Yotaro Niwa was born in Hyogo, Japan in 1973 and completed his Masters degree in Fine Art and Sculpture at the Mushashino Art University, Tokyo before studying Sculpture and Interdisciplinary Art at Hochschule fur Bildende Kuenste Braunschweig, Germany. He has exhibited his work extensively including at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon Korea, Art Space Kimura, Tokyo, HBK Braunschweig/Herzon Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig, Kunstverein, Hannover. In January –February last year Niwa was artist-in-residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and will be taking part in the upcoming annual Spring Exhibition at the Charlottenborg Fonden/Kunsthal, Copenhagen.