Toshio SHIBATA
柴田敏雄
Born in 1949 in Tokyo, Toshio Shibata has been producing a body of photographs which both question and recreate the image as landscape. Travelling across the country of Japan to journeying through America, Shibata's imagery presents a the relationship between humans and their environments, highlighting both the descructive and creative powers of the human presence within nature.
Chronology
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
Publications
1994 - "Terra: Photographs by Toshio Shibata", Toshi Shuppan, Tokyo
1996 - "Landscape" Nazraeli Press, U.S.A
1998 - "View / Visions of Japan", Korinsha Press, Japan
2004 - "DAM", Nazraeli Press, U.S.A
2004 - "Type55", Nazraeli Press, U.S.A
2008 - "Landscape2", Nazraeli Press, U.S.A
2009 - "A View", Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Japan
2009 - "For Grey" Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Japan
2010 - "Expressway", Nazraeli Press, U.S.A
2013 - "CONTACTS", Poursuite, France
2015 - "YODAKA", Zen Foto Gallery, Japan
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012 - "Wonders" Yoshiaki Inoeu Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2012 - "Water made" Gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo, Japan
2012 - "Meaning of color" Gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo, Japan
2011 - "Concrete Abstraction" BLD gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2011 - "Flow" Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
2010 - Gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo, Japan
2010 - Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
2010 - Gallery 339, Pholadelphia, USA
2010 - a View for Gray, Naddif Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009 - ZEIT-FOTO SALON, Tokyo, Japan
2009 - BLD Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008 - Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2008 - Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery
2008 - Soh Gallery
2008 - Gallery ART UNLIMITED
2007 - Zeit Foto Salon
2007 - Soh Gallery
2007 - Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery
2006 - Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA
2006 - Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2005 - Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2005 - Kamakura Gallery, kamakura, Japan
2004 - il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
2004 - Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004 - Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA USA
2003 - Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA
2002 - il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
2002 - Martha Tepper Fine Arts, Boston, MA USA
2001 - Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA USA
2001 - ZEIT-FOTO SALON,Tokyo, Japan
2000 - il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
2000 - Elaine L. Jacob Gallery and Community Arts Gallery at Wayne State,University, Detroit, MI USA
1999 - Columbia University, NY, NY USA
1999 - Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA USA
1999 - Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA
1999 - Sprengel Museum Hanover, Germany
1999 - Galleria Civica Modena, Modena, Italy
1999 - Dryphoto, Prato, Italy
1998 - Galerie FA Paviot, Paris, France (November 20-January 16, 1999)
1998 - Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France (November 12-January 4, 1999)
1998 - Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA
1998 - il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
1998 - Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997 - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL USA
1998 - Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA USA
1996 - Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA
1996 - il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
1995 - Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH USA
1995 - Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1995 - Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, MI USA
1995 - Gallery Ram, USA, Santa Monica, CA USA
1994 - Landmark Tower Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1994 - Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA USA
1994 - ZEIT-FOTO SALON, Tokyo, Japan
1993 - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
1993 - Plaza Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1993 - Past Rays, Yokohama, Japan
1993 - Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA
1993 - Photo Interform & Interform Contemporary, Osaka, Japan
1992 - il tempo, Tokyo, Japan
1992 - Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo Osaka, Japan
1991 - Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
1991 - 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
2013 - "Collection Unlimited -As you like it-", Gallery ART UNLIMITED,Tokyo, Japan
2013 - "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
2006 - "les peintres de la vie moderne" Centre Pompidou, Paris France
2006 - "Place" Edward Steichen gallery, The Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY USA
2006 - "Recent Landscape Photography: The Intimate and the Sublime" The Saint Louise Art Museum, Saint Louise MO USA
2006 - "The Altered Landscape" The National Academies Washington, DC
2005 - "Modern Masters of Photography" Tokyo
2005 - "Surface" Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA
2005 - "Festival Internazional di Roma" Roma, Italy
2005 - "10 years anniversary " Galerie Francoise Paviot Paris, France
2005 - "Thinking in Monochrome!" Soh Gallery, Tokyo
2004 - "The Altered Landscape" Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC Canada
2004 - "Meguro Art Annual 2004" Meguro Art Museum, Tokyo
2003 - "Consuming Nature" Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL USA
2003 - "Collecting Photography" Ackland Art Museum, NC, USA
2003 - "Oases" Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY USA
2003 - "Histories of Photography" Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, NY, NY USA
2003 - "A Decade of Collecting" Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, USA
2002 - "Lends Landscape" Museum of fine Art, Boston, USA
2002 - "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
2001 - "Shuffle, 6 approach to Polaroid" Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2001 - "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
2000 - "Representing the Intangible" Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston USA
2000 - "Identicazione di un Paesaggio Venezia-Marghera" Fotgrafia e Transformazioni nella citta' Contemporanea, VEGA Parco Scientifico Tecnologico, Marghera-Venezia, Italy
2000 - "Fluid Flow" James Graham & Sons, NY, NY USA
1999 - The palazzo della triennale, Italy
1999 - "Re-structure" Grinnell College Art Gallery, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell, Iowa USA
1999 - "The Emerging Image" The Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA USA
1999 - "More than meets the eye" Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
1999 - "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
1997 - "People and Landscapes" Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA USA
1997 - "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
1996 - "Contemporary Japanese Photography" Jane Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
1996 - "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
1996 - "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
1996 - "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
1995 - "Photography and Beyond in Japan" Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City,Mexico
1995 - "Photography and the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo 1953-1995" The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1995 - "Liquid Crystal Futures" Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan / Copenhagen, Denmark
1994 - "Photography and Beyond in Japan" Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1994 - "Global Environment: FotoFest's Fifth International Festival of Photography"Houston Convention Center, Houston, TX USA
1994 - "Cityscapes" Martha Tepper Fine Arts, Boston, MA USA
1994 - "Inside Out: Japanese Contemporary Photography" The Light Factory,Charlotte, NC USA
1994 - "Liquid Crystal Futures" The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1993 - "Crossing Territories" The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM USA
1993 - "Visionary Meditation" A.O.I.Gallery Santa Fe, NM USA
1993 - "Japanese Contemporary Photography" Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
1992 - "New Photography 8" The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY USA
1992 - "Wasteland: Fotografie Biennale Rotterdam 3" Rotterdam, Netherlands
1992 - "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
1990 - "Japanese Contemporary Photography" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan / Pavillon des Arts, Paris, France
1990 - "New Documents '90" The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
1990 - "Three Japanese Contemporaries: FotoFest '90" Houston Convention Center,Houston, TX USA
1989 - "Aspect of Contemporary Photography",Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki,Japan
1989 - "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
1986 - "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
1985 - "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
1972 - "Cosmos Factory" Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1971 - "Cosmos Factory" Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Awards
1976 - Fellowship, Ministry of National Education and Dutch Culture
1975 - Fellowship, Ministry of National Education and Dutch Culture
Collections
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