History
1958 | Born in Kesennuma, Japan. |
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1981 | graduated at Miyagi University of Education, Art Course, Sendai, Japan. |
1982-85 | Assistant Organiser, Symposion Lindabrunn, Austria. |
1983 | Attended the Yorkshire Sculpture Conference, England. |
1984 | Visiting Lecturer, Art Schools in Dublin and Cork, Ireland. |
1983-87 | Worked at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop (mainly in winter). |
1984 | Acting Organiser, Symposion Lindabrunn, Austria. |
1985- | Visiting Lecturer, Art Schools in Edinburgh and Glasgow,Scotland. |
1985 | Made an Honourable Corkanian, Cork, Republic of Ireland . |
1986 | Adviser, The Scottish Sculpture Trust, Scotland. |
1986 | Committee Member, The Sculpture Advisory Group for the Glasgow Garden Festival, Scotland. |
1986 | Technical Director, Sculpture Symposium, Aberdeen Young ArtistsFestival, Scotland. |
1988 | Co-founder, Green Formation Planning Co.,Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. |
1988 | Latimer Award, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland. |
1988 | Co-founder and member, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Scotland. |
1988 | Attended the International Sculpture Conference, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. |
1989 | Organiser, Sendai International Sculpture Symposium '89, Sendai, Japan. |
1991 | Worked at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop. |
1991 | Established the Ukishima Sculpture Co.,Ltd., in Sendai and Ukishima Sculpture Studio in Iwate, Japan. |
1991 | Consultant, Jozenji-dori Area Planning Committee, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. |
1992 | Ukishima Sculpture Co.,Ltd. moved to Iwate-town, Iwate, Japan. |
1992- | Committee member/Vice Chairman(1997~), Iwate-cho International Sculpture Symposium, Numakunai, Iwate, Japan. |
1993- | Member, Symposion Lindabrunn, Austria. |
1993 | Organiser, PACT project, Sendai, Japan. |
1993 | Adviser, Shichigahama Art Warriors '93 , Ceramic Symposium, Shichigahama, Miyagi, Japan. |
1993 | Adviser, Stone Sculpture Competition, 8th National Culture Festival-Iwate, Japan. |
1993 | Attended the TICKON International Sculpture Conference, Langeland, Denmark. |
1994-96 | Art Director, Symposion Lindabrunn, Austria. |
1995 | Co-ordinator, International Sculpture Conference, Lindabrunn, Austria. |
1996 | Adviser, Bon'ness International Sculpture Symposium, Scotland. |
1996 | Member, Japan Urban Design Institute |
1997- | Associate Member, Japan Institute of Architects, Iwate, Japan |
1998 | Jury for sculpture section, Iwate Festival of Art, Morioka, Iwate, Japan |
1998 | Administrator, Iwate Art Festival UK98, Iwate, Japan |
2000 | Artist In Residence, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland |
2000-01 | Committee member, Reseach for recoordination of Ishigami no Oka Sculpture Park, Iwate, Japan |
2001 | Artist in Residence, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
2001 | Committee member, Ishigami no Oka Sculpture Park, Iwate, Japan |
2003 | Awarded Best Artist in Iwate 2002 |
2003 | 1st price winner of the Iwate Numakunai Art Road project Competition, Iwate-town, Iwate, Japan |
2003 | Invited speaker for the Stone Work Symposium 2005, Ohio, USA |
2005 | Art Director,Kokaido Art Show 2005, Iwate ken Kokaido, Morioka, iwate, Japan |
2006 | Member of Organising Committee, Ikebukuro Art Festival 2006, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan |
2007 | Invited speaker for the Krastal International Stone Conference , Karntern, Austria |
2007 | Art Director, Kokaido Art Show 2007, Iwate ken Kokaido, Morioka, iwate, Japan |
2007 | Invited speaker for the Hualien Sculpture Conference, Taiwan |
2010 | Art Director, 3rd Kokaido Art Show+, Iwate ken Kokaido, Kyu-Ishiikenreishitei, Morioka, iwate, Japan |
2011- | Initiator of the “ Postcard Projects”, Japan and UK |
2016 | Awarded the 1stprize Invited competition for Nichiiko Co.Ltd 50th Anniversary Monument project, Toyama, Japan. |
2016 | Worked at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop |
2019- | Committee member, Coordination of Ishigami no Oka Art Museum, Iwate, Japan. |
Solo Exhibitions
1987 | Installation Demonstration, Miyagi Museum of Fine Art, Sendai, Japan. |
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1989 | Somewhere in Sometime, one man show, Clio Gallery,Sendai, Japan. |
1997 | One man show, Moriioka Crystal Gallery, Morioka, Iwate, Japan |
2001 | Hironori Katagiri, Jock Colvill Hall, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK |
2001 | Hironori Katagiri, Peacock Visuall Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK |
2001 | Light and Silence, Morioka City Art Centre, Morioka, Iwate, Japan |
2004 | Sarasara, Bansuii Gallery,Sendai, Miyagi, Japan |
2004 | Kate Thomson nd Hironori Katagiri,Two man Show, space TRY Gallery, Shiroganedai, Tokyo, Japan |
2008 | The Eloquence of Material, Hillside Forum, Daikanyama, Tokyo, Japan |
2016 | “Drawing Exhibition”, solo exhibition at Junko Museum, Kitakami, Iwate, Japan |
2018 | “Ghost Memory”, Yorozu Tetsugoro Memorial Museum, Hanamaki, Iwate, Japan |
2018 | “Hironori Katagiri / Lifetide”, Birch Tree Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
Group Exhibition
1978 | Four Man Show, Green Plaza, Sendai, Japan. |
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1979 | Excretion, two man show, Sendai Museum, Japan. |
1984 | 12 Japaner im Frauenbad, Baden, Austria. |
1985 | Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland. |
1985 | Scottish Sculpture Open 3, Kildrummy Castle,Aberdeenshire, Scotland. |
1985-99 | Work exhibited in Crammond Sculpture Park, Scotland. |
1986 | 3 me Biennale Euro en de Sculpture, Normandie, France. |
1986-90 | Sculpture Walk. Lumsden, Scotland. |
1987 | Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland. |
1987 | Stein-Objekt-Projekt, Kreisverwaltung, Bad-Duerkheim, Germany. |
1987 | Industrie Messe, Koblenz, Germany. |
1988 | Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland. |
1988 | College Lands Sandstone Sculpture Project, Glasgow, Scotland. |
1989 | Sendai International Sculpture Symposium '89, Nanakita Park, Sendai, Japan. |
1989 | 10 Years On, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland. |
1990 | Haramura Sculpture Exhibition, Yatsugatake CulturePark, Haramura, Nagano, Japan. |
1990 | Sculpture Trail, Inverness, Scotland. |
1990 | 4th Japan Stone Product Concours, Oshima, Ehime,Japan. |
1991 | Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland. |
1991 | 5 Stone Carvers, Konishi Gallery, Kyoto, Japan. |
1991 | Good Things Which Have No Name In Japan, two man show,Green Plaza, Sendai, Japan. |
1992 | NL40 in Iwate Sculpture Exhibition, Iwate, Japan. |
1995 | Japan Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia |
1995 | Yamanashi International Centre, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan. |
1996 | Two Man Show, Shirai Gallery, Nanao, Ishikawa, Japan. |
1997 | Water And Green, sculpture competition, selected moquette show, Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan |
1997 | Invited artist, Iwate Prefecture Festival of Art, Morioka, Iwate, Japan |
1997-99 | Iwate Festival of Art, Morioka, Iwate, Japan |
1998 | Best Art Works in1997 from Miyagi, travelling shows around Miyagi-prefecture, Japan |
1998 | Affinity, Iwate Art Festival UK98, Gallery Saiensu, Morioka, Iwate, Japan |
2001 | Hironori Katagiri and Kate Thomson, Bansui Gallery, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan |
2002 | Art Fair, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2002 | Christmas Charity Exhibitoin for UNISEF, Bansui Gallery, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan |
2003 | Japan-Rumania Cultural Exchange 2003 Exhibition, Tokyo Metroplitan Art Space Exhibition Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2003 | Small Sculptures from Iwate sculpture Symposium in 30 Years, Ishigami no Oka Gallery, Iwate, Japan |
2003 | Best Artist Awards 2002, Odette Gallery, Morioka, iwate, Japan |
2004 | Sara Sara, Bansui Gallery, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan |
2004 | Kate Thomson and Hironori Katagiri, SpaceTRY, Shiroganedai, Tokyo, Japan |
2005 | Kokaido Art Show 2005, Iwate ken Kokaido, Morioka, iwate, Japan |
2006 | Tokyo Ikebukuro Art Festival 2006,Takata Primary School, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan |
2007 | Kokaido Art Show 2007, Iwate ken Kokaido, Morioka, iwate, Japan |
2007 | 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Bansui Gallery, Sendai, MIyagi, Japan |
2008 | Eloquence of Material, 4 man show, Hillside Forum, Daikanyama, Tokyo, Japan |
2008 | Spring Wind-Art Front Gallery Collection, Hillside Forum, Daikanyama, Tokyo, Japan |
2009 | “Lyrical Abstractions” Mellerstian House, Berwickshire, Scotland |
2009 | “Lyrical Abstractions 2” Hill House, Helensburgh, Scotland |
2009 | “RSA Annual Open”, Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Scotland |
2010 | Hatsu-Uri Show, Iwate Prefecture Kokaido Civic Hall, Morioka, Iwate, Japan |
2010 | 3rd Kokaido Art Show+, Iwate Prefecture Kokaido Civic Hall, Kyu-Ishiikenreishitei, Morioka, Iwate, Japan |
2010 | "SOFA", New York, USA |
2010 | Kate Thomson and Hironori Katagiri Sculpture, Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
2010 | "Christmas Exhibition", Compass Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland |
2011 | Kate Thomson and Hironori Katagiri Sculpture, Hart Gallery, London, UK |
2011 | Living With Art, Club 8 Sutdio Morioka, Iwate, Japan |
2011 | City Stones, Park, J.Slowacki Park, Wroclaw, Poland |
2011 | "Messages From the North ~Tsunami Charity Exhibition", Gallery Tamura, Tokyo, Japan |
2011 | "20 Years ON: Ukishima Sculpture Studio", Kyu Ishi Kenrei shitei, Morioka, Iwate, Japan |
2011 | "Mellerstain Art Gallery Summer Exhibition", Mellerstain Art Gallery, Mellerstain House, Gordon, Berwickshire, Scotland |
2011~ | “Postcards From Japan”, St.John’s Church, Edinburgh, UK, touring to Japan Society, New York, USA, Japan Embassy, London, UK, IKON gellery, Birmingham, UK |
2011 | "TOHOKU - SCOTLAND", Sculpture Court, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland |
2011 | RSA OPEN 2011,Edinburgh, Scotland |
2011 | "Christmas Exhibition", Kyu Ishi Kenrei shitei, Morioka, Iwate, Japan |
2011~ | Postcards To Japan, Iwate Museum of Art, Morioka, touring to Fukushima Museum of Art, Minami Soma museum, Fukushima, Japan |
2012 | "Out of Abstraction", Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
2013 | “Lyrical Abstractions-Kate Thomson and Hironori Katagiri”, Space TRY, Tokyo, Japan. |
2013 | Maritime Exhibition, Coal Ruadh Sculpture Park, Scotland |
2013 | “Fumizuki-ten”, Art Gallery, Chinzanso Hotel Tokyo, Mejiro, Tokyo, Japan |
2013 | selected “RSA OPEN”, Edinburgh, Scotland. |
2013 | “London Art Fair”, represented by 108 Fine Art, London, England, UK |
2014 | “Christmas Show”, Kaigado Gallery, Imperial Hotel Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan |
2014 | “New At 108”, 108 Fine Art, Harrogate, England,UK |
2014 | As Ithers See Us”,Pobert Burns Birthplace Museum, Murdoch's Lone, Alloway, Ayr, Scotland, UK |
2014 | Kenreitei Anonymous”, Kyu Ishii Kenrei shitei, Morioka, Iwate, Japan. |
2014 | Milton Mixed Winter Show”, Milton Art Gallery, Banchory, Scotland, UK |
2014 | “REC3.11 ~Post 3.11.What Art Can Do?”, Kyu Ishii Kenrei shitei, Morioka, Iwate, Japan. |
2015 | “Invisible Matters”, Art Gallery, Aberdeen University, Scotland, UK |
2016 | "Drawing Exhibition”, Junko Museum, Kitakami, Iwate, Japan |
2016 | “Lyrical Abstraction~Stone Sculpture Exhibition”, Milton Art Gallery, Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK |
2017 | Invited artist, 154th Open Annual Exhibition, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Art, Mitchell Library, Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
2018 | ““Iwate Art Fair”, Club Eight Studio Morioka, Iwate, Japan |
2021 | “Lyrical Abstractions: Kate Thomson and Hironori Katagiri”, Implexus Gallery, Morioka, Iwate, Japan |
2021 | “Family Portrait - 10th Spring”, Kyu Ishii Kenrei shitei, Morioka, Iwate, Japan. |
2022 | “Lyrical Abstraction: Kate Thomson+Hironori Katagiri”, Implexus Gallery, Morioka, Iwate, Japan |
2022 | "Turning Tide: 30 YEARS OF UKISHIMA SCULPTURE STUDIO KATE THOMSON AND HIRONORI KATAGIRI", Ishigami no Oka Museum Gallery, and Flower and Sculpture Area, Iwate, Iwate, Japan. |
International Sculpture Symposium
1978 | Suwako International Sculpture Symposium /Suwako Sculpture Park Project, Japan. |
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1981 | Hagi International Sculpture Symposium /Shizukiyama Citizen's Park Project, Japan. |
1982 | Siklos International Sculpture Symposium /Open-air Theatre Project, Hungary. |
1982 | Lindabrunn International Sculpture Symposium /Enzesfeld Playground Project, Austria. |
1983 | Oost West Forum, Holland Festival, Dordrecht, Holland. |
1983-84 | Baden International Sculpture Symposium /City Hospital Garden Park Project, Austria. |
1984-86 | Lindabrunn International Sculpture Symposium /Lindabrunn Playground Project, Austria. |
1985 | Cork 800 International Sculpture Symposium, Cork, Republic of Ireland. |
1986 | Lumsden International Sculpture Symposium, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
1987 | Bad-Duerkheim International Sculpture Symposium /Kur Park Playground Project, Germany. |
1987 | Lindabrunn International Sculpture Symposium /Nieder Austria NewCapital City Public Art Project, Austria. |
1988 | Lindabrunn International Sculpture Symposium, Austria. |
1988 | College Lands Sandstone Sculpture Project, Glasgow, Scotland. |
1989 | Sendai International Sculpture Symposium '89, Sendai, Japan. |
1990 | Park-Hills Tawara Sculpture Symposium, Kansai Science City, Osaka, Japan. |
1990 | Malta-Oshima Sculpture Symposium, Oshima, Ehime, Japan. |
1995 | Lindabrunn International Sculpture Symposium, Austria. |
1996 | Nanao International Artist Camp, Nanao, Ishikawa, Japan. |
1997 | NL40 Sculpture Symposium, Iwate-town, Iwate, Japan |
2002 | Rachana International Sculpture Symposium, Lebanon |
2003 | Iwate Sculpture Symposium, Iwate-town, Iwate, Japan |
2007 | Krastal International Stone Symposium , Karntern, Austria |
Public Projects
1990 | Monument for the hundredth anniversary of the establishment of SannaiVillage, Akita, Japan. |
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1991 | Yurinoki-dori Sculpture Project, Hamamatsu, Japan. |
1991 | V.J.Bering Monument Plaza, Ajishima, Miyagi, Japan. |
1992 | Fountain Monument, Contemporary Poet Park, kitakami,Iwate, Japan. |
1993 | PACT project, Monument for the Centenary ofSendai Dai-ichi High School, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. |
1993 | Sculptures for Neox, Chiba New Town Chuo, Chiba Japan. |
1994 | Fountain Monument for Furusato Nigiwai Plaza, Hashikami, Aomori, Japan. |
1995 | Monument for 50th Anniversary of establishment, Tsuchiyagawa, Kuzumaki,Iwate, Japan. |
1995 | Monument for the celeblation of the completion of the land re-adjustment project, Ruike-Minami, Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan. |
1998 | Monument for Hacho-Dozo, Yorozu Tetsugoro Museum, Towa, Iwate, Japan |
1998 | Sculpture Monument for redevelopment of Hirosaki city centre, Aomori, Japan |
1999 | Gate Sculpture for ukishima Primary School, Iwate Town, Iwate, Japan |
1999 | Clock Tower for the Iwate Town Sport Park, Iwate, Japan |
1999 | Street furniture for Hirosaki City Land-readjustment Project, Aomori, Japan |
2000 | Sculptures for Roppongi Restaurant XEX, Tokyo, Japan |
2001 | Sculptures for Daikanyama Restaurant XEX, Tokyo, Japan |
2001 | Fountain sculpture for Restaurant XEX in Atago Mori Bild., Tokyo, Japan |
2002 | Waiting For Sunrise 2002, sculpture for Asahi Seimei Insurance Building, Morioka, Iwate, Japan |
2002 | Symphonia, Symbol Sculpture for the Iwate Kodomo-no-mori Park, Ichinohe, Iwate Japan |
2003 | Symbol Sculpture for the Kamakura Women's University, Kanagawa, Japan |
2003 | Sculptures for XEX Daikanyama, Tokyo, Japan |
2003 | Sculptures for Loys Cafe, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan |
2003 | Symbol Sculpture for the Iwate Numakunai Station, Iwate Japan |
2004 | Gate Sculpture for ukishima Primary School, Iwate Town, Iwate, Japan |
2004 | Sculptures for Dorchister Minamiaoyama, Minamiaoyama, Tokyo, Japn |
2004 | Sculptures for Nango library, Nango, Aomori, Japan |
2005 | Sculpture for private garden, Morioka, Iwate, Japan |
2005 | Sculptures for Five star, Minamisuna, Tokyo, Japan |
2006 | Monument for Takuboku Ishikawa, Morioka daiichi High School, Morioka, Iwate, Japn |
2006 | Fountain Sculpture for IHI Co.,Ltd bild., Toyosu, Tokyo, Japan |
2006 | Sculpture for Wiseman Co.,Ltd, Morioka, Iwate, Jaapn |
2007 | Sculpture for Kato Clinic, Morioka, Iwate, Japan |
2007 | Sculpture for Sapporo bild., Sapporo, Japn |
2007 | Day and Night for Peninsula Hotel, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan |
2007 | Fountain sculpture for Restaurant XEX in Tokyo Daimaru Bild., Tokyo, Japan |
2007 | Sculpture for Praud Shin-Urayasu, Shin-Urayasu, Tokyo, Japan |
2008 | Sculpture for Tachikawa Memorial International Hall, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan |
2009 | Sculpture for Rikkyo University, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan |
2009 | Sculpture for Hamadayama, Suginami, Tokyo, Japan |
2010 | Kaiko,Eclipse, sculpture for Higashi Gotanda, Tokyo, Japan |
2010 | Izutsu, sculpture for Anyoin temple, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan |
2010 | Sculpture for Motoazabu Praud, Tokyo, Japan |
2011 | Wind and Tide, Minatomirai, Yokohama, Japan |
2011 | Sculpture for office, Kumamoto, Japan |
2012 | Sculpture for Pallace Hotel, Tokyo, Japan |
2012 | Sculpture for residential building, Sendai, Japan |
2012 | Sculpture for Park Homes Tsukiji, Tokyo, Japan |
2012 | Seven Days, Hori Clinic, Kamaishi, Iwate, Japan |
2013 | Sculpture for private house, Morioka, Iwate, Japan. |
2013 | Sculpture for Kudan Minami residence art project, Tokyo, Japan |
2014 | Sculpture for Azabudai residence art project, Tokyo, Japan |
2014 | Sculpture for Chiyodafujimi The Tower art project, Iidabashi, Tokyo, Japan |
2014 | Sculpture for Takanawa Proud residence art project, Tokyo, Japan |
2015 | Sculpture Bench for Sakiyama Kaizuka JOmon Park, Miyako, Iwate, Japan |
2015 | Sculpture for Park City Osaki The Tower, Osaki, Tokyo, Japan |
2016 | Sculpture for residential building, Hiroo, Tokyo, Japan |
2016 | “Sky High”, 50th Anniversary Monument for Nichi-iko Co.Ltd project, Toyama, Japan. |
2016 | “White Eclipse”, Oikawa Clinic, Morioka, Iwate, Japan |
2017 | “Awakening Landscape”, for residential building, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. |
2017 | “Awakening Landscape”, for residential building, Yushima, Tokyo, Japan |
2017 | ““Sleeping Heart”, for Ginza Six, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan |
2017 | “Sleeping Heart”, for residential building, Minato, Tokyo, Japan |
2017 | “Obelisk”, Nichi-Iko Co.Ltd, Namerikawa, Toyama Japan |
2018 | “Revelation”, Park Court Hinokimachi The Tower, Tokyo Midtown, Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan |
2018 | ““White Eclypse”, Hyatt Regend Beijing Hotel, China |
2018 | “Harmonie Préétablie”, for residential building, Ichibancho, Tokyo, Japan |
2018 | “Stellar Wind”, KPMG, Edinburgh, Scotland |
2019 | "Tsukubai", Ueno Ikenohata, Tokyo, Japan |
2019 | "Moon", "Earth", "Wind", "Mountain", Park House Grand Minami Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan |
2019 | “Pulse”, for Park House Ebisuminami, Tokyo, Japan |
2019 | “Oval”, for Musashikoyama Palm, Kanagawa, Japan |
2019 | “Premotion for Journey”, for Guguan Hoshinoya, Taiwan |
2019-20 | "Source", "Waveship", "Tide", "Flow", "Rain" for Leafia Tower Ebina, Kanagawa, Japan |
2019 | “Monument for planting by Irish woman's Hockey Team”, for Sport Park, Iwate-town |
2022 | “Sleeping Heart /Crystalline”, for Park Homes Nihonbashi-Honcho, Tokyo, Japan |
2023 | “Eclypse”, for Park House Takanawa-Matsugaoka, Tokyo, Japan |
2023 | “Awakening Landscape”, for Brillia Nerima Kasugacho , Tokyo, Japan |