1958-
male
As his grandfather he has Kondo Yuzo, and Kondo Hiroshi as his father.
After graduating from Law University, he studied pottery at Kyoto Prefectural Ceramists’ Training Institute and Kyoto Municipal Institute of Industrial Research.
He held a solo exhibition at the Museum of Art of Sao Paulo in 1990 and since then has been successful both within Japan and overseas at such places as the Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts in 92, Osaka Contemporary Art Center in 93, National Museum of Scotland in 95, Gallery 213 (Paris) in 99, Barry Friedman Gallery (New York) in 2002, Yufuku (Tokyo, Japan), Paramita Museum (Mie) in 2003, Collect V&A Museum (London) in 04, Scottish Gallery (Edinburgh), Kyoto Takashimaya (Kyoto, Japan) in 2005, Tenmaya (Fukuyama, Okayama, Hiroshima) in 2006, 101 Collins (Melbourne, Australia) in 2008, and Art Gallery of Hamilton (Hamilton, Australia).
During that time, he received the Kyoto City New Artist Award in 1994, was an overseas trainee for artists dispatched by the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2002, and completed a Master’s Program at the Edinburgh College of Art in 2003 (winning the Inglis Allen Masters Award).
He is highly appreciated around the world for things such as making ceramics with original designs added, whilst incorporating the dyeing techniques that were a family tradition passed down from grandfather to father and gold and silver colors. Also for getting away from dyeing too, and creating a spatial art ‘Mist’ series, which is a fusion of soil and glass, and also for his ‘Galaxy’ series, where he adds silver drops to his work to express the universe.
