1969

Born in Kyoto, Japan

1994

Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts, Department of Crafs, Urushi lacquering, Japan

Hiradate Award, Graduation exhibition, Kyoto City University of Arts

1996

Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts, Master’s course, Department of Crafts, Urushi lacquering.

Scholarship Award, Japan Urushi Association

1996-98

Lecturer of Urushi lacquering, Kyoto City University of Arts

1998

First Prize, Kyoto Prefectural Art and Crafts Exhibition, Japan

8th Arts Festival, Kyou Exhibition, Higashi Hongan-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan

2000

2000 Selected New Art exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Japan

2000-

Lecturer of Sculpture course, Kyoto University of Art & Design, Kyoto, Japan

2001

2001 Selected Art and Crafts exhibition, The Museum of Kyoto, Japan

2002

2002 Selected Art and Crafts exhibition, The Museum of Kyoto, Japan

Toki Kenji Exhibition, INAX gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Message of Urushi from Kyoto Exhibition, The Museum of Kyoto, Japan

Research fellow, University of Surrey, UK

2003

Latency – Kenji Toki Japanese Lacquer Works exhibition, The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College, UK

2004

The Daiwa Angle-Japanese Foundation Grant, UK

Japan Foundation’s Dispatch Fellowship

2006

DOMANI Tomorrow Exhibition, Sompo Japan Seiji Togo Memorial Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2010

Aizu Urushi Art Festival exhibition, Fukushima Museum, Japan

2011

Ph.D. Research into the Urushi collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, UK

2012

Shippoumontai kanshitsu touki exhibition, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Nagano, Japan

2013

Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts, Doctoral course, Research Fields of Urushi lacquering

Materializing exhibition, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of The Arts, Japan

2016

Liquid to Solid Kenji Toki x Mitsuhiro Kanada URUSHI composite structure exhibition, AXIS Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2017

Kanshitsu Exhibition, Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei Kobo, Ishikawa, Japan

International Hokuriku Kogei Summit: World Kogei Selection of 100 Exhibition, Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, Toyama, Japan

2018 -19

Japon-Japonismes, Objets inspirés 1867-2018, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France

Public Collections :

Kyoto Prefectural Education Center, Japan

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, USA

Victoria & Albert Museum, UK

Canadian Museum of History, Canada

Museo de Arte Moderno La Casa de Japan, Argentina