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1969 Born in Kobe, Japan Lives and works in Berlin Education 1992 Graduated from San Francisco Art Institute (B.A.) 1990 Graduated from Osaka College of Art, Osaka Solo exhibitions 2008 Shimabuku's Fish & Chips, Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona, Spain The Street, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, U.K. 2007 Shimabuku's Fish & Chips, DAAD galerie, Berlin The Story So Far, Shugoarts, Tokyo, Japan Wilkinson Gallery, London Shimabuku's Fish & Chips, DAAD galerie, Berlin 2005 From High in the Sky to he Bottom of the Sea, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona Catching octopus with self-made ceramic pots, Air de Paris, France 2004 Yoko on the Moon, Maejima Art Center/Yume-R, Okinawa Born as a box, Wilkinson Gallery, London 2003 Watching the River Flow, Shugoarts, Tokyo, Japan Swansea Jack Memorial Dog Swimming Competition, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, U.K. (artist book) 2002 Then, I decided to give a tour of Tokyo to the octopus from Akashi, Gallery Yvon Lambert, Paris Then, I decided to give a tour of Tokyo to the octopus from Akashi, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, U.K. Frog's Sky, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Austria 2001 The Octopus Returns, Kobe Art Village Center / Suma Rikyu Park, Kobe, JapAn (artist book) Passing through the rubber band, Air de Paris, FrancE 1999 I'm traveling with 165-metre mermaid, DAZIBAO, Montreal, Canada (artist book) Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere, Air de Paris, France 1998 In Search of Deer, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan (artist book) 1996 Shimabukuro-Shimafukurou, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan 1994 America, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan 1993 KONNICHIWA, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan (leaflet) Group exhibitions 2008 Laughing in a foreign language, Hayward Gallery, London 2006 Liverpool Biennial XXVII Sao Paolo Biennial 2005 Le invasioni barnariche, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy Circa Berlin, NIKOLAJ, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark 2004 MixMax, Artsonje Center, Seoul,Korea (cat.) Expat -Art Centre, ICA, London – Musee de Art Contenporain, Lyon, France Utopia Station, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Video Dictionary, La Casa Encendida, Madrid Intersection of 4 criticism, Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo 2003 Time After Time, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisico, U.S.A. 25 Hrs, International Video Art Show, Barcelona, Spain (cat.) Utopia Station, 50th Venezia Biennale, Italy (cat.) SPREAD IN PRATO 2, Prato, Italy (cat.) U-Topos, Tirana Biennale 2,Tirana, Albania (cat.) Biennale of Ceramics in Contemporary Art 2nd edition, Riviera Ligure, Italy (cat.) 2002 C'est pas du cinema!, Le Fresnoy, Studio National,Tourcoing, France (cat.) Art in the home, Edinbourgh, U.K. Radiodumb, Zero Arte Contemporanea, Italy La part de l'autre, Carre d'Art, Nîmes, France(cat.) Upstream, Amsterdam/Hoorn (cat.) Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea 2001 Encounter, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (cat.) The Beginning of Things, The 6th Kitakyusyu Biennale, Kitakyusyu Municipal Museum of Art, Kita Kyusyu, Japan (cat.) Ikiro-be alive, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands (cat.) Traveller's Tale (proyecto web), Institute of International Visual Arts, London Mega Wave, Yokohama 2001:International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan (cat.) Facts of Life, Hayward Gallery, London (cat.) Rendez-Vous No.3, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France 2000 Elysian Fields, Centre Georges Pompidou, France (cat.) COUNTER-PHOTOGRAPHY, Moscú (international touring exhibition)(cat.) As it is, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, U.K. (cat.) Transformer, Raum aktueller Kunst Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria do it digital (proyecto web), Kassel, Germany Gift of Hope, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (cat.) 1999 And / Or, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria Space, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Ivresse, Ateliers d'Artistes de la Ville de Marseille, France Extra et Ordinaire, Printemps de Cahors, France (cat.) Empty Garden, Watari-Um,the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (artist book) 1998 Every day, 11th Biennale of Sydney, Australia (cat.) Memorealism, Museum City Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan (cat.) La Table, Air de Paris, France Donaiyanen!, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (cat.) 1996 Displacement-31st Today's Artist, Yokohama Citizens' Gallery, Yokohama, Japan (cat.) Public Art Project - Sound Art, Iwakura, Aichi, Japan (leaflet) Survival Tool, Sakura City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan (cat.) The Stream from the South, Kaseda, Kagoshima, Japan Place for Survival, Kurumi Kindergarten, Shizuoka, Japan 1995 Rolywholyover a Circus John Cage, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan (cat.) From Duchamp to Duchamp, Kita Kanto Museum Of Fine Arts, Gunma, Japan Awards and Grants 2005-06 Guest Professor at Braunschweig School of Art, Braunschweig, DE 2004 DAAD kunstler program, Berlin 2002 Shiseido grant, Banff Center, Canada 1999 Pola Art Foundation grant, Capacete Project, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1998 Ateliers d'Artistes de la Ville de Marseille, FR 1997 Japan Foundatiuon grant, artist in residency program, ARCUS, Japan Selected Articles and Reviews Porcel, Violant, Un pulpo y una cometa, Culturas La Vanguardia, December 21st, 2005, p.19 Miró, Neus, Shimabuku, Exit Express, Nº16, December/January, 2005/2005 Molina, Ángela, Entre el naïf i la morbositat, El País, Quadern 7, November 17th, 2005 Barachon, Charles, Mon amie la pieuvre, Technikart, Nº89, February, 2005, p.107 Morton, Tom, Shimabuku, Frieze, Nº86, October, 2004, p.164-165 Troncy, Eric, Artiste sans frontières, Nº42, April 2003, p.238-241 Fleiss, Elein, Trains and Boats and Planes (Inteview), Purple, Nº12, Summer 2002, p.136-143 McLaren, Duncan, Artists on the Move, Contemporary, June/July/August, 2002, p.56-61 Troncy, Éric, Beaux Arts Magazine, Nº188, January, 2000, p.88 McLaren, Duncan, Five go boating on the Union Canal, The Independent, July 23, 2000, p.4 Miyatsu, Daisuke, Shimabuku, Art Asiapacific, Nº21, 1999, p.93 G.D-M., L’art moderne ne tient qu’à un fil…, Marseille Actualité, May 8, 1999 Lequeux, Emmanuelle, Comment Shimabuku Captura une Sirène, Aden Nº79, June 2-8, 1999, p.24 Joschke, Christian, Shimabuku, Les Inrockuptibles, Nº203, June 16, 1999, p.10 J-M.F., Shimabuku au ‘Printemps de Cahors’ Le poulpe, l’ours et le chien..., La Dépêche Grand Sud, June 25, 1999 M.M., 06 low mix: Michihiro Shimabuku, Crash, Nº08, Summer, 1999, p.12 Shimabuku, Je voyage avec une sirène de 165 mètres de long, BLOC NOTES, Nº17, Autumn, 1999, p.60 Beausse, Pascal, Shimabuku, Flash Art, Nº208, October, 1999, p.121 Bibliography Cucumber Journey (children's book), Shogakukan, Japan, 2004 Swansea Jack Memorial Dog Swimming Competition, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, U.K., 2003 SHIMABUKU 2001, Kobe Art Village Center, Japan, 2001 Mitsuda,Yuri, COUNTER-PHOTOGRAPHY - Japan's Artists Today, The Japan Foundation, 2000, p.64 In Search of Deer, 2000 Kermode, Deborah, Shimabuku, As It Is, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2000, p98-99 Shimabuku, Continuing research for 'Mountains and valleys never meet, but people do', From #1 ,Witte de With, 1999, p.84 Macel, Christine, Shimabuku, Extra et Ordinaire, Printemps de Cahors, 1999, p.80 I'm traveling with a 165-metre mermaid (Je voyage avec une sirène de 165 mètres Lani Maestro/Shimabuku), Dazibao, Montréal, 1999 With Birds at Dawn On Sundays, Tokyo, 1999 Kiho, Mikito, Shimabuku, 11th Biennale of Sydney: every day, the Biennale of Sydney, 1998, p.200 Hara, Makiko, La réalité de la relation avec l’art aujours’jui: Etude du cas de la societé Japonaise, Mézil, Éric, Shimabuku, Donai yanen! Et maintenant!, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, 1998, pp.25-30, 31-36, 276-277, 280 I'm traveling with a 165-metre mermaid, Museum City Project, 1998 |
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