Yoichi Ohira
Japanese, 1946-2022
Kuwasawa Design School, Tokyo, 1969
Academy of Fine Arts, Venice, Italy, 1978
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2006 Yoichi Ohira: Art Gallery, Isetan, Tokyo, Japan
2005 Metamorphosis. Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY
A Japanese Whisper Over Venetian Glass: An Exhibition of Master Glassworks by Yoichi Ohira, Gallery Themes & Variations, London, UK
Yoichi Ohira: Art Gallery, Isetan, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Yoichi Ohira: Art Gallery, Isetan, Tokyo, Japan
Yoichi Ohira. Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY
2003 Yoichi Ohira. Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY
2002 Yoichi Ohira: A Phenomenon in Glass. Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY (catalogue)
2001 Yoichi Ohira: Vetri Veneziani di Ohira: Opacità e Trasparenze. Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY
Canti del Cuore. Fine Art Salon, Isetan, Tokyo, Japan
2000 Yoichi Ohira: Opacità e Trasparenze. Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY
Collezione: Metamorfosi. Fine Art Salon, Isetan, Tokyo, Japan
Yoichi Ohira: Formes et Sensualité. Galerie Michel Giraud, Paris, France (catalogue)
1999 Vetri Veneziani Ohira: Collezione Pasta Vitrea, Opacità e Trasparenze. Caffè Florian, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
Collezione Opacità e Trasparenze. Fine Art Salon, Isetan, Tokyo, Japan
1998 Vetri Veneziani Ohira: Collezione Pasta Vitrea. Museo Correr, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
Collezione Pasta Vitrea. Fine Art Salon, Isetan, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Collezione Pastello. Fine Art Salon, Isetan, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Vetri Veneziani Ohira: Collezione “Pastello,” Caffè Florian. Venice, Italy (catalogue)
Collezione: Vetri a Filigrana. Fine Art Salon, Isetan, Tokyo, Japan
1995 New Glass a Venezia: Vetri d’Artista in Sette Gallerie. Galleria San Nicolò, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
Dialogo con il Vetro Veneziano. Fine Art Salon, Isetan, Tokyo, Japan
1994 Dialogo con il Vetro Veneziano. Galleria San Nicolò, Venice, Italy
Vetri Veneziani di Yoichi Ohira. Fine Art Salon, Isetan, Tokyo, Japan
1993 Vetri Veneziani di Yoichi Ohira. Fine Art Salon, Isetan, Tokyo, Japan
1992 Venezia e l’Oriente: Due culture, vetri e luce a Murano di Yoichi Ohira. Museo Civico, Padua, Italy (catalogue)
Calici Veneziani di Yoichi Ohira. Fine Art Salon, Isetan, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Vetro Divino: Design del Bere in Trenta Calici Veneziani di Yoichi Ohira Palazzo Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 Venice: 3 Artists | 3 Visions, Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira, Laura de Santillana, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (catalogue)
2010 Venice: 3 Artists | 3 Visions, Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira, Laura de Santillana, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO; Naples Museum of Art, FL (catalogue)
2009 Venice: 3 Artists | 3 Visions, Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira, Laura de Santillana, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY (catalogue)
“… Fa come natura face in foco - Dante” 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice Pavilion, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
2007 One of a Kind: The Studio Craft Movement: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Vetro D’Artista: Pallazo Congressi, Madonna di Campiglio, Italy
2006 Islands of Glass, The Art of Murano Glass 1920-2005: Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
2005 Murano: Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection, Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC and The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (catalogue)
2004 The Italian Influence in Contemporary Glass: The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
EaTable Glass: Ca’Rezzonico Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Venice, Italy
Vetri nel mondo oggi: Esposizione internazionale d’arte. Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
Murano: Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, and Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (catalogue)
2003 Fragile-Laboratorio Anfora: Chiesa di S. Samuele, Venice, Italy
Murano: Glass From the Olnick Spanu Collection, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (catalogue)
2002 Glassway. Museo Archeologico Regionale, Aosta, Italy (catalogue)
2001 A Century of Design, Part IV: 1975-2000. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Murano: Vetri dalla Collezione Olnick Spanu, Spazio Oberdan, Milan Italy (catalogue)
2000 Venetian Glass: The Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu Collection, American Craft Museum, New York, NY (catalogue)
Masters in Italian Glass 1900-2000. Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY
1998 New Traditions in Glass from Venice: Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira and Laura de Santillana. Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY(catalogue)
Venezia Aperto Vetro 1998: International New Glass. Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy
1996 Venezia Aperto Vetro: International New Glass. Museo Correr and Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
1995 L’art du Verre à Murano au XXème Siècle. Passage du Ritz, Paris, France (catalogue)
Selected Museums and Public Collections
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, NY
Koganezaki Glass Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany
Microsoft Art Collection, U.S.A.
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France
Museo del Vetro, Murano, Venice, Italy
Museum of Arts & Design, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Awards
2009 Moët-Hennessy Pavilion of Art & Design, London Prize
2001 Rakow Commission awarded by the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
1987 Premio Murano “Premio Selezione” Prize
