Born in Tokyo in 1949,Lives in Kamakura and works in Tokyo.
Education
1997
BFA,Tokyo National University of Fine Arta and Music.
1974
MFA,Tokyo National University of Fine Arta and Music.
1975~76
Studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent,Belgium.
Fellowship,Minstry of National Education and Dutch Culture,Belgium.
Awards
2009
Photographic Society of Japan Awards /Lifetime Achievement Award
The Higashikawa Awards /The Domestic Photographer Award
1992
The 17th Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award,Asahi Shimbun.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020
“Quintessence of Japan” Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2019
“Landscape ” Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka, Japan
“Five Decades” Laurence Miller Gallery, NY, U.S.
2018
“Bridge by Toshio Shibata” Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London , England
2017
“Bridge”, Yoshiaki Inoeu Gallery, Osaka, Japan
“31 Contact prints Toshio SHIBATA “, Gallery ART UNLIMITED,Tokyo, Japan
“Harmony” Laurence Miller Gallery, NY
2016
“Bridge”, CANON Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2015
“The Red Bridge”, Yoshiaki Inoeu Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2012
“Wonders” Yoshiaki Inoeu Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2011
“Concrete Abstraction” BLD gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Flow” Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
2010
“Boundary Hunt -Type55” Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan
“Expressway” Gallery 339, Pholadelphia, USA
“a View for Gray” Naddif Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009
“For Grey” ZEIT-FOTO SALON, Tokyo, Japan
2008
“LANDSCAPE” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Yoshiaki Inoeu Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
ABSTRACTION: The Genesis and Evolution of Abstract Painting Cézanne, Fauvism, Cubism and on to Today, Artizon Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2022
Jam Session: “The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × Shibata Toshio × Suzuki Risaku,
Photography and Painting: From Cézanne Shibata Toshio and Suzuki Risaku”,
Artizon Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2018
“Architecture x Photography A Light Existing Only Here” Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
2012
“Given Forms, TATSUNO Toeko / SHIBATA Toshio” The National Art Center, Tokyo
2006
“les peintres de la vie moderne” Centre Pompidou, Paris France
“Place” Edward Steichen gallery, The Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY USA