USHIO SHINOHARA
Pictures
Texts
Boxing-Painting Performances
Biography
1932 | Born in Tokyo |
1953-57 | Attended Tokyo University of Fine Arts (Geidai), Majored in oil painting |
Reacted against the institution’s formalistic approach and did not complete final requirements for graduation | |
1960 | Founding member of “Neo-Dada Organizers” |
1969 | Received JDR 3 Fund Grant to visit the United States, New York City and has lived there ever since |
2007 | 48th Mainichi Art Prize |
Solo-Exhibitions (Selection)
2008 | “Murder of Oiran in Blood”, Galerie oko, Berlin |
Yamaguchi Gallery, Tokyo (’81 ’83 ’84 ’87 ’88 ‘90 ’91 ’95’ 98’ 01 ’02 ’05 ‘07) | |
2007 | “Ushio Shinohara and Chu Enoki”, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art |
2005 | “Boxing Paintings & Motorcycle Sculptures”, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura |
“SHINOHARA”, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima | |
2003 | Ise Cultural Foundation, New York |
2001 | Fuchu Art Museum |
1995 | Toyama Shimin Praza Art Gallery, Toyama |
1993 | MOMA contemporary, Fukuoka |
1992 | Travelling Exhibition “SHINOHARA Ushio”: |
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art | |
Tokushima Modern Art Museum | |
Tsukashin Hall | |
Hara Museum ARC | |
1988 | Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angels |
1984 | Kawasaki IBM Gallery, Kanagawa |
1983 | Emba Culture Hall, Tokyo |
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts | |
1982 | Japan Society Gallery, New York |
1966 | Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo |
1965 | Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo (‘66) |
1959 | Komatsu Gallery, Tokyo |
Group-Exhibitions (Selection)
2007 | “‘Things’ in Art of the 20th Century & Beyond”, The National Art Center, Toyko |
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York | |
“Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artist in N.Y.”, Japan Society Gallery | |
2006 | Shusaku Arakawa, Yayoi Kusama & Ushio Shinohara, Chiba City Museum of Art |
2005 | “Shuzo Takiguchi - Dream Driftages”, Setagaya Art Museum |
2004-05 | “Period of Copy from Duchamp to Morimura”, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga |
Travelling Exhibition “Marcel Duchamp and 20th century Art”: | |
The National Museum of Art, Osaka | |
Yokohama Museum of Art | |
Travelling Exhibition “TRACES - Body and Thought in Post-war Art” | |
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto | |
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo | |
2002 | “Pop! Pop!! Pop!!!”, The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki |
The Museum of Modern Art, Niigata | |
“20 th Century. Art Recognized a False Image”, Hiratsuka Museum of Art | |
2001 | “Shuzo Takiguchi - DreamDriftages”, Toyama Kenminkaikan Art Museum, Toyama |
2000 | “Homage to Taro Okamoto from 7 artist”, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art |
“Art Creats”, Lyon Contemporary Art Museum | |
“Metamorphosis-analysing the paper”, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum | |
“PROCESS/REPROCESS Japan and the West”, Leslie Tonkonow, New York | |
1998-99 | Travelling Exhibition: “Out of Action 1949-1979” |
MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles | |
MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna | |
Barcelona Modern Art Museum | |
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo | |
1998 | “Neo-Dada Japan 1958-1998”, Art Praza, Oita |
1997 | “Summer in Japan 1960-1964”, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki |
“Let’s go Ukiyoe”, Mitaka City Art Gallery, Tokyo | |
1995 | “Neo-Dada ”, Conpal Hall, Oita |
1994 | Travelling Exhibition: “Avant-Garde of Japanese Post-war”: |
Yokohama Museum of Art | |
Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York | |
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | |
1993 | Photo Exhibition of Neo-Dada, Fukuoka Art Museum |
Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo | |
1991 | “Western Paintings in Showa”, Himeji City Museum of Art, Hyogo |
“Object/Poem - from thinking Objects to GOMI ART”, Itabashi Art Museum | |
“Part 3: Post-war Art – its rebirth and development”, The Miyagi Art Museum | |
“Japanese Anti-Art: Now and Then”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka | |
1990-91 | Travelling Exhibition “Art Kite” organized by the Goethe Institute: |
Haus der Kunst, München | |
Kunstsammlung Nordrheinwestfalen, Düsseldorf | |
Deichtorhalle, Hamburg | |
Nationalgalerie Berlin | |
1990 | “Figure of Human, Figure of Beauty”, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art |
“Streams of Modern Art ”, the Museum of Modern Art, Toyama | |
1989 | Phantom Yamamura Collections, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art |
1988 | Travelling Exhibition in Japanese Art Museums: “Art Kite” |
1986 | “Modern Art in Asia”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul |
Travelling Exhibition: Setagaia Museum und Tochigi Municipal Museum | |
“Japon des Avant Gardes 1910-1970”, Centre Georges Pompidou | |
1985 | The National Museum of Art, Osaka |
Australian Center of Contemporary Art, Melbourne | |
“Restructure: Japanese Avant-Garde 1945-1965”, Museum of Modern Art Tokyo | |
1984 | “20 years of Modern Paintings”, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma |
1983 | “Modern Realism”, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama |
“1960 - Starting Point to Versatility”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum | |
Newark Museum, New York | |
1982 | “Takiguchi Shuzo and Post-war Art”, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama |
1981 | The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto |
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo | |
1980 | The National Museum of Art, Osaka |
1979 | “Japan Today”, World Trade Center, New York |
1976 | Sculpture Center New York (‘79) |
1975 | Toyko Central Museum, Seibu Musuem |
1973 | “Japanese Artists in America”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto |
1969 | the 9th “Contemporary Japanese Art” Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum |
1968 | the 8th “Contemporary Japanese Art” Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum |
1967 | the 9 th “Japan International Art” Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum |
Musèe d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris | |
1966 | “New Generations of Modern Art”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo |
1965 | The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto |
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art | |
1960 | the 1st “Neo-Dadaism Organizers” Exhibition, Ginza Gallery, Tokyo |
the 2nd “Neo-Dada” Exhibition, Yoshimura Masunobu Atelier, Tokyo | |
the 3rd “Neo-Dada” Exhibition, Hibiyapark Gallery, Tokyo | |
1955-63 | the “Yomiuri Independent Exhibition”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum |
Boxing-Painting Performances (Selection)
2007 | “Live Art Festival”, Carlton University in Ottawa (Canada) |
2006 | J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
2005 | Kanagawa Museum of Modern Art |
EXPO 2005 AICHI JAPAN collaborating with the Kyogen-play | |
“SHINOHARA”, Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima | |
2004 | The State University of New York at Potsdam |
Performance broadcasted by NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) | |
2002 | Musashino Art University |
Performance for Takeshi Kitano’s “Everybody is Picasso”, Tokyo-TV | |
2001 | Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo |
2000 | Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon |
“Metamorphosis-analysing the paper”, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum | |
1999 | Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
1998 | “Neo-Dada Japan 1958-1998”, Art Praza, Oita |
“Out of Action 1949-1979”, MAK - Austria Museum of Applied Art, Vienna | |
1991 | “Japanese Anti-Art: Now and Then”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka |
1961 | Performance reported in the Mainichi Graph - Dialog with Oe Kenzaburo |
Performance photographed by William Klein |
Publications
2006 | “Fast, Beauty and Rhytm”, Bijyutsu-Shuppansha (publisher) |
1985 | “New York is wonderful today too!”, Kodan-sha (publisher) |
1985 | “Jirocho in New York”, Kodan-sha (publisher) |
1968 | “Zenei no Michi” (Path of the Avant-Garde), Bijyutsu-Shuppansha (publisher) |
Public Collections (Selection)
MOMA, New York
Musée d’art Contemporain, Lyon
National Gallery Prague
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Yokohama Museum of Art
Sezon Museum of Modern Art
Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama
Fukuoka Art Museum, Kawaguchi
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
Chiba City Museum of Art
The Miyagi Museum of Art
The Museum of Modern Art, Tokushima
Iwaki City Museum of Art
Setagaya Art Museum
Meguro Museum of Art
Nigata City Art Museum
The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga
Oita City Art Museum
The Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo
Takamatsu City Museum of Art
The Museum of Art, Kochi
Kourodai Park (Kitakyushu City)
Kirishima Open Air Museum, Kagoshima
The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum
Saku Municipal Museum of Modern Art (Nagano)
Press review (little selection)
Die Welt, 6.11.08: "Blutiger Kurtisanen-Mord", Andrea Hilgenstock
creative face, Nov. 08
Tagesspiegel, 1.11.08: Berliner Liste: "Herausragend: die Ausstellung der Berliner Galerie oko...", Kolja Reichert
tip Berlin, Magazin Nr. 23/08: tip Extra - Der Wegweiser zum Kunstherbst
Neues Deutschland, 27.10.08: "Geborstenes Ganzes", Volkmar Draeger
tip Berlin, Magazin Nr. 20/08: Ausstellungstipp
doitsu news digest, 5.09.08: Vol.730, Kulturtipp
rbb Kulturradio, 5.09.08: Portrait: Ushio Shinohara, Ulrike Meitzner
ART MAGAZINE, 4.09.08: Die fünf Tipps der Woche: Berlin: "Ushio Shinohara – Blutiger Oiran-Mord", Leonard Seyfarth
Exberliner, September 08: Don't miss this month - Art: Ushio Shinohara
ART IN AMERICA, March 06: "Clamor and Quiet", Janet Koplos
Update 12.2008