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 Toshio SHIBATA

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
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
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