Photography by Omote Nobutada
Born 1945, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
HOSHINO SATORU is an internationally recognized figure in the field after years of teaching as a guest artist or artist-in-residence at ceramic centers in locations as varied as Denmark, Belgium, Taiwan, Australia, and Hungary. At the start of his career, this Kyoto native worked for many years with the avant-garde, non-functional ceramic movement Sōdeisha. From the ancient tradition re-established by its founder, Yagi Kazuo, Satoru assumed the mantle of smoke-infused sculptural work (kokutō) that was not compromised by color or surface patterning, embodying fluidity and plasticity.
Selected Public Collections:
Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Japan
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred University, NY
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Auckland War Memorial Museum, New Zealand
Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
ClayArch Gimhae Museum, Gimhae City, South Korea
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
International Ceramic Studio-Kecskemet, Kápolna, Hungary
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Kerameikmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Kyoto City Museum, Japan
Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN
Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland
Musée Bertrand, Châteauroux, France
Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, Italy
Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan
National Gallery of Australia, Australia
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Newcastle Regional Museum, Australia
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Portland Art Museum, OR
Power House Museum, Sydney, Australia
Province Museum Modern Kunst, Belgium
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL
Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
State Decorative Arts Institute, Zurich, Switzerland
Takamatsu City Museum, Japan
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Walbrzych Museum, Poland
Yamaguchi Prefecture Museum of Art, Japan
Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
Spring Snow 17-7
2017
Glazed stoneware
14 1/2 x 11 5/8 x 11 in.
Inv# 10655
SOLD
Spring Snow 17-2
2017
Glazed stoneware
18 x 15 1/8 x 14 1/2 in.
Inv# 10841
SOLD
Spring Snow 17-5
2017
Glazed stoneware
17 1/4 x 16 x 16 1/4 in.
Inv# 10653
SOLD
Globular shigaraki vessel with irregular-shaped raised mouth, covered with pinched indentations and natural ash-glazing
2011
Natural ash-glazed wood-fired shigaraki stoneware
17 x 17 x 16 1/2 in.
Inv# 7495
SOLD
Copper-blue and white glazed pinched vase
2014
Stoneware with white and copper-blue glazes
11 3/4 x 9 7/8 x 9 7/8 in.
Inv# 8638
SOLD
