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Born in Tokyo, Japan, 1981

Lives & works in Los Angeles, CA

 

Education

 

2005  BFA, Japanese Painting Course, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan

 

Grant 

 

2014-2016 "The Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists”, The Japanese government, the Agency of Cultural Affair

 

Artist in Residence

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2014   Oct 2013 - 2014  GuruGuru House Takayanagi, Kashiwazaki, Niigata, Japan

2012   Aug 2011 - 2012  "Art Island Tokyo” Habu Elementary School, Oshima island, Japan

2011   May - June, 2011 "BankART AIR 2011” BankART NYK, Yokohama, Japan

2010   "Shiwaku HONJIMA~Cultivate the fields, and ARTS~”, Gallery Arte, Kagawa, Japan

 

Solo Exhibitions

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2016  "Tomoaki Shibata Solo Exhibition” Studio C Gallery in Santa Fe Art Colony, Los Angeles, CA

2014  "Tomoaki Shibata Solo Exhibition” Guru Guru House Takayanagi Gallery, Kashiwazaki, Niigata, Japan

“Tomoaki Shibata Solo Exhibition” Kunugi Garou Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

2013  "Akkun Baito Yamerutteyo”, Sakuragi FineArts, Tokyo, Japan

”Tommy Guererro Is Talking About PYT”, Art Space 88, Tokyo, Japan

2012  "Tomoaki Shibata Solo Exhibition” Gallery Q, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

2010  "Tomoaki Shibata Solo Exhibition” Gallery Q, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

2008  "Tomoaki Shibata Solo Exhibition” Gallery Q, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

2007  "Tomoaki Shibata Solo Exhibition” Gallery Q, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

"Tomoaki Shibata Solo Exhibition” Art Space Rashinban, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

2006  "Tomoaki Shibata Solo Exhibition Part 2” Gallery Q, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

"Tomoaki Shibata Solo Exhibition Part 1” Gallery Q, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

 

Collaboration Show

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2019   Rona v Amabie, Open Mind Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
Collaborator: Aska Irie  Curator: Ichiro Irie

2018   "Year One”, Castelli Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
Collaborator  Loren Philip
Curator  Peter Frank

 

Group Exhibitions

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2022  "SPRING regenerate”, S.E.A, Los Angeles, CA

2021  "I Gave love", S.E.A. + Kylin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

2019  "Artist and Researcher”, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA

2017  "Honoring the Ancestors”, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA

"Pain 2” Hoyt gallery, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA

"Red on Red” Balcony Coffee Company, Los Angeles, CA

2016   “Faux Sho’: DADA Part 2” MUZEUMM, Los Angeles, CA

"Faux Sho’: Land Art” Balcony Coffee Company, Los Angeles, CA

"Faux Sho’: Chinese Landscape, Balcony Coffee Company, Los Angeles, CA 

"Faux Faux Sho`:Shunga” The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

"Faux Sho`:Dadaism, California Abstraction” Balcony Coffee Company, Los Angeles, CA

"Shikishi Exhibition” Japanese American Cultural Community Center, Los Angeles, CA

2015  "Faux Sho`: Japonism” Barconi Coffee Company, Los Angeles

“FLOWER BIRD WIND MOON” Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica Los Angeles, CA

2014  "Mature” Gallery Q, Ginza, Tokyo

2012  "Fukushima. After 365 Days” Nanjo House, Tokyo

2010  "Wonder Seeds” Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo

2009  "Crosscurrent 2nd” Exchange show of US and Japan, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA

 

Selection shows

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2016  "SAND CITY ART COMMITTEE JURIED COMPETITION”, Sand City, CA

2012  "Golden Competition 2012” Turner Gallery, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan

2011  "HOPE” Art Space Rashinban, Tokyo, Japan

2010  "Possibility of Water and Ink” Art Space Rashinban, Tokyo, Japan

2008  "Suga Tatehiko Taisho Tenn” Kurayoshi Museum, Tottori, Japan

2009  "Biennale Ushiku”, Chu-o Shogai-Gakusyu Center, Ibaraki, Japan