Hiroshi Shinno
Hiroshi Shinno (b. 1979) creates “Ikimono (life)” sculptures. The ideas behind his works are greatly influenced by environmental concerns. He represents voices of nature which mankind ignores easily or alters only for our convenience. "Ikimono (life) sculpture" is a series of a single beetle-like creature, which reflects his love and ideals toward nature. Shinno's relationship with nature goes back to his childhood and it is the source of his creativity. Whether he is in the residential area or the countryside, he often walks around and picks up pieces of nature. Naturally, the characteristics of the Japanese climate or any other climates are brought into his sculptures. The selected pieces, such as flowers, plants, seeds and leaves, are carefully cast using synthetic resin. Shinno constructs his sculptures with these small parts in order to embody his imagination in the form of “Ikimono” creatures. One could say they are the embodiment of the real-world and fantasy by virtue of the unworldly beauty and precise craftsmanship in the artwork.
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1979 Born in Kyoto
2003 Graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design Western painting department
2009 Graduated from Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria
<selected solo exhibitions>
2008 "Insects-SONGSONG" / Vienna, Austria
2009 Vienna fair / Vienna, Austria
2010 “Fuyumushi Natsukusa” / TANADA Peace Gallery, Kyoto
2011 "Ikitoshi Ikimono"/YOD Gallery, Osaka
2012 "Ikitoshi Ikimono"/ Art Fair Tokyo 2012, Tokyo (exhibited from YOD Gallery)
"Lively 'Ikimono' "/ Ginza Mitsukoshi, Tokyo
"Lively 'Ikimono' " / Art Taipei 2012, Taipei, Taiwan (exhibited from YOD Gallery)
2014 "Fantasy Collection Room" / YOD Gallery, Osaka
"Mikrokosmos⇔Makrokosmos" Exhibition / Karuizawa New Art Museum, Karuizawa, Nagano
2015 VOLTA NY/ New York, USA (exhibited from YOD Gallery)
VOLTA 11/ Basel, Switzerland (exhibited from YOD Gallery)
2016 Hiroshi Shinno Solo Exhibition / Gallery Den mym, Kyoto
APMoA Project, ARCH vol.19 Hiroshi Shinno, Higetsune / Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi
PULSE Mimi Beach 2016 / Florida, USA (exhibited from YOD Gallery)
<selected group exhibitions>
2008 Artist in Residence "Aquarell Happening" / Tyrol, Austria
2009 "We" MARIO MAURONER CONTEMPORARY ART / Salzburg, Austria
Artist-in-Residence "European Researchers Night" BIO CENTER / Vienna, Austria
2011 ART FAIR KYOTO 2011 / Hotel Monterey Kyoto, Kyoto (exhibited from YOD Gallery)
ART OSAKA 2011 / Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka (exhibited from YOD Gallery)
ART FAIR TOKYO 2011 / Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo (exhibited from YOD Gallery)
HANARART/Uda City, Nara
Satoyama Laboratory - Matsudai "Agricultural Stage" Gallery, Niigata
2012 Earth Art Festival Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2012/Niigata
2013 Kaiyu De Art 2013 / Kaiyu Museum, Ikebukuro, Tokyo
Summer Memories Forest Dreams-Mysterious Kimonos / Yamazaki Mazak Museum, Aichi
2014 Summer vacation! Ikimono Illustrated Book-Gunma Prefectural Tatebayashi Museum of Art / Gunma
2015 "This is a living thing" / Borderless Art Museum NO-MA, Shiga
2017 Phenotype-Marie Kirkegaard Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Me and Toshizen-Mizuunan/Kyoto
Gakuen-mae Art Festa 2017-Memento Mori-/ Nara
2018 Earth Art Festival Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018 / Niigata
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