Shingo Francis, Bound for Eternity (red), 2008
Gouache and acrylic on paper, 152 x 1700 cm
Installation view at ZAIM, Yokohama
The collection of Sezon Museum of Modern Art
BIOGRAPHY
Shingo Francis フランシス真悟
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Born in 1969 in Santa Monica, California, USA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA
– Education –
| 1992 | B.F.A. PITZER COLLEGE, CLAREMONT, CA, USA |
| 2017 | M.F.A. ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN, PASADENA, CA, USA |
– Selected Solo Exhibitions –
| 2020 | Shining Star: perception of light, GALERIE PARIS, Kanagawa, Japan |
| 2019 | Subtle Impressions, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan |
| Kaleidoscope: moments in time, Sam Francis Gallery at Croosroads School, Santa Monica,CA | |
| 2018 | PAINTING, LA ARTCORE, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Color and Shadow, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA | |
| 2017 | Interference-New Paintings, GALERIE PARIS, Yokohama, Japan |
| Limitation and creation of imagination, Sezon Art Gallery Tokyo, Japan | |
| Silence presence’, Space bm, Seoul, Korea | |
| 2015 | Helios at Los Angels International Airport,, LAX: Los Angeles World Airports, Los Angeles,CA, USA |
| Silent Colors in Moving Light, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan | |
| 2014 | Vast and Vivid, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan |
| A Moment in Time and Space, SPACE NIO ART GALLERY, NIKKEI Inc. Head Office, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Transcendence: a deeper sense of color, Yokohama College of Art & Design, Yokohama, Japan | |
| 2013 | Liquid Pop: pop and abstraction, KOKI ARTS, Tokyo, Japan |
| Across the Line: A Voyage Into the Void, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan | |
| Kaleidoscope,Lobby Gallery organized by The Durst Organization and Chashama, New York, USA | |
| 2012 | New Public Art Installation, 100 Wall Street, New York, USA |
| Bound for Eternity, The Bogart Salon, New York, USA | |
| 2011 | Veils: a dialogue with the abyss, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan |
| 2010 | Hoop Art, Casa Del Mar Hotel, Santa Monica, CA, USA |
| 2009 | Bound for Eternity, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA, USA |
| The depth of Silence, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan | |
| 2008 | Blue’s Silence: ashes in darkness, Hino Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| Solo Project, ARCO Art fair (Curated by Tsutomu Mizusawa), Madrid, Spain | |
| Blue’s Silence: inner silence, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan | |
| New Horizons, Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery at Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC, USA |
– Selected Group Exhibitions –
| 2020 | LIGHT | SPACE, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2019 | Miyuki Yokomizo x Shingo Francis, Lee & Bae, Busan, Korea |
| Emergence: the art and incarnation of Space, Martin Museum of Art, Waco, Texas | |
| ART MACAO: Garden of Earthly Delight, Wynn Palace, Cotai Macau, China | |
| CONTEMPORARY MODERNISM, Show Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Summer Destination, SCHMALFUSS BERLIN Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin, Germany | |
| The Hue, Kylin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Artropocene: iBiennale MMXIX, Y Center for Visual Arts, Honolulu, HI | |
| Santa Monica: Now & Then, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | |
| 2018 | Group Show, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan |
| Triennale Grenchen, Grenchen, Switzerland | |
| LIMINIMAL, JAUS, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2018 | LAYERS OF NATURE – Beyond the Line, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan |
| United, Schmalfuss Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin, Germany | |
| Now You See it, Now You Don’t, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA | |
| 2017 | Shingo Francis X Julio Rondo, Atelier Berning Rondo, Berlin, Germany |
| Abracadabra of drawing, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba, Japan | |
| 2016 | Limitation and creation of imagination, Sezon Art Gallery Tokyo, Japan |
| Chromatic Passages, Japan Foundation LA, Los Angels, CA, USA | |
| 15th Annual 21st Century Exhibition, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan | |
| 2015 | Helios, Los Angels World Airports Terminal3, Los Angels, CA, USA |
| Group Show, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan | |
| The Joshua Treenial, Joshua Tree, CA, USA | |
| The 20th JAA Art Exhibition of Japanese and Japanese American Artists in New York, JAA, New York, USA | |
| Parabola Gallery Tominokoji, Kyoto, Japan | |
| Creative in Common, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA | |
| 2014 | THE MIRROR: Hold the Mirror up to nature, Nagoya Shoko Kaikan, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan |
| MIXED UP!, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan | |
| Rockaway!, Fort Tilden, Rockaway Beach, New York, USA | |
| De-install!, BankART Hammerhead Studio, Yokohama, Japan | |
| Placing Memory, Smith Andersen North, San Anselmo, California, USA | |
| 2013 | Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland |
| Black and Blue, JAUS, Los Angeles, CA, USA | |
| Working it Out,The Painting Center, New York, USA | |
| Stronger than Fear is HopeSchmalfuss, Berlin Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2012 | The Unseen Relationship: Form and Abstraction, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Japan |
| New World, Hahn Spielplatz, Seoul, Korea | |
| Unknown Surface, Ayumi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2011 | A Space for Eternity, Bankart Life III, Shinko Pier, Yokohama, Japan |
| Art as Expression of Being, Checkpoint Ilgen, Berlin, Germany | |
| Places, Stephan Stoyonav Gallery, New York, USA | |
| Gateway Japan, Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance, USA | |
| 2010 | 2010 Elements of Nature, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LI, USA |
| Mirrors of Continuous Change, Taekwang Industries Ltd, Heungkuk Life Building, Seoul, Korea | |
| Ties over time: an exhibition at the residence of the U.S. ambassador to Japan, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Across Dimensions, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, USA | |
| New 21st Century Exhibit vol. 9, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan | |
| 2009 | Happy Hour!!, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York |
| Threshold, Ueno Town Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Tsuzuki Art Project 2009, Yokohama Museum of History, Yokohama, Japan | |
| Double Façade, Koganecho Bazaar Community, Yokohama, Japan | |
| On the Shoulders of Davids, JAUS, Los Angeles, CA, USA | |
| Archive, Shinwa Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Spin Off, Koganecho Area Management Center, Yokohama, Japan | |
| Yokohama Creativecity Center, YCC, Yokohama, Japan | |
| Double Façade, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan | |
| 2008 | Red, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan |
| Love to Party, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA | |
| To be looked at, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA | |
| daily life, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan |
EXHIBITIONS
Subtle Impressions
Shingo Francis
Sep 19 – Nov 2, 2020
Group Show
Jae-eun Choi, Shingo Francis, Iba Yasuko, Ikezoe Akira, Maeda Saki
March 8 – March 24, 2018
Group Show
Shingo Francis, Iba Yasuko, Isozaki Arata, Myawaki Aiko, Saito Yoshishige
May 29 – Jul 18, 2015
Vast and Vivid
Shingo Francis
Oct 17 – Dec 13, 2014