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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)

SHIGERU YAMADA Art Studio

Ekihigashisoko 5-4-1, Chikko, Tamano-City, Okayama 706-0002

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