Taro Shinoda

1964–2022. Born in Tokyo. After studying landscape gardening, Shinoda began his artistic career. His practice consistently and deeply interrogated the relationship between humans and nature, spanning drawing, sculpture, video, and installation, and earning wide international recognition. His works are held in public collections including the Mori Art Collection and the Fondation Louis Vuitton. He participated in numerous exhibitions in Japan and abroad, such as the Saitama Triennale (2020), Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, 2019), the Sydney Biennale (2016), the Sharjah Biennial (2015), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2010), and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2002).

Born in 1964 in Tokyo, Japan

Died in 2022 in Ibaraki, Japan

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023

Drawings, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo. Japan

2020

Katsura, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo. Japan

2019

What I can do with children and the sun, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France

2018

Lunar Reflection Transmission Technique performance by Taro Shinoda and Uriel Barthélémi, Corbans Estate Arts Centre, Auckland, New Zealand

SHINODA Taro Screening | Paradigm Shift, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery AZAMINO, Yokohama, Japan, Japan

2016

The Sun and Mt. Fuji and Steve Reich, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo

Lunar Reflection Transmission Technique performance by Taro Shinoda and Uriel Barthélémi, Mleiha Desert Sharjah, UAE

2012

Homo sapiens sapiens, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Painting of a Four Year Old, balzerARTprojects, Basel, Switzerland

2010

Sensing Nature, (3 person show), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2009

Lunar Reflections, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA

2005

Engawa Site Project (ESP), REDCAT, Los Angeles, USA

2003

helicopter, GALLERY SIDE 2, Tokyo, Japan

2002

God Hand, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

2001

4S Super Surround Sex System, GALLERY SIDE 2, Tokyo, Japan

Personal Satellite Project, Nadiff, Tokyo, Japan

1999

Ayako-medium-Tomoko, Rontgen Kunstraum, Tokyo, Japan

Evo 2000, Artium, Fukuoka, Japan

1998

Lizard, Rontgen Kunstraum, Tokyo, Japan

1997

Medium, Museum of Contemporary Art Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Cavemen, Rontgen Kunstraum, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026

Toward the Phenomenon of Painting, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

2025

無題 / Untitled, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

2024

“The World Beyond:Taro Shinoda, Tetsuro Kano, Makoto Ofune, SPREAD, Fujio Akatsuka & Rieko Akatsuka”, AL , Tokyo, Japan

2023

“AWT FOCUS, Worlds in Balance: Art in Japan from the Postwar to the Present”, Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

“Francis Shingo, Shinoda Taro, Maeda Saki by Misa Shin Gallery”, Cadan Yurakucho, Tokyo,Japan

2022

The Voice of No Mans Land, Meet your art Festival 2022, Tokyo, Japan

2021

Reborn-Art Festival 2021-22, Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan

paintings, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

2020

Saitama Triennale 2020, Saitama, Japan

Shikansuiyo – Art of the One Hundred Year Forest, Meiji Shrine Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2019

Garden of Earthly Delights, The Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany

Time in contemporary sculpture, Chinretsukan Gallery the University Museum, Tokyo

University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan

Multiples, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

2017

Seize the Uncertain Day, Chinretsukan Gallery the University Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan

2016

20th Biennale of Sydney: The Future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed, Sydney, Australia

2015

Sun Light/Star Light Contemplations on the Solar Orb, Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Louisiana, USA

Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible, Sharjah, UAE

2014

Roppongi Art Night 2014, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan

Taking Time, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, USA

2013

DOJIMA RIVER BIENNALE 2013: Little Water, Dojima River Forum, Osaka, Japan

Nissan Art Award 2013, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan

2011

SCULPTURE GARDEN (COLLABORATIVE PROJECT) / KAZ OSHIRO / TARO SHINODA, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, USA

2011 Asian Art Biennial: Medi(t)ation, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

2010

A Wedding, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong

Trasparenze, MACRO, Rome, Italy

He'e ualu, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France

2009

First Stop on the Super Highway, Nam June Pike Art Center, Seoul Platform in KIMUSA, Seoul, Korea

2008

ev+a 2008: too early for vacation, Cathedral Place, Limerick, Ireland

2007

10th International Istanbul Biennial, Antrepo No.3, Turkey

2006

Busan Biennale 2006, Busan, Korea

2005

GUNDAM Generating Futures, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan

SKY-HIGH, KPO Kirin Plaza, Osaka, Japan

2004

Living Together is Easy, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan

Roppongi Crossing: New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art 2004, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2003

Time after Time asia and our moment, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA

2002

Under Construction: New Dimension of Asian Art, The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo

Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

The 8th Baltic Triennial of International Art : Centre of Attraction, Vilnius, Lithuania

2001

Yokohama Triennale 2001, Pacifico Yokohama Exhibition Hall, Kanagawa, Japan

The Uncertain, GALERIA PEPE COBO, Seville, Spain

Neo Tokyo: Japanese art now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

SENRITSU MIRAI FUTURO ANTERIORE ARTE ATTUALE DAL GIAPPONE, Luigi Pecci

Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy

1999

Labolatory of the senses, Sakura City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan

Arte in movimento, Civita, Rome, Italy

1998

Seamless, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1997

Tanagokoro 2, Rontgen Kunstraum, Tokyo, Japan

O, Rontgen Kunstraum, Tokyo, Japan

1996

Exhibition philo-tech, Plaza Industry Ota, Tokyo, Japan

1995

Art is fun 6: Mechazone, Hara Museum Arc, Gunma, Japan

POOL 2, Roentgen Kunst Institut, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Public Collections

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. Tokyo, Japan

The Museum of Jurrasic Technology, CA, USA

M+ HongKong