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Akio Takamori
Akio Takamori
Akio Takamori

Akio Takamori

born Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, 1950; died Seattle, Washington, 2017
BiographyAkio Takamori earned a master of fine arts in ceramics at Alfred University in New York in 1978. His exhibition history includes a midcareer survey, Between Clouds of Memory, organized by Arizona State University Art Museum. The exhibition traveled to Tacoma Art Museum, the Art Gym at Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon, and Racine Art Museum in Wisconsin. Additionally, his work has been featured in one-person exhibitions at the Tempe Center for the Arts in Arizona and European Ceramic Work Centre in the Netherlands. His work is in national and international collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan, the Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art in Japan, the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana, and local public, corporate, and museum collections. His work has been included in many books and reviewed in Ceramics Monthly, Artnews, Sculpture, and the New York Times.
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  • Nobeoka
  • Seattle