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Asayo Yamamoto

Born 1980 in Tokyo
Lives and works in Amsterdam

STUDIES
2008 Sandberg Institute, applied art department, Amsterdam
2005-2008 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, ceramic department, Amsterdam
2003-2005 M.F.A. Tama Art University, ceramic department, Tokyo
1999-2003 B.F.A. Tama Art University, ceramic department, Tokyo


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
“Kunst Vlaai”, Amsterdam

Yeosu International Art Festival , Korea

Open Studio, Goyang Art Studio, Korea

“Special Story” CYAN museum, Korea


2009
“Vorm en Beeld”
Keramiek expositie bij Financien, Den Haag

DMY International Design Festival Berlin 2009
DOMESTIC MAKING "a house of possibilities" by Applied Art department

The special exhibition DMY Jury Selection by Bauhaus Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung

Kappalai -Havenmuseum Rotterdam NL

Kawasaki Art Session -Kanagawa JP

Blooming Project –Bergen NL

Kappalai no.2 -Siebolthuis Leiden NL

2008
“Goudomrand-Vorm en Beeld”
De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam 　

" Views"
Museum Waterland, purmerend

2007
“ Pretty Dutch”
Princessehof Leeuwarden National Museum of Ceramics,
Leeuwarden, 22 April – 28 Oktober

Rietveld naar de Beurs 2007, Beurs van Berlarge, Amsterdam

“Mingle mingle”
Exhibition of Contemporary Art Works by Three Female young Artists　　
Cultural and Information Center of the Embassy of Japan,Brussel,

2006
Rietveld naar de Beurs 2006, Beurs van Berlarge, Amsterdam

2003
SPILAL Hall, Tokyo

“Japan and German Exchange on Ceramic”, Tokyo

2002
“Nanohana-Satomi Hakkenn Exhibition” Asumigaoka/ Chiba


RESIDENCIES

2010
“IASK Asia Pacific Aritists Fellow ship Residensy Program”
Goyang Art Studio of National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea

2009
Blooming Project, Bergen NL

2006
Artist-in-Residence, EKWC NL



PUBLICATIONS

2008 Contemporary Dutch Ceramics NVK Author: Piet Augustijn






text from Liesbeth den Besten

Asayo Yamamoto studied ceramics at Tama Art University in Tokyo and at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Presently she is studying at the Applied Arts department of the Sandberg Institute for MA education in Amsterdam. Asayo doesn’t seem very interested in the perfect and skilled Japanese tradition of making ceramics, in which she was initially trained. She is not interested in beautiful forms, but in the touch and feel of materials. Her strange creatures are moulded by hand, and combined with materials, like bicycle tubes, felt, rubber gloves or plastic grass, which create completely different haptic sensations. This object is all about the hand and touch. Fingerprints form the pattern along which the object is entwined with narrow bands of re-used rubber. There is nothing very skilled, shiny or aesthetical about this object, it doesn’t show off. It has no function and it is even difficult to put it somewhere. It is a hybrid without a history but with a self-assured character. She made this object as part of her graduation show in 2008. On this occasion she transformed a technical classroom, filled with all kinds of equipment, into another world with strange creatures growing from or on machines. Some parts of the brick wall were covered with a kind of mildew, made with the help of picked wool.
Asayo Yamamoto is a ceramicist of a new generation, who uses ceramics as the basis for work that expands beyond our notions of ceramics, skill and craft.