Sho Ota

Object maker, designer, artist
Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Japanese

mail@shootadesign.com

 




Exhibition
2025
‘HARD EDGES, SOFT MATERIALS’
Duo show with Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl
part of 3Days of Design 2025
at Peach Corner Gallery
Copenhagen, DK

2024
‘DESIGNTIDE TOKYO2024’
Tokyo, JP

‘SPECIMEN’ by DUTCH INVERTUALS
Dutch Design Week 2024
Eindhoven, NL

‘CRASH LANDING’
Dutch Design Week 2024
Eindhoven, NL

2023

MK&G Messe 2023
Young Talent 
at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
Hamburg, DE

‘PINKDOM’
Trio show with Sangmin Oh & Jung Pyeori
at RAUCH
Krefeld, DE

‘Material, or’
Group exhibition 
at 21_21 Design Sight
Tokyo, JP

‘3X3’
GLUE Amsterdam 2023
Trio show with Yoon Shun & Giseok Kim
Amsterdam, NL

‘TOUCH WOOD’
Duo show with Yuma Kano
at Alcova
Milan Design Week 2023
Milan, IT

Collectible 2023
with Nee Nee Collective, at Bespoke
Brussels, BE

2022
‘Poetic Design’
Duo show with Olga Engel
at Mia Karlova Galerie
Amsterdam, NL

‘NEXT TO THE WOOD WORKSHOP’
at Microlab 
Dutch Design Week 2022
Eindhoven, NL

‘PARALLELS’
with Piet hein Eek
Edit Napoli at Fondazione Made in Cloister
Napoli, IT

‘Zut! Show Paris’
with A1043 gallery
Paris, FR

Steinbeisser’s Experimental Gastronomy with Jeong Kwan
at Gemeenlandshuis
Amsterdam, NL

‘Intergenerational Graduation Show’
by Design Academy Eindhoven
Milan Design Week 2022
Milan, IT

Collectible 2022
with Mia Karlova Galerie
Brussels, BE


2021
‘SHO OTA’ solo exhibition
at A1043 gallery
Paris, FR

Kuradashi
Designart 
(22.10.2021=31.10.2021)
Tokyo, JP

Surfaced’ solo exhibition
at Januka for Designart
(22.10.2021=31.10.2021)
Tokyo, JP

‘The Whispering Wood’ 
at Kazerne
Dutch Design Week 2021 & RE FORM Biennale
(16.10.2021=31.12.2021)
Eindhoven, NL

A Life Less Ordinary
at Mia Karlova Galerie
Amsterdam, NL

2020
Biennale Émergences
Paris, FR

LA MANUFACTURE A LABOUR OF LOVE
WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL/ LILLE
Lille, FR

Collectible 2020
‘Curated’ section
Brussels, BE

Object Rotterdam 2020
Rotterdam, NL

IMM Pure talents contest 2020
Cologne, DE

2019
HOW & WOW
with Craft Counsil Netherlands
Dutch Design Week 2019
Eindhoven, NL

Surfaced
at Area51 skatepark
Dutch Design Week 2019
Eindhoven, NL


Design Parade Hyères 14
at Villa Noaille
as one of the finalists.
(27.06.2019=29.09.2019)
Hyères, FR, 2019

PechaKucha Amsterdam #41talk about ‘According to the Grain’
(17.04.2019)
Amsterdam, NL, 2019 

Collectible 2019
with ToolsGalerie
(14.03.2019=17.03.2019)
Brussels, BE, 2019

‘ART OF SITTING’
ToolsGalerie 
(25.01.2019= 26.02.2019)
Paris, FR, 2019

2018
’Totally Tactility’
Dutch Design Week 2018
Eindhoven, NL, 2018

‘G18’
Graduation Show of Design Academy Eindhoven
Dutch Design Week 2018
Eindhoven, NL, 2018



Award

Design Parade Hyères 14 (2019), finalist (’According to the Grain’)

Pure talents contest 2020, Special mention, finalist (’According to the Grain’)

  © 2025   Sho Ota