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

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