Onoda Isa /ONODAISA／小野田イサ

artist, designer, director and the founder of the brand ISA®︎

Artist Statement

It seems that this world—or rather, all things within it—are made up of “dots” and “emptiness.”

Countless tiny points drift freely through vast empty space, occasionally encountering one another by chance, joining or parting, and in doing so, forming what we call matter or phenomena. From this perspective, even our own bodies and everyday experiences are nothing more than temporary configurations—“dots on emptiness”—momentary gatherings suspended in a void.

My practice begins with observing these relationships between dots and space, occasionally intervening to weave together a series of “coincidences.”

These dots are, by nature, unruly. Space is wide and unpredictable. And yet, I choose to trust in these accidental meetings and uncertain overlaps, attempting to reveal fragments of meaning within them. This is, in a sense, an experiment—a quiet play enacted upon emptiness itself.

Through slight displacements, gaps, and the physical margins left behind, my own presence too emerges as something porous—something that hovers, lightly, in the void.

「どうやらこの世界――というか、すべてのものは「点」と「空っぽ（＝空虚）」でできているらしい。バラバラな点々たちが、な〜んにもない空間を好き勝手に飛び回っては、くっついたり離れたりして、「物質」とか「現象」ってやつを勝手に作り上げているだけ。

つまり、私の身体も、よく見ればその“空っぽ”にフワ〜っと浮かんだ無数の小さな点の集まりにすぎない。つまるところ「点々 on 空虚」。中身、ほぼスカスカ。

で、私の仕事というのは、その空虚に偶然うっかり居合わせた点と点を、「えいっ」とばかりにくっつけて、なんか意味ありげなものに見せかけてみよう、という実験です。

といっても、点たちは基本的に言うこと聞きませんし、空間はとても広い。

それでも「たまたま」の重なりを信じて、点と点の、運命的な（ように見える）出会いを、今日もコツコツつなげてみるわけです。」

Biography 

1972 Born in Himeji, Japan

Solo exhibition

2000 Hotel Seashore Mitsumisaki, Tatsuno, Japan

Group exhibitions

2010 Five Persons show, GALERIE rencontre14, Himeji, Japan
2003 The 9th Liquitex Biennale Exhibition, Tokyo Spiral Garden, Japan
2001 Himeji Art Association Exhibition, Himeji City Museum of Art, Japan
1999 The 10th Neo Art Exhibition, Hotel Seashore Mitsumisaki, Tatsuno, Japan
1998  HARU Exhibition,Gallery Lolo, Kakogawa, Japan
1998 The 9th Neo Art Exhibition, AEON MALL River City, Himeji, Japan
1997 The 8th Neo Art Exhibition, Himeji City Museum of Art, Japan
1993 OAC ART School Exhibition, Gallery Koma, Himeji, Japan
1990 OAC Exhibition, Gallery Koma, Himeji, Japan(yearly through2017)

Fair

2025 Wonder Fetival 2025, Makuhari Messe, Chiba

Direction

2022 MUSIC VIDEO "HANA-A Theory of Propagation Painting ver."
Music:ASA-CHANG&Junray Filmed by Ufer! Art Documentary

Event

2021 Live-“A Theory of Propagation Painting” Collaborated with
ASA-CHANG& Junray
at Himeji City Museum of Art
2021 Workshop  “Let’s paint a picture that goes on forever.” at Himeji
City Museum of Art

book/writing

2021 “ONODA MINORU”  Seigensha  Art Publishing, Inc.

https://www.seigensha.com/books/978-4-86152-829-3/

個展
2000 個展（ホテル・シーショアリゾート御津/ 兵庫）

グループ展

2010 5人展, ギャラリー ラコントル14 （兵庫）
2003 第9回リキテックスビエンナーレ（東京）
2001 姫路美術協会展（姫路市立美術館・兵庫）
1997 第８回ネオ・アート展 （姫路市立美術館・兵庫）

Fair
2025  ワンダーフェスティバル 2025 （幕張メッセ・千葉）

企画

2022 MUSIC VIDEO / 花～繁殖絵画論ver.( Music: ASA-CHANG& Junray  Filmed by
Ufer! Art Documentary）
2021 音楽ライブ「繁殖絵画論 Collaborated with ASA-CHANG&巡礼」（姫路市立美術館/兵庫）
2021ワークショップ「無限に広がる絵を描こう」（姫路市立美術館・兵庫）

著書

2021 “小野田實 私のマル”   青幻舎
https://www.seigensha.com/books/978-4-86152-829-3/