Kazue Taguchi was born in Japan and currently lives and works in New York. She received her M.F.A. specializing in glass from Virginia Commonwealth University (2007). She has also studied at the Barcelona Glass Foundation in Spain (2003) and Joshibi University of Art and Design in Tokyo (1997). She has been a resident artist at The Museum of Art and Design in New York, Pilchuck Glass School in WA, Corning Museum of Glass, Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Newark Museum, Vermont Studio Center and Koganecho bazar in Yokohama, Japan. 

Awards include, The Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan, the Second Prize from the Jutta Cuny- Franz Foundation in Germany, Finalist of the Bombay Sapphire Prize Exhibition in London, Finalists of “Young Glass” Glass Museum Ebeltoft in Denmark. She has held solo exhibitions at Kunst Palast Museum-Glasmuseum Hentrich, Düsseldorf, and the Alcorcon Glass Museum in Madrid, Spain. She also did the stage set for “Centennial celebration for John Cage: Competing time and spaces” at the Kanagawa prefectural gallery in Yokohama, Japan (2011), “Chaconne” at the Sophiensaele theater in Berlin, Germany (2011, 2012, 2019). “The Ocean of Forgiveness” by Efrain Rozas at Contemporary Art Museum, Lima Peru (2022)