Biography
Born: Nagoya, Japan, 1935. United States citizen since 1964.
Has lived and worked in New York City since 1961.
Came to US on a scholarship at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Scholarship student at Art Students League and Brooklyn Museum Art School in New York City.
Opened Grand Street Potters in 1972 in New York City; later moved to Napanoch, NY.
Currently maintains studios in Chelsea, Manhattan, and Ellenville, NY.
List of references:
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo New York, Contemporary Art 1942-72
Arnason, History of Modern Art, Harry Abrams, New York
Barr, Alfred H, Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
Bihalji-Merin, Adventure of Modern Art, Harry Abrams, New York
Horizon, Spring 1965, “Art on the Move”
Houston, Joe, Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s, Merrell, London-New York
David Kung, The Contemporary Artist in Japan, East-West Center, Honolulu
Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Responsive Eye
Museum of Modern Art, New York, The New Japanese Painting and Sculpture
Ohara Museum of Art, Modern and Contemporary Japanese Painting and Sculpture
George Rickey, Constructivism, Crown Publishing Company, New York
Weller, Allen S., The Joys and Sorrows of Recent American Art, University of Illinois Press, Urbana Illinois