Toshio SHIBATA
     
1949   Born in Tokyo
    Lives in Kamakura, works in Tokyo
     
Education
1972   BFA Tokyo National University of Fine Art
    and Music
1974   MFA Tokyo National University of Fine Art
    and Music
1975   Studied at Royal Academy in Gent, Belgium
1976   Studied at Royal Academy in Gent, Belgium
Award
1992   Ihei Kimura Prize, Asahi Newspaper Publishing Co.
1976   Fellowship, Ministry of National Education
    and Dutch Culture
1975   Fellowship, Ministry of National Education and
    Dutch Culture
     
Solo Show
2005   juxtapose, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura
2004   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
2004   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 Photography
    Houston 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
     
View: Visions of Japan, Korinsha Press, Kyoto, Japan 1998
Landscape, Nazraeli Press, Tucson, AZ 1996
Terra: Photographs by Toshio Shibata, Essay by Yoshio Nakamura,
Toshi Shuppan, Tokyo, 1994
Photographs by Toshio Shibata, Asahi Shinbun Publishing, Tokyo, 1992
     
2005 juxtapose
     
artists