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

2025 “Seeing Flowers, Seeing TV, Seeing a Cup”
2024 “A Room with Paintings” void+, Tokyo
“O JUN” Galleria Finarte, Aichi
2023 “Kienaishi : O JUN + FUNAKI Mika” HIGURE 17-15 cas, Tokyo
“E to EN/pictures and borders”Yubido, Tokyo
2022 "Paint-TENGU: Shigeru Hasegawa and O JUN", Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa, Japan
2021 “Three works” NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo
“O JUN+ Teppei Soutome” Galleria Finarte, Aichi
“Falling woman” Gallery Kido Press, Tokyo
“Eyes vs Painting” VOU, Kyoto
“One day exhibition : O JUN+KOBAYASHI Masato”(March 26, 2021) Toride Campus, Tokyo University of Arts, Ibaraki
“Otaku-ten : O JUN+ NISHIJIMA Naoki” O JUN house, Tokyo
2019 Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
“Can’t be what it looks like- O JUN×Hans Benda” Galleria Finarte, Aichi
2017 “SEMEGU O JUN×TANADA Koji”, Itami City Museum of Art, Hyogo
“Hottamru Biyori Part 2 -O JUN & Yoshikai Nao”, Former Minato Darmitary of Nagoya customs, Aichi
“O JUN”, Galleria Finarte, Aichi
2016 “Hottamru Biyori -O JUN & Yoshikai Nao”, Minatomachi POTLUCK BUILDING Exhibition Space,

Aichi
“O JUN Matsui Chie”, ozasa_kyoto
“Engawa no Tachibanashi O JUN+Matui Chie”, ozasahayashi_project, Kyoto
“A dove flying away, I am surprised”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
“Manmanchan An”, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre
“O JUN-Junko Shinajina-“, Void+, Tokyo
2015 “O JUN – Kamizumo”, Kido Press, Tokyo
2014 “DaDa-co”, Roppongi Hills A/D Gallery, Tokyo
“O JUN & Hideo TOGAWA” Galleria Finarte, Aichi
2013 “O JUN – KAKUCO”, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo
“Sannojyo’s Dream”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
“The 10th Tokyo Mac (Macnouchi) NISHIJIMA Naoki + O Jun”, Nizayama Forest Art Museum,Toyama
2011 “Love and Forest”, Gallery Kart, Tokyo
“O JUN”, Galleria Finarte, Aichi
2010 “Stars Know Best”, KIDO Press Inc., Tokyo
“Mt. O JUN”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
2009 “Keiren-shi (with MORI Junichi)”, Mizuma Action, Tokyo
“O JUN+Kei Kato (Bigakko annual report 2009)”, The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo, Tokyo
“EDNOM OLOVKOM-from a pencil”, O3ONE, Belgrade, Serbia
2008 “I AM O JUN”, J・CHEN Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
“O JUN”, Galleria Finarte, Aichi
“Eyes, in front of” (Live painting), Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo
2007 “OJUN + Hideo Togawa”, Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa
“O JUN”, Gallery Den .ST, Tokyo
“O JUN”, Youkobo ART SPACE, Tokyo
“YUEN”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
2006 “touzainanbokunokoko・nishi”, ON GALLERY, Osaka
“touzainanbokunokoko・kita”, think garden, Hokkaido
2005 “You or It (O JUN×TANADA Koji)” , Mizuma Action, Tokyo
“DRAWING displayed by O JUN”, DESPERADO, Tokyo
“O JUN – Mijukunohito”, Void+, Tokyo
“ O JUN: All Lithographs”, La Galeria de Artelibre, Osaka
2003 “Weather- Das Wetter (Hans Benda×O JUN) ”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
“Recent Works”, Koji Ogura Gallery, Aichi
2002 “O JUN”, Mixed Media Gallery, Sizuoka
“Pekapeka-Doji”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
“Pekapeka-Doji”, ON GALLERY, Osaka
“Recent Works 27 O JUN”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2001 “A Stranger Calls Another Stranger”, GalleryαM, Tokyo
“O JUN”, T&S Gallery, Tokyo
2000 “O JUN・Naoki Funakoshi”, Toki no Wasuremono, Tokyo
“O JUN”, Taniyama no Koya, Wakayama
“O JUN”, Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa
1999 “O JUN”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
“Emotional Education”, ON GALLERY, Osaka
“1990-1994”, Gallery FLOOR2, Tokyo
“19.99×1999 O Jun + Yoji Matsumura”, Galerie de Cafe Den, Tokyo
1998 “Morphe ’98 -O JUN + Keishin Nakaseko”, Azone + Associates, Tokyo
“The Sea and The Mountain: HANS BENDA+ O JUN”, Gallery Art SOKO, Tokyo
“FLOWER・TV・CUP”, Soh Gallery, Tokyo
“O JUN’s Drawing”, Galerie de Cafe Den, Tokyo
“Army of Her”, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
“Criterium 33 O JUN”, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
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
1997 “Hans no Niwa /Der Garten des O JUN vol.2”, Gallery F.M. Schwarz, Koln, Germany
1996 “Gekitsuiou”, “Shusui”, Galerie de Cafe Den, Tokyo
“The ACE”, Galerie de Cafe Den, Tokyo
“a Plan”, Soh Gallery, Tokyo
“Hans no Niwa/der Garten des O JUN vol.1”, Galerie de Cafe Den+FLOOR2, Tokyo
1994 “Keiko Sadakane・O JUN”, Galerie UNI-KAT, Dusseldorf, Germany
1993 “ O JUN : NOTEN”, Soh Gallery, Tokyo
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

2025 “Happened in 2025 O JUN+Ishihda Takashi+Sato Naoki” Monotokotonosha, Tokyo
“Tokyo Untitled Shanghai” Art Complex Center, Tokyo
MOT Collection 30th Anniversary Exhibition”Nine Profiles: 1935→2025” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
“Godzilla The Art Exhibition” Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo
“Shiroi” The White, Tokyo
2024 “OubaiTouri・Risshiginkyo (桜梅桃李・栗柿銀杏)” The Ueno Royal Museum Gallery, Tokyo
“New balance” Daitabashi Nando/gallery DEN5, Tokyo
“Lakes and Adolescence (mizuumi to shishunki)” BackPackBooks, Tokyo
“O’s Paintings and Mari Ota’s Paintings: A Two-Person Exhibition” Art Room 1803, Aichi
“Rai-Zen-Da” EKA Kunsthalle Trier, Germany
“ZIPANGU: Contemporary artists who have run through the Heisei era”, Saga Prefectural Art Museum travelled to Hiroshima Museum of Art, Japan
“A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
“ASTER NEW OPEN Exhibition by 3 curators: Curator x Contemporary Art” ASTER Curator Museum, Ishikawa
“Utsusu” BOOK AND SONS, Tokyo
“Hiraite Musunde” Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi
“Group Exhibition curated by O JUN “World of Bliss and Misery : Dat + ISHII Yuuka + YAMAWAKI
Kosuke + O JUN”Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
“void+stock:exhibition part1” void+gallery, void+stock, void+salon, Tokyo
2023 “Beijing・Untitled・Tokyo:Six Contemporary Artists Exhibition” MEGAFIELD, Beijing, China
“AWT FOCUS | WORLDS IN BALANCE: ART IN JAPAN FROM THE POSTWAR TO THE PRESENT” Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo
“Suga Ozu O” KOMAGOME1-14cas, Tokyo
“Noten – works form 1993 –” Art Drug Center, Miyagi
“Yearning for Visions: From Kaita Murayama and Shoji Sekine to Present Times” Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi, Kuma Museum of Art, Ehime, Hekinan City Tatsukichi Fuji Museum of Contemporary Art, Aichi
“Heiwa” Daitabashi Nando/Gallery Den5, Tokyo
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

The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Museum Haus Kasuya, Kanagawa
Okazaki Mindscape Museum, Aichi
Fuchu art Museum, Tokyo
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art

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