Mio Shirai
1962 Born in Kyoto
1986 Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Tokyo University of Fine Arts
1988 Completed the Fine Arts Graduate School in Tokyo University of Fine Arts
1994-2006 Lives and works in New York
2007- Lives and works in Tokyo
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Selected from the CCMA Collection Special Edition : SHIRAI Mio, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba
2023 – 2024 Mio Shirai: Clearing in Woods, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo
2020 Météore 2 Conversion, gallery21yo-j, Tokyo
2018 Time is Vertical, nap gallery, Tokyo
2017 Cosmicomics, Time & Style Midtown, Tokyo
2016 Book of Silence, nap gallery, Tokyo
2013 ROADSHOW, void＋, Tokyo
2013 Spring Mad Tea Party, Traumaris, Tokyo
2011 Magic Carpet Ride, Gallery cocon, Tokyo
2009 Unknown Binding, BankART NYK, Yokohama
2009 Forever Afternoon, BankART NYK, Yokohama
2008 Forever Afternoon, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England
2006 Finding Shangri-la, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo
2005 New Kingdoms, chashama 217 gallery, New York
2003 Joy of Life, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo
1998 Hillside Gallery, Tokyo
1996 Texture Girl, Modern Culture, New York
1996 Red Mill Gallery, Jonson, Vermont, USA
1996 One Day One Show, Gallery 360, Tokyo
1994 Memory’s Gallery, Nagoya
1994 Mio Shirai: ill seen ill said, East West Cultural Studies, New York
1993 Mio Shirai – Sight and Metaphor, Itoki Ginza New Office Gallery, Tokyo
1993 Hillside Gallery, Tokyo
1992 SOKO Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1991 Concept Space, Shibukawa, Gunma
1991 Hillside Gallery, Tokyo
1990 HALS Gallery, Tokyo
1990 Hillside Gallery, Tokyo
1989 Kyoni Gallery, Tokyo
1989 Hillside Gallery, Tokyo
1988 Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1988 Kobayashi Gallery, Tokyo
1987 Kaneko Art G1, Tokyo
Group Exhibitions
2024 BankART Life7: Urban Nestiong, Yokohama Display Museum, Kanagawa
2022 Alternative! Kazuko Koike Exhibition Soft-Power Movement of Art & Design, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
2021 Watercolor Revisited, Touching with the eyes, thinking with the hands, Tokyo Art Museum
2020 Sagacho Exhibit Space 1983 – 2000 Fixed–Point Observation of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
2020 CADAN Showcase 02 Summertime Blues ‘2020, CADAN Yurakucyo, Tokyo
2020 Spring Lightning, nap gallery, Tokyo
2019 Earth Attack, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
2019 Merci Summer, nap gallery, Tokyo
2019 Heterotopia, Group Show of Contemporary Artists 2019, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
2019 Art Busan 2019, Bexco Exhibition Center, Busan
2018 Physica – Principles of Art As Natural Philosophy Kenjiro Okazaki, Mio Shirai, Hisao Matsuura, Galerie Omotesando ＋ Musee F, Tokyo
2018 Paintings Here and Now, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo
2017 Leaving Language in a Japanese Limousine, The Metropole Gallery, Folkestone, UK
2017 BankART LifeⅤ – Kanko, Yokohama
2017Abracadabra of Drawing, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba
2015 Mio Shirai x Sachiyo Tsurumi [game theory], nap gallery, Tokyo
2015 Reflection: In Return to Koji Enokura, Akiyama Gallery, Space23℃, Tokyo
2015 KachoFugetsu: Flower Bird Wind Moon, Santa Monica Arena1, Los Angels
2015 House Beats, explosion tokyo, Tokyo
2014 Keitaro Higashi, Chieo Senzaki, Kazumi Nakamura, Hotaro Koyama, Tatsuo Miyajima, Kazuhiro Nomura, Mio Shirai, Hideki Nagahashi, and Koji Enokura, Space23℃, Tokyo
2014 Dreams of East Asia, BankART NYK, Yokohama
2013 Art Program Ome 2013, Ome Municipal Museum of Art, Tokyo
2013 Unknown History, Takahashi Building, Kagurazaka, Tokyo
2013 Aichi Triennale 2013, Aichi Arts Center, Aichi
2013 Setouchi Triennale 2013, Uno port, Okayama
2013 Art and Music: Synesthesia Experimental Theater; The 3rd Tokyo Art Meeting, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts
2012 Unknown Life, Ayumi Gallery, Tokyo
2012 Matsushiro Contemporary Art Festival, Nagano
2012 Unknown Voice, youkobo Art Space, Tokyo
2012 Progressive Maria, Waseda Scott Hall Gallery, Tokyo
2011 Akihiko Takami Memorial Exhibition, Galerie Omotesando＋Musse F, Tokyo
2011 Teenage Spirit, explosion tokyo viewing room, Tokyo
2011 Keisuke Yamaguchi / Mio Shirai, Kaneko Art Tokyo, Tokyo
2011 Unknown, Ayumi Gallery, Tokyo
2011 Shin Minatomura: BankART Life3; Yokohama Triennale 2011 related program, Shinko-pier, Yokohama
2010 To-Be Tokyo＋Berlin Communication Art, Freies Museum Berlin, Germany
2010 City Beats＋Live Explosions, BankART NYK hall, Yokohama
2010 Unstern! / Sinistre, Galerie Omotesando＋Muse F, Tokyo
2010 Full Course: Food and Contemporary Art Part6, Honcho Experimental Gallery, Yokohama
2009 explosion shirt, explosion tokyo, Tokyo
2009 The 1st Tokorozawa Biennial of Contemporary Art: Siding Railroad, Seibu Railroad factory, Saitama
2009 Berlin-Tokyo Communication Art, Higure 17-15, Tokyo
2008 BankART Life2, Yokohama
2008 Arttist File 2008: The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo
2008 Restaurant 1929: Food and Contemporary Art Part4, BankART 1929, Yokohama
2007 Hillside Gallery: for New Start, Hillside Forum, Tokyo
2007 Small Works for ‘Koji Enokura documentary film’, Space 23℃, Tokyo
2007 Explosion, BankART NYK, Tokyo
2007 Restaurant 1929: Food and Contemporary Art Part3, BankART 1929, Yokohama
2006 Le Salon Violet, New York
2006 Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale 2006, Niigata
2005 chachama exhibition: the Artist in Residence of 40 Worth Street, chashama, New York
2004 Art/ Room, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo
2003 Night of 1000 Drawings, Artists’ Space, New York
2003 Jack the Pelican Presents, New York
2001 The Art of Collecting, Flint Institute of Art, Michigan, USA
2000 3＋1: Oki, Shirai, Matsuyama and Takezaki, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
2000 Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale 2000, Matsudai, Niigata
1998 Global Housewarming, First Floor Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1997 Travel Sized, City Collage New York, New York
1996 Image of Woman in Japanese Contemporary Art 1930’s-90’s, The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo
1996 Requiem: Koji Enokura and 33 Artists, Saito Memorial Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, Kawaguchi, Saitama
1996 Resurrecting Memories, Dojunkan Daikanyama Apartment, Tokyo
1996 On Camp/ Off Base, Tokyo Big Site, Tokyo
1996 Socie, Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo
1996 Inside of Works, Outside of Works, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
1995 6. Triennale der Kleinplastick 1995: Europe – Ostasien, Suudwest LB Forum, Stuttgurt, Germany
1995 The 6th Fukui International Video Biennale, Fukui
1994 Double Booking, Gallery 360°, Tokyo
1994 Kunst Heimat Kunst, Kunstlerhaus Graz, Austria
1994 Let the Artits Live!, Exit Art and the First World, New York
1994 Watched While Sleeping, Hillside Gallery
1993 Oro d’autore: Giappone e Stati d’Uniti d’America, Basilica Inferiore di San Francesco, Arezzo, Italy
1993 Drawing Exhibition, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo
1993 Nomad, Temporary Kunsthalle, Munich, Germany
1993 Exchenge2, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
1993 Bolande, Dopitova, Rist, Shirai, The Municipal Museum, Prague, Czecho
1993 00 Collaboration, Sagacho Exhibit Space
1992 Jennifer Bolande, Mio Shirai, Marie-Theres Huber, Silvia Gertsch, Pipilotti Rist, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
1992 1st Habitart Exhibition: Making Room – space as material, Pacifico Yokohama
1992 Haruki Collection, SOKO Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1991 Three Artists’ Show, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1991 Take Art Collection, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
1991 Future Chronicle, Memory’s Gallery, Nagoya
1991 The Silent Passion: Seven Artists from Japan, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Tochigi
1991 Drawing Exhibitions of Hakusyu Summer Festival, Gallery Furukawa, Tokyo
1991 The 7th Triennale India, The Lalit Kala Academi, New Delhi, India
1990 Imaginative Monument, Kaneko Art G1, Tokyo
1990 The 26th Artists Today: Trias, Yokohama Citizen Gallery, Yokohama
1990 Shibukawa Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture ’90, Shibukawa, Gunma
1990 Triangulation of Modernism, Gallery Furukawa, Tokyo
1990 Hillside Documents, Hillside Gallery
1990 Crossing ’90, Kaneko Art G1, Tokyo
1990 Drawing Exhibition, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo
1989 Summer Art Festival in Hakusyu, Hakushu-cho, Yamanashi
1989 Art Today ’89, The Museum of Modern Art Takanawa, Karuizawa, Nagano
1988 Open the Gate, Tokyo University of Fine Arts, Tokyo
1987 Fujiyama Geisha, Daiko Electric Lighting Labo, Tokyo/ Osaka International Center, Osaka
1986 Fujiyama Geisha, Kyoto University of Arts, Kyoto/ Daiko Electric Lighting Labo, Tokyo
Performances
2020 100v Drawings, Spring Lightning, nap gallery, Tokyo
2017 Jijogafu,, Abracadabra of Drawings, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba
2017 Architecture of Improvisation, Saravah Tokyo, Tokyo
2014 minima (Mio Shirai＋Keisuke Oki), performance party, blanclass, Yokohama
2013 Jabberwocky: Down under museum NO TOKYO, Shinigiwa (Hiroyuki Nagashima＋Shigeru Matsui), Mio Shirai, Nao Nishihara, Han Wenlin, Ryu Furusawa, The 3rd Tokyo Art Meeting/ Tokyo Sonic Art Weeks, Art and music: Synesthesia experimental theater, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of Fine Arts, Tokyo
2012 Jabberwocky, Azby Brown, Toshimitsu Nakagawa, Mio Shirai, Live Explosion 2012: MEDIUM, Tokyo cinema club, Tokyo
2012 Text for Nothing, Azby Brown, Toshimitsu Nakagawa, Mio Shirai, Progressive Maria, Waseda Scott Hall, Tokyo
2011 April Doctor, Mio Shirai, Keisuke Oki, Ayumi Gallery
2011 April Doctor, Mio Shirai, Keisuke Oki, Haruki Sato, Gallery Cocon, Tokyo
2010 One Cent Van God (Shiho Kagabu, Sachie Kimura, Keisuke Oki, Mio Shirai), City Beats＋Live Explosions, BankART NYK, Yokohama
2010 One Cent Van God (Shiho Kagabu, Sachie Kimura, Keisuke Oki, Mio Shirai), After Hours, Full Course- Food and contemporary art part6, Honcho experimental gallery, Yokohama
2009 explosion K/N/S（Toshimitsu Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Knimune, Mio Shirai）, blanClass
2009 Hair Player Flame, Toshimitsu Nakgawa, Mineki Murata, Mio Shirai, Junki Kono, Daikanyama Installation 2009 related project,＋ING Attack, Tokyo
Awards and Fellowships
2008 UK-Japan 2008 Artist in Residence, Sunderland University, UK
2004 chashama Project Studio Program Residency, New York
1998 Pola Art Foundation Fellowship, New York
1996 Freeman Foundation Fellowship, Vermont
1993 Asian Cultural Council Fellowship Grant, New York
Public Collection / Public Art
Fuchu Art Museum (Tokyo), Chiba City Museum of Art (Chiba), Tamano City (Okayama), Matsudai-cho（Niigata), JR Sapporo Tower (Sapporo), HAT Kobe Wakinohama (Hyogo), Tsukuba Art Center (Ibaraki), Ebisu Garden Place（Tokyo), Faret Tachikawa (Tokyo)