Midori Tsukada b. 1972

Midori Tsukada has many degrees from Toyama City Institute of Glass Art and Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei Kobe. Since 2011, Tsukada has been working in her own studio in Toyama. Tsukada has received numerous accolades in Japan, including the 2001 Honorable Award at the International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa and the 2009 Honorable Award at the 4th Exhibition of Contemporary Glass Koganezaki in Shizuoka. Her work is held in public collections all over the world, such as Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, Notojima Glass Art Museum, Toyama Glass Art Museum, Koganezaki Christal Park Glass Museum and The Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (MUDAC), Lausanne (Switzerland), Philadelphia Museum of Art in the U.S.

Tsukada utilizes gravity in her forms and is characterized by the blues and greens produced by copper leaf. She employs highly-skilled techniques-grinding in a spray of water to create lines of minute delicacy or filing, making a translucence like that of light shining down through the leaves of a forest. They possess a Japanese sensibility evocative of rain, dew, or bamboo groves, filled with a clear atmosphere and organic energy. 

Education / Record

1972 Born in Gifu

1998-2000 Toyama City Institute of Glass Art, Glass Certification Studies Program

2000-2002 Graduated from Toyama Institute of Glass Art, Advanced Research Studies Program

2002-2004 Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop, Researcher

2004 Graduated from Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei Kobo

2004-2006 Akita Public Arts and Crafts Junior College of Arts and Crafts, Glass Assistant

2006-2011 Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop, Studio Coordinator of Glass Studio 2011-Present Working in own studio in Toyama

Collections:

The Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (MUDAC) in Switzerland, Philadelphia Museum of Art in the U.S., 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, Notojima Glass Art Museum, Toyama Glass Art Museum, Koganezaki Christal Park Glass Museum and more

Awards

2001 Honorable Award at the International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa

2002 Honorable Award at the Contemporary Glass Triennial in Toyama

2004 Special Prize at the 4th Contemporary Glass Exhibition in Satsuma, Kagoshima 2006 Asahi Glass Prize at the 3rd Exhibition of Contemporary Glass Koganezaki in Shizuoka

2007 Silver Prize at the International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa

2009 Honorable Award at the 4th Exhibition of Contemporary Glass Koganezaki in Shizuoka

2010 Excellent Prize at Glass Craft Triennale

Takeda Atsushi Prize at the International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa

2012 Fujita Kyohei Prize at the 5th Exhibition of Contemporary Glass Koganezaki in Shizuoka

2013 Gold Prize at the International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa

Exhibitions

2002 The1st Hokuriku Glass Exhibition (Kanazu Forest of Creation, Art Core Museum in Fukui)

1. 2003 Solo Exhibition : "Adapt" (Waves of Silver, Hakuza in Ishikawa)
2. Solo Exhibition : "Tsukada Midori" (Gallery Nakama, Tokyo)
3. Solo Exhibition : "Wax and Wane" (G-Wing's Gallery in Ishikawa)
4. 2004 Silver x Glass x foil = Jewelry Exhibition (Waves of Silver, Hakuza in Ishizawa)
5. 2005 The Shape of Glass - Glass Art Energy Exhibition
6. (Kanazu Forest of Creation, Art Core Museum in Fukui)
7. 2007 Solo Exhibition : "Depth" (Gallery Nakama in Tokyo)
8. 2008 Solo Exhibition : "Breath" (G-Wing's Gallery in Ishikawa)
9. The 11th Nihon Glass Exhibition (Tokyu Main Store Shibuya in Tokyo)

Raw Materials x Art -- The young stars who build an age -- (Kanazu Forest of Creation, Art Core Museum in Fukui)

61 in 3 + 1/8 (Gallery Itten in Ishikawa)

1. 2009 Glass Accessory Exhibition (Gallery Funa Asobi in Ishikawa)
2. Kanazawa: World Crafts Triennale 2010 Pre-event
3. (The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa in Ishikawa) -- Bodies that Create - Three Female Artists' Exhibition
4. (GALLERIA art gallery in Ishikawa)
5. The 6th Cheongu International Craft Competition in Korea
6. 2010 Lidded Pottery of Three Persons : A world with things that have an inside (Gallery Funa Asobi in Ishikawa)

2011 Solo Exhibition : "Ryokufu (Wind in the early summer)" (G-Wing's Gallery, Ishikawa)

1. 2012 New Generation's Contemporary Glass Series Fifth Exhibition: To Try
2. for Nature's Hymn (Gallery Ginza Artone in Tokyo)
3. SOFA CHICAGO 2012 in the U.S. (ippodo gallery NY)
4. 2013 Solo Exhibition : Midori Tsukada "Komorebi (Sunlight filtering through trees)"

(Ginza Ippodo gallery in Tokyo)

SOFA CHICAGO 2013 in the U.S. (ippodo gallery NY)

2014 COLLECT 2014 in United Kingdom (ippodo gallery NY)

2016 “Great Vigor”, Group Exhibition of works by Contemporary Japanese Artists (Ginza

Ippodo Gallery in Tokyo)

Solo Exhibition “Midori Tsukada Glass Exhibition” (Ginza Ippodo gallery in Tokyo)

Public Collections /Museum Collections

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Japan) Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop, Ishikawa (Japan) Koganezaki Crystal Park Glass Museum, Shizuoka (Japan)

Tokyo Midtown, Tokyo (Japan)

Sarutahiko Shrine, Syousa Museum of Art, Mie (Japan)

The Toyama City Board of Education, Toyama (Japan)

Toyama City Institute of Glass Art, Toyama (Japan)

The Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (MUDAC), Lausanne (Switzerland)

塚田美登里

岐阜県生まれ

2002　富山ガラス造形研究所研究科修了 

2004　金沢卯辰山工芸工房修了 

現在富山市にて制作 

収蔵： The Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts

(MUDAC) （スイス） /  Philadelphia Museum of Art （アメリカ）/

金沢２１世紀美術館/能登島ガラス美術館/富山ガラス美術館/

黄金崎クリスタルパークガラスミュージアム　ほか多数