Biography

Exhibitions

2006
Inspire Your Heart Exhibition, Coco Laboratory, Akita, Japan
2007
Duet Gallery APA, Aichi, Japan (’08, ’09, ’10, ’12)

December Show, Gallery APA, Aichi, Japan

26th Asahi Craft Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
2008
47th Japan Craft Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan (’10)
2010
Forming Rainbows, Galerie Steine, Nagano, Japan

Forms of Tomorrow, Gallery Sou, Kanazawa, Japan

31 Sensibilities – Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop Exhibition, Japan

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (’11, ’12)
2011
Art Fair Kyoto, Japan

VARIA Nagoya Art Fair, Nagoya, Japan
2012
Takaoka Craft Exhibition, Toyama, Japan

KOGANEZAKI – Vessel Forms – Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition, Shizuoka, Japan

Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition in Sanyo Onoda, Yamaguchi, Japan

HEART to HEART Craft Art Exhibition, Fukui, Japan

Art Fair Nagoya, Japan
2013
TARENTE, Germany

Transfiguration of Glass II, Gallery VOICE, Gifu, Japan

The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa, 21st Century Museum of Art, Ishikawa, Japan
2014
Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (’15)

Art Miami, USA (’15, ’16, ’17, ’18, ’19 ’23)
2015
Vestige – Sachi Fujikake Solo Exhibition, Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Art Stage Singapore, Singapore (’16, ’17)
2016
TEFAF Maastricht, The Netherlands (’17, ’18, ’19, ’20, ’21, ’22, ’23)

Spring Masters New York, USA

EAF Monaco, Monaco

Art Taipei, Taiwan
2017
TEFAF New York Spring, USA

Group Exhibition – life-world, Alexander Tutsek, Munich, Germany

Group Exhibition – Young Glass, Ebeltoft Glass Museum, Denmark

Vestige II – New Glass Works by Sachi Fujikake, Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Seattle Art Fair, USA (’19)

Toyama International Glass Exhibition, Japan
2019
Group Exhibition, LOEWE Craft Prize, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibition, KOGEI Art Fair Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan

NEW GLASS NOW, The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, USA

Silhouettes of Tomorrow, Yufuku Gallery, London, UK
2020
Opening Ceremony, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan
2021
The Secret Show, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

Vestige III, Solo Exhibition of New Work, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

RE:Opening Ceremony, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

The Armory Show, New York, USA

Collection Exhibition Towards the Toyama International Glass Exhibition, Toyama Glass Art Museum, Japan

ART 021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, China

NEW GLASS NOW, The Renwick Gallery / The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, USA

The International Exhibition – GLASS URUSHI, Shiinoki Cultural Complex, Ishikawa, Japan
2022
Masterpiece London, UK

New Glass Now, Toyama Glass Museum, Japan

West Bund Art & Design, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Shanghai, China

The Future Eternal, A Lighthouse Called Kanata, Tokyo

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF GLASS KANAZAWA, Japan

Masterpiece London, UK
2023
The Treasure House Fair, London, UK

Blown Glass: Enchanting Forms, Miraculous Skills, Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

Awards

2006 Forever Foundation, Overseas study scholarship
2009 Pilchuck glass school 2009 Lino tagliapietra scholarship
2010 NHK Kanazawa Director Award, 24th Ishikawa Contemporary Craft Exhibition
Chairman Award, Kanazawa Lacquer Trade Cooperation, Ishikawa Prefectural Design Exhibition
2011 Award of Excellence, Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop
2012 Award of Excellence , Takaoka Craft Exhibition
Encouragement Award, KOGANEZAKI Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition
Award of Excellence, Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop
New Glass Review 33 ('13)
Jury Award, Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition in Sanyoonoda
2013 Honorable Mentions, The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa, Japan
2016 Gold Prize, The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa, Japan
2017 Selected, Young Glass, Denmark
2018 Gold Prize, Toyama International Glass Exhibition
Selected, Sanyo Onoda Contemporary Glass Exhibition
2019 Finalist, LOEWE Craft Prize
Jury Prize, KOGEI World Competition in Kanazawa
2022 Winning prize - Honorable Mention, The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa
New Glass Review 42

Public Collections

Alexander Tutsek Foundation, Germany
Glasmuseum Lette, Germany
Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop, Japan
Koganezaki Crystal Park, Japan
Victoria & Albert Museum, UK
Glasmuseum Lette, Germany
Toyama Glass Museum, Japan
Corning Museum of Glass, USA
Rakusuitei Museum of Art

藤掛幸智 Sachi
Fujikake Sachi
Fujikake

Vestige (2018)

H50 x W20 x D15 cm

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Sachi
Fujikake

Profile

1985 Born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan
2005 Completed Glass course, Department of Arts, Akita Municipal Junior College of Arts
2006 Aichi University of Education, MFA
2008 Trained at Seto Ceramics and Glass Art Center, Glass Atelier
2011 Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop
2014 Worked at Seto Ceramics and Glass Art Center
Lives and works in Nagoya

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New ideas will flow into oceans of unforeseen beauty. Likewise, the works of Sachi Fujikake (1985- ) boldly defy the traditional qualities of glass toward realms unchartered, transforming the material into ripples in both time and space.

Entitled Vestige, her glass sculptures capture the remains of what is left behind, the beauty of glass as it is fundamentally changed from a hard material into something soft, in many ways capturing the preciousness of time itself as its continuum is bent, twisted and expanded into surrealistic forms of great beauty. Organic and free-flowing, crumpled yet inflated, while imbued with a translucently luscious radiance, Fujikake's works are spellbinding poems to an innovative new style of abstraction in glass.

After sandblasting her trademark dots onto the surfaces of her layered sheets of white glass, Fujikake further melts and connects 6 separate glass sheets together within a glory hole to comprise an essentially three-dimensional polygon. After this basic form is created, Fujikake then begins to blow air into the cube, thereby helping to warp, inflate and transform the rigid glass into something soft and fluid. Such voluptuously seductive curvatures cannot be achieved by the use of sheet glass alone, and it is the aforementioned ingenious and wildly original combination of various glass techniques – kiln-working, sand-blasting, and blowing glass, that has made Sachi Fujikake one of the frontrunners of an entirely new way of approaching the realm of glass art in the 21st century.

Wahei Aoyama, Owner
A Lighthouse called Kanata