Since its inception, Ota Fine Arts has promoted various Japanese artists, including internationally acclaimed Yayoi Kusama, and has been expanding the variety of its artists and their works. Ranging from painting to sound and video art, sculpture, installation, performance art and crafts, the gallery represents a variety of highly capable and unique artists. While Ota Fine Arts continues to support its represented artists, it also strives to provide opportunities to up and coming talents. In September 2012, the gallery opened a new space in Singapore’s vibrant art-complex Gillman Barracks. With this new branch, Ota Fine Arts is hoping to continue forging rich collaborations with new artists from the region. Thus, over the last few years, the primary vision of Ota Fine Arts has evolved from its earlier focus on Japan to an expansion into Asia as a larger and more complex regional whole. The gallery aims to bring more regional character and commonality within the “Asian cultural belt” — a broad area that spans the Middle East to South, Southeast and East Asia — into its programmes. In an effort to represent the manifold regional qualities of this vast belt, the gallery has held exhibitions with Korean, Chinese, Bangladeshi, Indian, Indonesian, Singaporean and Iranian artists. Ota Fine Arts strongly hopes these programmes will convey new aspects, contexts and platforms for contemporary Asian art today.
