Works
Education & Teaching (Selected)
| 2008 | Rhode Island School of Design, Master of Fine Art in Glass, Rhode Island USA |
| 2004 | International Summer Academy of Fine Art, Diploma, Public Interventions by Alfredo Jaar, Salzburg, Austria |
| 2001 | Tama Art University, Master of Fine Art in Glass, Tokyo Japan |
| 1999 | Tama Art University, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Glass, Tokyo Japan |
Awards / Grants (Selected)
| 2021 | Interlude, Artist in Residency, Livingston, New York (COVID-19-postponed) Washington Award Alumni Grant, Washington, DC |
| 2020 | Research reassignment, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA |
| 2017 | Vermont Studio Center, Residency, Johnson, VT, USA Toast Faculty Research Grant, Craft Material Studies department, VCUArt, Richmond VA, USA |
| 2015 | Harvestworks' 2015 New Works Residency, NY, USA |
| 2013 | Excellence Prize (juried competition from 570 artists), Song Eun Art Space, Seoul, Korea |
| 2012 | Wind challenge Juried Exhibition, The Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| 2010 | Fellow Program for The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| 2008 | The S&R Washington Award, Maryland, USA |
| 2004 | Fellow Program for International Research Center for Art, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto Japan Hayward Prize for Fine Arts 2004, American Austrian Foundation, New York, USA |
| 2003 | Honor Student, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, USA |
| 2002-2003 | Award of Excellence 1 & 2 (juried graduate competition), Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, USA |
| 1998-2001 | Japanese Government Full Scholarship, Monbushou, Tokyo, Japan |
Exhibitions (Selected)
| 2021 | iglass2021，LEVANT ART Gallery, Shanghai, China The Voice of Glass, The Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga |
| 2020 | The Singularity Is Near, Gallery Su:, Seoul Korea |
| 2019 | The Senses; Breath between Excess and Deficiency, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea New Glass Now, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY USA Beyond the Shadows, Chimei Museum, Tainan City, Taiwan |
| 2018 | OBUMBRO. Shadow World Video Game, Museum Ulm, Germany Sound and Vision, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA FILE Rio de Janeiro - Disruptiva, CCBB cultural center - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 2017 | In Consequence of Everything, Random Access Gallery, Syracuse University, NY, USA The Arts Commission’s Momentum Juried Competition and Exhibition, Toledo OH, USA Not your ordinary art storage, Song Eun Art Space, Seoul, Korea The Sound of Things, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft , Houston, TX, USA |
| 2016 | Hyperopia Projects Exhibition, Glazenhuis, Lommel, Belgium |
| 2015 | Meeting Point, Korean Cultural Center, Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Washington DC, USA Tama Art University Glass Works, Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan Singapore Open Media Art Festival, Future Perfact Gallery, SingaporeArtField Competition Exhibition at The R.O.B., Lake City, SU, USA Space Jam, FAB Gallery, VCUart, Richmond, VA, USA Amalgam, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, USA |
| 2014 | Capital One Asian Heritage Exhibition, Richmond, VA,USA Glass Unpolished: Explorations of Time, Nature and Technology, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA, USA Glass Unpolished: Explorations of Time, Nature and Technology, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA, USA Supercool Glass, Shelburne Museum, Vermont, USA |
| 2013 | Grand Point Weird, Burlington, Vermont, USA 5th Session Haystack Faculty Exhibition, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine, USA Playing with Fire: 50 Years of Contemporary Glass, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, USA Pulse, Galerie Duchamp, Yvetot, France |
| 2012 | 12th Song Eun Art Award Exhibition, Song Eun Art Space, Seoul, Korea Derecho, FAB Gallery in Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA Sons et respirations, Collection Gallery, Paris, France Wind Challenge 1, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 40 under 40: Craft Futures, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, USA |
Collections (Selected)
2020 | Corning Museum of Glass, NY, USA |
| 2015 | Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo Japan |
| 2013 | Song Eun Art Space, Seoul Korea |
| 2012 | West Collection, Oaks, USA Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. USA |