Minako Ota

Minako Ota studied traditional Japanese painting at Tama Art University in Tokyo from 1984 to 1988. After graduating with a BA, she left Japan and began studying painting conservation at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, in 1988. From 1989 to 1992 she continued her study of conservation of western paintings in the postgraduate program at the University of Cambridge, UK. After graduation she worked in the field of conservation until 2007, when she started painting full time in Moscow, Russia. Minako currently lives and works in the US. She has had exhibitions in Japan, Russia, USA, and France.

1989-1992 The Hamilton Kerr Institute, the University of Cambridge.
Graduated with Diploma and Certificate in Painting Restoration. Cambridge, UK.
1988-1989 Pre-conservation curriculum at Virginia Commonwealth University, VA, USA
1984-1988 Japanese Painting at Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan. Graduated with BA.

Selected Exhibitions:

2020 International Juried Exhibition: Beauty beyond Boarders at National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

2017 Solo Exhibition: Fire Rooster and His Friends at Art-Constantis, Moscow, Russia

2012 Solo Exhibition: Long Way Home at All-Russia Museum of Decorative and Applied Art, Moscow

2011 Exhibition: Home Away From Home at The Hammond Museum, NY

2009 Solo exhibition at Annam Heritage, Paris

2009 Audubon Artists 67th Annual Show at the Salmagundi Club, NY