1980
MFA, Oil Painting, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
Residencies
1995
NEXUS Press, Atlanta Committee for Olympic Games Cultural Olympiad, Atlanta
1989
U.S. Information Agency and Millay Colony for the Arts, Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, Memphis,
New Orleans, Santa Fe, Los Angeles and New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009
“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 Bekkai 2007,” URRI farm, Hokkaido
“Ohtake Shinro New Universe on the Road,” Hiroshima City Museum of Contempoary Art, Hiroshima
“Ohtake Shinro New Universe on the Road,” Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka
2006
“Ohtake Shinro and Bekkai,” URRI farm, Hokkaido
“Shinro Ohtake Zen-Kei: Retrospective 1955-2006,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2004
“UK77 Photographs, Paintings, Collages 1977-78,” Base Gallery, Tokyo
2002
“Man Is Basically Good: Shinro Ohtake Exhibition 1982-2000,”
Benesse House, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa
2001
“Shinro Ohtake ‘Digital Works’ Mouscape,” Epson Imaging Gallery, Tokyo
2000
“Dub-Kei: Shinro Ohtake,” Kirin Plaza Osaka, Osaka
“Shinro Ohtake,” Base Gallery, Tokyo
1999
“ZYAPA ORAMA: Shinro Ohtake Exihibition,” Parco Gallery, Tokyo
1998
“Shinro Ohtake: Niitsu / Me, the Ambiguous Japan,” Niitsu City Art Museum, Niigata
1997
“Shinro Ohtake: Printing/Painting,”
Center of Contemporary Graphic Art and Tyler Graphics Archive Collection (CCGA), Fukushima
1993
“Shinro Ohtake: Retina,” Gallery Tokoro, Tokyo
1991
“ECHOS 55-91: Work of Shinro Ohtake,” Aeibu Art Forum, Tokyo, and Namba CITY, Osaka
1990
“Shinro Ohtake: Shipyard Works 1990,” Terada Warehouse, Space T33, Tokyo
1988
“Canvasism - Dreams and Cells: New Works by Shinro Ohtake,” Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo
1987
“Shinro Ohtake 1984-1987,” Saga-cho Exhibit Space, Tokyo
1985
“Shinro Ohtake: I’erranza dei segni (The Restless Language),” Palazzo Bianco, Genova
“Shinro Ohtake Painting/Collages,” Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1982
“Shinro Ohtake Exhibition,” Galerie Watari, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
“I BELIEVE: Japanese Contenporary Art,” Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
2006
“Toru Takemitsu: Visions in Time,” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
2004
“Rethinking Modernism in Japan 1900-2000, Part
2001
“The Standard,” Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa
“Shinro Ohtake and Dieter Roth: Artist’s Book for Seeing, Reading, and Touching,” Urawa Art Museum, Gallery D, Saitama
1999
“Ground Zero Japan,” Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
“Art/Domestic - Temperature of the Time,” Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
1996
“Pipeline Uwajima⇔Osaka, Puzzle Punks, Shinro Ohtake and Yamataka EY ,” The Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
1994 “600 Seoul International Art Exhibition,” National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
“Open Air ’94 Out of Bounds - Contemporary Art in the Seascape,” Benesse House,
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa
1993
“The First Asia - Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia, 1993,”
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1991
“A Cabinet of Signs: Contemporary Art from Postmodern Japan,” Tate Gallery, Liverpool,
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Malmo Kunsthalle, Malmo -1992
1990
“Japan Art Today, Elusive Perspectives / Changing Visions,” The Culture Centre of Stockholm, Stockholm,
The Exhibition Hall Charlottenburg, Copenhagen, The Helsinki Municipal Art Museum, Helsinki, and The Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavic -1991
“Japanese Contemporary Art of the Eighties,” Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Bonn Kunstverein, Bonn, Vienna Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, and Bregenzer Festspiele, Bregenz -1991
“A New Necessity,” First Tyne International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Newcastle
1989
“Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,
Akron Art Museum, Akron, Bank of Boston Art Gallery at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston,
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Gray Art Gallery, New York, and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston -1991
1985
“Artists’ Books: Japan,” Franklin Furnace, New York
1981
“ART POP Japan - Tokyo Today,” Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1979
“θ,” Village Gallery, Tokyo
Selected Live Performance
1996
“Destroy All Monsters Japan Tour ’96,” Laforet Museum, Harajuku, 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 EY , 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, London
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 Collections
Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Kagawa
Center for Contemporary Graphic Art
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka
Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima
Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Komagane Kogen Art Museum, Nagano
Museum of Art, Kochi
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation, Kagawa
Niitsu Art Forum, Niigata
Saku Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Nagano
Sapporo Lifelong Learning Center, Hokkaido
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Selected Public Works
2009
Naoshima Bathhouse “I♥湯,” Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation, Kagawa
2006
“Dreaming Tongue / Bokkon Nozoki,” Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum Foundation, Kagawa
1999
“Shapes in the Northern Skies,” Sapporo Lifelong Learning Center, Hokkaido
1990
“Bow with Hole,” “Cut Bow,” “Stern with Hole,” Benesse Corporation, Kagawa
Selected Publications
2008
“Mienai Oto, Kikoenai E” (Sound you cannot see, pictures you cannot hear), Shinchosha Publishing, Tokyo
2007
“Shinro Ohtake ZEN-KEI: Retrospective 1955-2006,”
Shinro Ohtake ZEN-KEI Retrospective Exective Committee, Tokyo
“Ohtake Shinro: New Universe on the Road,”
The Committe for Ohtake Shinro Exhibition in the Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka
2006
“Neon and Paintbox,” Getsuyosha, Tokyo
2005
“Sudeni Sokoni Arumono” (What’s Already There), Chikumashobo, Tokyo
2004
“Kasuba no Otoko: Morocco Tabi Nikki” (Man of Kasubah: Shinro Ohtake Travel Diary in Morocco), Shueisha, Tokyo
“UK77,” Getsuyosha, Tokyo
2002
“Terepin Tsukihi” (Turpentine Days), Shobunsha, Tokyo
“18,” Aoyama Publishing, Tokyo
1999
“ZYAPA ORAMA Nihonkei,” Asahi Art Collection, Asahi Shimbunsha, Tokyo
1997
“YMCB,” Trans Art, Tokyo
1993
“Monsieur JARRY,” Fukuinkan Shoten, Tokyo
1991
“SO: Works of Shinro Ohtake 1955-1991,” UCA, Tokyo
1986
“<LONDON/HONGKONG> 1980,” Yobisha, Tokyo
1982
“PSYCHEDELIC MAGAZINE LTD. vol.1,” Tokyo Operation Center, Tokyo
