Biography

Exhibitions

Selected Exhibitions

1999
Graduation Exhibition, Toyama Institute of Glass Art, Japan
2000
10th Anniversary Exhibition, Toyama Institute of Glass Art, Japan
2001
The Allure of Glass, Himeji City Museum, Hyogo, Japan

TOYAMA GLASS-ONE 2001, Toyama Shimin Plaza, Japan
2006
Glass Appeal 2006, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo University of the Arts Glass Course Exhibition, The University Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2007
ALLURE OF JAPANESE GLASS, Pittsburgh Glass Center, USA
2013
The Feeling of Glass, Gallery YUNOR, Tokyo, Japan

Hide and Seek in Light, Yosuke Miyao and Yoko Togashi Glass Art Exhibition, Fairywood Glass Museum, Okayama, Japan
2015
Daikanyama Glass Art Fair 2015 “Speak for Space”, Tokyo, Japan
2020
The Landscapes of Memory, Ginza TANAGOKORO, Tokyo, Japan

Glass Wonderland, Tokyo University of the Arts Glass Course Exhibition, Geidai Art Plaza, Tokyo, Japan
2021
RE:OPENING CEREMONY, A Lighthouse called Kanata, Tokyo, Japan

Toyama International Glass Exhibition 2021, Japan
2022
TEFAF Maastricht, The Netherlands

A Lighthouse called Kanata New York Pop-Up, USA

Masterpiece London, UK

Seattle Art Fair

Awards

1998　Selected, New Glass Review 19, 26, 36, 37 (’05, ’15, ’16)
　　　Selected, Contemporary Glass in Satsuma Exhibition, Kagoshima, Japan
2002　Emerging Artist Award, Hokuriku Glass Exhibition, Kanaz Forest of Creation
2003　Nominee, Corning Foundation Award, USA
2009　Chido Museum Award, Hakuosha Exhibition, Yamagata, Japan
2011　Selected, Japan Crafts Exhibition
2012　Selected, The 5th Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition in Sanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi, Japan
　　　Shigezaburo Imai Award, Hakuosha Exhibition, Yamagata, Japan
2014　Glass 1st Prize, EWAAC Exhibition, La Galleria Pall Mall, London, United Kingdom
　　　Shonai Nippo Press Award, Hakuosha Exhibition, Yamagata, Japan
2015　Tsuruoka City Board of Education Award, Hakuosha Exhibition, Yamagata, Japan
　　　Glass Land Award, Glass ’15 in Japan Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
2021　Selected, Toyama International Glass Exhibition 2021, Japan

Public Collections

Selected Commission Works

The Capitol Hotel Tokyu, Japan
Teikyo University Hospital Mizonokuchi, Japan
Stanley Electric Co., Ltd, Japan
Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel, Japan
Shimada Municipal Hospital, Japan
Kyukan Jotenji-dori Avenue Building, Japan

冨樫葉子 Yoko
Togashi Yoko
Togashi

Spiral　|　Blown, cut glass

H27 x W26.5 x D12.5 cm (left) / H22.5 x W22 x D13 cm (right)

Yoko
Togashi

Profile

1973 Born in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
1997 Musashino Art University
1999 Toyama Institute of Glass
Lives and works in Kanagawa

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About
the ArtistAbout
the Artist

Yoko Togashi’s (b. 1973 –) sculptures in blown, kiln-worked glass, no matter the form, point toward a beauty that is at once viscerally striking, yet are consistently imbued with a poignant gentleness that encapsulates the nature of the artist herself. Her pieces do not sparkle with radiance but glow softly, and her forms portray the beauty of glass that quietly melt away in their own silent poetry. Togashi, in fact, began her artistic debut in oil painting, having trained and debuted as a painter in the early stages of her career; it is because of this background that Togashi is able to wield glass as if she is holding a brush, quite literally painting the beauty within her mind’s eye onto not canvas but into the malleable forms of heated glass. Using the Filigrana techniques associated with Venetian glassmaking, Togashi strives to capture the beauty of glass as not a solid state but a fluid one that is in constant flux, expressing the delicate, soft, and forever-changing nature of glass as it is blown and worked in a kiln.