Jun Matsumura
As an artist growing up surrounded by the Japanese philosophy and subcultures, I create work based on the practice of Kogei (Japanese traditional arts and crafts) and I use porcelain as the medium to reflect on the delicacy of the modern culture.
Born in 1986 in Chiba, Japan.
He currently lives and works in Saitama.
graduated from the Tajimi City Pottery Design and Technical Center in 2015 and from the Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei Kobo (craft workshop) in 2018.
Jun Matsumuraʼs works have appeared in major exhibitions and art fairs in Japan and many other parts of the world, including
“MOMENT” (Giant Year Gallery, Hong Kong, 2017);
“BLUE or WHITE? Celadon, White Porcelain, and Bluish-White Porcelain” (Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, 2020);
“No Manʼs Land ‒ The Future of Ceramic Art, the Unseen Beyond the Horizon ‒” (The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, 2021);
ART BEIJING (China, 2016); SOFA CHICAGO (U.S.A., 2016); TEFAF Maastricht (Netherlands, 2017); COLLECT (UK, 2017); ART FAIR TOKYO (2017, 2018).