Yoshiro Shimizu - Artist Bio

 

Yoshiro Shimizu is a Nihonga (Japanese painting) artist who has won numerous awards. Without being bound by the frame of Nihonga, he pursues the possibilities with free ideas and creates new expressions.

EDUCATION

Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Graduate School of Fine Arts Completed the Doctoral Program (Second Semester)  1992

AWARDS

81 st Saiko(Revival)Exhibition of Japan Art Institute, Autumn, 1996
Title: “Starry Seas”, Encouragement Award

52nd Spring Exhibition of Japan Art Institute, Spring, 1997
Title: “Azure Clouds and Seas”, Best Work of Art Prize 

53rd Spring Exhibition of Japan Art Institute, Spring, 1998
Title: “Ice Cascade”, Foreign Minister’s Award

85th Saiko(Revival)Exhibition of Japan Art Institute, Autumn, 2000
Title: “Source of Flames”, Taikan Award

96th Saiko(Revival)Exhibition of Japan Art Institute, Autumn, 2011
Title: “First Action”, Education Minister’s Award

99th Saiko(Revival)Exhibition of Japan Art Institute, Autumn, 2014
Title: “In the Wild”, Prime Minister’s Award

 CULTURAL AWARD

・Wakayama Prefectural Cultural Encouragement Award; Received in Autumn, 2012

・Wakayama Municipal Cultural Commendation Award; Received in Autumn, 2015

One-Person/Joint Exhibitions

・Joint Exhibition; L’AME ACTUELLE DU JAPON-Etonnants Peintres INTEN
　Mitsukoshi Etoile Paris, (April, 2007)
・One Person Exhibition; “Castle Scenes”
　Mitsukoshi Department store in Tokyo. Also traveled to Nagoya, Fukuoka, and
　Sendai, (2009)
・One Person Exhibition;” Ways of Winds”
　Takashimaya Department store in Tokyo. Also traveled to Yokohama JR Nagoya and
　Kyoto Stores, (2012)
・Joint Exhibition, “Spark”, Exhibition of Excellent Works Purchased by Agency  　for Cultural Affairs, Takasaki City Tower Museum of Fine Art (April 13~June 23, 2013)
・Joint Exhibition, the 50th Anniversary Exhibition of Wakayama Prefectural Cultural
   Awards, Wakayama Museum of Modern Art (Nov. 23~Dec. 3 rd , 2013)
・Joint Exhibition, the Centennial Exhibition of Japan Art Institute, Japanese Painting of
　the Century, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art (Jan. 25~April 1 st, 2014)
・Studio Works, “Reflection” Selected student work from Teachers Collage studio
　courses. Macy Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University(Dec.3~20,2018)
・One Person Exhibition; “Timble of time”
　Mitsukoshi Department store in Tokyo. (2021)

Master Thesis/Work

Copy of Lotus Sutra Mural on the Southern Wall of No.217 Grott, Dunhuang MogaoCave, Spring 1989                                                          

Exhibition of Artworks by Students of the Doctoral Program at the Archives of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Spring,1992