Born in Kobe, Japan, 1941, Kiyomi Iwata studied at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, VA; Penland School of Craft, NC; Haystack Mountain School of Craft, ME and New School of Social Research, NYC.
PUBLIC COLLECTION:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Museum of Arts & Design, NYC
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
The Newark Museum, NJ
The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RI
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Racine Art Museum, WI
The Warehouse MKE, WI
Erie Art Museum, PA
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Longhouse Reserve, Bridgehampton, NY
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
La Foundation, Mary Toms- Pierre Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland
Savarian Museum, Szombathely, Hungary
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2020 The Thread, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2015 From Volume to Line, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA
2007 Two Idioms of Kiyomi Iwata: Silk and Metal, Center Gallery at Old Church, Demarest, NJ
2002 Recent Work: Kiyomi Iwata, The Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
2000 Silk and Metal by Kiyomi Iwata, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1998 Kiyomi Iwata, New Work, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
1996 Transformation from Silk to Metal: The Sculpture of Kiyomi Iwata, Georgia Museum of Art, GA
1996 Kiyomi Iwata, New Work, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1994 Kiyomi Iwata, New Work, The Newark Museum, NJ
1994 Kiyomi Iwata, New Work, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
1992 Kiyomi Iwata, New Work, Bellas Artes Galery, NYC
1992 Kiyomi Iwata, New Work, Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR
1985 Hopper House, Nyack, NY
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
2019 Conversations: Contemporary Asian Art, Hermitage Museum and Gardens, VA
2014 Fiber Futures: Japan Textiles Pioneers, Finland, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, France, Holland
2012 Fiber Futures: Japan Textiles Pioneers, Museum of Craft and Folk Arts, SF
2011 Fiber Futures: Japan Textiles Pioneers, Japan Society Gallery, NYC
All Things Considered VI, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2010 Interwind, Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection, Museum of Arts and Design, NYC
AWARDS AND HONORS:
“Yuai” (fraternity), a wall piece was presented by Prime Minister Hatoyama to President Obama during his visit to Japan, Oct. 15, 2009
National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Fellowship, 1986
New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist Fellowship, 1988 & 1993
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, Artist Fellow, 1991 & 1993.
BOOKS:
The Grotta Home by Richard Meier: A Marriage of Architecture and Craft, p. 41, 230, Arnoldsche 2019