Born in Japan, resides in the USA
Solo Exhibitions
2024
forthcoming, (title undecided) The Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI
2021
Belonging, Furlong Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI
2020
Vestiges and Phantoms, Ingham Chapman Gallery, University of New Mexico Gallup, Gallup, NM
2017
Objects and Minds, Vergette Gallery, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL
2011
Tactile Bodies, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2009
The Way of Flesh, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL
2003
Genetically Modified, L. H. Selman Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
1997
Masako Onodera Recent Work, Gallery Ikusasu, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
forthcoming, Onodera and Pearse: Contrasts and Correlations, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA
2021
Alien Invasion: (Un)Familiar Forms in Contemporary Art, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Calming Space, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
Vulnerable Bodies, Garver Gallery, Madison, WI
2020
Reliant Objects 2020, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta University of Arts, Alberta, Canada
Mistaken for Strangers, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
Six Years of Smitten, traveling exhibition, Grey Gallery, East Carolina University, NC, and Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA
AMEND: 100 Jewelers, 100 Years, online exhibition
In Residence, 13th Edition, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
2019
Metal Complexions, Jung Center Art Gallery, Houston. TX
6X: Mistaken for Strangers, New York City Jewelry Week 2019, Bowery Space, New York City, NY, forthcoming, November
Six Years of Smitten, Form and Concept Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Tradition of Excellence: Japanese techniques in contemporary metal arts, Traveling Exhibition 2019 - 2020, Japan Information Center, Chicago, IL, and Penland Gallery, Bakersville, NC, Metals Museum, Memphis, TN
6X: Mistaken for Strangers, Athens Jewelry Week 2019, The Art Foundation Gallery, Athens, Greece
Fleshing Out, Adorn Spaces at SNAG Conference 2019, Chicago, IL
Articulating Craft, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY, USA
Uneasy Beauty: Discomfort in Contemporary Adornment, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, USA
2018
Small Matters, 437CO Art Gallery, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, CO, USA
Uneasy Beauty: Discomfort in Contemporary Adornment, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, USA
REFINED, Stephen F. Austin State University Gallery, Nacogdoches, TX, USA
Reliant Objects, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR, USA
2017
The Future Room Exhibit 2017-18, Jewellery Museum of Vicenza, Vicenza, Italy
Plastic, Plastic, Plastic, Kimhyunjoo Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Smitten Forum 2016, ECU symposium, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
2016
SOFA Chicago 2016, Charon Kransen Arts, Chicago, IL
METALLOphone: The 3rd International Biennial of Contemporary Metal Art, (AV17)GALLERY, Vilnius, Lithuania
SHADOW THEMES; FINDING THE PRESENT IN THE PAST, Reinstein/Ross Gallery, New York City, NY
Cultivate, Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Miwaukee, USA
Smitten Forum 2016, UWM Arts Center Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Featured Artist, Galerie La Vitrine Au Soleil, Brussels, Belgium
Wisconsin Art Biennial 2016, juried, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI, USA
Featured Artist, Gallery 360, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2015
Home?, Project 837, Baltimore, MD, USA
Contemporary Craft, National, Riddehof Martin Gallery, University of Mary Washington, Frederickburg, VA, USA
Mortal Confections: Emily Beck and Masako Onodera, Inver Hills Gallery, Inver Hills Community College, Inver Grove Heights, MN, USA
We Are SNAG: Contemporary Smiths, juried, http://www.snagspace.org/we-are-snag-contemporary-smiths, The Society of North American Goldsmiths
Adorn: Contemporary Wearable Art, juried, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2014
(In)Organic, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, USA
CraftForm 2014, juried, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, USA
New Fibers 2014, juried, Eastern Michigan University Gallery, Ypsilanti, MI, USA
2013
Shift: Contemporary Makers That Define, Expand and Contradict The Field of Art Jewelry, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
CraftForm 2013, juried, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, USA
2012
Body Language, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, USA
2011
Sparkle Plenty 7: Organ/Ism, Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA, USA
Objects of Status, Power and Adornment, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, USA
Nomadic Fantasia, Indi-go Art Gallery, Champaign, IL, USA
All Things Asian, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, USA
Process and Practice: Collaborations Between Metalsmith and Printmakers, Northern Illinois University, Chicago, IL, USA
Jewelry+Objects, juried, Alden B. Dow Museum of Science and Art of the Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI, USA
Best of 2011, traveling exhibition, juried, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, The Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, Kent State University, OH, USA
2010
Contemporary Metal Art –Sailing to the future, Industrial Exhibition Hall, The Vestige of Heijyo Palace, Nara, Japan
The Plastic Show, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA, USA
Transmutations, Traveling Exhibition, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston TX, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle WA, Gallery Loupe, Montclair NJ, USA
2010 Fine Contemporary Craft National Exhibition, juried, Artspace Visual Art Center, Raleigh, NC, USA
2009
NEXT ICONOCLASTS, Hoffman Galley, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR, USA
The Ishikawa International Urushi Exhibition, juried, Ishikawa Wajima Urushi Art Museum, Wajima, Japan
Best of 2009, juried, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, The Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, Kent State University, OH, USA
2008
OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL, USA
Pulse of a Perfect Heart, I space Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
LINEAGE & LEGACY, The Hall Gallery, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA, USA
The Ishikawa International Urushi Exhibition, juried, Meitetsu M’za Exhibition Hall, Kanazawa, Japan
Touching Warms the Art, juried, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR, USA
2007
The Teapot Redefined, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, USA
Mesa Contemporary Art’s 29th Annual Contemporary Crafts Exhibition, juried, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ, USA
Close to the Skin, juried, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Craft Forms 2007, juried, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA, USA
Exploring Boundaries: Evolutionary Metal, juried, Bevier Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA
ITAMI International Craft Exhibition 2007, juried, The Museum of Arts and Crafts ITAMI, Hyogo, Japan
Fiber National, juried, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA, USA
2007 Materials: Hard and Soft, juried, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX, USA
2006
Evolution: Form and Function, The Link Gallery, Champaign, IL, USA
Mesa Contemporary Art’s 28th Annual Contemporary Crafts Exhibition, juried, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ, USA
Thoughts Materialized 2006 SNAG Juried Student Exhibition, juried, Mars Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Reinterpreting the Vessel, juried, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2005
Contemporary Works In Glass, Ruby Green Contemporary Art Center, Nashville, TN, USA
Illuminations 2, 1212Gallery, Burlingame, CA, USA
Craft USA ’05 National Craft Triennial, juried, The Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, USA
2004
Illuminations, 1212Gallery, Burlingame, CA, USA
Off the Rim: Selections from the Pacific Rim Sculptors Group, juried, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, USA
Best of Tennessee Craft Biennial Exhibit, juried, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN, USA
2003
Botanicals, The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA, USA
Northern Lights, Running Ridge Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
bigLITTLE, juried, Craft and Cultural Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA, USA
Society of North American Goldsmith Annual Juried Student Exhibition 2003, juried, California College of Arts and Crafts SF campus, San Francisco, CA, USA
2002
Exemplary Contemporary 2002, juried, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, University of California, CA, USA
Bay Area Student Sculpture Biennial, juried, The 600 Townsend Building, San Francisco, CA, USA
2001
The Second Cheongju International Craft Competition -The Breath of Nature, juried, Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2001, Cheongju Arts Center, Cheongju, South Korea
Selected Public Collections
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, Bloomington, IN
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
Kamm Teapot Foundation, Sparta, NC
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Selected Publications
2021
Wisconsin People & Ideas, summer 2021, Vulnerable Bodies by Jody Clowes
AMEND: 100 Jewelers, 100 Years, Secret Identity Projects
2020
A Thread of Jewels, Exhibition Review Mistaken for Strangers by Elizabeth Smith, A2 Pulp.org, Ann Arbor, MI
2017
Textiel Plus, Spring 2017, Vol.239, p23, Signalement, Alkmaar Netherlands
Gioiello & Jewellery, p303, Futuro & Future, Museo Del Gioiello, Vicenza, Italy
2016
Smitten Forum 2016 :A Creative Gathering of Makers, by Brown and Saneholtz, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Art Jewelry Today 4, Schiffer Publishing, PA
2014
Art Jewelry Forum Exhibition Review Shift, by Jess Tolbert, www.artjewelryforum.org
2013
Fiber Art Now 2013, Summer Issue, Fiber Art Now, East Freetown, MA
2012
Metalsmith 2012, Vol. 32, No. 5, p.59, Society of North American Goldsmiths, OR
2011
21st Century Jewelry, Lark Crafts, Asheville, NC
Art Jewelry Today 3, Schiffer Publishing, PA
Metalsmith 2011, Vol. 31, No.4, Society of North American Goldsmiths, OR
2010
Museum, January/February 2010 Vol. 89, No. 1, American Association of Museums, DC
2009
Metalsmith 2009, Vol. 30, No. 2, p.15, Society of North American Goldsmiths, OR
500 Plastic Jewelry Designs, p.43, 98, Lark Books, Ashville, NC
500 Enameled Objects, p.115, Lark Books, Ashville, NC
ACTIVA, No.38, Design Deffusion Edizioni, Milan, Italy
2008
500 Pendants & Lockets, p.112, Lark Books, Ashville, NC
2007
Metalsmith 2007, Vol. 27, No. 5, p.59, Society of North American Goldsmiths, OR
SNAG News May/June 2007, Vol. 15, No. 3, Society of North American Goldsmiths, OR
500 Earrings, p.35, p.130, Lark Books, Ashville, NC
2006
Metalsmith 2006, Vol. 26, No. 5, p.60, Society of North American Goldsmiths, OR
SNAG News Letter 2006, July/August, Vol. 14, No. 3, Society of North American Goldsmiths, OR
2005
Fabulous Jewelry from Found Objects, p.36 Lark Books, NC
2004
The New York Times, July 4, 2004,
“Ah, the Beauty of Genetic Engineering, and Other Sculptures, ” Exhibition Review, New York, NY
2003
Good Times Santa Cruz County’s News & Entertainment Weekly
Feature of the Art “Blown Away” Solo Exhibition Review, Santa Cruz, CA
2002
Museum Currents 2002, March/April, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Selected Awards and Grants
2022
UW-System Outstanding Women of Color in Education Award 2022
2019
Dahlgren Professorship 2019-2020, University of Wisconsin-Stout
2016
Emerging/Mid Career Artist Educational Endowment Scholarship, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, USA
2014
Juror's Award: People moving the field forward in an interesting and thoughtful way, CraftForms 2014, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
2011
Individual Excellence Award in 2011, Ohio Arts Council
Artist Scholarship Award, Ohio Designer Craftsmen
Jewelry+Objects 2011, June Houck Award, Michigan Silversmiths Guild
2007
Educational Endowment Scholarship for Students, the Society of North American Goldsmiths
The Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
28th Annual Contemporary Crafts Exhibition Juror’s Award, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ
Materials: Hard and Soft 2007 Exhibition Award, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX
2006
Educational Endowment Scholarship for Students, the Society of North American Goldsmiths
2005
Brodie Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2004
Contemporary Craft Collection Purchase Award, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
2003
NICHE Student Awards Finalist, NICHE Magazine, Baltimore, MR
2002
General Scholarship for Summer 2002, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
2001
The 2nd Cheongju International Craft Competition Honorable Mentions, Cheongju, South Korea
Lectures and Workshops Presented
2024
forthcoming, VIsiting Artist Lecture and Studio Visits, University of Georgia Athens, Athens. GA
2021
Material Exploration: Bodies & Senses Session 5, Summer 2021, 16 days workshop, Penland School of Craft, NC
2020
"Vestiges and Phantoms" Calvin Hall, UNM Gallup, Gallup, NM
2019
“Alluring Decay” Artist Talk, The Bench: South West Maker’s Symposium, Santa Fe, NM
2017
"Bodies and Minds" Artist lecture, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea
"Bodies and Minds" Artist lecture and critiques, Sungshin Women's University, Seoul, South Korea
"Bodies and Minds" Visiting artist lecture and workshop, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL
2016
"Woolsmithing" One-day workshop, Zoom Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI
2015
“The Permeable Process” Artist Lecture, Yokohama College of Art and Design, Yokohama, Japan
2013
“The Permeable Process” Artist Lecture, “Fibersmithing” Demonstration, and studio visits, Ball State University, Muncie IN
Artist talk, Erlham College, Richmond IN
“The Permeable Process” Artist Lecture and “Fibersmithing” Workshop, University of Wisconsin-OshKosh
“The Permeable Process” Visiting Artist Presentation, HAWK University, Hildesheim, Germany
2012
“Fiber Techniques in Jewelry” Lecture and demonstration, East Carolina University Metals Symposium, Material Topics, Greenville, NC
“The Permeable Process” Visiting Artist Lecture and critic University of Akron, Akron, OH
“Fibersmithing” Workshop, Tap Studio, Cleveland, OH
"The Permeable Process” Visiting Artist Lecture and felting demonstration, Tokyo Kasei University, Tokyo, Japan
2011
“The Permeable Process” Artist Presentation -Spotlight On, Emerging artist lecture, Society of North American Goldsmiths’ annual conference in Seattle
2010
“Tactile Bodies” Featured Artist Lecture, Michigan Silversmith Guild, Annual Meeting, Eastern Michigan University, MI
2009
“The Way of Flesh” Visiting Artist Lecture and, “Felt Jewelry” 2 days Workshop, Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX
“The Way of Flesh” Guest Artist Lecture, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
“Urushi lacquer” Guest Speaker, Japanese Club, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
2007
“The Lacquer from Nature –Urushi” Lecture and Demonstration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
“Urushi lacquer” Guest Speaker, Japan House, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
Curating
2016
GEMS: Contemporary Metalsmiths and Art Jewelers in Menomonie, Heyde Center for the Arts, Chippewa Falls, WI
2014
Resolutely Ambiguous, The Shop, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Residency
2022
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
2019
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
2016
Smitten Forum, Pocosin Art, Columbia, NC
2003-2005
Tennessee Technological University Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, TN
Education
MFA in Metals, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008
BFA in Interior Design, Joshibi University of Art and Design, Kanagawa, Japan, 1989
Affiliation
The Society of North American Goldsmiths
American Craft Council
Minnesota Jewelry Artists Guild