Yoshizumi Ayano

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Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1991, Yoshizumi received her BA in glass art from Musashino Art University in 2014 and graduated from the Toyama Institute of Glass Art in 2016. After working at a glass studio in Australia from 2019 to 2022, she relocated to Toyama Prefecture. She explores the pictorial expression of glass by primarily using blown glass and molds. Hollow glass bricks serve as three-dimensional canvases for her to color by layering colored glass and enamel paint. Her work features a passionate and bold color palette, influenced by Fauvism, and an approach integrating the arbitrariness of molten glass. Its transparency and organic forms are derived from the material’s unique qualities and texture. The interior and exterior, in addition to the front and back, of these hollow glass bricks interplay elaborately in these three-dimensional paintings, rendering different expressions that synchronize with the viewer’s position and perspective. Yoshizumi’s unique style, which transcends the boundaries of art or craft, has been developed by harnessing the rich color expression fostered through her sincere commitment to the glass material.
Her major exhibitions include the solo shows Ayano Yoshizumi Solo Exhibition (P/OP Shibuya, Tokyo, 2024) and Make It Pop (Toyama Glass Studio, Toyama Prefecture, 2023), and the group exhibition Gathering: The Power of Creative Connection (Toyama Glass Art Museum, Toyama Prefecture, 2025). She won the 2021 Tom Malone Prize (2021). Her work is in the collections of the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, USA, among others.

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