solo exhibition

• 2009      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• 2007      Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida
• 2005      Ise Contemporary art Museum, Mie, Japan
• 2004      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" Yamaki Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
• 2004      OSU Fairbanks Gallery, Corvallis, Oragon
• 2003      Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA
• 2003      Kittredge Gallery, The University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
• 2002      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA
• 2001      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• 2001      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" INAX Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• 2001      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" NOB Gallery, Okazaki, Japan
• 2000      Elayne Jordan Collection, Pacific Design Center, L A, CA
• 1999      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" Mitsubishi-jisho Street Gallery, Hiroshima, Japan
• 1999      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" NOB Gallery, Okazaki, Japan
• 1999      Golden West College Fine Art Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
• 1999      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" Gallery EMON, Nagoya, Japan
• 1998      L.A Artcore center, L.A, CA
• 1997      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" NOB Gallery, Okazaki, Japan
• 1996      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" Gallery EMON, Nagoya, Japan
• 1996      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" Gallery OH , Owari-Ichinomiya, Japan
• 1996      Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, Cal State University San Bernardino, CA
• 1995      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" NOB Gallery, Okazaki, Japan
• 1995      The 8th Nagoya Contemporary Art Fair,Nagoya Municipal Art Gallery, Japan
• 1994      Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 1993      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" Yamaki Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
• 1993      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" Gallery T.Y.K2, Tokyo, Japan
• 1993      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" NOB Gallery, Okazaki, Japan
• 1992      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• 1991      Space Gallery, L.A, CA
• 1991      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" NOB Gallery, Okazaki, Japan
• 1991      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" Hiro Chikashige Gallery, Okayama, Japan
• 1990      The National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
• 1990      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
• 1990      Don Soker Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
• 1989      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• 1989      Space Gallery, L.A, CA
• 1988      Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
• 1987      Space Gallery, L.A, CA
• 1987      Don Soker Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
• 1986      Space Gallery, L.A, CA
• 1986      L.A Artcore Center, L.A, CA
• 1986      Santa Monica College Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• 1986      Chabot College Art Gallery(two men), Hayward, CA
• 1985      James Tucotte Gallery, L.A, CA
• 1978      "Minoru Ohira one-man show" Daiwa Niigata Gallery, Niigata, Japan

selected group exhibition

• 2009    "Artist File 2009 - The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art" The National Art Center,
              Tokyo, Japan
• 2009    "INSIGHT/INSIDE LA " José Drudis-Biada Gallery, Mount Saint Mary’s College, USA
• 2008     "Space Gallery December 1975 – August 1995" W. Keith and Janet Kellogg
                University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, USA
• 2008     "oHIRa NOWling"- Echiko and Minoru Ohira's Sculptures and works on paper,
                Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, Bakersfield, California, USA
• 2007     “Minoru & Echiko Ohira, Nature of Materials", Davis & Cline Gallery, Ashland, Oregon
• 2007      “Resonance", Poissant Gallery, Houston, Texas
• 2006     “Two Men Show", Atagoyama Artworks, Tokyo, Japan
• 2006      “GroupExhibition", Davis & Cline Gallery, Ashland, Oregon
• 2006     “Minoru & Echiko Ohira, Materials & Nature", The Armory Center For The Arts, Pasadena, CA
• 2005      “Groupexhibition", Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center, Manfattan Beach, CA
• 2004     “Ichigo-ichie", Gallery 727, L A, CA
• 2004     “Clebrating Nature", Craft & Folk Art Museum, L A, CA
• 2004      “TwoMen Exhibition (with Marc Katano), Sabina Lee Gallery, LA , CA
• 2003      “TheInspired Vessel", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, LA, CA
• 2002      “TheWind from The West Coast", (three men show), Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
• 2002     "Global Address", USC Fisher Gallery, LA, CA
• 2002      “Sculptorsof Eastern Japan”, Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• 2002      "Of Materials and Memory”( with Echiko Ohira), El camino College Art Gallery Torrance, CA
• 2001      "Osaka Triennial2001”, Osaka, Japan
• 2001      "Thoughts of Nature( With Mark Katano)”, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA
• 1999      "Plant Life", Angeles Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro CA
• 1999      “Millennium", Gallery Soolip, Los Angeles, CA
• 1999      “OrganicDrift", Dian Nelson Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
• 1999      “Openand Closed:Artists contemporary Books as Sculpture", Fullerton College Art Gallery,
               Fullerton, CA
• 1998      “Taleof Los Angeles", Couturier Gallery, L.A, CA
• 1998      “OsakaTriennale 1998-Sculpture", Osaka, Japan
• 1998      “FiveSculptors Figurative Works, Dian Nelson Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
• 1998      “JapaneseMind", Book ArtGallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
• 1997      "West Coast Painting & Sculpture", Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
• 1997     “Duet”(with Echiko Ohira), Gallery Soolip, L.A, CA
• 1997      “The6th International Shoes boxSculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii
               Monoa Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii
• 1997      “PacificRim Artists in California", Cal State University of Bakersfield, CA
• 1996      “TheAsahikawa Prize for Contemporary Wood Sculpture Exhibition",
               Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Asahikawa, Japan
• 1996     “Blessings and Beginnings", Hebrew Union College Skirbal Museum, L.A
• 1996     “Dichotomy(with Richard Johnston), Fullerton CollegeArt Gallery, Fullerton, CA
• 1996     “Drawn From L.A", The Armory Center For The Arts, Pasadena, CA
• 1996      “TheEssential Object", Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
• 1995      “BodyMind and Spirit", Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery Scripps College, Claremont, CA
• 1995      “Surroundingstwo men show)", Brand Gallery, Santa Ana, CA
• 1995      “California In Three Dimensions" California Center for The Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
• 1994     “The 5th International Shoesbox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii Manoa Art Gallery,
               Honolulu, Hawaii
• 1994     “LAX(five japanese Artists in L.A)", JACCC Doizaki Gallery, L.A, CA
• 1994     “New Structuralists", Boritzer/Grey/Hamano Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• 1994     “Summer Sculpture Exhibition", Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Franciaco, CA
• 1994     “Common Language(With Mark Katano)", Sharon Truax Gallery, Venice, CA
• 1993     “Choice Encounters(permanent collection)”, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
• 1993     “Elegant,Irreverent & Obsessive:Drawing in Southern California", Cal State University Fullerton
               Main Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA
• 1993     “Engaging Materials", L.A Municipal Art Gallery, L.A, CA
• 1993     “Breaking Barriers", Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
• 1992     “Sensibilities: Substance and Surface", Jose Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Mount ST Mary's College,
               Los Angeles, CA
• 1992     “Drawing as Poem", The Armory Center for The Arts, Pasadena, CA
• 1992     “Contemporary Drawings", Claremont Graduate school West Gallery, CA
• 1992     “Pacific Rim", Andrew-Shire Gallery, L.A , CA
• 1991     “Human Mark", Yorba Buena Gardens Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
• 1991     “The 4th International Shoesbox Sculpture Exhibition", University of Hawaii, Manoa Art Gallery
               Honolulu, Hawaii
• 1991     “The Nature of Sculpture", Jacksonvill Art Museum, Jacksonvill, Flirida
• 1991     “Professor’s Choice", Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
• 1990     “East Bound,West Bound", Korean Cultural Services Art Gallery, L.A, CA
• 1990     “Accretions:Collage and Assemblage", Space Gallery, L.A, CA
• 1990     “Natural Forces", L.A Municipal Art Gallery, L.A, CA
• 1989     “American-Japanese Artists", George J Doizaki Gallery, JACCC, L.A, CA
• 1988     “Two Artists Exhibition( with Seiji Kunishima)”, Murazumi Gallery, Okazaki, Japan
• 1987     “Metamorphosis Once a Tree", Century Gallery , Sylmar, CA
• 1987     “Natural Sources", Angeles Gate cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
• 1987     “Language of Forms/Vice of Materials", Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
• 1987     “Survey of Object", Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 1987     “Natural Elements", Transamerica Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 1986     “Only L.A. Contemporary Variations", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, L.A, CA
• 1986     “Japan/America", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
• 1986     “Asian/America", Cal State University L.A Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 1985     “Gallery Artists Exhibition", James Turcotte Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 1984     “Japanese Artists in L.A”, Dejong Gallery , L.A, CA
• 1983     “Drawing Exhibition", L.A Artcore Center, L.A, CA
• 1981     “Mexico Contemporary Sculptures", Museo de Banco National de Mexico, Mexico City
• 1980     “Pair City”, 1st Monumental Sculpture Competition, Tokyo, Japan
• 1980     “Biwako Open-Air Sculpture Exhibition, Shiga , Japan
• 1979     “Japanese Artists in Mexico”, Gallery Encuentro, Mexico City
• 1977     “Group Exhibition", Yokohama Municipal Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
• 1976     “Group Exhibition", Minori Kogei Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• 1976     “Tree Men Exhibition", Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• 1975     “11th Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition", Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
• 1975     “4th New Talent Award Exhibition", Modern Sculpture Center, Tokyo, Japan
• 1974-77  “Shinseisaku Art Exhibition”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum , Tokyo, Japan

award

• 2009     The 36th Teijiro Nakagawa Award, Hokkaido Asashikawa, Japan
• 2001     Special Prize (10th Osaka International Triennale), Osaka, Japan
• 1998     Special Prize(Osaka International Sculpture Triennale), Osaka, Japan
• 1996     Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum Prize, Japan
• 1986     Lorser Feitelson Foundation, Los Angeles
• 1980     Second Prize(1st Monumental Sculpture Competition,”Pair City”), Tokyo, Japan
• 1974     New Talent Prize(Shinseisaku Art Exhibition), Tokyo, Japan