KAWABATA Kentaro
- 2000
1998
1976 -
Diploma, Tajimi City Pottery Design and Technical Center, Gifu
Diploma, Tokyo Designer Institute, Ceramic Department
Born in Saitama Prefecture
Solo Exhibitions
- 2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
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2009
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2007
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2002 -
Butterfly Joint, Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Yours Truly, High Art, Paris, France
Bumpy, Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles, USA
Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
“isyoken gallery vol.10: Kentaro Kawabata”, Gifu, Japan
Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Utsuwakan, Kyoto, Japan
Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles, USA
Inside out, Silver Shell, Tokyom Japan
Hello from the Hollows2, Sokyo, Kyoto, Japan
Gallery Kurimoto, Niigata, Japan
Gallery Utsuwakan, Kyoto, Japan (’15, ’10, ’08)
Touka, Miyazaki, Japan (’15, ’13)
SAVOIR VIVRE, Tokyo, Japan (’15, ’12, ’09, ’07, ’05, ’04, ’03)
Ouka Shorin, Nagano, Japan
Art Biotop, Tochigi, Japan
Organ, 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
IMPRINT, Keiko Art International
Silver Shell, Tokyo
Métamorphoses, Galerie Mizen Fine Art, Paris
Gallery Suki, Aichi
Gallery Bougatei, Nagano
Gallery Tousei, Osaka
Gallery Tohka, Miyazaki
Mazuzakaya, Nagoya
Perceptions in Clay, KEIKO Gallery, Boston
KAMOSISUSE, Ohka Shorin, Gifu
Gallery So, Hokkaido
Takeshina- Gallery Bogatei, Nagano
Kuroda Toen, Ginza
K-House Gallery, Tokyo
ZUZUZU, Gallery Shunyo, Gifu Gallery Hashimoto, Tokyo
Gion Konishi, Kyoto (’06)
Fused Beauty, KEIKO Gallery, Boston
Ouka Shorin, Nagano
Sinsaibashi Daimaru, Osaka
Gallry Utsuwa-kan, Kyoto
Akamanma, Gunma
Meguro Tohgeikan, Mie (’09)
Bougate, Nagano (’08)
Tuchi-no-hana, Tokyo
Kuroda Tohen, Tokyo (’06,’09)
Porcelain Sculpture, Galleria Ceramica, Tokyo
Gallery Kouketsu, Gifu (’07)
Gallery Shunkei, Gifu (’06)
Group Exhibitions
- 2025
2021
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2009
2008
2007
2004
2003
2002
2001 -
Chimeras, Nonaka-Hill Kyoto
Le Forum Spektrum Spektrum, GINZA MAISON HERMÈS
Lucy Bull, Kentaro Kawabata, High Art (Paris), Art Basel MIami Beach, Miami
Sized, Los Angeles
See Change, Ratio 3, San Francisco
Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale (GICB), Icheon, Korea
PUNK, Rakusuitei Museum of Art, Toyama, Japan
Even if contemporary art ended, Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto
CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE CRAFTS The Kikuchi Kanjitsu Prize Ⅱ, Musee-Tomo, Tokyo
8 Ceramic Artists, 8/ Art Gallery/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
MINO, Kakiden Gallery, Tokyo
Nippon! Contemporary Arts and Crafts from Japan, ESH Gallery, Milan, Italy
Dialogue with Materials: Contemporary Japanese Arts an Crafts, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey
Phenomenon of Contemporary Ceramics, Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum
TAKASHIMAYA MUSEUM of ILLUSION, Tokyo, Kyoto, Nagoya, Osaka
International Japanische Progressive Keramik Trifft auf Japanische Avantgardistische Malerei, Galerie IAC-Berlin-Koigswinter and Tenri Kultur Werkstatt, Cologne
Dialogue with Materials: Contemporary Japanese Arts an Crafts, Ahmed Adnen Saygun Sanat Merkezi, Izmir, Turkey
La céramique Japonaise, Association Culturelle Franco-Japonaise de TENRI, Paris, Luxembourg
Traditional and Contemporary, Historical Museum, Pavlikeni, Bulgaria
RUSU Aki and KAWABATA Kentaro, Kohodo Gallery, Gifu
Ceramics Now Exhibition, 3rd edition, Galateea Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Contemporary Tea Utensils, Ishihara Bijutus, Gifu
World Ceramic Biennale 2009, Korea
KAWABATA Kentaro and YOKOYAMA Takuya, Gallery SORA, Tokyo
The Power of Decoration – A Viewpoint on Contemporary Kogei (studio craft), The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Contemporary Ceramic in Tokai Are for the young artist, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum
SOFA Chicago
Hanayagi-no-Katachi, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Gallery X, Tokyo
Mino Ceramics Now, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
Izushi Porcelain Competition, Gifu
Carouge International Ceramic Exhibition
Asashi Ceramic Competition
Asahi Modern Craft Competition
Mino International Porcelain Competition
Asashi Ceramic Exhibition
“Mino Ceramics Now 2001” Gifu Contemporary Museum of Ceramics Tjimi, Gifu
Awards
- 2007
2005
2004
2002
2001 -
Grand Prize, Paramita Museum Ceramic Exhibition, Mie
International Ceramic Festival Mino
Kamota Shoji Award, Mashiko Ceramic Exhibition
Judges Award, Mashiko Ceramic Exhibition
Grand Prize, Oibe-no-Kokoro, Ceramic Exhibition
Collections/ Public Art
Anadole University Museum, Eskisehir, Turkey
Mashiko Ceramic Museum
City of Toki
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN
Press
2012 Hono Geijutsu, spring/ summer
2011-12 Ceramics Now