Masashi Ohtsu
Subway in motion, New York

Current Projects

Experiments with Sound and Vision

Ongoing work bringing photography, moving image, and sound together—from longer projects to short audiovisual vignettes.

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One practice · Many forms

Masashi Ohtsu works across photography, mixed media, painting, moving image, and sound. These different forms share an attention to lived experience, place, movement, rhythm, and time.

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Three ways into the work

Across time

A chronology of overlapping pursuits

Education, assignments, construction, collaboration, business, art, and music unfold as parallel strands rather than a single straight line.

1983–87Rutgers and Parsons
1984–presentPhotography
Late 1980s–90sMixed media, construction, international work
1995–presentBMM Art and Computer Inc.
2001Buddhafunk established
NowExperiments with Sound and Vision
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Each new medium extends what came before.

About the practice

From construction materials to multimedia.

Materials from Masashi’s construction work became part of his early mixed-media pieces. As digital tools became more accessible, his work with BMM Art and Computer Inc. brought technology more fully into his creative practice, opening new directions in moving image, sound, and multimedia.

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