ARTISTS

Saburo Ota was born in Yamagata Prefecture in 1950. He graduated from the National Institute of Technology, Tsuruoka College with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1971, and began producing artwork in 1980. He has continued to create works using the motif of postage stamps, as exemplified by his SEED PROJECT, for which he mounted seeds he collected on stamp-like squares of washi, and his POST WAR series, which took up various postwar issues. His main exhibitions in recent years include OTA Sabura: I am Here (Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, 2019), MOT Collection Journals, vol. 2 (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2021), and Ota Sabura Exhibition: People Beside a Disaster (BB Plaza Museum of Art, 2022). The major awards he has received are the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Regional Cultural Merits Award and the Okayama Prefecture Cultural Award. His works have been added to the collections of museums inside and outside Japan, including the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; the Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden; and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (Seoul).