Ogawa Machiko was born in Sapporo, Hokkaido, in 1946. She studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts under future Living National Treasures Fujimoto Yoshimichi, Tamura Koichi, and Kato Hajime, graduating in 1969. She then pursued further study and travel in France and Africa before returning to Japan in 1975, experiences that broadened her artistic perspective and deepened her sensitivity to form and surface.
Ogawa began attracting significant attention in the mid-1980s and has since become one of the leading female figures in contemporary Japanese ceramics. Her work is known for its refined forms and subtle, luminous surfaces, balancing disciplined technique with an expressive, contemplative presence.
In 2001 she was awarded the Japan Ceramics Society Prize, one of the country’s most prestigious honors in the field. Her works are held in major public collections worldwide, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Smith College Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, among many others.
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