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Toshio SHIBATA


Born in Tokyo. Studied oil paintings, went to Belgium acquiring a scholarship from the Education Ministry of Academy of Belgium. @He first got inspiration on photographs at the Royal Academy of Ghent, then after returning to Japan, started to shoot. After having his first solo show 'Europe in Winter' at Nikon salon, has been a very active photographer, had many shows mostly at ZEIT-FOTO salon. He was awarded the 17th. Ihee Kimura prize in 1989. @His photographs are often compared with New Topographic stream that is dominant the United States. They take approach to the scenery that human being have changed as to shoot objectively with a scientific way. But Shibata clearly focuses on the fact that man made objects are also effected by the power of nature. He does that in his own picturesque way. He has released many photograph collection books like 'DAM' 'LANDSCAPE'. Collections at International Museum on Photography: George Eastman House NY, Metropolitan Museum of Arts NY and more. Solo shows have been out at The Art Institute of Chicago 'Toshio Shibata' in 1993 and many more. A solo exhibition will be held at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in December, 2008.

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 in Kamakura, works in Tokyo

<Solo exhibitions>

2008
Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

2007
ZEIT-FOTO SALON, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA USA

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>

2007
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA
Museum Of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

2006
Robert Wood Johnson Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY USA
gles peintres de la vie moderneh Centre Pompidou, Paris France
gPlaceh Edward Steichen gallery, The Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY USA
gRecent Landscape Photography: The Intimate and the Sublimeh The Saint Louise Art Museum, Saint Louise MO USA
gThe Altered Landscapeh The National Academies Washington, DC

2005
gModern Masters of Photographyh Tokyo
gSurfaceh Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA
gFestival Internazional di Romah Roma, Italy
g10 years anniversary h Galerie Francoise Paviot Paris, France
gThinking in Monochrome!h Soh Gallery, Tokyo

2004
gThe Altered Landscapeh Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC Canada
gMeguro Art Annual 2004h Meguro Art Museum, Tokyo

2003
gConsuming Natureh Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL USA
gCollecting Photographyh Ackland Art Museum, NC, USA
gOasesh Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA
gHistories of Photographyh Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, NY, NY USA
gA Decade of Collectingh Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, USA

2002
gLends Landscapeh Museum of fine Art, Boston, USA
gFrom the Outside Inh The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, USA

2001
gBetween light and shadowh Boise Art Museum, ID USA
gShuffle, 6 approach to Polaroidh Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
g14 Solo Shows, Meguro Art Annual 2000h Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

2000
gOpen Endsh 11 Exhibitions of Contemporary Art from 1960 to Now, Architecture Hot and Cold, Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY USA
gRepresenting the Intangibleh Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston USA
gIdenticazione di un Paesaggio Venezia-Margherah Fotgrafia e Transformazioni nella citta' Contemporanea, VEGA Parco Scientifico Tecnologico, Marghera-Venezia, Italy
gFluid Flowh James Graham & Sons, NY, NY USA

1999
The palazzo della triennale, Italy
gRe-structureh Grinnell College Art Gallery, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell, Iowa USA
gThe Emerging Imageh The Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA USA
gMore than meets the eyeh Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
gThrough the Lens: Time, Space and Matterh The Rye Arts Center, NY, NY USA

1997
gIndustry and Photographyh Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH USA
gPeople and Landscapesh Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA USA
gPhotography and beyond in Japanh The Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, HA USA

1996
gFabulous Photos: Celebrating Our Finest Acquisitionsh Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA USA
gContemporary Japanese Photographyh Jane Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
gPhotography and beyond in Japanh 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
gLiquid Crystal Futuresh Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst e. v. Berlin, Germany / Mucsarnok Palace of Exhibitions, Budapest, Hungry / B.W.A. Gallery Wroclaw, Poland / Goteborg Kunsthalle, Sweden
gTwo Media: Toshio Shibata & Toeko Tatsunoh Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1995
gTexture and Touch: Contemporary Japanese Photographyh The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
gPhotography and Beyond in Japanh Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
gPhotography and the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo 1953-1995h The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
gLiquid Crystal Futuresh Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan / Copenhagen, Denmark

1994
gPhotography and Beyond in Japanh Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
gGlobal Environment: FotoFest's Fifth International Festival of Photographyh Houston Convention Center, Houston, TX USA
gCityscapesh Martha Tepper Fine Arts, Boston, MA USA
gInside Out: Japanese Contemporary Photographyh The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC USA
gLiquid Crystal Futuresh The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

1993
gCrossing Territoriesh The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM USA
gVisionary Meditationh A.O.I.Gallery Santa Fe, NM USA
gJapanese Contemporary Photographyh Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland

1992
gNew Photography 8h The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY USA
gWasteland: Fotografie Biennale Rotterdam 3h Rotterdam, Netherlands
gNew Acquisition, New Work, New Directionsh Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA USA

1991
gArtists Who Loves the Natureh Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

1990
"The Past and The Present of Photographyh The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
"Japanese Contemporary Photographyh Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan / Pavillon des Arts, Paris, France
gNew Documents '90h The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
gThree Japanese Contemporaries: FotoFest '90h Houston Convention Center, Houston, TX USA

1989
"Aspect of Contemporary Photography",Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
"The Hitachi Collection of Japanese Contemporary PhotographyhCenter for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA

1987
gExhibition of Shashinh Yurakucho Asahi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1986
"Fotograpia Japanesa Contemporaneah Casa Elizalde, Barcelona, Spain
gThe Super Image: The Work with 20hx24 Polaroidh Seed Hall, Tokyo, Japan

1985
"Dumont Foto 5: Die Japanische Photographieh Museum fur Kunst und Gewrbe, Hamburg, Germany
"Paris, New York, Tokyoh Tsukuba Museum of Photography '85, Tsukuba, Japan

1982
"Fotokina Photo Art 1h Cologne, Germany

1981
ZEIT-FOTO SALON, Tokyo, Japan

1979
Paul Pia Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

1972
"Exhibition by Japan Print Associationh Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
gCosmos Factoryh Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1971
"Cosmos Factoryh 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
MuseLes Royaux des beaux-arts, Brussels, Belgium
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston MA USA
Museum FuNr 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