Biography

1950 
Born in Yamagata, Japan
1971     
Tsuruoka National College of Technology, Yamagata

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010
“Saburo Ota House in Izushi-cho”, art space Aburakame, Okayama
“Saburo Ota New Works : The Age of the Child” , ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2009
“Saburo Ota - I’m at the warehouse” , Center for Cultural Exchange, Hishio, Katsuyama
2008
“Saburo Ota - Days” Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata
“Saburo Ota - HIROSHIMA 1990 - 2008”, OHARA Museum of Art, Okayama
“Yurin-So: Saburo Ota: OHARA Museum of Art”, OHARA Museum of Art, Okayama
2007
“Saburo Ota - On the Beach 1987 - 2007”, Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art, Okayama
2006
“Artist in Kura” , Kura - Onoya, Yamagata
Keumsan Gallery, Korea
2005
“Post War 60 Hibakusya”, Kobayashi Gallery, Tokyo
2002
“Thinking of the Life - Saburo Ota and Junior High School Students”, Itami City Museum of Art, Hyogo
2001
“On the Beach, Seed Project from KANAZAWA”, Kanazawa Civic Art Village, Ishikawa
2000
“Nagi Project 2000”, Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art, Okayama
“Saburo Ota 2000-2001”, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City
1999
“Post War 54 Hibaku-Jizo”, Kobayashi Gallery, Tokyo
1996
“1984 - 1996 - footprints for 12 years”, MACA Gallery, Tokyo
“Clover Plan”, Kirin Plaza Osaka, Osaka
1995
“Post War 50 Who am I ?”, Kobayashi Gallery, Tokyo
1993
“What stamps convey”, Art Site, Fukui
1992
Gallery Gen, Tokyo
1990
Gallery Natsuka, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions after 2000

2010
“ROKKO MEETS ART”, Rokko Alpine Botanical Garden, Hyogo
“PERSONAL STRUCTURES TIME - SPACE - EXISTENCE” , Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria

2009
“ACG eyes 2 : Saburo Ota with young artists -everyday art-” ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
“KAMI - Silence-Action—Japanese Contemporary Art on Paper”, The Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden
“From Home to Museum - Tsuneko Tanaka Collection”, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama

2008
“The Human Images in the Twentieth Century”, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Gunma

2007
“Heyri Asia Project 2 - Japanese Contemporary Art Festival”, Heyri Art Village, Korea
“The Tracks of Rainbow Museum of Modern Art”, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka

2006
“Contemporary Art Biennale of Fukushima 2006”, Fukushima

2005
“Traveling in the Sky and the Earth - Saburo Ota and Koichi Kurita”, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto
“Collecting - Travel into the Memory”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima

2003
“Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003”, Nigata

2001
"eleven & eleven Korea Japan Contemporary Art 2002”, Sungkok Art Musem, Seoul

2000
“Yume no Ato - What remained of the dream... ?Contemporary Art from Japan”, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin / Staatllche Kunsthalle, Barden Barden, Germany

Public Collection

Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan / Japan Foundation / National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / The Tokushima Modern Art Museum / Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art / Yamagata Art Museum / Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art / Machida City International Museum of Printing Art / Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City / Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art / Ohara Museum / MinoKamo City Museum / Itabashi Art Museum / Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art / Kanagawa Arts Foundation / Nyuzen City, Toyama / Philatelic Museum, Tokyo / CCGA Contemporary Graphic Art Center, Fukushima / Okayama City Mino Primary School / Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Wien / Busan Museum of Art,Korea / The Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany / National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul






installation view: "Saburo Ota New Works: The Age of the Child" (solo exhibition, 2010, ARTCOURT Gallery)
photograph: Kiyoshi Sakashita



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