Born in 1980 in Gifu. He graduated from Tokyo Zokei University’s Department of Fine Arts in 2004 and now works in his atelier in Fujiyoshida City, Yamanashi. Ohno, who says, “It is more essential to know things through experience, and my motivation for creating is to activate new senses,” has pursued and expressed his inner self within nature and contemporary society, which he describes as “my unique expressionism,” while feeling the overwhelming energy of the virgin forests at the foot of Mt. Fuji.
One of the most distinguishing features of Ohno’s works is the fusion and coexistence of opposing existing values such as nature and artifice, life and death, light and darkness, East and West, and so on. Within this context, motifs such as self-portraits, hermaphroditism, virgin forests, subtropical plants, prisms, and speakers are important elements in his works. Their worldviews are fantastical and paradoxical, abundant and chaotic, both imaginary and real, and they continually search for fundamental answers and harmony.