EMI OTAGURO

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Emi Otaguro was born in 1980 in Fukuoka, Japan, and currently lives and works in Aichi. She received her B.F.A. in Painting from Tokyo Zokei University and her M.F.A. in oil painting from the Tokyo National University of Art and Music. Otaguro received a Japanese Government Oversea Research Program Grant from the Agency for Cultural Affairs and lived and worked in Berlin, Germany, from March 2019.

Emi has presented her work in: "Cat's Narrow Road" at Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi; solo show "the reverie" at KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo, 2022; "DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow 2021" at The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2021; solo show "MESA" at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2021; "MAT, Nagoya Studio Project vol.6" at Minatomachi POTLUCK BUILDING, Aichi, 2020; “Studio Exhibition” at Satoshi Ohno Studio, Yamanashi, 2018; "THE ECHOl" at Takasaki City Gallery, Gunma, 2016; "project N 55" at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, 2014; "TRICK-DIMENSION, curated by Daisuke Ohba" at tolot: heuristic SHINONOME, Toko, 2013; and "YON-SHIKI, curated by O JUN" at youkobo artspace, Tokyo, 2010. She has also received the winner of the Allotment Travel Award 2016 and the grand prize for the Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2008.

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(From left) sun bath 2020, Inkjet print, semigloss photo paper, 304 x 403.2 cm; Composition(each), sun bath 2019-20, Inkjet print, semigloss photo paper, 201.6 x 152 cm; sun bath 2020, ceramic clay, 6 x 34 x 20 cm; sun bath 2020, ceramic clay, 9 x 23 x 13 cm; sun bath 2020, ceramic clay, 20.5 x 35.5 x 18 cm; sun bath 2020, ceramic clay, 7.5 x 30.5 x 14.5 cm
Exhibition view, “DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow” Exhibition 2021, 2021, The National Art Center, Tokyo / Japan

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Composition(each), sun bath 2019-20, Inkjet print, semigloss photo paper, 201.6 x 152 cm
Exhibition view, “DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow” Exhibition 2021, 2021, The National Art Center, Tokyo / Japan

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(From left), the waiting dogs 2020, single channel video, 17 min. 11 sec. & napkins 2020, paper napkin, marker, 33 x 33 cm
Exhibition view, “DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow” Exhibition 2021, 2021, The National Art Center, Tokyo / Japan

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napkins 2020, paper napkin, marker, 33 x 33 cm

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napkins 2020, paper napkin, marker, 33 x 33 cm

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the waiting dogs 2020, single channel video, 17 min. 11 sec.

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sun bath 2020, Chewing gum, cardboard, frame, 47.4 x 60 cm

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humid visibility 2019-20, collage, quail egg , waxed paper, inkjet print, cloth, colored paper, 31.8 x 25 cm

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sun bath 2020, ceramic clay, 7.5 x 30.5 x 14.5 cm

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(From left), sun bath 2020, ceramic clay, 9 x 23 x 13 cm & sun bath 2020, ceramic clay, 20.5 x 35.5 x 18 cm
Exhibition view, “DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow” Exhibition 2021, 2021, The National Art Center, Tokyo / Japan

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sun bath 2019, Inkjet print, semigloss photo paper, 21 x 28cm
Chewing gum on the cat

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sun bath 2019, Inkjet print, semigloss photo paper, 201.6 x 152cm
Chewing gum on the cat

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sun bath 2019, Inkjet print, semigloss photo paper, 201.6 x 152cm
Chewing gum on the cat

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sun bath 2019, Inkjet print, semigloss photo paper, 201.6 x 152cm
Chewing gum on the cat

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sun bath 2019, Inkjet print, semigloss photo paper, 201.6 x 152cm
Chewing gum on the cat

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sun bath 2019, Inkjet print, semigloss photo paper, 201.6 x 152cm
Chewing gum on the cat

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sun bath 2019, Inkjet print, semigloss photo paper, 48 x 36cm
Chewing gum on the cat

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sun bath 2019, Inkjet print, semigloss photo paper, 21 x 28cm
Chewing gum on the cat

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sun bath 2019, Inkjet print, semigloss photo paper, 21 x 28cm
Chewing gum on the cat

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sun bath 2019, inkjet print, 201.6 x 152cm

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sun bath 2020, ceramic clay, 25 × 80 × 20cm

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sun bath 2020, ceramic clay, 50 × 70 × 20cm

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sun bath 2020, ceramic clay, 40 × 75 × 25cm

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sun bath 2020, ceramic clay, 78 × 78 × 28cm

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Mesa 2020 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

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Mesa 2020 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

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Mesa 2020 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

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Mesa 2020 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

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Mesa 2020 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

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Mesa 2020 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

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sun bath 2020, chewing gum, cardboard frame, 39.5 x 50cm

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Mesa 2020 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

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Faust 2020, branch selected by dog, 20cm

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Mesa 2020 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

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Mesa 2020 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

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Mesa 2020 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

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Mesa 2020 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

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napkins 2019, marker on paper napkins, 33 × 33cm

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napkins 2019, marker on paper napkins, 33 × 33cm

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napkins 2019, marker on paper napkins, 33 × 33cm

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napkins 2019, marker on paper napkins, 33 × 33cm

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napkins 2019, marker on paper napkins, 33 × 33cm

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Mesa 2020 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

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Mesa 2020 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

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Mesa 2020 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

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Mesa 2020 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

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Studio view 2019, 2020, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

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Studio view 2019, 2020, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

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Studio view 2019, 2020, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

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Studio view 2019, 2020, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

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Fruit not to be able to swallow
2015, collage, quail egg, chicken egg, waxed paper, hologram seat, folding paper, picture, 13 × 18 cm

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Pocket of the fool
2015, collage, quail egg, chicken egg, waxed paper, picture, socks, 15.2 × 19.7 cm

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omen 2014, collage, quail egg, waxed paper, 19.6 × 15 cm

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omen 2014, collage, quail egg, waxed paper, 22.2 × 20.9 cm

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sun bath 2010, gum, cardboard, 19 × 9 cm
sun bath 2013, gum, cardboard, 14 × 12 cm

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sun bath 2013, gum, cardboard, 28.8 × 36.7 cm

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sun bath 2010-2013, gum, cardboard, 15.5-24 × 4-16 cm

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running coat 2013, gum, cardboard, 30 × 20 cm

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sun bath 2016, lambda print, 35.2 x 26.3 cm

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sun bath 2016, lambda print, 35.2 x 26.3 cm/p>

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drawing 2016, wood, plaster, gel medium, black gesso, 21 x 14.9 cm

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drawing 2016, wood, plaster, gel medium, black gesso, 23.6 x 23.6 cm

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Paradise at around 2am 2013, paint on galvanized sheet, 183 × 91.8 cm

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stones fall 2013, paint on galvanized sheet, 91.8 × 183 cm

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a hawk looking for his own shadow and a chicken resting under the shadow
2013, black drawing paper, plaster, glue, 218.3 × 157.6 cm

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a hawk looking for his own shadow and a chicken resting under the shadow
2013, black drawing paper, plaster, glue, about 40 × 50 cm

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niwatoribito 2004, acrylic on PVC tarpaulin, 180 × 273 cm

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niwatoribito 2004, acrylic on PVC tarpaulin, 220 × 180 cm

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untitled 2005, cardboard, 10 x 20 cm

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kappa 2008, cardboard, 10 x 20 cm