Tetsuya Yamada

Japanese born Testuya Yamada is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where he lives and works. Yamada has been twice-awarded the McKnight Artist Fellowship for Visual Artists and the McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Ceramic Artists. He has participated in artist residencies at the European Ceramic Work Center (EKWC) in the Netherlands and The Fabric Workshop and Museum. His has exhibited at Francis Naumann Fine Art, LLC., Franklin Art Works (MN), and The Clay Studio (PA). His work is in the permanent collections of The Mint Museum, the Portland Museum of Art, and the Fabric Workshop and Museum.

While in residence in the Kohler Co. pottery, Yamada fabricated modular screw forms that reference Brancusi’s Bird in Space and da Vinci’s Air Screw.