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

HOTEL NEW OSOREZAN

UMEDA Tetsuya 23 Oct - 8 Dec 2013 Singapore Live performance by the artist: Wednesday, 23 October, 19:00 - 21:00 Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present new work by Japanese performance, sound and installation artist Umeda Tetsuya, in his first solo exhibition in Singapore entitled 'HOTEL NEW OSOREZAN'. Umeda's experimental site-specific work explores our fundamental environment of nature,... 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

nakakiyo no entakukei

Masanori Handa 6 Sep - 13 Oct 2013 Singapore Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present new work by emerging Japanese artist Masanori Handa in his first solo exhibition in Singapore entitled 'nakakiyo no entakukei.' Masanori Handa's world is one of playful, impressionistic, yet nonetheless contemplative experimentation. Fleeting encounters and occurences often give vital momentum to his practice. Sites,... 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

Beyond the Surface

Yayoi Kusama, Monir Farmanfarmaian, Masayasu Mitsuke, Yeesookyung, and Hiraki Sawa 27 Jul - 25 Aug 2013 Singapore Ota Fine Arts is delighted to announce 'Beyond the Surface', a group exhibition featuring works by Yayoi Kusama, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Masayasu Mitsuke, Yeesookyung and Hiraki Sawa. The pieces selected are all piquant studies of the artist's hand as it touches the surface of the canvas, traces paper, gilds ceramic... 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

Vivid Strata: New Representations of Asia

Firoz Mahmud, Rina Banerjee, Takao Minami, and Tomoko Kashiki 21 Jun - 21 Jul 2013 Singapore This summer, Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present a group exhibition featuring four contemporary artists from Asia all working in various strands of figurative representation, by means of painting, collage and video. Between Firoz Mahmud, Rina Banerjee, Takao Minami and Tomoko Kashiki, the artists' works undulate from sensuous dream-scapes... 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

Yeesookyung: "FLAME"

Yeesookyung 3 May - 15 Jun 2013 Singapore Ota Fine Arts is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Yeesookyung, the Korean artist's first in Singapore. She has been showing a rich variety of conceptual works, and 'Flame' comprises a series of ceramic sculptures, scroll paintings and cinnabar drawings on Korean paper. From ceramics villages throughout Korea, Yeesookyung... 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

Saskia Olde Wolbers

19 Mar - 27 Apr 2013 Singapore 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

We Are Pirates of Uncharted History

Nobuaki Takekawa 18 Jan - 10 Mar 2013 Singapore To inaugurate the new year, Ota Fine Arts is delighted to showcase new works by Nobuaki Takekawa for the first time in Singapore. Born and raised in Japan, Nobuaki Takekawa was one of tens of thousands of Japanese who encountered the massive earthquake and subsequent nuclear accident of 2011. These... Read more