Matsui Toshio

BiographyToshio Matsui was born in 1955 in Osaka, Japan. Having started studying Art at theUniversity of Kyoto, he completed his studies in ceramics in Faenza, Ravenna, Italy,where he won a scholarship in 1989. The artist work is commonly described as a collaborative work between nature and the artist himself. His ceramic works carry an experimental feeling that arises from a managed balance of the nature spontaneous forces present in the clay material as it is, with little or none modification, accepting the natural expression of the material or any accidental changes, and the emphasis on the original concept imprinted by the artist, maintaining his initiative. Read More

Awards include the Grand Prize in the 40th edition of the International Competitionof Contemporary Cermic Art in Faenza, Italy (1982), the Grand Prize in the 14th annualSwiss International Ceramic Biennale, Parcours Ceramique Carougeouis (2015) andthe 29th Kyoto Fine Arts Cultural Award, Kyoto, among others. His work is represented in the collections of The International Museum of Ceramics,Faenza, Italy; the Sougetsu Museum in Tokyo, Japan; the Ariana Museum in Geneva,Switzerland; Musee National de Ceramique, Sevres, France; University of Canberra,Australia; among others.