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About Ricca OKANO : Ricca OKANO (1965, Tokyo, Japan) graduated from Kyoritsu Women's Junior College. After graduating college, she experienced making ceramic art while traveling. Then she entered Ceramic Art Technical School in Tajimi. Her energy started with a solo exhibition in Tokyo while helping her mother’s work. She hoped to express a new possibility of ceramic art with inspiration from material. Then she moved to the countryside, Karuizawa, in Nagano Prefecture from 2005. Using ceramics and a video, she tried installation art to express the real world and the spiritual world. When you look at her work, she hopes to enrich your life, using your own energy possibilities.
STATEMENT OF ART:
I desire to bring hope, peace, comfort and relief to those who view my art.

ORGANIZATION:
Japan

NON-DESIGN OCCUPATION:
Secretary Agriculture, nature, animals, environment

EDUCATION:
1985, Kyoritsu Women's Junior College, Tokyo/Japan

PRIVATE EXHIBITIONS:
1994, Galerie412, TOKYO/JAPAN
1996, Gallery Genkai, TOKYO/JAPAN
1996, Kaneko Art Gallery, TOKYO/JAPAN
1997, Galeria Ceramica, TOKYO/JAPAN
1998, Galerie pousse, TOKYO/JAPAN
1999, Galerie pousse, TOKYO/JAPAN
2000, Kukansha Sirako, TOKYO/JAPAN
2001, Kaneko Art Gallery 2, TOKYO/JAPAN
2002, Galerie pousse, TOKYO/JAPAN
2004, Gallery KOU, TOKYO/JAPAN
2004, Galerie ou, OSAKA/JAPAN
2004, Kaneko Art Gallery2, TOKYO/JAPAN
2005, Youkobo ART SPACE, TOKYO/JAPAN
2011, Gallery Daiwa, GIFU/JAPAN
2013, TRI-ANGLE, KARUIZAWA/JAPAN
2014, “Picnic of The Summer Moon”, KANEKO ART TOKYO, TOKYO/JAPAN
2014, "Country of The New Moon", Gallery aTo, MANAZURU/JAPAN
2014, "Voice of The Frost”, Gallery MUSAI, TOKYO/JAPAN
2015, "Midnight Sun", Gallery KOU, TOKYO/JAPAN
2015, "A Meteor Shower", BITOHA, KARUIZAWA/JAPAN
2016, "Coffee cups 100", Art Space 563, TAIPEI/TAIWAN
2016, "Moonlit Night”, art collection museum, NAGANO/JAPAN
2017, art collection museum, Nagano, Shigitatsuan|Oiso, JAPAN
​2018, be here now, Karuizawa, NAGANO/JAPAN

MIXED EXHIBITIONS:
2006, Gallery KOU, With Hiroshi Nomoto, TOKYO/JAPAN
2007, “Sense & Space”, Chikuma River Highway Museum, NAGANO/JAPAN
2008, TRI-ANGLE, With Hiroshi Nomoto, KARUIZAWA/JAPAN
2009, ESPACIO TAO, With Hiroshi Nomoto, MADRID/SPAIN
2009, Imagine, With Hiroshi Nomoto, ASHIKAGA/JAPAN
2009, Gallery Daiwa, With Hiroshi Nomoto, GIFU/JAPAN
2010, TRI-ANGLE, With Hiroshi Nomoto, KARUIZAWA/JAPAN
2010, Galerie Pousse, With Hiroshi Nomoto, TOKYO GINZA/JAPAN
2010, “108 Earthly desires”, Gallery Bi-dama, With Eiko Kamiyama, OSAKA/JAPAN
2013, “Rolling into the stream”, Atelier Kika, With Hiroshi Nomoto, KAMAKURA/JAPAN
2015, “Galactic Stream", Wachigai, With Hiroshi Nomoto, NAGANO/JAPAN
2015, "Nusutomori", Shingoster LIVING, With Hiroshi Nomoto, TSUKUBA/JAPAN
2015, "Flowers of The Moon", Gallery Bi-dama, With Arlan Huang, OSAKA/JAPAN
2015, "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories", Gallery Bi-dama, OSAKA/JAPAN
2015, "Feeling to go to the growth", Vol.4, Gallery SUDO, TOMIZU/JAPAN
2016, "In Tune", BITOHA, KARUIZAWA/JAPAN
2016, "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories", Gallery Bi-dama, OSAKA/JAPAN
2017 "3rd Discover The One Japanese Art", Ashok Jain Gallery, N.Y./USA
2018, "Artistic feeling...Vol.Ⅱ", Imagine, ASHIKAGA/JAPAN

EVENTS:
2015, "SHINANO Primitive Sense Art Festival ", NAGANO/JAPAN
2018, Artist in Residence HAKONE, SENGOKUHARA, JAPAN

AWARDS:
2017, 20th TARO Award, Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum, KAWASAKI/JAPAN.

PRESS APPEARANCES:
2018, "Lake Ashinoko", Sesame, p16, autumn Vol.9, TOKYO/JAPAN
2018, " The Noise Awoke Me" and " Hot Spring Egg", Kotoripu, p13, Vol.19, TOKYO/JAPAN

ACCOLADES:
2017, 20th TARO Award, Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum, KAWASAKI/JAPAN.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Japanese (Native)
English (Beginner)

COMPUTER LITERACY:
Adobe Illustrator, Advanced.
Adobe Photoshop, Advanced.

HOBBIES:
walking

WEB SITE:
https://www.riccaokano.com

PORTFOLIO URL:
https://www.riccaokano.com/works

RSS URL:
https://www.riccaokano.com/c-v

REGISTRATION DATE:
2017-09-01 00:06:16

COUNTRY/REGION:
Japan

ACCOUNT TYPE:
Professional



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