FIG.
EXHIBITION
EXHIBITION
SHIZUKA OKADA
Born in 1987 in Gunma Prefecture and currently based in Kyoto, Shizuka Okada studied ceramics in the department of craft and industrial design at Musashino Art University, Tokyo, and at the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main. She is known for her glazed ceramic objects that combine animal, plant, and other motifs drawn from everyday life with abstract elements. This solo exhibition will present a selection of new ceramic sculptures by the artist.
VENUE
VENUE
FIG.
- A5
- Otsuka
Fig. is an artist-run space founded in Kita-Otsuka in 2017. Organized on a project basis, its exhibition program features both local and international artists and is often developed in collaboration with other art spaces from Japan and abroad. Past exhibitions include David Ostrowski, “Leeres Wasser (Anti Drawings)” (2023); Umico Niwa, “My Life Inside a Shoe (the phantom cricket)” (2023), organized with XYZ collective; “Drawing Fever I: Narrative, on-going” (2022); Nicolás Guagnini and Shizuka Okada, “Interference” (2021), organized with Galerie Max Mayer; Hannah Weinberger “wedidntwanttoleave.live” (2020), curated by Fitzpatrick Gallery with the Performance Agency; Cobra, “The Museum” (2019); and Shizuka Okada, “Slender and Long My Whistle” (2018).
