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Fujita Toshiaki began working in lacquer when he was a student at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, because he was attracted by what he calls the mystery of urushi, the name of the natural resin from which lacquer is made. After various experiments, he began to create his signature layered forms. This involves the application of a finely ground fired clay mixed with urushi (a base cost known as jinoko) every day for two years. As these myriad layers dry, the forms increase in size and develop an organic quality as if they had grown naturally. These dark, irregular layered forms, with contrasting bright interiors of red lacquer or gold leaf, were immediately praised in Japanfs art world for their unique embodiments of the synthesized concepts of both the natural urushi tree and the beautiful lacquer art it produces.

1959 Born in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
1983 B.F.A. Department of URUSHI (Japanese Lacquer), Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1985 M.F.A. Department of URUSHI (Japanese Lacquer), Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
SOLO EXHIBITION

2003

Contemporary Art NIKI, Tokyo

2002

Minamigaoka Club Art Space, Karuizawa

1994

SIBUYA SEIBU Department Store Craft Gallery, Tokyo

1993

Gallery Isogaya, Tokyo

1989

SIBUYA SEIBU Department Store Craft Gallery, Tokyo

1987

SIBUYA SEIBU Department Store Craft Gallery, Tokyo

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2007 "URUSHI-Footstepas for Tomorrow", Silver Shell Kyobashi
Japan Month in Houston: Art Exhibition, contemporary Japanese Arts and Crafts
SOFA New York

2006@

Super extacy ( Kanagawa Prefectural Hall, Yokohama )
Japan & Korea Urushi arts exhibition ( Museam of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music )
From the Museum Collection : A History of Modern Crafts ( The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Craft Gallery )

2005@

gPossibility of the Urushi clayhExhibition ( Gallery Isogaya,Tokyo )

2004@

gSymbol of URUSHIh -Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music- Exhibition ( Nagano Prefecture, Hotaka. Gallery You-You )
gObjet d'art on the desk Ef04hExhibition ( NIKI GALLERY SATSU )
New Urushi Forms: Three Lacquer Artists from Japan ( Museum of Craft & Folk Art, San Francisco )

2003@

From the Museum Collection : A History of Modern Crafts ( The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Craft Gallery )
Contemporary Japanese Craft Artists, Exhibition ( Contemporary Art NIKI, Tokyo )

2002@

ASAHI MODERN CRAFT EXHIBITION ( HANKYU Department Store, Osaka )

2001@ International Crafts Competition ( Kanazawa, Ishikawa )
2000@ Japanese Contemporary Urushi Art Exhibition ( Jan Van Der Togt Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands )
1996@ Japan Contemporary Crafts, Exhibition ( International Relations from Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo )
JapanETaiwan Contemporary Urushi Art Exhibition ( Taipei MITSUKOSHI Department Store, Taiwan )
The World Urushi Arts Exhibition ( FUJITA VENTE MUSEUM, Tokyo )
1995@ The Craft Course Instructor's Exhibition ( Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music Museum )
gArt Works on the deskh Exhibition ( Contemporary Art NIKI, Tokyo )
1994@ gUrushi no Genzai- sei h( The Now Arts of Japanese Lacquer ) Exhibition ( Kanagawa Prefectural Hall, Yokohama )
1993 @Nuances in Lacquer-70 Years of Innovation ( The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Craft Gallery )
gArt Works on the desk h Exhibition ( IKEBUKURO SEIBU Department Store, Tokyo `'94 )
International Design Competition ( Kanazawa,Ishikawa )
1992@ International Contemporary Urushi Arts Exhibition ( Fukusyu Museum, China )
1988@ gURUSHI WORKS hExhibition ( SIBUYA SEIBU Department Store, Tokyo `'92 )
gThe Object on the deskh Exhibition ( SIBUYA SEIBU Department Store, Tokyo `'92 )
gUrushi Genzai-Ha h ( The Group of Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Artists)Exhibition ( Gallery Isogaya, Tokyo `'94 )
Contemporary Urushi Arts Exhibition ( Yokohama TAKASHIMAYA Department Store, Kanagawa )
1987@ Issei MIYAKE, ASYA Fashion Show, Installation ( Sougetsu Hall,Tokyo )
1986@ Urushi - New Wave i Hibiya City and Gallery Isogaya, Tokyoj
Contemporary Urushi Art Exhibition i Masuda Studio, Tokyoj
Lighting Object in The Noel Night ( SIBUYA SEIBU Department Store, Tokyo `'89 )
etc.
PUBLIC COLLECTION

The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo

Victoria & Alberts Museum, London, UK,

Japan Foundation

Toyota Municipal Museum of Art

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1990`2000

Lecturer at Urushi Department of Crafts, Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music, etc.

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