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Nonaka-Hill Nonaka-Hill is an international contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles, active in primary and secondary markets, by Rodney and Taka Nonaka-Hill.

Kimiyo Mishima’s exhibition “Fragile” is on view at Nonaka-Hill Los Angeles through this Saturday, June 13.Mishima has l...
06/10/2026

Kimiyo Mishima’s exhibition “Fragile” is on view at Nonaka-Hill Los Angeles through this Saturday, June 13.

Mishima has long transformed images of newspapers, magazines, cardboard boxes, cans, and other traces of information and consumption into ceramic form.
Her works quietly reflect on the accumulation of information, memory, waste, and the speed of contemporary society.

In addition to ceramic works, the exhibition also presents early paintings, lithographs, and mixed-media works, offering a broader view of Mishima’s long-standing artistic practice.

Final days to view the exhibition.
Please don’t miss this opportunity.

Kimiyo Mishima, “Fragile”
On view through Saturday, June 13
Nonaka-Hill Los Angeles

Kimiyo MishimaWork 20-G2017–2020Kimiyo Mishima (1932–2024) was a pioneering Japanese artist whose work explored the frag...
06/03/2026

Kimiyo Mishima
Work 20-G
2017–2020

Kimiyo Mishima (1932–2024) was a pioneering Japanese artist whose work explored the fragility of information, consumer culture, and the accumulation of waste in contemporary society.

Created during the later years of her career, Work 20-G incorporates tin, iron, melting slag, shirasu, FRP glass fiber, styrofoam, copper, electric cable, and wood. Evoking the remnants of a future civilization, the work reflects Mishima’s lifelong interest in the passage of time, material transformation, and the traces left behind by human activity.

FRAGILE is currently on view at Nonaka-Hill Los Angeles through June 6, 2026. .*

Image:
Kimiyo Mishima
Work 20-G, 2017-2020
Tin, iron, melting slag, shirasu, FRP glass fiber, styrofoam, copper, electric cable, wood
86 5/8 x 74 3/4 x 47 1/4 in (220 x 190 x 120 cm)

“小さい家で大きな犬を飼ったり、サイズの合わない家具を置いたりすると、床が抜けると、友達が言っていた。A friend once told me that if you keep a large dog in a small house o...
06/03/2026

“小さい家で大きな犬を飼ったり、サイズの合わない家具を置いたりすると、床が抜けると、友達が言っていた。

A friend once told me that if you keep a large dog in a small house or put furniture in there that doesn’t fit, the floor might cave in.”

Image:
Kyoko Idetsu
Dog and Furniture That Doesn’t Fit the Size of the House 「家のサイズに合わない家具と犬」, 2025
Oil on canvas
23 7/8 x 16 1/8 in (60.6 x 41 cm)

出津京子 個展「酷暑」は現在、Nonaka-Hill京都にて開催中です。会期は2026年7月11日まで。

Kyoko Idetsu’s solo exhibition “Extreme Heat” is currently on view at Nonaka-Hill Kyoto through July 11, 2026

#出津京子

Repost from On View | Keita Matsunaga: The Shape of StrataA silent friction between clay, lacquer, and time. Keita Mats...
06/02/2026

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On View | Keita Matsunaga: The Shape of Strata

A silent friction between clay, lacquer, and time. Keita Matsunaga’s solo exhibition, ”The Shape of Strata,“ is now open at B1OCK GALLERY.
Trained in architecture, the Japanese ceramicist infuses rigorous spatial structuralism into raw clay.

Matsunaga subverts the industrial obsession with ”perfection.“ Working with unrefined clay, he embraces the unpredictable shrinkage, fissures, and structural collapses of the kiln. These accidental ”errors“ become the true, honest skeleton of the work.

Coated with uneven layers of clear urushi lacquer, the eroded, tree-ring-like surfaces make invisible forces—gravity, evaporation, and duration—tangible under the light. They mimic the contours of vessels, yet firmly reject utility, existing purely as quiet, heavy sculptures.

On view through June 21st. Experience the shifting weight and form at -1F.

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Exhibition Information:
Artist: Keita Matsunaga
Duration: 2026.05.29 - 2026.06.21
Location: B1OCK GALLERY, -1F, Building 11, OoELi, Hangzhou


 

Nonaka-Hill Galleryより、阿曽藍人と安永正臣が「第20回 パラミタ陶芸大賞展」に参加いたします。パラミタ陶芸大賞展は、2006年より開催されている、日本の現代陶芸を代表する作家たちを紹介する展覧会です。全国約300名の美術...
06/01/2026

Nonaka-Hill Galleryより、阿曽藍人と安永正臣が「第20回 パラミタ陶芸大賞展」に参加いたします。

パラミタ陶芸大賞展は、2006年より開催されている、日本の現代陶芸を代表する作家たちを紹介する展覧会です。全国約300名の美術館・博物館関係者、画廊、美術評論家らの推薦によって選出された6名の作家が出品し、会期中の来館者投票によって大賞が決定されます。

会場となるパラミタミュージアムは、三重県菰野町に位置し、現代陶芸をはじめとする多彩な展覧会を継続的に開催する美術館です。

《第20回 パラミタ陶芸大賞展》
会期：2026年6月4日（木）– 7月26日（日）
会場：パラミタミュージアム（三重県菰野町）

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We are pleased to announce that Rando A*o and Masaomi Yasunaga will participate in the 20th Paramita Ceramic Art Grand Prize Exhibition.

Established in 2006, the Paramita Ceramic Art Grand Prize Exhibition highlights leading voices in contemporary Japanese ceramics. Six artists are selected through recommendations from approximately 300 museum professionals, curators, galleries, and critics across Japan, and the Grand Prize is determined by votes cast by museum visitors during the exhibition.

The exhibition is held at the Paramita Museum in Mie Prefecture, a museum known for its ongoing program of contemporary art and ceramic exhibitions.

The 20th Paramita Ceramic Art Grand Prize Exhibition
June 4 – July 26, 2026
Paramita Museum, Mie, Japan



#パラミタ陶芸大賞展

Keita Matsunaga’s solo exhibition “The Shape of Strata” will be held at B1ock Gallery in Hangzhou, China from May 29 thr...
05/27/2026

Keita Matsunaga’s solo exhibition “The Shape of Strata” will be held at B1ock Gallery in Hangzhou, China from May 29 through June 21, 2026.

Born and raised in Tajimi, Gifu — one of Japan’s historic ceramic regions — Matsunaga approaches clay as a living material shaped not only by the artist’s hand, but also by gravity, time, drying, cracking, and sedimentation. Rather than fully controlling these processes, he allows them to remain visible within the work itself.

The surfaces of his sculptures recall geological strata, eroded landscapes, or the rings of a tree — layered traces of time and accumulation. Through subtle variations in texture, tone, and form, the works quietly reveal the memory of the land and the passage of time.

Though reminiscent of vessels, Matsunaga’s forms move beyond functionality toward a sculptural presence that feels both restrained and deeply physical. His works appear less “made” than slowly formed over time, as though they have naturally emerged from the earth itself.

Venue: B1OCK GALLERY
Building 11, -1F, OōEli
398 Tianmushan Road
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Nonaka-Hill is pleased to share that Kentaro Kawabata is participating in “A Form of Reverence,” a group exhibition cura...
05/21/2026

Nonaka-Hill is pleased to share that Kentaro Kawabata is participating in “A Form of Reverence,” a group exhibition curated by Derek Weisberg at Greenwich House Pottery.

Bringing together nine artists working across contemporary ceramics and sculpture, the exhibition explores reverence through material, transformation, gesture, and presence. Centered around the alchemic nature of clay, the exhibition considers the medium as a site where earth, air, water, and fire converge — transforming matter through process, attention, and time.

Kentaro Kawabata’s “Seed,” along with motifs of saplings, leaves, and nature’s abundance, serves as a metaphor for generative power and the sacred unfolding of life itself.

The exhibition remains on view through June 20, 2026.

Greenwich House Pottery
16 Jones Street
New York, NY 10014

Images: © Alan Wiener, courtesy Greenwich House Pottery 2026.

Ceramics Sculpture NewYork

Nonaka-Hill 京都では、5月16日より7月11日まで、出津による個展「酷暑」を開催いたします。近年、日常の語彙として定着しつつある『酷暑』という言葉に着想を得た本展は、個々人がそれぞれに不均質な現実のうちに置かれながら、いかに共通...
05/12/2026

Nonaka-Hill 京都では、5月16日より7月11日まで、出津による個展「酷暑」を開催いたします。

近年、日常の語彙として定着しつつある『酷暑』という言葉に着想を得た本展は、個々人がそれぞれに不均質な現実のうちに置かれながら、いかに共通の状況を共有するに至るのかという、出津の継続的な関心を反映しています。言葉と絵画によるインスタレーションを通して、作家はそうした重層的な経験のありようにかたちを与えます。

Nonaka-Hill Kyoto is pleased to present Extreme Heat, Izutsu’s solo exhibition, on view from May 16 to July 11.
 
Inspired by the term “extreme heat,” which has recently entered everyday vocabulary, the exhibition reflects Izutsu’s ongoing interest in how individuals, each situated within uneven realities, come to share common conditions. Through an installation of language and painting, the artist gives form to these layered states of experience.

Ritsue Mishima is part of The only true protest is beauty, the debut exhibition for Fondazione Dries van Noten at Palazz...
05/11/2026

Ritsue Mishima is part of The only true protest is beauty, the debut exhibition for Fondazione Dries van Noten at Palazzo Pisani Moretta in Venice, Italy. Curated by Dries Van Noten with Geert Bruloot, the Presentation considers craftsmanship as a language of expression and a conduit for emotion. The exhibit runs from 25 April 2026 to 4 October 2026.

An installation of her sculptures are also on view at Ethnography of the Body and Material—Slowness and Depth in an Accelerated Society, a group exhibition opening May 9 2026, at Palazzo Pisani Santa Marina in Venice. The artists involved in this exhibition will present their “sensory fieldwork,” taking place in the margins of an accelerated society via different materials such as fire, water, earth, fiber, urushi (lacquer), and glass, as well as the body.


https://fondazionedriesvannoten.org/en

Nonaka-Hill Los Angeles is honored to present the works of Kimiyo Mishima in her second exhibition with the gallery. FRA...
05/08/2026

Nonaka-Hill Los Angeles is honored to present the works of Kimiyo Mishima in her second exhibition with the gallery. FRAGILE is currently on view.

Kimiyo Mishima (1932–2024) felt revulsion toward a culture of temporary fulfillment—newspapers once read instantly became useless, and vending machine beverage cans were purchased, their contents chugged, and the cans immediately tossed. She strove, through her seven decade career, to convey the fragile state of the environment, and her fear of being buried in infinite information and detritus.

Mishima abandoned painting around 1970, having become conceptually and metaphorically attracted to the medium of ceramic — because it can break. She replicated single-use consumer items by flattening clay into thin sheets, silkscreening and inpainting the daily news and commercial graphics that beguiled her.

Focusing on ceramic sculpture and grand scale multi-media installations, she often utilized newspaper pages that featured stories about current politics, art exhibitions, music or theatrical events, or celebrities and fashions of the moment. Mishima remained attuned to societal change and continually experimented with her work, perfecting her techniques while also incorporating materials that evoked the passage of time. These collected moments of her life stand as a diary that continued to grow in breadth until shortly before she died in the Fall of 2024.

Nonaka-Hill opened in 2018 with an inaugural exhibition of 1960s paintings by Kimiyo Mishima, complemented by photographs from Shomei Tomatsu’s “Plastics” series. Both artists were children during WWII, but went on to achieve seven-decade-plus careers creating essential expressions within Japan’s postwar art movement. This second exhibition spans various points in Mishima’s life, marking her as a pioneer of Pop Art and conceptual ceramics in Japan and internationally.

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