Kazutoshi Kizaki>Heartwarming thing
- Heartwarming thing, 2017Sold
- Bamboo (Madake), rattan
H 37 x 34 x 34 cm The theme of this piece is the things that give a person comfort or warm the heart, such as kind words from someone special, the feeling that hard work has paid off, or having friends that you share everything with.
Kazutoshi Kizaki
Biography
- 1976
- Born in Oita, Japan
- 2009
- Graduated from Oita Prefectural Technical Institute, Department of Bamboo Arts, Oita, Japan
- 2009-
- Studied under Tokuzo Shono, Bamboo Artist
- 2010
- Encouragement Award, 31st Japan New Craft Arts Exhibition, Kyushu, Fukuoka, Japan
- 2011
- 33rd Japan New Craft Arts Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
- 2012
- Encouragement Award, 33rd Japan New Craft Arts Exhibition, Kyushu, Fukuoka, Japan
Study in Oita and to be brilliant, Oita Prefectural Art Museum, Oita, Japan
10th Japan Craft Arts Wood and Bamboo Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan - 2013
- Encouragement Award, 35th Japan New Craft Arts Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
Member's Effort Award, 34th Japan New Craft Arts Exhibition, Kyushu, Fukuoka, Japan
Emerging Bamboo Exhibition, TAI Gallery, USA - 2014
- The Hakone Open-air Museum's Encouragement Award, 36th Japan New Craft Arts Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
Saga Newspaper Award, 35th Japan New Craft Arts Exhibition, Kyushu, Fukuoka, Japan
Oita Bamboo Art: From the Modern to the Future exhibition, Beppu City Museum, Oita, Japan
Oita's Art Moment, Japanese American Cultural Community Center, USA - 2015
- New Wave: Oita Bamboo Art exhibition, Beppu City Museum, Oita, Japan
Japanese Bamboo and the World Expo: A Century of Discovery exhibition, Japanese Friendship Garden San Diego, USA - 2016
- 38rd Japan New Craft Arts Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
- 2017
- The Hakone Open-air Museum Incentive Award, 39th Japan New Craft Arts Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
The 4th Reorganized New Nitten, The Japan Fine Arts Exhibition, The National Art Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - 2018
- Japan New Craft Arts Award, 40th Japan New Craft Arts Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
- 2018 -19
- Japon-Japonismes, Objets inspirés 1867-2018, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
- 2019
- Next Generation, Beppu City Traditional Bamboo Crafts Center, Oita, Japan