OTA FINE ARTS

Ota Fine Arts was established in 1994 in Tokyo. For over 30 years, the gallery has defined itself as being a pioneer of Japanese contemporary art. Since its inception, Ota Fine Arts has promoted various Japanese artists, including internationally-acclaimed Yayoi Kusama, and has been expanding the variety of its artists and their works. 

Following Tokyo and Singapore, Ota Fine Arts opens a new gallery space in Shanghai in 2017. In May 2023, it re-opens at Rockbund venue. The new space is designed by Neri and Hu, a Shanghai-based architecture and design firm founded by Lyndon Neri and Rosanna Hu,  boasting a large yet intimate gallery space, and several viewing rooms. 

In recent years, Ota Fine Arts has held solo and group exhibitions with artists from China, Singapore, Japan, Korea, Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, etc. Through these exhibitions, the gallery was able to showcase varied works of art from within Asia and present their diverse cultural histories. It hopes to maintain this attitude of catalyzing points of convergence as it enters Shanghai, China.

Ota Fine Arts Shanghai also aims to be a rigorous incubator that fosters the exploration of ideas beyond the traditional and contemporary, fine arts and craft, the old and new. The gallery endeavors to unravel these existing classifications of art and explore a future context through its exhibition programmes.