Education

Faculty of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts, Department of Crafts, Major in Ceramics

Teaching Experience & Professional Affiliation

2016 – Present | Part-time Lecturer, Department of Plastic Arts, Faculty of Arts, Kyoto Seika University, Ceramics Major

2019 | Guest Lecturer, Department of Crafts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts, Ceramics Major

2016 | Guest Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts (Sculpture Major), Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts

Member of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC)

Artist Residencies

2022 | Resident Artist, Mondial Tornianti Gino Geminiani, Italy

2019 | Invited Resident Artist, Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Gimhae, South Korea

2017 | Invited Resident Artist, Shiga Prefectural Ceramic Museum of Ceramic Forest, Shiga, Japan

Awards & Selected Public Exhibitions

2021 Kashima Ceramics Grand Prize Exhibition – Excellence Award

Selected for Mino 21 International Ceramics Festival

Recipient of Kobe Foundation Scholarship

2020 Nominated for the 23rd Taro Okamoto Modern Art Award Exhibition

2019 Selected for Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale & 8th Kikuchi Biennale

2017 Nominated for the 12th Paramita Ceramic Grand Prize Exhibition

Selected for the 3rd Kanazawa World Craft Triennale

2016 Hagi Grand Prize Exhibition IV: Contemporary Form Ceramics – Honorable Mention

2015 Kyoten Exhibition – Director’s Encouragement Award

Meijer × Shigaraki Grand Prize: Today’s Japanese Ceramics – Tradition and Innovation – Silver Award

32nd Nagasan Prize Tokoname Ceramics Exhibition – Nagasan Prize

2014 43rd Nagasan Prize Tokoname Daily-use Ceramics Exhibition – Nagasan Prize

2013 Selected for Kobe Biennale of Contemporary Ceramics

2004 Kyoto City University of Arts 2003 Annual Works Exhibition – Alumni Association Prize

Selected Solo & Group Exhibitions

2021 *Abundant Tea Ceramics Exhibition*, New Acquisitions Exhibition, Ibaraki Prefectural Ceramics Museum, Ibaraki, Japan

2019 *Flowers of Clay FLOWERS* & Solo Exhibition *Sayaka Oishi -Binary-*, Shiga Prefectural Ceramic Museum of Ceramic Forest, Shiga, Japan

2018 *Tea Ceramics Today — Hagi 2018*, Hagi Museum of Yamaguchi Prefecture · Uragami Memorial Hall, Yamaguchi, Japan

2017 Thematic Exhibition of Gwangju International Ceramic Biennale, Gyeonggi Ceramic Museum, South Korea

2016 *Hisaya Kojima’s Adventure of Clay*, Gifu Prefectural Museum of Modern Ceramics, Gifu, Japan

2011 *Beauty as Utility*, Kyoto Takashimaya Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan (on view 2012 / 2013 / 2015)