Born in Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Lives and works in Awaji Island, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Make no mistake: despite the name, Otani Workshop does not refer to a collective of artists, but to a singular, an eminently singular sculptor who has become the leading representative of Japanese ceramics. Silent and literally bulging heads, figures with their arms raised like praying figures, monumental middle fingers extended upwards, anthropomorphic vases, children, animals, soils, bronzes: Otani Workshop’s bestiary is a world in itself, a world in which dreams and tales converge as well as fantasies and daydreams, a world in which the queenly imagination and the kingly gesture triumph, in which forces and forms meet.
education
- 2004 Graduated from Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts
solo shows
2022
- Hand, Eye, and Soul, Perrotin, Seoul, South Korea
2021
- Like a Talisman, Perrotin, Shanghai, China
2020
- Narubekunaranare Narazarumonarubekenya Narareccho (Be if you can, Even if you don't have to be, Let it be), Perrotin, New York, USA
2019
- Contes d'Awaji, Perrotin Paris, France
2018
- Children Of, Otani Workshop, Perrotin, Seoul, South Korea
2016
- When I Was Seventeen, I Learned About Giacometti From My Art Teacher and Became Drawn to Sculpture - and So I Make Sculptures Now., Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2015
- Otani Workshop, t.gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Otani Workshop, FUURO, Tokyo, Japan
- Otani Workshop, gallery uchiumi, Tokyo, Japan
2014
- Tadaima kosakuchu, Hidari Zingaro, Tokyo, Japan
- Otani Workshop, t.gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013
- Otani Workshop, Tri Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012
- Otani Workshop, Nichi-nichi, Tokyo, Japan
- Otani Workshop: Iroiroten, Kino no Tsuzuki, Ashita no Ashita, Tri Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2011
- ~of the soul~, Hidari Zingaro/Oz Zingaro/Kaikiki Zingaro, Tokyo, Japan
- Otani Workshop no Utsuwaten ~OFF BEAT~, Gallery Utsuwa Note, Saitama, Japan
- Otani Workshop” Nichi-nichi, Tokyo, Japan
- Otani Workshop ~Kousaku Sanmai~, Tri Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Otani Workshop no Shigoto to Bon Antiques no Kodogu no Omise, Jikken Shop 1928, Kyoto, Japan
2010
- Otani Workshop, Nichi-nichi, Tokyo, Japan
- Otani Workshop Chopi to shita Mono, Anzuya, Nara, Japan
2009
- Otani Workshop ~Kousaku Sanmai~, Tri Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008
- Tou no Shigototen,Tri Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Otani Workshop, Ginza AKANE art gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Otani Workshop Tenjikaiten, Gallery KARAHASHI, Shiga, Japan
group shows
2022
- Roppongi Art Night Group Show. Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Head in the Clouds, Perrotin Tokyo, Japan
2021
- Healing, Perrotin, Shanghai, China
- GEIBI KAKUSHIN (Aesthetic Innovation on Japanese Ceramic Art), Perrotin Matignon, Paris, France
- 2021 Kaikai Kiki Autumn Show, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2020
- Healing, Perrotin Matignon, Paris, France
- Healing, Perrotin Seoul, Korea
2018
- Bubblewrap, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
2017
- An Occasion for Contemplating Ceramics and Sculpture: Seeds Sown in Shigaraki, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- Murakami Takashi’s Superflat Consideration on Contemporary Ceramics, Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan
2016
- ton chin kan, Roppongi Hills A/D Gallery , Tokyo, Japan
- Murakami Takashi’s Superflat Consideration, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
- Blum and Poe, New York
2015
- Blum and Poe, Los Angeles
2013
- Yukiharu Kumagai Otani Workshop Futari-ten Tanoshii Kurashi, Utsuwa Note, Saitama, Japan
- G-tokyo, Tokyo Midtown, Tokyo, Japan
- Oz!Zingaro STYLE!, Oz Zingaro, Tokyo, Japan
2012
- Japanese Contemporary Ceramic Art by Oz Zingaro, Hidari Zingaro Berlin, Berlin, Japan
- Around The Kochuten, Hidari Zinagaro/Oz Zingaro/Kaikiki Zingaro, Tokyo, Japan
- 4 ceramists exhibition, Hidari Zingaro Taipei, Taipei, Japan
2011
- YMO, gallery Sala, Shiga, Japan
2010
- KAYU・Otani Workshop Futari Ten, Mizunosora, Tokyo, Japan
