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Kiyomi Iwata, Kobe, Japan b. 1941
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Museum of Arts & Design, NYC
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA
Racine Art Museum, WI
The Newark Museum, NJ
The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art, RI
Arkansas Art Center, AR
Erie Art Museum, PA
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Longhouse Reserve, Bridgehampton, NY
La Fondation, Mary Toms-Pierre Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland
Savarian Museum, Szombathely, Hungary and others.
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AWARDS and HONORS:
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"Yuai"(fraternity)", a wall piece presented by Prime Minister Hatoyama to President Obama during his visit to Japan, Oct. 15, 2009
Yaddo Fellow, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1991 & 1993
New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist Fellowship, 1988 & 1993
National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Fellowship, 1986
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
| 2007 | Two Idioms of Kiyomi Iwata: Silk and Metal, Center Gallery at Old Church, Demarest, NJ |
| 2002 | Recent Work: Kiyomi Iwata, The Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI |
| 2000 | Silk and Metal by Kiyomi Iwata, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO |
| 1998 | Perimeter Gallery, Chicago |
| 1996 | Transformation from Silk to Metal: The Sculpture of Kiyomi Iwata, Georgia Museum of Art, GA |
| 1996 | Kiyomi Iwata, New Work, The Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, GA |
| 1994 | Kiyomi Iwata, New Work, The Newark Museum, NJ |
| 1994 | Kiyomi Iwata, New Work, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago |
| 1992 | Kiyomi Iwata, New Work, Bellas Artes Gallery, NYC |
| 1992 | Kiyomi Iwata, New Work, Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR |
| 1985 | Hopper House, Nyack, NY |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
| 2011 |
FIBER FUTURES: Japan's Textile Pioneers, Japan Society, NYC |
| 2009 |
10th Wave III, Art Textiles and Fiber Sculpture, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT |
| 2007 |
Annual Basketry Techniques Invitational, Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale AZ |
| 2006 |
Interwined, Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection, Arizona State Univ. Art Museum, AZ(catalog)
Material Difference: Soft Sculpture and Wall Works, Chicago Cultural Center, IL(catalog)
5th International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
Beyond Weaving: International Art Textiles, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Connecticut Public Library, Greenwich, CT |
| 2005 |
High Fiber, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washinton, DC
SCENTS OF PURPOSE, Artists interpret the Spice Box, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA (catalog) |
| 2004 |
4th International Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2003 |
ART TEXTILE CONTEMPORAIN, Musee D'Angers, Angers, France (catalog)
Home/Land: Artists, Immigration, and Identity, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA (catalog)
Kiyomi Iwata, Jeff Mongrain, Perimeter Gallery, New York, NY
Shared Passion, Sara & David Lieberman Collection of Contemporary Ceramics and Craft, Arizona Sate University, Tempe, AZ |
| 2002 |
Threads on the Edge-The Daphne Farrago Fiber Art Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (catalog) |
| 2002 |
Small Works in Fiber, Longhouse Reserve, NY, SOFA/CHICAGO & MIYAKE DESIGN STUDIO, TOKYO
Basket Now: USA, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK (catalog)
The Survey Fiber 2002 Exhibition, Snyderman-Works Gallery, PA (catalog) |
| 2001 |
Century of Design - Part Four 1975-2000, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Art of Contemporary Fiber: Highlights from the Carol Straus Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX |
| 2000 |
Art Textile Contemporarain, Espace Arlaud - Lausanne
Defining Craft 1, Collection for the New Millennium, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Surface, Strength, Structure Exhibition, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1999 |
Recent Acquisitions; Selected Additions to the Modern Design Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Baskets from the American Craft Museum Permanent Collection, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Revelation, Permanent collection in public view, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
The Art of Craft, Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA (catalog) |
| 1998 |
Modus Operandi, A Survey of Contemporary Fiber, Snyderman/Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
Sculptural Fibers: The Next Generations, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, WI
4th "In Our Hands" Mixed media, Small Scale and 3 Dimensional Works, Nagoya Trade & Industry Center, Nagoya, Japan (catalog)
Contemporary Art Baskets 1997, Ohio Craft Museum, OH
New Baskets: Expanding the Concept, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
Ritual Vessels: Masterworks from the LongHouse Collection, Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY
Threads, Fiber Art in the 90's, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ (catalog) |
| 1997 |
Celebrating American Craft, Det Danske Kunstindustrimuseum, Coppenhagen, Denmark (catalog) |
| 1996 |
Four Decades of Discovery: The 40th Anniversary of the American Craft Museum, American Craft Museum, New York, NY (catalog) |
| 1995 |
The New Basket, Works from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AK (catalog)
The Value and Void, The Gallery at Takashimaya, New York, NY (catalog)
On the Edge: Contemporary Fiber, General Electric Co., Fairfield, CT
The Gold Show, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
Small Works in Fiber, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (catalog)
Out of the Vault, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI |
| 1991 |
National Objects Invitational, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK |
| 1990 |
A Decade of Craft, 10th Annual Auction for the Benefit of the American Craft Museum, Christie's East, New York, NY (catalog) |
| 1989 |
Fiber Explorations, New Work in Fiber Art, SUNY-Stonybrook, NY
The Tactile Vessel, American Craft Museum, New York, NY |
| 1988 |
Threadworks: Miniature Textile Art, Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition.
The Tactile Vessel, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA (catalog), Savaria Muzeum, Szombathely, Hungary
Innerskins/outerskins; Gut and Fishskin, San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, CA (catalog)
Art and Beauty/Artful Basket, Trimingham Bros, Bermuda
13th Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (catalog) |
| 1986 |
Fiber R/Evolution, Milwaukee Art Museum, University of Wisconsin, WI (catalog) and more. |
BOOKS:
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Whole Cloth by Mildred Contantine and Laurel Reuter, Page 128 and 129 The Monacelli Press
Dyer's Art, Ikat, Batik and Plangi, by Jack Lenor Larsen, Page 90, Van Nostrand Reinhol
500 Baskets, A Celebration of the Basketmaker’s Art, page 88 and 203, Larks Books, A Division of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
and others
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
| 2007 | Kiyomi Iwata, Carol Westfall, SHUTTLE SPINDLE & DYEPOT, February 2007 |
| 2004 | Kiyomi Iwata: Fiber Sculpture, Lois Martin, Surface Design, Spring 2004 |
| 2002 | KIYOMI IWATA, Barry Schwabsky, AMERICAN CRAFT, December 2002-January 2003, page 58
Review, Keri Guten Cohen, DETROIT FREE PRESS, May 12, 2002 |
| 2000 | Review, Deborah D. Campbell, KANSAS REVIEW, Kansas City, MO June 2000
GALLERY, AMERICAN CRAFT, August/September 2000 |
| 1997 | Art Review,William Zimmer, THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 23, 1997
Rose S.C. Slivka, THE EAST HAMPTON STAR, July 17, 1997 |
| 1996 | Review, John Hawkins, FIBERARTS, Sept/Oct 1996
Arts Calendar: A MAGAZINE, Feb/Mar 1996
Cover of the Literary Review, Vol. 39, No.2, Fairleigh Dickinson University |
| 1995 | Cover of the Literary Review, Vol. 39, No.1, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Glen Kaufman, THE GLEAM OF GOLD, Surface Design Journal, Fall 1995
Claire Wolf Krantz, American Craft, Apr/May 1995 |
| 1994 | Betty Freudenheim,The New York Times, April 24, 1994 |
| 1993 | Betty Freudenheim, Fiberarts, Sept/Oct 1993 |
| 1991 | Betty Freudenheim, The New York Times, May 19, 1991 |
| 1990 | AXIS,Creative Trends, Issue 34 |
| 1989 | Betty Freudenheim, The New York Times, November 19, 1989
Kunie Sugiura, Bijutsu Techo, November 1989
Ann Barry, The New York Times, September 14, 1989 |
| 1988 | Lisa Hammel, Town and Country, August 1988 |
| 1986 | Betty Park, Fiberarts, Jan/Feb 1986
Jams Auer, Milwaukee Journal, February 16, 1986 |
| 1985 | Patricia Malarcher, The New York Times, December 1, 1985 and others. |
CATALOGS:
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FIBER FUTURES: Japan's Textile Pioneers, Japan Society, New York
10th Wave III: Art Textiles and Fiber Sculpture, browngrotta arts
TWO IDIOMS OF KIYOMI IWATA:Silk and Metal, Center Gallery of Old Church, Demarest, New Jersey
INTERWINDED: Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection,Arizona State University Art Museum
MATERIAL DIFFERENCE: Soft Sculpture and Wall Works, Friends of Fiber Art International, IL
CONTEMPORARY TEXTILE ART, Musee D’Angers, France
BEYONG WEAVING : International ArtTextiles, browngrotta arts, CT
SCENTS OF PURPOSE, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
HOME/LAND, Artists, Immigration and Identity, Society for Contemporary Craft
BASKET NOW: USA, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
CONTEMPORARY TEXTILE ART, Collection of the Pierre Pauli Association, Lausanne, Switzerland
THE ART OF CRAFT, CONTEMPORARY WORKS FROM THE SAXE COLLECTION, Timothy Anglin Burgard, fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
CONTEMPORARY BASKETRY, Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan New Jersey, West Orange, NJ
CELEBRATING AMERICAN CRAFT, The Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
THREADS, Fiber Art in the 90’s, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
THE 6th INTERNATIONAL SHOE BOX SCULPTURE EXHIBITION, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, HI
FORTY YEARS, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
NOUVEL OBJECT, Design House, Seoul, Korea
VOLUME & VOID,The Gallery at Takashimaya, New York, NY
THE 5th INTERNATIONAL SHOE BOX SCULPTURE EXHIBITION, The University of Hawaii Art Gallery, HI
SMALL WORKS IN FIBER, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
NATIONAL OBJECTS INVITATIONAL,The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
A DECADE OF CRAFT, 10th Annual Auction for the Benefit of the American Craft Museum, Christie’s East, New York, NY
THE TACTILE VESSEL, Erie Art Museum
7th INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF MINIATURE TEXTILES, Szombathely, Hungary
FRONTIERS IN FIBER, North Dakota Museum, Cultural Presentation of the United States Information Agency.
13th INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF TAPESTRY, Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
INNERSKINS/OUTERSKINS; GUT AND FISHSKIN, San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum
FIBER R/EVOLUTION, Milwaukee Art Museum/University Art Museum, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
THE NEW BASKET: A VESSEL FOR THE FUTURE, Friends of Brainard Art Gallery, Lucia La Villa-Haelin
FIBERWORKS, The Cleveland Museum of Fine Arts 1977
CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS OF THE AMERICAS; 1975, Colorado State University
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EDUCATION
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New School for Social Research, New York, NY Studied textile arts, knotting. 1971, 1974 and 1975
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, Studied weaving and textile arts, 1970, 1973 and 1976
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, Studied screen printing, drawing & batik, summer 1967 and 1968
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, Studied drawing, batik and design, 1967 and 1968
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LECTURE/TEACHING/CONSULTING EXPERIENCES:
| 2011 | Artist lecture at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA |
| 2006 | Lecture at the FinnGallery, Greenwich, CT |
| 2005 | Lecture at the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Lecture at the Textile Mueum, Washington, D.C. |
| 2001 to 2004 | An Art Advisor for the New York Foundation for the Arts, N.Y. |
| 2000 | Lecture at the SOFA/CHICAGO, IL |
| 1996 | Lecture at the Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, G.A.
Jury, Craft Media at the Illinois Arts Council, I.L. |
| 1995 | Lecture at the Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.
Jury, Craft Media at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, N.Y. |
| 1994 | Lecture at the Bunka Gakuin, Tokyo, Japan
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| 1992 | Lecture at The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, O.H.
Lecture at "A Decade of Craft, Recent Acquisitions/Fiber: The Pluralist Medium," American Craft Museum, N.Y. |
| 1990 | Consultant for an American Gallery exploring the Japanese art market. |
| 1989 | Lecture on "Knots and Nets" at the Parish Museum, South Hampton, N.Y.
April Fool's Day Creativity Workshop, American Craft Museum, N.Y. |
| 1988 | Lecture at "The Creative Process: An Exploration of Creativity in the Craft; The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, N.Y.
Fiber class instructor, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle, M.E. |
| 1986 | Planned and conducted an art tour of Japan for the American Craft Museum, Collector's Circle in N.Y. |
| 1982 | Parsons in Japan program, Parsons School of Design, N.Y. |
| 1981 | Same as above.
Screen Printing on Fabrics, Cooper Hewitt Museum, N.Y. |
| 1980 | Same as above. |
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