Toshio SHIBATA
1949 Born in Tokyo
1971 Graduated from Fine Art Department of Tokyo University of Fine Art and Music (B.A.)
1973 Graduated From Master Course of Fine Art of Tokyo University of Fine Art and Music (M.F.A.)
1975-77 Studied Painting and Photography in Royal Academy of Gent, received a Fellowship by Belgium Government
Began photography seriously.

Personal Exhibitions
1979 "Europe in Winter", Nikon Salon, Tokyo
1982 "Comme le diorama", Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1984 Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1986 "Geo-Metry-Graphy", Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1988 "On the Spot", Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
1989 "Quintessence of Japan", Bancho Gallery, Tokyo
1991 "Toshio Shibata Photographs", Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki
1992 il tempo, Tokyo
1993 Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
Museum of Arty, Chicago
1994 Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo
Land Mark Tower Gallery, Yokohama
1995 Gallery RAM, Los Angeles
Halsted Gallery, Detroit
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

Group Exhibitions
1979 Paul Pia Gallery, Antwerpen (with Bishin Jumonji)
1989 "Two Persons Exhibition", Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo (with M.Taniguchi)
1982 Fotokina Photo Art 1, Koln
1985 "Paris-New York-Tokyo", Tsukuba Museum of Photography '85, Tsukuba City
"Die Japanische Photographie", Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
1986 "Fotografia Japonesa Contemporanea", Casa Elizalde, Barcelona and traveled through Spain
1989 "Orientalism" White Museum (World Design Expo '89), Nagoya
"Aspects of Contemporary Photography", Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki
1990 "Artists Who Love Nature: From Barbizon School to Contemporary Photography", The Green Museum (The International Garden and Greenery Exhibition), Osaka
"Japanese Contemporary Photography, Twelve Viewpoints" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo / Pavillon des Arts, Paris
"The Past and Present of Photography", The National Museum of Modern Art,Tokyo/Kyoto
"The silent dialogue, Still life in The West and Japan", Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka
"New Documents '90", The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
1992 "New Acquisitions/New York/New Directions", Los Angels County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
"New Photography 8", Museum of Modern Art, New York
1993 "Japan Festival", Musee d'Art, Zurich
"Crossing Territories", Art Museum, Santa Fe
1994 "Liquid Crystal Futures, Contemporary Japanese Photography", The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
"Inside out; Contemporary Japanese Photography", Light Factory, North Carolina
"Photography and Beyond in Japan; Space, Time and Memory", Hara Museum, Tokyo
Tour in the World.
1995 "Photography and The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo 1953-1995", The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
"Texture and Touch: Contemporary Japanese Photography", The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Collections
Royal Museum of Art, Brussels
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Polaloid Corporation, Cambridge
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
C.C.P. The University of Arizona, Tucson
Bibliotheque National, Paris
Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki
International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Los Angels County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
The Bayly Museum, The University of Virginia
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Awards
1975 Fellowship, Ministry of National Education and Dutch Culture, Belgium
1976 Fellowship, Ministry of National Education and Dutch Culture, Belgium
1992 17th Kimura Ihee Memorial Award
Publications
1992 "PHOTOGRAPHS by Toshio Shibata", Tokyo
1994 "Terra", Tokyo