Biography

Exhibitions

Selected Exhibitions

2012
Art in Life Exhibition, Mitsukoshi Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
2013
Glass × Glass × Glass, Takamura Gyujin Memorial Museum of Art, Toyama, Japan

Glass Story, Milestone Art Works, Toyama, Japan

Science Room, Kanka Gallery, Toyama, Japan
2014
7th Glass Educational Institutions Joint Exhibition (GEN Exhibition),

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan

29th Contemporary Craft Art Exhibition,

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Solo exhibition, Gallery Q, Tokyo, Japan
2015
SOFA Chicago, USA

Space-Time Exhibition, Art For Thought, Tokyo, Japan

Utatsuyama of Form Exhibition,

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Art Fair Tokyo, Japan (’16, ’17)

Paris, Nobody Knows – Paris do not know anyone,

ELEKTROKARDIOGRAMM, Japan

Tama Art University 80th Anniversary Exhibition, Japan

The Form of Vestiges – Solo Exhibition, Ishikawa, Japan
2016
Art Stage Singapore, Singapore (’17)

Spring Masters New York, USA

EAF Monaco, Monaco

Art Taipei, Taiwan

Art Miami, USA (’17, ’18, ’19)

Remains of the Day – Solo Exhibition, Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2017
TEFAF Maastricht, The Netherlands (’18, ’19, ’20, ’21)

TEFAF New York Spring, USA

Notojima Glass Collection “New Acquisitions: Forms of Glass”,

Notojima Glass Art Museum, Ishikawa, Japan
2018
Seattle Art Fair, USA (’19)

Toyama International Glass Exhibition, Japan

Glass Artists from Hokuriku Diversifying Glass Art,

Toyama Glass Art Museum, Toyama, Japan

Yufuku Pop-Up in NYC, New York, USA
2019
International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa, Japan

Silhouettes of Tomorrow, Yufuku Gallery, London, UK
2020
Opening Ceremony, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

West Bund Art and Design, Shanghai, China

Search and Creation, Notojima Glass Art Museum, Japan
2021
Falling into You – Solo Exhibition, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

The Secret Show, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

RE:OPENING CEREMONY, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

The Armory Show, New York, USA

ART 021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, China

Untitled Art Miami Beach, USA

Thirty Years of Toyama Institute of Glass Art Forms for the Future, Toyama Glass Art Museum, Japan
2022
Pure Form: Japanese Sculptural Ceramics, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

Masterpiece London, UK

The Future Eternal – a special exhibition for DESIGNART TOKYO, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

5^th Triennale of Kogei in Kanazawa 2022 Kogei World Competition in Kanazawa

Awards

2011　Selected, 47th Kanagawa Prefecture Art Exhibition
2013　Selected, Echuu Art Festa
2013　Award of Excellence, Northern Japan Newspaper Prize
2014　Award of Excellence, Toyama City Institute of Glass Art Graduation Exhibition
2014　Selected, 29th Ishikawa of Contemporary Art Craft Exhibition
2015　Hokkoku Newspaper President's Prize, 71st Kanazawa Art Craft Exhibition
2015　Miwa Jury Prize, 6th Sanyo Onoda Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition
2015　Selected, Meyer × Shigaraki Award Japan Ceramics Now – Tradition and Innovation Exhibition
2015　TV Kanazawa President's Prize, 30th Ishikawa Contemporary Art Craft Exhibition
2015　Selected, Japan Glass Art Exhibition
2015　Selected, Takaoka City Art Craft Competition
2016　Silver Prize, The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa
2016　Selected, Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop
2017　Prize: Special Recognition Award by Ronald T. Labaco, 3rd Triennale of Kogei in Kanazawa
2017　Mayor’s Prize, 73rd Kanazawa Craft Council
2017　Selected, International Ceramics Festival Mino
2018　Silver Prize, Toyama International Glass Exhibition 2018
2018　Kuroki Prize, Glass ’18 in Japan
2019　Grand Prize, International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa 2019
2022 Second Prize, 5th Triennale of Kogei in Kanazawa 2022 Kogei World Competition in Kanazawa

Public Collections

Toyama Institute of Glass Art, Japan
Museum of World War II, USA
Notojima Glass Art Museum, Japan
Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop, Japan
The Horvitz Collection, USA
Toyama Glass Art Museum, Japan

Selected Commissions Works

JAL Fukuoka Airport, Japan
Four Seasons Hotel Seoul, South Korea

津守秀憲 Hidenori
Tsumori Hidenori
Tsumori

胎動

H54 x W52.5 x D21 (cm)

Hidenori
Tsumori

Profile

1986 Born in Tokyo, Japan
2012 Tama Art University
2014 Toyama Institute of Glass, MFA
2017 Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop / Lives and works in Tokyo

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To capture the rivers of time flowing into oceans vast, the ephemeral fragments of memories borne and the tenderness of lives lost, to limn the raw power of nature and clasp in one’s hand the epic struggle between life and death; such thematic elements strike at the elegiac core of Hidenori Tsumori's (b. 1986 –) glass sculptures, encompassing the fragile remains of the day that have melted into sombre yet powerful memories in glass and clay. Like the turning of the seasons and the eternal rise and fall of the sun and moon, the passing of time embodies the inevitable cycle of life that dictates the human existence, and Tsumori's solemn sculptures represent the remnants of what has passed and what (or perhaps who?) is left behind in stark, poignant detail.

Where does glass end and clay begin? And perhaps a more vexing question: where does life end and death begin? Who or what draws the divide between these two fundamentally different states of nature? A juxtaposition of seemingly antagonistic realms often reveal that things are usually two sides of the same coin.

And what lies beyond Tsumori’s tundra-esque landscapes? With a rising recognition within both realms of glass and ceramics, evidenced by his fast-growing number of public collections and awards, Tsumori’s glass sculptures acting as receptacles that catch both the life energies of Eros and that of Thanatos, the physical acquiesces to the metaphysical, and we discover a new way of shattering our very preconceptions through the unexpected marriage between glass and clay.