(1965- )
1965 Born in São Paulo, Brazil
1989 Graduated from School of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, Brazil
1995 The Vision of Contemporary Art, Encouragement Award, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1995 Artist in Residence Award, TheDelfina Studio Trust, London
1996 The 4th Yokohama Biannual, Grand Prize, Sakae ward residents’ Award, Kanagawa, Japan
1997 Received a grant from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, USA
2001 Received a grant from Asian Cultural Council, Tokyo,Japan
Received a grant from Asian Cultural CouncilNew York, USA
2001 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship, New York, USA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 Paraiso, Japan House, Sāo Paulo,Brazil
The Light from the Forest, Keumsan Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2016 The World is filled with Light, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Silent Ocean, Keumsan Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2014 Oscar Oiwa, 4 Times Square, New York, USA
2013 Stormy Weather, Nara Roesler Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2012 Traveling Light, Keumsan Gallery, Seoul
Traveling Light,Shibuya Hikarie CUBE,Tokyo, Japan
Traveling Light, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo,Japan
2011 After Midnight, Galeria Thomas Cohn, São Paulo, Brazil
Oscar Oiwa, National Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Oscar Oiwa, GalerieAgatheHelion, Paris,France
2009 Nest, Galeria Thomas Cohn, São Paulo, Brazil
Bathtub Man, Connoisseur Contemporary, Hong Kong, China
Asian Kitchen, BTAP, Beijing,China
The Dreams of a Sleeping World, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
2008 Ophelio, Galeria Thomas Cohn, São Paulo,Brazil
The Dreams of a Sleeping World, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo,Japan
The Dreams of a Sleeping World, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima,Japan
2007 Fire Shop, P.P.O.W., New York, USA
Gardening with Oscar Oiwa, Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona, Tempe, USA
2006 Caos, Galeria Thomas Cohn, São Paulo, Brazil
Invisible Reflex, Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art, Shizuoka, Japan
Gardening with Oscar Oiwa, Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona, USA
New Works, Frederic Giroux Galerie, Paris, France
2005 New Works, Frederic Giroux Galerie, Paris, France
2004 Fog, Cloud & Flower, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Monte Pascoal, Galeria Thomas Cohn, São Paulo,Brazil
Boa Viagem, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan
2002 Landscape from a Cow’s View, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Landscape from a Cow’s View, Daiichi Seimei South Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Noah Boat, Frederic Giroux Galerie, Paris, France
2001 Frontier, Gallery Caption, Gifu, Japan
2000 The Garden of Eden, Centre for Contemporary Art, Leiden, Netherland
The Garden of EdenGallery Montenay-Giroux, Paris,France
1999 Arca de Noé, Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo, Japan
1998 The Garden of Eden, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Via Crucis-Part I, Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Transpacific Borderlands, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Transpacific Borderlands,Japan Alps Art Festival, Nagano, Japan
2016 Collection 2-Diary, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa,Japan
Collection 2-DiarySetouchiTriennale 2016, Ogijima,Japan
Collection 2-DiaryShodoshima, Kagawa,Japan
2015 A Bird’s–eye View of the World, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Rokko Meets Art, Rokko Mountain area, Hyogo,Japan
2014 Le Printemps de Haute Corrèze, Abbaye Saint André-Centre d’art contemporainMeymac, France
Land of Sunlight –Oscar Oiwa and Japanese-Brazilian Artists, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi,Japan
CidadePolitica, sala de arte Santander, São Paulo, Brazil
2013 Collection 2-Diary Shodoshima, Kagawa, Japan
2011 Group 1965 We are boys, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
Group 1965 We are boysThe National Cultural-Art Museum, Art Arsenal, Kiev,Ukraine
2010 Japanese Brazilian Artists from the Akagawa Collection, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo
Collection 2-Diary Shodoshima, Kagawa, Japan
Selected Publication, solo exhibition catalog
2016 The Creation of the World, by Oscar Oiwa, Kyuryudo Art Publising, Tokyo, Japan
2008 Painting in the Age of Globalization, by Oscar Oiwa, GendaiKikakushitsu Publishers, Tokyo, Japan
Oscar Oiwa-The Dreams of a Sleeping World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Oscar Oiwa-The Dreams of a Sleeping WorldFukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima,Japan
2006 Gardening with Oscar Oiwa, Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona, USA
2000 ART&ist,by Oscar Oiwa, GendaiKikakushitsu, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Commission Work, Public Art
2017Bosque, Embassy of Brazil in Japan, Tokyo,Japan
Island Road, Shodoshima International Hotel, Kagawa,Japan
2013 The 47th Montereux Jazz Festival, Official Poster, Switzerland
2001 Vacant Lot F.C., Ogasayama Sports Park ECOPA, Shizuoka,Japan
Time Garden, OizumiKouen Station, Tokyo,Japan
2000 Feijão, Sapporo Dome, Hokkaido, Japan
1996 Tree Portrait, Hongodai Station, Kanagawa,Japan
1995 Sendai Fish, Tree Circle, Miyagi Yume-Messe, Miyagi,Japan
1994 Urban Fossil, FARET Tachikawa,Tokyo, Japan
1988 First Immigrant to Land, Liberdade Station, CompanhiaMetropolitana de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Selected Public collection
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona, USA
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo, São Paulo,Brazil