Past
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Sleepless Tonight
Chen Wei 19 Oct - 30 Nov 2024 Tokyo, 7CHOME (Tokyo) Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present 'Sleepless Tonight' a solo exhibition by Chinese artist Chen Wei. This will be his first solo exhibition in Japan in 4 years, to be held at both Ota Fine Arts Tokyo and Ota Fine Arts 7CHOME. Chen who is based in Beijing, China,... Read more -
Tomoko Kashiki
Tomoko Kashiki 7 Sep - 5 Oct 2024 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts Tokyo is delighted to present a solo exhibition by Tomoko Kashiki, featuring a new body of paintings. The exhibition will travel to Ota Fine Arts Shanghai from early November. Tomoko Kashiki paints figures that are situated in spaces such as rooms and aquariums, often with strange and... Read more -
Summer Theatre
Ming Wong, Yuan Goang-Ming and Wang Tuo 13 - 31 Aug 2024 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts Tokyo is delighted to present 'Summer Theatre', a group exhibition introducing three video artworks by artists Ming Wong, Yuan Goang-Ming and Wang Tuo. Illustrated beautifully through their lenses, these artists capture and reflect the social and political situations in Asia, especially in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland... Read more -
I died a hundred times
Zai Kuning 22 Jun - 3 Aug 2024 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts Tokyo is delighted to present “I died a hundred times”, Zai Kuning’s first solo exhibition in Japan in 8 years. Having worked with an array of sculpture, installation, painting and drawing, experimental sound and music, video, film, performance art, dance and theatre for more than two decades,... Read more -
Self and Beyond
Ay Tjoe Christine, Rina Banerjee and Maria Farrar 11 May - 15 Jun 2024 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts Tokyo is delighted to present 'Self and Beyond', a group exhibition by Ay Tjoe Christine, Rina Banerjee and Maria Farrar. The works of these three female artists explore themes of the self, expanding on reflections on personal emotions, self-presentation and self-identity in the urban society. Ay Tjoe... Read more -
Every Day I Pray for Love
Yayoi Kusama 2 Mar - 20 Apr 2024 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is pleased to present 'Every Day I Pray for Love,' an exhibition of new and recent works by Yayoi Kusama. The exhibition, Kusama's first at Ota Fine Arts in three years, will feature 48 paintings from the series 'Every Day I Pray for Love' which Kusama has... Read more -
Walk in Asia
Song Yuanyuan, Sun Xun, Liu Wei, Cheng Ran, Zhou Yilun, Cao Shu 5 Jan - 17 Feb 2024 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present a group exhibition 'Walk in Asia'. In June 2023, Ota Fine Arts Shanghai opened a new gallery space in Rockbund, a redevelopment area with a blend of historic and new buildings. The Rockbund area now bustles with cafés and restaurants, the refurbished Rockbund... Read more -
in mid shapes
Guo-Liang Tan 28 Oct - 16 Dec 2023 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present Singaporean artist Guo-Liang Tan's first solo exhibition in Japan. Tan creates abstract paintings using a thin, translucent fabric as a ground, and layers pale, transparent colours of diluted acrylic paint atop its surface. The wooden stretcher frame, which can be observed through the... Read more -
Cosmic Theatre
Ming Wong 2 Sep - 21 Oct 2023 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts Tokyo is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Singaporean-born, Berlin-based artist Ming Wong. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition at Ota Fine Arts, following the first one in Singapore earlier this year. Wong is known for his use of performance, video, installation and photography to... Read more -
A Day in the Life
Chris Huen Sin-kan 1 Jul - 19 Aug 2023 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts Tokyo is delighted to present a solo exhibition by Hong Kong born painter, Chris Huen Sin-Kan. Named after a well-known song by The Beatles, the exhibition ‘A Day in the Life’ showcases a series of indoor paintings. This is the first time Huen has painted this theme... Read more -
It's Not Yours to Decide!
Yoshiko Shimada 15 Apr - 17 Jun 2023 Tokyo * The exhibition period is extended until Sat. 17 June. Ota Fine Arts is pleased to present 'It's Not Yours to Decide!', Yoshiko Shimada's first solo exhibition in 21 years. Since the late 1980s, Shimada has been working on the theme of women and war, and has long been at... Read more -
Zhao Yao | Masanori Handa
Zhao Yao, Masanori Handa 25 Feb - 8 Apr 2023 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present a duo exhibition featuring Zhao Yao and Masanori Handa.
Beijing-based artist Zhao Yao will showcase his work for the first time in Japan. In A Painting of Thought III-431 (2014), he visualizes the process of thinking by painting diagrams from business books onto a canvas. A tent in which Tibetan monks meditate in the mountains is imitated in Signals from Heaven – A Call to Men (2018). By playing TED Lectures which represent contemporary intelligence inside the tent, Zhao questions the concept of knowledge that is required in religion and the real world.
Masanori Handa, on the other hand, captures the places that appear as fissures between perception and reality. The four monitors placed around Zhao’s tent showcase Handa's first video work which was shown at the Hawai’i Triennial 2022. Composed of fixed-point videos of seascapes of Hawai’i and Japan, the work impresses with its abstract and poetic beauty through the use of artificial colours.
We invite all to explore the artworks of two artists from Japan and China who are re-examining what it means to know, to think, and to feel. Read more -
This Side Up
¥ouada 10 Dec 2022 - 10 Feb 2023 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present 'This Side Up', the first solo exhibition by Chinese artist ¥ouada with the gallery. Born in 1987 in Fujian Province and currently based in Hangzhou, ¥ouada mainly works in the field of painting, and his inspirations often come from internet images and fragments... Read more -
Masayasu Mitsuke
22 Oct - 3 Dec 2022 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to announce Masayasu Mitsuke's first solo exhibition in six years. Mitsuke, who has learned the traditional delicate red enamel overglaze painting of Kutani-yaki, continues to develop his skills to the ultimate level. Mitsuke’s lines and dots, which are drawn so precisely that it is hard... Read more -
River
Tsuyoshi Hisakado 20 Aug - 8 Oct 2022 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to announce Tsuyoshi Hisakado's first exhibition in four years in Tokyo. Having experienced the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and the Great East Japan Earthquake, Hisakado's artistic practice draws from a consideration of the laws of nature and the universe, which are far beyond human wisdom. Hisakado,... Read more -
Gallery Collection
¥ouada, Tetsuya Umeda, Akira The Hustler, BuBu de la Madelaine + Yoshiko Shimada, Zai Kuning, Hiraki Sawa, Cheng Ran, Takao Minami, Tang Dixin, Hilmi Johandi, Masanori Handa 18 Jun - 6 Aug 2022 Tokyo Read more -
A Mermaid’s Territory - Flags and Internal Organs
BuBu de la Madeleine 9 Apr - 4 Jun 2022 Tokyo BuBu de la Madeleine came into renown through Dumb Type’s performance piece S/N which toured to twenty cities in fifteen countries between 1994 and 1996. Especially notable was the last scene played to the sweet melody of 'Amapola.' In it, she reclined on a chair completely nude, slowly moving from... Read more -
Flame
Akira The Hustler, Liu Chuang, Tsuyoshi Hisakado, Tomoko Kashiki, Nam Jun Paik, Yoshiko Shimada, Nobuaki Takekawa, Jong YuGyong, Zai Kuning, Zhang Enli 22 Feb - 26 Mar 2022 Tokyo Read more -
Overseas
Maria Farrar 4 Dec 2021 - 12 Feb 2022 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is pleased to present Overseas, a solo exhibition by Maria Farrar. This exhibition, her second solo presentation in Japan, will feature around 20 new paintings. Born to a Filipina mother and an English father, Farrar lived in Japan from the age of 2 to 15 and now... Read more -
Landscapes & Paradise: Poolscapes
Hilmi Johandi 2 Oct - 20 Nov 2021 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts Tokyo is delighted to present 'Landscapes and Paradise: Poolscapes' by Singaporean artist Hilmi Johandi. This marks the artist’s first solo presentation in Japan, featuring 7 new paintings and 2 recent installation pieces. Hilmi often finds inspiration from found, archival materials of Singapore, extracting familiar motifs from them... Read more -
Summer Show
Nobuaki Takekawa, Yayoi Kusama 17 Aug - 25 Sep 2021 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present ‘Summer Show’, a duo exhibition featuring Yayoi Kusama and Nobuaki Takekawa. Kusama recently introduced her latest paintings from the My Eternal Soul series in our previous exhibition ‘I Want Your Tears To Flow With The Words I Wrote’. Subsequently, this exhibition traces back... Read more -
I Want Your Tears to Flow with the Words I Wrote
Yayoi Kusama 22 Jun - 31 Jul 2021 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts Tokyo is pleased to present the solo exhibition of Yayoi Kusama, 'I Want Your Tears to Flow with the Words I Wrote'. This exhibition features 33 paintings, which are the latest works from her My Eternal Soul series, as well as the installation piece CLOUDS. Exhibitions of... Read more -
The World Falls Apart Into Facts
Samson Young 13 Apr - 5 Jun 2021 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present 'The World Falls Apart Into Facts', a solo exhibition by Hong Kong artist Samson Young. Young's creations utilize sound, performance, and installation. His practice has been highly-acclaimed both domestically and internationally, and he was selected for the Hong Kong pavilion at the 57th... Read more -
/home
Hiraki Sawa 20 Feb - 3 Apr 2021 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present /home, Hiraki Sawa's first solo exhibition in 7 years. Sawa first attracted attention as an artist in 2002 with his video work dwelling, when he was doing his MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. The artwork depicted small... Read more -
islands
Akira the Hustler, Nobuaki Takekawa, Tang Dixin, Masanori Handa, Hiraki Sawa, Tomoko Kashiki, Yuken Teruya 9 Jan - 13 Feb 2021 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present a group exhibition 'islands', focusing on small works on paper. The title of the exhibition suggests the Asian archipelago which is close in distance to each other while having their own unique cultures. Likewise, this exhibition showcases artists from East Asia who have... Read more -
Singapura
Zai Kuning, Hilmi Johandi, Guo-Liang Tan, Liao Jiekai, Jason Lim 10 Oct - 21 Nov 2020 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts Tokyo is delighted to present 'Singapura', a group exhibition featuring a selection of five artists from Singapore, the city-state known for its diverse mix of cultures. These artists are equally diversified in their own ways - their multi-disciplinary practices span from conventional painting and drawing to performance,... Read more -
Amigos
Nobuaki Takekawa 15 Aug - 26 Sep 2020 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts Tokyo is delighted to present 'AMIGOS', Nobuaki Takekawa's first solo exhibition in five years. Takekawa continues to be active in both Japan and overseas. His 'Cat Olympics' installation with over 2,000 ceramic cats marching in a stadium, recently shown at 'Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions' (Mori Museum, Tokyo),... Read more -
Pet Shop Guys: Lost in Tokyo
ChillChill, PAPAPEPIA, ¥ouada 16 Jun - 1 Aug 2020 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts Tokyo is pleased to present a group exhibition, Pet Shop Guys: Lost in Tokyo, curated by Martin Goya Business (MGB). MGB is an artist collective founded by video artist Cheng Ran in Hangzhou, China, in 2017. They have collaborated with a wide range of artists from play... Read more -
Night Falls
Chen Wei 15 Feb - 28 Mar 2020 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present Night Falls, a solo exhibition by Chen Wei (b. 1980, China). This presentation showcases a new installation work comprising of ten LED light boards which are positioned across the gallery space. Various colour patterns appear on each LED board: every spark of light... Read more -
Gallery Collection
Nobuaki Takekawa, Akira the Hustler, Chen Wei, Tsuyoshi Hisakado, Jason Lim, Zhou Yilun 3 Dec 2019 - 1 Feb 2020 Tokyo Read more -
Telling Tales
Liu Chuang, Liao Jiekai, Kiri Dalena 15 Oct - 22 Nov 2019 Tokyo Exhibiting works: Liao Jiekai (Singapore) Bukit Orang Salah, 2013 Kiri Dalena (Philippines) Red Saga, 2004 Liu Chuang (China) Untitled (Festival), 2011 Read more -
Too late to turn back now
Maria Farrar 24 Aug - 21 Sep 2019 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present 'Too late to turn back now' by Maria Farrar, her first solo exhibition in Asia. Farrar was born in the Philippines and brought up in Shimonoseki until the age of 15. She then moved to London, England where she now lives and works.... Read more -
King of Kowloon
Tsang Tsou-Choi 9 Jul - 17 Aug 2019 Tokyo There was a calligrapher who called himself the King of Kowloon. From the mid 1950s until 2007 when he passed away, he wrote his family history and statements claiming the possession of Hong Kong on any and every public space of the country. Ota Fine Arts is delighted to showcase... Read more -
Welcome to the Parade
Akira the Hustler + Jong YuGyong 27 Apr - 29 Jun 2019 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is pleased to announce 'Welcome to the Parade', a duo exhibition by Akira The Hustler (b. 1969) and Jong YuGyong (b. 1991). While Akira was already attracting attention as a young artist during his studies at Kyoto City University of Arts, Jong was just born in Kobe... Read more -
Present Progressive
Nobuaki Takekawa, Yoshiko Shimada, Akira the Hustler, Bubu de la Madeleine, Hiraki Sawa, Tang Dixin, Maria Farrar, Andy Warhol, Nam June Paik, Wang Zhibo, other 19 Mar - 20 Apr 2019 Tokyo Exhibited artists: Nobuaki Takekawa Yoshiko Shimada Akira the Hustler Bubu de la Madeleine Hiraki Sawa Tang Dixin Maria Farrar Andy Warhol Nam June Paik Wang Zhibo other Read more -
The Illuminated Mundane
Chris Huen Sin-Kan 26 Jan - 9 Mar 2019 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present 'The Illuminated Mundane', the first solo exhibition by Hong Kong artist Chris Huen Sin-Kan in Japan. Huen paints entirely from memory, and his works mainly depict his family and everyday environments. With limited brushstrokes, Huen illustrates his subjects remarkably - a technique he... Read more -
Tang Dixin
Tang Dixin 30 Nov 2018 - 19 Jan 2019 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present a second solo exhibition by Tang Dixin in Tokyo. Tang is a Shanghai-based artist who belongs to one of the '80-hou' generation, a Chinese term for those who were born during the 1980s and are regarded as liberal. He works mainly with painting... Read more -
The Lament: Mountain Ghost
Cheng Ran 13 Oct - 24 Nov 2018 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present 'The Lament: Mountain Ghost', the very first solo exhibition of Cheng Ran in Japan. Based in Hangzhou, China, Cheng is well known for his video works which possess cinematic beauty while incorporating Western popular culture as a theme. For this exhibition, Cheng will... Read more -
Geopolitical Grounds
Jong YuGyong, Koh Chaik Hong, Gabriel Leung, Chulayarnnon Siriphol, Nobuaki Takekawa 11 Sep - 6 Oct 2018 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts Tokyo is delighted to present 'Geopolitical Grounds', a group exhibition featuring 5 artists from different parts of Asia: Jong YuGyong (Japan / South Korea), Koh Chaik Hong (Singapore), Gabriel Leung (Hong Kong), Chulayarnnon Siriphol (Thailand), Nobuaki Takekawa (Japan). This exhibition aims to showcase each artist's reaction to... Read more -
Tunnel
Tsuyoshi Hisakado 20 Jul - 1 Sep 2018 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present 'Tunnel' by Tsuyoshi Hisakado, the artist's first solo exhibition in four years at Ota Fine Arts Tokyo. Hisakado is known for creating installations that trigger viewers' personal memories and experiences to a parallel world, with the use of sound, light and ordinary everyday... Read more -
Be there
Akira the Hustler, Kiri Dalena, Yoshiko Shimada, Nobuaki Takekawa, Yuken Teruya 15 May - 7 Jul 2018 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to announce 'Be there', a group exhibition featuring artworks that connote socio-political messages. 'Be there' is a slogan used to encourage people to participate in demonstrations and other political and social activities. This exhibition title aims to showcase how each artist reaches out to the... Read more -
Fresh Dewdrop
Chen Wei 16 Sep - 28 Oct 2017 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present Chen Wei's solo exhibition Fresh Dewdrop. Based in Beijing, Chen has been developing new photographic expressions as a leading figure from the new generation of artists in China. His works have been well-received globally, characterized with still life painting-like compositions, dazzling lights and... Read more -
Gallery Collection
Akira the Hustler, Rina Banerjee, Manami Koike, Hiraki Sawa 26 Aug - 9 Sep 2017 Tokyo Read more -
Assistants
Jong Yugyong, Masayuki Oku, Lily Shu, Ryusuke Yamai 1 Jul - 12 Aug 2017 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present a group exhibition entitled 'Assistants' by our assistant staff, following the previous exhibition that was held in 2002. How do these four young artists digest the contemporary art they experience in their everyday work flow at the gallery? These artists with vastly diverse... Read more -
HEAT
Gallery's collection exhibition 13 May - 24 Jun 2017 Tokyo In this collection show, we introduce Asian artists who are gaining increasing attention in recent years. With bold imaginative motifs and intensive use of color, these works strike the viewers with impact and sometimes a certain kind of suffocation like swelling heat from the inside. Exhibited artists: Firoz Mahmud Heri... Read more -
From Nirvana to Catastrophe: Matsuzawa Yutaka and his ‘Commune in Imaginary Space’
Curated by Yoshiko Shimada 3 Mar - 22 Apr 2017 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is pleased to present an exhibition of Yutaka Matsuzawa (1922-2006), known as the founder of Japanese Conceptualism. Titled From Nirvana to Catastrophe: Matsuzawa Yutaka and his 'Commune in Imaginary Space' and curated by Yoshiko Shimada, this exhibition focuses on the period 1969 - 1973, which has been... Read more -
A bundle of twine and difficulties of the tongue
Rina Banerjee 24 Jan - 18 Feb 2017 Tokyo The tongue tells of an accent when it struggles to learn a new language and our sense of self, our confidence is tied to this acrobatic feat and so pleasures in the tongues' ability to grip tight the new language, of a new home can be punishing. In exile or... Read more -
Takao Minami: Difference Between
6 Dec 2016 - 14 Jan 2017 Tokyo Takao Minami is participating in the exhibition '19th DOMANI - The Art of Tomorrow' at The National Art Center, Tokyo, sponsored by Japanese Government Agency for Cultural Affairs. In association with 'DOMANI', Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present Minami's solo exhibition 'Difference Between', marking his 4th solo exhibition at... Read more -
Tomoko Kashiki
24 Sep - 19 Nov 2016 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is pleased to announce Tomoko Kashiki's solo exhibition of recent works from Sat. 24 September to Sat. 19 November, 2016, linking to her solo exhibition, 'Aperto 05, KASHIKI Tomoko ～Daydream～' at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. The portraits which Tomoko Kashiki creates are placed in... Read more -
MOTIONS
6 Aug - 17 Sep 2016 Tokyo Chen Wei Victor Gui Hiraki Sawa Betty Susiarjo Tang Dixin Samson Young Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present 'Motions', a group exhibition by 6 artists from different parts of Asia: China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore. This exhibition relooks at the beauty of motion, familiar from our everyday... Read more -
Yayoi Kusama | Monochrome
25 Jun - 30 Jul 2016 Tokyo Yayoi Kusama is the only Japanese who has been featured in the American magazine TIME's 100 Most Influential People in April 2016. She was named 'World's Most Popular Artist' based on a survey of museum attendance around the world by The Art Newspaper in 2014, and her large-scale retrospective exhibition... Read more -
Ombak Hitam
Zai Kuning 23 Apr - 11 Jun 2016 Tokyo Zai Kuning, one of Singapore's most prominent artists, has been working with an array of painting and drawing, sculpture, film, music and performance through multi-disciplinary approaches. In the 1990s, the themes of his works often relate to rituals and the body. He was most well-known for his theatre activity and... Read more -
Masayasu Mitsuke
27 Feb - 9 Apr 2016 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Masayasu Mitsuke, an artist who paints Kutani ware, a style of Japanese porcelain. It has been 8 years since Ota Fine Arts has had his solo exhibition. Aka-e (red enamel painting using iron oxide called Bengala on white porcelains)... Read more -
primal lines
26 Jan - 20 Feb 2016 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is pleased to announce 'primal lines', an exhibition of drawings by various artists, including new works and works which will be presented in Japan for the first time. The drawings are introduced as the artists' fundamental starting points of creation, through differing media such as ink, etching,... Read more -
Gallery Collection
8 Dec 2015 - 16 Jan 2016 Tokyo Yayoi Kusama Yuken Teruya Takao Minami Akira the Hustler Jay Flores Ticar Rina Banerjee Zhang Enli Read more -
Night Paris
Chen Wei 17 Oct - 28 Nov 2015 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present 'Night Paris', a solo exhibition by Chen Wei, marking the debut of the Beijing-based artist in Japan. Ahead of this, his solo show 'Noon Insomnia' was held at our Singapore space in July this year. While Noon Insomnia was a retrospective exhibition featuring... Read more -
After Hours
Nobuaki Takekawa 5 Sep - 10 Oct 2015 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is pleased to announce Nobuaki Takekawa's solo exhibition after two and a half years. Nobuaki Takekawa has been viewing social and political problems by plunging into the vortex of them and he has embodied these themes in his works. This sort of themes generally appears to be... Read more -
Walk in Asia
Said Atabekov, Kiri Dalena, Monir Farmanfarmaian, Yee I-Lann, Zai Kuning, Yee Sookyung, Masayasu Mitsuke 27 Jun - 8 Aug 2015 Tokyo Said Atabekov Kiri Dalena Monir Farmanfarmaian Yee I-Lann Zai Kuning Yee Sookyung Masayasu Mitsuke Read more -
nakakiyo no entakukei
Masanori Handa 18 Apr - 6 Jun 2015 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present a solo exhibition by Masanori Handa. 'nakakiyo no entakukei' an immense installation work presented in Ota Fine Arts Singapore in 2013 will be reborn in Tokyo with 10 new drawings of various mediums. Handa envisioned this work as a low-lying delta, patterned by... Read more -
Yayoi Kusama: Prints Part 2
Yayoi Kusama 28 Feb - 28 Mar 2015 Tokyo We are delighted to announce the second part of the exhibition 'Yayoi Kusama: Prints'. All the works are different from part one and will be shown to the public for the first time. With the repetitive use of motifs which leads to Kusama's recent painting 'My Eternal Soul' series, the... Read more -
Yayoi Kusama: Prints Part 1
Yayoi Kusama 17 Jan - 21 Feb 2015 Tokyo Renown for the use of repeating and accumulating motifs, Yayoi Kusama's artistic practice spans paintings, sculptures and other artistic fields. She also started to pursue print works in 1979, which continues to be creative up to the present time. In this occasion, we are delighted to present Yayoi Kusama's new... Read more -
Gallery Collection
Yee Sookyung, Nobuaki Takekawa, Ay Tjoe Christine, Yayoi Kusama, Zai Kuning 28 Oct - 6 Dec 2014 Tokyo test Read more -
Ink Art
2 Sep - 18 Oct 2014 Tokyo In Japan, Ink is associated with ink schools and ink exhibitions which are supported by a unique aesthetic value. The background of it is that ink was excluded from art in the process of modernization in Japan. It is called the 'Japanese Calligraphy is not an 'Art'' movement. However, this... Read more -
Tang Dixin
5 Jul - 9 Aug 2014 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Tang Dixin (born in 1982), a Shanghai-based contemporary artist. He participated in 'REVEL - Celebrating MoCA's 8 year in Shanghai' at Moca Shanghai and 'ON|OFF: China's Young Artists in Concept and Practice' at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing... Read more -
Quantize
Tsuyoshi HISAKADO 24 May - 28 Jun 2014 Tokyo Born in Kyoto in 1981, Tsuyoshi Hisakado completed an M.F.A at the department of Sculpture of Kyoto University of Arts in 2007. He formed an artist group SHINCHICA in 2002 while he was in university, and he took charge of sound and installation. From this background, the two elements, 'sound'... Read more -
HIRAKI SAWA
Hiraki Sawa 12 Feb - 26 Apr 2014 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is pleased to hold the exhibition of Hiraki Sawa, linking to his current solo exhibition at Tokyo Opera City Gallery. Hiraki Sawa was born in Kanazawa in 1977. After graduating from high school, he moved his base to the UK and in 2002 he made an impressive... Read more -
What am I made of and how do you know my name?
Rina Banerjee 22 Nov 2013 - 31 Jan 2014 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Rina Banerjee starting on 22 November, 2013. Rina Banerjee was born in Kolkata, India in 1963 and moved with her family to the UK, where she spent her child hood. The family then moved to the USA and... Read more -
Myriad of “paste”
Ay Tjoe Christine 21 Sep - 9 Nov 2013 Tokyo Ay Tjoe Christine (b.1973, Bandung) is an Indonesian female artist who has gained tremendous popularity throughout art markets in Asia. With her earlier experiments in drypoint prints, she cultivated her sharp, fluent and vigorous lines. To produce the same effect on her tableaux she uses the protean oilbars, melding figuration... Read more -
Walk in Asia Ⅱ
Song Yuanyuan, Li Ran, Qin Qi, Jia Aili, Yee I-Lann, Gu Wenda, Sun Xun, Wang Dong Ling 10 Aug - 6 Sep 2013 Tokyo Song Yuanyuan Li Ran Qin Qi Jia Aili Yee I-Lann Gu Wenda Sun Xun Wang Dong Ling Straight Chinese Ceramic Song Yuanyuan (b. 1981, Shen Yang) graduated from the Photography Department of Lun Xun Academy of Fine Arts. After studying photography, Song Yuanyuan has settled on becoming a painter in... Read more -
Standing in the Shadow
Li Ran, Cheng Ran, Hiraki Sawa 10 Jul - 3 Aug 2013 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present the exhibition 'Standing in the Shadow'. The exhibition features impressive video works by three contemporary Asian young artists, Li Ran, Cheng Ran and Hiraki Sawa. The variety of moving images are created out of each artist's desire to reach out to a realm... Read more -
Behavior Model: Takao Minami, Mari Minato, Yushi Yashima
Takao Minami, Mari Minato, Yushi Yashima 17 May - 6 Jul 2013 Tokyo We are pleased to present the exhibition of 'Behavior Model' curated by Takao Minami who is the artist we represent. This exhibition features three artists: Paris-based Mari Minato, Ogaki-based Yushi Yashima and Minami himself. They are intrigued by pictograms, oral traditions or papers for practice pens in stationary store. Through... Read more -
Saskia Olde Wolbers
19 Mar - 27 Apr 2013 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts, both Tokyo and Singapore are pleased to present a new video work Pareidolia by Saskia Olde Wolbers, in her second solo exhibition at the gallery in Tokyo since 2008. This work was shown at the screening at Maureen Paley in London last year; this is the first... Read more -
Gallery Collection
Tomoko Kashiki, Yayoi Kusama, Hiraki Sawa, Jessica Diamond, Nobuaki Takekawa, Dale Berning, Masanori Handa 9 Feb - 9 Mar 2013 Tokyo Read more -
YAYOI KUSAMA: New Paintings II
Yayoi Kusama 8 Dec 2012 - 2 Feb 2013 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is pleased to announce that 'YAYOI KUSAMA: New Paintings II' will start on 8 December. The tour of Yayoi Kusama's large-scale retrospective, organised by TATE Modern in London, travelled to major cities in Europe and has come to an end at Whitney Museum in New York in this... Read more -
YAYOI KUSAMA: New Paintings
Yayoi Kusama 26 Oct - 7 Dec 2012 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is pleased to announce the exhibition of YAYOI KUSAMA: New Paintings starting from 26 October, 2012. Starting in 2009, KUSAMA's latest painting series, 'My Eternal Soul' has now reached up to more than 220 paintings over the past 3 years and has grown as one of the... Read more -
Akira the Hustler "Ordinary Life"
8 Sep - 13 Oct 2012 Tokyo Opening live performance by the following artists will start at 18:00 on 8 September. MC: ATS, Akuryo / Sound: i Zoom i Rockers *Admission Free Read more -
Walk in Asia
Rina Banerjee, Ho Sin Tung, Yee Sookyung, Manami Koike, Naoya Inose, Mai Trung Thu, Masayasu Mitsuke, 24 Jul - 31 Aug 2012 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is pleased to announce the summer collection exhibition of Walk in Asia starting from 24 July. The rise of Asian countries in recent years can be seen not only in the context of politics and economics, but in culture. This inquires us, Asians to reconsider the structure... Read more -
Nobuaki Takekawa 2001-2012
2 Jun - 14 Jul 2012 Tokyo *Opening party with the artist will be held at 18:00 - 20:00 on Sat. 2 June. Read more -
Hiraki Sawa "Postscript"
10 Apr - 26 May 2012 Tokyo Read more -
Vertical
Dagvasambuu Uuriintuya, Tomoko Kashiki, Yayoi Kusama, Zang Wang, Nobuaki Takekawa, Takeshi Kobayashi, Kuo I-Chen 21 Mar - 6 Apr 2012 Tokyo Read more
