Selected Exhibition and Event
Vancouver Art Gallery
A special collaboration event with Yoko Ono The Vancouver Art Gallery
Kintsugi Demonstration
MON MAR 14 2022
Vancouver Art Gallery
A special collaboration event with Yoko Ono The Vancouver Art Gallery
Kintsugi Demonstration
SUN APR 24 2022
Doris Crowston Gallery
Three-person exhibition sponsored by
the Sunshine Coast Arts Council
JUNE 24 - AUG 14 2022
Vancouver Art Gallery
A special collaboration event with Yoko Ono The Vancouver Art Gallery
Kintsugi Demonstration
FRI DEC 3 2021
Art Gallery of Burlington
Kintsugi Artist Talk
Presented by Art Gallery of Burlington
THU JAN 6 2022
Richmond Art Gallery
One of the largest Kintsugi exhibitions in North America. Naoko Fukumaru presented over 230 pieces of Kintsugi works at Richmond Art Gallery
June 26 - August 22, 2021
SUM Gallery
Exhibition at SUM Gallery in Vancouver
October 28 - December 15, 2021
Queer Arts Festival 2021
Sunzen Art Gallery
Reincarnation Exhibition with Featuring Kintsugi works by Naoko Fukumaru at Sunzen Art Gallery, Vancouver
8 December 2020 - 19 February 2021
The Polygon Gallery
Lam Wong Tea Performance with Fukumaru’s Kintsugi Bowls at The Polygon Gallery North Vancouver
November 8, 2020
postponed
Tidal Art Centre
Kintsugi Exhibition at Tidal Art Centre, Lund, January 25- February 2, 2020
Selected Press
An article about Reincarnation exhibition at Sunzen Art Gallery and Fukumaru’s Kintsugi work in FOLIO.YVR Luxury Lifestyle Magazine, issue13, winter 2020
An article about Fukumaru’s Kintsugi work in Powell River Peak Newspaper on Sept. 25, 2020
Naoko Fukumaru joined the Art of Tea collaborative to introduce Kintsugi thought the tea culture.
An article about Fukumaru’s Kintsugi work in Minkei News and Vancouver Keizai on July 15, 2021
Selected Awards and Honors
Individual Arts Grants from the British Columbia Arts Council
Award for creation of artworks for the exhibition at Portland Japanese Garden, USA
Vancouver, Canada, March 2024
Ishibashi Foundation/The Japan Foundation Fellowship for Research on Japanese Art
The research was undertaken in Kyoto under the Makie master Mr. Yutaro Shimode, who was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure in Japan.
Nov.11 2023 - Jan. 8, 2024
Individual Arts Grants from the British Columbia Arts Council
Award for creation of artworks for the exhibition at The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Vancouver, Canada, April 2023
Individual Arts Grants from the British Columbia Arts Council
Award for the creation of artwork for the Kintsugi Project with Early BC Studio Potters
Vancouver, Canada, April 2022
Downtown Eastside Small Arts Grant Award and virtual group exhibition in summer
Vancouver, Canada, February 2022
Downtown Eastside Small Arts Grant Award and virtual group exhibition in summer
Vancouver, Canada, February 2021
Harold Davies Prize for the student who has made the most progress on the course
West Dean College, West Sussex, United Kingdom, July 1999