ArtistsShinro Ohtake
Shinro Ohtake

Shinro Ohtake

Japanese, 1955
WA-00094918
Tokyo, Japan
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None documented
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4
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11
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5
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  • BiographyMoMA + Wikipedia· 93%
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  • Birth yearArtsy· 85%
  • NationalityArtsy· 85%

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Shinro Ohtake is a Japanese artist born in 1955 who works across collage, installation, and assemblage, incorporating found materials, photographs, and ephemera into densely layered compositions. His practice engages with postwar Japanese consumer culture and the accumulated detritus of urban life, treating everyday objects and discarded materials as repositories of memory and meaning. Ohtake constructs immersive environments that invite sustained looking and archaeological investigation of surface and material history.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago

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    3 publishedof 6 catalogued
  • Art Institute Chicago
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Shinro Ohtake (Artsy)
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Man and Tree (Art Institute of Chicago)
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Man and Tree (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Museum of Modern Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
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