Freeform organic bamboo sculpture by Morigami Jin, unsigned. Morigami Jin BIO/CV b. 1955, Beppu City, Oita Prefecture, Japan Education 1978 Graduated from Tsurumi High School in Oita Prefecture 1978 Entered Oita Prefecture Beppu Industrial and Craft Institute as a long-term intern Exhibitions & Accolades 1979 Winner of the Oita Prefecture Assembly Chairman’s Award, Oita Prefecture Industrial Crafts Exhibition 1982 Winner of the Fukuoka Industrial Commerce Director’s Award, Beppu City New Bamboo Craft Art Exhibition 1983 Winner of the Nitta Industry Craft Test Center Chief’s Award, Oita Prefecture Living Design Exhibition Three Artists, La Poll Winner of the Fukuo Industrial Commerce Chief’s Award, Beppu City New Bamboo Craft Art Exhibition 1984 Exhibited in Living Design Exhibition 1985 First Solo Exhibition, Gifu Takashimaya 1988 Admitted to Nitten (Japan Fine Arts Exhibition) 1994 Winner of the Kyoto Craft Art Award 2001 Bamboo Fantasies, TAI Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2002 The Next Generation, University of Arkansas, Little Rock 2003 Exhibited at Tigerman Himmel Gallery, Chicago, IL 2006 Power & Delicacy: Master Works of Japanese Bamboo Art, TAI Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Hin: The Quiet Beauty of Japanese Art, Grinnell College, IA and Chicago Cultural Center, IL Exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 2007 The Next Generation, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA 2008 New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters, Japan Society, New York, NY 2009 Many Shapes of Bamboo III, Oita Prefectural Art Museum 2010 Many Shapes of Bamboo IV, Oita Prefectural Art Museum 2011 Many Shapes of Bamboo V, Oita Prefectural Art Museum Beauty in All Things: Japanese Art and Design, Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY 2013 Birds in the Art of Japan, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Oita’s Art Movement, in partnership with the Oita Prefectural Government, a museum-quality show, TAI Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Fired Earth, Woven Bamboo, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 2014 Bamboo weaving demonstration, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Group show, Japanese American Cultural Community Center, Los Angeles, CA 2017 Masterpieces of Japanese Bamboo Art, TAI Modern at Joan B Mirviss LTD, New York, NY 2018 Solo show, TAI Modern, Santa Fe, NM 2018 Fendre L’ Air, Musee du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, Paris 2020 Masterpieces of Bamboo Art: Katsushiro Soho and Fujinuma Noboru, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan Winter Shadows, TAI Modern, Santa Fe, NM Museum Collections Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA Denver Art Museum, CO Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA Beppu City Traditional Bamboo Craft Art Museum Oita Prefecture Art Hall Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN