b 1955 

Yagi Akira is a prominent Japanese ceramic artist from a family of important ceramic artists. His father, Yagi Kazuo, was a founding member of Sodeisha,  the postwar avant-garde movement that transformed ceramics from functional craft into a form of modern sculpture. Akira followed his father in the exploration of ceramics as art, but forged his own path

Born in Kyoto, he studied ceramics and uses his knowledge of traditional forms and technique to push the boundaries of contemporary work. Often working in a celadon glaze, his forms often blur the line between functional and artistic creations, with nesting elements, unusual shapes, and refined forms being often returned to motifs

Yagi Akira has been recognized by Honoho, Japan’s leading ceramic publication, as one of the leading figures in contemporary Japanese ceramics as well as receiving the Japan Ceramic Society (JCS) Award.His works are held in major international museum collections, including the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. 

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