Makoto Yabe Biography Last Updated 11.28.01 1947 Born in Fukushima, Japan 1956-66 Kyoto Prefectural Ceramic School 1966-67 Kyoto Municipal Industrial School Master's Certificate, Ceramic Division 1965-69 Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Comparative Culture Studies 1967-71 Apprenticeship with Jinmatsu Uno and Sango Uno, Kyoto Currently an Instructor at: Harvard University DeCordova Museum School School of The Museum of Fine Arts Wheelock College Artist in Residence: Noble & Greenough School Solo Exhibitions 1990 DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA 1987 Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA 1984 Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI 1981 Bentley College, Waltham, MA 1978 Art Asia Gallery, Boston, MA 1976 Daimaru Department Store, Kochi, Japan 1973 Imbashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan (through 1976) Group Exhibitions 2000 Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston, MA "Cup" 1999 The Lynn Tendler Bignell Gallery, Brookfield, CT "Neriage, Neikome and Beyond" 1998 Judith Dowling Gallery, Boston, MA "Four Potters: Seeds Far From the Tree" 1997 Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA "Five on Fire" Iwasawa Oriental Art, Los Gatos, CA 1996 Boston Athenæum, Boston, MA "Sculptural Ceramics in New England Today" Mary Woodman Gallery, Kennebunk, ME 1995 Ariana Gallery, Royal Oak, MI 1994 Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston, MA 1992 Cambridge Multicultural Art Center, Cambridge, MA 1991 Artists Foundation Gallery, Boston, MA 1990 Cambridge Multicultural Art Center, Cambridge, MA 1989 Cambridge Multicultural Art Center, Cambridge, MA Farmington Valley Art Center, Avon, CT 1988 Pucker-Safrai Gallery, Boston, MA Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI Swidler Gallery, Royal Oaks, MI Worcester Craft Center, Worcester, MA Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art "Japanese Crafts, New England" 1987 Art Gala '87, Kansas City, KS "Celebration of Life" Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston, MA Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT "Japanese Crafts, New England" 1986 Pucker-Safrai Gallery, Boston, MA Asia Society of New York, New York, NY 1985 Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA Pucker-Safrai Gallery, Boston, MA Collections Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA Children's Museum, Boston, MA Mount Wachusetts Community College, Gardner, MA Cleveland Museum of Art Commissions 1995 Japan-America Society of Houston, TX 1994 Japan Society of Boston, MA 1994 Nityananda Institute, Portland, OR 1994 Maho Abe Associates, Cambridge, MA 1990 Tobishima, Inc., FL 1985 Lee Halprin and Abby Rockefeller, Cambridge, MA Panels 1997 Boston Athenæum Sculptural Ceramics Symposium "Artist or Craftsman: Has the 20th Century Made A Difference?" 1993 Advisor, Massachusetts Cultural Council 1992 Advisor, Massachusetts Cultural Council 1986 Asia Society of New York Symposium "The Transmission of Japanese Pottery to the West