Jun Kaneko

Craft Front & Center: Exploring the Permanent Collection, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
POP! Color Stories from the Permanent Collection, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA

REVEAL: Recent Acquisitions 2020-2023, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
Contemporary/Traditional: Selections from the Basch Glass Collection, Sarasota Art Museum, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
Elevation: Kaneko and Contemporary Ceramics, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Jun Kaneko & Kiki Smith, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Color VI, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Collect 2023, Somerset House, London, UK

Landscapes: Jun Kaneko, Kasuhito Kawai, Kimiko Mishima, Toru Ishii, Yoon Heechang, Sokyo Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
Pure Form: Japanese Sculptural Ceramics, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
California Clay: The Big Bang, Clarinda Carnegie Art Museum, Clarinda, IA

Global Asias: Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Traveling exhibition (scheduled through 2023): Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State, University Park, PA; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY; Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT; USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
The Floating Bridge: Postmodern and Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Objects: USA 2020, R & Company, New York, NY
The Rule of Three, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO

Art for All, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, Portland, OR
In Hawai’i, Hawaii State Art Museum, Honolulu, HI
Height x Width x Depth: Sculpture from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, Bradbury Art Museum, Little Rock, AR
Rites of Spring, Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY
Tending the Fires: Recent Acquisitions in Clay, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Seattle Art Fair: Jun Kaneko, John Kiley, Jane Rosen, exhibited by Traver Gallery at Centurylink Field, Seattle WA
Cool Clay, Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Ceramics, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

The Elaine and Sidney Cohen Collection of Contemporary Ceramics, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Humanistic Return: The Spiritual Origin of Ceramic Art, Yingge Ceramics Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Art in the Garden, Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL
Adornment, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearny, NE
Compelled to Tell: Color, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE

Platform Series: An Incident, The Armory Show, New York City, NY
Emphasized, Eye on the Scale, Hawaii, State Art Museum, Honolulu, HI
When Altitude Becomes Form: Japanese Art of the 1970’s through the Photography of Anzai Shigeo, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

Passion & Obsession: From the Collection, KANEKO, Omaha, NE
Cranbrook Ceramics +/- 25 Years, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
Magical Designs for Mozart’s Magic Flute, New York Public Library for Performing Arts, New York, NY and Kent State University Museum, Kent, OH
National Ceramics Invitational, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Function, Form, and Fantasy: Ceramics from the Dr. Robert and Deanna Harris Burger Collection, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Clay Through Time: Ancient to Contemporary Ceramics, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Rites of Spring, Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY
The Once and Future: New Now, Sherry Leedy Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Time + Space: Beginnings, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

Art Seen: A Juried Exhibition of Artists from Omaha to Lincoln, Joslyn Museum of Art, Omaha, NE
The Familiar and the Indefinable in Clay: The 71st Scripps College Ceramic Annual, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Glazed and Diffused, Ferrin Contemporary, North Adams, MA
Honoring the Past, Embracing the Future, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
Plates, Platters, & Discs: Selection from the Collection, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
Passport 2015, Japantown, San Francisco, CA

Seasons of Sculpture VII, Sarasota, FL
Identity and Originality: New Collection of Modern Ceramics, Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Japan
Shades of White, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Resurfaced and Reformed: Evolutions in Studio Ceramics Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN
Raku Ceramics, Sedona Art Center, Sedona, AZ

Crafting Contemporary: Selections from the Daphne Farago Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Art as Mammel, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE

Provenance: In Honor of Arlene Schnitzer, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Marks and Conversations IV, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Color, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Jun Kaneko, Bean Finneran, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID

2011: Artists from the Center, Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT
Big Ass Sculpture Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Handmade for Japan, Online Benefit for Japan Auction
20th Century Ceramics: From Kenkichi TOMIMOTO to Kazuo YAGI, The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Sasayama, Japan
The Soldner Society, The Heights Waterfront, Tampa, FL
Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art & Design, Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY

Collection 2: Focus on Recent Acquisitions, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
EXenTriCA, LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY
Innovations and Change: Great Ceramics from the Arizona State University Art Museum, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Sculpture: Intimate to Monumental, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Drawing on Sculpture, Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX

Inspiration, William Traver Gallery, Tacoma, WA
Clay Canvases: The Fine Art of Painted Ceramics, Gardiner Museum Toronto, ON, Canada
Glass Education Network 2009: Jun Kaneko and Therman Statom, Nagoya University of Arts, Nagoya, Japan
A Passionate Observer: A Tribute to Helen Drutt, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Crosscurrents: Jun Kaneko and David Kuraoka, Maui Arts & Culture Center, Kahului, HI

Sculpture: A Wyoming Invitational, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie WY
Generations: Works by Jun Kaneko and Toshiko Takaezu, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
NewNow, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson Community College, Overland, KS
Recent Work by Gallery Artists, Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
Hot Color, Cool Glass, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
On Existence, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan
Jun Kaneko – Therman Statom, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
New, Novel and Never Shown before 2008: Recent Gifts to the Collection, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
ConTempoRarities, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI

Uncommon Objects, Hawai’i State Art Museum, Honolulu, HI
All the Difference: Works in Clay, Emily Davis Gallery, Mary Schiller Myers School of Art, The University of Akron, Akron, OH
Innovation and Change: Great Ceramics from the Ceramic Research Center, Arizona State University Art Collection, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Bold Expressions in Modern Art: The Buddy Greenberg Collection, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
Grand Opening 07/07/07, Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Shy Boy, She Devil and Isis: Selections from the Wornick Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Sculptors on Paper, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
New Works 2007: Celebrating Recent Gifts to RAM, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI

Contemporary American Crafts, Art in Embassies Exhibition, American Embassy, Seoul, South Korea
A Ceramic Legacy: The S. Janssen and R.M. Johns Collection, Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, AZ
Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ (3-person show with Bobby Silverman and Anthony Caro)
10th Anniversary Exhibition, The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center, Honolulu, HI
Jun Kaneko and Michael Sarich, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
Clayarch International Architecture/Ceramic Exhibition, Gimhae Museum, South Korea
ClayFusion: Ceramists Work in Glass, Jun Kaneko Sushi Plates, Bullseye Connection Gallery, Portland, OR
Ceramics: Frank Boyden, Jun Kaneko, Geoffrey Pagen, Don Reitz, Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR

Jun Kaneko and Douglass Freed, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Contemporary Kiln-Glass: A Survey of Works from the Bullseye Glass Co. Collection and the Bullseye Connection Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington IL
25th Anniversary Exhibition, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Japan/USA: A Cross Cultural Exchange, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR (3-person)
Chiaroscuro, Santa Fe, NM (2-person)
Transformations: The Language of Craft, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Contemporary Kiln-Glass: A Survey of Works from the Bullseye Glass Co. Collection and the Bullseye Connection Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL

Inaugural Exhibition, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ
Sculpture Garden, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Studio Glass International, Concordia University, Seward, NE
The Secret History of Clay, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
All Fired Up: A Contemporary Ceramics Experience, Reed Whipple Cultural Center, Las Vegas, NV

The Character of Clay: Jun Kaneko & Bean Finneran, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
100 Treasures of Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Clay, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
Concentus, National Museum of Decorative Arts, Oslo, Norway
Group Exhibition, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Shared Passion: Sara and David Lieberman Collection, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
W. Wegman, J. Bartlett, J. Kaneko, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA

The Erotic Life of Clay: A Group Exhibition of Contemporary and Historic Ceramics, SFSU Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
25th Anniversary Exhibit, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Accent on Ceramics, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Phoenix, AZ
Coming of Age, Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC
Contemporary American Ceramics 1950-1990, Aichi Ceramic Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Evidence: Invitational, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
J. Kaneko, T. Fawkes, M. Bauer, M. Kosuge, Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR
Poetics of Clay: An International Perspective, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, touring to the Museum of Art and Design / Taideteollisuusmuseo, Helsinki, Finland
Sculptural Clay Invitational, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
Setagaya Museum in Tokyo, Japan
T. Statom, J. Kaneko, L. González Palma, R. Goethals, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Untitled, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA

Generations in Clay, Center of Earth Gallery, Charlotte, NC
RSVP MONA, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE
Poetics of Clay, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
World Ceramic Exposition 2001 Korea, Icheon, South Korea
High Fire: Significant Ceramic Sculpture, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Arts, Kansas City, MO
Jun Kaneko, Ralph Paquin, Harper Center for the Arts, Clinton, SC
Clay Feast, Gulgong, Australia

Goro Suzuki, Jun Kaneko, Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, Japan
Two Masters of Modern Ceramics: Jun Kaneko and Irvin Tepper, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA
Color and Fire, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Everson Ceramic National, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Wonder & Discovery, Shigaraki Sculpture Park, Shigaraki, Japan
The Summer Show, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

Biennial Exhibition of Public Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
Rare Earth, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA
Contemporary Clay: Master Teachers/Master Students, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Contemporary American Ceramics and Glass, Seto Ceramics and Glass Art Center, Aichi, Japan
Mud and Fire, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI
Horizons, Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, NC

Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
Le Geste et la Couleur, Musée Magnelli, Vallauris, France
Crossing Cultures, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
EKWC, Centro de Artesanía e Deseño de Galicia, Lugo, Spain
Summer Show, Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
A Fire for Ceramics, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA

Invitational Ceramic Exhibition, University of Wisconsin, White Water, WI
Society of Arts and Crafts Centennial, Clay Exhibition, Boston, MA
Sculptors & Their Drawings, Dorothy Weiss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Masters in Clay, Academy of Art, Leuven, Belgium
A New Expression of the Earth, Fundación Luís Seoane, A Coruña, Spain

Peter Voulkos & Jun Kaneko: Shigaraki Project, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Chico State University, Chico, CA
Fine Art of Craft and Sculpture, LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT (6-person)
K’96 International Ceramic Art, South Carelian Art Museum, Lappeenranta, Finland
Made in Kent, Kent State University, Kent, OH

Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
Ryoji Koie, Goro Suzuki, Jun Kaneko, Maruei Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

International Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition, Aichi Prefecture Ceramic Museum, Seto, Japan
KPMG: Peat Marwick Collection, Renwick Gallery, Washington D.C.
New Craft Forms, Exhibition for Winter Olympics, Lillehammer, Norway
Revolution in Clay: The Marer Collection of Contemporary Ceramics, (Traveling exhibition through 1996): Scripps College, Claremont, CA ; Ringling School of Art and Design ; Sunrise Museums, Charleston, WV ; Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI ; Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH ; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX ; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS ; Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA ; Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL
The Ritual Vessel: Traditions Intertwined, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
Contemporary American Ceramics: From the Dean Thompson Collection, Gallery of Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
Sculptural Objects & Functional Art, River Exhibition Hall, Chicago, IL

Wave of the Cloth, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
Contemporary Ceramics 1950-1990, Aichi Prefecture Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
Clay 1993: A National Survey, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA

Continuity and Transformations: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, Everson Museum of Arts, Syracuse, NY
The 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery Kasahara, Tokyo, Japan
Ceramic Work Invitational Exhibition, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
Yokohama International Art Fair, Gallery Kasahara, Yokohama, Japan
New Art Forms, Exposition, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL

International Ceramic Invitational Show, Shigaraki Ceramic Park, Shigaraki, Japan
Ceramic Work – Part I, Otsuka Ceramic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Building a Permanent Collection, Gallery of Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
Keepers of the Kiln: Seven Contemporary Ceramic Artists, (Traveling exhibition through 1993): University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV ; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN ; Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA ; University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO ; Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, Madison, GA ; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL ; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI ; Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum, Logan, KS
Beyond Serving, Moira James Gallery, Green Valley, NV
Walls: Large-scale Ceramic Sculpture, Eight Variations, Utah State University, Logan, UT

Jun and Fumi Kaneko, Mark Masuoka Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Jun and Fumi Kaneko, Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
In Otsuka Ceramic, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan
Høvikodden Fjord Project and Høvikodden International, Høvikodden Art Center, Oslo, Norway
Midlands Invitational, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
In Otsuka Ceramic, Otsuka Ceramic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Craft Today USA, American Craft Museum, New York, NY, (International traveling exhibition through 1993): Taidetollisuusmuseoi-Museum of Applied Arts; Frankfurt, Germany (Nov 30-Feb 25, 1990) Museum fur Kunsthandwerk; Warsaw, Poland (Mar 22-Apr 22, 1990) Zacheta Gallery; Lausanne, Switzerland (May 30- Sept 2, 1990) Musée des Arts Décoratifs; Moscow, USSR (Oct 23-Dec 2, 1990) Museum of Decorative Applied and Folk Art; Ankara, Turkey (Jan 22-Feb 8, 1991) State Painting and Sculpture Museum; Oslo, Norway (Mar 15-Apr 28, 1991) The Oslo Museum of Applied Art; Ghent, Belgium (May 30-Jul 28, 1991) St. Peter’s Abbey; Berlin, Germany (Oct 16-Nov 16, 1991) Amerika Haus Berlin; Athens, Greece (Dec 8-Jan 11, 1992) Eommex Cultural Center-The Zappeoin; Bratislava, Slovakia (Feb 19-Mar 29, 1992) Slovak National Gallery; Leipzig, Germany (May 2-Aug 23, 1992) Grassi Museum; Barcelona, Spain (Sept 17-Oct 25, 1992) Sala Sant Jaume of the Fundació la Caixa; Lisbon, Portugal (Dec 3-Jan 31, 1993) Gulbenkian Foundation Museum
Two Modern Masters Jun Kaneko and William Harper, Society for the Art in Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA
Mirror Images: Reflections in Clay, Craft Alliance Gallery, St Louis, MO
Natasha Nicholson Works of Art, Madison, WI
Kansas City Collects Contemporary Ceramics, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
45th Scripps Ceramic Annual, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Recent Acquisitions, Weber State College, Ogden, UT

A Fine Place to Work: Legacy of the Archie Bray Foundation, Arkansas Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AR
East Meets West, International Ceramic Show at the 1988 Olympics, Seoul, South Korea
Expression in Color: Ceramics, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
Jun Kaneko, Fumi Kaneko, The Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY
Sheldon Sampler: Private Choices, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Power Over the Clay: American Studio Potters, (Michigan statewide traveling exhibition, through 1989): Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit ; Northern Michigan University, Marquette ; Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon ; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo ; Hope College, Holland ; Midland Center for the Arts, Midland ; Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson
Nagoya Museum Masterpieces Collection, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
The Kansas Contemporary Art Center, Kansas City, MO

Clay Revisions: Plate, Cup, Vase, American Federation of Arts, circulating exhibition
Claywork Now III ’87, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan
Osaka Contemporary Art Fair ’87, Osaka City Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
Contemporary American Ceramic Show, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Japanese/American Craft Invitational, Morikami Museum, Delray Beach, FL
The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
American Ceramics Now, Twenty-Seventh National Exhibition, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

Claywork II, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Clay AZ Art International Ceramic Conference, Arabia Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Show, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, Seibu Museum, Otsu, Shiga-Ken and Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Arts: An Expanding View, The Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ; The Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ
Michigan NEA Fellowships, 1965-1985, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, MI
Craft Today, American Craft Museum, New York, NY

Claremont Influences, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Surface, Function, Shapes: Selections from the Earl Millard Collection, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, IL
Four Artists/Belleville, General Bank and First National Bank, Belleville, IL

7 Ceramai, Hope College, Holland, MI
‘Aha Hana Lima ’84 Invitational, East West Center, Honolulu, HI
Corpus Christi Invitational, Corpus Christi State University, Corpus Christi, TX
Directions in Contemporary American Ceramics, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
Forms That Function, Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY
Scripps Clay Connection, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Earth & Fire: The Marer Collection of Contemporary Ceramics, Montgomery Gallery, Pamona, CA
Vision of Cranbrook Today, Grand Rapids Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
Visiting Artists Exhibition, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
A Contemporary Cranbrook Vision, CDS Gallery, New York, NY
Hadler/Rodriguez Gallery, New York, NY
Platters and Related Forms, University Gallery, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL

NCECA Conference, American Arts Inc., Atlanta, GA
American Clay Artists, Philadelphia, PA
Anagama Show, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, Traveling Show, organized by the Japan Foundation, Canada
Cranbrook Ceramics: 1950-1980, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Cranbrook Today, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Japanese Dynasty ’83, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The Alternative Space, Ree Schonlau Gallery, Omaha, NE
RISD: Leadership in Crafts, Craftsman’s Gallery, Scarsdale, NY
Student Choice, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Alice Aycock /Jun Kaneko, Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL

Artwear Exhibition, Virginia Beach Art Center, Virginia Beach, VA
Bennington College, Bennington, VT (3-person)
Jun Kaneko, Goro Suzuki, Minnesota Clay Company, Plymouth, MN
Michigan Ceramic ’82, Eastern Michigan University, Ann Arbor, MI
Painted Surface, Ceramic Invitational, Birmingham Art Association, Birmingham, MI
Convergent Territories, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre of Fine Art, Banff, AB, Canada
Nuove Forme della Ceramica Giapponese ’82, Palazzo delle Esposizioni- Faenza, Faenza, Italy, and Instituto Giapponese di Cultura, Rome, Italy

Art Materialized: Selections from the Fabric Workshop, (Traveling exhibition through 1984): The New Gallery for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; The Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, SC; The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; USF Art Galleries, Tampa, FL; The Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, CA; Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta; Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
Gallery Shiro, Osaka, Japan
Maronie Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

Art for Use at Winter Olympics, Lake Placid and Contemporary Craft Museum, Lake Placid, NY
Homage to Josiah Wedgwood Ceramic Invitational, Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA
Ceramic Invitational, Muskegon Community College, Muskegon, MI
Ceramic Invitational, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Eighth Biennial Craft Invitation, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Fabric Invitational, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

A Century of American Ceramics, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

Art Now ’78, Invitational Exhibition, Hyogo Modern Art Museum, Japan
Nikko Securities Building, Nagoya, Japan

Bird’s Eye View of Contemporary Japanese Art, 1977, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

The Fred and Mary Marer Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
The Fred and Mary Marer Collection, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
The Fred and Mary Marer Collection, Newcastle City Art Gallery, Newcastle, Australia

Jun and Fumi Kaneko, Cooper Gallery, Newport, RI

Jun Kaneko, Norm Schulman, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
San Diego Museum Ceramic Invitational, San Diego, CA
Clay Things: East Coast Invitational, Moore College of Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The Fred and Mary Marer Collection, Scripps College, Claremont, CA

First Ceramic Invitational, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

27th Ceramic National, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Invitational Exhibition, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Pennsylvania State University Ceramic Invitational, University Park, PA

Clay Plus: 10 Ceramic Sculptors, State University of New York, NY College of Arts and Science, Genesee, NY
Contemporary Ceramic Art of America, Canada, Mexico & Japan, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

Ceramics, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
Cerritos Ceramic Annual, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
Collegiate Show, San Bernardino, California (First Prize)
Art in Other Media: Ceramic, Glass, Textile, Wood, Burpee Museum of Art, Rockford, IL
Ceramics 70, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

Objects U.S.A., Johnson Wax Collection, Contemporary Crafts Museum, New York, NY
Scripps College Invitational Ceramic Show, Claremont, CA (Selector)
Satoshi Ogawa & Jun Kaneko, El Dorado Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

25th Ceramic National Exhibition, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (Arcadian Landscaping Prize)
Peter Voulkos & Jun Kaneko, David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Downey Museum Annual Art Exhibition, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA (First prize in Crafts)
National Invitational Crafts Exhibition, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Third Ceramic Invitational, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA
California Design X, Collection of Sacramento State College, Pasadena Museum, Pasadena, CA

5th Annual Southern California Exhibition, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Media Explored 1967, Laguna Beach Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Kiyo Gallery, Gardena, CA

24th Ceramic National Exhibition, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (Arcadian Landscaping Prize)
Annual Scripps College Ceramic Invitational Exhibition, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Craftsman U.S.A. ’66, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY (National Merit Award)

7th Miami National Ceramic Exhibition, University of Miami, Miami, FL

23rd Ceramic National Exhibition, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

Zaiya Invitational Painting Show, Japan
16th Chubu Niki Exhibition, Nagoya, Japan (First Prize)

15th Chubu Niki Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
16th Niki Exhibition, Nagoya, Japan (Nagoya Times Prize)

14th Chubu Niki Exhibition, Nagoya, Japan

2015 San Francisco Opera, San Francisco, CA
2014 Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
2013 Opera Carolina, Charlotte, NC, Kansas City Lyric Opera, MO, Opera Omaha, Omaha, NE
2012 San Francisco Opera, San Francisco, CA (premiere)

2015 Opera Omaha, Omaha, NE
2008 Opera Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA (premiere)

2019 Opera Omaha, Omaha, NE
2017 Washington National Opera, Kennedy Center, Washington DC
2016 San Francisco Opera, San Francisco, CA
2014 San Francisco Opera, San Francisco, CA
2012 Opera Carolina, Charlotte, NC
2011 Opera Omaha, Omaha, NE
2010 Opera Memphis, Memphis, TN, Vancouver Opera, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2009 Opera Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Madison Opera, Madison, WI, Atlanta Opera, Atlanta, GA
2007 Hawaii Opera Theater, Maui, HI, Hawaii Opera Theater, Honolulu, HI
2006 Dayton Opera, Dayton, OH. Opera Omaha, Omaha, NE (premiere)

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Scripps College, Claremont, CA

University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

Ree & Jun Kaneko Foundation, Omaha, NE, Co-Founder

Founder, KANEKO: Open Space for Your Mind, Omaha, NE

Co-Founder, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE