OPA gallery/shop - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for OPA gallery/shop. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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"One Painitng with a New Story vol.3" Exhibition
"A painting with its own story speaks to a viewer." On view at this exhibition are paintings and illustrations with such potential. Aiming to provide artists with future opportunities to create works for (...)
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Malpu Design Yoshihiro Shimizu Illustration Workshop
Please visit the gallery website for details.
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Kayo Kaneko "Piece up Pieces"
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"Animal Jamboree" Exhibition
This exhibition presents illustrations of animals by five artists.
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"'Monochrome' - Colors Vol.3" Exhibition
This is the third edition of the exhibition series, "Colors", taking monochrome as the theme. For this exhibition, 25 illustrators created works using black on white background.
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Takashi Ohno + Yuji Okamoto "My Vehicle"
Two person exhibition of woodblock prints taking vehicle as the theme.
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"'Man and Woman' Illustrations by 15 Artists" Exhibition
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Jiji Miyamoto "Encyclopedia of Creatures"
Mysterious animals, people, and fantastical cat-like creatures appear in the "Encyclopedia of Creatures". Jiji Miyamoto's exhibition is also scheduled to show in Osaka, presenting a different group of (...)
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"Paradise" Exhibition
Works by five illustrators who present their own original worlds. "Paradise" is the main theme of this exhibition, exploring the marginal space between fantasy and reality. [Image: Mirai Anan]
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"Dreaming" Exhibition
Five illustrators have created works with playful, fantastical worlds in them, taking "dreams" as their theme.
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Motomu Watanabe "Sunday"
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Natsuko Kumamoto "Sentimental Journey"
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Minoru Hamada "Panic Disorder"
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"Picnic" Exhibition
Illustrations based on the theme "picnic" by five creators are on display. [Image: Igloo *dining*]
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Emi Sato "caTee Vol.5"
Copper plate print exhibition.
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Kana Hashimoto "One Sunny Day"
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Yuji Takematsu "I want to go back to being a salary man."
Yuji Takematsu's illustrations depict stereotypical "salary men" to those who are beyond our imagination. Old and new works are on display.
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"'Listen to the Flower' - Lotus Vol.4" Exhibition
This is the fourth exhibition based on themes of flowers and plants. "Lotuses" by 26 illustrators are on display.
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"Existing Things" Exhibition
This is a group exhibition of five illustrators working on the theme, "signs of existences." Each focuses on things that are often overlooked, but speak of something significant to them.
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"La Forma No.04" Exhibition
Five sculptors exhibit their works in this show.
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Chikako Abe "One Man Show"
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Toshimasa Yasumitsu "High Lonesome Portrait"
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"Illustrators Tsushin Vol. 7" Exhibition
Works by 50 illustrators featured in "Illustrators Magazine Vol.7" are on display.
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Suzuka Yoshida "White Morning"
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Boosuka "Pura-pura Diary 2"
Illustrator Boosuka's landscape works "Boosuka's Pura-pura Diary" have been serialized as a newspaper column. 15 works from the series were selected for this exhibition.
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"Original Match Label & Match Box Art Exhibition Vol.7"
100 match boxes designed by 100 creators are on display.
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Shuro Taniguchi "Festival During the Day, Banquet at Night"
Illustrator Shuro Taniguchi has collaborated with another children's book illustrator Erika Tachihara and a professional Thai food chef Sawako Yamamoto to create a strange and a little bit sad story about (...)
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Mao Yamaguchi "Traveler's Eye"
Various worlds seen through the viewpoint of a traveler... Print, oil painting, drawing, objects - a total 30 works are on display.
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Nozomi Kumagai "Kokobutsu"
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Masamitsu Saito "Honey"
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"Calendar Illustration Vol. 2" Exhibition
Original illustrations for 2008 calendars are on display.
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Akiko Hasegawa "I will give a silver bell if it's sunny"
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"Drawing Women Vol. 2" Exhibition
Paintings and illustrations of female figures by female illustrators are on display. [Image: Megumi Aratame]
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Ayako Iizkuka "Kaleidoscope"
Aiko Iizuka's embroidery works are on display.
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Mitsuo Nakamura "My Walking Path"
Illustration works in watercolor and color pencil by Mitsuo Nakamura are on display.
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"One Painitng with a New Story" Exhibition
Works by new illustrators who are looking for an opportunity to publish their illustrated books in the future.
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Uchiko Watanabe "Paradox For"
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Maki Kageyama "Over the Mountain"
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Yasumi Kato "It was raining but the sun is out"
Using crayon and pastel crayons, Yasumi Kato creates unique Japanese style illustration works that reveal a sense of humor, beauty, and nostalgia.
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Hayao Doi + Kazuto Sasaki "In the Rain"
[Image: Hayao Doi]
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"Colors Vol. 2 - Painting with Two Colors" Exhibition
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Kayo Kaneko "A Little Gap"
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"Aquarium" Exhibition
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Radical Suzuki "Peeps the Obsession"
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"Coolness to the Hot Summer Vol. 3" Exhibition
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Illustrators Club Vol. 4 June Exhibition "Tokyo"
"Tokyo" is the theme of this exhibition, in which illustration works by fourteen artists are on display.
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Hito "Rain and the Very Top"
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"Children and Playing" Exhibition
This exhibition features illustration works made to the themes of "children" and "playfulness".
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"5 x 5 Books" Exhibition
Five participating artists create illustrations based on a book that each of them chose. A total 25 works are on display.
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Takako Susai "Anteater Tongue Bero's Imagination"
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Hiroko Fujita "Hungarian Aunt and Italian Uncle"
Fujita creates paintings and collages based on the people, things, and colors she found on her travels.
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Yoko Matsuda "Picnic"
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Mebuki Matsuoka "Encyclopedia of Fantastical Plants"
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Noriko Matsumoto "Rabbits"
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”Ask Flowers - Plants & Flowers Vol. 3" Exhibition
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Chiho Kachiyama "An Eternal Candle in the Forest"
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Megumi Sato "caTree Vol4 - My Masks"
Copperplate prints and T-shirts featuring cats.
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"I am glad that you are there" Exhibition
A five person exhibition of work made to the theme of "objects and the sense of presence they emit".
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"My Mask" Exhibition
Artists working in a variety of styles have produced unusual masks for this exhibition.
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2nd "Illustration Correspondence" Exhibition (Part 2)
Part two of an exhibition of 50 print works taken from Edition Six of "Illustration Correspondence".
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2nd "Illustration Correspondence" Exhibition
An exhibition of 50 print works taken from Edition Six of "Illustration Correspondence".
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Boosuka Exhibition
This is an exhibition of illustrations and diaries from the "Boosuka Diaries" which are currently featuring in the "Chugoku Shinmbun" newspaper, distributed in central Japan. The works were made while (...)
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Original Match Label and Match Box Exhibition Vol.6
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Shuro Taniguchi "Each Christmas"
The artist has taken Christmas as his theme and produced a variety of paintings, objects and clothes that express his memories about past Christmases.
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Mao Yamaguchi "Oil Painting"
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Rozy & Ayako Iizuka "The 'perfume' that I sense"
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Masamitsu Saito "Pink Mr Moon"
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Take "Colour"
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"Illustrated Calendars" Exhibition
This is an exhibition and sale of illustrated calendars.
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Riena Moronuki "Old Stories"
This is an exhibition of works inspired by the Old Testament, not by focussing on the mysticism and morality of the writing, but playing with the personal sense of classicism.
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Mitsuo Nakamura "The Beginning of the Voyage"
Using coloured pencils, watercolour and copperplate etching, for this exhibition the artist is presenting thirty works depicting varies thoughts she has about travel, be they based on memories or fantasies. (...)
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Nozomi Kumagai "Abundance"
This is an exhibition of bowls made out of varying combinations of clay, lacquer and metal.
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Exhibition of Illustration
This is an exhibition of work by illustrators and writers who depict the bars they frequent in Shimokitazawa. There will be books by each of the three artists on sale. [Image: Kohei Shioi]
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Five Female Illustrators "Portraying Women"
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Five Illustrators "Ordinary Scenes"
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"A Picture Tells a Thousand Words" Exhibition
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Masaya Miyashita "The Story of the Summer Tangerine Tree"
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"Illustration born from colour - 25 illustrators' work" Exhibition





