1955
Studied with ceramic designer Sakuzo Hineno
1969
Revived use of the traditional Japanese anagama natural firing kiln in order to reproduce classical style pottery
1992
Worked at the European Ceramic Work Center, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
1993
Instructor, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland OH, and Kent State University, Kent OH, USA
1996
Worked at Atelier du CEP, Aube, France
1997
Instructor, Huara Huara Studios and lecture at the National Museum of Santiago de Chile, Chile
1999
Instructor, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland OH, and Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
2004
Worked at the Sturt Craft Work Centre, Mittagong NSW, Australia
2008
Instructor, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland OH, and Kent State University, Kent OH, USA
2010
Instructor, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA, USA
2014
Instructor, Ceramics program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, Boston MA, USA
2015
Instructor, Ceramics department, National Art School, Sydney NSW, Australia
Solo Exhibitions (a selection)
2017
Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2016
Takashimaya Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2015
Yasuhisa Kohyama, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK (also in 2012)
Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Japan Art, Frankfurt, Germany
2014
Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (also in 2011, 2006, 2002, 1996, 1991, 1988, 1985, 1983, 1981, 1979)
2013
Takashimaya Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan (also in 2011, 2006, 2002, 1996, 1988, 1985, 1983, 1981, 1979)
2012
Takashimaya Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan (also in 2008, 2003, 1997, 1994, 1989, 1986)
2010
Lacoste Gallery, Boston MA, USA
2009
The Sculpture Center, Cleveland OH, USA
2008
Galerie Besson, London, Great Britain
2005
The Ceramic Art Gallery, Sydney NSW, Australia
2003
Galerie De Witte Voet, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (also in 1993)
1999
Avante Gallery, Cleveland OH, USA (also in 1995)
1994
Toraya Gallery, New York City, USA
1993
Contemporary Ceramics and Textile, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
Misawa Shitsurai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Miya, Tokyo, Japan
1992
Kohyama and Tanaka: Contemporary Ceramics and Textile Art from Japan, Museum het Princessehof, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany
1989
Masuiwaya Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Modem Gallery, Shizuoka, Japan
1988
Gallery Kita, Nara, Japan
Toubien, Nara, Japan
1986
Irodori Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
1985
Fukuda Kougei Gallery, Shiga, Japan
Akaneya Gallery, Nara, Japan
1984
Gakuenmae Art Gallery, Nara Japan
1980
Matsuzakaya Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
1973
Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Maruei Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Group Exhibitions (a selection)
2019
Yasuhisa Kohyama & Chiyoko Tanaka, Japan Art, Frankfurt, Germany
2017
Yasuhisa Kohyama & William Wilkins, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, UK
Still Crazy After All These Years...30 Years in Art, Browngrotta Arts, Wilton, Connecticut, USA
2016
From the Fire: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Robert and Lisa Kessler Collection, Denver Art Museum, Colorado, USA
Yugen Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, Officine Saffi, Milano, Italy
2015
Material Evidence, Olsen Irwin, Woollahra, Sydney NSW, Australia
Unfolding Worlds: Japanese Screens and Contemporary Ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX, USA
Of National Significance, Sturt Gallery, Mittagong NSW, Australia
2014
Tradition on Fire: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Paul and Kathy Bissinger Collection, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco CA, USA
Designed for Flowers: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore MD, USA
2013
Fired Earth, Woven Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics and Bamboo Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA, USA
Out of the Fire: Sultry Ceramics, Joan B. Mirviss ltd, New York City, USA
Retro/Prospective: 25+ Years of Art Textiles and Sculpture, browngrotta arts, Wilton CT, USA
Roots of Modern, LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton NY, USA
2012
Japanese Craft, Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, Great Britain
Craft Spoken Here: From the Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA, USA
2011
SOFA-NY, Lacoste Gallery, USA
Beauty in All Things: Japanese Art and Design, Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, USA
Stimulus: art and its inception, browngrotta arts, Wilton CT, USA
2010
SOFA-West, browngrotta arts, USA
The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show, Japonesque Gallery, New York City, USA
2009
SOFA-NY, browngrotta arts, USA
Contemporary Voices in Clay, Lacoste Gallery, Boston MA, USA
2008
SOFA-NY, Galerie Besson, Art Miya, USA
SOFA Chicago, Galerie Besson, USA
2007
Asian Art Fair, Art Miya, New York, USA
Classic & Contemporary Ceramics, Galerie Besson, London, UK
2006
SOFA-NY, browngrotta arts, USA
Tradition and Departure, Craft Act, Canberra, Australia
Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century, Japan Society, New York City, USA
Toji avant-garde et tradition du Japon, Musée national de la céramique Sèvres, Sèvres, France
2005
Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA, USA
Works from the Lake land: Ceramic Artisans of Shiga, The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Arts, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga, Japan
2004
Palmbeach Contemporary, browngrotta arts, USA
SOFA-NY, browngrotta arts, USA
2003
SOFA-NY, browngrotta arts, USA
2002
Ceramic Modernism: Hans Coper, Lucie Rie and Their Legacy, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada
SOFA-NY, browngrotta arts, USA
2001
Great Shigaraki, The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Arts, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga, Japan
2000
SOFA-NY, browngrotta arts, USA
400 years anniversary: Japan and the Netherlands, Galerie De Witte Voet, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ceramics, Lew Allen Contemporary, Santa Fe NM, USA
1999
SOFA-NY, browngrotta gallery, USA
1998
SOFA-NY, Chicago, browngrotta gallery, USA
Contemporary Ceramics: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA
1994
Kohyama Studio Crafts, Toraya Gallery, New York City, USA
1993
Application Art Collection by Benno Premsela, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Japanese Crafts Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan (also in 1992, 1959)
1992
Kohyama Studio Crafts, Washikurabu, Osaka, Japan
Kohyama Studio Crafts, Kokyouan Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Kohyama Studio Crafts, Matasuzakaya Art Gallery, Yokkaich, Japan
Continuity and Transformation: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics. Collection of the Everson Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse NY, USA
1991
Kohyama Studio Crafts, Daimaru Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Kohyama Studio Crafts, Toubien, Nara, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, Mitsukoshi Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1990
Kohyama Studio Crafts, Toyota Avenue Gallery, Nara, Japan
Primitivism in Contemporary Ceramics, The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Arts, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga, Japan
1989
Kohyama Studio Crafts, Ginza Matsuya, Tokyo, Japan
Kohyama Studio Crafts, Uchida Hall, Osaka, Japan
Kohyama Studio Crafts, Gallery Kaita, Tokyo, Japan (also in 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985)
1988
Kohyama Studio Crafts, Hosaka Gallery, Yamanashi, Japan
Kohyama Studio Crafts, Higashioji Gallery, Nara, Japan
1986
Kohyama Studio Crafts, Takashimaya, Kyoto, Japan
Ikebana international, Takashimaya Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
1985
Kohyama Studio Crafts, Daimaru, Osaka, Japan
1984
Kohyama Studio Crafts, Gakuenmae Art Gallery, Nara, Japan
1983
Shinkougei Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan (also in 1982)
1982
The Japan Fine Arts Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan
1979
Japanese Arts and Crafts Show, Private house, Los Angeles, USA
Kohyama Studio Crafts, Ginza Matsuya, Tokyo, Japan
1978
Contemporary Ceramics by Five Artists, Tousenbou, Kyoto, Japan
1970
Japanese Craft for Flower Arrangement and Tea Ceremony, Kyoto, Japan
Dentoukougei Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan
1967
Shigaraki Four Artist Exhibition, Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
Shigaraki Craft Exhibition, Beni Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Shigaraki New Work Exhibition, Sogo, Kobe, Japan
1966
Component of Modern Interior Exhibition, Kyoto Interior Consultant, Kyoto and Nikku, Fukuoka, Japan
Young Artists in Shigaraki Exhibition, Maruzen, Tokyo, Japan
1964
Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibition, Nagoya, Japan
Contemporary Craft Exhibition, Maruei, Nagoya, Japan
Japanese Ceramic Design for Export Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan
1959
Shiga Art Exhibition, Shiga, Japan
1958
Shigaraki Seitoukai Crafts Exhibition, Shigakaikan, Shiga, Japan
1957
Shigaraki Seitoukai Crafts Exhibition, Shigaraki Kankou Kaikan, Shiga, Japan
Awards
2010
SOFA New York, LongHouse Reserve Special Recognition Award for Best Artwork in Show
1983
Shinkougei Exhibition Award
1982
The Japan Fine Arts Exhibition Award
Shinkougei Exhibition Award
1970
Japanese Craft for Flower Arrangement and Tea Ceremony Award
Dentoukougei Exhibition Award
1964
Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibition Award
Contemporary Crafts Exhibition Award
Japanese Ceramic Design for Export Exhibition Award
1959
Shiga Art Exhibition Award
Works in Public Collections (a selection)
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH, USA
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse NY, USA
Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
European Ceramic Work Center, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland OH, USA
Kent State University, Kent OH, USA
Brooklyn Museum, New York City, USA
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, Great Britain St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis MO, USA
Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA Gardiner Museum, Toronto ON, Canada
Shigaraki Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Arts, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga, Japan
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA, USA
Sturt Craft Centre, Mittagong NSW, Australia
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney NSW, Australia
Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, USA
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA, USA
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati OH, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA, USA
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester MA, USA
Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture, Hanford CA, USA
LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton NY, USA
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco CA, USA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Heaven CT, USA