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Education
MFA (Ceramics), Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Sotoen, Studio of Shigaraki Ware, Shiga, Japan
BFA (Painting), Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Grants and Awards
Finalist for a 2019 Fellows of Contemporary Art Fellowship Award, Los Angeles
Finalist for a 2017 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, New York
City of Los Angeles COLA Fellowship Grant, Los Angeles, CA
The Asian Cultural Council Artist-in-Residency Grant, New York, NY
The Peter S. Reed Foundation, New York, NY
California Arts Council’s Artist-in-Residence Program, California Institution for Men, Chino, CA and California Rehabilitation Center, Norco, CA
City of Pasadena Arts Commission Grants-in-Aid Program, Pasadena, CA
Merit Award, International Invitational Ceramic Competition, Taipei, Taiwan
Honoree
Woman Against Gun Violence, Los Angeles
USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles
Selected Collections
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
SCRIPPS The Women’s College, Claremont, CA
Chapman University, Orange, CA
National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
California Arts Council, Sacramento, CA
California Confederation of the Arts, Sacramento, CA
Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramic Research Center, Tempe, AZ
Toyota Motor Sales, USA Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Hallmark Card Collection, Kansas City, MO
Resnick Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Sidney and Joni Felsen, Los Angeles, CA
Sam Maloof Foundation, Alta Loma, CA
Kamm Teapot Foundation, Encino, CA
Robert Graham, Venice, CA
Mrs. Giuliano Gori Teapot Collection, Pistoia, Italy
Selected Solo and Two Persons Exhibitions
KEIKO FUKAZAWA: Peacemaker(TBD), Contemporary Craft Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
KEIKO FUKAZAWA: Hello Mao, Peters Projects Gallery, Sante Fe, NM
Keiko Fukazawa/Culture Clash: A Mid-Career Retrospective, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA
Made in China: New Ceramic Works by Keiko Fukazawa, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Parallel Universes: Keiko Fukazawa and Edward Lightner, L2Kontemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Centripetal Force: Keiko Fukazawa and Dennis Callwood, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA
Art and Deviation: Keiko Fukazawa and Dennis Callwood, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Los Angeles, CA;
The Advocate Gallery, Gay & Lesbian Center, Los Angeles, CA;
Todd Madigan Gallery of California State University, Bakersfield, CA
Juxtaposition, The Armory at One Colorado, Pasadena, CA
Keiko Fukazawa, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Keiko Fukazawa, Garth Clark Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Keiko Fukazawa, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
Keiko Fukazawa, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
Charged: the art of Keiko Fukazawa, Sammy Lee, Maryrose C. Mendoza, and Joo Yoo, AHL Foundation, New York
78th Scripps College Ceramic Annual: The Power of Words and Clay, Ruth C. Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Breaking Ground: Women in California Clay, American Museum of Ceramic Art,
Pomona, CA
Off-Kilter: Power & Pathos, Keiko Fukazawa, Sandra Lowe, Trang Tran, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
Black, White, and Shades of Grey, Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
Seismic State: California Ceramics, Sparrow Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Art and Hope at the End Of the Tunnel, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Making Time, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles
Mojo Rising, Ronald H. Silverman Fine Art Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Somewhere in Between, The Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
Beyond Tradition: Contemporary Reflections in East Asia, Wilson Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
INTO ACTION, 1726 N Spring St, Los Angeles CA
One Year: the art of Politics in LA, BRAND Library and Art Center, Glendale CA
We the People: Serving Notice, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
COLA20 Anniversary Exhibition, The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fault Line 2017, Kritselis Gallery, Brewery Art Walk, Los Angeles, CA
COLA Exhibition: Cola Grant Fellow Artist 2015-2016, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA;
Lineage: Mentorship & Learning, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
Crossroads in Clay at Chouinard and Otis: The Ralph Bacerra Years, Vincent Price Art Museum, East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park, CA;
Petraphilia, Curators Lab Gallery, The Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
White Gold: The Appeal of Lustre, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
ELEMENTAL: Of the Earth, Sturt Haaga Gallery at Descanso Gardens, La Cañada Flintridge, CA
The Eighties, Craft in America Center, Los Angeles, CA
Clay Nation, L2Kontemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
RED, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
The Beatrice Wood Ceramic Annual, Beatrice Wood Center for The Arts, Ojai, CA
Standing Room Only: Scripps 60th Ceramic Annual, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery,
Scripps College, Claremont, CA
The Artful Teapot: 20th Century Expressions from the Kamm Collection, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL;
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA;
The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada;
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO;
The Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, Tucson, AZ;
Memorial Art Gallery of University of Rochester, Rochester, NY;
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
From the Earth/Dalla Terra, Gio, Perugia, Italy;
Palazzo dei Consoli, Gubbio, Perugia, Italy;
LA Artcore Brewery Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Japanese American Claymakers, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
Breaking Barriers, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
The Tea Party, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Teaching
Associate Professor in Ceramics, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
Adjunct Faculty, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Adjunct Faculty, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
Adjunct Faculty, East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park, CA
Artist-in-Residence, Department of Corrections, California Institution for Men, Chino, CA
Adjunct Faculty, Otis College of Art and Design
Selected Bibliography
Kay Whitney, “How we (re-)learned to read”, Scripps College 78th Ceramic Annual, Claremont, CA
Edith Garcia, “The Third Generation/Now”, Breaking Ground: Women in California Clay, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
Suzanne Ramljak, “Loaded: Guns in Contemporary Art “, Schiffer Publishing
Nancy Mozur, “About the Artist: Keiko Fukazawa”, Psychological Perspectives, the C.G. Jung Institute of L. A. Vol. 63
Scarlet Cheng, “BEYOND TRADITION: Looking Backwards, Moving Forwards”, BEYOND TRADITION: Contemporary Reflections in East Asia, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Susanna Meiers, “About the Artist: Keiko Fukazawa”, Psychological Perspectives, the C. G. Jung Institute of L. A. Vol. 61
Christopher Knight, "They see the personal in the Political", Los Angeles Times
John David O'Brien, "One Year", ARTILLERY
David S. Rubin, "ONE YEAR: The Art of Politics in Los Angeles", Visual Art Source
Betty Ann Brown, "Artists Continuing the Fight", ARTILLERY
Kay Whitney, "Made in China", Ceramics Monthly
Kala Barba-Court, "Made in China: Porcelain Objects by Keiko Fukazawa", Plain Magazine
Molly Enholm, "2016 Top Ten Lists", art ltd
Betty Ann Brown, “KEIKO FUKAZAWA:The Eclectic Collisions of Postmodern Bricolage”, KEIKO FUKAZAWA /CULTURE CLASH, El Camino college Art Gallery, Los Angeles
Scarlet Cheng, “KEIKO FUKAZAWA: Homage to A.W.”, COLA 2016, City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowships, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angels
Scarlet Cheng, "COLA AWARDS at LAMAG", ARTILLLERY
Molly Enholm, “Keiko Fukazawa: ‘Made in China: New Ceramic Works’ at Craft and Folk Art Museum”, art ltd
Christopher Knight, “ An Outsider Sends Message”, Los Angeles Times
Edward Goldman, “Chairman Mao and His Hundred Porcelain Flowers”, Art Talk, KCRW and Huffington Post
Sandra Barrera, Chinese Ceramics, Enamel Art Bloom”, Los Angeles Daily News
Jessica Gelt, “ Worldly influences”, Los Angeles Times
Scarlet Cheng, “KEIKO FUKAZAWA: The Art of Remaking”, Made in China: New Ceramic Works by Keiko Fukazawa, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Christy Johnson, “Crossroads in Clay at Chouinard and Otis,” Ralph Bacerra: Exquisite Beauty, Jo Lauria, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Jan Peterson & Susan Peterson , The Craft and Art of Clay, 5th edition, Laurence King Publishing Ltd, UK
Matthias Ostermann, The Ceramic Narrative, A&C Black Publisher Ltd., London, England
Paul Mathieu, Sex Pots: Eroticism in Ceramics, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ
Mark Del Vecchio, Postmodern Ceramics, Thames & Hudson, New York, NY
Susan Peterson, Contemporary Ceramics, Watson-Guptill Publications
Jo Lauria, Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000, Rizzoli, I.P.I.
Don Davis, Wheel-Thrown Ceramics, Lark Books, Asheville, NC
Kathy Triplett , Handbuilt Ceramics, Lark Books, Asheville, NC
Elaine Levin, Keiko Fukazawa and Joan Takayama-Ogawa, Ceramics Monthly (December)