Keigo Kamide

B. 1981, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan



Keigo Kamide is the sixth generation heir of Kamide Choemon-gama Kutani pottery which is a 135-year-old pottery manufacturer. He has acted as director of Kamide Choemon-gama and has exhibited his own works as an independent artist.



Education:

2006

B.F.A., Department of Fine Arts: Oil Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts



Solo Exhibitions:

2016

Figure of SHONZUI, Art Gallery X, 6F, Takashimaya Nihonbashi Store, Tokyo

Tradition and Innovation, the second stage, Keigo Kamide, Tokyu Plaza, Ginza, Tokyo

Kutani Choemon, ISETAN HAUS, Nagoya

Kutani Choemon, departure to the art-tourism, HATCHi, Kanazawa

Bears Live In The Hollow, Yoshimi Arts, Osaka, Japan



2015

Kutani Connexion, Kamide Choemon-gama, Shibuya Hikarie, Tokyo

Koi-suru Kogei Exhibition, Kurobe City Art Museum, Kurobe City, Toyama Prefecture



2014

Quiet Storm, Yoshimi Arts, Osaka

135 Years Young, Kamide Choemon-gama KUTANI CONNEXION, Art Stage, 9F, Hankyu Umeda Main Store, Osaka, Japan



2013

αM Project 2013 The Earthly Paradise vol.3 Keigo Kamide, gallery αM, Tokyo

Floating, Yoshimi Arts, Osaka



2012

Bananas, pARa:siTe, Ishikawa



2011

Isolated, Yoshimi Arts, Osaka



2010

Kutani Connexion, Spiral Garden, Tokyo



2009

Art / Craft, Oukashorin, Nagano



2008

Style, Takagikoujisyouten, Ishikawa



Para:sideB, pARa:siTe, Ishikawa

2007

Para:sideA, pARa:siTe, Ishikawa



Group Exhibitions:

2016

Hana Inoue, Kamide Choemon-gama

ISETAN SALONE, Tokyo

Kutani Choemon & Kamide Keigo KUTANI CONNEXION, Yoshimi Arts, Osaka



2015

Insight 13, Yoshimi Arts, Osaka

Insight 14, Yoshimi Arts, Osaka

Kamide Choemon-gama, Keigo Kamide /Yugo Kohrogi - Isetan Salone, Tokyo

Fifth Anniversary Festival, Yoshimi Arts, Osaka

ISETAN SALONE, Rachel Adams x Keigo Kamide x Yugo Kohrogi, ISETAN SALONE, Roppongi, Tokyo



2014

Insight 11, Yoshimi Arts, Osaka, Japan

Figurative Abstraction, Art Osaka, Yoshimi Arts, Osaka

Material and Form in a Digital Age, Yoshimi Arts, Osaka

Feeling of the Beauty 2014 - Metamorphose, Traveling Exhibition throughout Takashimaya Galleries, Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Shinjuku, and Nihonbashi, Japan.



2013

Kutani Wagatani, G-WINGS gallery, Ishikawa

Renew Japanese Tradition Shou, Wako Hall, Wako, Ginza/Tokyo



2012

Primitive [in order], Yoshimi Arts, Osaka



2011

Insight Repetition, ART OSAKA - Yoshimi Arts, Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka　



2010

BASARA, Spiral Garden, Tokyo

First International Triennale of Kogei in Kanazawa, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Kanazawa



2009

Medicine and Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Shokubutsu no Utsuwa, G-WINGS Gallery, Ishikawa

Nowhere but Hayama Opening Exhibition, Nowhere but Hayama, Kanagawa



2008

Kiryu Saien 14, Kiryu Moriyoshi Koba, Gunma

Hako, pARa:siTe, Ishikawa



2007

Kiryu Saien 13, Kiryu Moriyoshi Koba, Gunma

Montblanc Young Artist Patronage in Japan, Montblanc Ginza, Tokyo



Projects/Events:

2009

ART PICNIC, Omotesando Hills, Tokyo

KUTANI SEAL WORKSHOP, held all over Japan since this year.



2007

Kenichiro Mogi talks a great deal with artists in Kanazawa, social, Ishikawa

PUMA with MARUWAKA KUTANI, Midtown/4 areas including Tokyo

Made the plate for lunch, exhibited in Flower robotics by Tatsuya Matsui, Art Tower, Mito/Ibaraki



Kamide Choemon-gama

1879

Established as Kutani ware wholesaler in Nomi City, Ishikawa Prefecture



1969

Received the honor to dedicate Flower Vase at the request of the Meiji Shrine



1983

Received the honor to make the tableware used when Emperor Showa visited Ishikawa Prefecture



1993

Received the Award from the Minister of Trade and Industry for evaluation of promotion of traditional craft works



2000

The wares were used as the tableware at the dinner party, Okinawa Summit



2003

The fourth heir was decorated with the Fifth Class Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays



Public Collections:

21st Century Museum of Contemprary Art, Kanazawa,

Nomi City