1928

Born in Kyoto Prefecture

Currently working in Kyoto

Career

1940

Entered Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts

1943

Joined the Naval Air Corps as a flight trainee

1945

Transferred to Kyoto Municipal College of Art

1946

Started pottery making under his father, Lin Mu-yu

1947

Joined the Shikokai as a founding member (left in 1956)

1962

Joined the Sodeisha (left in 1977)

1968

Appointed assistant professor in the Department of Crafts at Osaka University of Arts

1972

Appointed professor of crafts at Osaka University of Arts

1998

Appointed Professor Emeritus of the Department of Crafts at Osaka University of Arts

Major Exhibitions

1950

"Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Ceramics," Cernussky Museum, Paris

1953-56

"Genbi Exhibition" "Contemporary Art Forum" (Kobe - Kyoto)

1972

"Faenza International Ceramic Art Exhibition" (Grand Prix) (Italy)

1973

"Calgary International Ceramics Exhibition" (Grand Prize Winner) (Canada)

1974

"Vallauris International Ceramics Exhibition" (Grand Prix de Honour) (France)

1982

"Vallauris International Ceramics Exhibition" (received the Vallauris Cultural and Artistic Association Award) (France)

1984

Invited to exhibit at the "Faenza Maestro Exhibition" (Italy)

1987

Obidos Biennale, nominated for submission (Grand Prix) (Portugal)

Produced at the Kecskemét International Ceramic Experimental Studio (Hungary)

1992

"Contemporary Japanese Ceramics - Continuity and Change" (USA)

1993

"Hayashi Yasuo Exhibition" Contemporary Crafts Gallery

"Earthen Sculpture Exhibition" (Portland, USA)

1994

Commissioned to exhibit at the 46th Kyoto Exhibition (winner of the Kyoto Exhibition Award)

1995

"Traces of Postwar Culture" (Tokyo, Hiroshima, Hyogo, Fukuoka)

"Japanese Arts and Crafts (Tradition and Avant-Garde)" (UK)

"Wales International Ceramics Festival" (demonstrations, lectures, exhibitions)

"Hayashi Yasuo Exhibition" L Gallery (Hamburg, Germany)

1997

Exhibited at the Seoul Ceramic Biennale '97 (Korea)

1998

"Mathematics and Ceramics Exhibition" (co-hosted with the Berlin Conference of the International Mathematical Society) (Germany)

2001 Stage set design for the opera "The Peony Pavilion" (Nice, Cannes, France)

"Kyoto Crafts 1945 – 2000" (Kyoto and Tokyo)

2005

"Transformation - The Language of Crafts" National Gallery (Australia)

"Hayashi Yasuo Exhibition" Daiichi Arts (New York, USA)

"Contemporary Japanese Ceramics Exhibition" (Boston, USA)

2006

"Hayashi Yasuo Exhibition" Paramita Museum (Yokkaichi, Mie)

2009

"Sculpture by Three Artists (Japan, Spain, Hungary)" (Heidelberg, Germany, Kecskemét, Hungary)

2010

"Japan-Spain Contemporary Ceramic Art Exhibition" (Tokyo, Valencia, Spain)

2011

"Japanese Contemporary Ceramics: The Beauty of Tradition and New Style" (Seto, Aichi)

"Faenza Exhibition of Japanese Award-winning Artists," Italian Institute of Tokyo (Tokyo)

"Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum Masterpiece Exhibition," Hekinan City Fujii Tatsuyoshi Museum of Contemporary Art (Hekinan, Aichi)

2012

"Japan Objects 1920 - 1970s Fragments" (Urawa, Chiba)

2013

"group85 Exhibition" Ban Gallery (Osaka)

2014

"group86/74/65 Exhibition" Gallery Yuru (Kyoto)

"Europe & Beyond - 12 artists in clay" Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2015

"Revisiting 20th Century Japanese Art - 1940s" Mie Prefectural Art Museum (Tsu, Mie)

"Postwar Borderless / The Face of Avant-Garde Ceramics" Ashiya City Museum of Art and History (Ashiya, Hyogo)

2016

"Cubism in Japan: Picasso Impact" Tottori Prefectural Museum (Tottori), Saitama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art (Saitama, Saitama), Kochi Museum of Art (Kochi)

2017

"Yasuo Hayashi's artistic pursuit, challenged through ceramics" The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo (Tamba Sasayama, Hyogo)

"Expression of Ceramic: New Vista from the Postwar Period" Contemporary Art Sokyo (Kyoto)

2018

"IAC Members Exhibition" Yingge Ceramics Museum (New Taipei, Taiwan)

"Hayashi Yasuo Exhibition" CURATOR'S CUBE (Tokyo)

2019

"MAM Research 007: Sodeisha - The Beginnings of Contemporary Ceramics" Mori Art Museum (Tokyo)

"Hayashi Yasuo Exhibition" Kyoto Ceramic Hall (Kyoto)

"Rakuchu Exhibition" Kitano Tenmangu Shrine (Kyoto)

Awards

1972

Grand Prix at the 30th Faenza International Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition (Italy)

1973

Calgary International Ceramic Exhibition Grand Prize Winner (Canada)

1974

Grand Prix de Honour at the Vallauris International Ceramics Biennale (France)

1998

Kyoto City Cultural Merit Award

1999

Kyoto Art and Culture Award

2018

Kyoto Shimbun Grand Prize Cultural and Academic Award

Collection

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Tokyo)

The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (Kyoto)

The National Museum of Art, Osaka

Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum (Hiroshima)

The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo (Tamba Sasayama, Hyogo)

Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art (Wakayama)

Metropolitan Museum of Art (Manhattan, New York, USA) and others