| 1971 | Born in Tajimi city. |
| 1991 | Graduated from Tajimi City Pottery Design and Technical Center. |
| 1998 | Silver Prize, International Ceramics Festival Mino ‘98. |
| 2000 | Gold Prize, 2nd Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramics for the Tea Ceremony. |
| 2002 | Special Jury Awards, International Ceramics Festival Mino ‘02. |
| 2004 | Mino Ceramics Now 2004, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu. |
| 2007 | 54th Japan Traditional Kogei Exhibition. |
| 2010 |
Solo exhibition, Shibuya Kuroda Toen, Tokyo. 57th Japan Traditional Kogei Exhibition. |
| 2011 |
White Period, Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Mashiko. Contemporary Ceramics in Tokai: Thinking New Generation, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Seto. Special Jury Awards, International Ceramics Festival Mino ‘11. 58th Japan Traditional Kogei Exhibition. Solo exhibition, Shibuya Kuroda Toen, Tokyo. |
| 2012 |
Workshop participant, Icheon Ceramic Festival, South Korea. Mino Ceramics Now 2012, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu. 59th Japan Traditional Kogei Exhibition. Solo exhibition, Shibuya Kuroda Toen, Tokyo. |
| 2013 |
First Prize, Paramita Ceramic Awards. Master Teabowls of Our Days, Musée Tomo, Tokyo. Solo exhibition, Shibuya Kuroda Toen, Tokyo. |
| 2014 |
Solo exhibition, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo. 61st Japan Traditional Kogei Exhibition (purchased by the Imperial Household Agency) . Exhibition of Japanese Ceramics for the Twenty-first Century, Walters Museum of Art, Baltimore. Work Selected for the Tono Shinkin Bank's Permanent Collection of Mino Ceramic. Solo exhibition, Shibuya Kuroda Toen, Tokyo. |
| 2015 |
Resonant Color: East Asian Traditional Ceramics, Gyeonggi Ceramic Museum, Gwangju, Gyeonggi, South Korea. Solo exhibition, Shibuya Kuroda Toen, Tokyo. |
| 2016 |
Japanese Water Jars for the Tea Ceremony, Joan B Mirviss Ltd, New York. Solo exhibition, Art Fair Tokyo and Shibuya Kuroda Toen, Tokyo. Kōgei (Modern Crafts) and the Tea Ceremony II, Crafts Gallery, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Participant, Chinese, Japanese and Korean Celadon Ceramics Symposium, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan city, China. |
| 2017 |
Contemporary Tea Ceramics, Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, Kasama. Heisei 28 Prize for Preservers of Gifu Prefecture Traditional Culture (For the preservation and transmission of porcelain, celadon and marbleized colored porcelain techniques) . Solo exhibition, Shibuya Kuroda Toen, Tokyo. |
| 2018 |
Blue Period, Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Mashiko. Fiscal 2017 Japan Ceramic Society Award. |
| 2021 |
The Future of Artisanal Beauty: Material, Expression, Decoration, Mitsukoshi Contemporary Art Gallery, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store, Tokyo. Exploring the Tile from Diversified Perspectives of Ceramic Artists, Mosaic Tile Museum, Tajimi. Classical Dignity Contemporary Beauty: Ito Hidehito, Joan B Mirviss Ltd, New York. |
| 2022 |
Ceramics of the Past and the Future: The Timelessness of Traditional Japanese Craft Arts, National Crafts Museum, Kanazawa, et. al. The Fragments of Homo Faber - the Future of Humans and Crafting, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Seto. |
| 2024 |
CELADON:FLAT Itō Hidehito produced by Ryusendo Gallery, Art Fair Tokyo and Ryusendo Gallery, Tokyo. Colors: The Secrets of Color from Impressionism to Contemporary Art, Pola Museum, Hakone. |
| 2025 | CELADON:FLAT Itō Hidehito produced by Mayuyama & Co., Ltd., Art Fair Tokyo and Ryusendo Gallery, Tokyo. |
Public Collections
Japan Foundation, Tokyo
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
Rakusui-tei Museum of Art, Toyama
Paramita Museum, Komono, Mie
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Toshin Mino Ceramic Art Museum, Tajimi
Mino Ceramic Art Museum, Tajimi
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
Southern Song Dynasty Official Kiln Museum, Hangzhou
Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, Kasama
