List of products by brand Kazunori Hamana
Born in 1969, Osaka, Japan
EDUCATION
MiraCosta College, Oceanside, CA
Lives and works in Isumi, Chiba, Japan
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Archipelago, Germantown, New York
Pierre Marie Giraud Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2021
Kazunori Hamana in collaboration with Yukiko Kuroda, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels, Belgium
Curator’s Cube, Tokyo, Japan
Xavier Hufkens’s home, organized by Pierre Marie Giraud, Belgium
2019
Blue Projects at Blue Mountain School, London, UK
2018
Curator’s Cube, Tokyo, Japan
2014
Vessels and Sea-Drift, Hidari Zingaro, Tokyo, Japan
2013
Dieci, Osaka, Japan
2012
Playmountain, Tokyo, Japan
GROUP SHOWS
2022
William McKeown, curated by Jonathan Anderson, Château La Coste, Le-Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France
Momentary Pause, Casa Perfect Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Vessels, SIZED.STUDIO, Los Angeles, CA
2021
A Room with Six Floating Pots and Message Bottles: Kazunori Hamana and Yoichi Umetsu, Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Benefit Art Auction Preview Exhibition, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
White, Sokyo Annex, Kyoto, Japan
Kazunori Hamana, ooido syoujou, Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan
2020
Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan
At The Noyes House Blum & Poe, Mendes Wood DM and Object & Thing, The Eliot Noyes House, New Canaan, CT
5,471 miles, Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan
2019
Mingei Now, Sokyo Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Echoes of Quiller Orchardson, Ben Hunter, London, UK
2018
Juxtapoz x Superflat, Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle, WA; traveled to Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2015
Kazunori Hamana, Yuji Ueda, and Otani Workshop, curated by Takashi Murakami, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to Blum & Poe, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CATALOGUES
2021
Kemske, Bonnie. Kintsugi: The Poetic Mend. London: Herbert Press, 2021.
2020
Mingei Now. Kyoto: Sokyo Gallery, 2020
Kazunori Hamana. Text by Charlotte Dumoncel d'Argence. Brussels: Pierre Marie Giruad, 2020.
ARTICLES & REVIEWS
2022
Alphonso, Sharon. “10 Japan-based Contemporary Ceramic Artists You Need to Know.” TokyoWeekender, December 23, 2022.
Hall, Kenji. "Blemished Beauties." Crafts (Autumn/Winter 2022): 98–113.
Françoise, Muriel. "L'appel du large." Milk Decoration (Spring 2022): 44–51.
2021
Kirshner, Hannah. “On Japan’s Pacific Coast, an Artist Communes with Nature.” NYTimes.com, December 3, 2021.
Mitchell, Rory. “Bold, Bulbous, and Irregular: The Ceramics of Kazunori Hamana.” Ocula.com, October 23, 2021.
2019
Akkam, Alia. “6 Not-To-Miss Design Exhibitions Opening in New York in November.” ArchitecturalDigest.com, November 6, 2019.
2018
Crossley-Baxter, Lily. “Japan’s Unusual Way to View the World.” BBC.com, October 22, 2018.
Crossley-Baxter, Lily. “Kazunori Hamana: Simple Vessels of Complex Self-Reflection.” JapanTimes.co.jp, September 2, 2018.
“T Suggests: Abstract Gnomes, Japanese Breads and More.” T: New York Times Style Magazine, August 10, 2018.
2016
Laster, Paul. "Armory Edition: 22 Things to Do in New York's Art World Before March 7." Observer.com, March 1, 2016.
Lothar, Marcus. "Curated by Takashi Murakami, Exhibition of Japanese Contemporary Ceramics Comes to Blum and Poe New York." Widewalls, March 2, 2016.
“Kazunori Hamana.” Interview by Laura Gomez. KlassikMagazine.com, April 13, 2016.
Roazen, Ben. "Takashi Murakami Curates an Exhibition of Japanese Ceramics." Hypebeast, March 2, 2016.
Rosen, Miss. "Takashi Murakami Curates New Generation of Japanese Ceramicists." CraveOnline.com, Marchi 19, 2016.
Soler, Francesca. "Japanese Art Superstar Takashi Murakami Curates a New Generation of Japanese Ceramicists." We-Heart.com, March 2016.
"Takashi Curates." Interview with Takashi Murakami. NeueJournal, March 23, 2016.
2015
Karl, Brian. “Kazunori Hamana, Yuji Ueda, and Otani Workshop at Blum & Poe.” SFAQ, October 23, 2015.
Lansroth, Bob. “Get a Charge out of Contemporary Japanese Ceramics in an Exhibition Curated by Takashi Murakami at Blum & Poe.” Widewalls, September 11, 2015.
Ollman, Leah. “Humble Ceramics in a Stunning Installation at Blum & Poe.” Los Angeles Times, September 27, 2015.Pettinau, Marta. “Da Artista Pop A Curatore.” Artribune (Italy), September 9, 2015.
Review of Kazunori Hamana, Yuji Ueda, and Otani Workshop. ArtScene California (October 2015): 22.
Shaw, Anny. “Murakami Organizes Japanese Ceramics Exhibition in Los Angeles.” Art Newspaper, August 27, 2015.
Wee, Darryl. "Takashi Murakami Curates Japanese Ceramics at Blum & Poe." Blouinartinfo.com, August 31, 2015.
Welch, Thomas. “Takashi Murakami Shines Light on Japan’s Most Promising New Artists.” Selectism, October 7, 2015.
Wu, Su. “Zen Garden: Takashi Murakami Brings a Selection of Japanese Ceramics to LA.” Wallpaper, September 21, 2015.
MUSEUM / PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
BY ART MATTERS, Hangzhou, China
Kazunori Haman is a Japanese artist born in 1969 in Osaka, Japon.
A self-taught ceramist, Kazunori Hamana divides his time between working as a fisherman and as a craftsman. After graduating from college in California, he returned to Japan, became a fisherman and began creating homemade ceramics and anchovies in Isumi (Chiba Prefecture).
Kazunori Hamana's works have the presence of the past. They are inhabited, like shells with everything organic scraped off or the surface made smooth by the sea. Sometimes bearing engravings and scratches, the works echo the marine environment from which the artist draws his inspiration.
In a lengthy process, Hamana's irregular pots are constructed from coils and achieve their unique surface through scratches and striped glazes. Hamana's work recaptures the simplicity and humility of a vernacular ceramic tradition.
