Akane Yamamoto

Akane Yamamoto was born in1977 in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture.
She started cutting gold (“Kirigane”) on her own in 1999.
In 2000 she began studying traditional Kirigane techniques under Sayoko Eri, holder of the Important Intangible Cultural Property “Kirigane”.
In 2001 she graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts, Department of Fine Arts, Japanese Painting (copying and ink painting).
From 2002 to 2008 She worked as a part-time lecturer in 2002 at Kyoto University of Art and Design.
In 2011 she graduated from Toyama City Institute of Glass Art and stablished her own studio in Kyoto City.
She is currently a regular member of the Japan Kogei Association.

Major Awards
2011 Gold Prize, The 6th Snow Design, Nakaya Ukichiro Museum of Snow And Ice
2013 Kyoto City New Artist Award, 2012
2013 Best Category Prize: 3D Category, EWAA Competition (London)
2014 NHK Chairman’s Prize, 61st Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition
2015 Special Award, 35th Traditional Japanese Culture Pola Award
2016 Akebono Prize, Kyoto Prefecture Cultural Award
2020 The 33rd Kyoto Fine Arts Culture Award
2021 The 1st Classics Day Prize

Selected Exhibitions in Recent Years
2008 “Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition” (’10,’11,’12,’13,’14,’16,’17) ’18,’19)
2011 “Akane Yamamoto Exhibition: “Kirigane and Glass”, Gallery NOW (Toyama)
2014 “MASTERPIECE” (London – ’17)
2014 “Coalescent Kogei: Future of Tradition through Encounters”, Ginza Wako (Tokyo)
2014 “Treasures in Japanese Houses: the Beauty of Installations”, Rakuisuitei Art Museum, Toyama
2015 “Akane Yamamoto Kirigane Glass Exhibition”, Gallery NOW (Toyama)
2016 “Kirigane Glass Exhibition – Trip of Saio-” Art Gallery, Takashimaya Nihonbashi store, Tokyo
2016 “400-year Commemoration of Rimpa Art: Works by New Artists, – Rimpa Forever -,” The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
2017 “Resonating Beauty: Yoshinori Tsuchiya, Masayasu Mitsuke, Akane Yamamoto,” Gallery NOW, Toyama, Japan
2021 “Akane Yamamoto- the decade of the Kirigane Glass-“, Art Gallery Sogo Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan

Major Public Collections
Imperial Household Agency
Toyama Glass Art Museum
Nakaya Ukichiro Museum of Snow and Ice (Ishikawa)
Yoshizawa Memorial Museum of Art, Sano (Tochigi)