Haguiko Fukuyama is born in 1948 in Saga, Japan. Education as an architecte. In 1972 she moves to France. Here she visits the L’école des Beaux-Arts in Tours, section ‘décoration’. Here she meets her future husband Jean-Pierre Viot. Lessons from Viot and the American ceramist Paul Sodner. Haguiko did receive the Prix Liliane Bettencourt. Haguiko has her first exhibition in the Netherlands with Loes & Reinier International Ceramics in Deventer (NL) in 1997.
Haguiko and Viot can be seen in below URL: http://www.tv5.org/cms/chaine-francophone/publications/Sur-mesures/Video/p-15216-Episode-25-Jean-Pierre-Viot-et-Haguiko-ceramistes.htm
Picture: portrait Haguiko (source vimeo.com).