Akio Takamori is a sculptor, printmaker, and painter that explores human relationships: interpersonal, archetypal, social and historical. Born
in Nobeoka, Japan in 1950, Akio has received formal training in both
Japan and the United States. In 1974 Takamori made the move to the
United States, receiving his B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute
and later attending Alfred University in New York for his M.F.A.. After
working as a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena,
Montana, he moved to Seattle, Washington in 1993, where he took his
current teaching position as associate professor of the University of
Washington's ceramics department. He has exhibited throughout the world
and his artwork has been collected by museums in the United States,
London, the Netherlands, Japan, and China. |
