Midori Tsukada Japanese, 1972

Midori Tsukada (b. 1972) has many degrees from Toyama City Institute of Glass Art and Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei Kobe. Since 2011, Tsukada has been working in her own studio in Toyama. Tsukada has received numerous accolades in Japan, including the 2001 Honorable Award at the International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa and the 2009 Honorable Award at the 4th Exhibition of Contemporary Glass Koganezaki in Shizuoka. Her work is held in public collections all over the world, such as Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, Notojima Glass Art Museum, Toyama Glass Art Museum, Koganezaki Christal Park Glass Museum and The Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (MUDAC), Lausanne (Switzerland), Philadelphia Museum of Art in the U.S. Tsukada utilizes gravity in her forms and is characterized by the blues and greens produced by copper leaf. She employs highly-skilled techniques-grinding in a spray of water to create lines of minute delicacy or filing, making a translucence like that of light shining down through the leaves of a forest. They possess a Japanese sensibility evocative of rain, dew, or bamboo groves, filled with a clear atmosphere and organic energy. 

Biography:

 1972       Born in Gifu, Japan

1998 - 2000       Toyama City Institute of Glass Art, Glass Certification Studies Program, Toyama, Japan

2000 - 2002       Graduated from Toyama Institute of Glass Art, Advanced Research Studies Program, Toyama, Japan

2002 - 2004       Researcher at Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei Kobo, Ishikawa, Japan

2004       Graduated from Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei Kobo, Ishikawa, Japan

2004 - 2006       Glass Assistant at Akita Municipal Junior College of Arts and Crafts, Akita, Japan

2006 - 2011       Studio Coordinator of Glass at Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei Kobo, Ishikawa, Japan

2011       Established her own studio based in Toyama, Japan

Public Collections:

The Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (MUDAC), Lausanne, Switzerland

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

Notojima Glass Art Museum, Ishikawa, Japan

Toyama Glass Art Museum, Toyama, Japan

Koganezaki Christal Park Glass Museum, Shizuoka, Japan

Awards:

2001       Honorable Award at the International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa

2002       Honorable Award at the Contemporary Glass Triennial in Toyama

2004       Special Prize at the 4th Contemporary Glass Exhibition in Satsuma, Kagoshima 2006       Asahi Glass Prize at the 3rd Exhibition of Contemporary Glass Koganezaki in Shizuoka

2007       Silver Prize at the International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa

2009       Honorable Award at the 4th Exhibition of Contemporary Glass Koganezaki in Shizuoka

2010       Excellent Prize at Glass Craft Triennale

2010       Takeda Atsushi Prize at the International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa

2012       Fujita Kyohei Prize at the 5th Exhibition of Contemporary Glass Koganezaki in Shizuoka

2013       Gold Prize at the International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa

2016        Silver Prize at the International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa
2019        Silver Prize at the International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa
2020        Honorable Mention at the International Crafts Award Toyama