Akio Takamori

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Akio Takamori
File:Photograph of Akio Takamori.jpg
Born(1950-10-11)October 11, 1950
Nobeoka, Japan
DiedJanuary 11, 2017(2017-01-11) (aged 66)
EducationMusashino Art University, Kansas City Art Institute, Alfred University
Known forCeramic sculpture
Websiteakiotakamori.com

Akio Takamori (1950 – 2017) was a Japanese-American ceramic sculptor and educator. Takamori often incorporated human forms into his creations.[1]

Early life and education

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Takamori was born in Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan on October 11, 1950.[2][3] His childhood home had his father's attached medical clinic which was to be later a one of several sources for his inspiration.[4] In Japan, Takamori attended Musashino Art University.[5] In 1974, he moved to the United States and attended the Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) where he studied with ceramist Ken Ferguson who encouraged him to work figuratively.[6] Takamori received an MFA in 1978 from Alfred University in New York.[7] He subsequently had artist residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation in Montana, the European Ceramic Workcentre in the Netherlands, and the Kecskemét International Ceramic Studios in Hungary.[6]

Career

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He moved to Vashon Island in 1988 and set up a studio with a salt kiln and lived there until 1994.[8] While there, in 1993, Takamori began his teaching career at the University of Washington where he taught until he retired in 2014 as professor emeritus.[9][10]

Takamori died on January 11, 2017, in Seattle, Washington[2][3] of pancreatic cancer.[4]

Select shows and collections

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His work is in the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art,[11] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[12] the Museum of Arts and Design,[13] the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,[14] the Victoria and Albert Museum,[15] His work, Alice with Rose, was acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum as part of the Renwick Gallery's 50th Anniversary Campaign.[16][17]

In 2000, the Racine Art Museum held a retrospective of his work.[7] In 2022, the Vashon Center for the Arts held a retrospective of his work curated by his wife Vicky and the James Harris Gallery.[8] In 2024, the Keramikmuseum Westerwald in Höhr-Grenzhausen held an exhibition entitled "Akio Takamori: Consideration" in which his drawings, ceramic figurative work of couples, as well as his karako were shown.[6]

Awards and honors

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In 2001, Takamori received a Virginia A. Groot Foundation Award.[18] In 2006, Takamori became a Fellow of the American Craft Council.[10] The same year he was awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant.[19]

References

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