Toshio Shibata

Born in 1949 in Tokyo, Japan

Born in Japan in 1949, Toshio Shibata entered the painting department of the University of Arts of Tokyo in 1968. He later decided to continue his studies in Europe at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Gant (Belgium) where he turned to photography. He created Quintessence of Japan in 1983, an opus in which human infrastructures take root in nature.> Read more

In 1992, he received the Kimura Ihei award. Three years later, he was commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Arts of Chicago to photograph the United States and it is during this assignment that he captured his high angles shots of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State.

Toshio Shibata switched to color photography in the early 2000s. In 2009, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography put on an extensive retrospective of his work. 

Okawa Village, Tosa County, Kochi Prefecture, Japan, 2007

Exhibitions at Polka Galerie

Exhibitions at Polka Galerie

Boundary Hunt Boundary Hunt Boundary Hunt Boundary Hunt Boundary Hunt

Toshio Shibata

Boundary Hunt
November 11 2022 - January 14 2023
Jardins Intimes Jardins Intimes Jardins Intimes Jardins Intimes Jardins Intimes

Toshio Shibata

Jardins Intimes
January 9 - February 27, 2016
Night Photographs Night Photographs Night Photographs Night Photographs Night Photographs

Toshio Shibata

Night Photographs
September 12 - October 31, 2015
The Abstraction of Space The Abstraction of Space The Abstraction of Space The Abstraction of Space The Abstraction of Space

Toshio Shibata

The Abstraction of Space
14 September - 26 October 2013

Selected Publications

Day For Night Day For Night Day For Night Day For Night Day For Night

Toshio Shibata

Day For Night
Deadbeat club, 2023
Boundary Hunt Boundary Hunt Boundary Hunt Boundary Hunt Boundary Hunt

Toshio Shibata

Boundary Hunt
Poursuite, 2021
Falling Water Falling Water Falling Water Falling Water Falling Water

Toshio Shibata

Falling Water
The Velvet Cell, 2021
Painting Painting Painting Painting Painting

Toshio Shibata

Painting
Chose Commune, 2021
Yodaka Yodaka Yodaka Yodaka Yodaka

Toshio Shibata

Yodaka
Zen Foto, 2015
Contacts Contacts Contacts Contacts Contacts

Toshio Shibata

Contacts
Poursuite, 2013
A View A View A View A View A View

Toshio Shibata

A View
Akio Nagasawa
For Grey For Grey For Grey For Grey For Grey

Toshio Shibata

For Grey
Akio Nagasawa, 2009
Landscape 2 Landscape 2 Landscape 2 Landscape 2 Landscape 2

Toshio Shibata

Landscape 2
Nazraeli Press
Landscape Landscape Landscape Landscape Landscape

Toshio Shibata

Landscape
Nazraeli Press

Selected Exhibitions

Selected Exhibitions

Boundary Hunt

Polka Gallery, Paris, 2023

ZEIT-FOTO SALON

Tokyo, Japan, 2009

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography

Tokyo, Japan, 2008

Les peintres de la vie moderne

Centre Pompidou, Paris France, 2006

Recent Landscape Photography: The Intimate and the Sublime

The Saint Louise Art Museum, Saint Louise, MO USA, 2006

The Altered Landscape

The National Academies Washington, DC, USA, 2006

Modern Masters of Photography

Tokyo, Japan, 2005

Festival Internazional di Roma

Roma, Italy, 2005

Consuming Nature

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, USA, 2003

Press

Boundary Hunt, les nouvelles frontières de Toshio Shibata

Polka #59, November 3, 2022

Toshio Shibata : Constructions de l'esprit

L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui n°398, novembre-décembre 2013

Toshio Shibata : The abstraction of space

Polka #23, septembre 2013

Toshio Shibata : Madfor Culture

MadFor Madame Figaro, août 2013