Chisato Yasui was born in Aichi, Japan in 1984 and she is a ceramic and mixed media artist. She graduated with an MA in Art and Design from the University of Tsukuba in 2010. She currently lives in Tsukuba-city, Ibaraki where she continues to create her work while raising three children together with her husband.
Chisato’s aim is to visualise the things we usually cannot see such as “harmony” and “relationships”, by making viewers conscious of them through her work. She thinks art work can exist like a groundwater vein to connect various things. For example, connecting everyday to extraordinary, oneself to others, subconscious to conscious... She wants her work to function in this way.
She has always loved to create since she was a child. Most of her work had been expressed by painting in watercolors, oils, acrylics until she met Prof. Toshiju Saito who is a professor of ceramics at the University of Tsukuba and also a ceramic artist. This encounter with Toshiju Saito and ceramics brought a great opportunity and a major turning point of her work. Her main medium of expression has been ceramics since then.
Chisato was hugely influenced by her professor, Toshiju Saito who works in ceramics and iron. His theme is “archetype”. He said, “In creation, we should not impose our image on the material. Just do not obey the material's voice. Look closely at the relationship between the material and us. And it is important to find out how we are involved in the molding process and how much we control the material and ourselves. In that way we should train ourselves to find out the truth with our own sense.”
At the same time, she experienced childbirth in the first year of her master's degree. She could sense that "Children are born on their own, they descend to the ground with their will. So when I am giving birth I do not need to get nervous or put any strength on my body. All I need to do is to relax the body and create a space in my heart and body. It is important that I feel myself becoming a pathway for children to come here.” This experience has been fundamental to her creative process.
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Education
2007 University of TSUKUBA Undergraduate School of Art and Design
2010 Master’s Program in Art and Design, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human
Sciences, University of TSUKUBA
Award & selected exhibition
2019 ARTROOMS fair London 2019 , Single work section/ London, The United
Kingdom
2018 Art collaboration Tsukuba/ Ibaraki, Japan
2018 KAGAWA YAMANAMI Art Festival / Kagawa, Japan
2018 ARTROOMS fair Roma 2018 , Room section/ Roma, Italy
2017 12th DAIKOKUYA Contemporary Art Award Exhibition / Tochigi, Japan
2016 The 50th Female Ceramic Art Competition / Kyoto, Japan
2015 The 4th “TENSAI 108” At DAIHONZAN ZOJO Temple in 2015 /Tokyo, Japan
2014 The 48th Female Ceramic Art Competition / Kyoto, Japan
2013 The 47th Female Ceramic Art Competition/ Kyoto, Japan
2011 The 13th Tokyo-New York Friendship Ceramic Competition/ New York, U.S.A
2011 The 45th Female Ceramic Art Competition/ Kyoto, Japan
2010 The 46th Kanagawa Art Exhibition 2010 / Kanagawa, Japan
2009 YOUNG GUNS , Australian Ceramics Toriennale / Australia200
Prize
2010 The 44th Female Ceramic Art Competition, "Chief of the NHK Kyoto
Broadcast Station" Prize/ Kyoto, Japan
Solo & Group exhibition
2020 KOGEI-KAIRO - Craft Passageway / Ishikawa, Japan
2020 CHISATO YASUI solo exhibition “Water vain – Bloodline” / YUUKI SUWA
Shrine, Ibaraki, Japan
2019 The 8th Great Anachronism exhibition _Autumn / SHIMAZONO-house(Important
Cultural Property), Tokyo, Japan
2019 The 7th Great Anachronism exhibition _Summer /SHIMAZONO -house(Important
Cultural Property), Tokyo, Japan
2019 International
Artists Exchange Show U.S.-Japan The 5th CROSSCURRENT / @Tokyo
Metropolitan Museum, Japan
2018 “Thinking of Living and Art ”CHISATO YASUI solo exhibition /@Agre design
office /Tokyo, Japan
2018 The joint exhibition “OHAIRI – Please come here” /＠Pace around gallery / Nagano, Japan
2018 “CHISATO YASUI ceramic solo exhibition” /＠SHUYU
gallery/ Tokyo, Japan
2017 The joint exhibition “Something has throbed, then it’s spilled off” /＠art gallery closet/ Tokyo, Japan
2015 The joint exhibition “ZARARI,NYURURI,POTARI” /＠art gallery closet/ Tokyo, Japan
2015 The solo exhibition “stroke your skin” /＠Silver
Shell art gallery/ Tokyo, Japan
Art fair
2020 Art Space Link Art Fair in Kanazawa / atelier
& gallery creava / Ishikawa, Japan
2019
Pavi Art Fair / UFOFABRIK / Pavia, Italy
2019
Hybrid Art Fair / UFOFABRIK / Madrid, Spain
Collection
2020
Stream (2020) ,2pieces /A Lighthouse called Kanata / Tokyo, Japan
2019
A Whale (2015) / Vessel gallery / London, The United Kingdom
