INNOVATIVE CERAMIC ARTIST

Beginning his career with "street exhibitions" — using only a furoshiki cloth as a display — Shota Miyashita builds a contemporary ceramic practice rooted in the idea of compounding.

Team-based production and collaboration across disciplines, artists, and industry have freed him from conventional boundaries of ceramic practice.

Based in Mino, Gifu — Japan's historic pottery district — he develops his own crystalline and specialty glazes through research at 0.001 g precision and 1°C firing control, using raw materials sourced from around the world.

His work bridges traditional technique with contemporary sensibility and experimental rigor. He works fluidly between artistic one-of-a-kind pieces and industrial production — integrating 3D modeling, pressure casting, and other scalable methods to move freely between artwork and sustained product lines.

Today he operates at the intersection of cross-disciplinary collaboration, OEM manufacturing, architecture, and spatial direction — proposing a renewed model of how traditional craft can update itself. He is drawing attention in Japan and abroad as a ceramic artist for a new era.