Yoichi Ohira Biography
Yoichi Ohira was born in Japan and moved to Italy in 1973. After working as an apprentice at the Kagami Crystal Company in Tokyo, Ohira obtained a diploma in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. His thesis was on the aesthetics of glass. Starting in 1973, he began collaborating with Egidio Costantini's Fucina degli Angeli, participating in numerous collective and personal exhibitions, presenting sculptures created through the combination of plated metal and glass.
In 1987, he began a collaboration as a designer with Vetreria de Majo in Murano, earning the Selection Prize at the Murano Prize in the same year. In the 90s, he decided to dedicate himself to art as an independent artist, creating unique pieces of extraordinary beauty. To create his works, he collaborates with the skilled master glassmaker Livio Serena from Murano.
Yoichi Ohira participates in the most important international exhibitions and his works are highly appreciated by both private collectors and numerous public museums. Some of these museums include the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Koganezaki Glass Museum in Shizoka, Japan, among other prestigious institutions.
Yoichi Ohira's work is now part of the permanent collections of these museums, testimony to his significant contribution to the field of glass art.
