Edmund de Waal

De Waal was born in Nottingham, England, the son of Esther Aline (née Lowndes-Moir), a renowned historian and expert in Celtic mythology and Victor de Waal, a chaplain of the University of Nottingham who later became the Dean of Canterbury Cathedral. His grandfather was Hendrik de Waal, a Dutch businessman who moved to England. His paternal grandmother Elisabeth and great grandfather Viktor von Ephrussi were members of the Ephrussi family, a history of which was chronicled in The Hare with Amber Eyes. Elisabeth de Waal's first novel, The Exiles Return, was published by Persephone Books in 2013. De Waal's siblings include barrister John de Waal (husband of author Kit de Waal),{{cite news | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/my-name-is-leon-by-kit-de-waal-tears-snot-laughter-and-race-riots-1.2885589 | title='My Name is Leon' by Kit de Waal: Tears, snot, laughter and race riots | newspaper=The Irish Times }} Alex de Waal who is director of the World Peace Foundation, and Caucasus expert Thomas de Waal.

De Waal's interest in ceramics began aged five when he took an evening class at the Lincoln School of Art,{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b043wvy7|title=BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Edmund de Waal; Winner of Young Musician; Hypnotic Brass Ensemble|publisher=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=18 September 2019}} this early introduction to pottery influenced de Waal's later enthusiasm for pursuing an art practice based in ceramics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/articles/why-craft-is-central/|title=Why craft is central - Crafts Council|website=craftscouncil.org.uk|access-date=11 September 2019}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/johntusainterview/dewaal_transcript.shtml|title=Transcript of the John Tusa interview with Edmund de Waal|date=25 July 2005|publisher=BBC Radio 3. bbc.co.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106053057/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/johntusainterview/dewaal_transcript.shtml|archive-date=6 January 2009|access-date=4 August 2017}} [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ncysg Link for recording] (available only in UK?).{{Cite web|url=https://www.departures.com/art-culture/art-design/edmund-de-waal%E2%80%99s-million-little-pieces|title=Edmund de Waal's Million Little Pieces|website=Departures|language=en|access-date=18 September 2019}}

De Waal was educated at The King's School, Canterbury, where he was taught pottery by the potter Geoffrey Whiting (1919-1988), a student of Bernard Leach.Ceramics: Art and Perception, No. 54, 2003. At 17, de Waal began a two-year apprenticeship with Whiting, deferring his entry into University of Cambridge.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/feb/12/edmund-waal-life-profile-interview|title=Edmund de Waal: A life in arts|author=Paul Laity|date=12 February 2011|work=The Guardian|access-date=20 September 2014}} During the apprenticeship de Waal made hundreds of earthenware and stoneware pots, such as casseroles and honey pots. In 1983, de Waal took up his place at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, to read English. He was awarded a scholarship in 1983 and graduated with first class honours in 1986.{{cite web|url=http://www.thinktank04.eu/page.php?2,41,103|title=Curriculum Vitae for THINK TANK|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331184940/http://www.thinktank04.eu/page.php?2,41,103|archive-date=31 March 2012|access-date=20 September 2014|url-status=dead}}

Following graduation, de Waal began to follow the discipline of British studio pottery, to create inexpensive domestic pots with good earth-tone colours. He moved to Herefordshire where he built a kiln and set up a pottery making functional stoneware pots in the Leach tradition, but the enterprise was not financially successful. In 1988, de Waal moved to inner-city Sheffield and began experimenting with working in porcelain.

In 1990 de Waal obtained a Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Scholarship, under which he spent a year obtaining a post-graduate diploma in Japanese language at Sheffield University and continued an additional year's study. Whilst studying in Japan at the Mejiro Ceramics studio de Waal also worked on a monograph of Bernard Leach, researching his papers and journals in the archive room of the Japanese Folk Crafts Museum.de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes (2011), p. 3. During this time de Waal began to make series of porcelain jars with pushed-in, gestural sides, arranged in groups and sequences.

File:Porcelain teapot.jpgOn returning to Britain in 1993, de Waal settled in London and began making his distinctive ceramics, porcelain with a celadon glaze. Focusing on essentially classical vessel shapes but with the inclusion of indentations or pinches and subtle variations in tone and texture in the style de Waal began while in Japan, these pots slowly gained the attention of the British craft industry leading to his first exhibition at Egg London in 1995.{{Cite web|url=https://eggtrading.com/blogs/invitations/edmund-de-waal-november-1995|title=edmund de waal November 1995|website=egg trading|date=8 August 2019 |access-date=18 September 2019}}File:Black milk.jpg

Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s de Waal's ceramic practice became heavily influenced by modernism, the Bauhaus movement in particular. This led to de Waal's belief that the East and West may meet in the materiality of porcelain; for example, the ethos of China's Song dynasty may encounter the modernist ethos of the Bauhaus.Twentieth Century Ceramics, London, Thames and Hudson, 2003.

In the years since 2000 de Waal has moved away from making and exhibiting single domestic use vessels to the production of groups of vessels and objects to be viewed in relation to openings and spaces, later moving into predominately wall-mounted and freestanding vitrines filled with varying multitudes of his porcelain vessels, and most recently the addition of different kinds of metals, metallic gilding, porcelain shards and sheets of porcelain with embossed handwriting.{{Citation|title='breath', an artist's book by Edmund de Waal published by Ivorypress| date=22 January 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcd2Pd-xXZs |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/bcd2Pd-xXZs| archive-date=12 December 2021 |url-status=live|language=en|access-date=18 September 2019}}{{cbignore}} In a 2017 interview conducted in preparation for de Waal's exhibition at Artipelag, Sweden, de Waal explained his artistic process and attraction to porcelain as a material:

when I need to make something I'm often mesmerised or haunted by an idea or by a piece of poetry. A line from poetry, a word sometimes, or a piece of music, or a space that I've been thinking about, a particular place that I want to kind of question by making something for it. So, there are all these different possibilities when I begin. I am grounded in history, the history and culture of the materials I use, this extraordinary two-thousand-year history of porcelain. I don't use this material lightly. It’s not a light material. It's got incredible resonance, incredible power.{{Citation|title=Edmund de Waal – interview for Artipelag| date=23 May 2017 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMZxmWnp1hg |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/UMZxmWnp1hg| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|language=en|access-date=2019-09-18}}{{cbignore}}

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In 2013 BBC One broadcast an Imagine documentary following de Waal for a year as he prepared for his debut New York exhibition, Atemwende at Gagosian Gallery; titled and inspired by a poetry collection from the German émigré poet Paul Celan.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/nov/06/imagine-edmund-de-waal-tv-review|title=Imagine – Edmund De Waal: Make Pots or Die; Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners – TV review|last=Crace|first=John|date=6 November 2013|work=The Guardian|access-date=18 September 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03hcmmp|title=BBC One - imagine..., Winter 2013, Edmund de Waal: Make Pots or Die|publisher=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=18 September 2019}}

De Waal discussed the influence of music and sound on his art practice in various interviews, including the BBC Radio 3 programme Private Passions,{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s1kz0|title=BBC Radio 3 - Private Passions, Edmund de Waal|publisher=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=18 September 2019}} BBC Desert Island Discs{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p067p|title=BBC Radio 4 – Desert Island Discs, Edmund de Waal|publisher=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=18 September 2019}} and in a 2017 interview, de Waal mentioned, "I am obviously on some spectrum where for me objects do actually have very powerful sound. I do literally hear them when I put them out." In addition, de Waal plays recorded music aloud in his studio while making and assembling his work, that this provides "a landscape for [him] to be in" when working.{{Cite web|url=https://www.phaidon.com/agenda/design/articles/2011/october/27/edmund-de-waals-muse-music/|title=Edmund de Waal's Muse Music {{!}} Design {{!}} Agenda|website=Phaidon|access-date=18 September 2019}} De Waal has collaborated with musicians on various projects, including Psalm, in 2015 by the Scottish composer Martin Suckling with the Aurora Orchestra; and an atmospheric sound piece by Simon Fisher Turner as a part of the 2017 Schindler House exhibition.{{Cite web|url=http://www.martinsuckling.com/composition|title=Composition / Audio|website=Martin Suckling – Composer|language=en-US|access-date=18 September 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://gagosian.com/quarterly/2018/10/24/interview-edmund-de-waal-simon-fisher-turner/|title=In Conversation: Edmund de Waal and Simon Fisher Turner: Tapping the World|date=24 October 2018|website=Gagosian Quarterly|language=en|access-date=18 September 2019}}

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De Waal has exhibited major installations at Chatsworth, Kettle's Yard, Tate Britain, Fitzwilliam Museum, Southwark Cathedral, Kunsthistorisches Museum (including a commission for the Theseus Temple in the Volksgarten, Vienna), and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

In 2012 he received his first outdoor public art commission, for the Alison Richard Building at the Sidgwick Site of the University of Cambridge, where he created A Local History, consisting of three vitrines filled with porcelain to sit beneath the pavement surrounding the building.De Waal, Edmund [http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2328/ "A Local History"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711052633/http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2328/ |date=11 July 2015 }}. CRASSH, July 2015.  In 2015 de Waal curated the exhibition White in the Royal Academy of Arts Library and Print Room. The "project ... sets objects in dialogue with one another and with the spaces around them"{{Cite web|url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/white-a-project-by-edmund-de-waal|title=white {{!}} Exhibition {{!}} Royal Academy of Arts|website=royalacademy.org.uk|access-date=17 November 2015}} and included works by Ai Weiwei, Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist Teapot and J. M. W. Turner's porcelain palette. In September 2016 de Waal collaborated with the artist Ai Weiwei to co-curate an exhibition, Kneaded Knowledge: The Language of Ceramics at the National Gallery in Prague and Kunsthaus Graz exploring the history of clay. The exhibition featured works by both artists and from other prominent artists working in ceramics, including Pablo Picasso, Lucio Fontana, Isamu Noguchi, Lucie Rie and Peter Voulkos.{{Cite web|url=https://kunsttrans.cz/en/events/kneaded-knowledge-the-language-of-ceramics/|title=Kneaded Knowledge. The Language of Ceramics|language=en-GB|access-date=18 September 2019}}

Since 2016 de Waal has continued his interest in working with arts and cultural institutions in installing his work in relationship and dialogue with existing museum collections such as the Frick Collection, historical architectural spaces such as Schindler House and the Ateneo Veneto; and engagement with Jewish museums in both Venice and Vienna.{{Cite web|url=http://www.museoebraico.it/en/temporary_exhibition/psalm-edmund-de-waal/|title=Psalm by Edmund de Waal|website=Museo Ebraico di Venezia|language=en-US|access-date=11 September 2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.jmw.at/en/exhibitions/ephrussis-travel-time|title=The Ephrussis. Travel in Time {{!}} Jüdisches Museum Wien|website=jmw.at|access-date=11 September 2019}} De Waal make his Royal Ballet debut in the 2017–18 Season designing Wayne McGregor’s new ballet, Yugen, at the Royal Opera House. Set to The Chichester Psalms, the production formed part of a programme celebrating the centenary of Leonard Bernstein's birth.{{Cite web|title=Yugen – Making|url=https://www.edmunddewaal.com/making/yugen|access-date=22 August 2021|website=Edmund de Waal|language=en-GB}}{{Cite web|first= Elly |last=Parsons|date=22 March 2018|title=Edmund de Waal on creating an elemental language of movement for Wayne McGregor|url=https://www.wallpaper.com/art/edmund-de-waal-wayne-mcgregor-royal-ballet|access-date=22 August 2021|website=Wallpaper*}}{{Cite web|title=Edmund de Waal — People — Royal Opera House|url=https://www.roh.org.uk/people/edmund-de-waal|access-date=22 August 2021|website=www.roh.org.uk}}

De Waal is a patron of Paintings in Hospitals, a charity providing art for health and social care in England, Wales and Northern Ireland,{{Cite web|url=https://www.paintingsinhospitals.org.uk/our-patrons|title=Our Patrons|website=Paintings in Hospitals|date=3 July 2017 |language=en|access-date=18 December 2018}} and from 2015 to 2020 de Waal was a trustee of the National Saturday Club, an educational charity for young people.{{Cite web|url=https://saturday-club.org/about-us/people/|title=People|website=National Saturday Club|language=en-US|access-date=10 September 2019}} In 2018, de Waal was re-appointed to the Royal Mint Advisory Committee for another term of five years.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/edmund-de-waal-obe-reappointed-to-the-royal-mint-advisory-committee|title=Edmund de Waal OBE reappointed to the Royal Mint Advisory Committee|website=GOV.UK|language=en|access-date=10 September 2019}} From 2004 to 2011, de Waal was professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster; and a trustee of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London from 2011 to 2019.{{Cite web|title=New Trustees for V&A Museum|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-trustees-for-va-museum|access-date=10 August 2020|website=GOV.UK|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=V&A Board of Trustees Minutes 12 September 2019|url=https://vanda-production-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/2019/11/29/10/31/48/be9bf7d7-c9e8-453b-b24f-733cc7149444/V&A%20Board%20of%20Trustees%2012.09.19%20Minutes.pdf}} De Waal has been a trustee of the Gilbert Trust since 2013 and in 2020 became a co-opted member of the V&A Museum of Childhood.{{Cite web|title=GILBERT TRUST FOR THE ARTS - Charity 1055853|url=https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/1055853/trustees|access-date=22 August 2021|website=register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk|language=en-GB}}{{Cite web|title=Profile – Resources|url=https://www.edmunddewaal.com/resources/profile|access-date=22 August 2021|website=Edmund de Waal|language=en-GB}}

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In 1998, De Waal published a monograph on Bernard Leach, with research collected while studying in Japan.{{Cite book|title=Bernard Leach|last=De Waal, Edmund.|date=1998|publisher=Tate Publishing|isbn=978-1-85437-227-7|location=London|oclc=40049196}} The book challenges the public understanding of Leach as the great and original interlocutor for Japan and the East as the 20th-century potter who translated the mystery of the East to audiences in the West. De Waal's research into Leach in Japan revealed that he predominantly associated himself with Western-educated Japanese people, did not speak Japanese and studied only a narrow range of traditional Japanese ceramics. Due to Leach's status in the West as the "Father of British studio ceramics" and the influence of his Eastern techniques and philosophy, De Waal's views attracted criticism from some of Leach's followers.{{Cite journal|last=de Waal|first=Edmund|date=1997|title=Homo Orientalis: Bernard Leach and the Image of the Japanese Craftsman|journal=Journal of Design History|volume=10|issue=4|pages=355–362|issn=0952-4649|jstor=1316207|doi=10.1093/jdh/10.4.355}}

In 2010, de Waal's family memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes: a Hidden Inheritance, was published, first by Chatto & Windus in the UK and later by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in New York City. The book traces the history of de Waal's Jewish relatives (from his paternal grandmother, Elisabeth), the wealthy and influential Ephrussi family, by telling stories surrounding a collection of 264 Japanese netsuke – miniature ivory and wood sculptures traditionally used as toggles on men's kimono, to attach carrying pouches. The collection of netsuke were originally purchased by Charles Ephrussi in Paris in the 1870s, and were handed down through the generations and eventually given to de Waal by his great-uncle Ignace "Iggie" Ephrussi, who settled in Tokyo after the Second World War."Edmund de Waal." Contemporary Authors Online. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2016. Retrieved via Biography in Context database, 4 August 2017. The book received critical acclaim, and brought de Waal the Costa Book Award for biography in 2010, as well as the Galaxy New Writer of the Year Book Award{{Cite web|url=https://readingagency.org.uk/adults/galaxy-british-book-awards-200/|title=The Reading Agency {{!}} Adults {{!}} Galaxy National Book Awards|last=Agency|first=The Reading|website=readingagency.org.uk|language=en|access-date=18 September 2019}} and the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. It has sold over a million copies and has been published in more than 25 languages.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/asia-travel/japan/they-are-my-fortune-i-hate-them-hddmjzljwr9|title=They are my fortune. I hate them|first=Richard|last= Brooks|date=25 January 2015|newspaper=The Sunday Times|access-date=18 September 2019|language=en|issn=0956-1382}}

The Ephrussis. Travel in Time, an exhibition surrounding the story of the Ephrussi family told by de Waal in his family memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes, tracing their history from Odessa to Paris and Vienna; then to their migration as refugees as the Second World War forced them to seek asylum in the United Kingdom, the US and Mexico, and onto Japan and other countries, opened at the Jewish Museum Vienna in November 2019.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/arts/design/hare-with-amber-eyes-vienna-edmund-de-waal.html|title='The Hare With Amber Eyes' Comes Home|last=Karasz|first=Palko|date=12 November 2019|work=The New York Times|access-date=13 November 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.jmw.at/en/exhibitions/ephrussis-travel-time|title=The Ephrussis. Travel in Time {{!}} Jüdisches Museum Wien|website=jmw.at|access-date=13 November 2019}}

De Waal's second book, The White Road, was published by Chatto & Windus in 2015 and was aired on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. It follows de Waal's journey to discover the history of porcelain, from porcelain first made in the hills of Jingdezhen in China to the first makers of English porcelain, William Cookworthy and Josiah Wedgwood; and the development of porcelain manufacture in Dresden in the early 18th century during the reign of Augustus the Strong, ruler of Saxony, by Johann Friedrich Böttger and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus and later in Nazi Germany the porcelain manufacture Allach, a project by Heinrich Himmler, run by the SS with forced labour provided by the Dachau concentration camp.

De Waal's third book, Letters to Camondo, was published by Chatto & Windus in May 2021.

• 1995: Edmund de Waal. Egg, London.
• 1999: Modern Home. High Cross House, Dartington Hall, Devon.{{Cite web|url=http://interpretingceramics.com/issue013/articles/03b.htm|title=Interpreting Ceramics : issue 13 - Museums and the 'Interstices of Domestic Life': Re-articulating Domestic Space in Contemporary Ceramics Practice, by Laura Gray|website=interpretingceramics.com|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2002: Porcelain Room. Geffrye Museum, London.{{Cite web|url=http://www.edmunddewaal.com/making/the-porcelain-room-1|title=The Porcelain Room – Making|website=Edmund de Waal|language=en-US|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2002: A Long Line West. Egg, London.{{Cite web|url=https://www2.eggtrading.com/pages/about|title=about|website=egg trading|access-date=18 September 2019}}
• 2005: Arcanum: mapping 18th-Century European porcelain. National Museums and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff.{{Cite web|url=https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/92z1z/arcanum-mapping-18th-century-porcelain|title=Arcanum: mapping 18th century porcelain|last=de Waal|first=E.|date=1 January 2005|website=westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2005: A line around a shadow. Blackwell, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria.{{Cite web|url=http://www.edmunddewaal.com/making/a-line-around-a-shadow|title=A line around a shadow – Making|website=Edmund de Waal|language=en-US|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2006: Vessel, perhaps. Millgate Museum, Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire.{{Cite web|url=http://www.edmunddewaal.com/making/vessel-perhaps|title=Vessel, perhaps – Making|website=Edmund de Waal|language=en-US|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2007 Edmund de Waal at Kettle's Yard, MIMA and elsewhere. Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.{{Cite web|url=http://www.edmunddewaal.com/making/edmund-de-waal-at-kettles-yard-mima-and-elsewhere|title=Edmund de Waal at Kettle's Yard, mima and elsewhere – Making|website=Edmund de Waal|language=en-US|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2007: A Sounding Line. Chatsworth House, Derbyshire.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chatsworth.org/art-archives/devonshire-collection/ceramics/a-sounding-line/|title=A Sounding Line|website=chatsworth.org|language=en-GB|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2009: Signs & Wonders. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.{{Cite web|url=http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1192588|title=Signs & Wonders {{!}} Waal, Edmund de {{!}} V&A Search the Collections|date=15 September 2019|website=V and A Collections|language=en|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2010: From Zero. Alan Cristea Gallery (now known as Cristea Roberts Gallery), London.{{Cite web|url=https://cristearoberts.com/exhibitions/58/|title=Edmund de Waal {{!}} From Zero|website=Cristea Roberts Gallery|language=en|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2012: Edmund de Waal at Waddesdon. Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire.{{Cite web|url=https://waddesdon.org.uk/whats-on/edmund-de-waal-at-waddesdon/|title=Edmund de Waal at Waddesdon|website=Waddesdon Manor|language=en-GB|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2012: a local history. Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/potted-histories|title=Potted histories|date=23 January 2013|website=University of Cambridge|language=en|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2012: a thousand hours. Alan Cristea Gallery (now known as Cristea Roberts Gallery), London.{{Cite web|url=https://cristearoberts.com/exhibitions/82/|title=Edmund de Waal {{!}} a thousand hours|website=Cristea Roberts Gallery|language=en|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2013: On White: Porcelain stories from the Fitzwilliam Museum. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/calendar/whatson/edmund-de-waal-white-porcelain-stories-fitzwilliam|title=Edmund de Waal - On White: Porcelain Stories from the Fitzwilliam {{!}} The Fitzwilliam Museum|website=fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2013: Atemwende. Gagosian Gallery, New York.{{Cite web|url=https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2013/edmund-de-waal-atemwende/|title=Edmund de Waal: Atemwende, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, September 12–October 19, 2013|date=12 April 2018|website=Gagosian|language=en|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2014: atmosphere. Turner Contemporary, Margate.{{Cite web|url=https://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/articles/edmund-de-waals-atmosphere|title=Edmund de Waal's Atmosphere - Crafts Council|website=craftscouncil.org.uk|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2014: another hour. Southwark Cathedral, London.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artrabbit.com/events/another-hour-by-edmund-de-waal|title=Another Hour by Edmund de Waal - Exhibition at Southwark Cathedral in London|website=ArtRabbit|language=en|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2014: Lichtzwang. Theseus Temple, Vienna.{{Cite web|url=https://www.khm.at/en/visit/exhibitions/2014/edmund-de-waal/|title=Edmund de Waal Lichtzwang|website=khm.at|language=en|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2015: wavespeech. A joint exhibition with David Ward. Pier Arts Centre, Orkney.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pierartscentre.com/current-upcoming-exhibition/20/6/2015/wavespeech-edmund-de-waal-david-ward|title=wavespeech - Edmund de Waal & David Ward|website=Pier Arts Centre|date=20 June 2015 |language=en-GB|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2015: white: A Project by Edmund de Waal. Royal Academy of Arts, London.{{Cite web|url=http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/white-a-project-by-edmund-de-waal|title=white {{!}} Exhibition {{!}} Royal Academy of Arts|website=royalacademy.org.uk|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2016: ten thousand things. Gagosian Gallery, Beverley Hills.{{Cite web|url=https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2016/edmund-de-waal-ten-thousand-things/|title=Edmund de Waal: ten thousand things, Beverly Hills, January 14–February 18, 2016|date=12 April 2018|website=Gagosian|language=en|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2016: Irrkunst. Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin.{{Cite web|url=https://www.maxhetzler.com/exhibitions/edmund-de-waal-irrkunst-2016|title=Exhibition: Edmund de Waal|website=Galerie Max Hetzler|language=en|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2016: Kneaded Knowledge with Ai Weiwei. Kunsthaus Graz, Graz.{{Cite web|url=https://www.museum-joanneum.at/en/kunsthaus-graz/exhibitions/exhibitions/events/event/4654/kneaded-knowledge-1|title=Kneaded Knowledge - Exhibition {{!}} Kunsthaus Graz|website=museum-joanneum.at|language=en|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2016: During the Night. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.{{Cite web|url=https://www.khm.at/en/visit/exhibitions/2017/edmund-de-waal/|title=Edmund de Waal meets Albrecht Dürer During the Night|website=khm.at|language=en|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2017: Lettres de Londres. Espace Muraille, Geneva.{{Cite web|url=https://espacemuraille.com/en/passed-exhibitions/lettres-de-londres|title=Edmund de Waal - Lettres de Londres|website=espacemuraille.com|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2017: Morandi / Edmund de Waal. Artipelag, Stockholm.{{Cite web|url=https://artipelag.se/en/exhibition/edmund-de-waal-giorgio-morandi/|title=Edmund de Waal Giorgio Morandi|website=Artipelag|date=23 January 2017 |language=en-US|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2018: white island. Museu d’Art Contemporani d’Eivissa, Ibiza.{{Cite web|url=http://www.eivissa.es/mace/index.php/ca/historic-d-exposicions/439-white-island-dedmund-de-waal|title="white island", de l'artista Edmund de Waal|website=eivissa.es|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2018: – one way or other – Schindler House, Los Angeles.{{Cite web|url=https://makcenter.org/programming/edmund-de-waal-one-way-or-other/|title=Edmund de Waal: –one way or other– {{!}} MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles|website=makcenter.org|date=16 September 2018 |access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2018: the poems of our climate, Gagosian Gallery, San Francisco.{{Cite web|url=https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2018/edmund-de-waal-the-poems-of-our-climate/|title=Edmund de Waal: the poems of our climate, San Francisco, September 20–December 8, 2018|date=28 July 2018|website=Gagosian|language=en|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2019: breath. Ivory Press, Madrid.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ivorypress.com/en/art/breath/|title=breath|website=Ivorypress|language=en-US|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2019: psalm. Museo Ebraico di Venezia and Ateneo Veneto, Venice.{{Cite web|url=http://www.psalmvenice.org/|title=psalm|website=psalm|language=en-US|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2019: Elective Affinities. The Frick Collection, New York.{{Cite web|url=https://www.frick.org/exhibitions/de_waal|title=Elective Affinities: Edmund de Waal at The Frick Collection {{!}} The Frick Collection|website=frick.org|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2019: a sort of speech. Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin.{{Cite web|url=https://www.maxhetzler.com/exhibitions/upcoming-edmund-de-waal-sort-speech-20191/press-en|title=Exhibition: UPCOMING: EDMUND DE WAAL|website=Galerie Max Hetzler|language=en|access-date=18 September 2019}}
• 2019: im Goldhaus. Porzellansammlung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden.{{Cite web|url=https://porzellansammlung.skd.museum/ausstellungen/dauerausstellung/#c18194|title=Porzellansammlung: Dauerausstellung|website=porzellansammlung.skd.museum|access-date=13 November 2019}}
• 2019: Library of Exile. Japanisches Palais, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden.{{Cite web|url=https://japanisches-palais.skd.museum/ausstellungen/library-of-exile-edmund-de-waal-zuzanna-janin-mark-justiniani-und-das-dresdner-damaskuszimmer/|title=Japanisches Palais: Library of exile - Edmund de Waal, Zuzanna Janin, Mark Justiniani und das Dresdner Damaskuszimmer|website=japanisches-palais.skd.museum|access-date=13 November 2019}}
• 2020: Library of Exile. The British Museum, London.{{Cite web|title=Edmund de Waal: library of exile|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/edmund-de-waal-library-exile|access-date=10 August 2020|website=The British Museum|language=en}}
• 2020: some winter pots. Gagosian Gallery, London.{{Cite web|date=30 October 2020|title=Edmund de Waal: some winter pots, Davies Street, London, December 3, 2020–January 30, 2021|url=https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2020/edmund-de-waal-some-winter-pots/|access-date=22 August 2021|website=Gagosian|language=en}}
• 2020: tacet. New Art Centre, Salisbury.{{Cite web|title=Edmund de Waal: tacet|url=https://www.sculpture.uk.com/edmund-de-waal-tacet|access-date=22 August 2021|website=NewArtCentre.|language=en-GB}}
• 2020: cold mountain clay. Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong.{{Cite web|date=29 October 2020|title=Edmund de Waal: cold mountain clay, Hong Kong, November 20, 2020–January 9, 2021|url=https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2020/edmund-de-waal-cold-mountain-clay/|access-date=22 August 2021|website=Gagosian|language=en}}
• 2021: This Living Hand: Edmund de Waal presents Henry Moore. Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, Perry Green.{{Cite web|title=This Living Hand: Edmund de Waal presents Henry Moore|url=https://www.henry-moore.org/whats-on/2021/05/19/this-living-hand|access-date=22 August 2021|website=Henry Moore Foundation|language=en}}
• 2021–2022: Hare With Amber Eyes. Jewish Museum (Manhattan), New York.{{cite web|title=Hare With Amber Eyes, Jewish Museum, New York, November 19, 2021-May 15, 2022|url=https://thejewishmuseum.org/press/press-release/the-hare-with-amber-eyes-press-release-november-17-2021}}
• 2022–2023: de Waal +. Gagosian Book Shop, Burlington Arcade, London.{{cite web | url=https://gagosian.com/news/2022/11/05/edmund-de-waal-shop-takeover-burlington-arcade-london/ | title=Edmund de Waal | Events | News | date=29 November 2022 }}
• 2023: this must be the place. Gagosian Gallery, New York.{{cite web | url=https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2023/edmund-de-waal-this-must-be-the-place/ | title=Edmund de Waal: This must be the place, 541 West 24th Street, New York, September 13–October 28, 2023 | date=4 October 2023 }}
• 2024: Library of Exile. Warburg Institute, London.{{cite news |last1=Wainwright |first1=Oliver |title=Occult? Try upstairs! Inside the world’s weirdest library, now open to the public |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/sep/25/occult-worlds-weirdest-library-warburg-institute |access-date=25 September 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=25 September 2024}}

• 1991–1993 Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Scholarship.{{Cite web|url=http://dajf.org.uk/scholarships/daiwa-scholarship/scholars/daiwa-scholars-1991|title=Daiwa Scholars 1991|website=Daiwa Foundation|language=en|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 1996: Fellow of Royal Society of Arts.
• 1999–2001: The Leverhulme Trust Special Research Fellowship.{{Cite web|url=http://www.edmunddewaal.com/resources/profile|title=Profile – Resources|website=Edmund de Waal|language=en-US|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2003: Silver Medal, World Ceramic Exposition, Korea.{{Cite web|url=http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/collection/artists/de-waal-edmund-1964|title=Edmund De Waal {{!}} Artists {{!}} Collection {{!}} British Council − Visual Arts|website=visualarts.britishcouncil.org|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2009: Honorary Fellow, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.
• 2011: Honorary degree from the University for the Creative Arts.{{cite web|url=http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/news/2010/july/honoraries#.U9t5jvldXpU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110414082319/http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/news/2010/july/honoraries#.U9t5jvldXpU|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 April 2011|title=UCA awards first round of honorary degrees|publisher=University for the Creative Arts|access-date=20 September 2014}}
• 2011: Costa Book Awards, winner (Biography), The Hare with Amber Eyes.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jan/04/costa-book-awards|title=Edmund de Waal leads Costa book awards finalists|last1=Brown|first1=Mark|date=4 January 2011|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=15 September 2019|last2=|first2=|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}
• 2011: Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, winner, The Hare with Amber Eyes.
• 2011: Order of the British Empire (OBE) for Service to the Arts.
• 2011: to present, Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
• 2012: Senior Fellowship Royal College of Art, London.
• 2013: Honorary Doctorate of Letters University of Sheffield.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/alumni/news/hondegreealumni2013-1.305825|title=Honorary Degrees for 3 Alumni at 2013 Graduation - News - Alumni - The University of Sheffield|last=Sheffield|first=University of|website=sheffield.ac.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=15 September 2019}}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• 2013: Honorary Doctorate University of the Arts, London.
• 2014: Honorary Doctorate Canterbury Christ Church University.
• 2014: Honorary Doctorate, University of Nottingham.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/2014/july/honorary-graduates-recognised-at-the-university-of-nottingham.aspx|title=Honorary graduates recognised at The University of Nottingham - The University of Nottingham|website=nottingham.ac.uk|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2015: Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Non-Fiction.{{cite web |url=http://windhamcampbell.org/2015/winner/edmund-de-waal |title=Prize Citation for Edmund de Waal |publisher=Windham–Campbell Literature Prize |date=24 February 2015 |access-date=25 February 2015 |archive-date=26 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226050843/http://windhamcampbell.org/2015/winner/edmund-de-waal |url-status=dead }}
• 2016: Honorary Doctorate, University of York.{{Cite web|url=https://yumagazine.co.uk/roy-hodgson-awarded-honorary-degree/|title=Roy Hodgson awarded honorary degree / yu magazine|date=23 January 2016|website=yu magazine|access-date=15 September 2019}}
• 2017: London Craft Week Medal.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wallpaper.com/design/edmund-de-waal-wins-the-london-craft-week-medal|title=Trail glazing: Edmund de Waal scoops the 2017 London Craft Week Medal|first= Rosa |last=Bertoli|date=3 May 2017|website=Wallpaper*|access-date=16 September 2024}} Updated 30 August 2022.
• 2019: Harman/Eisner Artist in Residence at the Aspen Institute Arts Program.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aspeninstitute.org/news/press-release/rita-moreno-edmund-de-waal-2019-artists-in-residence/|title=Legendary Actress Rita Moreno and Internationally Acclaimed Artist Edmund de Waal Named 2019 Harman/Eisner Artists in Residence at Aspen Institute|website=The Aspen Institute|language=en-US|access-date=19 September 2019}}
• 2021: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.{{Cite web|title=Edmund de Waal|url=https://rsliterature.org/fellow/edmund-de-waal/|access-date=22 August 2021|website=Royal Society of Literature|language=en-GB}}

De Waal was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to art, and promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to the arts.{{London Gazette|issue=59808|date=11 June 2011|page=10|supp=y}}{{London Gazette|issue=63377|supp=y|page=B10|date=12 June 2021}}

• Letters to Camondo London: Chatto & Windus. 2021. {{ISBN|9781784744311}}
• The White Road. London / New York: Chatto & Windus / Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2015. {{ISBN|978-0-701187705}}
• Edmund de Waal. London: Phaidon Press. 2014. {{ISBN|978-0-714867038|}}
• The Pot Book. with Claudia Clare: London: Phaidon Press. 2011. {{ISBN|978-0-714847993}}
• The Hare with Amber Eyes: a hidden inheritance. London / New York: Chatto & Windus / Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2010. {{ISBN|978-0099539551}}
• Rethinking Bernard Leach: Studio Pottery and Contemporary Ceramics, with Kenji Kaneko. Kyoto: Shibunkaku Publishing. 2007.{{Cite book|url=https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/920z8/rethinking-bernard-leach-studio-pottery-and-contemporary-ceramics-japanese-edition|title=Rethinking Bernard Leach: studio pottery and contemporary ceramics|last1=de Waal|first1=E.|last2=Kaneko|first2=K.|date=2007|publisher=Shibunkaku Publishing Co.|isbn=9784784213597|location=Kyoto, Japan|language=en|edition=Japanese}} {{ISBN|9784784213597}}
• 20th Century Ceramics. London: Thames and Hudson. 2003. {{ISBN|978-0-500203712}}
• Design Sourcebook: Ceramics. London: New Holland Publishers. 1999. {{ISBN|9781780091334}}
• Bernard Leach. London: Tate Publishing. 1998.{{cite book|title=Edmund de Waal|last1=de Waal|first1=Edmund|date=2014|publisher=Phaidon|isbn=978-0714867038|location=London}} {{ISBN|978-1-849760430}}

• elective affinities. New York, USA. The Frick Collection. 2019. {{ISBN|9780912114774}}
• breath. Madrid, Spain. Ivorypress. 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ivorypress.com/en/publication/edmund-de-waal-breath/|title=Edmund de Waal. breath|website=Ivorypress|language=en-US|access-date=18 September 2019}}
• wavespeech. Bath, UK: Wunderkammer Press. 2018. {{ISBN|978-0-9935511-1-6}}
• Edmund de Waal / Morandi. Stockholm, Sweden: Artipelag. 2017. {{ISBN|978-91-980428-9-4}}
• Kneaded Knowledge. Cologne, Austria: Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz. 2016. {{ISBN|978-3-96098-031-5}}
• During the Night. Vienna, Austria: Kunsthistorisches Museum. 2016. {{ISBN|978-3-99020-122-0}}
• Irrkunst. Berlin, Germany: Galerie Max Hetzler. 2016. {{ISBN|978-3-935567-88-6}}
• ten thousand things. Beverly Hills, CA: Gagosian Gallery. 2016. {{ISBN|978-0-8478-4926-0}}{{Cite book

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• {{cite book |title=atmosphere |location=Margate, UK |publisher=Turner Contemporary |year=2014}} {{ISBN|978-1938748011}}
• {{cite book |title=Atemwende |location=New York |publisher=Gagosian Gallery |year=2013}} {{ISBN|978-1935263852}}
• {{cite book |title=a thousand hours |location=London |publisher=Alan Cristea Gallery |year=2012}}
• {{cite book |title=Edmund de Waal at Waddesdon Manor |location=Buckinghamshire |publisher=Waddesdon |year=2012}}
• {{cite book |title=From Zero |location=London |publisher=Alan Cristea Gallery |year=2010}}
• {{cite book |title=Signs & Wonders |location=London |publisher=Victoria & Albert Museum |year=2009}}
• {{cite book |title=Edmund de Waal at Kettle's Yard, MIMA and elsewhere |location=Cambridge / Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough |publisher=Kettle’s Yard |year=2007}}
• {{cite book |title=Arcanum: mapping 18th-century European porcelain |location=Cardiff |publisher=National Museums and Galleries of Wales |year=2005}}
• {{cite book |title=Edmund de Waal: A line around a shadow |location=Bowness-on-Windemere |publisher=Blackwell House: The Arts & Crafts House |year=2005}}
• {{cite book |title=A Secret History of Clay: From Gauguin to Gormley |location=Liverpool |publisher=Tate |year=2004}}
• {{cite book |title=Modern Home |location= Dartington Hall, Devon |publisher=High Cross House |year=1999}}

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