Tomie Ohtake

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A memorial opened to the public by Emperor Hirohito in 2008 to celebrate 100 years of Japanese immigration to Brazil
Tomie Ohtake in front of her sculpture at the Universidade de Sao Paulo / Brazil
Tomie Ohtake receives the Medal for Cultural Merit, 2006

Tomie Ohtake ( Japanese 大竹 富 江 Ōtake Tomie ; born November 21, 1913 in Kyoto Japan ; † February 12, 2015 in São Paulo ) was a Japanese-Brazilian painter and sculptor.

life and work

Ohtake traveled to Brazil in 1936 to visit a brother and was unable to return to Japan due to World War II. She settled in São Paulo with her husband Ushio Ohtake and began painting in 1951 after visiting the artist Keisuke Sugano's studio . In 1961 she took part in the São Paulo Biennale, in 1972 in the Prints section of the Venice Biennale and in 1978 in the Tokyo Biennale. She took part in numerous international biennial exhibitions, in Venice, Havana, Cuenca and eight editions of the São Paulo Biennale . At the end of the eighties she created sculptures for public spaces. Her work has been shown in several Brazilian cities, but particularly in the state of São Paulo. In 2001 the Instituto Tomie Ohtake opened, showing exhibitions of contemporary art, architecture and design and aiming to preserve Ohtake's legacy. Ohtake's work is represented in permanent collections worldwide, including the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo ; M + , Hong Kong ; Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York ; MASP, Art Museum of São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo; MAM-SP, Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo; MAM-RJ, Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro; MAC-USP, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade in São Paulo ; MAC-Niterói, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói , Niterói ; Collection Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Caracas ; Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo; and Tate Gallery , London. Ohtake is the mother of the architects Ruy Ohtake and Ricardo Ohtake .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1957: Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM), São Paulo
  • 1959: Galeria de Arte das Folhas, São Paulo
  • 1961: Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM), São Paulo
  • 1964: Galeria São Luís, São Paulo
  • 1965: Galeria de Arte Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro
  • 1968: Galeria Cosme Velho, São Paulo
  • 1969: Associação dos Amigos do Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo
  • 1970: Galeria Aki, São Paulo
  • 1971: Galeria Mainline, Brasília
  • 1972: Galeria Cosme Velho, São Paulo
  • 1974: Galeria de Arte Global, São Paulo
  • 1976: Graffiti Galeria de Arte, Rio de Janeiro
  • 1979: Galeria Grifo, São Paulo
  • 1983: Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM), São Paulo
  • 1983: Caesar Park Hotel, Fortaleza; Salão Negro do Senado Federal, Brasília
  • 1983: Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo
  • 1984: Paulo Figueiredo Galeria de Arte, Brasília
  • 1985: Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo
  • 1987: Galeria Thomas Cohn Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro
  • 1991: Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo

Awards

  • 1988: Rio Branco Order on the 80th anniversary of Japanese immigration to São Paulo
  • 2006: Order for Cultural Merit

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personal data
SURNAME Ohtake, Tomie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 大竹 富 江 (Japanese); Ōtake Tomie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese-Brazilian painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyoto , Japan
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 2015
Place of death São Paulo