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Jun Kaneko was born in Nagoya, Japan in 1942. He began his artistic career as a painter, becoming a sculptor when he arrived in the United States over thirty-five years ago. He has studied at the California Institute of Art, Chouinard Art Institute and University of California, Berkeley and taught at Rhode Island School of Design and Cranbrook Academy of Art. His works have been acquired by such museums as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Art, the American Crafts Museum in New York and Nagoya, Japan. Kaneko is known for his ambitious scale in both individual and public art commissions. His unmistakable style bridges the Eastern sense of pattern and color and combines it with a Western sensibility. Kaneko has exhibited in over 200 exhibitions around the world. His work has been reviewed in publications such as Art in America, Sculpture Magazine and The New York Times, and he was the subject of the 2001 Susan Peterson book Jun Kaneko. Last year, Kaneko won critical praise for his set and costume designs for the Opera Omaha’s production of Madama Butterfly. One of the founding members of the Bemis Center, he and his wife Ree Kaneko are currently building the KANEKO, a facility dedicated to creativity of all kinds
*BC Founding Member
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Untitled
Glazed ceramic
42 x 25 x 13 in.
2006
Estimated value: $42,000
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