Hisanori Masuda est né à Shizuoka au Japon en 1949.

C'est un peu le Philippe Starck japonais.

Il est spécialisé dans les objets tradiotionnels japonais revus par l'artiste.

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Awards 1977 General Director's Award, 18th Japan Small and Medium Business Export Fair 1985 Keith Grant Prize, International Design Fair 1990 Encouragement Prize, Takaoka-City Art Craft Convention 1994 11th Tansuioh Award, Sato Foundation Promotion of Artistic Crafts 1998 Design Excellence Award, 1st Yamagata Design Excellence Selection 2000 Yamagata Excellent Design Selection Award 2000 The 27th Kunii Kitaro Industrial Art Award 2001 Yamagata Excellent Design Selection 2001 Excellent Design Award 2001 Traditional Arts and Crafts Award Exhibitions 1989 "WAZUQU", AXIS Gallery, Tokyo 1990 "Art of Japan", Retretti Art Center, Finland 1994 "Desired Objects, Tasteful Containers", Isogaya Gallery, Tokyo 1995 "Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design", Museum of Modern Art, New York 1995 "Japanese Studio Crafts", Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1995 "Design Sampling '95", Harbor-Front Center, Toronto 1996 "refse", Miami Fine Art Center and also held in Detroit, Toronto, Montreal and San Francisco 1996 "Designer X's Local Industry", Matsuya Ginza, Tokyo 1997-1999 "refse Europe", Germany, The Netherlands, Greece, Spain 1999 Industrial Design's New Scenery Toyama Pref. Museum 2000 World Heart Exhibition, Around Exhibition Tour: New York, San Paulo, Paris,Hanoi, Sydney and Tokyo 2000 VIYA 20C-20C, Design Exhibition of Material and visual in the 20th Century(Matsuya Ginza) 2000 "Aluminum by design : jewelry to jets",CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART Collections 1978 National Museum of Australia 1995 Victoria and Albert Museum of London 1995 Museum of Modern Art of New York 1996 Los Angeles Craft Museum