ARTISTS
NEWS
EXHIBITIONS
Michael KENNA / Toshio SHIBATA: Photography Unlimited
April 3 Aug (Wed) - 10 Sep (Sat), 2022
gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo
S,M,L―Into the Unknown
April 10 (Sat) - May 22 (Sat), 2021
gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo
Toshio SHIBATA: before Millennium
April 13 - May 26, 2018
Venue: gallery ART UNLIMITED (Nogizaka, Tokyo)
SELECTED WORKS
BIOGRAPHY
1949 Born in Tokyo
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
Lives and works in Tokyo
Solo Exhibitions
2014 | "-Triangles- Toshio SHIBATA", Gallery ART UNLIMITED,Tokyo, Japan |
2012 | "Wonders" Yoshiaki Inoeu Gallery, Osaka, Japan |
"Water made" Gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo, Japan | |
"Meaning of color" Gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo, Japan | |
2011 | "Concrete Abstraction" BLD gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
"Flow" Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam | |
2010 | Gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo, Japan |
Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan | |
Gallery 339, Pholadelphia, USA | |
a View for Gray, Naddif Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | |
2009 | ZEIT-FOTO SALON, Tokyo, Japan |
BLD Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | |
2008 | Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan |
Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery | |
Soh Gallery | |
Gallery ART UNLIMITED | |
2007 | Zeit Foto Salon |
Soh Gallery | |
Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery | |
2006 | Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA |
Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | |
2005 | Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
Kamakura Gallery, kamakura, Japan | |
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
2014 | "Night&Day2014", Gallery ART UNLIMITED,Tokyo, Japan |
2013 | "Collection Unlimited -As you like it-", Gallery ART UNLIMITED,Tokyo, Japan |
"Night & Day [partⅡ] New Landscape photographers in Japan", Gallery ART UNLIMITED,Tokyo, Japan | |
2006 | Robert Wood Johnson Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY USA |
"les peintres de la vie moderne" Centre Pompidou, Paris France | |
"Place" Edward Steichen gallery, The Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY USA | |
"Recent Landscape Photography: The Intimate and the Sublime" The Saint Louise Art Museum, Saint Louise MO USA | |
"The Altered Landscape" The National Academies Washington, DC | |
2005 | "Modern Masters of Photography" Tokyo |
"Surface" Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA | |
"Festival Internazional di Roma" Roma, Italy | |
"10 years anniversary " Galerie Francoise Paviot Paris, France | |
"Thinking in Monochrome!" Soh Gallery, Tokyo | |
2004 | "The Altered Landscape" Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC Canada |
"Meguro Art Annual 2004" Meguro Art Museum, Tokyo | |
2003 | "Consuming Nature" Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL USA |
"Collecting Photography" Ackland Art Museum, NC, USA | |
"Oases" Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA | |
"Histories of Photography" Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, NY, NY USA | |
"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 | |
"New Documents '90" The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan | |
"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 |
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 |
Public Collection; Museum / Special Collections
Art Museum at Vassar, Vassar College, NY, USA
Bibliotrhe´que 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
Muse´es Royaux des beaux-arts, Brussels, Belgium
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston MA USA
Museum Fu¨r Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
National Gallery of Canada, Toronto, ON Canada
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Paul Getty Museum, CA USA
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 Fuji Art Museum, Tokyo
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Victoria and Albert Museum, London England
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA USA
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Monographs
Photographs / by Toshio Shibata: Asahi Shinbun Publishing, Tokyo, 1992
Terra: Photographs by Toshio Shibata,Essay by Yoshio Nakamura, Toshi Shuppan, Tokyo, 1994
Landscape: Nazraeli Press, Tucson, AZ 1996
View / Visions of Japan, Korinsha Press, Kyoto, Japan 1998
DAM: Nazraeli Press, Tucson, AZ 2004
Type55: Nazraeli Press, Tucson, AZ 2004
Landscape2 Nazraeli Press, Tucson, AZ 2008
a View/ for Gray Nagasawa Akio Publishing 2009
6x6 "Expressway"Nazraeli Press, Tucson, AZ 2010