Biography

Shinro Ohtake
Born in 1955, Tokyo, Japan1980

Oil Painting, Musashino Art University, Tokyo

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025

Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan (Upcoming)

2022

Shinro Ohtake, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; The Museum of Art, Ehime;
Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design- 2023
Ginza Tsutaya Books: Ginza Atrium, Tokyo
Shinro Ohtake, greengrassi, London

2021

Mnemoscape, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo2019

Shinro Ohtake 1975-1989, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Shinro Ohtake: BLDG. 1978-2019, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan;
Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Japan2016

Shinro Ohtake: Paper - Sight, Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI), Singapore
Time Memory, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Show-Case project No. 3, Keio University, Mita Campus, Tokyo

2014

Shinro Ohtake, Parasol unit, London
Found/Memory/Aspect, Miyanoura Gallery 6, Kagawa, Japan(organized by Fukutake Foundation)

2013’00 -’12, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Shinro Ohtake: Okusoku - Velocity of Memory, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Japan
Shinro Ohtake: NEWNEW, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art,Kagawa, Japan
Yakioku, INAX Museums, Aichi, Japan2012

Shinro Ohtake, Artsonje Center, Seoul

2011

Shinro Ohtake, Sagacho Archive, Tokyo2010#65 | 2005−2010, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo#65, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo2009

貼貼貼貼 (Shell & Occupy 4), Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2008

貼貼貼 (Shell & Occupy 3), Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
貼貼 (Shell & Occupy 2), Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
貼 (Shell & Occupy), Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2007

Ohtake Shinro and Betsukai 2007, URRI farm, Hokkaido, Japan
Ohtake Shinro: New Universe on the Road, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art,Japan; Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan2006

YABAGOGO, NADiff, TokyoOhtake Shinro and Betsukai, URRI farm, Hokkaido, Japan
Shinro Ohtake Zen-Kei: Retrospective 1955-2006, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
TABI-KEI, Base Gallery, Tokyo

2004

UK77: Photographs, Paintings, Collages 1977-78, Base Gallery, Tokyo

2002

BLDG.: Shinro Ohtake New Works, Base Gallery, Tokyo
Man Is Basically Good: Shinro Ohtake Exhibition 1982-2000, Benesse House,
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan

2001

Shinro Ohtake ‘Digital Works’ Mouscape, Epson Imaging Gallery epSITE, Tokyo; NADiff, Tokyo

2000

10.08. Toru Takemitsu SONGS + Shinro Ohtake, NADiff, Tokyo
Dub-Kei: Shinro Ohtake, Kirin Plaza Osaka, Osaka
Shinro Ohtake, Base Gallery, Tokyo
Shinro Ohtake: KI-KEI 1978-2000, Sezon Art Program Gallery, Tokyo1999

ZYAPA NORAMA: Shinro Ohtake Exihibition, Parco Gallery, Tokyo

1998

Shinro Ohtake, Commons Gallery, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii
Negana Yoru (A Night in Negative), Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo
Shinro Ohtake: Niitsu - Me, the Ambiguous Japan, Niitsu City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan

1997

Shinro Ohtake: IN PRINT, NADiff Gallery, Tokyo
Shinro Ohtake: Printing/Painting, Center of Contemporary Graphic Art and Tyler
Graphics Archive Collection (CCGA), Fukushima, Japan

1995

Shinro Ohtake: Retina, Takashimaya Contemporary Art Space, Tokyo
Shinro Ohtake: X+Y=LOVE, Store Days, Tokyo

1994

Man of Kasbah: Shinro Ohtake Diary in Morocco, Art Vivant, Tokyo
New Prints by Shinro Ohtake: Man of Kasbah - Travel Diary in Morocco,Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo

1993

Shinro Ohtake: Retina, Galerie Tokoro, Tokyo1991

ECHOS 55-91: Work of Shinro Ohtake, Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo; Namba City Hall, OsakaECHOS 89+91: Work of Shinro Ohtake, Contemporary Art Gallery, Seibu Ikebukuro, Tokyo
Shinro Ohtake: ECHOS 1-100, Art Vivant, Tokyo; Quincampoix 2, OsakaECHOS 71-91: Work of Shinro Ohtake, Gallery Tokoro, Tokyo1990

Shinro Ohtake: Shipyard Works 1990, Warehouse Terrada, Space T33, Tokyo
Shinro Ohtake: Recent Works 1988-1990, Galerie Tokoro, Tokyo

1989

Shinro Ohtake: America, Art Vivant, Tokyo

1988

Shinro Ohtake: Dreams, Galerie Dan, Osaka
Canvasism - Dreams and Cells: New Works by Shinro Ohtake, Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo

1987

Shinro Ohtake: 1984-1987, Saga-cho Exhibit Space, Tokyo
Shinro Ohtake: EZMD & ETCHINGS, Galerie Dan, Osaka
London/Honcon 1980, Galerie Dan, Osaka
London/Honcon 1980 Part II, Miyuki Gallery, Tokyo1986London/Honcon 1980, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo

1985

Shinro Ohtake: I’erranza dei segni (The Restless Language)(as part of Giappone Avantguardia del Futuro), Palazzo Bianco, Genova
Shinro Ohtake: Painting/Collages, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London

1984

Shinro Ohtake: 1983-1984, Galerie Watari, Tokyo

1982

Shinro Ohtake Exhibition, Galerie Watari, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions
2022

NEOCLASSICAL, Rodeo, Piraeus, Greece
Hawai‘i Triennial 2022: Pacific Century - E Ho‘omau no Moananuiākea, Honolulu, Hawaii
Alternative! Kazuko Koike Exhibition – Soft-Power Movement of Art & Design, 3331 ArtsChiyoda, Tokyo2021Museum Collection III, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo2020

Tokyo 2020 Official Art Posters Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

2019

Phantom Plane, Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future, JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun,
Hong Kong
MOMAT Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Globe as a Palette; Contemporary Art from the Taguchi Art Collection, Obihiro Museum ofArt; Kushiro Art Museum; Hakodate Museum of Art; Sapporo Art Museum, Hokkaido, Japan
Setouchi Triennale 2019, Kagawa, Japan
Weavers of Worlds - A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern/Contemporary Art -,Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
The Age of New Painting,The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan2018

Bubblewrap: After ”Mono-ha,” the next established art movement is “Superflat,” but thatmeans the interim period overlapping the years of Japan’s economic bubble has yet to be
named, and I think calling it “Bubblewrap” suits it well. It especially makes sense if you
incorporate the realm of ceramics. This show will contemplate this period through works
including those from Takashi Murakami’s collection., Contemporary Art Museum,Kumamoto, JapanThe 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art,Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane
Sharjapan: The Poetics of Space, Al Hamriyah Studios, Sharjah, UAE
EPOCH, ROH Projects, Jakarta
Flash 1977/1989, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
Starting Points: Japanese Art of the ‘80s, Shizuoka City Museum of Art, Shizuoka;
Takamatsu Art Museum, Takamatsu; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,
Kanazawa- 2019
181 pieces of Memories - Footsteps of the Takamatsu Art Museum’s Special Exhibition -,Takamatsu Art Museum, Japan
10th Anniversary, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Contemporary Art of the 21st Century: Taguchi Art Collection from Andy Warhol toYoshitomo Nara, Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Modern Art Revisited: From the Collection of Fukuoka Art Museum,Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art,Hiroshima; Museum of Modern Art, Saitama; Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori
Travelers: Stepping into the Unknown - NMAO's 40th Anniversary Exhibition,
The National Museum of Art, OsakaMy Favorites: Toshio Hara Selects from the Permanent Collection,
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2017

In Focus: Contemporary Japan, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota
The 100-Year History of Japanese Picture Books, Chihiro Art Museum, TokyoJapanorama. New Vision on Art Since 1970, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz

2016

Shuntaro Tanikawa Exhibition: Shall I say the truth?, Ooka Makoto Kotoba Museum,Shizuoka, Japan
MOMAT Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
The Keeper, New Museum, New York
Summer, Travel, Tales: from the Hara Museum Collection, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
Setouchi Triennale 2016, Kagawa, Japan
Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers,
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester; Barbican Centre, London- 20172015

Books of Asia, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea
Duddell’s presents: ICA Off-Site: Hong Kongese, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London
An Imprecise Science, Artspace, Sydney
Twentieth Anniversary Special MOT Collection: Collection Becoming,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

2014

Twentieth Anniversary Special MOT Collection: Chronicle 1995-, Museum ofContemporary Art, Tokyo
Yokohama Triennale 2014: Art Fahrenheit 451, Sailing into the sea of oblivion,
Shinko Pier Exhibition Hall, Yokohama, Japan2013

5th Anniversary, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
55th Venice Biennale: The Encyclopedic Palace, Central Pavilion, Giardini, Venice
Setouchi Triennale 2013, Kagawa, Japan
Eyes on the Street: Modernology and Beyond, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art,Japan2012

dOCUMENTA (13), Karlsaue Park, Kassel, Germany
Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow;
Haifa Museums, Israel

2010

Gwangju Biennale 2010: 10,000 Lives, Biennale Hall, Gwangju, South Korea
The Definition of Self, 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo
Setouchi Triennale 2010, Kagawa, Japan2009

I Believe: Japanese Contemporary Art, Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, Japan
MOT Collection: MOT, Field of Dreams, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

2006

FIX•MIX•MAX! Frontline of Contemporary Art, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, JapanWater Always Flows in Multiple Streams: Homage to Yoshiaki Tono, Gallery TOM, TokyoNaoshima Standard 2, Chichu Art Museum, Kagawa, JapanArt Symphony - Reverberations of 20th Century Art, Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art andDesign, Japan
Toru Takemitsu: Visions in Time, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
Focus on Abstraction: Color, Form, and Space: From the Tokyo Opera City Collection,
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo

2005

decade: CCGA and Six Artists,
Center of Contemporary Graphic Art and Tyler Graphics Archive Collection (CCGA),Fukushima, Japan

2004

Beautiful Journey: About Life, Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, Japan
Remarking Modernism in Japan 1900-2000, Part 2, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

2003

41st Okayama City Art Festival: Love Planet, Former Izushi Elementary School,Okayama, Japan
Pictures and Stories: Education Effects and Artistry of Wonderful Picture Books,
Himeji City Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan

2002

Exhibiiton of New Aquisitions + Introduction to Contemporary Paintings,
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Love and/or Terror: A Book Arts Exhibitions, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
Books and Art in the 20th Century, Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan

2001

Takeo Paper Show 2000: Please, Spiral Garden and Hall, Tokyo
Books as Art: From Taisho Period Book Design to Contemporary Art Objects,
Urawa Art Museum, Saitama, Japan
Through a Collector’s Eye: Japanese Art After 1945, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan;
Museum of Art, Matsuyama, JapanThe Standard, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Shinro Ohtake and Dieter Roth: Artist’s Book for Seeing, Reading, and Touching,Gallery D, Urawa Art Museum, Saitama, Japan1999

Art Jungle: Exploration with Kids, Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, Japan
Ground Zero Japan, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Japan
Art/Domestic: Temperature of the Time, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Lesson in Contemporary Art, Akita Senshu Museum of Art, Japan

1998

Connections/Contradictions: Modern and Contemporary Art from Atlanta Collection,
Micheal C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Aoyama Hiho-kan: Kyoichi Tsuzuki x Shinro Ohtake, Nadiff Gallery, Tokyo

1997

The Human Factor: From the Hara Museum Collection, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan

1996

Pipeline Uwajima⇔Osaka, Puzzle Punks, Shinro Ohtake and Yamataka EYE,Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
Museum Collection, Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan

1995

Book Design in Japan 1945-95 Exhibition, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo

1994

600 Seoul International Art Exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Tomio Miki, Shintaro Tanaka, Shinro Ohtake, Galerie Tokoro, Tokyo
Hiroshima: The Past and the Promise, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Kumamoto;
Daimaru Museum Umeda, Osaka; Koriyama City Museum of Art, Fukushima;
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Aspects 1979-1994: 15th Aniversary of the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art,Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan
Open Air ’94 Out of Bounds - Contemporary Art in the Seascape, Benesse House,
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, JapanArt Against AIDS, Japan: Japanese Photography Exhibition - The Eye of the Artist,

Landmark Hall, Yokohama, JapanThe Sezon Art Museum of Modern Art Collection: Postwar Japanese Paintings - New
Aquisitions, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano, Japan
VOCA: The Vision of Contemporary Art, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
1993

The Contemporary Art for Parents and Children: World of Learning and Playing in Art,
Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, Japan
Genealogy of Japanese Contemporary Sculpture: From the Museum Collection,
Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, JapanThe First Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Trends of Modern Japanese Art, and the Ichiji Yui Collection,Saku Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Nagano, Japan1992

Mask: Face - Expression, TOM Gallery of Touch-Me Art, Tokyo
Tomio Miki, Shintaro Tanaka, Shinro Ohtake, Galerie Louis Carré & Cie, Paris

1991

Japan Art Today: Commemoration of Tour to Four Northern European Countries, Diversity ofContemporary Japanese Art, Sezon Musem of Modern Art, Nagano, JapanA Cabinet of Signs: Contemporary Art from Postmodern Japan, Malmö Kunsthalle, Malmö;Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Tate Gallery, Liverpool- 1992
Japanese Paintings in the Twentieth Century: Modern and Beyond,Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, JapanA Hybrid Garden: Six Contemporary Artists in Japan, BIGI Art Space, Kyoto, Japan
Freedom ‘90: Amnesty Poster Exhibition, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan1990

Japan Art Today, Elusive Perspectives/Changing Visions, Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum,Reykjavik; Helsinki Municipal Art Museum, Helsinki; Exhibition Hall Charlottenburg,Copenhagen; Culture Centre of Stockholm, Stockholm- 1991
Art and Vision: From Japanese Modern Art, Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, JapanJapanese Contemporary Art of the Eighties, Bregenzer Festspiele, Bregenz, Austria;
Museum of Modern Art, Vienna; Bonn Kunstverein, Bonn; Frankfurt Kunstverein,Frankfurt am Main- 1991
Pharmakon ‘90, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, JapanThe International Art Show for the End of World Hunger, Setagaya Art Museum, TokyoCollection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
First Tyne International Exhibition of Contemporary Art: A New Necessity,
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
The Game of Manners: Japanese Art in 1990, Part I, Contemporary Art Gallery,Art Tower Mito, Japan1989

Alpha Cubic Art Collection, Alpha Cubic Gallery, Tokyo & Paris
Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston;
Gray Art Gallery, New York University, New York; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati;
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; Bank of Boston Art Gallery at MIT List Visual Arts Center,Boston; Akron Art Museum, Akron; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco- 1991

1987

’87 ADC Prize Exhibition, G7 Gallery; Ginza Art Space; Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo
Portrait 50, Ginza Art Space, Tokyo

1985

Artists’ Books: Japan, Franklin Furnace, New York

1984

20th Artists Today Exhibition’84: Contemporary art over the issues of surface/plane,
Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Japan

1983

Untitled, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1981

Seibu Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Seibu Musum of Art, Tokyo
ART POP Japan - Tokyo Today, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London

1980

China Town Fantasia, Laforet Plaza, Tokyo

1979

θ, Village Gallery, Seibu Ikebukuro, Tokyo

Selected Live Performances
1996

Destroy All Monsters Japan Tour ’96, Laforet Museum, Tokyo- First live performance of Puzzle Punks using a remote-control guitar known as Dub-Hei

1995

Establishment of noise unit Puzzle Punks with the Boredoms’ Yamataka EYE,
and release of the CD book
Pipeline - Yamantaka Diary, published by UCA

1985

LiveOnes! 1985, sound performance by Only Connect, a sound unit with Russell Mills,
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

1980

Kluba Cupol, sound performance with Bruce C. Gilbert, Graham Lewis and Russell Mills,
Notre Dame Hall, London

1978

Establishment of experimental sound group JUKE/19, and release of 5 LPs and EPs by 1981

Selected Public Works
2021

NETSU-KEI, Dogo Onsen Honkan, Ehime, Japan

2019

Nozokiiwa, Uwajijima Learning Center - PAFIO Uwajima, Ehime, Japan2016

Needle factory, Fukutake Foundation, Kagawa, Japan2013

MECON, Fukutake Foundation, Kagawa, Japan

2009

Naoshima Bathhouse I♥湯, Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation, Kagawa, Japan

2006

Dreaming Tongue/Bokkon Nozoki, Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation,Kagawa, Japan

2000

Shapes in the Northern Skies, Sapporo Lifelong Learning Center - Chieria, Japan1994

Bow with Hole, Cut Bow, Stern with Hole, Bulkhead I-VII, Bulkhead on Box I-II,
from the series of Shipyard Works, Benesse Corporation, Kagawa, Japan

Residencies
2015

Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI), Singapore

1995

NEXUS Press, Atlanta Committee for Olympic Games Cultural Olympiad, Atlanta, Georgia

1989

U.S. Information Agency and Millay Colony for the Arts, Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh,Memphis, New Orleans, Santa Fe, Los Angeles and New YorkAward2014

Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Minister’s Award for Fine Arts, Japan

Selected Public Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
M+, Hong Kong
Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, Japan
Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, Japan
Center for Contemporary Graphic Art, Fukushima, Japan
Komagane Kogen Art Museum, Nagano, Japan
Saku Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Nagano, Japan
Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan
Museum of Art, Matsuyama, Japan
Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
Niitsu Art Forum, Niigata, Japan
Fukutake Foundation
Sapporo Lifelong Learning Center - Chieria, Japan
Uwajijima Learning Center - PAFIO Uwajima, Ehime, Japan