Oscar Oiwa1965-

Works of Oiwa, as though veiled over the surface, attract the viewers' perspective into the depth of the plane. His interest in social matters, caught at first in newspapers and articles on internet, will be visualized through elaborative research and drawing process. The finished image, sometimes grandiose and apocalyptic, depicts the life and society with his characteristic sense of humor. Born in Sao Paulo, he graduated from Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at Sao Paulo University. While working in an architectural studio in Japan where his parents are issued from, he exhibited gradually in artistic events to become an artist. Awarded the grant from Asian Cultural Council and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, he moved to New York in 2002 where he lives since then. Recently he exhibited in Brazil, Korea and Japan. His solo exhibit in 2019 at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa attracted more than 150,000 visitors.

Biography

1965 Born in Sao Paulo
1989 Graduated from Sao Paulo University, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism / Sao Paulo
lives and works in New York

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Solo Exhibitions

2024 OSCARSCAPE / Tower 49 Gallery / New York
2024 Light Shop / Ginza Tsutaya Atrium / Tokyo
2024 Light Shop / Kyoto Tsutaya Atrium / Kyoto
2024 Oil Octopus in the era of turbulent / Hikarie Cube Gallery / Tokyo
2023 If I were Living In... / Guryongpo Art Factory / Gyeongsangbuk-do / South Korea
2023 My Ring / Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2023 Art at First Time / ROPPONGI HILLS A/D GALLERY / Tokyo
2022 The Dreams of a Sleeping World exhibition / Seaside Art Gallery, Haikou Port, Pingtung County / TAIWAN
2021 Oscar Oiwa: Quarantine Series / Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2020 Dreams of a Sleeping World, USC Pacific Asia Museum / Pasadena
2019 Oscar Oiwa. Rio, Tokyo, Paris: Cities and Games, La Maison de la Culture du Japon, Paris
2019 Oscar Oiwa: Journey to the Light, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa / Ishikawa
2016 Oscar Oiwa: the World is Filled with Light / Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2012 Traveling Light, Art Front gallery, Shibuya Hikarie /8 Cube / Tokyo
2012 Traveling Light, Keumsan gallery / Seoul
2011 Works by Oscar Oiwa, Galerie Agathe Helion / Paris
2011 Oscar Oiwa / National Museum / Rio de Janeiro
2011 After Midnight, Thomas Cohn Gallery / Sao Paulo
2009 Asian Kitchen, Beijing / China
2008 The Dreams of a Sleeping World, Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of art / Fukushima, Takamatsu City Museum of Art / Kagawa, Japan （2009）
2007 Five shop, P.P.O.W. / New York
2006 Gardening with Oscar Oiwa: New Paintings, Arizona State University Art Museum / Arizona
2006 Invisible Reflex: 1993-2006 Retrospective, Ikeda Museum of 20 Century Art / Shizuoka, Japan

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Group Exhibitions

2025 ART SG 2025 / Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Center / Singapore
2024 Luo Shan Feng Art Festival in Taiwan / 2024落山風藝術季 / Seaside Gallery / Taiwan
2024 Takahashi Ryutaro Collection / Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / Tokyo
2023 Luo Shan Feng Art Festival in Taiwan / 2023落山風藝術季 / Seaside Gallery / Taiwan
2023 2023 Keelung Ciao / Zhengbin Fishing Port / Taiwan
2023 The Secret of the Lake - The River Became a Lake / Ichihara Lakeside Museum / Chiba
2023 Taipei Dangdai 2023 / Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center / Taiwan
2023 Taiwan Lantern Festival / Taipei
2022 Setouchi Trienalle 2022 / Ogijima, Kagawa
2022 The Echigo-Tsumari Art Field / Niigata
2022 Range of the Senses: What It Means to “Experience” Today / The National Museum of Art / Osaka
2021 MOT Collection：Journals / Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / Tokyo
2019 Shanghai Urban Space Art Season (SUSAS) 2019 / Shanghai, China
2018 Beyond the End: Ruins in Art History, Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo / Tokyo
2017 Japan Alps Art Festival, Omachi / Nagano
2016 Setouchi Triennale 2016, Ogi island, Shodo island / Kagawa, Japan
2014 Japon, Abbeye Saint d’Andre centre d’art contemporain Meymac / France
2014 Land of Sunlight-Oscar Oiwa and Japanese-Brazilian Artists / Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Japan
2013 Setouchi Triennale 2013, Ogi island, Ibuki island / Kagawa, Japan
2013 Peace Meets Art!, Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum / Hiroshima, Japan
2013 The Group 1965, “We are Boys.", Kamada Kyosaikai Folk Museum / Kagawa, Japan
2013 Unconsciousness of the city, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / Tokyo, Japan
2013 MOT collection Our Ninety Years: 1923 -2013, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / Tokyo, Japan
2011 Global New Art, SEIJI TOGO MEMORIAL SOMPO JAPAN MUSEUM OF ART / Tokyo, Japan
2011 The Group 1965, “We are Boys!", Kunsthalle / Dusseldorf, Art Arsenal / Kiev
2010 Setouchi International Art Festival / Kagawa, Japan
2009 Sacred Monsters: Everyday Animism in Contemporary Japanese Art, Tufts University Art Gallery / MA
2007 The (s)files, el Museo del Barrio / New York
2007 Niigata Water and Land Art Festival / Niigata, Japan

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Awards

1995 The Delfina Studio, Artist in Residence Award / London
1996 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant / New York
2002 Grant from Asian Cultural Council Tokyo / New York
2001 Grant from John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation / New York

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Collection / Public Art

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art / Kanazawa Mori Art Museum
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art / Aichi The National Museum of Modern Art / Tokyo
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art / Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo
Yokohama Museum of Art / Kanagawa Takamatsu Art Museum / Kagawa
Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art / Fukushima Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi / Gunma
Utsunomiya Museum of Art / Tochigi Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art / Shizuoka
Faret Tachikawa / Tokyo Arizona State University Art Museum / Arizona Phoenix Art Museum / Phoenix

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