b. 1983
EDUCATION
2008 – 2012
BFA, School of Art and Design, University of Tsukuba, Japan
2004 – 2006
Graphic Design course, Tokyo Zokei University, Japan
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2018
Doublethinkwise, (Solo), TOKAS; Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Tokyo
2017
T radition Créatricé – Cultural Festival in the Forest 2017, Kyoto University of Art & Design, Tokyo
The violent silence of a new beginning, Curated by Studio Khana for Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt
2016
Bebop, XYZ collective, T okyo
2015
Soji Shimizu – Setagaya Art Award, (Solo), Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Tokyo Wonder Wall, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
New Works, Das Japanische Haus, Leipzig, Germany
2014
cross dissolve, with Nobuo Yoda, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo
2013
Arafudo Art Annual 2013, Fukushima, Japan
2012
Open Studio, W arehouse Project, Yokohama, Japan
Radio Show , Daikanyama Art Street – Not Authority, But Art., Midori.so, Tokyo
BankAR T AIR Program, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan
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Nakanojo Biennale 2011, Nakanojo, Japan
Art Student Exhibition, Ise Cultural Foundation, New York, United States of America
Tegami -Perspektiven japanischer Kunstler, Organized by Nobuko Watabiki+Markus Ito, Hamburg, Buenos Aires and Berlin
CURATION
2015 Itch, Midori.so, Tokyo
AWARD and GRANT
2014
Setagaya Art Award “Hisho”, Contemporary Art Section, Setagaya City / Setagaya Arts Foundation, Japan
2012
Alumni Association’ s Prize, University of Tsukuba, Japan
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Japan Arts Foundation Scholarship
PUBLICATION
The multiple lives of a blank book (MLBB053), Yvan Martinez and Joshua Trees with Krister Olsson, Booksfromthefuture, London, 2015
RESIDENCY
2013
Asuka Art Village, Nara, Japan
2012
BankAR T Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan