Born in Shizuoka, Japan, 1968
Lives and works in Chiba, Japan
One-Person Exhibitions
2016
Mending, Guillemets Layout Studio, Tokyo, Japan
2014
A New Scenery, Bouun, Fukuoka, Japan
Two-Person Exhibitions
2021
Kazunori Hamana in collaboration with Yukiko Kuroda, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions
2024
Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood, BLUM, Tokyo, Japan
Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood, BLUM, Los Angeles, CA
2023
100 Hooks, Blunk Space, Point Reyes Station, CA
2022
Tracing the Roots, Tokyo, Japan
2021
Amélie Maison d’art, Paris, France
2020
At The Noyes House Blum & Poe, Mendes Wood DM and Object & Thing, The Eliot Noyes House, New Canaan, CT
5,471 miles, Blum & Poe, Tokyo, Japan
2017
Restore: A Kintsugi Woman and an Ikebana Woman, Karin-so, Chiba, Japan
Repairing Vessels, Isetan Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009
Vessels and Repairing, Gallery M2, Kochi, Japan
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Catalogues
2021
Kemske, Bonnie. Kintsugi: The Poetic Mend. London: Herbert Press, 2021.
Articles and Reviews
2022
Alphonso, Sharon. “10 Japan-based Contemporary Ceramic Artists You Need to Know.” TokyoWeekender, December 23, 2022.
Hall, Kenji. "Blemished Beauties." Crafts (Autumn/Winter 2022): 98–113.
Françoise, Muriel. "L'appel du large." Milk Decoration (Spring 2022): 44–51.
2021
Kirshner, Hannah. “On Japan’s Pacific Coast, an Artist Communes with Nature.” NYTimes.com, December 3, 2021.
Mitchell, Rory. “Bold, Bulbous, and Irregular: The Ceramics of Kazunori Hamana.” Ocula.com, October 23, 2021.