Profile

  • 1959

    Born in 1959 in Yamaguchi, Japan.

  • 1983

    Mie University, Mie, Japan, Art Department, Faculty of Education

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2017

    Interferometry – Mirror and Rondo” MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY, Tokyo

  • 2016

    “Shinji Ogawa Solo Exhibition” Chiba City Museum of Art Sep.9- Oct.30)
    “Mirror” AISHONANZUKA, Hong Kong

  • 2015

    “Secret Mirror” Standing Pine, Nagoya

  • 2013

    “A view of world lines” Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura
    “PROJECTION” Miura Jiro Gallery, Tokyo


  • 2011

    “Behind You/Closed Book”, Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku, Tokyo

  • 2008

    “Shinji Ogawa -Perverse Realism” Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow,Poland
    “Souvenir”, Koichi Fine Arts, Osaka

  • 2007

    “French Milk Crown” Weissfeld,Tokyo
2006

  • 2006

    “Shinji Ogawa – Interfering Worlds” The National Museum of Art, Osaka


  • 2005

    “Conversation Piece” Nagoya University Museum, Nagoya

  • 2004

    “Harunobu Renzokutai” Koichi Fine Arts, Osaka
    “Soubou” Koichi Fine Arts, Osaka
    “Paintings” Ema Daikanyama, Tokyo

  • 2003

    “Solo Exhibition” Tokino Wasuremono, Tokyo
    “Zonder Jou” Röntgenwerke, Tokyo

  • 2002

    “Souvenir / Souverain” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi

  • 2001

    “Soubou” Kojio Ogura Gallery, Aichi
    “Solo Exhibition” Gallery16, Kyoto
    “Another Drop” Gallery Caption, Gifu
    “Perfect Saku Island” Benten Gallery, Aichi
    “Zonder Jou” Röntgen Kunstraum, Tokyo

  • 2000

    “Zonder Jou” Röntgen Kunstraum, Tokyo
    Solo Exhibition” Tokino Wasuremono, Tokyo
    “Solo Exhibition” Video Room, The Contemporary Museum, Nagoya

  • 1999

    “Solo Exhibition” Gallery Caption, Gifu
    “Solo Exhibition” Gallery Hosokawa, Osaka

  • 1997

    “Solo Exhibition” Tokino Wasuremono, Tokyo
    “Solo Exhibition” Nishida Gallery, Nara

  • 1995

    “Solo Exhibition” Gallery Celler, Nagoya

Group Exhibitions

  • 2017

    “Open Week: 9 Days of Fun with Art” Tokyo Station Gallery
    “Art in Art” Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow、Poland

  • 2016

    “Spider Silk” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
    “The Collection of the Takamatsu Art Museum” Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa

  • 2015

    “Shape of the Human Being: Focusing on Contemporary Art from the ’00s and Beyond” ,Takamatsu Historical Museum, Kagawa
    “Logical Emotion”, Contemporary Art from Japan Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland

  • 2014

    “In The Water by UnKyung Hur & Shinji Ogawa” XVA Gallery , Dubai
    “Appetizing Art: When Art Meets Food” Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanazawa
    “Currents: Japanese Contemporary Art” The James Christie Room, Hong Kong

  • 2012

    “The Allure of the Collection” The National Museum of Art, Osaka


  • 2011

    “History in Art” Museum of contemporary art in Krakow, Poland
    “The Eyes of Twelve Artists” Tokyo Station Gallery,Tokyo

  • 2010

    “150ème anniversaire de la création de《l’Angélus》” Barbizon, France

  • 2008

    “behind the seen: secrets of artistic creation” Komaba Museum, The University of Tokyo
    “Collection du Musee de la ville de Okazaki” Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi

    “Neoteny Japan –Takahashi Collection” ( 208-10 travelling exhibition)Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima 2008)/ Sapporo Artpark, Hokkaido 2008)/ The Ueno Royal Museum,Tokyo 2008)/ The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art 2009)/Akita Museum of Modern Art 2009)/ Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori 2009)/ The Museum of Art, Ehime 2010)

  • 2007

    “Line Labyrinthine 2: Graphite on Paper” Megro Museum of Art, Tokyo


  • 2006

    “Art and Object: Affinity of the Jomon and the Contemporary” Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori

  • 2005

    “Light Boxes Dark Rooms” Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY ( traveling exhibition
    “Max Headroom” Weissfeld, Tokyo

  • 2004

    “Light Boxes Dark Rooms”, De Pree Art Center and Gallery, Hope College, MI, U.S.A
    “Japanese Contemporary Art: Symbiosis in Art” Gallery Wooduk, Seoul
    “The Copy Age – From Duchamp through Warhol to Morimura” The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga

  • 2003

    “Composition of Contemporary Art 2003” Nagoya City Museum of Art, Nagoya


  • 2002

    “Fun de Nagoya 2002, Mediaters” Nagoya Citizen Gallery, Nagoya
    “In the 20 Century, Art Recognizes its Emptiness” Hiratsuka City Museum of Art, Kanagawa

  • 2001

    “Hanashi wo tsukutte, Me wo utagau” Koji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya
    “Perfect Saku Island” Benten Salon, Saku Island, Aichi


  • 2000

    “A Vacant Space” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi

Award

  • 1990

    ACT91ACT Grand Prize, Tokai city, Aichi, Japan

Workshops

  • 2011

    “The Circle of Time-Krakow” Museum of contemporary art in Krakow, Poland

  • 2007

    “Let’s make Infinite Landscape Painting!-3” Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo

  • 2006

    “Let’s make Infinite Landscape Painting!-2” National Museum of Art, Osaka
    “Let’s make Infinite Landscape Painting!-1” Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi

  • 2003

    “Conversation Piece” Nagoya University
2001

  • 2001

    “Perfect Saku Island” Benten Salon, Aichi

Collections

  • Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan


  • Tokai City、Aichi,Japan

  • Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
    Tokai City

  • Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan

  • The Museum Modern Art, Shiga, Japan

  • The National Museum Art, Osaka, Japan

  • Takamatsu city museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan

  • Chiba City Museum of Art

  • Itami City Museum of Art

  • Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland

  • Museum of contemporary art in Krakow, Poland