Jun Matsumura

Born in Chiba Prefecture, a suburb of Tokyo, he graduated from the University of South Alabama in 2010, as well as from the Tajimi Municipal Ceramics Research Center in 2015, then from the Utatsuyama Research Center in Kanazawa, which he left in 2018. He received awards at the Tradition and Innovation Japanese Ceramics Now exhibition and at the 3rd KOGEI Triennial in Kanazawa.

In 2021, he won an award at the twelfth Mino International Competition. The sculpture below “Dissection of Awe” was exhibited at the Paramita Museum in June 2021, one of Japan’s best-known ceramic exhibitions.

As an artist who grew up in contact with Japanese philosophy and its subcultures, he creates works based on the practice of Kogei (traditional Japanese arts and crafts) and uses porcelain as a means of reflecting on the delicacy of modern culture, encouraging the public to think about society’s current problems and their underlying consequences. The form of this sharply contoured sculpture almost reaches into the realm of architecture, striking an ambiguous line between function and non-function.