Soji Shimuzu

Statement

I am interested in altering a format, structure, manners and process of the “painting” or “art exhibition”. Sometimes I emphasize a picked factor: color, material, meaning, relation between painting and viewer, which exists in paintings. Another time I make a situation along an assumption, and show it as an installation.

GlogauAIR Project

Triple Double

“Triple Double” means that “The achievement of a two-digit number of any three of point scored, assists, rebounds, blocks, or steals in a single game“ in basketball. A couple of paintings increase repeatedly from this project.

The first painting [A] will be made from picking a visual image up by research, learning, daily lives in Berlin. The second painting [A ’] responds to a factor ( image, color, material and so on ) in the first painting.

The second time – first painting [B] will be made from focusing another motivation, but there is a relation to [A] or [A’]. I will continue that process at the residency. I hope that the viewers are able to have multiple points of view from these works.

CV Summary

b. 1983

EDUCATION

• 2008 – 2012 BFA, School of Art and Design, University of Tsukuba, Japan
• 2004 – 2006 Graphic Design course, Tokyo Zokei University, Japan

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

• 2018 Doublethinkwise Tokas, (Solo), TOKAS; Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Tokyo
• 2017 T radition Créatricé – Cultural Festival in the Forest 2017, Kyoto University of Art & Design, Tokyo
• 2017 The violent silence of a new beginning, Curated by Studio Khana for Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt
• 2016 Bebop, XYZ collective, Tokyo
• 2015 Soji Shimizu – Setagaya Art Award, (Solo), Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
• 2015 Tokyo Wonder Wall, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
• 2015 New Works, Das Japanische Haus, Leipzig, Germany
• 2014 cross dissolve, with Nobuo Yoda, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo
• 2013 Arafudo Art Annual 2013, Fukushima, Japan
• 2012 Open Studio, Warehouse Project, Yokohama, Japan
• 2012 Radio Show , Daikanyama Art Street – Not Authority, But Art., Midori.so, Tokyo
• 2012 BankART AIR Program, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan
• 2011 Nakanojo Biennale 2011, Nakanojo, Japan
• 2011 Art Student Exhibition, Ise Cultural Foundation, New York, United States of America
• 2011 Tegami -Perspektiven japanischer Kunstler, Organized by Nobuko Watabiki+Markus Ito, Hamburg, Buenos Aires and Berlin

CURATION

• 2015 Itch, Midori.so, Tokyo

AWARD and GRANT

• 2014 Setagaya Art Award “Hisho”, Contemporary Art Section, Setagaya City / Setagaya Arts Foundation, Japan
• 2012 Alumni Association’ s Prize, University of Tsukuba, Japan
• 2011 Japan Arts Foundation Scholarship

PUBLICATION

• The multiple lives of a blank book (MLBB053), Yvan Martinez and Joshua Trees with Krister Olsson, Booksfromthefuture, London, 2015

RESIDENCY

• 2013 Asuka Art Village, Nara, Japan
• 2012 BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan

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