Born in 1955 in Tokyo, Shinro Ohtake has held midcareer surveys at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2006); Fukuoka Art Museum (2007, toured to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art); Takamatsu City Museum of Art (2013); Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (2013); and Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto (2019, toured to Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito). International solo exhibitions include the Institute of Contemporary Art, London (1985); Artsonje Center, Seoul (2012); and Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London (2014). In addition to documenta 13 in 2012, and the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, Ohtake has participated in major international exhibitions including Gwangju Biennale 2010; Setouchi Triennale 2013, 2016, and 2019; Yokohama Triennale 2014; and the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 1993 and 2018.

Ohtake’s work has been exhibited in thematic surveys at institutions such as the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Grey Art Gallery, New York University; Seattle Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Liverpool; Malmo Kunsthalle; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Asia Culture Center, Gwangju; Barbican Centre, London; Centre-Pompidou-Metz; Al Hamriyah Studios, Sharjah; National Museum of Art, Osaka; and Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, among many others.

Artist website: https://www.ohtakeshinro.com