Matsushima, Iwao                  View matsushima's Catalogue                    

 Born in Okayama City, Japan, 1946

Education and Career

1970           Graduated from the Faculty of Education,
            Okayama University

1971            Began Self-Education in Core–Formed glass

1972            Opened his own studio

1990 – 93   Instructor, Niijima International Glass  Art Festival

1994  -       Part-Time Lecturer,
                  Toyama City Institute of Glass Art

1997 -        Part-Time Lecturer, Okayama University

1997, 99, 03  Special Lecturer, Tama University of Art

1998          Demonstrator, G.A.S. Conference in Seto, Japan

2001          Demonstrator, G.A.S. Conference Corning, NY

2001,  04   Instructor, The Studio of Corning Museum  of   Glass

2003          Participated in the International Association for the History
                  of Glass, AIHV 2003, London
                       
Awards

2004          Fukutake the Art Award     

2000          Okayama Prefecture: Encouragement for the Art Award

1996          Okayama City: Encouragement for the Art Award

Solo Exhibits

2004          Resurrecting core-formed glass
                  Mostly Glass Gallery, Englewood, NJ, USA

1981-         Various places in Japan

Other Exhibits

2004          Sculpture Objects and Functional Art (SOFA), New York
                  Represented by Mostly Glass, Englewood, NJ

2002           Venezia Vetro 2002 Galleria Rossella Junck,
                   Venice                     

2001          Ancient Glass, Challenge by Glass Artists”                   Oriental Art Museum, Tokyo, Okayama Orient Art Museum, etc 

2000          Vessels The International Exhibition of Glass: 
                  Koganezaki Glass Museum                               

2000          Sculpture Objects and Functional Art (SOFA), Chicago
                 Represented by Mostly Glass, Englewood, NJ

1999          2000 Years of Japanese Glass:
                  From the Yayoi Period to the Present Day
                 Suntory  Museum of Art. Tokyo, Osaka

1999         Glass Art : History and Now, Okayama Orient Museum 

1998         Contemporary Japanese Glass: One Aspect, Seto

1997          5^th Glass Works Korea,  Seoul           

1995, 98    The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa ’95 , ’98.

1994          World Glass Now 1994 Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art,  
                  Sapporo

1990 , 96   Glass ’90, ’96 in Japan : Tokyo 

1990          Glass Japan Heller Gallery : New York

1991          Contemporary Glass : Australia, Canada, USA & Japan
            National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

1980,82     Kokuten, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo

Public Collection

                  Niijima Contemporary Glass Art Museum

                  Toyama City, Itami City Craft Center,
                        Sanda City Glass Center
                   Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo

Bibliography (Some of the Exhibit Catalogues are omitted)

2004          Resurrecting core-forming glass, a Catalogue
           with an essay by Christopher Lightfoot  

2003         Contemporary Glass Artist in Japan, Asahi Glass Co. Ltd.

2002          Ginka #131 Bunkasyuppanshya

2002         Contemporary Lampworking II, Bandhu Dunham, USA

2000         VETRO #7,  Cover Story, R. Tsuchida Iwao Matsushima, 
                 The colors of the Rising Sun,  CSV, Murano, Italy

1998        Ancient Glass Art Collection no. 73, Kyoto Shoin

1998,95   New Glass Review 19, 16  The Corning Museum of Glass

1997       Contemporary Glass Art in Japan 
               Art Collection no. 62, Kyoto Shoin

1993        All About Glass N. Tomobe, Gyousei 

1993       Glasswork no. 16 
               R. Kuroki: Matsushima Iwao from Antiquity to the Present

1983       A Guide of Glass   T. Yoshimizu, Heibonsha

1982       Ancient Glass II, Core-Formed Glass Vessels,

        Okayama Orient   Museum

1981       Glass in the Modern World, Kyoto Tankosha