Kenji Io

  • Metalwork
  • 1945 -
Kenji Io

Membership Full member, Japan Kogei Association
  • 1945 Born in Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture as the second son of a metalwork artist IO Toshio
  • 1964 Graduated from the Crafts Course at the Kagawa Prefectural Takamatsu-Kougei High School
    Specialised in woodwork (Interior design)
  • 1968 Graduated from Tokai University (Department of Public Relations, School of Letters). Studied repoussé and metal chasing under his father since his university days
    Entered Dentsu Public Relations Inc.
  • 1971 Selected for the Japanese Traditional Art Crafts New Works Exhibition (Currently the Eastern Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition) and the Japanese Traditional Metalwork Exhibition for the first time. Selected successively to date
  • 1975 Submitted to the 22nd Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition for the first time. Submitted successively to date
  • 1980 Recommended as a full member of the Japan Kogei Association
  • 1985 Held the Io Toshio and Kenji Father-son Exhibition at the Nihonbashi Gallery Kochukyo
  • 1986 Judge at the 33rd Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition. Held the post to date
  • 1990 Assisted in the production of the “Globe” at Mikimoto Pearl Island
  • 1993 Assisted in the production of the “Sacred Treasures” at the 61st Shikinen Sengu Ceremony at Ise Jingu
  • 1994 Solo exhibition at Ginza Wako. Held 2 times to date
  • 1994 Solo exhibition at Yokohama Takashimaya and Shinjuku Keio Department Store
  • 1996 Solo exhibition at Nagoya Maruei
  • 1997 Solo exhibition at Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi
  • 2001 Solo exhibition at Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi
  • 2002 Solo exhibition at Gallery En (Takamatsu City) (Also held in 2006)
  • 2004 Submitted to the Contemporary Japanese Metalwork Exhibition at the Danish Museum of Art and Design
  • 2008 Recommended as a Director of the Japan Kogei Association and Chairman of the Metalwork Section (Up until 2014)
    Special lecture at Seoul National University and Konkuk University, South Korea
  • 2009 Specially invited to submit to the Talking Hands Exhibition at the Seoul National University, South Korea
    Held a special exhibition at Ginza Wako
    Solo exhibition at Fukuoka Mitsukoshi
  • 2010 Solo exhibition at Sakaide City Kamado Hall (May) and Keio Department Store (July)
  • 2012 Assisted in the production of the “Sacred Treasures at the 62nd Shikinen Sengu Ceremony in Ise Jingu
  • 2013 Solo exhibition Fukuoka Mitsukoshi (February)
    “From Crafts to Kogei” Exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (December 2013 to February 2014
  • 2014 Special Exhibition in commemoration of the Shikinen Sengu Ceremony at the Jingu Museum of Fine Arts (February)
  • Present
    Full member, Japan Kogei Association
    Priority treatment at the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition. Judge
    at the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition
    Chairman of the Executive Committee at Japanese Traditional Metalwork Exhibition
    Part‐time lecturer at the College of Art and Design,
    Musashino Art University. President of the Aoyama School of Jewelry and Metalsmithing

  • 1975Awarded at the Eastern Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition and the Japanese Traditional Metalwork Exhibition
  • 1983Received the Incentive Award at the 30th Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition
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