Taizo Kuroda

Taizo Kuroda
Brief Personal History

Taizo Kuroda was born in Notogawa, Shiga Prefecture in 1946.
After spending a year in Paris in 1966, he moved to New York and then to Canada in1967.
In 1981 he returned to Japan and built a kiln in Matsuzaki-cho, Izu.
Later, in 1991, he built a kiln in Futo, Ito City.
He published his first book “White Porcelain” in 2001.
In 2015 ” White Porcelain TAIZO KURODA” (Kyuryudo) was published and “Kuroda Taizo: Hakuji e (To White Porcelain)” (Heibonsha) was published in 2007.

Main Exhibitions
2019 “TAIZO KURODA: White Porcelain”, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka
2018 “Vase for Flowers: Taizo Kuroda and Akito Akagi”, Gallery NOW, Toyama
2016 Craft Arts “Innovation of “Tradition and Avant-Garde”, and the Present Day”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo
KURODA TAIZO Exhibition”, Tristan Hoare, London
2015 “Taizo Kuroda: Space of White Porcelain”, Gallery NOW, Toyama
Simple Forms: Contemporary Beauty”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2013 “Master Tea bowls of Our Days”, Musée Tomo, Tokyo, Japan
“Crafts Modern, Now”, Rakusuitei Art Museum, Toyama, Japan

“Contemporary Kogei Styles in Japan”, Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Miami, FL
2012 “New Footing: Eleven Approaches to Contemporary Craft”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo
GIAPPONE TERRA DI INCANTI: The Beauty of Japanese Crafts, Palazzo Bitti, Firenze, Italy.
2006Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramics for the Tea Ceremony, Musée Tomo, Tokyo, Japan
2004 “TAIZO KURODA,” Zetterquist Galleries, New York
2003 “CHANOYU Exhibition of Tea Ceremony”, New York JAPAN SOCIETY, New York.
“Kuroda Taizo’s White Porcelain and Black Prints”, Gallery NOW, Toyama, Japan
“Contemporary Japanese Ceramics: Admired Traditions. New Messages”, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2002 From the Museum Collection “A History of Modern Crafts”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo
2002 “Kuroda Taizo Ceramics Exhibition”, Gallery NOW, Toyama
“Kuroda Taizo Exhibition”, Tong-In Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2001 “Five Words”, Gallery NOW, Toyama
2000 “Taizo Kuroda Exhibition”, Zetterquist Galleries, New York
“Thoughts on Contemporary Vessels”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo

Public Collection
Rakusuitei Art Museum, Toyama
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, U.S.A.
Brooklyn Museum, New York, U.S.A.
Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation, New York, U.S.A.
Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, California, U.S.A.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, U.K.