Masumi Igarashi | Fame | Glass | 20 x 34 x 21 cm (Weight: 5.8 kg)

Masumi Igarashi was born in 1972 in Sendai, Japan, and studied at Gakushuin University in Tokyo and the Tokyo Glass Art Institute.
Since 1997, she has worked as a freelance artist in her own studio, initially in Yokohama and later in Marne, Germany. She has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions.

National exhibitions in Germany include “hier+heute Glas aus Deutschland” at the Mining and Industrial Museum in Eastern Bavaria (2003), “So fern – so nah” at the Drostei, Pinneberg (2005), Glass Museum Immenhausen (2006), the international sculpture exhibition “Haltestelle Kunst” in Nuremberg (2007), the 14th Art and Environment Exhibition “Energieflüsse” at the Municipal Gallery in Güstrow (2009), and the “Natur-Mensch” art exhibition in St. Andreasberg (2015).

Internationally, her works have been presented in 2005 at Glassrijk Tubbergen, the Netherlands, at Scope Miami in 2015, and at Scope New York in 2016.
Furthermore, her works are part of public institutional collections at the Town Hall in Tubbergen, the Netherlands, and at the Ernsting Foundation in Coesfeld-Lette, Germany.
In her works, she explores forms that embody both objectivity and abstraction. She is interested in shapes or forms created by movement, which, in turn, become abstract; thus, abstract shapes gain a concrete appearance.

AWARDS:
In 2002 and 2005, she was awarded the 1st Glass Art Prize in Tubbergen, the Netherlands.
In 2007, she won the 2nd Prize at the International Sculpture Exhibition in Nuremberg, Germany.
At the Biennale for Glass Sculpture and Garden (2002) in Münster, Germany, she was awarded a special recognition.