KURODA SHIGEKI
Etching
1953 Born in Yokohama, Japan
1968 Started drawings and oil paintings
1972 Started to make intaglio prints
1977 Graduated course of oil painting, Tama Art University
1979 Completed Master’s degree, Tama Art University
AWARDS
1976 Purchase prize, Art University Print Student’s Exhibition (Japan)
1977 Concurrent prize, 8th Nichido Print Grand-prix (Japan)
1978 Superior prize, 2nd Grand-prix Print Competition (Japan)
1979 Concurrent prize, 10th Nichido Print Grand-prix (Japan)
1979 Received grant from Agency of Cultural Affairs (Japan)
1981 Second prize, 1st Asia International Art Exhibition (Bangladesh)
1982 Purchase prize, 5th Miami International Print Biennial (US)
1984 Received Japanese Government Fellowship for study in US (1 year)
1985 Received Japan-US Exchange Scholarship by National Endowment for the Arts
1991 Encouragement Prize for Culture, from Yokohama City Government
1991 Honorary Citizen of University Heights (Ohio, US)
1992 Honorary Member of University of Constanta (Romania)
ONE-PERSON SHOWS
1977 Gallery Parco (Yokohama, Japan) ’78 ’88 ’92 ’94 ’95
1979 Yoseido Gallery (Tokyo, Japan) ’81 ’83 ’89 ’91 ’94 ’95
1981 Tolman Collection (Tokyo, Japan) ’95
1982 Soker-Kaseman Gallery (San Francisco, CA, US) ’82 ’85
1982 Gilbert Luber Gallery (Philadelphia, PA, US) ’84 ’85 ’87 ’91 ’93 ’94 ’98
1984 Gallery Nuku (Sendai, Japan)
1985 Buschlen/Mowatt Fine Art Gallery (Vancouver, B.C. Canada) ’87
1985 Azuma Fine Art Gallery (Seattle, WA, US) ’86 ’88 ’91 ’93 ’94 ’98
1986 Newmark Gallery (New York, NY, US)
1989 Kanda Gallery (Okinawa, Japan)
1989 J-1 Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
1990 Sairin Gallery (Yokohama, Japan)
1990 Takimoto Gallery (Kamakura, Japan)
1991 Sienna Gallery (San Mateo, CA, US
1991 Marina Fine Arts (Marina Del Rey, CA, US)
1991 Mitzi Verne Collection (Cleveland, OH, US)
1992 Gallery L’etoile (Ebisu, Japan)
1992 Farage Fine Arts (Bellevue, WA, US)
1992 American Arts Gallery (Tacoma, WA, US)
1993 FEWS Gallery (Yokohama, Japan) ’94
1994 Spic St.Troez (Komagane, Japan) ’95 ’96 ’97
1994 The Tolman Collection of New York (US)
2000-02 The Tolman Collection, Tokyo
CONTEST EXHIBITIONS
1977 1st Grand-prix Print Competition (Japan)
1978, 1979 Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition (Japan)
1978 12th Nihon International Art Exhibition (Japan)
1978 9th Nichido Print Grand-prix (Japan)
1979 6th Bradford International Print Biennial (G.B.)
1979, 1981 Ljubliana International Print Biennial (Yugoslavia)
1979,82,85,88 Grenchen International Triennial of Original Colored Graphic (Switzerland)
1979 4th Miami International Print Biennial (US)
1983 Premio International Print Biennial (Italy)
1983 International Print Exhibition 1983 ROC (Taipei, Taiwan)
1984 International Graphic ‘84 (E. Germany)
1997 International Print Exhibition (Portland Art Museum, US by invitation)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1978 Print Space 21st Century Exhibition (The Art Gallery of the Citizens of Yokohama)
1979 21 Contemporary Japanese Printmakers (The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, Boston City Gallery, Massachusetts, US)
1979, 1983~88, 1990~99 CWAJ Print Show (Tokyo American Club)
1979 Contemporary Japanese Print Show (De Cordova Museum, Massachusetts, Us)
1980 Japanese Prints (Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Utsunomiya, Japan)
1980 21 Contemporary Japanese Printmakers (Henry Art Gallery, Washington, US)
1980 Hokusai’s Enkel Exhibition (Marina Dinkler Gallery, Berlin, Germany)
1981 Hokusai’s Enkel Exhibition (Galerie Falazik, Germany, and others)
1982 Yokohama-Shanghai Art Exchange Exhibition (The Art Gallery of the Citizens of Yokohama and Shanghai City Museum)
1982 Bicycle Art Exhibition (The Bicycle Museum, Tokyo)
1982 Print Space 21st Century Exhibition (Yamanashi Prefectural Museum)
1982 The Printmaker in Awarded prize of International Exhibition (The Central Museum of Tokyo)
1983 Traveling Exhibition of Japanese Prints (Poland)
1983 The Japanese Print Since 1900 (British Museum)
1983 5 Contemporary Japanese Printmakers Exhibition (Galerie 36, London)
1985 ’85 Graphic Art Exhibition (Striped House Museum, Tokyo) Contemporary Japanese Prints Exhibition, Presented by CWAJ (Hawaii, Washington D.C., Chicago, New York, Massachusetts, London)
1986 Spotlight on Japan Exhibition (San Diego State University, California, US)
1986 Artexpo NY (New York, US)
1986 Annual Exhibition of Toyama Academy of Hanga Arts (Toyama Prefectural Museum)
1988 Yokohama-Shanghai Art Exchange Exhibition, 100 Landscapes of Yokohama
1988 Contemporary Japanese Print Exhibition (Portland Museum, Oregon)
1990 Print Composition ’90 (Striped House Museum, Tokyo; Tama University of Fine Art, Tokyo)
1989 The Art Gallery of Yokohama
1990 Bay ’90 Barcelona & Yokohama (MM21, Yokohama)
1990 Yokohama Odessa Cultural Exchange Exhibition (Odessa Museum, USSR)
1990 The Art Gallery of the Citizens of Yokohama
1991, 1992 The Artist of Yokohama ’91 (The Art Gallery of the Citizens of Yokohama)
1991, 1992 Yokohama Constanta Cultural Exchange Exhibition (Constanta Museum, Romania)
1993 Rain & Snow: The Umbrella in Japanese Art (Japan Society Inc., New York)
1996 Asia Finer Exhibition (The Newark Library, US)
1998 My Student Time and Now Exhibition (The Tama University of Fine Art Museum)
1998 Contemporary Japanese Prints Exhibition (Haifa Museum, Israel)
2002 Shanghai in the Eyes of World Artists (Shanghai City Museum)
2003 Banryuu Exhibition (Yoemonn Gallery, Kyouto),
2003 The 50th anniversary of Yoseido Gallery Exhibition (Tokyo)
2004 Funasaka Yoshisuke & Kuroda Shigeki Joint Exhibition (Yoseido Gallery)
2008 Making Waves:Contemporary Japanese Prints from Mary and William Way Collection, (Phoenix Art Museum)
2010 Print Competition 2010, Tama University Museum of Fine Art
2010 Friends of the Toyo Art School Print Exhibition, Shimizu Gallery, Yokohama
2011 CWAJ Print Show (28th year)
COLLECTIONS
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- Tochigi Prefecture Museum of Modern Art (Utsunomiya, Japan)
- The Cleveland Museum of Art (Ohio, US)
- The State Foundation on Culture and The Arts (Hawaii, US)
- The British Museum (London)
- Chicago Institute of Art (Illinois, US)
- San Francisco Museum (California, US)
- The Art Gallery of the Citizens of Yokohama (Yokohama, Japan)
- The Tama University of Fine Art Museum (Hachiooji, Japan)
- The Hideki Yukawa Memorial (The University of Kyoto, Japan)
- De Cordova Museum (Massachusetts, US)
- Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
- Constanta Museum (Romania)
- Odessa Museum of Art (Ukraine)
- The Yokohama Museum of Art (Yokohama, Japan)
- Shanghai City Museum (China)
- Yokota U.S. Air Force Officers’ Club (Yokota, Japan)
- The Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art (Israel)
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