Tadao Shoji-Profile Born: Fukuoka, Japan. 1940 Education, Residency 2001 - 2002 Wimbledon School of Art, London, Visiting Research Fellow/Part-time Tutor 2000 - 2001 Wimbledon School of Art, London, Fine Art, Print (MA) Solo Exhibitions 2006 d-Cube Gallery、Kitakyushu,Fukuoka,Japan 2004 Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Gallery Santensho, Kumamoto, Japan 2003 Fukuoka Municipal Art Museum, Fukuoka 2002 Nakama Harmony Hall Gallery, Fukuoka 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 Galleria Grafica bis, Tokyo Selected Group Exhibitions 2008 International Impact Art Festival, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto The Exhibition of Tailart-gallery. com, Gallery Oishi, Fukuoka, Japan Work 3000, Key and Seika Gallery, Tokyo SIAPPE 2008, Palais des Congres Perpignan, Perpignan, Codex, France 2007 The Exhibition of Tailart gallery.com, Fukuoka Provincial Museum of Art, Fukuoka,Japan SIAPPE 2007 Palais des Condres Perpignan,Perpignan,Cedex,France 2006 Lineart 2006,International Art Fair,Flanders Expo,Gent,Belgium 　　 The 25th Artex Paris,Galarie Atlier Visconti,Paris,France The 25th Artex New York,Ward-Nasse Gallery,New York,USA International Impact Art Festival,Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art,Kyoto Intaglio Print Exhibition,Haru Art Space,Ibaraki,Japan 2006 The Best Selection,Ono Gallery,Tokyo Work 3000,Key Gallery,Tokyo The 24th Artex New York 2006,Ward-Nasse Gallery,New York,USA 2005 Lineart 2005, International Art Fair, Flanders Expo, Gent, Belgium (scheduled) International Impact Art Festival, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto Three Persons’ Exhibition, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan 2004 Views for the Future, Gallery OM, Yokohama and Gallery Musunso, Tokyo Heart Art in England, Reading University, Reading, UK Heart Art in Nagoya, Port-Messe Nagoya, Nagoya, Japan 2003 International Impact Art Festival, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto 2002 2002 Artistes d’Aujourd’hui Franco-Japonais, O Museum, Tokyo Art Box Grand Prix Exhibition, DIC Color Square, Tokyo Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Ino-Cho Paper Museum, Kochi, Japan Digital Collaborations, Cover Up Gallery, London Acts of Renewal, Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2001 London International Small Print Biennale, Morley Gallery, London Milfield Fourteenth Summer Show, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset, UK O-Mission, R. K. Burt Gallery, London 1998, 1999, 2000 Exhibition of Kokuga-kai, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo 1998, 1999 Exhibition of The Japan Print Association, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo Awards 2004 The Vice-Chancellor’s Award, Reading University, UK The Best Creator Award, Heart Art Communication, Tokyo 2002 Prix d’encouragement, Artistes d’Aujourd’hui Franco-Japonais, Tokyo 1999 Intaglio Print Maker Prize, Intaglio Print Maker, London Membership The International Association of Artists Statement Tadao Shoji I work by reducing snapshots of ordinary scenes to monochrome images, further reversing shadow and light to create an alternate, ‘false world’. Our relation with the real world is becoming increasingly tenuous with the recent drastic development of information technology until our experience of the world is now largely dominated by an accumulation of images obtained through the internet and pseudoexperiences flickering on a television screen. Our communication, formerly enriched by face-to-face contact between people, is now replaced by alternative contact-free means with computer screens and digitised sounds. Our world is shifting gradually and steadily from the real world to a false world. Human figures that linger in the soundless false world effacing their existence in my work are none other than a reflection of the predicament in which humanity finds itself in the world of today.

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