Tetsuya Yamada is an artist based in Minneapolis. In 1991, he saw an exhibition of Isamu Noguchi at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, where was studying ceramics, that energized him, inspiring him to travel to the US to study art. Currently a professor in the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota, his ceramics practice is a metaphyscal one, blurring categories of art, science, religion, and medicine. Recipient of McKnight Artist Fellowships for Visual Artists in 2014 and 2019 and the 2001 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, he has participated in residency programs at Kohler Arts/Industry (2002, 2009), the Fabric Workshop (2004), and at the European Ceramic Work Center in Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands (2010).
