Exhibitions/Performances

• The Archivist — Bridge Studio, Kyoto, 2026

• Fragrance of Grass : Winter (Diner) — with Chef Miguel Pelayo, Kyoto, 2025

• An Intimate Encounter — performance for Ingeborg Meulendijks, Odapark, NL, 2025

• Fragrance of Grass : Summer (Diner) — d Chef Jessie Liu, Berlin, 2025

• (In)Quietudes — Gallery Conscious, Paris, France, 2024

• Path of Asahiyaki — Nuit Blanche Kyoto (partnership with the French Institute), Kyoto, Japan, 2024

• On three desires— TESA, New Taipei, Taiwan 2024

• Faire entendre le silence — Private room exhibition, Paris, France, 2024

• Solo Exhibition and Tea Lectures “On Formality” and “Ceramic Bowls: Form and Functions” — PuerhBrooklyn, NYC, 2022

• Japanese Tea Bowl Ceramic Workshops — MudMatters, NYC, 2022

• Tea artist in residence and organiser of Sasaki Kyoshitsu’s ceramic workshop — Savalaure, 2022 FR

• In the Pocket art exhibition — ceramics and calligraphies — Gallery ‘Laboratoire d’Exposition’ , 2020 Paris FR

• Online tea ceremony performance : “On the spring to come” —Online event, 2020

• Tea artist in residence at Sasaki Kyoshitsu’s ceramic workshop — Fort bij Uithoorn, 2019 Uithoorn NL

• Artistic residency : tea ceremony and related arts — Pasona Group, 2018-2019 various locations JP

• Tea performance— Elzevir Gallery, 2017 Paris FR

• Guest tea artist and ceramist in residence — Shouraku ceramic workshop, 2017 Kameoka JP

• Writer Residency — Barbery residency, 2015 Kyoto JP

Teaching / Public Appearances

• New Japonism, NHK G / NHK World–Japan — Documentary appearance, 2025–2026 (VOD here)

• Guest Lecturer in Comparative Cultures, Tea performer —Maastricht Academy of Architecture, 2020- Present NL

Keynotes

• Working with life for The Archivist — SAMCARA Design Research Lab at Keio University’s Graduate School of Media Design, Tokyo, Japan, December 2025

• Tea Ceremony and palliative care — conference for a private Oncology Congress, 2025, Berlin

• The re-use of the world — on recycling materials in art, Conscious Gallery, Paris, 2025

• Mud Matters: online lectures “Wabi-Sabi and designing ceramics: the history and philosophies of technics”

• AYF Guest lecturer — subject : “Cross-cultural approach to art” — Kyoto, 2021 JP

• The Art Talk by Carolina Comforty — Guest lecturer and writer — The Art Talk Magazine, 2021

Publications

• Rob Barnard, Philosophie d’Argile — Atelier d’Art n°178, Oct. 2025

• Thé, Tradition, Télévision — Magazine Magazine, n°44, Sept. 2025

• Every word a step in the citadel — Poems and calligraphies, 2024

• An Approach to Welcoming Arts, Essay on a User Oriented Design of Space & Time, in partnership with Maastricht Academy, 2023, to be published

• Atelier Parter: A Discreet Attention — Ceramics, and Interiors, Studio Potter, 2022

Background

• Master degree in philosophy — Sorbonne

• Master degree in political theory — Sciences Po Paris.

• Ten years of practice of the Japanese tea ceremony, ceramics and calligraphy.