b. Tokyo, Japan 1949

Education

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
1976 Studied at Royal Academy in Gent, Belgium

Solo Exhibitions

2017   Het gemaakt Landscape – Foto van Shibata Toshio, SieboldHuis, Leiden, Netherlands
Bridge, Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Toshio Shibata, Der-Horng Gallery, Tainan City, Taiwan
Harmony, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Constructed Landscape, 1839 Contemporary Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
31 Contact Prints, Gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo, Japan
2016   Bridge, Ibasho Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Bridge, Canon Gallery S, Tokyo, Japan
2015   Toshio Shibata: Water Colors, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Early Works 1971–1986, Gallery Mestalla, Tokyo, Japan
Night Photographs, Polka Galerie, Paris, France
The Red Bridge, Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Concrete Abstraction, Akio Nagasawa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Water Colors, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
2014   -Triangles-: Toshio Shibata, Gallery ART UNLIMITED,Tokyo, Japan
2013   Toshio Shibata: The Abstraction of Space, Polka Galerie, Paris, France
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2012   Two Decades, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
Wonders, Yoshiaki Inoeu Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Water made, Gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo, Japan
2011   Laurence Miller Gallery, NYC
Concrete Abstraction, BLD Gallery, Tokyo
Flow, Gallery Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
2010   Gallery Art Unlimited, Tokyo
Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura City, Japan
Gallery 339, Philadelphia
NADiff Gallery, Tokyo
2009 BLD Gallery, Tokyo
Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo
Gallery Art Unlimited, Tokyo
2008 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Gallery Mestalla, Tokyo
Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2007 Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo
Soh Gallery, Tokyo
2006 Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY
Soh Gallery, Tokyo
2005 Soh Gallery, Tokyo
Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura City, Japan
2004 il tempo, Tokyo
Soh Gallery, Tokyo
Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
2003 Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY
2002 il tempo, Tokyo Martha Tepper Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2001 Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo
2000 il tempo, Tokyo
Elaine L. Jacob Gallery and Community Arts Gallery at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
1999 Columbia University, NY, NY
Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY
Sprengel Museum Hanover, Hanover, Germany
Galleria Civica Modena, Modena, Italy Dryphoto, Prato, Italy
1998 Galerie FA Paviot, Paris
Centre National de la Photographie, Paris
Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY
il tempo, Tokyo
Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
1997 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
1996 Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY
il tempo, Tokyo
1995 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama
Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Gallery Ram, USA, Santa Monica, CA
1994 Landmark Tower Gallery, Yokohama
Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo
1993 The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Plaza Gallery, Tokyo
Past Rays, Yokohama
Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY
Photo Interform & Interform Contemporary, Osaka
1992 il tempo, Tokyo
Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo / Osaka
1991 Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
Photo Interform & Interform Atelier, Osaka
1989 Bancho Gallery, Tokyo
1988 Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo
1986 Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo
1984 Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo
1982 Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo
1979 Nikon Salon, Tokyo

Group Exhibitions

2016  Japanese Photographers from Postwar to Now, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
No Photo, No Life, Gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo, Japan
Small Things Considered, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Pursuing the Sublime, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Japanese Prints and Photographs: Path Through Modernity, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary Photography Asian Perspectives, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
2015  Collection I, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Tea Bowl and Photograph, Takashimaya Art Gallery, Tokyo
No Art, No Life, Gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo, Japan
Collection Unlimited, Gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Night&Day2014, Gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo, Japan
Industrial Worlds 014, The MAST Collection, Bologna, Italy
We Can Make Another Future – Japanese Art after 1989, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
The Collector's Eye: The Maloney Collection, Fotofest, Houston, TX
2013 Collection Unlimited -As you like it-, Gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo, Japan
The Aesthetics of Photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2012 Given Forms: Toeko Tatsuno / Toshio Shibata, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Double Vision: Contemporary Art from Japan, Haifa Musuem of Art, Tokotin Museum of Japanese Art, Israel
In Focus: Picturing Landscape, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
2011   Monochrome or Monotone, Gallery ART UNLIMITED, Tokyo
Past (Present) Future 3, Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY
Public Works, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
2010   Ruptures and Continuities of Photography, The museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2009 The intersections of Paintings and Photographs, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya
The Abstracted Landscape, Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY
At/ From Tamagawa 1964 – 2009, Fuchu Art Museum
Night Town, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
2008   The History of Arts and Cities – Paris, New York, Tokyo, and Shanghai, Sendai Mediatheque
Circulation, Hakenomori Museum, Koganei City, Tokyo
2007   JAPAN Caught by Camera, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Where Are We? Questions of Landscape, Graves art Gallery, Sheffield UK
Upon an Ether sea: water and ship Imagery from the MCA Collection, MCA Chicago, Chicago IL
Eyes of an Island, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London
The Photograph: What you see & What you don’t, Tokyo University of Fine Art and Music
Views of Water, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
Joy of color, Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY
2006 Robert Wood Johnson Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY USA
les peintres de la vie moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Place, Edward Steichen gallery, The Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY USA
Recent Landscape Photography: The Intimate and the Sublime, The Saint Louise Art Museum, Saint Louise MO
The Altered Landscape, The National Academies Washington, DC
2005 Modern Masters of Photography, Tokyo
Surface, Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY
Festival Internazional di Roma, Roma
10 years anniversary, Galerie Françoise Paviot Paris
Thinking in Monochrome!, Soh Gallery, Tokyo
2004 The Altered Landscape, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC Canada
Meguro Art Annual 2004, Meguro Art Museum, Tokyo
2003 Consuming Nature, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Collecting Photography, Ackland Art Museum, NC
Oases, Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, NY
Histories of Photography, Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, NY, NY
A Decade of Collecting, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
2002 Lends Landscape, Museum of fine Art, Boston
From the Outside In, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
2001 Between light and shadow, Boise Art Museum, ID
Shuffle, 6 approach to Polaroid, Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo
14 Solo Shows, Meguro Art Annual 2000, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
2000 Open Ends, 11 Exhibitions of Contemporary Art from 1960 to Now, Architecture Hot and Cold, Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY
Representing the Intangible, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston
Identicazione di un Paesaggio Venezia-Marghera, Fotgrafia e Transformazioni nella citta' Contemporanea, VEGA Parco Scientifico Tecnologico, Marghera-Venezia, Italy
Fluid Flow, James Graham & Sons, NY, NY
1999 The palazzo della triennale, Italy
Re-structure, Grinnell College Art Gallery, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grinnell, IA
The Emerging Image, The Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
More than meets the eye, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Through the Lens: Time, Space and Matter, The Rye Arts Center, NY, NY
1997 Industry and Photography, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
People and Landscapes, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA “
Photography and beyond in Japan, The Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, HA
1996 Fabulous Photos: Celebrating Our Finest Acquisitions, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Contemporary Japanese Photography, Jane Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
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
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
Two Media: Toshio Shibata & Toeko Tatsuno, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
1995 Texture and Touch: Contemporary Japanese Photography, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Photography and Beyond in Japan, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
Photography and the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo 1953-1995, The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Liquid Crystal Futures, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan / Copenhagen
1994 Photography and Beyond in Japan, Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo
Global Environment: FotoFest’s Fifth International Festival of Photography, Houston Convention Center, Houston, TX
Cityscapes, Martha Tepper Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Inside Out: Japanese Contemporary Photography, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
Liquid Crystal Futures, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
1993 Crossing Territories, The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Visionary Meditation, A.O.I. Gallery Santa Fe, NM
Japanese Contemporary Photography, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich
1992 New Photography 8, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Wasteland: Fotografie Biennale Rotterdam 3, Rotterdam
New Acquisition, New Work, New Directions, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Artists Who Loves the Nature, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
1990 The Past and The Present of Photography, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Japanese Contemporary Photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan / Pavillon des Arts, Paris
New Documents ’90, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Three Japanese Contemporaries: FotoFest ’90, Houston Convention Center, Houston, TX
1989 Aspect of Contemporary Photography, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan The Hitachi Collection of Japanese Contemporary Photography” Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1987 Exhibition of Shashin, Yurakucho Asahi Gallery, Tokyo
1986 Fotograpia Japanesa Contemporanea, Casa Elizalde, Barcelona
The Super Image: The Work with 20”x24 Polaroid, Seed Hall, Tokyo
1985 Dumont Foto 5: Die Japanische Photographie, Museum fur Kunst und Gewrbe, Hamburg
Paris, New York, Tokyo, Tsukuba Museum of Photography ’85, Tsukuba
1982 Fotokina Photo Art 1, Cologne, Germany
1981 Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo
1979 Paul Pia Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
1972 Exhibition by Japan Print Association, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Cosmos Factory, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1971 Cosmos Factory, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo

Public Collections

Art Museum at Vassar, Vassar College, NY
Bibliotrhéque National, Paris
Boise Museum of Art, Boise, ID
Brookings Institute, Corporate Collection
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Center for Creative Photography: The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris
International Museum of Photography; George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
La Maison de la Photo Europeenne, Paris
La Salle Bank Collection, Chicago IL
Meguro Museum of art, Tokyo
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Musées Royaux des beaux-arts, Brussels
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum Für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
National Gallery of Canada, Toronto, ON
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Paul Getty Museum, CA
Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA
Princeton University Art Museum, NJ
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Saint Louis Art Museum, MO
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Bayly Museum; the University of Virginia, VA
The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, IL
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Tokyo
The Progressive Corporation, USA
The University of Iowa Art Museum, IA
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Tokyo
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama

Awards and Honors

2009 The 25th Higashikawa award
The Photographic Society of Japan Award, lifetime Achievement 1992
The 17th Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Prize
1976 Fellowship, Ministry of National Education and Dutch Culture, Belgium
1975 Fellowship, Ministry of National Education and Dutch Culture, Belgium