O JUN

O Jun_
N a m e : O JUN

Born & Lives

1956 Born in Tokyo, Japan
1984-85 Stayed in Barcelona, Spain
1990-94 Stayed in Dusseldorf, Germany
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan

Education

1982 MFA in Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
1980 BFA in Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022 Paint-TENGU: Shigeru Hasegawa and O JUN, Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa, Japan
2021 Three works, NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo, Japan
Falling woman, Gallery Kido Press, Tokyo, Japan
Eyes vs Painting, VOU, Kyoto, Japan
2019 Unfinished Creation, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Can’t be what it looks like- O JUN×Hans Benda” Galleria Finarte, Aichi, Japan
2017 SEMEGU O JUN×TANADA Koji, Itami City Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
Hottamru Biyori Part 2 -O JUN & Yoshikai Nao, Former Minato Darmitary of Nagoya customs, Aichi, Japan
O JUN, Galleria Finarte, Aichi, Japan
2016 A dove flying away, I am surprised, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014 DaDa-co, Roppongi Hills A/D Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Sannojyo’s Dream, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
KAKUCO, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2011 O JUN, Galleria Finarte, Aichi, Japan
Love and Forest, Gallery Kart, Tokyo, Japan
2010 Mt. O JUN, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Stars Know Best, KIDO Press, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
2008 "Eyes, in front of" Live painting, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
O JUN, Galleria Finarte, Aichi, Japan
I AM O JUN, Gallery J. Chen, Taipei, Taiwan
JEDNOM OLOVKOM - from a pencil, 030NE, Belgrade, Serbia
2007 YUEN, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2006 touzainanbokunokoko・nishi, ON Gallery, Osaka, Japan
touzainanbokunokoko・kita, think garden, Sapporo, Japan
2005 All Lithographs, La Galeria de Artelibre, Osaka, Japan
Mijukunohito, Void+, Tokyo, Japan
2003 O JUN, Mixed Media Gallery, Shizuoka, Japan
Recent Works, Koji Ogura Gallery, Aichi, Japan
2002 Recent Works 27, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Pekapeka-Doji, ON Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Pekapeka-Doji, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2001 O JUN, T&S, Tokyo, Japan
A Stranger Calls Another Stranger, Gallery αM, Tokyo, Japan
2000 O JUN, Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa, Japan
O JUN, Taniyama no Koya, Wakayama, Japan
1999 1990-1994, Gallery FLOOR2, Tokyo, Japan
Emotional Education, ON Gallery, Osaka, Japan
O JUN, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1998 Sexual People: Vita Sexualis, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Army of Her, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
O JUN’s Drawing, Galerie de Cafe Den, Tokyo, Japan
FLOWER・TV・CUP, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996 a Plan, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The ACE, Galerie de Cafe Den, Tokyo, Japan
"Gekitsuiou" "Shusui", Galerie de Cafe Den, Tokyo, Japan
1993 NOTEN, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992 Lachen -alle Strahlen, die davon ausgehen-, Studioausstellung, Dusseldorf, Germany
1991 Zeichinung - Wie Stellt man die saule, Studioausstellung, Dusseldorf, Germany
1990 MOMO, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
O JUN’s Drawing, Kureha-Note, Aichi, Japan
1989 YARD, Studio La FARCE, Tokyo, Japan
WAKE, Galerie de Cafe Den, Tokyo, Japan
1988 Stroke Drive, Studio La FARCE, Tokyo, Japan
Stroke Drive, 216 hours, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Stroke Drive, A World of Violence and Confusion, Tokyo, Japan
1987 Portrait Z, Ohme City Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1986 A Portrait of Principles, Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo, Japan
1985 Geography: A Peninsula, Shinwa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1983 O JUN’s Drawing, Gallery View, Tokyo, Japan
1982 Gazing and Seeing, Gallery Taimei, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022 Collection 2: Our Life, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Five Stories about Art – It’s always there, Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan
2021 Tokyo Biennale 2020/2021 (O JUN exhibition title: Painting and eyes), Otemachi Park Building, micro FOOD & IDEA market, Tokyo, Japan
Hana Atarashi / 12Flowers, art space Kimura ASK?, Tokyo, Japan
Orai, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Cinema, Daitabashi Nando/Gallery Den5, Tokyo, Japan
O JUN+ Teppei Soutome, Galleria Finarte, Aichi, Japan
One day exhibition : O JUN+KOBAYASHI Masato, Toride Campus, Tokyo University of Arts, Ibaraki, Japan
Otaku-ten : O JUN+ NISHIJIMA Naoki, O JUN house, Tokyo, Japan
2020 LOOP HOLE 15Th Anniversary Chichaiino, LOOP HOLE, Tokyo, Japan
U-35, Turner Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Made in Fuchu: Twenty years of Open Studio Programs, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Takamatsu Art museum Collection + The Secrets of Techniques with O JUN, Kengo Kito & Taro Tabuchi, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Tokyo Independent 2019, Chinretsu Gallery of the Art Museum of Tokyo University of Arts, Japan
Special Exhibition: Weavers of Worlds- A century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art-, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
beyond the reasons, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Our Optics, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
Foujita in the 1940s: Tributes, Chinretsu Gallery of the Art Museum of Tokyo University of Arts, Japan
The Collection of the Takamatsu Art Museum + In Spilling Light with Chuta Kimura, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
2017 Mizunoki and Me: O Jun + Katsuhiko Hibino + Kodai Nakahara, Mizunoki Museum, Kyoto, Japan
ARTISTS’ BOOK EXHIBITION SENDAI⇄TOKYO, NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Void+, switch point, Higure17-15 cas, Gallery TURNAROUND, LOOP HOLE, Tokyo, Miyagi, Japan
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso., The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Gehin Exhibition, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan
Impacts! Ⅱ Huruu, Gallery Ohrin, Ibaraki, Japan
Collection Exhibition, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
2016 Complex Topography: Movement and Change,Special Place of Scenic Beauty Ritsurin Garden, Sanuki Mingeikan, Shōkō Shōreikan and surrounding area, Kagawa, Japan
Gigmenta: Konotoshide Megasamete, HIGURE 17-15 cas, Tokyo, Japan
O JUN Chikanobu Ishida 14 days 119years later, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Itazu Litho-Grafik -Footprints-, Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa, Japan
18th Domani-Tomorrow Plus, Arts Chiyoda 3331, Tokyo, Japan
「Impacts! 勢み」, Gallery Ohrin, Ibaraki, Japan
2015 Further towards the future, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore
Complex Topography: The Garden, Special Place of Scenic Beauty Ritsurin Garden, Kagawa, Japan
Gaka no uta, Shijin no e, Hiratsuka City Museum, Kanagawa, Japan and other 4 venues
Nouvelle ere Japon, Gallery Tamenaga, Paris, France
20th Anniversary Exhibition : GROWING, Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
MOT Collection: Collection Becoming, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2014 MOT Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Bishoujo: Young Pretty Girls in Art History, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan
Michikusa, GENDAI HEIGHTS Gallery Den & ST, Tokyo, Japan
「Impacts! 勢み」Japan Art Festival, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art × Mizuma Art Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2013 MOT Collection – Afterimages of Tomorrow, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
10th Tokyo Mac (Macnouchi), NISHIJIMA Naoki + O JUN, Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
2012 Art and Air, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan
ZIPANGU: The Surge of Japanese Contemporary Art, Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan (traveled to: Takasaki Museum of Art, Gunma; Hachinohe City Museum of Art, Aomori; Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita, Japan 2013)
TRANS ARTS TOKYO, Former Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, Japan
2011 Awagami and Print Expression 2011, Bumpodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
ZIPANGU - 31 spirited artists cutting through new territories of Japanese contemporary art, Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo, Japan (traveled to: Takashimaya Osaka, Japan and Takashimaya Kyoto, Japan)
OUTRAGE 2011, Bumpodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Taro or Alice, Turner Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2010 The moment - O JUN, Imi Knoebel, KAMOBENINAGASHIISHI, MURASAKIISHI, KANRANSYA, Tokyo, Japan
Garden of Painting – Japanese Art of the 00s, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Artist File 2010: The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Enter here - what do you see?, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
TORA・TORA・TORA, Galerie Clemens Thimme, Karlsruhe, Germany
14th Vilnius Painting Triennial, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilinius, Lithuania (traveled to: Estonia, Latvia)
Painting Thoughts, Art Plaza, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2009 O JUN + Kei Kato, (Bigakko Annual Report 2009), The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Views of IKAI - Selected Works from the Current Painting Department of Tokyo University of the Arts, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University Of The Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Keiren-shi (with MORI Junichi), MIZUMA ACTION, Tokyo, Japan
2007 O JUN + Hideo Togawa, Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa, Japan
2008 Don’t move! Fruits, Dishes, Ship, and Hiroyuki Kunimue, LOOP HOLE, Tokyo, Japan
2006 Ero-me, Royal Salon Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
LVRFI, Studio Ono, Kanazawa, Japan
Pictronika, Hitsuji Garo, Niigata, Japan
Ero-me Kyoto, Art Zone, Kyoto, Japan
Group Show for Drawing, Spika Art, Tokyo, Japan
2005 You or It, MIZUMA ACTION, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Autorenji, PRAHA Project, Sapporo, Japan
sonosumizumimademio, Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo, Japan
matsunikoromo umekaori-hatsirinuru sirononisi, Bumpodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Minazuki, Itazu Litho-Grafik, Bumpodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Nihon-Danchi, Kitamura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Siori, Ai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Weather - Das Wetter, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Sekai-no-Mikata, Kaku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
tanritu to renritu, Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa, Japan
2002 Siori, Ai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1 Day Exhibition, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2001 S(h)itting in the mirror, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Itazu Litho-Grafik 2001, Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa, Japan
Drawing, Chinretsukan Gallery, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2000 Small Works, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
O JUN・Naoki Funakoshi, Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo, Japan
SELECTION 2000, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Perspective to Him, Gallery Art SOKO, Tokyo, Japan
100,000 Yen, Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa, Japan
1999 19.99 x 1999, Galerie de Cafe Den, Tokyo, Japan
Artists + Itazu Litho-Grafik 1999, Bumpodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
100,000 Yen, Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa, Japan
1998 HOLY GIFT vol.2 -Small Works-, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
3 Works, Gallery Tsubaki, Tokyo, Japan
The Sea and The Mountain, Gallery Art SOKO, Tokyo, Japan
Morphe ’98, @ZONE, Tokyo, Japan
100,000 Yen, Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa, Japan
1997 Hans no Niwa / Der Garten des O JUN vol.2, Gallery F.M. Schwarz, Cologne, Germany
The Flower of The Time, Gallery Art SOKO, Tokyo, Japan
Morphe ’97, Ohararyu Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Hans no Niwa / Der Garten des O JUN vol.1, Galerie de Cafe Den + FLOOR2, Tokyo, Japan
Gaze & Perspective 2, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Morphe ’96, Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo, Japan
HOLY GIFT vol.1 -Drawings-, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1995 The Present of Difference, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The View of 56 Cylinders, Xexel ZOOM, Tokyo, Japan
1994 Japan-5, Kunstraum NEUSS, Neuss, Germany
Keiko Sadakane・O JUN, Galerie UNI-KAT, Dusseldorf, Germany
1992 Holbein Acrylart Exhibition 1992, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

Public Collections

National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa, Japan
Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan

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