Collections of Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2022
Oscar Oiwa 1965 -
Oscar Oiwa 1965 -
With his unique sense of humor and imagination, Oiwa powerfully express a worldview filled with narrative and social satire on canvas. After graduating from Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at Sao Paulo University, he had worked in an architectural studio in Tokyo and began his artist career. Later he moved to New York, where he lives since then. Oiwaʼs large scale paintings with elaborative touch and bird's-eye view composition, based on his careful research in social issues caught from newspaper articles and the Internet, attract a lot of fans, and his works are in the collections of many museums in Japan and abroad. 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, Brazil
lives and works in New York, USA
■Selected Awards
1995 The Delfina Studio, Artist in Residence Award / London, UK
1996 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant / New York, USA
2001 Grant from John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation / New York, USA
■Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 "Quarantine Series", Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2020 “Dreams of a Sleeping World” , USC Pacific Asia Museum / Pasadena, USA
2019 “Rio, Tokyo, Paris” , Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris / France
2019 “Journey to the Light” , 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa / Ishikawa
2016 “the World is Filled with Light” , Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
2012 “Traveling Light” , Art Front gallery, Shibuya Hikarie /8 Cube / Tokyo
2011 National Museum / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2008 “The Dreams of a Sleeping World” , Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo
2007 “Five shop” , P.P.O.W. / New York, USA
2006 “Gardening with Oscar Oiwa: New Paintings” , Arizona State University Art Museum / Arizona, USA
■Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Setouchi International Art Festival / Kagawa
2019 Shanghai Urban Space Art Season (SUSAS) 2019 / Shanghai, China
2017 Japan Alps Art Festival / Nagano
2013 “Peace Meets Art!” , Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum / Hiroshima
2013 “Unconsciousness of the city” , The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / Tokyo
2010 Setouchi International Art Festival / Kagawa
2000 The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale / Niigata
1991 The 21st International Biennial of São Paulo / Brazil
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"Drawing for Ogijima Pavillion" 2022, Setouchi International Art Festival / Ogijima
”Ogijima Pavilion”
A space where the world of the imagination and the landscape of reality become one
The work consists of a building designed by architect Shigeru Ban and modeled after the black-tile-roofed houses common to the islands of the region. The walls are of glass adorned with images inspired by the Seto Inland Sea. Although the outside world is visible from everywhere inside the building, the electric switchable glass makes it possible to adjust opacity for privacy when required. The building will be used as an accommodation facility from spring to fall.
"Scarecrow Project" 2000 photo by ANZAÏ
The red scarecrows are the silhouettes of an actual family that works in these terraced fields. A small plate attached to the chest of each figure gives the name and date of birth of the model. A woman holding a baby can be seen on the left hand side of the photo. The baby should have grown up mcuh, right?
"Beautiful KAYA(Thatched) House" 2009, 1910×1305mm
"Light tree" 2015, 1380 x 1780mm
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