- Ōsumi Yukie was designated Living National Treasure in 2015, and is the first female metalwork artist to receive this honor in history. She specializes in tankin, or hammered vessels. Osumi graduated in 1969 from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. Afterwards, she studied under Kashima Ikkoku (1898-1996), Sekiya Shirō (1907-1994), and Katsura Moriyuki (1914-1996). She also trained as an artist in the United Kingdom for a year under the sponsorship by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs. She has received many honors and awards, and most recently in 2014, was the first to be awarded a residency at The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian Museum of Asian Art in Washington, D.C.
Selected Public Collections:
Agency for Cultural Affairs | Japan
Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art | Japan
MOA Museum | Shizuoka | Japan
Tamashin Historical Museum of Art | Tokyo, Japan
Kunitachi City | Tokyo, Japan
Iwata City Kaorino Museum | Shizuoka, Japan
Victoria & Albert Museum | London UK
Royal Museum in Edinburgh | Scotland
The Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, US
National Museum of Asian Art Smithsonian Institution | Washington DC, US