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BIOGRAPHY

PROFILE

Kazue Taguchi Lives and works in New York

Kazue Taguchi was born in Japan and currently lives and works in New York City. She explores the ethereal and intangible effects of light and reflection. Inspired by stained glass windows in European churches, Taguchi works with reflective materials including glass, mirrors, plastic, and light. She received her M.F.A. specializing in glass from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has also studied at the Barcelona Glass Foundation in Spain and Joshibi University of Art and Design in Tokyo. She has been a resident artist at The Museum of Art and Design in New York, Pilchuck Glass School in WA, Corning Museum of Glass, Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Newark Museum, Vermont Studio Center and Koganecho bazar in Yokohama, Japan.

Fellowship/ Award/ Residency

2025
Nakanojo Biennale residency, Gunma Japan
2020
Museum of Art and Design, Cycle 33 Artist in Residency, New York
2017
Nakanojo Biennale residency, Gunma Japan
2011
Artist in Residence at Koganecho Art bazaar (Yokohama, Japan)
2010
Artist in Residence at Cite des Arts/ 2010-2011 one year fellowship in Paris
Artist in Residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council/ Swing Space (NYC)
Artist in Residence at Newark Museum (New Jersey)
2009
Artist in Residence at Corning Museum of Glass in NY
2008
Artist in Residence at Vermont Art Center, Freeman Fellowship (USA)
2007
The Pola Art Foundation Fellowship/ One year Fellowship in NY (Japan)
Jutta Cuny-Franz Foundation, Supporting Award (Dusseldorf, Germany)
Finalists of "Young Glass" Glass Museum Ebeltoft Competition (Denmark)
2006
Finalists of the Bombay Sapphire Prize Exhibition (London, UK)
2005
The Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan
One year Fellowship in V.A.
Takako Ohmura Fellowship/ Joshibi University of Art and Design (Japan)
Emerging Artist in Residence at the Pilchuck Glass School (Seattle)
Artist in Residence at Virginia Commonwealth University
2004
Pere Jou Sculpture Competition, 3rd Awards (Sitges, Barcelona)
2002
New Glass Review Competition 23/2002, 24/2003, 27/2006, 28/2007 (USA)

Solo show

2026
mhPROJECT Nokogirini, Aichi, Japan
2022
Night Drive/mhPROJECTnyc, New York, NY
2017
Urban Glass Window Gallery/Brooklyn
2016
Center for the Holographic Art, Summer Museum
Governors Islands, New York
2012
Freischwimmer/ Lorch Seidel gallery (Berlin)
Meiji Gakuin University Chapel (Tokyo, Japan)
2008
AThe Alcorcon Glass Museum (Alcorcon, Madrid)
Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center (Vermont)
2007
Museum Kunst Palast, Glasmuseum Hentrich (Dusseldorf, Germany)
2004
Gallery Fila 5 (Madrid, Spain)

Two / Three persons show

2016
Mega Watts, Sebastian Boesmi/ Kazue Taguchi
Casa Mayor Galeria de Arte, Asunciﾃｳn Paraguay
2011
Everyday Life/ Hidden Reasons/ Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery (Yokohama, Japan)
2010
PS122 Gallery (NYC)
2007
Licht-Llum/ Lorch-Seidel Gallery (Berlin)

Selected Group show

2026
Rokko Meets Art Festival. Kobe, Japan
2025
The Light Producing Objects Show、Hudson Guild Gallery, NYC
Nakanojo Biennale Gumma, Japan
Joshibi University Art and Design Museum, Kanagawa Japan
2024
Light Art Festival “El Festival de Jardin de Llum” in Manresa, Barcelona
2023
Prism and Paradigms, Chautauqua Institution, New York
Ireland Glass Biennale, Dublin Castle, Dublin
Glass, Meet The Future Digital Film Festival/North Land Creative, UK
2022
Assembly show, North Lands Creative, Lybster, Scotland
An Ocean of Forgiveness, Light Art Installation for Efrain Rozas
Museum of contemporary Art in Lima, Peru
An Ocean of Forgiveness, Light Art Installation for Efrain Rozas
Chocolate Factory Theater, Queens NYC
Video Projection for the Stage Set, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
2021
OP/GLASS exhibition/The Imagine Museum, Florida
Summer Show/Reynolds Gallery, Richmond VA
Live/Dead Group show, Walter Elwood Contemporary, Hillsdale, NY
Glass, Meet The Future Digital Film Festival/North Land Creative, UK
2020
KiraKira performance/mhproject, New York City
Light Windows show/The Center of Holographic Art, New York City
Drawing in a Time of Social Distancing/LiC-A Online Exhibition, Queens New York
2019
Space:Light/Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, New York
Group show/Shows in Spaces, Rockaway, New York
Group show/Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
2018
Summer Steal Show/Reynolds Gallery, Richmond Virginia
You are Unwanted, Yet, You Radiate/Gowanus E-waste Warehouse, Brooklyn
2017
Nakanojo Biennale 2017/Gunma Japan
Group show/Reynolds Gallery, Boston
Building Bridges NOT Walls/The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn
Bay Ridge SAW Art Walk site specific show, Brooklyn
2016
Newark Arts Council Open Doors Art Festival, Newark, New Jersey
Members'Art show/Helen Day Art Center, Vermont
2015
Recent acquisition works/ Joshibi University Art and Design Museum, Kanagawa Japan
International contemporary art symposium/ Ilhabela, Brazil
Fractured: Works on Paper/ Helen Day Art Center, Vermont
8th annual glass art conference and Glass Exhibition/ Taller textil i de vidre Comu d'Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra
2014
Collision20/ Cyberarts gallery, Boston
Farewell Extravaganza, Center for the Holographic Arts, Queens, NY
Sky Sphere Migration, Fountain Art fair, NYC
Baby Sky Mountain, Center for the Holographic Art,
The Governor's Island, NY
LIMITS and ILLUSION/ Glogauair art space, Berlin
2013
NYC25/ Westwood gallery, NYC
Triennial exhibition Instrument, Kumtumollan, Loverstad, Sweden
2012
(glass) Phantasmogoria/ Gallery A, Richmond, Virginia A lapse of absence/ Glogauair art space, Berlin
Lux an art and science exhibition- Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
2011
LUMEN International Video and Performance Art Festival/
Staten Island Lighthouse Museum (Staten Island, NY)
Spring Exhibition, Pola Museum Annex (Tokyo, Japan)
2010
New Works/ Reynolds Gallery (Richmond, VA)
2009
(In) tangible/ Taller Boricua Gallery (NYC)
DUMBO Art Festival (Brooklyn, NY)
2008
Aquifer/ Edison Gallery (Washington D.C.)
Reflect(s)/ Reynolds Gallery (Richmond, VA)
Ethnography of No Place/ Rosenberg Gallery (Baltimore, Maryland)
2007
Licht-Llum/ Josepha Gasch Muche and Kazue Taguchi show,
Lorch-Seidel Gallery (Berlin)
Almost Famous2/ Reynolds Gallery (Richmond, VA,)
Young Glass 2007/ Ebeltoft Glass Museum (Denmark)
Anderson Gallery (Richmond, VA)
Play Space Gallery (San Francisco)
2006
Pilchuck Emerging Artists Show/ Friesen Gallery (Seattle, WA)
Bombay Sapphire Prize Exhibition (London, UK)
Goods/ Gallery 5 (Richmond, VA)
2005
Emociones/ San Fernando de Henares (Madrid, Spain)
Radius 250/ Gallery Plant Zero (Richmond, VA)
2004
Arte Joven en Vidrio/ La Granja Glass Museum (Segovia, Spain)
Pere Jou Sculpture Show (Sitges, Spain)
2003
Now Vitrall- Staind Glass for Architecture of Today/
College of Technical Architecture of Barcelona (Barcelona)
2002
Barcelona Glass Artists Show/ Artonivo gallery (Burges, Belgium)
Moncada Taller Gallery (Barcelona)
Mercat de les Flores Theater (Barcelona)
Emerging Artist from Europe/Glass Art Society Conference (Amsterdam)
2001
Las Meninas 2001/Gallery Espai Vidre (Barcelona)
Cyuwa Gallery (Tokyo)
2000
Glass Toy Show/ Gallery Espai Vidre (Barcelona)
Art Festival Penedes 2000/ The Path to Hope
(Vila franca del penedes, Barcelona)
Paloma Dotze gallery (Vila franca del penedes, Barcelona)
The Glass Art: Past Ten Years in Spain/
La Granja Glass Museum (Segovia, Spain)

Stage Set

2022
The Ocean of Forgiveness for Efrain Rozas, Museum of Contemporary Art Lima, Peru
The Ocean of Forgiveness for Efrain Rozas, Chocolate Factory Theater, New York
Video Projection for the Stage Set, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
2019
Soundance 2019 Festival, Berlin
2014
Time+Space Bang on, Brooklyn New York
2013
The night in autumn, Last Waltz, Tokyo
2012
Spring Bach: New York Live Arts Performance/ Chelsea Piers Lighthouse
Bill T. Jones Arnie Zane Dance Company (New York)
Chaconne, Sophiensaele Theater (Berlin, Germany)
2011
Chaconne, Sophiensaele Theater (Berlin, Germany)
John Cage-Art Complex, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Yokohama Japan

Public Collections

Capital One Bank, USA
Joshibi University Art and Design Museum, Kanagawa Japan
Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts (Lausanne, Switzerland)
The Alcorcon Glass Museum (Madrid, Spain)
La Granja Glass Museum (Segovia, Spain)
Moet Hennesy Spain, Chandon S.A. (Vila franca del penedes, Barcelona)
Hotel Chateau Frontenac (Quebec, Canada)