BIOGRAPHY
Personal History
1966 Born in Okayama, Japan
1988 Held his first solo exhibition,”CROSS”
2000~2004 Started as s street artisut
2004 Graduated in Art Students League of New York
2005 Moved his studio to Yokohama
2008 Moved his studio to Okayama
2016~Stearts career as Geijyutsushi (art education for young children)
2019~2022 Lecture at Art/community development Practical course (Sponsored by Okayama Prefecture)
2023~Art director of UNO HOTEL
Curation & Art Management
2012 ”vol.1 north-south optimism~setouchi~” Tamano Port Art Festival
2012 “looking for residents” Okayama Art Corridor
2018~Children’s art approach
2023 “Joy of Art” Wake Town Board of Education
2024 ”vol.3 north-south optimism~era of noise~” Tamano Port Art Festival
Solo Exhibitions
2024 “間”(ma) at Sans quoi Okayama, Japan
2022 “unfinished work” at Tmanono Museum Okayama, Japan
2022 “枯淡”(KOTAN) at Ekihigasi Gallery Okayama, Japan
2017 "Shigeru Yamada New Work" OKA art Gallery, Okayama, Japan
2015 "Sans quoi cinq vol.4" Gallery Sans quoi, Okayama, Japan
2011 Exhibition at Ekihigasi Gallery, Okayama, Japan
2013 Exhibition at Ekihigasi Gallery, Okayama, Japan
2015 Exhibition at Ekihigasi Gallery, Okayama, Japan
2005-2010 Exhibition at Gallery Ms, Okayama, Japan
2004 Exhibition at MIU ART BOX, Okayama, Japan
2009 Exhibition at MIU ART BOX, Okayama, Japan
2002-2004 Exhibition at FACIAL INDEX, New York, U.S.A.
Group Exhibitions
2017 "MATIII " INTERNATIONAL ART FESTIVAL 2017, Hiroshima,Japan
2011 Okayama Culture Festival "Living in Arts project”, Okayama, Japan
2010 25th National Cultural Festival, Okayama, Japan
2010 "Utopia/Paradise of life and plants" Gallery Sans quoi, Okayama, Japan
2009-2010 "Uno Contemporary Art Exhibition " Ekihigasi Gallery, Okayama, Japan
2005-2006 "Kitanaka open", Kanagawa, Japan
2004 "Exhibition of Works by Grant Winners" at Cork Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2002-2004 "Salon 2002" at Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, New York, U.S.A.
2000 "Williamsburg Bridges Japan” at Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, New York, U.S.A.
2000 "Fast Forward" at Gallery 128, New York, U.S.A.
1999 "Heat up" at Hiroshima Prefectural Historical Center, Hiroshima, Japan
1998 "Heat up" at Fukuyama Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
1993-1998 "HAKU NO KAI" at Gallery Blanche, Osaka, Japan
Art Fair
2024 art IJ Contemporary Art Show (Taipei)
2024 KOBE ART MARCHE (Kobe)
Awards
2017 sangetsu Wallpaper Design Awards grand prize
2018 sangetsu Wallpaper Design Awards grand prize
Grant
2002 Nessa Cohen Memorial Grant New York U.S.A.
Selected Public Collections
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, New York, U.S.A.
Commissions
The Okra TOKYO Toh-ka-lin (Tokyo)
Refir Minami Azabu (Tokyo)
DELL Otemachi One tower office (Tokyo)
BRANZ Futagotamagawa Terrace (Tokyo)
Marriott Nagoya Associa (Nagoya)
Relax Resort Hotel (Atami)
Kitchenhouse (Tokyo,Kobe,Okayama)
restaurant petale de Sakura (Yokohama)
3 Wellness (Okayama)
Koraku Hotel (Okayama)
UNO Hotel (Okayama)
麗晨山溜滴 台中 (Taichung)
etc.
Product Design
Wallpaper 2022-2025 FAITH TH32881~TH32888 (sangetsu)