Kiyoto Ota
Japan, 1948

He was born in Japan in 1948. He has lived in Mexico since 1972. He was a professor of sculpture at the FAD (Facultad de Arte y Diseño), UNAM for 35 years. Individual exhibitions in various museums such as MAM, Carrilo Gil, MACO (Oax.), Museo Federico Silva Escultura Contemporánea, S.L.P., Antiguo Templo de San Agustín, Zacatecas, Museo de Aguascalientes, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Museo Laberinto de las Ciencias y del Arte, S.L.P., Seminario de Cultura Mexicana, CDMX and in several galleries in Mexico City and other states of Mexico and in Kyoto, Japan. More than 100 collective exhibitions, in CDMX and in other states of Mexico, in Madrid, Paris, and several cities in the United States. Public sculptures in Sasebo and Aji, in Japan; Valencia Spain; Jardín Botánico de Culiacán, Ecoparque Metropolitano de Puebla, and Hotel Blue Diamond, Rivera Maya, México. They have as a collection of his sculptures: Nagasaki Prefecture Museum of Art, Japan, MAM, MACO, Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguérez, in Zacatecas; Museo Laberinto de las Ciencias y las Artes, S.L.P; Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Edo. de México, Instituto Politécnico Nacional de Zacatenco and UAM Azcapotzalco.

He won prizes in various national competitions, such as triennials of sculpture and others of plastic arts. She has been a member of SNCA and exchange scholarship to the US. He was a Jóvenes Creadores tutor from 1996-1998. He had an academic exchange with the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. He has given several conferences in Mexico and in Nebraska, USA. He obtained the Chancellor's Award of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Japan in Visual Arts 2016. He is a corresponding member (Foreign Member) in sculpture in the Academia de las Artes in Mexico since 2014. His works have been fundamentally with nature, in relation to what is the interior space and the exterior space of the object.