Jun Kaneko

Jun Kaneko
Kaneko in Charlotte, North Carolina on January 19, 2013
BornJuly 1942 (age 82)
Alma materChouinard Art Institute
AwardsHonorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Art in London
Websitewww.junkaneko.com

Jun Kaneko (金子 潤, Kaneko Jun; born 1942) is a Japanese-born American ceramic artist known for creating large scale ceramic sculpture. Based out of a studio warehouse in Omaha, Nebraska, Kaneko primarily works in clay to explore the effects of repeated abstract surface motifs by using ceramic glaze.