1963

Born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

1986

BA, Tokyo Zôkei University, Department of Design

1988

MA, Tama Art University, Graduate School of Art and Design, Department of Art

1993

Artist-in-Residence, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan

1995-1996

Resided in London, UK, through the Overseas Study Program for Artists, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan

1997

Artist-in-Residence at Loughborough College of Art and Design, and various local brick companies in the UK

2010

Resided in London, UK, through the Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists (Special Fellowship), Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan. Conducted research at the British Museum.

Present

Professor, Department of Ceramic, Glass, and Metal Works, Faculty of Art and Design, Tama Art University

2024

Yoon Heechang: Square, Gallery Caption, Gifu ['13, '09, '04, '00, '95, '93]

2022

ACG Villa Kyoto Vol.10 Yoon Heechang: Boundless Verdure, ACG Villa Kyoto, Kyoto

2018

Sand River Work – Kamogawa, Kyoto, Sokyo Annex / Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto

2017

Heechang Yoon, Ceramic Powder painting “Sand River Works - Setouchi”, Department Gallery, Department of Ceramic, Glass, and Metal Works, Hachioji Campus, Tama Art University, Tokyo

2012

scenery of ‘being’, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo ['02, '00]

2011

Talk on rectangular shapes, Kamizoe, Kyoto

2010

Nichigetu mochi, Shinmachi Store, Osaka

2005

Gallery Abitare, Tokyo

2002

My Clay, INAX Tile Museum, Aichi

2002

Nano-rium, Yamanashi

2001

Ceramic Powder Paintings in Seto and Tokoname Clays, Nagoya Gallery, Aichi
Naruse Bijutsu-za, Tokyo

1999

That Which is There, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuka
Susono Art House, Shizuoka

1997

That Which is There, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art

1994

Hino Gallery, Tokyo

1992

Topos Ethnos, IBM-Kawasaki City Gallery, Kanagawa
Soh Gallery, Tokyo ['91]
Gallery NW House, Tokyo
Gallery Floor 2, Tokyo

1991

Gallery Natsuka, Tokyo

1990

Nabis Gallery, Tokyo
Ohara Center of Tokyo

1988

Galerie Den, Tokyo
Kaneko Art G1, Tokyo

1987

Muramastu Gallery, Tokyo

2025

Picturesque Pottery: Ceramics Enjoying Art from Mingei to the Present, Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art, Tokyo

2020

White, Sokyo Annex, Kyoto
Tokorozawa: Past and Present in Art, MUSE Tokorozawa Civic Cultural Centre, Saitama

2018

Shijimawo miru, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo

2017

Rhythm in Monochrome | : Korean Abstract Painting, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo

2016

When Man Meets Earth, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Aichi
Group Show, Gallery Caption, Gifu

2014

group show, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo

2013

Tastuno Art Project 2013: Arts and Memories, Galleria Arts & Tea, Tatsuno City, Hyogo
paintings, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
MOVING, Neime Gallery, France

2012

Blindsight, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo

2011

Tatsuno Art Project 2011: Arts and Memories, Tatsuno City, Hyogo
Works in Ceramic 2011, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi

2009

The Beauty of Yohaku, Shizuoka Prefecture Museum of Art

2008

Portraits of Gardeners Vol.1: Spiritual Surface, Design Gallery 1953, Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo

2007

Works from the Soil: Life Meets the Mother Earth, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery

2006

An Existence, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo

2005

The 3rd World Ceramic Biennale 2005 Korea: Trans-Ceramic-Art, Icheon World Ceramic Center, Korea
Ars Nova – Between The Contemporary Avant-garde Art and Craft, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

2002

Emotional Site, Shokuryo Building, Tokyo
The 4th Gwangju Biennale, THERE: Sites of the Korean Diaspora, Gwangju, Korea

1995

Circulating Currents - Japanese and Korean Contemporary Art -, Aichi Prefecture Museum of Art / Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi
Grace & Gravity, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama

1994

The Domain of the Medium, Crafts Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
A Vision of Japan for the 21st Century, Saison Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

1993

Art Today '93, Saison Museum of Modern Art, Nagano
Contemporary Art Exhibit ’93 from Yokohama THE WAVE, Port Commission Gallery, San Diego, USA
Mini Size Exhibition, Soh Gallery, Tokyo

1992

Two-Person Exhibition (with Chang-Young Kim), Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
kukan to koso (Space and Concept), Naruse Murata Gallery, Tokyo

1991

Two-Person Exhibition (with Mami Nishiyama), Naruse Murata Gallery, Tokyo
Illusion of Clay and Sand, Gallery αｍ, Tokyo
Ceramic Annex Shigaraki ’91, Shiga Museum of Art / Traditional Craft Center of Shigaraki, Shiga
Two-Person Exhibition, (with Masahito Katayama), Hosomi Garō, Tokyo
Clay collection '90, Citizens Gallery, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo

1990

Japanese Clay Work Today, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
Contemporary Sculpture in Japan Ⅲ, Transformations of Material and Space, Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, Yokohama

1989

The 9th Hara Annual, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Drawings by sculptors, Sekibou-Umu, Nara

1988

Lights in the night of NAVIDAD, Seibu Department Store Shibuya Craft Gallery, Tokyo
Meme Pool, Ohara School of Ikebana, Tokyo
Ceramic Market, Gallery Q +1, Tokyo
Kanagawa Art Exhibition, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Kanagawa ['86]

1987

The scene of expression ’87, Kaminoge Campus, Tama Art University, Tokyo
Ceramic Market, Gallery Q +1, Tokyo

1986

From the scene of expression, Kaminoge Campus, Tama Art University, Tokyo

1985

Two-Person Show, Gallery 21, Tokyo

Tokyo Operacity Art Gallery
Terada Collection
A passenger ship “guntû”, Hiroshima
Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum

• Selected Available Works

• “ACG Villa Kyoto Vol.10 Yoon Heechang: Boundless Verdure”, ACG Villa Kyoto, Kyoto