Education
  
2002 Grant from ACC-Asian Cultural Council Tokyo / New York.

Grant from Simon Guggenheim Foundation, New York.		  
1996 The Krasner-Pollock Foundation Grant, New York.
1995 The Delfina Studio Trust One Year Residence Award, London.
1989 Graduated from São Paulo University, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, São Paulo.

One Person Exhibitions
  
2008 Thomas Cohn Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.

The Dreams of a Sleeping World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan. Traveling: Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art

Teo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
  

2007

Fireshop, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

 
2006 Caos, Thomas Cohn Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil

Gardening with Oscar Oiwa: New Paintings, ASU Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe, Arizona

Invisible Reflex: 1993-2006 Retrospective, Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art, Shizouka, Japan

Works on Paper, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
2005

Pooch, Thomas Cohn Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.

Frederic Giroux Gallery, Paris, France.		  
2004 Fog, Cloud & Flower, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Playback Film, Gallery Caption, Gifu, Japan 		 
2003 Monte Pascoal, Thomas Cohn Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil  
2002 Landscape from a Cow’s View, Fuji Televisin Gallery/Daiichi Seimei Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Noah Boat, Frederic Giroux Gallery, Paris, France 		 
2001 Frontier, Gallery Caption, Gifu, Japan  
2000 Gallery Montenay Giroux, Paris, France

Masterpieces, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

The Garden of Eden, Centre of Contemporary Art, Leiden, The Netherlands 		 
1999 Gallery Montenay Giroux, Paris, France  
1998 The Garden of Eden, The Royal Ueno Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1997/98 Via Crucis, Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo, Japan		  
1997 Crow's Nest, Artium Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan  
1996 New Works, Dai-ichi Seimei Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.  
1995 Divina Commedia, Skydoor Art Place Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan

Flower, Yokohama Museum of Art /Art Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan		  

Selected Group Exhibitions
  

2006

A Muse Land 2007: Beautiful Dreamer, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan

Big City Fall, P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY

PULSE Art Fair, P·P·O·W, Miami, FL

20 Art from  Last 20 Year, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan

SP Arte 2006, Sao Paulo Art Fair, Thomas Cohn Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Arte BA 2006, Buenos Aires Art Fair, Thomas Cohn Gallery, Buenos Aires, Brazil

PULSE NY, P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY 		 
2005

Lampa, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ.

Over the Nature, Himeji City Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan.

40x40x40, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, South Korea.

Arte BA, Thomas Cohn stand, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Sight-cruising, Marugame Genichiro Museum of Art, Marugame, Japan.

Permanent Collection Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan 		 
2004

Japan Art Now, KIAF-Korea International Art Fair, Seoul, South Korea.

Arteamericas The Latin American Fair, Thomas Cohn Gallery booth, Miami, FL.

VOCA 1994-2003, Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan.

International Peace Exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul, South Korea.

  
2003

Boa Viagem, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan.

Japan: Rising, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida.

Travelling: Towards the Border, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan.

  
2002

Here is the Museum, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan.

Cyclinal Art Site, Oita Prefectural Museum of Art, Oita, Japan.		  
2001

Vision, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Aichi, Japan.

Modern from Sumida, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan.

In Search of Form, Pusan Municipal Art Museum, Pusan, South Korea.		  
2000

Vacant Lot, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Aichi, Japan.

Echigotsumari Art Triennial, Niigata, Japan.

The Gift to Hope, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan.		  
1999

Voice from Tokyo, Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo, Japan.

HOT AIR, Shizuoka Convention & Arts Center, Shizuoka, Japan.

Museum walk, Workshop/exhibition, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan.

Art is Fun: Angelic, Devilish, or Both, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan. 		 
1998

90th Year of Japanese Immigration in Brazil, touring exhibition: Ipatinga/Belo Horizonte/Brasilia/Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil.

Michelin Contemporary Art Competition, Bologne, France.

Voice from Tokyo, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany/Espace Flon, Lausagne,
Switzerland.

Osaka Triennale ’98-sculpture, Mydome Osaka, Osaka, Japan.

  
1997 Voice from Tokyo, Galeria Metropolitana de Barcelona, Spain.  
1996

Delfina Summer Exhibition, The Delfina Studio Trust, London, England.

4th Yokohama Biennale, Yokohama, Grand Prize, Kanagawa, Japan.

Osaka Triennale ‘96, Osaka, Japan.

Contemporary Art Society Market, Royal Festival Hall, London, England.

Nipo-brasileiros Contemporaneos, MASP São Paulo Art Museum, São Paulo, Brazil. 		 
1995

VOCA 95- Vision of Contemporary Art, Encouragement Award, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan.                        

 
1991 21st International São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil.  

Commissioned Works
 
2006

Shadow Cat meet with Light Rabbit, Sato Hospital, Aichi, Japan

Birthday Card, JR Sapporo Station, Sapporo, Japan		  
2005 Helena, JR Sapporo Station, Sapporo, Japan.  
2002 South Entrance Wall, Florence Village, Akita, Japan.  
2001

Ogasayama Sports Park ECOPA, Shizuoka, Japan.

Ooizumi Kouen station, Tokyo, Japan.

Group Home Sala, Florence Village, Akita, Japan.

  
2000

Sapporo Dome project, Sapporo, Japan.

Echigotsumari Art Triennial project, Niigata, Japan.

  
1996

Hongodai station project, Kanagawa, Japan.

  
1995

Miyagi Yumesse project, Miyagi Japan.

  
1994

FARET Tachikawa project, Tokyo, Japan.

  


Museum Collections

Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan.
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan.
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan.
Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan.
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona.

  


Selected Bibliography

2007 Koplos, Janet, “Oscar Oiwa at P.P.O.W,” Art in America. December 2007.

Laudanno, Claudia, “Oscar Oiwa,” Art Nexus. No. 63 Vol 6. January 2007.
2006

Dagen, Philippe, ”Satio Oiwa ou la revanche d´une nature méprisée,” Le Monde.
January 2006.

2004

Clouds, Smoke, and Flowers, Exhibition catalogue, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo.
2003

Monte Pascoal, Exhibition catalogue, Thomas Cohn Gallery, São Paulo.
1998

Via Crucis, Exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo.