Artists

Genta Ishizuka

Biography

1982: Born in Kyoto, Japan [Lives and works in Kyoto City]
2006: BFA, Kyoto City University of Arts
Exchange program at the Royal College of Art, London, UK
2008: MFA, Kyoto City University of Arts
2019: Awarded the Gand-prix at LOEWE Craft Prize 2019
Awarded the The Best Young Artist Award by City of Kyoto
2024: Awarded the Incentive Prize, The 42nd Kyoto Prefectural Culture Prize by Kyoto Prefecture

Solo Exhibitions

2025: ‘Primary Surface’ by ARTCOURT Gallery, CADAN YURAKUCHO Space L, Tokyo
2024: Internal, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK
2021: ACG Window Gallery: Genta Ishizuka, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2019: Polyphase Membrane, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2018: Membrane, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK
2017: Relative Tactile, Art Space Niji, Kyoto
2015: Surface Tactility, Art Space Niji, Kyoto
2013: Gloss Reaction, Art Space Niji, Kyoto
2011: Drifting Boundaries, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2010: Wonderment, Art Space Niji, Kyoto
2009: Extra Dimension, Art Space Niji, Kyoto
2007: Sign from the Surface, Art Space Niji, Kyoto

Group Exhibitions

2025: LOEWE Crafted World, Harajuku, Tokyo [’24 Shanghai]
Materiality in Progress: Exploring New Materialism in Contemporary Art, Curated by Akari Endo-Gaut, Nina Johnson, Miami, USA
Small Works, Great Artists, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK [’23, ’20]
2024: Art Kogei from Japan to the World 'The Future of Artisanal Beauty: Vessels, Wrapping, Decorations', TERRADA ART COMPLEX Ⅱ BONDED GALLERY, Tokyo / Temple Kenninji, Kyoto
Milan Design Week 2024: LOEWE Lamps, Palazzo Citterio, Milan, Italy
2023: WORLDS IN BALANCE: ART IN JAPAN FROM THE POSTWAR TO THE PRESENT, Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo
Shippudoto, Wajima Museum of Urushi Art, Ishikawa
Slow Culture #kogei, Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto
ACG 20th Anniversary Vol.2, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
Visionaries: Making Another Perspective, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Higashiyama Cube, Kyoto
2021: Genta Ishizuka + Akane Saijo by ARTCOURT Gallery, CADAN YURAKUCHO, Tokyo
THE POWER OF ORIGIN, The Japan Folk Crafts Museum, Osaka
2019: 4th Triennale of KOGEI in Kanazawa – Kogei as Contemporary Craft: Trascending Boundaries, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; People's Gallery A and B
Yo Akiyama & Genta Ishizuka, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London
LOEWE Craft Prize 2019, Sogetsu Kaikan, Sogetsu Plaza 'Heaven', Tokyo
ACG Villa Kyoto Vol.002 Kyotaro Hakamata x Genta Ishizuka, ACG Villa Kyoto, Kyoto
2018: 15 Years, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
Contemporary Lacquer, Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum, Ishikawa
2017: Hard Bodies, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA
Takamijima-Kyoto: On the Far Side of Daily Life, Gallery Fleur, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto
Open Theatre 2017, KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, Yokohama
2016: Setouchi Triennale 2016, participated as APP ARTS STUDIO, Takamijima, Kagawa
Reflection, Gallery Ⅱ, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
Bi no Yokan, Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo [Osaka, Kyoto, Aichi, & Kanagawa]
Feather, Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto, Japan
2015: Rendez-vous, Onomichi City Museum of Arts, Hiroshima, Japan
Japan spirit ×15, ORIE ART GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
Still Moving, (participated via App Arts Studio), Former Sujin Elementary School, Kyoto
Selected Artists in Kyoto Celebrating 400 Years of Rimpa, The Museum of Kyoto
2014: New Horizons in Contemporary Craft Art Part I: Lacquer and Pottery Beyond Materiality, Shibuya Hikarie 8 / Cube 1, 2, 3, Tokyo
Selected Artists in Kyoto The Way of Parasophia, The Museum of Kyoto
2011: ULTRA 004, Spiral Garden,Tokyo
Rokko Meets Art, Mt. Rokko Sanjo station, participated as unit (yu), Hyogo
Art Fair Kyoto 2011, Hotel Monterey, Kyoto
VOCA, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
2010: Kyo - Sei, Kyoto City University of Art Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto
2009: ULTRA 002, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
2008: Art Court Frontier #6, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
CRIA, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
2006: Kyoto Gense Art Museum, Kennin-ji Zenkyo-an, Kyoto
2005: FRAME, CASO, Osaka

Awards

2024: The 42nd Kyoto Prefectural Culture Prize by Kyoto Prefecture＜Incentive Prize＞
2019: LOEWE Craft Prize＜Grand-prix＞
The Best Young Artist Award by City of Kyoto

Public Collections

The British Museum, London, UK
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, USA
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, JAPAN
LOEWE ART COLLECTION, Spain
UESHIMA MUSEUM COLLECTION, Tokyo, JAPAN

ACG
Exhibition

Genta Ishizuka: Absence

2025. 6. 21 [sat] − 7.26 [sat] ARTCOURT Gallery

Genta Ishizuka ‘Primary Surface’ ／ Seishu Niihira by ARTCOURT Gallery

2025. 2.18 [Tue.] - 3.9 [Sun.] Venue: CADAN YURAKUCHO（Tokyo） 3-1-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo / 11am ‒ 7pm (Sat, Sun and holidays 11am ‒ 5pm) / Closed on Mondays (except Feb. 24, and closed on the following Tuesday, Feb. 25) ARTCOURT Gallery