Works

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Shinro Ohtake

Born in 1955, Tokyo, Japan

1980 Oil Painting, Musashino Art University, Tokyo

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025: Take Ninagwa, Tokyo [upcoming]
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
“Shinro Ohtake,” greengrassi, London

2019: “Shinro Ohtake 1975-1989,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
“Shinro Ohtake: Bldg. 1978-2019,” Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto; Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki

2016: “Shinro Ohtake: Paper-Sight,” Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
“Time Memory,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo

2013: “Shinro Ohtake: Okusoku—Velocity of Memory,” Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa
“Shinro Ohtake: NEWNEW,” Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa
“Yakioku,” INAX Museums, Tokoname City, Aichi

2007: “Ohtake Shinro: New Universe on the Road,” Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Fukuoka Art Museum

2006: “Shinro Ohtake Zen-Kei: Retrospective 1955-2006,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024: “Neither IX: David Lieske and Shinro Ohtake,” Neither, London
“A Product of Time: 25 Years of TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art,” The Warehouse, Dallas

2022: “Neoclassical,” Rodeo, Piraeus, Greece
Hawaii Triennial 2022, “Pacific Century—E Ho‘omau no Moananuiākea”
“Alternative! Kazuko Koike Exhibition—Soft-Power Movement of Art & Design,” 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo

2020: “Tokyo 2020 Official Art Posters Exhibition,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

2019: “MOMAT Collection,” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
“Globe as a Palette; Contemporary Art from the Taguchi Art Collection,” Obihiro Museum of Art, Hokkaido; Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido; Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido; Sapporo Art Museum
Setouchi Triennale 2019, Kagawa
“Weavers of Worlds—A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern/Contemporary Art—,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
“The Age of New Painting from the Collection of the Museum of Art, Kochi,” The Museum of Art, Kochi

2018: The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
“10th Anniversary,” Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
“Travelers: Stepping into the Unknown,” The National Museum of Art, Osaka

2017: “In Focus: Contemporary Japan,” Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
“Japanorama. New Vision on Art Since 1970,” Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz

2016: “The Keeper,” New Museum, New York
Setouchi Triennale 2016, Kagawa
“Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers,” Manchester Art Gallery; Barbican Centre, London

2014: Yokohama Triennale 2014, “Art Fahrenheit 451: Sailing into the sea of oblivion”

2013: 55th Venice Biennale, “The Encyclopedic Palace”
Setouchi Triennale 2013, Kagawa

1999: “Ground Zero Japan,” Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
“Art/Domestic: Temperature of the Time,” Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo

1991: “A Cabinet of Signs: Contemporary Art from Postmodern Japan,” Malmö Kunsthalle, Sweden; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Tate Gallery, Liverpool

1989: “Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties,” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Gray Art Gallery, New York University; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH; Seattle Art Museum; Bank of Boston Art Gallery, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, MA; Akron Art Museum, OH; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

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