Name: YOSHIN OGATA
Birth: 1948 Born in Miyakonojo, Japan.
Country: Japan
Exhibition: 1969 Tokyo, Shinseisaku-kyoukai,first sculpture exhibition
1971~75 Studied Sculpture at the National Fine Art Academy, Milan, Florence, Rome, Carrara in Italy.
1973 Florence, personal exhibition of sculpture in the Foreign Artists hall of Strozzi Palace.
1980 Osaka, Daimaru Gallery, first personal exhibition in Japan.
1983 Mechelen, Belgium, personal exhibition at De Zalm Museum patronized by the Japanese Embassy.
1985 Genoa, personal exhibition, titled Water imprint at Studio Bonifacio, associated with Japan Future avant guarde organized by the City of Genoa and the Japan Foundation of Tokyo.
1986 Monumental works with Carrara white marble in Soltau and Bliescastel, West-Germany.
14 th Biennale del bronzetto Padua, Italy.
1990 Personal exhibition, Amarillerys Gallery, Bruxelles.
Personal exhibition Art Museum Ginza, Tokyo.
1991 Personal exhibition Daimaru Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1994 Personal exhibition Cau-Sera Gallery, Tossa de Mar, Spain.
Personal exhibition Akasaka Yu Gallery,Tokyo
1999 Personal exhibition Artexpo, Art Dama Galery, Barcelona, Spain
Personal exhibiton Venus Gallery, Hualien, Taiwan.
2000 Personal exhibition in lounge of the Japanese consulate Milan, Italy.
2003 International Sculpture Exhibition,Pagani Foundation Modern Art Museum Castellanza, Italy.
2004 Solo Exhibition in Venezia Correr Palace, Rumanian Institute of Cultnre & Humanistic Reseach, curator Claudio Giumelli.
2005 Individual Exhibition La Galerie de la Cathedrale Fribourg, Switzerland
2007 Monumental Sculpture, title Mindscape, Artist in residence, Coral Springs Museum of Art, Florida, USA
2007 Individual Exhibition Foundation Abbazia di Rosazzo, Udine, Italy.
2008 Realized monumental sculpture FIVE RINGS for the Beijing Olympic Park, China.
General: Member of Rome A.I.A.M. Academy (Italy)
Member of Carrara TORRE Academy (Italy)
Member of Florence Fine Art Academy of Drawing (Italy)
Prize: 1976 1st Prize Brunelleschi International Sculpture Concur, Florence.
1979 1st Prize International Sculpture Symposium, Carrara,
Italy.
1987 1st Prize International Sculpture Symposium, France,
Digne les Bains
1991 Gran Prix Cosmos Common, Iizuka, Japan.
1992 Architecture and Culture Prize, Kagoshima, Japan.
1995 1st Prize for Sculpture Etruriarte, Venturina, Italy.
1995 Culture Prize, Miyakonojo, Japan
1998 Gran Prix for Land Mark Project, Hualien, Taiwan.
2000 1st Prize Sulmona Prize, International Contemporary Art exhibition, Sulmona, Italy.
2007 Outstanding Award of sculpture Beijing Olympic Sculpture Park, China.
2008 Culture Prize of Fine Art Academy of Torre, Carrara Italy