A mysterious mass with a rough texture, transparent yet opaque, and yet harboring light within its appearance. A material that is both glass and not glass, and holds hidden possibilities. Seeking shapes that are simple yet evoke unseen images, I explore the molding of glass through casting.



1957 Born in Kawachinagano, Osaka Prefecture.
After graduating from Kanazawa College of Art in 1980, he studied glass techniques at the Tokyo Glass Art Institute.
1990 Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition (Hakone Open-Air Museum)
1991 4th World Contemporary Glass Exhibition, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art Award (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art)
1996 Suntory Museum of Art Grand Prize Special Exhibition '96 (Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo)
1997 NHK-TV program "Into the Depths of the Hidden Light: Glass Sculptor Katsuya Ohgita" aired on Saturday Art Morning.
1999 2000 Years of Japanese Glass: From the Yayoi Period to the Present (Suntory Museum of Art)
2001 The Charm of Glass Exhibition (Himeji City Museum of Art)
2001 "Light and Color on Glass 2000" (Suntory Museum of Art)
2004 Glass Labyrinth (Notojima Glass Art Museum, Ishikawa Prefecture)
2005: Contemporary Glass Challenge: Light Sculpture (Kikuchi Kanji Memorial Museum of Art), Sparkling Forms: The Essence of 20th Century Glass (Kushiro City Museum of Art)
2006 The Gaze's Destination (Toyama Civic Plaza Art Gallery)
2007 Shape of Light Katsuya Ohgita Exhibition (Takashimaya Tokyo/Nagoya/Osaka)
2009 First There Was Light: Expressions of Light in Art (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art), From the Home to the Museum: Tanaka Tsuneko Collection Exhibition (Wakayama Museum of Modern Art)
2012 Solo Exhibition (Ippodo Gallery New York)