Biography |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 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 |
| 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 |