Masayoshi Oya’s colorful cups, plates, and vases combine traditional Japanese craftsmanship with the Scandinavian aesthetic of color and form. These one-of-a-kind pieces, with their extraordinary finishes, blend functionality and artistic expression, inviting you to rediscover beauty in everyday life .

About the Artist: Masayoshi Oya was born in Japan in 1979 and now lives and works in Gothenburg. His ceramics combine Japanese craft traditions with experimental influences from his adopted home of Sweden. This results in a distinctive, colorful visual language that combines traditional forms with graphic patterns and playful glazes. His work is a fusion of precision and spontaneity. Oya finds inspiration in nature, in traditions, in the unusual, and in the encounter between Japan and Sweden. His ceramics demonstrate how the interplay of different cultures can give rise to a personal and contemporary design language. He runs the Oyama ceramics studio in Gothenburg. 

His relationship with ceramics began during his school years in Japan. In a ceramics class, Masayoshi Oya discovered his immediate connection to the material and quickly knew that he wanted to work with it. After studying ceramics at the Aichi Prefectural Seto College in Tokyo, he moved to Sweden in 2007 and studied ceramics at Capellagården on Öland, later earning his master’s degree in applied arts at HDK-Valand in Gothenburg. The transition between the two cultures opened up a new approach to his own artistic expression. To this day, this connection continues to shape his work. His works have been exhibited at venues including the Gothenburg Museum of Art, the Design Museum Helsinki, Wanås Konst, the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, the Röhsska Museum, and the Art Museum in Tønder. Recently, a work by Masayoshi was also added to the collection of the Swedish National Museum.