CV
1955 Born in Meguro Ward, Tokyo 1974-75 Enters college and takes time off to work in Hokkaido 1977-78 Footloose in London 1980 Graduates from Dept. of Painting, Musashino Art University
Returns for a second stay in London and visits Hong Kong
Forms noise band JUKE/19; produces and sells own album 1982 Solo exhibition debut at Gallery Watari, Tokyo 1983 Second solo exhibition at Gallery Watari, Tokyo 1985 Solo exhibition at London ICA 1986 Publishes artist's book “London/Honcon 1980”
(Deluxe limited edition wins Best Deluxe Edition Award, Japan Book Design Concours/Exhibition
and Grand Prix, Tokyo ADC Award 1987) 1987 Solo exhibition “Shinro Ohtake 1984-1987”at Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo 1988 Solo exhibition “Canvasism: Shinro OhtakeNew Works”at Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo 1989 Invited to work in the USA. Travels throughout the USA, then resides and works in Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York 1990 Solo exhibition “Shinro Ohtake Recent Works 1988-1990” at Gallery Tokoro, Tokyo
Solo exhibition “Shipyard Works 1990” at Terada Soko, Tokyo 1991 Solo exhibition “Echoes 55-91 Works of ShinroOhtake” at Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo and other galleries 1993 Publishes storybook “Monsieur Jarry” (43rd Shogakukan Publications Art Prize 1994; Golden Apple Prize, Biennale of IllustrationsBratislava 1995) 1994 Solo Exhibition “Shinro Ohtake: Retina” at Gallery Tokoro, Tokyo 1995 Encounters Yamataka Eye of the Boredoms and forms unit “Puzzle Punks” produces CD book “Pipeline” 1996 Releases second Puzzle Punks CD “Budub” from Time Bomb Records, Osaka
All analog JUKE/19 recordings are re-mastered and issued on CD 1997 Solo exhibition “Shinro Ohtake Printing/Painting”at CCGA Center for Contemporary Graphic Art, Fukushima 1998 Solo exhibition “Shinro Ohtake: Niitsu/Me, theAmbituous Japan” at Nitsu Art Forum, Niigata 1999 “Dub-Hei & New Chanel” debuts at exhibition “Art/Domestic, Temperature of the Time” Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Solo exhibition “Zyapanorama Shinro Ohtake Exhibition” at Parco Gallery, Tokyo 2000 Solo exhibition “Dub-Kei”at KPO Kirin Plaza Osaka 2001 Solo exhibition “Shinro Ohtake Digital Works‘Mousecape’” at epSITE / Nadiff, Tokyo 2002 Solo exhibition “BLDG. Shinro Ohtake NewWorks”at Base Gallery, Tokyo 2005 Solo exhibition “On Paper: Shinro Ohtake” at Base Gallery, Tokyo 2006 Major solo exhibition “Shinro Ohtake Zenkei:Retrospective 1955-2006”
Source: shinroohtake.jp
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