Hitomi Hosono CV
Hitomi Hosono is a ceramics artist and designer, born and raised in Gifu Prefecture in Japan. She graduated MA Ceramics & Glass course at Royal College of Art in July 2009. Her ceramics experience is rooted in both Japanese and European traditions. Before arriving in UK, she studied Kutani Pottery in Kanazawa city in Japan as well as ceramics product design in Copenhagen in Denmark. Her interest is to design and make ceramics objects and tableware using traditional technique with a contemporary approach.
 

Education
  2007-   MA Ceramics and Glass course, Royal College of Art, London  
  1998-2002   BA, Crafts/Ceramics, Kanazawa College of Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa pref.,Kanazawa  

Residencies

  2003-2005   Utatsuyama Craft Workshop, Ceramics Workshop, Kanazawa city-subsidized craft residency in Ceramics with stipend, Kanazawa  

 

Internship

2008

2008

  

Wedgwood (Design Department), Stoke-on-Trent

Asprey London (Design Department), London

  
         

Award and Fellowship
  2007-2009   ITO Foundation for International Education Exchange sholarship  
  2005   Rotary Foundation Academic-Year Ambassadorial Scholarship 2005-2006, assigned school: Danmarks Designskole  
  2005   Utatsuyama Craft Workshop Award (Purchase Awards for Permanent Collection)  
  2004   Silver prize, Craft Design 2004 Tajimi, juried exhibition, Mino International Ceramic Park, Tajimi  
  2004   Hokuriku Broadcast President`s Prize, Kanazawa Craft Exhibition, Daiwa Department Store, Kanazawa  
  2004   Utatsuyama Craft Workshop Award ( Purchase Awards for Permanent Collection),Kanazawa  
  2004   Grand prize, Graphic Ceramics, juried exhibition, Mino International Ceramic Park, Tajimi  
  2003   A Prize, Kani City Art Exhibition, Kani Culture Hall, Kani  
  2003   A Prize, Ishikawa Modern Craft Exhibition, M`za Department Store, Kanazawa  
 

Exhibitions
  2009   Ornament. Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffork, UK  
      Adrian Sassoon, Pavilion of Art&Design London, London, UK,2009  
      British Ceramics Biennial; FRESH exhibition, Stoke on Trent, UK  
      New Designers Graduate Show, London UK  
      Art & Utility, The West Wales School of the Art Gallery, UK  
  2008   Vienna Cafe 1900, Vienna Cafe festival, Royal College of Art, London  
  2007   Rosenthal Design Award,Transformation - New Products for a New Way of Life,International Design Centre Berlin, Berlin  
  2006   Rosenthal Design Award, Juried Competition, Emma Metzler Restaurant, MKA, Frankfurt  
  2005   Group Exhibition, Art space of Kounou Bank, Kanazawa  
  2005   WORKS, Utatsuyama Resident’s Group Exhibition,Wacoal Ginza Art Space,Tokyo  
  2005   Sake Vessels, juried exhibition,Tokyo Design Center,Tokyo  
  2005   Craft Design 2004 Tajimi, Juried exhibition, Mino International, Ceramic Park, Tajimi  
  2005   Wan-One Grand Prize Exhibition, juried competition, Daiwa Department Store, Kanazawa  
  2004   Ceramics Exhibition with Koie Ryoji, an exhibition featuring tea bowls by selected Utatsuyama ceramics workshop residents, Craft A Gallery, Kanazawa  
  2004   Japan Modern Craft Association Regional Exhibition, Exhibition Hall, Daiwa Department Store, Kanazawa  
  2004   Graphic Ceramics, juried exhibition, International Ceramic Center, Tajimi  
  2004   WORKS: Utatsuyama Annual Resident’s Exhibition, Utatsuyama Craft Workshop, Kanazawa