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Toshio Shibata

Born in 1949, Tokyo. Toshio Shibata studied photography at Royal Academy in Belgium and moved back to Japan. He started to take photos of concrete-made constructions such as dams and roads build up in the nature. Using a large camera, Shibata's photograph captures an artificial and organic figurative view with an accurate and tense composition. Grass, trees, roads and concrete blocks are all used as an element to create a beautiful lines in Shibata's photograph. The artificial objects are naturally positioned in the nature and created a surreal landscape.

Education

1975	Fellowship, Ministry of National Education and Dutch Culture, Belgium Studied at Royal Academy in Gent, Belgium
1974	MFA Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music
1972	BFA Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music

Awards

2009	Photographic Society of Japan Award, Lifetime Achievement. The 25th Higashikawa Award
1992	The 17th Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Prize

Collection
International
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
Paul Getty Museum, CA, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA,USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, UAS
The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, UAS
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
Musees Royaux des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris France
National Gallery of Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan

Works


For Grey
by Toshio Shibata
$1,570
photobook photograph


For Grey
by Toshio Shibata
$1,570
photobook photograph


For Grey
by Toshio Shibata
$1,570
photobook photograph


For Grey
by Toshio Shibata
$1,570
photobook photograph


For Grey
by Toshio Shibata
$1,570
photobook photograph


a View
by Toshio Shibata
$1,570
photobook photograph


a View
by Toshio Shibata
$1,570
photobook photograph


a View
by Toshio Shibata
$1,570
photobook photograph


a View
by Toshio Shibata
$1,570
photobook photograph


a View
by Toshio Shibata
$1,570
photobook photograph

Exhibition

Selected Solo Exhibition

2009	"For Grey", Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan "a View", BLD Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008	"Landscape", Tokyo Metropolitan Museum Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2007	"Color Works", Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA, USA "Work:Man", Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan "In Color", Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2006	"Reclamation", Laurence Miller, Gallery, NY, NY, USA
1998	"Toshio Shibata", Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France
19907	Toshio Shibata", Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL, USA

Selected Group Exhibition

2009	"At/From Tamagawa 1964-2009: Contemporary Japanese Art from Geographical Viewpoint", Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2008	"The History of Arts and Cities - Paris, New York, Tokyo and Shanghai", Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan "Circulation", Hakenomori Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2007	"JAPAN caught by Camera", Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China "Eyes of Island" Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, UK "The photograph: What you see and what you don't", University of Fine Art and Music, Tokyo, Japan "Views of Water", Yokoama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
2003	"Consuming Nature", Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, USA "Defining Moments / Two Centuries of Photography / Collecting Photography" Ackland Art Museum, NC, USA "The history of Japanese photography" The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA

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