CV
2015
Visiting Associate Professor of Osaka University of the Arts_Photography
2016
Part-time lecturer of Kyoto University of Art and Design_Creative Writing
2019
Associate Professor of Wako University, Department of Arts, Faculty of Representation Studies
Education
2013
MA in Department of Fine Arts(Photography), Academy of Arts Architecture & Design in Prague on scholarship of Czech Republic government
2011
MFA in Intermedia Art, Tokyo National University of the Arts
2008
Photo Expression College, Osaka, Photography
Issei Suda Private Photo School, Photography
2002
BA in Clinical Psychology, Kyoto Bunkyo University
Solo Exhibitions
2023
“The Other Side of the Curtain” at N project [Osaka, Japan]
“Touching the Landscape” at BLOOM GALLERY [Osaka, Japan]
2020
“Grayscale” at BLOOM GALLERY [Osaka, Japan]
2019
“Shadow in the House” at PORT ART＆DESIGN TSUYAMA [Okayama, Japan]
2018
“Shadow in the House” at BLOOM GALLERY [Osaka, Japan]
“Shadow in the House” at Lights Gallery [Nagoya, Japan]
“Shadow in the House” organized by Kyoto City University of Arts at KCUA, Archival Research Center [Kyoto, Japan]
“Shadow in the House” organized by Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music at Art Lab Aichi [Nagoya, Japan]
2017
6th EMON AWARD Grand Prix EXHIBITION “Portrait and Crowd” at EMON PHOTO GALLERY [Tokyo, Japan]
“Remembrance of Names” at BLOOM GALLERY [Osaka,Japan]
2016
“Memories and Records” at ELEKTROKARDIOGRAMM Gallery [Okayama, Japan]
“Code of Shadow” at LADS GALLERY [Osaka, Japan]
“Code of Shadow” at ozasahayashi_project, ART HOSTEL kumagusuku, KYOTOGRAPHIE KG＋ [Kyoto, Japan]
2015
“Shadow in the House #01/#02” Nikon Salon [Tokyo/Osaka, Japan]
“Hidden Memories” MUNIKAT Gallery [Germany, Munich]
2014
“The Hidden Secret of Her” Gallery UNITÉ KYOTOGRAPHIE KG＋ [Kyoto, Japan]
2013
MUNIKAT Gallery [Germany, Munich]
“Shadow in the House” Běhal Fejér Institute [Prague, Czech]
“Lost Name of Plant” at VSUP [Prague, Czech]
2012
“Shadow in the Mirror” Nikon Salon bis OSAKA [Osaka, Japan]
2011
“Shadow in the Mirror” Nikon Salon [Tokyo, Japan]
2007
BIG STONE Gallery [Osaka, Japan]
2006
Gallery R.Locus [Tokyo, Japan]
Group Exhibitions
2023
“VAVOOMVOOM!” at UM Gallery, UMPRUM [Prague, Czech]
2021
Asama International Photo Festival PHOTO KOMORO [Nagano, Japan]
Incheon Open Port International Photo & Film Festival, The 7th International University Student & Professor Photo & Film Exhibition [Incheon, Korea]
2020-2021
“Foreign Land, Same Sky” China, Japan and Korea University Photography Invitational Exhibition at Shandong University of Art & Design Museum [Jinan, China]
2020
“Daisy Chain” TOKAS Creator-in-Residence 2020 Exhibition [Tokyo, Japan]
2019
Culture City of East Asia 2019 Incheon Photography and Film Festival, Wako University [Incheon, Korea]
TOKAS Residency Open Studio [Tokyo, Japan]
2018
“Sanctuary” at LADS Gallery [Osaka, Japan]
“JAPAN PHOTO AWARD 2017 Exhibition” KYOTOGRAPHIE KG＋ at Hotel Anteroom Kyoto [Kyoto, Japan]
NEW JAPAN PHOTO 5 & JAPAN PHOTO AWARD 2017 Exhibition [Dubai, UAE]
2017
“Red Brick Gallery Photography Exhibition” at HigashikawaInternational Photo Festival [Hokkaido, Japan]
“MEMORIES AND RECORDS” at ASHIYA SCHULE [Hyogo, Japan]
“EMON AWARD 6th” at EMON photo Gallery [Tokyo, Japan]
“Showroom Collection” at BLOOM GALLERY [Osaka, Japan]
2016
“ISSP FINAL Exhibition” [Kuldiga, Latvia]
“Memory and Information” at KNOWLEDGE SALON Creative Gallery [Osaka, Japan]
“Director’s choice # 01” at BLOOM GALLERY [Osaka, Japan]
2015
“Recollect, Gaze, Material in Common” Czech-Japanese Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition at Zuiun-an, Czech Centre Tokyo [Kyoto/Tokyo, Japan]
Chelsea International Fine Art Competition at Agora Gallery [NY, US]
“Spectrum”at Bloom Gallery [Osaka, Japan]
Akira Otsubo×Hayato Nishimura Exhibition at M2 gallery [Tokyo, Japan]
TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD Exhibition at G/P + g3/ gallery [Tokyo, Japan]
2014
Hanarart “Memory Fragment— Chasing Recollection” at Former Kawamoto House [Nara, Japan]
2013
Staroměstská radnice v Praze , Prague city gallery at the Old Town Hall [Prague, Czech]
Nordart 2013 [Budeldorf, Germany]
ART SAFARI 25, Studio BUBEC [Prague, Czech]
Munikat Gallery [Munich, Germany]
2012
“Hidden River” DOX Centre for contemporary art [Prague, Czech]
“Cntrl +Save Me” Běhal Fejér Institute [Prague, Czech]
Artsemestr zima klauzura 2012 10.2. – 16.2.2012 VSUP [Prague, Czech]
2010
Master class graduate exhibition [Yokohama, Japan]
“WIP” at Museum of Tokyo National University of Art [Tokyo, Japan]
MIO PHOTO AWARD [Osaka, Japan]
FOIL Gallery [Tokyo, Japan]
“insighter” at Tokyo National University of Art [Tokyo, Japan]
2009
“No man’s Land” at French Embassy [Tokyo, Japan]
“Atlas” at Museum of Tokyo National University of Art [Tokyo, Japan]
2008
Seafront Gallery CASO [Osaka, Japan]
Events
2019
Exhibition / Performance “Shadow in the House” at Ouchidani Grand Apartments, Exhibitor : Akira Otsubo, Performer : Ai Kawase, Yuki Furukawa [Tottori, Japan]
Art Fair
2022
Hibiya OKUROJI PHOTO FAIR from BLOOM GALLERY [Tokyo, Japan]
2019
ART NAGOYA 2019 from Lights Gallery, Room 934, Hotel Nagoya Castle [Aichi, Japan]
2018
ART in PARK HOTEL TOKYO 2018 from Bloom Gallery [Tokyo, Japan]
2016
Contemporary Art Fair, Art Osaka from Bloom Gallery [Osaka, Japan]
Award
2017
Japan Photo Award [selected by Reiko Tsubaki]
6th EMON Award Grand Prix [Tokyo, Japan]
2016
KYOTOGRAPHIE, KG+ public award (ozasahayashi_project_KYOTO ART HOSTEL kumagusuku) [Kyoto, Japan]
2015
Miki Jun Inspiration Award [Japan]
Chelsea International Fine Art Competition at Agora Gallery [NY, US]
2014
Special Examiner Prize [selected by Shigeo Goto] at TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD [Tokyo, Japan]
2010
Special Examiner Prize [selected by Yasumasa Morimura] at MIO PHOTO AWARD [Osaka, Japan]
Scholarship
2016
Scholarship of Higashikawa International Photo Festival [Taiyo Onorato workshop at ISSP, Latvia]
2011-2013
Scholarship of Czech Republic government
2009
Japan Student Services Organization
Grant
2020
Subsidy for continuing support for cultural and arts activities 2020, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
2019-2020
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT). Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists, (KAKENHI). No. 19K13042
2019
Japanese Government Overseas Study Programs for upcoming artists, short-term researcher, Washington, D.C.
2018
Iwai Cosmo Securities ASK Support Fund, Arts support Kansai
2016
FUKUTAKE EDUCATION AND CULTURE FOUNDATION [ELEKTROKARDIOGRAMM Gallery exhibition]
2015
Nishieda Foundation [Czech-Japanese Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition in Kyoto]
NOMURA Foundation [MUNIKAT Gallery exhibition]
Artist-in-residence
2019
TOKAS International exchange residence
2017
Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music
Publication
2022
Akira Otsubo, Memories of Others Seen from “Requisitioned Housing”, pp. 116-126. Japan: Kyoto Writers Residency TRIVUM.
2021
Kyoji Takahash, Daido Moriyama, Go Itami, Sakiko Nomura, Akira Otsubo, Daisuke Yokota, Kenryou Gu, edited by Amana, Seven Treasures Taisho University #8, pp. 71-86. Japan: Obayashi.
2018
Akira Otsubo, The Mind Invader, Everyday collage 2012 – 2013, pp. 158 – 166, Jiři Ptaček, Aleksandra Vajd, Hynek Alt(eds.) , Pramen Source 2008 – 2016, Czech Republic: UMPRUM.
Akira Otsubo, Shadow in the House, Japan: Kyoto City University of Arts, Archival Research Center.
2017
Akira Otsubo, Shadow in the House, Japan: IMA MAGAZINE – STEP OUT! .
Akira Otsubo, Shadow in the Mirror, Germany: Max Joseph Magazine.
2015
Recollect, Gaze, Material in Common, Japan: Czech-Japanese Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition Catalog.