MORI Taiga
Bizen, Okayama, Japan
October, 2022
I always want to be a traveling potter.
I like to go somewhere.
Through creating Bizen ware, I like myself changing the way to make, reviewing the way Bizen ware should be, and changing my perspective to a new one.
It is also a “trip”, isn’t it?
Feeling the gradual changes in the world every day, I am walking to lead my life so that I can leave my journey footprints of my own as the one living in the present age.
◆ PROFILE
1974 Born at Inbe, Bizen city, Okayama prefecture, JAPAN
2000 Completed the course at Bizen Ceramic Center.
Taken over the grandfather’s kiln (Name: Fuurai), and learned pottery and sculpture from Gyokusyu Kimura
2001First solo exhibition at Toumidori in Tokyo
Exhibition at Okayama Tenmaya
2001 and after:
- Exhibition at Matsuya, Ginza, Tokyo (8 times)
- Exhibition at Kobe Daimaru (3 times), Kobe
- Exhibition at Hakata Daimaru (twice), Hakata
2008Created an extremely small portable kiln that rides on a light truck
2013Travel in France for making kiln
Exhibition, and lecture at Category:Musée national de la porcelaine Adrien Dubouché in Paris
2014Travel across America for pottery study and international exchange
- Group Exhibition at Urasenke New York Branch
2016Exhibition “Bizen-Yaki Speaker” at Milan Furniture Fair
2017Exhibition and lecture at Ceramics Museum Berlin
Tea Ceremony Exhibition
- International group exhibition at Tiantai Mountain National Museum in China with 2 pottery artists
2018
Exhibition at Collect in England, and Vietnam
2019Exhibition in Costa Rica, Taiwan, Korea, and Tokyo
Started Gallery Kai (Inbe, 1506–1) by joint managements
2020
Exhibiting at ONE ART Taipei2020
・ART FAIR PHILIPPINES 2020
・ART NAGOYA
◆ Travel History
Find time and go on a journey. Nepal, Bhutan, Turkey, Thai, and Germany. (1 Exhibition), France (3 Exhibitions), China (4 Exhibitions), Cambodia, and Vietnam (1Exhibition)
Costa Rica (1Exhibition), Korea (1 exhibition), Taiwan (4 exhibitions), Mexico and so on.
◆ Artist-in-residence program
France (2013), Suzu city in Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan (2018), and Onggi Museum at Jeju city in Korea (2019)
◆ Awards
2003
Rookie of the year at Art-Mirai International Open Exhibition
2011- Tanabe Museum of Art “Chanoyu Modeling Exhibition”
- Pola Foundation for the promotion of traditional Japanese Culture, at Ceramic Art Foundation Exhibition
- Japan Kogei Association Chugoku branch Exhibition (2009～2010)
- Okayama Art Exhibition (2009～2010)
Information Source: https://bizen-gallerykai.com/en/mori/
