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Solo Exhibition

2026 April 25 - June 6

“FRAGILE”, Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles, USA

2024

“Kimiyo Mishima: Memories for the Future”, Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo

“Kimiyo Mishima Solo Exhibition”, Sokyo Gallery and Sokyo Annex, Kyoto

2023

“MISHIMA KIMIYO: Play Watch Create”, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Gifu

2022

GINZA ATRIUM GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS, Tokyo

2021

“Kimiyo Mishima Solo Exhibition 1950s–2021”, SOKYO ATSUMI, Tokyo

“Kimiyo Mishima | Papier Collé”, MEM, Tokyo

Sokyo Annex, Kyoto

2020

MEM, Tokyo

Gallery Yamaki Fine Arts, Kobe, Hyogo

2018

Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Basel, Switzerland

Nonaka Hill, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2017

Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto

Gallery Yamaki Fine Arts, Kobe, Hyogo

MEM, Tokyo

“CoSTUME NATIONAL·LAB·”, by MITSUI FINE ARTS, Tokyo

2016

Taka Ishii Gallery, New York, USA

2015

“Kimiyo Mishima at ART FACTORY Jonanjima”, Tokyo

2014

“Kimiyo Mishima at ART FACTORY Jonanjima”, Tokyo

2013

“Paintings Period 1954–1970”, Gallery Yamaki Fine Arts, Kobe, Hyogo

2004

Contemporary Art Museum ISE, Watarai, Mie

Gallery Nii, Tokyo

Gallery Nii, Osaka

2001

Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo

MIKIMOTO, Tokyo

1999

INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo

1998

Hillside Gallery, Tokyo

Art Front Gallery, Tokyo

1994

Galerie Pousse, Tokyo

1992

Kasahara Gallery, Osaka

1990

Galerie Pousse, Tokyo

INAX Gallery, Osaka

INAX Gallery 2, Tokyo

1989

Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo

1988

Gallery 16, Kyoto

1985

Gallery Ueda-Warehouse, Tokyo

1980

Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Aichi

Gallery 16, Kyoto

1974

Minami Gallery, Tokyo

1972

Imai Gallery, Osaka

Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo

1971

Fujimi Gallery, Osaka

1970

Gallery Ano, Osaka

Gallery 16, Kyoto

1969

Imabashi Gallery, Osaka

1968

Gallery 16, Kyoto

1966

Gallery 16, Kyoto

1964

Gallery Ano, Osaka

Gallery 16, Kyoto

Group Exhibition

2022

“Exhibition in the permanent collection: Bodies and writing Works recently acquired by the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris”, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France

“The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art”, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

2021

“MOT Collection: Journals vol.2”, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

“Another Energy: Power to Continue Challenging – 16 Women Artists from around the

World”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

“The Flames. The Age of Ceramic”, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

2020

“Collection Gallery Exhibition”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

“Collection Exhibition”, Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan

“About Object and Matter and Body -6 Views”, MEM, Tokyo, Japan

2017

“Gyeonggi World Ceramic Biennale”, Cerapia, Icheon, Korea

“2D Printers”, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan

“Chronicle, Chronicle!”, Creative Center OSAKA, Osaka, Japan

2016

“The 30th Anniversary Exhibition: Selection of Letter and Signal”, Hakodate Museum of

Modern Art, Hokkaido, Hokkaido, Japan

2015

“Contemporary from Ancient times: Japanese Contemporary Ceramics and the origin”,

San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, USA

2014

“Identity and Originality”, The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Hyogo, Japan

“Wow! Excited Art & Craft”, Urasoe Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan

“Currents : Japanese Contemporary Art”, Christie’s, Hong Kong

2013

“Materials and Substances”, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan

2012

“The Link Between Words and Art: An Homage to Nakahara Yusuke”, Gallery Yamaki

Fine Art, Kobe, Japan

“The Fascination of ceramics x The Excitment of Art”, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural

Park, Shiga, Japan; traveled to Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Hyogo, Japan Museum

of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan

“Spring Exhibitions POP•Life embraced within”, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan

“The Japan Foundation Collection: The Japanese Modern Ceramics go around The

World”, Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan

2011

“Soaring Voices-Contemporary Japanese women ceramic Artists”, Samuel P. Harn

Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL, USA

“Ceramica Viva: I ceramisti giapponesi premiati a Faenza”, Instituto Italiano di Cultura

di Tokyo, Rome, Italy

2010

“The Newspapers”, Kanda Nissho Memorial Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan

“The Magic of Ceramics: Artistic Inspiration”, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Koka,

Shiga, Japan.

“This is not a book: Spreading of Book Art”, Urawa Art Museum, Saitama and Fukui City

Art Museum, Saitama/ Fukui, Japan

“Sculpture Path 2010 UN-SYNTAX”, Art Court Gallery, Osaka, Japan

2009

“World of Trick Art”, Toyohashi City Museum of Art and History (Toyohashi, Aichi) and

Takamatsu City Museum of Art (Kagawa, Japan) etc.

“Soaring Voices: Contemporary Japanese Women, Ceramic Artists”, Crocker Museum

of Art, Sacrament, (CA, USA) and Katzen Arts Center, American University, (Washington

D.C., USA), etc.

“Vingt-cinq Céramistes Japonaises contemporaines”, Musée National de Céramique,

Sèvres, France

1999

“Collection in Focus, What you see is what you get, or is it?”, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

“The Plate Show Round Exhibition”, Glasgow, UK

“Post War Period Art Kansai 1950s-1990s”, The Museum of Modern Art Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan

1998

“The Hope”, Safa Gallery, Budapest, Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemét, Hungary

“Itinerant International Exhibition, Japan-Brazil 98-99”, Museu de Arte de São Paulo and Museum de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) etc.

1997

“50 Years Contemporary Art”, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

“Yamamura Collection”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

“Asahi Contemporary Craft”, The Asahi Newspaper, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan

1996

“Sai no Kuni Chokoku Variety 1996”, Saitama, Japan

“Cross Section of the Post War Period Art”, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan

“Aspects of Japanese Ceramic Art”, The Hakone Open-Art Museum, Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan

1995

“Wind of Faenza”, Toki City Hall, Toki, Gifu, Japan

“Magical Viewpoint”, Hirakata City Gotenyama Art Center, Osaka, Japan

“International Contemporary Ceramic”, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Center, Koka, Shiga, Japan

“Japanese Culture the Fifty Past War Years 1945-1995”, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan etc.

1994

“The 60th Anniversary Memorial Exhibitions”, Kyoto Municipal Museum Collection, Kyoto, Japan

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1993

“Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition”, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Saitama, Japan

“Vision: Illusion and Anti-illusion from the Museum Collection”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

“Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition”, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

“Industrial Art of the World”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

“Repetition and Multiplication in Contemporary Art from the Museum Collection”, Tokyo

Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1992

“International Ceramic Exhibition 1992”, The National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan

“Contemporary Japanese Ceramic”, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, USA

“Asahi Contemporary Craft”, The Asahi Newspaper, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan

1991

“Kyoto Select Art Exhibition”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

“Art Scene 1991: Each Material, Each Expression”, The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan

1990

“Contemporary Ceramic”, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan

“Aspects of Contemporary Clay Art”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

“Japanese Clay Works Today”, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan

“Asahi Contemporary Crafts”, The Asahi Newspaper, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan

1989

“Art of Kyoto: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

“Art Exciting 1989: Beyond the Today’s Being”, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan and Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

“Development of Contemporary Art”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

“Yamamura Collection”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

“Exhibition of Collections”, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan

1988

“Biennale International Limoges”, Limoges, France

“East-West Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition”, The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Korea

“Art Looked with Hands”, Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo, Japan

1987

“Object: Deviated Matter”, Seibu Tsukashin Hall, Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan

1986

“ESTIU Japon 1986”, Olot, Spain

“Contemporary Japanese Ceramics”, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, USA

“Reading Objects”, Gallery Iteza, Kyoto, Japan

“Clay Work 1986”, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan

“Ceramic Now”, Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

“Clay Work”, Seibu Hall, Shiga and Tokyo, Japan

1985

“Print of Japan 1985”, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan

“Toward the Museum of Tomorrow, Image as environment”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

“Bookshelf Sculpture”, Gallery 16, Kyoto, Japan

“Osaka Contemporary Art Fair 1985”, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan

“Yamamura Collections Exhibition”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

1984

“Ceramics Today”, Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

“International Ceramics”, Budapest, Hungary

1983

“International Impact Art”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan and Seoul Contemporary Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

“Contemporary Realism”, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan

“Contemporary Japanese Art”, Musée d’Art et d’Historoire, Geneva, Switzerland

1982

“Clay Work Now 1”, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, Japan

1981

“Art Now:1970-1980”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

“Contemporary Japanese Ceramics”, The National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan

1980

“Print of Japan 1980”, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan

“Simulated Landscape in Contemporary Art”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

“International Biennial of Contemporary Ceramics”, Vallauris, France

“International Ceramics Biennial”, International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Faenza, Italy

1979

“Shimizu Kusuo and his artists”, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

“Contemporary Crafts”, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan

“Japan Today”, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA

“Invited as a guest exhibitor to The British International Print Biennale”, Bradford, UK

1978

“Contemporary Craftsmen”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

“Contemporary Japanese Crafts”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

“Women Japanese Artists”, A.I.R. Gallery, NY, USA

1977

“Contemporary Japanese Graphics Grand Prix Exhibition”, Matsuya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan

1976

“International Print Biennale”, Kracow, Poland

“Japan Art Festival”, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, and University of Seattle, Seattle, WA, USA

“Contemporary Ceramics”, Touring exhibition (Australia and New Zealand)

“Japanese Ceramics”, Museum of Art, Dresden, Germany

“The 5th British International Print Biennale”, Bradford, UK

1975

“Contemporary Expression 1975”, Daimaru Department Store, Kyoto, Japan

“Contemporary Japanese Graphic Art”, The Museum of Modern Art, Ferrara, Italy

“Asahi Art Now”, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

1974

“The 11th International Art Exhibition”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1973

“International Cup Exhibition”, Kanazawa, touring in Japan

“Chunichi International Ceramics Exhibition”, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

“International Ceramic”, Calgary Alberta, Canada

1972-80 “International Ceramic Exhibition”, International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, Faenza, Italy

1971-79 “The Japan Ceramic Art exhibition”, Daimaru Department Store, Tokyo, Japan; touring in USA and Canada (1971,73,75,77,79) and in South America (1973)

1967 “The 4th International Young Artists Exhibition”, Tokyo, Japan

1966 “Mainichi Shimbun Art Competition”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

1965 “The 9th Shell Exhibition”, Shirokiya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan

1964 “The 3rd International Young Artists Exhibition”, Tokyo, Japan

   “Trends in Contemporary Japanese Painting and Sculpture”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

1962 “Asahi Young Artists Exhibition”, Osaka, Japan

1954-56 “Dokuritsu Exhibition”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan