b. in Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Lives and works in Awaji Island, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts in 2004.
Selected solo exhibitions
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
Selected Group exhibitions
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