Masaki Okuten

Masaki Okuten was born in 1985 in Kanagawa, Japan.

Works at the base in Tokyo.2012 BA, Oil Painting Course, Musashino Art University, Tokyo

Masaki Okuten explores primitive themes such as the origins of line and the collective unconscious using painting and installation expression.

Major solo exhibitions include "The nursery" (GINZA SIX Tsutaya book store 6F, Tokyo, 2021), "s.p.a.c.e" (Daikanyama Tsutaya book store, Tokyo, 2022), "Cut Back" (Gallery10 TOH, Tokyo, 2024)

Group exhibitions include "When in Tokyo" (J12 contemporary art by Jason, Hong Kong, 2023), "Resusci-Anne" (Gallery Ether, Tokyo, 2022)

"Crucial touch" (Gallery10 TOH, Tokyo, 2023), etc. He received the GEISAI#18 Holbein Prize (2013) and the 3rd D Art Biennial Excellence Prize (2014), among others.

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Naita Shizuku wo Ikase Blackbird Gallery,Nagoya,Japan

2025 Null gem,WORLD TIMES GALLERY, Hyogo,Japan

2024 Pieces,GALLERY URO,Osaka,Japan

2024 cut back,Gallery10TOH, Tokyo, Japan

2022 photic layer, GALLERY HAYASHI + ART BRIDGE, Tokyo, Japan 2022 s.p.a.c.e, Daikanyama Tsutaya Book, Tokyo, Japan

2022 Heptapod, MU Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2021 The nursery, GINZA SIX, Tokyo, Japan

2021 A Whiter Shade of Pale, GALLERY HAYASHI + ART BRIDGE, Tokyo, Japan

2021 Untitled, GINZA SIX, Tokyo, Japan

2020 #Blombos Cave, MEDEL GALLERY SHU, Tokyo, Japan

2016 Put the stone, Minnano Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2009 immature efect, GALLERY b.TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibitions

2025 Field Notes from the Umwelt,Minnano Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2025 Umwelt,Minnano Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2025 THE Art Room-in-NAGOYA-,CUCINA/Cattelan Italia Nagoya Showroom,Aichi,Japan

2025 Painting Recipes,Gallery10TOH, Tokyo, Japan

2025 Ahhi Choi × Masaki Okuten Art Exhibition,Sekisui House Iz Mino Show room, Osaka,Japan

2025 Umwelt,Minnano Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2024 PRIMARY X,Gallery10TOH, Tokyo, Japan

2024 Modal Landscape, Minnano Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2024 Dance to your Heartbeat,Empathy gallery、Tokyo,Japan

2023 Crucial touch ,Masaki Okuten × Seiichiro Osa ,Gallery10TOH, Tokyo, Japan

2023 In Different Ways,GALLERY HAYASHI + ART BRIDGE, Tokyo,Japan

2023 Chapter1 , Masaki Okuten × Masaki Hagino , KEN FINE ART,Osaka,Japan

2023 When in Tokyo , J12 contemporary art by Jason,Hongkong

2022 WHAT CAFE EXHIBITION vol.22 Art is…, what café, Tokyo, Japan

2022 Resuci – Anne , Masaki Okuten × Kentaro Takahashi, Gallery Ether, Tokyo,Japan

2022 Relive – artworks Fukuoka,Union Soda, Fukuoka, Japan

2022 art stage OSAKA, Dojima River Forum, Osaka, Japan

2022 artworks NAGOYA, Nagoya International idcN design center, Aichi, Japan

2021 AFTER THE 3331, GALLERY HAYASHI + ART BRIDGE, Tokyo, Japan

2021 3331 ART FAIR 2021, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

2021 HASSHIN, MU GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

2021 estate, ZEIT-FOTO kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan

2021 JAPAN Mastery Collection popup shop, Midtown Roppongi. Tokyo, Japan

2017 Re:OPEN, Minnano Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2016 Morning Star #1, NANZUKA UNDERGROUND, Tokyo, Japan 2015 Mantle #11, TOKYO CULTUART by BEAMS Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan

2013 GEISAI#18, Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial, Urade Center Titou. Tokyo, Japan

2012 Chiyoda Arts Festival, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

2010 My Favorite 4 Artists, ZEIT-FOTO SALON, Tokyo, Japan

2009 via art 2009 prize exhibition, Sinwa Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2009 via art 2009, Sinwa Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2008 THE SIX, Art University General Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan

Prizes

2014 Outstanding performance award, The 3rd D Art Biennale, Japan 2013 Award of Holbein, GEISAI#18, Japan

2009 Award of KURATA, via art 2009, Japan

2009 Judge’s award/Award of Fuyuhiko Yamamoto, via art 2009