ARTIST Kotaro Otsuka / Otsuka Kotaro

When I'm thinking about things, there are times when I forget that time has passed and just sit in a daze. At that moment, my field of vision was blurry, with nothing in focus, and for some reason it felt good.
Through my works, I am freed from the concept of time and seek out the wasteful and ambiguous world that just lies there.

1994 Born in Osaka
2017 Graduated from Osaka University of Arts, Faculty of Art, Department of Fine Arts

Main Exhibit Career

2016 AHAF Seoul 2016 (Seoul)
2017 ASYAAF 2017 (Seoul)
2018 JART 8th (New York)
6th Charons Grand Prize Exhibition (Gallery Kaze/Osaka)
ART OSAKA 2018 (Hotel Granvia Osaka/Osaka)
Two-person exhibition Ayano Mori & Kotaro Otsuka (Gallery Kaze/Osaka)
2019 7th Carons Grand Prize Exhibition (Gallery Kaze/Osaka)
HANKYU Art Fair -Neo SEED- (Hankyu Umeda Main Store/Osaka)
Kotaro Otsuka and Yuki Baba two-person exhibition “Signifier -hito and can-” (Atelier Bar/Osaka)
2020 Solo exhibition “Dazzle -GENWAKU-” (KAZE ART PLANNING/Osaka)
ART OSAKA WALL by APCA (Sonezaki/Yamakawa Building/Osaka)
2021 ART NAGOYA 2021 (Nagoya Kanko Hotel/Aichi)
2022 art stage OSAKA 2022 (Dojima River Forum/Osaka)
HOLBEIN ART FAIR 2022 (+ART GALLERY/Tokyo)
Art Contemporain d' Osaka "C'EST MOI" (MAISON D'ART GINZA/Tokyo)

Major Awards / Major Awards

2016 Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program《33rd Charity Auction》 Selected and purchased
2017 Osaka University of Arts graduation work Nabei Prize Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program 《37th Charity Auction》 Selected and purchased
2020 5th Utazu Art Award Biennale 2020 Excellence Award