About
Rinoi Imada is an interdisciplinary artist whose ideas are inspired by glass, utilizing glass as a material and thinking tools to create her works. Drawn from a curiosity in the rich subtlety of human experience, her practice takes in various sculptural relationships with glass and glass related processes to explore languages that are easily dismissed, ignored and unseen through our lifetime. Imada earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in Glass from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2021 and is continuing her career as a visual artist and a glass blower. She has received awards and residency opportunities from RIT, Penland School of Craft in North Carolina and GlazenHuis in Lommel, Belgium in addition to others. She is currently under a fellowship of a craft practitioner at Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei Kobo since 2024.
1995年生まれ。高校卒業後アメリカに渡り、カリフォルニア州立大学サンバーナディノ校にて2015年から2019年に卒業するまでキャサリン・グレイ教授の元で指導を受け、同教授のアシスタントも務める。2019年から2021年ロチェスター工科大学大学院にて修士号を取得。その後は1年間アメリカで社会人経験をしたのち日本に帰国。2023年にペンランドスクールオブクラフト、GlazenHuisでのアーティストインレジデンス招聘、新島国際ガラスフェスティバル、彩グラスワークショップでの通訳を経て、現在(2024)は金沢卯辰山工芸工房にて技術研修者として所属している。
言語に基づくアイデンティティ、感情の刹那を切り取ることをテーマに現在ガラス、写真などを中心に制作を続けている。
Statement
My work is my voice.
My work aims to verbalize an unnamed, daily human experience through glass and glass related processes. From my experience of being in the United States in my early adult stage, I found slight disruptions in myself while switching my language to pick the right word constantly. This experience led my curiosity towards something unseen to be seen. And this verbalizing gesture motivates me to explore a human experience of maturity. I have been interested in our day to day experience of vague and subtle changes that we hardly realize. I use glass as my primary material, I overlap its counter materialities; ex. hot versus cold, stable versus unstable, malleable versus brittle with various human experiences that we often dismissed.
July 2024
私の作品は私の声。
私は言葉にし難い人々の日常の体験をガラスを通し言語化することを目指している。成人して間もない頃アメリカにいた際、正しい言葉を選ぼうと言語を切り替えているうちに、自分のアイデンティティの中にわずかな乱れを感じた。この体験は見えないものを見ようとするという私の制作への好奇心につながった。そして、この言葉にするという行為そのものが、人間が成熟していく過程や経験を探求する動機となった。私は私たちがほとんど気づかないような曖昧で微妙な変化を日々経験していることに惹かれ、ガラスを主な素材とし、その対極性、例えば熱さと冷たさ、安定と不安定、しなやかさともろさを、私たちがしばしば見過ごすさまざまな日常の中の経験と重ね合わせる。
July 2024
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Education
Rochester Institute of Technology- Rochester, NY
Master of Fine Arts in Glass, 2021
California State University San Bernardino- San Bernardino, CA
Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, 2019 with Honors of Arts
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2023 “Ligne“, Atelier AR, Asakusabashi, Tokyo
2021 “Ambiguity” MFA Thesis Exhibition, The Yards Collective
2019 “Handful of Life”, Little Gallery of San Bernardino, CA
2019 “Dialogue”, Gallery 106, California State University San Bernardino, CA
Juried/Group Exhibitions
2024 “悶黙-Moda Moda-“ Duo exhibition by Rinoi Imada & Kyoko Hirako, Tokyo, Japan
2023 Craft Competition in Takaoka, Takaoka, Toyama, Japan
Sanyo Onoda Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition, Sanyo Onoda, Yamaguchi, Japan
International Biennial of Glass, Sofia, Bulgaria
Glass, Meet the Future 23 Film Festival with Mils Bridgewater and Michaela Tkadleček, North Lands Creative, Scotland, the United Kingdom
2022 American Craft Council’s School-to-Market, presenter in American Craft Made Baltimore, MD
“Emerging” Womenswork.art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
2021 RIT MFA Thesis Exhibition, RIT City Art Space
2020 Graduate Education Week Showcase: The College of Art and Design's Virtual Visual Exhibition
Glass Art Society international student exhibition at GAS 2020 Virtual Conference
2019 19th Annual Fine Craft Show, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
49th Annual Student Art Exhibition, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, California State University San Bernardino, CA
2018 “HERstories”, Group exhibition at Gallery 106, California State University San Bernardino, CA
48th Annual Student Art Exhibition, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, California State University San Bernardino, CA
Glass Art Society international student exhibition, Murano, Italy
Artist Talk
2023 Artist Lecture, Academie Berchem, Antwerp, Belgium
2021 Connected in Glass Podcast, Season 3, Episode 2 “Rinoi Imada“
2020 Graduate Education Week Showcase: The College of Art and Design's Virtual Visual Exhibition, RIT, Rochester, NY
GAS Student Meetup: “Graduate Student Pecha-kuchas”
Awards/Residencies
2024 Craft Practitioner(Trainee) Fellowship, Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei Kobo, Kanazawa, Japan
2023 Olympic Color Rods Artist Appreciation Award, Seattle, WA
GlazenHuis Hot Glass Residency, GlazenHuis, Lommel, Belgium
Merit-Based Fellowship, Penland Winter Residency, Penland, NC
2022 Nominee, Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award, New York, NY
2020 Best in Show, Graduate Education Week Showcase: The College of Art and Design's Virtual Visual Exhibition, RIT, Rochester, NY
Aaron Rosenstreich Memorial Book Award, RIT, Rochester, NY
Annual Merit Scholarship, RIT, Rochester, NY
2019 Nomura Foundation Scholarship, Tokyo, Japan
President’s Purchase Award, 49th Annual Student Art Exhibition, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, CSUSB, San Bernardino, CA
Certificate of Achievement for Outstanding Use of Glass as a Sculptural Material, CSUSB, San Bernardino, CA
Department Honors with Arts, CSUSB, CA
Annual Merit Scholarship, RIT, Rochester, NY