Shinro Ohtake
Illustration — Shinro Ohtake 2022 Shinro Ohtake is a Japanese artist who was born in Tokyo and lives in Uwajima, Japan. He paints, creates installations and designs record covers and book covers. He has published dozens of books, such as a dream diary, a picture book, essays and art books.
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Shinro Ohtake
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- Born
- 1955 · Meguro.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- painter · printmaker · designer · photographer · conceptual artist · draftsperson · graphic artist · performance artist
- Education
- Musashino Art University
- Languages
- Japanese
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Illustration — Shinro Ohtake 2022 Shinro Ohtake is a Japanese artist who was born in Tokyo and lives in Uwajima, Japan. He paints, creates installations and designs record covers and book covers. He has published dozens of books, such as a dream diary, a picture book, essays and art books.
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Shinro Ohtake (born 1955) is a conceptual artist, designer and draftsperson, among other activities, of Japanese nationality. The conceptual artist was born in Meguro.
Shinro Ohtake was educated at Musashino Art University. The conceptual artist worked in Uwajima.
Languages used include Japanese. Works are held at Museum of Modern Art.
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In 1974, Ohtake entered the oil painting department of Musashino Art University, but took several leaves of absence, traveling to Hokkaido and later London. He returned to school after these periods away and graduated in 1980.
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In 2015 he did a residency at the fine printing and paper institute, STPI, in Singapore. He exhibited many works of collaged, sculptural artist books at Venice Biennale's Encyclopedic Palace in 2013. He presented his works at the documenta 13 exhibition in Kassel, Germany. He formed a music and art group called Puzzle Punks, with Yamatsuka Eye who is a member of Boredoms. He also collaborated with Vaughan Oliver. He designed the public bathhouse and art facility Naoshima Bath "I♥湯" (or Naoshima Bathhouse "I Love Yu"), as well as Haisha House, part of the Art House Project collaborations on the island of Naoshima.
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- Shinro Ohtake and Post-war Japanese Avant-garde Art, World Art, 2015
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- 1.岡村, 恵子. 「大竹伸朗年譜」. 『ユリイカ』. 2006年11月号. 191–206. October 2006.
- 2.Shinro Ohtake · STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery. STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery. 2017-04-12.
- 3.Shinro Ohtake: Pt I – ART iT: Japanese-English contemporary art portal site.
- 4.Crow, Kelly. A Party, Every Five Years, for 750,000 Guests. The Wall Street Journal. 10 June 2012.
- 5.Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art/The MIMOCA Foundation. Shinro Ohtake: NEWNEW. 2013.
- 6.Livingstone, Marco. Books in freefall. Eye Magazine (No. 10 Vol. 3, 1993). Autumn 1993.
- 7.Maerkle, Andrew. Dipping into modern art at Naoshima's bathhouse. Japan Times.
- 8.naoshimasento.jp. Naoshima Bath "I♥湯".
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