Selected Exhibitions
1999 Suzuki Osamu exhibition, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Quiet Clarity"Rin"-Beauty in Contemporary Ceramics, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural
Park, Japan
1973 The Hakone Open-Air Museum Prize, Japan
1971 Contemporary Ceramics – Europe and Japan, National Museum of Modern Art/ Kyoto,
Tokyo, Japan
1968 New Generation of Contemporary Ceramics, National Museum of Modern Art,
Kyoto, Japan
1959 Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Awards
1998 30th Japan Art Award
1994 Kyoto Arts and Culture Award
1987 Kyoto Culture Merit Award
1970 Gold Award, Biennial International Ceramic Art Competition, Vallauris, France
1962 Gold Award, 3rd International Ceramic Exhibition, Prague, Czechoslovakia

Selected Collection
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan

Circus horse
Suzuki Osamu was a member of the avant-garde ceramic arts group S deisha ("Mud-walking Association") and an artist who led and promoted Japanese installation ceramic art. Although Suzuki's works were primarily in ceramics, he also began firing blue-and-white ware in a gas kiln after moving his studio to Yamashina. This work is a transformation of Suzuki's representative horse motif. It is assembled of plaster cast parts and produces a sharp, lyrical form.

Horse Looking Up
Suzuki's blue and white porcelain artwork, in contrast to his signature series in which tenderness is carried through simple contours, conveys cold, contemporary, and poetic impressions through glazing, crest lines, and uneven surfaces.