Biography En

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

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

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, Chiba City Museum of Art

Uno City (Okayama), Matsudai-cho(Niigata), JR Sapporo Tower (Sapporo), HAT Kobe Wakinohama (Hyogo), Tsukuba Art Center (Ibaraki), Ebisu Garden Place(Tokyo), Faret Tachikawa (Tokyo)