Shiro Tsujimura began his artistic career studying oil painting; however, he became disillusioned during this process and eventually abandoned the idea. Inspired by a classic Ido teabowl from the Folk Museum in Japan, Tsujimura embarked on the journey of ceramic arts. He is known widely known as a master of pottery as his ceramic works reflect a level of sophistication and return to nature in the various clay bodies and glazes he used. His dedication to the ceramic arts bleeds into his lifestyle. In 1967, Shiro and his wife moved to Mima, Nara, where he currently resides, and built a home, a teahouse, and seven kilns over the years.
1947 Born in Nara
1977 First exhibition in Mima, Nara Prefecture
1983 Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi Main Store, Tokyo
1990 Tachikichi Main Store, Tokyo
1993 Japan Art, Frankfurt, Germany
1994 Gallery Besson, London
2003 Koichi Yanagi Oriental Fine Arts, New York
2006 Yu Gallery, Palace Hotel, Tokyo
2007 Honshun-in Daitoku-ji Temple, Kyoto
Selected Public Collections:
Ackland Art Museum and the University of North Carolina
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
The British Museum, London, United Kingdom
Chado Research Center Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Frankfurt Craft Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of East Asian Arts, Berlin, Germany
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Stockholm Museum of Art, Sweden
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
