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米元優曜 Masaaki
Yonemoto
Masaaki
Yonemoto

Masaaki
Yonemoto
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  • 1987 Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture
  • 2010 Completed course in Glass Sculpture, Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts
  • Graduated head of class “Headmaster Award”, Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts
  • 2012 Completed graduate course, Toyama City Institute of Glass Art
  • Established as an individual artist, currently lives and works in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
  • 01 Exhibitions More
  • 02 Awards More
  • 03 Public Collections More

About
the Artist
About
the Artist

If the metropolises of the next millennium are futuristic pyramids in glass, Masaaki Yonemoto’s (b. 1987 –) skyscrapers would reign bright in the night sky, glistening softly in their incandescent splendour. Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture and recently moving back to his birthplace to build his own independent studio, Yonemoto is a young artist, yet his talent is undisputed. Graduating head of his class at the Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts in 2010, and further completing his graduate studies at the Toyama City Institute
of Glass Art, Yonemoto has received more than 10 major awards in glass in the three years since leaving university, and his works embody the great aesthetic potential of glass as a major sculptural material.