Akihiro Nikaido is a ceramic artist born in Sapporo, Japan, in 1977. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Bunka Gakuin in 1999, and established his independent studio in Tochigi Prefecture in 2001.

Following the Great East Japan Earthquake, he launched the “Utsuwa Project,” an initiative to deliver handmade vessels directly to people living in temporary housing.

His major overseas exhibitions include Wabi and Now at Globus Teahouse in New York in 2015; *Wabi and Now -Wa-*, a project expressing Japanese culture through the tea ceremony, in New York in 2016; one to seven: January and July in Paris in 2018; and Wabi and Now -Scatter- at various locations throughout New York City in 2019. In 2026, he presented 7 Vases at Galerie Devals in the Palais-Royal garden in Paris, followed by Teaware and Vases at Formocha in Amsterdam.

Nikaido holds around ten solo exhibitions each year and has exhibited widely in Japan and abroad, including Tokyo, New York, Paris, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, and Amsterdam.

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