Mieko Suzuki-Wanner

Curriculum Vitae

11.11.1956
Born in Tokyo, Japan

1969-1972
Attended primary and middle school in Tokyo, Japan

1972-1975
Attended high school of arts in Tokyo, Japan

1975-1979
Studied oil painting and earned a degree in art education at Womens College of Fine Arts(Joshibi) in Tokyo, Japan

1979-1981
Worked at Jeweler Shinbido Ginza in Tokyo, Japan

1981-1985
Attended technical college for goldsmiths in Pforzheim, Germany.
and Interned at the company Jos. Kast.

1985-1987
Passed the final apprenticeship examination as a goldsmith at the International Commercial Chamber in the northern Black Forest

1987-1990
Worked as a commercial clerk and a designer at the company Schoeffel in Stuttgart, Germany

1990-1999
Worked as a freelance jewelry designer at the company Schoeffel in Stuttgart, Germany

1999- 2011
Moved from Stuttgart to Ostseebad Nienhagen (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern).
Worked as a freelance goldsmith-jewelry designer.

2008-2011
Member of the Goldsmith Association German House of Goldsmiths Hanau (Gesellschaft für Goldschmiedekunst e.V. Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau)

Awards and Exhibitions

1985
Paper Design Special Award at International Pearl Design Contest, Japan

1986-1988
Exhibition of jewelry at the Ivory Gallery, Erbach, Germany

1997
Bronze award at South Sea Pearl Jewelry Design Competition, Hong Kong

1998-2011
Exhibition of unique amber jewelry at the Amber Gallery in Ribnitz- Damgarten and Rostock.
Several exhibitions at galleries, goldsmith houses, and fashion boutiques in Germany.

2001
Designed jewelry for a new collection at the company Bastian in Bremen, Germany

2002
New jewelry collection for Heymann-Mode in Warnemünde, Germany

2006
Jewelry exhibition at Grand Hotel Kempinski in Heiligendamm, Germany

2008
Third place for the Tahitian Pearl Trophy with a fifth-edition ring design

2010
Eighteen positions of contemporary jewelry and design of tools in the German House of Goldsmiths in Hanau

2011
Tahirty Year Anniversary Jewelry Exhibition