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Mitsuru Cope
Exhibitions
- 1996:
Hands on Fire, Belgo 512 Montreal.
Selected for the Orton Cone Box Show, Holt-Russell Gallery, Kansas, U.S.A.
Harbinger Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario.
The Ethnic Vote, Galerie Art Depat, Montreal
Kitchen, Galerie Pink, Montreal.
- 1995:
Chawan, Tapanese Pavilion, Botanical Gardens, Montreal.
Hikari, Groupshow by Japanese-Canadian artists. Mixed media. Montreal.
Interchange'95, Galerie Madeleine Lacerte, Quebec.
- 1994:
Selected for the 6th National Biennial of Ceramics, Trois RiviPres Quebec. National Tour.
Selected for group show: Toucher Terre at Maison Hamel-Bruneau, Ste. Foy, Quebec.
- 1993:
WATABOSHI Japanese-Canadian groupshow sponsored by the Banff Centre for the Arts,
Banff, Alberta
Interchange'93 Canadian artists' group show, Brno, Czech Republic. Invitation from the Union
of Creative Artists.
- 1992:
Selected for the 5th National Biennial of Ceramics, Trois Rivieres, Quebec. National Tour.
Selected for two-person show at McClure Gallery of the Visual Arts Centre, Montreal.
The Tea House. Mixed media group show at V.A. Gallery,
Concordia University, Montreal.
- 1991:
Selected for two-person show at V.A. Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal.
- 1990:
Beyond the Object. Mixed media groupshow at Complexe St. Ambroise, Montreal.
Experience
- 1994:
Invited to Japanese Canadians in the Arts symposium, Toronto, Ontario.
- 1993:
Invited to The International Ceramics Symposium, The Czech Republic.
Arctic College, Adult Education programme, Rankin Inlet N.W.T. Invited as Instructor and
Consultant to ceramics programme, working with Inuit artists.
Selected as Artist in Residence, Ceramics Department, The Banff Centre for the Arts. Winter
Session: CommunitySymposium-Art and Social Change.
- 1992:
Arctic College, Adult Education programme, Rankin Inlet, N.W.T. Invited to set up ceramics
workshop and design ceramics course for Inuit artists.
- 1990:
Visit to Shigaraki, Japan, to study traditional and modern ceramic techniques.
- 1989:
Studio Assistant in Ceramics Department, Concordia University,� Montreal.
Awards and Grants
- 1996:
Orton Cone Box Show: Purchase Award
- 1993:
Banff Centre for the Arts: Artist-in-Residence and Travel grant.
- 1992:
Jack Lehman Award for Concordia Ceramics Student of the Year.
Publications
- 1996:
Daybreak, CBC Radio
The Gazette, Montreal
- 1995:
Questions of Community: Artists, Audiences, Coalitions. Banff Centre Press.
1993:
Interchange '93 ROVNOST, (September), Czech Republic.
Cover story on Wataboshi exhibition in Contact magazine, Issue 93, Alberta, Canada.
Profile in The Ukrainian Monthly Review of World Literature, July issue, Kiev, Ukraine.
Collections
- 1996:
Holt-Russell Gallery, Baker University, Kansas, USA
- 1994:
Creative Artists' Gallery, Kunstat, Czech Republic
- 1993:
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Milthorp, Calgary, Alberta
Education - Clay Studies
- 1983-1985
Visual Arts Centre, Montreal and Champlain College, Montreal
- 1994:
Centre de Ceramique Bonsecours, Montreal
- 1996:
B.F.A. (Honours), Concordia University, Montreal
Affiliations