| Biography of Goh SHIGI |
| 1943 |
Born in Shinagawa, Tokyo |
| 1962-66 |
Studied at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (B.A.) |
| 1966-68 |
Studied at the postgraduate course of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (M.A.) |
| 1976-77 |
Stayed in Wolfsburg, West Germany, as visiting artist to Wolfsburg City Museum |
| 1980-90 |
Taught at Shiga University |
| 1997- |
Professor of Joshibi University of Art and Design |
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| Selected Solo Exhibitions |
| 1972 |
Mudo Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1974 |
Shirota Gallery, Tokyo (’75) |
| 1975 |
Gallery Inoue, Kanagawa |
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Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1976 |
Foreign Correspondent Association, Tokyo |
| 1979 |
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo (’81,’83,’85,’92,’94,’96,’98,’01) |
| 1982 |
Gallery 16, Kyoto (’84) |
| 1985 |
NAO, Tokushima(’92) |
| 1986 |
Galerie de I’lnstitut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo, Tokyo |
| 1988 |
Galerie Eva Poll, Berlin
(“Kunst der Gegenwart Berlin-Tokyo Galerien tauschen ihre Künstler aus”) |
| 1999 |
Oiso Gallery, Kanagawa |
| 2003 |
Konoha Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2012 |
Galleria Grafica Tokio, Tokyo |
| 2014 |
Galleria Grafica Tokio, Tokyo |
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| Selected Group Exhibitions |
| 1973-75 |
“Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition” The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura:
Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery [’73 Encouragement of Learning Association Prize] |
| 1973 |
“7th International Young Artist Exhibition”, Seibu Department Store, Tokyo |
| 1974 |
“11th Tokyo Biennale”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum / Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
“9th Japan Art Festival”, Tokyo Central Museum of Art: Montreal Museum of
Contemporary Art / Vancouver City Museum [Education Minister Prize]
“7 Artists”, Miyama Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1975 |
“11th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum/
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
“10th Japan Art Festival”, The Ueno Royal Museum / National Wellington State Museum of Art,
New Zealand / Victoria State Museum, Australia / Queensland State Museum of Art, Australia
“Exhibition of Tokyo”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum |
| 1976 |
“19th Yasui Award Memorial Art Exhibition”, Seibu Art Museum, Tokyo
“12th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum /
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
“Artist Today” “Space Today”, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa |
| 1977 |
“10th Anniversary Exhibition of Japan Art Festival”, Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo / Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
“Kanagawa Independent Exhibition”, Kanagawa Kenminhall Gallery |
| 1978 |
“Two Dimensional Works by Fifteen Artists”, Kanagawa Kenminhall Gallery, Kanagawa
“12th Tokyo biennale”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum / Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
[Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Award]
“Photography and Painting”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum |
| 1980 |
“Oil on Paper”, Gallery Haku, Osaka
“Image Today”, Yamagta Museum of Art |
| 1982 |
“Landscape Painting”, Gallery Haku, Osaka
“A Panorama of Contemporary Art in Japan-Painting”, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama |
| 1983 |
“An Encounter with the Sight around us”, The Miyagi Museum
“Realism Now”, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama |
| 1984 |
“Japanese Contemporary Paintings 1960-80”, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma |
| 1985 |
“Japanese Contemporary Paintings”, National Gallery of Modern Art, India
“1st Figurative Painting Biennale”, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura /
Mie Prefectural Art Museum and toured |
| 1986 |
“Contemporary Japanese Art”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
“A Current of Contemporary Art in Japan-Painting Part I”, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama |
| 1987 |
“Toyama Now ’87”, the Museum of Modern Art, Toyama |
| 1988 |
“Movement & Modern Art”, The Museum of Modem Art, Saitama |
| 1989 |
“Theme Hiroshima”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
“Art Exciting’89”, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama / Queensland Art Gallery, Australia |
| 1990 |
“Museum in the City”, Yokohama Minato Mirai 21, Kanagawa
“CROSS ONE ’90”, Tsubaki Modern Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1991 |
“Tokyo Art Expo ’91”, Tokyo
“From Monochrome to Monochrome”, Tokyo
Metropolitan Art Museum
“Landscape-Nature, City, Human being”, Tokyo
Metropolitan Art Museum
“Work Shop Adventures with Eves and Hands-Aquatic Arabesques”, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo |
| 1992 |
“Repetition and Multiplication in Contemporary Art”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
“Heart of Hiroshima”, Fuji Art Museum, Shizuoka |
| 1993 |
“36th Yasui Award Memorial Art Exhibition”, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo and toured
[Fine Work Award]
“Photo-Realism”, Fujisawa Seibu, Kanagawa
“Vision, Illusion, and Anti-Illusion”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum |
| 1994 |
“Inaugural Exhibition: Collection of Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art”,
Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art |
| 1995 |
“Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years”, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo/
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe/Hiroshima City Museum of
Contemporary Art/ Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art |
| 1999 |
“Understanding Nature”, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
“ART SWEET HOME”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art |
| 2000 |
“Japanese Art in the 20th Century”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
| 2002 |
“Beauty of East Japan”, Tokyo Station Gallery
“Guest Curator’s Eyes”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art |
| 2003 |
“Another View”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka |
| 2004 |
“The Water Level of an Image”, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art |
| 2008 |
“Dome”, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art |
| 2010 |
“Exhibition representation of water”, Toyokawa City Sakuragaoka Museum, Aichi |
| 2011 |
“Charity Auction to Benefit the Reconstruction after the Great East Japan Eerthquake: Art of Our Time, Tokyo Bijyutsu Club
“Art Museum in Summer Vacation”, The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
“Pictorial Theory of Evolution”, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art
“VARIA” Nagoya Art Fair 2011, Matsuzakaya Nagoya, Aichi |
| 2013 |
“Exhibition Surprised” Kurumaya Museum of Art, Tochigi
Hong Kong Contemporary 13, Hong Kong
“Afterimages of tomorrow”, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
“Art Taipei 2013”, Taiwan |
| 2014 |
Art Link Tochigi “Exhibition Surprised”, Tochigi Kuranomachi Museum of Art, Tochigi
“1974 Part 2 1974-Turning point of postwar Japanese art”, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma |
| 2019 |
Goh Shigi-Chikako Isshiki Exhibition, Galleria Grafica Tokio, Tokyo |
| 2021 |
Chêne Artist Show, Galerie Chêne Tokyo, Tokyo |
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| Public Collections |
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music / Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo /
Wolfsburg City Museum, Germany / Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art /
The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama / Bunkyo University / The National Museum of Art, Osaka /
Iwaki City Art Museum / Takamatsu City Museum of Art / Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art /
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama / Fujisawa City Medical Center /
The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama / Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art /
JAL Cultural Development Co., Ltd. / The Museum of Art, Kochi / Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo /
The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Kanagawa / The Joshibi Art Museum, Kanagawa /
The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa / East Japan Railway Culture Foundation |
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