Nao Masaki | 大森準平 Omori Junpei

Junpei Omori (1979 - )

Ceramic artist

Born in 1979, he studied ceramics at Kyoto Seika University’s Faculty of Art. He was profoundly struck by seeing a Jomon flame-style pottery piece in a museum, which led him to begin creating works themed around the Jomon period. In 2010, he won first place in the public vote for the Montblanc Young Patronage Award and held a solo exhibition at the Montblanc flagship store in Ginza. In 2012, he participated in an artist residency in Denmark, where his work was added to the collection of the Denmark Keramik Museum. That same year, he represented Japan at ASIA WEEK NY 2012 and was featured on the front page of a New York newspaper.

In 2019, he held a solo exhibition titled JOUMON: Resurrection & Re-creation at Gallery NAO MASAKI in Nagoya, and also participated in Art Barsel in Switzerland. His work has been increasingly recognized both in Japan and internationally. In recent years, in addition to the Jomon theme, his practice has expanded to incorporate a personal view on life and death, shaped by his own experience of battling a serious illness and undergoing organ removal.

Solo exhibitions

2003, 05~09　Westbeth Gallery Kozuka / Nagoya

2011　"Cord Chord Code”, Showcase MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY, Tokyo

2015　"loop warp rope hope”, Showcase MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY, Tokyo

2019　vol.122 "JOUMON - resurrection & re-creation”, Gallery NAO MASAKI

2020　"Liberation and Construction”, MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY

2022　"Inside and Outside and the Between" Gallery NAO MASAKI, Aichi

Group exhibitions

2001 　“Ceramics", Gallery SOWAKA / Tokyo

2002　 "BEAT23#," Gallery SOWAKA, Kyoto

　　　“BEAT3#", Gallery Enfer BOX / Kyoto

2005 　"January, two thousands five Exhibition”, Westbeth Gallery Kozuka / Nagoya (05~09)