Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan, Completed Graduate School

1984 Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan, Graduated from Glass Class <

EXPERIENCE

1996-current Shioya Studio, Ibaraki, Japan

1993-1995 Glassblower for C.I.R.V.A. France

1990-1993 Shioya Studio, Shiga, Japan

1986-1990 Shioya Studio, Tokyo, Japan

AWARDS

2003 Koganezaki Exhibition of Contemporary Glass, Japan, Honorable Mention

2001 The 3rd Contemporary Glass Exhibition in Satsuma, award winner
Onoda Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition, award winner

EXHIBITIONS (selected)

2003 Hakkaido Museum, Sapporo, Japan, Outspoken Glass

2002 Chappell Gallery, New York, USA Contemporary Glass Sculpture from Japan
SOFA, Chicago and New York, Chappell Gallery
Solo Exhibition, Chappell Gallery, New York, USA

2001-2002 Harvard University, Mather House Four Artists and the Landscape

2001 Chappell Gallery, Boston, MA, USA Variations on Traditions New Glass Sculpture from Japan Gallery Nakama, Tokyo , Japan Glass Artists of Japan Chappell Gallery, Boston, MA, USA Naomi Shioya and Osamu Noda

2000 Solo Exhibition, Chappell Gallery, New York, USA

1999 Solo Exhibition, Gallery Shun, Tokyo, Japan Chappell Gallery, Boston, MA, USA New Work

1995 Solo Exhibition, Gallery Hyaline, Marseille, France

1994 World Glass Now, 1994 Japan

1993 Solo Exhibition, Gallery Nakama, Tokyo, Japan

1991 World Glass Now, 1991 Japan

1989 Solo Exhibition, SEIBU Craft Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1988 MASP, Brazil Art Glass in Japan Exhibition, Akamatu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1987 Heller Gallery, New York, NY, USA Japanese Studio Glass Solo Exhibition, SEIBU Craft Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1986 SM Gallery, Germany, New Glass in Japan

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan C.I.R.V.A. Marseille, France

BIBLIOGRAPHY (selected)

2003 International Art Glass, Richard Wilfred Yelle, Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Outspoken Glass (catalog) Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan

2001 Glass Magazine #82 (Spring ’01) Review of Naomi Shioya & Osamu Noda at the Chappell Gallery

1988 New Glass Review (Corning Museum of Glass) Issue: 9 (1988), 10 (’89),11 (’90),15 (’97), 17 (2002)

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