Akiko Noda
(b. Kyoto)
Akiko uses the medium of glass to carve moments of time, thereby allowing them tangible expression with longevity. She superimposes the daily changes in nature with dreams and memories.
The artist states:
“Glass is able to freeze a momentary expression, even though it is constantly changing under the influence of temperature and gravity.
The glass reflects the other side through the light.
You may say that it acts as the boundary between reality and illusion.
It is something yet also nothing at the same time.
The glass is a window that is open to the future and past.”
She opened her Kyoto atelier in 2013.
A vessle of Yin-yang-Full moon
2016
Kiln work (casting)
5cm × 14cm × 14cm
Lotus’s dream
2016
Pate de verre
53cm × 185cm × 185cm
moon in the transition
2016
Kiln work
6cm × 25cm × 25cm
fallen leaf
2014
Kiln work
8cm × 74cm × 41cm
reincarnate
2013
Kiln work, lamp work
16cm × 78cm × 50cm
take your time
2011
Kiln work
19cm × 67cm × 44cm
with the passage of time
2009
Fused, kiln cast, blown/installation
Various sizes
the everlasting time
2009
Kiln cast, blown, polish
11cm × 47cm × 35cm
EDUCATION
2011 Master of Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Art gallery Takashimaya Department store, Kyoto
GLASS GARDEN, Kodaiji Entokuin Zen Temple, Kyoto
2016
SOKYO Gallery, Kyoto
SAYU Gallery, Kyoto
Art gallery Takashimaya Department store, Tokyo
Concorso Arte Milano 2016, II Vicolo, Strate, Milano, Italy
2015
The 54th Japan Contemporary Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Art gallery Takashimaya Department store, Kyoto
Gallery Tomikoji, Kyoto
Gallery Shimada, Kobe
Gallery Echo-ann, Tokyo
2014
SOKYO Gallery, Kyoto
2012
Gallery Ami-Kanoko, Osaka
Gallery Echo-ann, Tokyo
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Seattle Art Fair (Repost Kyoto/London)
Affordable Art Fair Brussels, Belgium
London Art Fair, UK
2018
Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London, UK
2017
The 56th Japan Contemporary Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art
2015
Art Fair Tokyo 2015
The 54th Japan Contemporary Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
2014
The 53rd Japan Contemporary Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
2013
The 45th Japan Fine Arts Exhibition (Nitten), The National Art Center (Tokyo); Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (Kyoto).
The 52nd Japan Contemporary Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Subsequently exhibited at 8 locations including Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art ; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.
2012
Competition of Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition, Sanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi
2011
Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju, Korea
Competition of Contemporary Glass Triennial, Toyama
2010
Competition of Hyogo Craft Exhibition, Hyogo
2009
Glass Exhibition, Geidai Art Plaza, Tokyo
KYOTEN 2009, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Photo x Glass Exhibition by Hiroshi Ando & Akiko Noda, Kobe newspaper gallery, Hyogo
AWARDS
2015 Prize of Kyoto Chamber of Commerce and Industry President, Kyoto Art Exhibition
2013 Grand Prize, 52nd Japan Contemporary Arts and Crafts Exhibition
2012 Prize of Miwa Kyusetsu, Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition, in Sanyo-Onoda
2011 Prize of Taito-Ward President
2009 Audience prize, Tokyo Glass Art Institute Exhibition