Porcelain Sculptures by Fukami Sueharu

We are delighted to announce our September Asia Week exhibition of porcelain works by Fukami Sueharu, widely regarded as one of the greatest living ceramic artists of Japan.

Porcelain Sculptures by Fukami Sueharu, our fourth solo exhibition of the artist, includes 20 works from the 1970s to today, including his signature large vertical and horizontal sculptures.

Born into a family of potters in Kyoto in 1947, Fukami mastered the medium of clay from a young age and strove to go beyond traditional pottery, moving on to cultivate, as his work and techniques testify, his own signature style. Making innovative use of a technique involving injecting liquid porcelain into a plaster mold at high pressure, Fukami creates sublime sculptures with lustrous surfaces and soaring forms. Finished using a bluish- white glaze, also known as seihakuji, originating from 11th century China, the resulting pieces have an ethereal quality which this show serves to illuminate.

With works in the permanent collections of more than 70 museums worldwide, Fukami is widely admired and collected, both in his own country and across the world. Museums with his work include the Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; the British Museum; the Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

The exhibition is shown at our new gallery at

8 East 76th Street

New York, NY 10065