b. Kumamoto, Japan
EDUCATION
1995 MFA, Printmaking, Academy of Art University, San Francisco
1989 BFA, Painting/Printmaking, Musashino Art College, Tokyo
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Micheko Gallery, Munich, "Natural Grace"
2018 Galeria Tereza Seabra, Lisbon, "Floating Dreamscapes"
2018 Micheko Gallery, Munich, "Fiber World"
2017 Hå Gamle Prestegard, Nærbø, Norway, "Translucent Exploration"
2016 SHISEIDO THE GINZA, Tokyo, “Ittenten (一点展)”
2014 Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA,"Translucent Exploration"
2012 Morikami Museum, Delray Beach, FL, "Unfolding Stories"
2011 Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, "Unfolding Stories"
2010 Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, "Unfolding Stories"
2010 Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, "Unfolding Stories"
2007 Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, "Metal Box Sculptures"
2003 Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, solo show
2001 Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA, "Hakoniwa"
1999 Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA, "Takarabako"
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Hana Asagi Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, "Accessaries and Perfume Bottles"
2022 Japan House São Paulo, "[ím]pares"
2021 Collect: International Art Fair for Contemporary Craft and Design, London
(represented by Micheko Galerie, Munich)
2020 Tamat: Tapestry and Textile Arts Museum, Tournai, Belgium, "Pleats"
2019 Galerie La Joaillerie Par Mazlo, Paris, "Mirabilia"
2019 LOOT 2019, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
2019 Society of Arts + Craft, Boston, "Adorning Boston and Beyond"
2018 Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI, "Fiber and Glass"
2017 National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, TN, "Metal in Motion"
2017 Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA, "Interwoven: Art Meets Nature"
2017 New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA, Juried, Excellence in Fibers,
2015 Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, International Juried, Craft Forms 2015
2014 Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, Juried, "New Directions"
2009 Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, "Heirlooms of the Future"
2006 Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, "Basket (R)evolution"
2003 Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, "Making Magic"
2003 Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, "Revealing Influences: Conversations with Bay Area Artists"
2003 National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, "Transformations 3"
2002 Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, "Cabinets of Wonder/Redux"
2001 Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh,
"Transformation: Contemporary Works in Small Metals, Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize Exhibition"
2000 Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, "Reliquaries for America"
1996-2009 SOFA New York & Chicago
COLLABORATIONS
2020 La Mer, Mother's Day marketing campaign
2019 Jean Paul Gaultier, Paris Fashion Week haute couture, Spring-Summer 2019
2018 Lela Rose, Spring Collection launch, New York, NY
LECTURES and WORKSHOPS
2021 Fashion Council: “'Big in Japan' by Jean Paul Gaultier and Mariko Kusumoto," Museum of Fine Arts Boston
2012 Art in Residence, Morikami Museum, Delray Beach, FL
2011 Photo-etching workshop, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh
2010 Lecture, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2009 Lecture, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
2008 Lecture, Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, D.C.
2007 Lecture and Workshop, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls
2007 Workshop, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2006 Lecture, East Coast Meets West Coast, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Iro, The essence of color in Japanese design, Rossella Menegazzo, Phaidon Press
2022 Cover feature: What Women Create (USA), Spring
2021 Unravelling Women's Art (UK), P.L.Henderson
2021 Cover feature: ArteMorbida (Italy), October, "Wearing the Sea," Barbara Pavan
2021 Vision (China), issue 183, December
2020 Cover feature: Uppercase (Canada), April/May/June, "Achieving Transparency," Laura Tarrish
2020 Handwerken (Netherlands), Number 220, "Cewichtloze Sculpturen," Alie Dijk
2020 DPI (Taiwan), May, vol. 244
2019 A Big Important Artist: A Womanual (USA), Danielle Krysa
2018 Dimensional Cloth: Sculpture by Contemporary Textile Artists (USA), Andra F. Stanton.
2017 Diver (Japan), November
2017 Artistry in Fiber, Vol. 3: Wearable Art (USA), Anne Lee and E. Ashley Rooney
2017 Creative Extreme (Germany), Topp
2017 Eller Decor Japan, no.149, April
2017 Fiber Art Now, “Excellence in Fibers” a juried exhibition in print (USA), Winter 2016/17
2016 Textiel Plus (Holland), #237
2016 Feng (Malaysia), September
2016 Artist 藝術家雜誌 (Taiwan), July
2015 Fiber Art Now (USA), “Excellence in Fibers” a juried exhibition in print, Winter 2015/16
2015 Metalsmith: Exhibition in Print (USA), “Moved by Metal: On Beauty As Interaction,” Wendy Steiner
2015 DPI (Taiwan), August, Vol. 196
2015 Cover feature: American Craft (USA), April/May, “Objects of Wonder,” Joyce Lovelace
2014 Cover feature: Fiber Art Now (USA), Summer, “Exploring Weightlessness,” Marcia Young
2012 Humor in Craft (USA), Brigitte Martin
2010 New England Home (USA), May-June, “Elements of Surprise,” Louis Postel
2010 Northwest Life Magazine (USA), Vol. 2, No. 3, “An Opening Adventure in Art,” Melissa Russell
2010 Boston Globe, May 28, “Intricate Worlds Only Seem Small,” Cate McQuaid
2010 Boston Globe Magazine, May 16, “Small Worlds,” James Sullivan
2008 Cover feature: Metalsmith (USA), Vol. 28, No. 2, “Cicada Larvae Dreams and Other Stories,” Mija Riedel
2007 Mariko Kusumoto: Metal Box Sculptures, published by Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2007 Boston Globe, April 5, “Recognize it? Think again. Toying with Perception,” Cate McQuaid
2006 Launching the Imagination (USA), Mary Stewart
2004 Metalsmith: Exhibition in Print (USA), “Mariko Kusumoto,” Claire Sanford
2003 Boston Globe, December 28 “A Hot Scene’s Coolest Exhibits,” Cate McQuaid
2003 Boston Globe, July 18, “Metalworker’s Pieces Are Miniature Marvels,” Cate McQuaid
2003 Art Jewelry Today (USA), Dona Z. Meilach
2002 Metalsmith (USA), Spring, “Matter into Metaphor: Transformation in Asian and Western Metals,” Celia Rabinovitch
1999 The Metalsmith’s Book of Boxes and Lockets (USA), Tim McCreight
1999 Metalsmith: Exhibition in Print (USA), “Metalsmith Sculpture,” Christine Clark and Jane Kyle
1998 American Craft (USA), June/July, “Portfolio: Mariko Kusumoto”
TELEVISION
2017 TV3, "Ja t’ho faràs," Barcelona
2008 Bloomberg TV, “Muse,” USA
COLLECTIONS
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery
V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum), London
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
The Kock Collection, Swiss National Museum, Zurich
National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Kamm Teapot Foundation, Statesville, NC
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Morikami Museum, Delray Beach, FL
Jean Paul Gaultier
Robin Williams
various private collections
AWARDS
2019 Acquisition Award, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
2015 Juror’s Awards, Craft Forms 2015, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
2011 Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council
2000 Winner, Niche Award, Clocks