Exhibitions | Ota Fine Arts

Current Exhibition

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

Here’s Your Playground
Akira the Hustler 25 Feb - 28 Apr 2023 7CHOME (Tokyo) Last year, a group of people was publicly prosecuted for staging sit-in protests on public roads. This news triggered Akira to think about "liberated areas. Where can we find such places that allow individuals to engage freely? This was a question that came to Akira’s mind only after the COVID-19 pandemic, which was a time of extreme mental and physical stagnation. The exhibition title, "Here's Your Playground" is Akira's message to this exclusive and closed society suggesting that "it is okay to play here". Read more

Body
Tomoko Kashiki, Zai Kuning and Tang Dixin 18 Mar - 6 May 2023 Singapore Ota Fine Arts Singapore is delighted to present “Body”, a group exhibition by Tomoko Kashiki, Zai Kuning and Tang Dixin. This exhibition looks at the ways in which these three artists explore themes related to the human body figuratively and beyond. Tang Dixin’s (b. 1982, China) paintings are often concerned... Read more

Forthcoming

It's not yours to decide!
Yoshiko Shimada 15 Apr - 10 Jun 2023 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 the vanguard of feminist art in Japan and abroad. She... Read more

Past

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Post Art Fair
Yayoi Kusama, Chris Huen Sin-Kan, Ay Tjoe Christine, Masanori Handa, Tsuyoshi Hisakado, Tomoko Kashiki, Nobuaki Takekawa 1 Apr - 12 Jun 2020 Tokyo Ota Fine Arts is delighted to present Post Art Fair, a group exhibition featuring a robust selection of works by our represented artists. In response to the cancellation of Art Basel Hong Kong 2020, Ota Fine Arts invites audiences to experience our presentations alternatively at our gallery spaces in Singapore... Read more

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