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
Town” Gallery
Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA USA
2008
“The History of Arts and
Cities” Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan
2007
“Where Are We? Questions of
Landscape” Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
“Upon
on Ether sea: Water and Ship Imagery from the MCA Collection” Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA
“Eyes
of an Island” Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, UK
“The
Photograph: What You See & What You Don't” Tokyo University
of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
“Views
of Water” Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
2006
“Robert Wood Johnson Gallery” The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, NY, NY, USA
“Place” Edward 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 Sublime” The 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 Image” Festival Internazional di Rome, Plazzo Fontana di
Trevi, Instituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, Italy
2004
“The Altered Landscape” Presentation
House Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
“Meguro Art Annual 2004” Meguro Art Museum,
Tokyo
2003
“Consuming Nature” Museum of
contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
“Collecting
Photography” Ackland Art Museum, NC, USA
“Oases” Laurence Miller
Gallery, NY, NY USA
“Histories
of Photography” Loeb Art Center,
“A
Decade of Collecting” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, USA
2002
“Lends Landscape” Museum of fine
Art, Boston, USA
“From
the Outside In” The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA,
USA
2001
“Between light and shadow” Boise Art Museum,
ID USA
“Shuffle,
6 approach to Polaroid” Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“14
Solo Shows, Meguro Art Annual 2000” Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2000
“Open Ends” 11 Exhibitions of
Contemporary Art from 1960 to Now, Architecture Hot and Cold,
Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY USA
“Representing
the Intangible” Photographic Resource Center at Boston University,
Boston USA
“Identicazione
di un Paesaggio Venezia-Marghera” Fotgrafia e Transformazioni nella citta'
Contemporanea, VEGA Parco Scientifico Tecnologico, Marghera-
Venezia, Italy
“Fluid
Flow” James
Graham & Sons, NY, NY USA
1999
The palazzo della triennale,
Italy
“Re-structure” Grinnell College
Art Gallery, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell, Iowa USA
“The
Emerging Image” The Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA USA
“More
than meets the eye” Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
“Through
the Lens: Time, Space and Matter” The Rye Arts Center, NY, NY USA
1997
“Industry and Photography” Cleveland Museum
of Art, Cleveland, OH USA
“People
and Landscapes” Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA USA
“Photography
and beyond in Japan” The Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, HA
USA
1996
“Fabulous Photos:
Celebrating Our Finest Acquisitions” Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA USA
“Contemporary
Japanese Photography” Jane Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
“Photography
and beyond in Japan” Vancouver 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 Futures” Neue 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 Tatsuno”
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1995
“Texture and Touch:
Contemporary Japanese Photography” The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia
“Photography
and Beyond in Japan” Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
“Photography
and the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo 1953-1995” The Museum of
Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
“Liquid
Crystal Futures” Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan / Copenhagen, Denmark
1994
“Photography and Beyond in
Japan” Hara
Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
“Global
Environment: FotoFest’s Fifth International Festival of
Photography” Houston Convention Center, Houston, TX USA
“Cityscapes” Martha Tepper
Fine Arts, Boston, MA USA
“Inside
Out: Japanese Contemporary Photography”The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC USA
“Liquid
Crystal Futures” The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1993
“Crossing Territories” The Museum of
Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM USA
“Visionary
Meditation” A.O.I.Gallery Santa Fe, NM USA
“Japanese
Contemporary Photography” Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
1992
“New Photography 8” The Museum of
Modern Art, New York, NY USA “Wasteland: Fotografie Biennale Rotterdam 3” Rotterdam,
Netherlands
“New
Acquisition, New Work, New Directions” Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
USA
1991
“Artists Who Loves the
Nature” Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1990
“The Past and The Present of
Photography” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / The
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
“Japanese Contemporary
Photography” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan /
Pavillon des Arts, Paris, France
“Three
Japanese Contemporaries: FotoFest ’90” Houston Convention Center, Houston, TX USA
1989
“Aspect of Contemporary
Photography” Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
“The
Hitachi Collection of Japanese Contemporary Photography” Center for
Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA
1987
“Exhibition of Shashin” Yurakucho Asahi
Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1986
“Fotograpia Japanesa
Contemporanea” Casa Elizalde, Barcelona, Spain
“The
Super Image: The Work with 20”x24 Polaroid” Seed Hall, Tokyo, Japan
1985
“Dumont Foto 5: Die
Japanische Photographie” Museum fur Kunst und Gewrbe, Hamburg,
Germany
“Paris,
New York, Tokyo” Tsukuba Museum of Photography ’85, Tsukuba, Japan
1982
“Fotokina Photo Art 1” Cologne, Germany
1981
Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1979
Paul Pia Gallery, Antwerp,
Belgium
1972
“Exhibition by Japan Print
Association” Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“Cosmos
Factory” Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1971
“Cosmos Factory” Muramatsu 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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