Born in Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Lives and works in Awaji Island, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Otani Workshop

Otani Shigeru was born in Shiga Prefecture in 1980. After studying sculpture at Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, he began working under the name Otani Workshop in 2005. In 2017, he moved his studio to a former tile factory on Awaji Island, where he continues to live and work. Otani’s practice and artistic output ranges broadly from sculptures made using ceramics, bronze and FRP to more recent practice in painting. His work has been presented in group and solo exhibitions throughout Japan and abroad, and in 2024 he collaborated with French fashion house Christian Dior.

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education

- 2004 Graduated from Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts

solo shows

2025
- Monsters in My Head, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2024
- Tanilla Tanilla Tanilla, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2023
- Portraits, Perrotin, Hong Kong

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

2023
- Beyond The Streets Shanghai, Shanghai, China

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
- HealingxHealing, 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
- Kazunori Hamana, Yuji Ueda, Otani Worshop, BLUM&POE, New York, USA

2015
- Kazunori Hamana, Yuji Ueda, Otani Worshop, BLUM&POE, Los Angeles, USA

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, Germany
- Around The Kochuten, Hidari Zinagaro/Oz Zingaro/Kaikiki Zingaro, Tokyo, Japan
- Melbourne Art Fair 2012, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Australia
- 4 ceramists exhibition, Hidari Zingaro Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
- KAYU・Otani Workshop Futari Ten, Mizunosora, Tokyo, Japan

2011
- YMO, gallery Sala, Shiga, Japan

2010
- KAYU・Otani Workshop Futari Ten, Mizunosora, Tokyo, Japan

2025

Otani Workshop

30 octobre 2025 - 20 décembre 2025

new york

130 Orchard Street

Otani Workshop, Nina Chanel ABNEY, Young-Il AHN, Monira AL QADIRI, Sara ANSTIS, Jean-Marie APPRIOU, Iván ARGOTE, Cristina BANBAN, Ali BANISADR, Anna-Eva BERGMAN, Lynn CHADWICK, Julian CHARRIÈRE, Johan CRETEN, Jean-Philippe DELHOMME, Wim DELVOYE, Mathilde DENIZE, Lionel ESTÈVE, Jens FÄNGE, Bernard FRIZE, Nick GOSS, Miles GREENBERG, Hans HARTUNG, Thilo HEINZMANN, Gregor HILDEBRANDT, Alain JACQUET, Klara KRISTALOVA, Georges MATHIEU, Christiane POOLEY, Emma PREMPEH, Jesús Rafael SOTO, Josh SPERLING, AYA TAKANO, Chiffon THOMAS, Xavier VEILHAN, Pieter VERMEERSCH, Robin F. WILLIAMS, GELITIN, LEE Bae, Park Seo-Bo

20 octobre 2025 - 20 décembre 2025

paris

60 RUE DE TURENNE 75003 PARIS
8 avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris

Panorama

2023

Otani Workshop

12 décembre 2023 - 9 mars 2024

hong kong

807, K11 ATELIER Victoria Dockside, 18 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

Portraits

2022

Otani Workshop

17 novembre 2022 - 20 janvier 2023

Séoul

10 Dosan-daero 45–gil, Gangnam-gu

Hand, Eye, and Soul

Johan CRETEN, Jean-Philippe DELHOMME, Jens FÄNGE, Bernard FRIZE, Laurent GRASSO, Gregor HILDEBRANDT, Izumi KATO, Klara KRISTALOVA, ob, Otani Workshop, Paola PIVI, Gabriel RICO, Aya TAKANO

9 février 2022 - 19 mars 2022

tokyo

Piramide Building, 1F, 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-ku

Head in the Clouds

2021

Chiho AOSHIMA, Aso KOJIMA, Takuro KUWATA, Takashi MURAKAMI, Shin MURATA, Otani Workshop, Yuji UEDA

4 septembre 2021 - 9 octobre 2021

paris

2bis avenue matignon 75008 Paris

GEIBI KAKUSHIN ("L'innovation esthétique dans l'art de la céramique japonaise")

sur une idée de Takashi Murakami

Otani Workshop

15 juin 2021 - 28 août 2021

Shanghai

3/F, 27 Hu Qiu Road, Huangpu District

LIKE A TALISMAN

Chiho AOSHIMA, Emi KURAYA, Takuro KUWATA, KYNE, Kasing LUNG, MADSAKI, Mr., Takashi MURAKAMI, Shin MURATA, OB, Otani Workshop, Aya TAKANO, TENGAONE, Yuji UEDA

5 février 2021 - 20 mars 2021

Shanghai

3/F, 27 Hu Qiu Road, Huangpu District

Healing

sur une idée de Takashi Murakami

2020

Otani Workshop

29 octobre 2020 - 23 décembre 2020

new york

130 Orchard Street

Narubekunaranare Narazarumonarubekenya Narareccho (Be if you can, even if you don’t have to be, let it be)

Chiho AOSHIMA, Yukimasa IDA, Kasing LUNG, Emi KURAYA, MADSAKI, Takashi MURAKAMI, Shin MURATA, OB, Otani Workshop, Aya TAKANO, Yuji UEDA, TENGAONE

17 octobre 2020 - 23 décembre 2020

paris

2bis avenue Matignon 75008 Paris

Healing

sur une idée de Takashi Murakami

Takashi MURAKAMI, Mr., MADSAKI, TENGAONE, Kasing LUNG, Aya TAKANO, Chiho AOSHIMA, Emi KURAYA, OB, Otani Workshop, Yuji UEDA, Shin MURATA

23 juillet 2020 - 4 septembre 2020

Séoul

1F 5 Palpan-gil, Jongno-gu

Healing

2019

Otani Workshop

16 mars 2019 - 11 mai 2019

paris

76 rue de turenne 75003 Paris

Contes d’Awaji

2018

OTANI WORKSHOP

23 août 2018 - 22 septembre 2018

Séoul

1F 5 Palpan-gil, Jongno-gu

CHILDREN OF

GEIBI KAKUSHIN ("L'INNOVATION ESTHÉTIQUE DANS L'ART DE LA CÉRAMIQUE JAPONAISE")

GEIBI KAKUSHIN ("L'INNOVATION ESTHÉTIQUE DANS...

Chiho AOSHIMA, Aso KOJIMA, Takuro KUWATA, Takashi MURAKAMI, Shin MURATA, Otani Workshop, Yuji UEDA