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Biography

1949Born in Tokyo
Lives in Kamakura, works in Tokyo

Education

1972BFA Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music
1974MFA Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music
1975Studied at Royal Academy in Gent, Belgium
1976Studied at Royal Academy in Gent, Belgium Award
1992Ihei Kimura Prize, Asahi Newspaper Publishing Co.
1976Fellowship, Ministry of National Education and Dutch Culture
1975Fellowship, Ministry of National Education and Dutch Culture

Solo Show

2025Eary Works 1987, 1988 and Belgian days / ZEIT-FOTO kunitachi, Tokyo
2024Geometrical Drawing / Poetic Scape / October 26 – December 8, 2024
2023Toshio Shibata / DAY FOR NIGHT / Poetic Scape / September 2 – October 2, 2023
Toshio Shibata / Yoshiaki inoue Gallery / Art / Basel Hong Kong 2023 Insights
2022TOSHIO SHIBATA – BOUNDARY HUNT / Polka Gallery / Nobemer 11 – January 11, 2023
2021Painting / Falling Water / Ibasho Gallery / Antwerp / September 2 – October 10, 2021
2020Art Basel / Hong Kong Online Viewing Rooms / Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery / March 20 – 25, 2020
2019Quintessence of Japan / Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery / Osaka, Japan / December 5 – 25, 2019
Five Decades / Laurence Miller Gallery / June 11 – August 16, 2019
2018Toshio Shibata before Millennium / Gallery ART UNLIMITED / April 13 – May 26, 2018
Intimate Landscape / Gallery ART UNLIMITED / March 9 – April 7, 2018
Bridge by Toshio Shibata / Daiwa Foundation Japan House / London / January 11 – February 9, 2018
2017Toshio Shibata Japanscapes / Gallery Luisotti / Santa Monica / December 2, 2017 – January 20, 2018
Het gemaakte Landschape – Foto’s van Shibata Toshio / SieboldHuis / June 16 – August 27, 2017
Bridge / Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery / Osaka / June 9 – July 9, 2017
Toshio Shibata Photography Solo Exhibition / Der-Horng Gallery / Tainan City / May 9 – June 9, 2017
Harmony / Laurence Miller Gallery / March 9 – April 22, 2017
Constructed Landscape / Toshio Shibata / 1839 Contemporary Gallery / Taipei / March 4 – April 9, 2017
31 Contact Prints / Gallery ART UNLIMITED / January 11 – February 13, 2017
2016Bridge / Ibasho Gallery / Antwerp / September 16 – November 16, 2016
Bridge: Canon Gallery S, Tokyo / March 31 – May 17, 2016
2015Water Colors: Laurence Miller Gallery, NY / March 4 – April 25, 2015
The Red Bridge: Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka / July 18 – August 25
Concrete Abstraction: Akio Nagasawa Gallery Tokyo / July 30 – September 20
Night Photographs: Polka Gallery, Paris / September 12 – October 31
Early Works / Drawing to Photography: Gallery Mestalla, Tokyo / September 14 – October 3
2014Triangles Toshio SHIBATA / Gallery ARTUNLIMITED / Feburary 10 – March 8, 2014
2013Toshio Shibata / Peabody Essex Museum / April 20, 2013 – August 31, 2014
Polkagalerie / Paris / September 14 – October31, 2013
2012TOSHIO SHIBATA / TWO DECADES / gallery luisotti, Santa Monica / September 8 – November 3, 2012
Toshio SHIBATA / Meaning of color Gallery ART UNLIMITED / October 10 – November 2, 2012
Toshio SHIBATA / Water-made / Gallery ART UNLIMITED / August 7 – October 1, 2012
Wonders / Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery / April 6 – 28, 2012
2011Concrete Abstraction / BLD Gallery- Tokyo
Flow / Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen – Amsterdam
201025 pieces / Gallery ART UNLIMITED / Tokyo / October 4 – November 6, 2010
a View for Grey / NADiff Gallery / Tokyo / January 22 – February 28, 2010
Boundary Hunt, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
Expressway, Gallery 339, Philadelphia, USA
2009For Gray, Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
a View, BLD Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Landscape, Gallery Art Unlimited, Tokyo, Japan
2008Landscape, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Contacts, Gallery Mestalla, Tokyo, Japan
Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2007Color Works, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, California, USA
Work:Man, Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
In color, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2006Waterfolio, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Reclamation, Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY, USA
2005Layer/Sou/Soh, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
juxtapose, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura
2004il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA USA
2003Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA
2002il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
Martha Tepper Fine Arts, Boston, MA USA
2001Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA USA
Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
2000il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
Elaine L. Jacob Gallery and Community Arts Gallery at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI USA
1999Columbia 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
1998Galerie 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
1997Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL USA
Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA USA
1996Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA
il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
1995Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH USA
Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, MI USA
Gallery Ram, USA, Santa Monica, CA USA
1994Landmark Tower Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA USA
Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1993The 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
1992il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo Osaka, Japan
1991Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
Photo Interform & Interform Atelier, Osaka, Japan
1989Bancho Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1988Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1986Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1984Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1982Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1979Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene / Cantor Arts Center / February 26 – August 3, 2025
2024Shelter & Shacks / Gallery Luisotti / May 25 – July 6, 2014
Karuizawa Foto Fest 2024 / May 25, 2014
2023all dreams, all stone / Nevven Gallery / Goteborg / Sweden / June 8 – September 3, 2023
ABSTRACTION: The Genesis and Evolution of Abstract Painting Cézanne, Fouvism, Cuvism and on to Today
Artizon Museum / Tokyo / June 3 – August 20, 2023
2022TOSHIO SHIBATA & SUZUKI RISAKU / Photography and Painting – from Cézanne / Artizon Museum / April 29 – July 10, 2021
50th Annniversary Collectio of Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts / Utsunomiya / April 16 – July 26
Image and the Photographic Allusion / Oakland University Art Gallery / Rochester, MI / Feburuary 1 – April 3, 2021
2021Living in symbiosis with Forests and Water / Nagano Prefectual Art Museum / August 28 – November 3, 2021
Mizu / Ibasho Gallery / Antwerp / June 17 – August 22, 2021
The Expanded Landscape / Getty Center / The J. Paul Getty Museum / June 29 – October 10, 2021
2020Der-Hong Autumn Photo Show / Der-Hong Art Gallery / Tainan City / September 21 – October 17, 2020
Exposition Collective / Polka Gallery / 2 July – 5 September 2020
2019The Polaroid Project; At the intersection of Art and Technology / MIT Museum / October 11 – Febuary 23, 2020
Civilization: The Way We Live Now / NGV Australia / September 13 – Febuary 19, 2020
Civilization: The Way We Live Now / Ullens Center for Conpemporary Art / Beijin / March 9 – March 26, 2019
2018Treescapes / Laurence Miller Gallery / September 13 – October 27
Civilization / National Museum of Modern and Conpemporary Art / Korea October 10 – Feburary 17, 2019
Architecture x Photographs / TOP Museum / November 10 – January 27, 2019
NEW TERRITORY: Landscape Photography Today / Denver Art Museum / on view through September 16, 2018
Le Pont Rouge, exposition collective / Gallery Mestalla / Tokyo / March 31 – April 20, 2018
Nature so-called / Bryn Mawr College / PA / February 28 – June 3, 2018
20172D printers / Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts / July 15 – September 18, 2017
2016Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now / SFMOMA / October 15, 2016 – March 12, 2017
No Photo, No life / Gallery ART UNLIMITED / November 30 – December 26, 2016
Small Things Considered / Laurence Miller Gallery / July 5 – August 19, 2016
Pursuing The Sublime: Laurence Miller Gallery / May 5 – June 25, 2016
Japanese Prints and Photographs / Path through Modernity: LACMA / May 21 – September 25
Contemporary Photography Asian Perspectives: Laurence Miller Gallery, NY / March 10 – April 30, 2016
2014Paris Photo 2014: Grand Palais / November 13 – 16, 2014
The Collector’s Eye: The Malonyey Collection / FotoFest, Houston / October 23 – November 29, 2014
Adventure in Art: Master Pieces of The National Museum of Art, Osaka / The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki / August 9 – September 28
Adventure in Art: Master Pieces of The National Museum of Art, Osaka / The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum / May 17 – June 22
SMALL THINGS CONSIDERED / Laurence Miller Gallery / July 8, 2013 – August 22, 2014
The Art Show / Park Avenue Armory at 67th street / Laurence Miller Gallery / Stand A-13 / March 5 – 9, 2014
2013The Aeththetics of Photography / Cosmos-Natural Phenomena in Photographs / Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography / Sptember 21 – November 17, 2013
Given / Laurence Miller Gallery / April 25 – May 25, 2013
Landmark: The Fields of Photography / Somerset House, London / March 14 – April 28
Red Unlimited / Gallery ART UNLIMITED / January 22 – Feburary 23, 2013
Lines: a Brief History / Centre Pompidou-Metz / January 11 – April 1, 2013
2012LEWIS BALTZ & TOSHIO SHIBATA / SHADAI GALLERY, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Tokyo / November 24 – December 24, 2012
Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan / Haifa Museum of Art , Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art – Israel / July 21 – December 16
Given Forms – TATSUNO Toeko / SHIBATA Toshio / The National Art Center, Tokyo / August 8 – October 22, 2012
In Focus: Picturing Landscape / J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center / May 22, 2012 – October 7, 2012
MAN MADE COLOR / Laurence Miller Gallery / June 20 – August 17, 2012
Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan / Ermolaevsky – Moscow / March 14 – May 9, 2012
2011Monochrome or Monotone / Gallery ART UNLIMITED / Tokyo / October 28 – November 26, 2011
Past (Present) Future 3 / Laurence Miller Gallery / June 6 – July 28, 2011
Public Works / Museun of Contemporary Photography, Chicago / April 29 – July 17, 2011
Prints unlimited / Gallery ART UNLIMITED / Tokyo / January 12 – February 5, 2011
2010Ruptures and Continuities of Photography / The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / February 21 – May 9, 2010
2009The Intersection of Paintings and Photographs / Nagoya City Art Museum / Nagoya / October 24 – December 20, 2009
The Abstracted Landscape / Laurence Miller Gallery September 24 – November 14, 2009
At / From Tamagawa 1964 – 2009: Contemporary Japanese Art from Geographical Viewpoint / Fuchu art Museum, Tokyo / September 19 – November 3, 2009
NIGHT - TOWN / gallery luisotti, Santa Monica / July 18 – August 19, 2009
2008The History of Arts and the Cities – Paris, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai – / Sendai Mediatheque
ART OSAKA / July 25 – 27 2008
Hong Kong International Art Fair / May 14 – 18. 2008
ART FAIR TOKYO 2008 / April 4 – 6. 2008
CIRCULATION / Hakenomori Museum / Koganei City, Tokyo / January 12 – March 12. 2008
2007JAPAN Caught by Camera / Shanghai Art Museum / October 26 – November 25, 2007
Where Are We? Questions of Landscape / Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield UK September 20 – January 2008
Upon an Ether Sea: Water and Ship Imagery from the MCA Collection / Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Eyes of An Island / Michael Hoppen Gallery UK / October 4 – December 10
Past (Present) Future / Laurence Miller Gallery / July 9 – August 16
The Photograph: What You See & What You Don’t / Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music / May 29 – June 17
Views of Water: From Monet and Taikan to the Present / Yokohama Museum of Art / April 21 – July 1
ART FAIR TOKYO 2007 / April 10 – 12
Joy of color / Laurence Miller Gallery / March 15 – May 5
2006Art/Full / Hakenomori Museum / December 16 – February 12
Robert Wood Johnson Gallery / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
les peintres de la vie moderne / Centre Pompidou / Paris
Place / Edward Steichen gallery / MoMA / NY / from mid-March to mid-November
A Curator’s Eye: the Visual Legacy of Robert A. Sobieszek / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Recent Landscape Photography: The Intimate and the Sublime / The Saint Louis Art Museum
Casual Meeting / is on view May 13 – Jun 18 / Soh Gallery, Tokyo
The Altered Landscape / The National Academies
2005ART FAIR TOKYO 2005
Modern Masters of Photography / Tokyo, Japan
Surface / Laurence Miller Gallery / NY / May 5 – June 30, 2005
Festival Internazional di Roma
“10 years anniversary !!!” / Galerie Françoise Paviot, Paris, April 2 – juin 11, 2005
2004“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
1999The 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
1981Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1979Paul 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

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

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