Toshio SHIBATA
     
1949   Born in Tokyo
   
Education
1972
  BFA, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1974
  MFA Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
1975
  Studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium
1976
  Studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium

Award
2009
  The 25th Higashikawa Prize (The DomesticPhotographer Prize)
1992
  The 17th Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award, Asahi Shimbun
1976
  Fellowship, Ministry of National Education and Dutch Culture, Belgium
1975
  Fellowship, Ministry of National Education and Dutch Culture, Belgium
     
Solo Show
2010
 
Boundary Hunt, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
Expressway, Gallery 339, Philadelphia, USA
2009
 
For Gray, Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
a View, BLD Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Landscape, Gallery Art Unlimited, Tokyo, Japan
2008
 
Landscape, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Contacts, Gallery Mestalla, Tokyo, Japan
Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2007
 
Color Works, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, California, USA
Work:Man, Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
In color, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
2006  
Waterfolio, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Reclamation, Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY, USA
2005
 
Layer/Sou/Soh, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
juxtapose, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura
2004
 
Type 55, il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA USA
2003
 
Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA
2002
 
il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
Martha Tepper Fine Arts, Boston, MA USA
2001
 
Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA USA
Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
2000
 
il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
Elaine L. Jacob Gallery and Community Arts Gallery
at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI USA
1999
 
Columbia University, NY, NY USA
Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA USA
Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA
Sprengel Museum Hanover, Germany
Galleria Civica Modena, Modena, Italy
Dryphoto, Prato, Italy
1998
 
Galerie FA Paviot, Paris, France (November 20-January 16, 1999)
Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France (November 12--January 4, 1999)
Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA
il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997
 
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL USA
Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA USA
1996
 
Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA
il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
1995
 
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH USA
Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, MI USA
Gallery Ram, USA, Santa Monica, CA USA
1994
 
Landmark Tower Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA USA
Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1993
 
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
Plaza Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Past Rays, Yokohama, Japan
Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA
Photo Interform & Interform Contemporary, Osaka, Japan
1992
 
il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo Osaka, Japan
 
1991  
Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
Photo Interform & Interform Atelier, Osaka, Japan
1989
 
Bancho Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1988
 
Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1986
 
Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1984
 
Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1982
 
Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1979
 
Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan


Selected Group Exhibitions

2009
  
At/From Tamagawa 1964-2009” Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Night TownGallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA USA
2008
  
The History of Arts and CitiesSendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan
2007
  
Where Are We? Questions of LandscapeGraves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Upon on Ether sea: Water and Ship Imagery from the MCA CollectionMuseum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Eyes of an IslandMichael Hoppen Gallery, London, UK
The Photograph: What You See & What You Don'tTokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
Views of WaterYokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
2006
  
Robert Wood Johnson GalleryThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY, USA
PlaceEdward Steichen Photography Gallery/ New York, USA
A curator's Eye : the Visual Legacy of Robert Sobieszek” Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA
Les preintres de la vie moderne”  Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Recent Landscape Photography: The Intimate and the SublimeThe Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
2005
  
The Altered Landscape”  The National Academy of Science, Washington D.C., USA
The Ancient sound of the ImageFestival Internazional di Rome, Plazzo Fontana di Trevi, Instituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, Italy
2004
 
The Altered LandscapePresentation House Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Meguro Art Annual 2004Meguro Art Museum, Tokyo
2003
 
Consuming NatureMuseum of contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Collecting PhotographyAckland Art Museum, NC, USA
OasesLaurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA
Histories of PhotographyLoeb Art Center,
A Decade of CollectingSanta Barbara Museum of Art, CA, USA
2002
 
Lends LandscapeMuseum of fine Art, Boston, USA
From the Outside InThe University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, USA
2001
 
Between light and shadowBoise Art Museum, ID USA
Shuffle, 6 approach to PolaroidPolaroid Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
14 Solo Shows, Meguro Art Annual 2000Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2000
 
Open Ends11 Exhibitions of Contemporary Art from 1960 to Now, Architecture Hot and Cold, Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY USA
Representing the IntangiblePhotographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston USA
Identicazione di un Paesaggio Venezia-MargheraFotgrafia e Transformazioni nella citta' Contemporanea, VEGA Parco Scientifico Tecnologico, Marghera- Venezia, Italy
Fluid FlowJames Graham & Sons, NY, NY USA
1999
 
The palazzo della triennale, Italy
Re-structureGrinnell College Art Gallery, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell, Iowa USA
The Emerging ImageThe Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA USA
More than meets the eyeDeichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Through the Lens: Time, Space and MatterThe Rye Arts Center, NY, NY USA
1997
 
Industry and PhotographyCleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH USA
People and LandscapesFitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA USA
Photography and beyond in JapanThe Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, HA USA
1996
 
Fabulous Photos: Celebrating Our Finest AcquisitionsWorcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA USA
Contemporary Japanese PhotographyJane Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Photography and beyond in JapanVancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC Canada / Los Angeles County Museum, LA, CA USA /
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC USA , Denver Art Museum,Denver, CO USA
Liquid Crystal FuturesNeue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst e. v. Berlin, Germany / Mucsarnok Palace of Exhibitions, Budapest, Hungry / B.W.A. Gallery Wroclaw, Poland / Goteborg Kunsthalle, Sweden
Two Media: Toshio Shibata & Toeko TatsunoKamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1995
 
Texture and Touch: Contemporary Japanese PhotographyThe Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Photography and Beyond in JapanMuseo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Photography and the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo 1953-1995The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Liquid Crystal FuturesSpiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan / Copenhagen, Denmark
1994
 
Photography and Beyond in JapanHara Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Global Environment: FotoFests Fifth International Festival of PhotographyHouston Convention Center, Houston, TX USA
CityscapesMartha Tepper Fine Arts, Boston, MA USA
Inside Out: Japanese Contemporary PhotographyThe Light Factory, Charlotte, NC USA
Liquid Crystal FuturesThe Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1993
 
Crossing TerritoriesThe Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM USA
Visionary MeditationA.O.I.Gallery Santa Fe, NM USA
Japanese Contemporary PhotographyKunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
1992
 
New Photography 8The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY USA Wasteland: Fotografie Biennale Rotterdam 3Rotterdam, Netherlands
New Acquisition, New Work, New DirectionsLos Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA USA
1991
 
Artists Who Loves the NatureMeguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1990
 
The Past and The Present of PhotographyThe National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan 
Japanese Contemporary PhotographyTokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan / Pavillon des Arts, Paris, France
Three Japanese Contemporaries: FotoFest 90Houston Convention Center, Houston, TX USA
1989
 
Aspect of Contemporary PhotographyKawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
The Hitachi Collection of Japanese Contemporary PhotographyCenter for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA 
1987  
Exhibition of ShashinYurakucho Asahi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1986
 
Fotograpia Japanesa ContemporaneaCasa Elizalde, Barcelona, Spain
The Super Image: The Work with 20x24 PolaroidSeed Hall, Tokyo, Japan
1985
 
Dumont Foto 5: Die Japanische PhotographieMuseum fur Kunst und Gewrbe, Hamburg, Germany
Paris, New York, TokyoTsukuba Museum of Photography 85, Tsukuba, Japan
1982
 
Fotokina Photo Art 1Cologne, Germany
1981
 
Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1979
 
Paul Pia Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
1972
 
Exhibition by Japan Print AssociationTokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Cosmos FactoryMuramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1971
 
Cosmos FactoryMuramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 

   
Public Collection; Museum / Special Collections

Art Museum at Vassar, Vassar College, NY, USA
Bibliotrheque National, Paris, France
Boise Museum of Art, Boise, ID USA
Brookings Institute, Corporate Collection, USA
Center for Creative Photography: The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Boston, MA USA
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
International Museum of Photography; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY USA
Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA USA
La Maison de la Photo Europeenne, Paris, France
La Salle Bank Collection, Chicago IL USA
Meguro Museum of art, Tokyo, Japan
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI USA
Musees Royaux des beaux-arts, Brussels, Belgium
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston MA USA
Museum Fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
National Gallery of Canada, Toronto, ON Canada
Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA USA
Princeton University Art Museum, NJ USA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, USA
Saint Louis Art Museum, MO, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA USA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
The Bayly Museum; the University of Virginia, VA USA
The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, IL USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY USA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX USA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY USA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
 
The Progressive Corporation, USA
The University of Iowa Art Museum, IA USA
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA USA
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
     


Monographs
     
Landscape2, Nazraeli Press, Tucson, AZ 2008
Type55, Nazraeli Press, Tucson, AZ 2004
DAM, Nazraeli Press, Tucson, AZ 2004
View: Visions of Japan, Korinsha Press, Kyoto 1998
Landscape, Nazraeli Press, Tucson, AZ 1996
Terra: Photographs by Toshio Shibata, Essay by Yoshio Nakamura, Toshi Shuppan, Tokyo 1994
Quintessence of Japan by Toshio Shibata, Asahi Shinbun Publishing, Tokyo 1992
     

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