Bio
Kazumi Hoshino is a multi-disciplinary artist who has lived and worked in Maine since 2006.
Hoshino was born and grew up in Nagoya, Japan. She studied oil painting and sculpture privately before attending Tohoku University of Art and Design, where she graduated with a sculpture degree. She is also a licensed art curator in Japan. Her work was exhibited widely in Japan. She has participated in several international sculpture symposia. In 2004, she met her partner, also an artist, at the Nasunogahara International Sculpture Symposium. She moved to Steuben, Maine, in 2006.
She currently shows in galleries and museums and creates public and private commissions in Maine and internationally. She had a site-specific exhibition “ Four in Maine” at the Farnsworth Art Museum, in Rockland, Maine in 2010. She has been featured at the June LaCombe Sculpture, in Pownal, Maine. She won a Percent for Art public art project in Maine, and she installed a fourteen-foot sculpture for the University of Maine, Orono in 2018. She has been working with the theme “Composition.” She has focused on the balance of nature, environment, and society and new possibilities of expressing contemporary ideas in stone.
For the past several years (2016-2018), Hoshino has been developing a winter studio on a historic stone carving island in the inland sea of Japan called Kitagi Jima. She and her partner are developing an exchange artist program with Asia (Japan) and the USA.
Artist Statement
My work is mainly sculpture using stone. I have been working on multidisciplinary work with other natural materials besides stone. I care about the balance and harmony with identity, memory, environment, and perception of the actual physical experience. My work is influenced by the relationship between humans and objects in the natural world.
My ancestors came from Korea to Japan as immigrants. I was influenced strongly by living in Japanese society as a Korean immigrant. This experience led me to discover a sensitivity to the idea of universality, and I found I could overlook society’s effect on me through the medium of art. That focus on art has become a part of my daily life.
Stone has character. It is a universal material. Stone is attractive for me to use in expressing my ideas. Recently, I experimented to develop a silkscreen method able to utilize simple elemental materials from nature. I have been using reclaimed materials such as stone dust from my stone carvings, seaweed from my local area, and leaves from trees on my land, all of which identify the origin and character of the original materials. My work has become a conversation between the internal image and the outer physical perception, an exploration of the gap between the ideal and the experience of the physical material.
Resume
96 Joe Leighton Rd Steuben, Maine 04680 USA / 207-546-8992
Email: kazumihoshino@mac.com / Website: kazumihoshino.com
Born in Nagoya, Japan (U.S. permanent residence, Steuben, Maine)
EDUCATION
2023 MFA in studio art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, United States)
2001 Research student in sculpture, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music (Japan)
2000 BA in sculpture, Tohoku University of Art and Design (Japan)
TEACHING
• Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME / Stone Sculpture / Adjunct Faculty (2020 Fall, 2023 Fall)
AWARD / COMPETITION / COMMISSIONS
• Percent for Art / The Plant, Animal & Insect Laboratory at University of Maine, Orono, 2018
• Roque Bluffs State Park, Maine USA
• The New Balance Recreation Center / University of Maine, Orono USA
PUBLIC COLLECTION
• Rapolano Terme, Siena Italy
• Utsunomiya University, Tochigi Japan
• Ohtawara-city, Tochigi Japan
• Roque Bluffs State Park, Maine USA
• The New Balance Recreation Center / University of Maine, Orono USA
• The Plant, Animal & Insect Laboratory / University of Maine, Orono USA
SYMPOSIUM / RESIDENCIES
2021 Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency / Papermaking, Saugatuck, MI USA
2016 Art in Residency at University of Maine, Orono / the Sculpture studio
2011 JC Stone Sculpture Symposium, Maine USA
2011 Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium, Maine USA
2004 Nasunogahara International Sculpture Symposium In Ohtawara, Tochigi Japan
2001 Rapolano Terme Stone Sculpture Symposium, Siena Italy
LECTURES / PUBLIC SPEAKING
2017 Talking Art in Maine: Intimate Conversations / Lincoln Theater, Damariscotta, Maine USA
2016 Visiting Artist / University of Maine, Orono
SOLO SHOW
2004 Galleria Finarte, Nagoya Japan
GROUP SHOW
2025 “Lifeforms” exhibition, ME
2025 “Downeast Sculpture Project” Outdoor Exhibition, ME
2023 “The Low Residency MFA Thesis Exhibition” / SAIC Galleries, School of the Art Insitute of Chicago, IL
2023 “This is Out of Hand” / The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME
2023 “Generations”/ The Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset, ME, curated by Carl Little
2022 The 8th Shoes Box Exhibition / Ohtawara City Institute for Art Cultural-Studies, Tochigi Japan
2022 International Exhibition with Korean Contemporary Sculpture Group / Gallery H, Seoul Korea
2021 June LaCombe Sculpture Exhibition, Pownal, ME USA
2020 Sculptor’s Drawing Exhibition in Kitagijima / K’s LABO, Okayama Japan
2020 The 6th Shoes Box Exhibition / Ohtawara City Institute for Art Cultural-Studies, Tochigi Japan
2019 Group Exhibition / University of Tohoku Art and Design,Yamagata, Japan
2019 June LaCombe Sculpture Exhibition, Pownal, ME USA
2019 Group Exhibitions Courthouse gallery fine art, Ellsworth, ME USA
2019 The Shoes box Exhibition / Ohtawara City Institute for Art Cultural-Studies, Tochigi Japan(June, 2019)
2018 The Shoes box Exhibition / Ohtawara City Institute for Art Cultural-Studies, Tochigi Japan
2017 Stone Exhibition / Load Hall at the University of Maine, Orono USA
2017 June LaCombe Sculpture Exhibition / Pownal, Maine USA
2017 Summer Exhibition / Courthouse gallery fine art, Ellsworth, Maine USA
2017 The Shoes box Exhibition / Ohtawara City Institute for Art Cultural-Studies, Tochigi Japan
2016, June June LaCombe Sculpture Exhibition, Maine USA
2016, April The Shoes box Exhibition Ohtawara City Institute for Art Cultural-Studies, Tochigi Japan
2015 Annual Sculpture Garden Invitational at the University of New England in Portland, ME USA
2015 The Shoes box Exhibition Ohtawara City Institute for Art Cultural-Studies, Tochigi Japan
2013 Summer Exhibition Courthouse gallery fine art, Ellsworth, Maine USA
2013 June LaCombe Sculpture Exhibition, Pownal, Maine USA
2012 Group Exhibitions Courthouse gallery fine art, Maine USA
2012 International Sculpture Exhibitions at Miyazaki Airport, Japan
2011 Group Exhibitions Courthouse gallery fine art, Maine USA
2011 June LaCombe Sculpture Exhibition, Maine USA
2011 Spring Exhibitions Courthouse gallery fine art, Maine USA
2010 Spring Exhibitions Courthouse gallery fine art, Maine USA
2010 FOUR IN MAINE(site specific) Farnsworth Art Museum, Maine USA
2009 Marble Art Festa In Akiyoshido, Yamaguchi Japan
2009 June LaCombe Sculpture Exhibition, Maine USA
2007 Nasunogahara International Sculpture Symposium Exhibition, Tochigi Japan
2005 THE IMAGE WITHIN/gleason Fine Art, Maine USA
2005 EXPO 2005 AICHI JAPAN(World’s Fair)/Forest Experience Zone, Aichi Japan
2004 Art Promenade In Utsunomiya University, Tochigi Japan
2003 The Honda House「IEMATSURI」 Toyota, Aichi Japan
2002 Gallery SOAN Opening Exhibition, Nagoya Japan
2002 Tohoku University Of Art and Design Gallery, Yamagata Japan
2001 Zipang Girls Vol.3 Nagoya Citizen Gallery Yada, Nagoya Japan
2000 「Sculpture Communication 1999」, Kyoto Hightouch Reserch Park Japan
1999 Zao-Boudaira Sculpture Exhibition, Yamagata, Japan
1999 「Spring Form」Yusokan, Yamagata Japan
1997 Central Community Center Gallery, Yamagata Japan
1996 Student Art Gallery, Yamagata Japan
1995 Central Community Center Gallery, Yamagata Japan
1995 Student Art Gallery, Yamagata Japan
PRESS & BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Thesis of Master of Fine Arts, ” MATERIAL ESSENCE: An analysis of the cultural, economic, and environmental influences on Arte Povera and Mono-ha movement artists, and a recognition of the commonality with similar influences on my contenporary art practice”,
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2022 SCULPTOR: No.22, “Art Practice in America”, published by General Incorporated Association, Niki-kai, Sculpture department. (Japanese)
The Ellsworth American / Sculpture creates “ Bio Spheres” piece for UMaine /November 29, 2018
https://ellsworthamerican-me.newsmemory.com/publink.php?shareid=36bac7eef&fbclid=IwAR2Xi6zdFm2xz_iS9mCD_TDg0CBgCTwpn4wwPnKVBUqEURU6CjF5ffHmSU0
MAINE BOATS, HOMES & HARBORS, 2018
Maine Home + DESIGN/ THE CANVAS/ October, 2015
http://mainehomedesign.com/the-canvas/earth-spirits-2/
SLIPPERY ROCK GAZETTE / PROFILES IN SCULPTURE: / April, 2014
Fishermen’s Voice / ”Warm Wind” Sculpture / Vol.18,No.12-December 2013
Art Review / Hawk Ridge Farm provides vibrant lesson in outdoor sculpture / Sunday, June 16, 2013
DESIGN NEW ENGLAND / Trail of Stone. The Schoodic International Sculpture
Symposium is turning Maine into a granite state of artistic dimensions / September/October 2012
Bangor daily news / New Sculpture graces Roque Bluffs State Park / Wednesday, June 20, 2012
The Ellsworth American / Sculpture Symposium Gearing Up / July, 2011
The Downeast Coastal Press / Schoodic International Scupture Symposium Artists Poised to Work / Week of July 19-25,2011
Maine Sunday Telegram / Sculptor Kazumi Hoshino joins Courthouse Gallery / Sunday, June 13, 2010
The Downeast Coastal Press / Steuben Sculptor Kazumi Hoshino at Courthouse Gallery / Week of June 15-21, 2010
The Ellsworth American / The Essence of Things / March 26, 2010