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Biography

SHIMURAbros is a duo consisting of Yuka Shimura (born in 1976; holds a bachelor’s degree from Tama Art University and a master’s degree from University of the Arts London: Central St Martins) and her brother Kentaro (born in 1979 and holds a degree in Imaging Art from Tokyo Polytechnic University). SHIMURAbros received an Excellence Award in the Art Division of the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival, hosted by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs. In addition to screenings at Festival de Cannes and the Berlinale Festival, their works have been exhibited at the National Arts Center in Tokyo, the National University of Singapore’s Centre for the Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (Australia) and Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier. SHIMURAbros relocated to Berlin in 2014 on a research grant from the Pola Art Foundation, where they are currently resident as researchers at the studio of Olafur Eliasson.

Solo Exhibitions

2015

"Tokyo Story” Solo Exhibition, TOKYO GALLERY + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan

2013

"Road to Singapore", NUS Museum, National University of Singapore, Singapore

"SHIMURAbros", A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu, China

"SHIMURAbros", mercedes-benz-connection, Tokyo, Japan

2010

"Film Without Film", Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

"DAY FOR NIGHT film installation", Proect-314, Moscow, Russia

2009

"X-RAY TRAIN / LUMIÈRE BROS to SHIMURABROS.", ZAIM Gallery,Kanagawa "LYON to YOKOHAMA / LUMIERE BROS to SHIMURABROS.", Creative space 9001, Kanagawa

"EICON", RAIL, Brescia, Italy

2008

"BankART Bank Under 35 / SHIMURABROS. solo exhibition",BankART Studio NYK, Kanagawa

2006

"SEKILALA", Galeria 13m3, bratislava, Slovakia

Selected Group Exhibitions

2016

"Time Garden", Film Sector, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Art Basel Hong Kong

" A Figment of Film, ADM Gallery", A Figment of Film, ADM Gallery, Singapore 

2015

"Art Basel Hong Kong 2015", Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong

"TERRADA ART AWARD", T-Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 

"ART+VILLAGE+CITY EXHIBITION" , Wurster Gallery, UC Berkeley, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, The USA

2014

"Making through Thinking Thinking through Making -Message from Art and Education“, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan

"Neo-Mōrōism:, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects (BTAP), 798 ART DISTRICT GALLERIES, Beijing China 

"Railway x Visual”, Visual Museum, Saitama, Japan 

SEKILALA screening, Film Sector, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Art Basel Hong Kong 2014

”Roppongi Art Night”, Tokyo , Japan 

2013

"Omnilogue : Your Voice is Mine", NUS Museum, Singapore

"Micro Salon", TOKYO GALLERY + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan

2012

"New Art NEXT 2012: Phantasmagoria", Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Japan

"Body Talks Silence Beyond", ART FAIR TOKYO 2012 Related-Event, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo

2011

"14th Japan Media Arts Festival", The National Art Center, Tokyo

"PARALLEL WORLD, KYOTO" Japan Media Arts Festival in Kyoto,Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto

"Body Talks Silence Beyond", ART FAIR TOKYO 2011 Related-Event, SYMPOSIA Roppongi, Tokyo

"Creative Fantasista 2011", Vacant, Tokyo

"Invisibleness is Visibleness: International Contemporary Art Collection of a Salaryman- Daisuke Miyatsu", Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

2010

"Akihisa Hirata×SHIMURABROS.", Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto, Kyoto

"13th Japan Media Arts Festival", The National Art Center, Tokyo

"SEKILALA SHIMURABROS.", Yokohama Creativecity Center, Kanagawa

"BIG IN JAPAN", Lion Nathan, The Royal Hall Industries, 1000 Pound Bend, Sydney, Melbourne, Australia

"Contemporary airy crafts from Japan", Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan

2009

"LIVE BY PLAY" ART TAIPEI 2009, Taipei World Trade Center Hall 1 (Area A&D), Taipei, Taiwan

"CODED CULTURES -Exploring Creative Emergences Binational Festival Austria- Japan 2009", freiraum quartier21, Wien, Austria

"101 TOKYO Contemporary Art Fair 2009", AKIBA SQUARE, Tokyo

"EICON – SHIMURABROS." Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto, Kyoto

"International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama 2009: CREAM", Kanagawa

2008

"BREATH", presentation at The Viridi-anne's Paris Collection, Gallery eof, Paris, France

"EICON", DEPARTMENTSTORE QUARTIER206, Berlin, Germany

"YOKOHAMA ART & HOME COLLECTION", YOKOHAMA HOME COLLECTION, Kanagawa

"DESIGN TIDE TOKYO 2008 Decinemation ", Tokyo Midtown Hall, Tokyo

"Electrical Fantasista 2008" ZAIM, Kanagawa "Nomadology", SOUVENIR FROM TOKYO The National Art Center, Tokyo

2007

"DESIGN TIDE TOKYO 2007", Design Tide Main Exhibition, National Stadium, Tokyo

2006

"transgenesis", main building of the Czech Academy of Sciences,Prague, Czech

"Gods, Heroes, Man, Chaos", Serialized Performance, Window Gallery, Charing Cross Load, London, UK

"DRABINA JAKUBA -Jacob's Ladder", Cricoteka Theatre, Krakow, Poland

"With-Out-With", Experimental Short film, collaborated with Robert Sanchez-Camus, Cochrane Theatre, London, UK

Prizes / Nominations

2015

TERRADA ART AWARD First Prize, ‘Focus Chart 3’

Artist-in-Residence: Laforêt Summer Vacation Project, Castello Di Frino, Italy 

2014

2014-2015 POLA Art Foundation Scholarship  

2013

Yokohama-Chengdu Artist-in-Residence Exchange Program commissioned by A4 Contemporary Arts Center, China and Yokohama Arts Foundation 

2012

The "Project to support for the nurturing of media arts creators" commissioned by the Agency for Cultural Affairs

2011

FILM WITHOUT FILM, 2011(15th) Japan Media Arts Festival, ArtDivision Jury Recommended Work

2010

X-RAY TRAIN, 2010[14th] Japan Media Arts Festival, Art Division Jury Recommended Work

2009

SEKILALA, 2009[13th] Japan Media Arts Festival, Excellence Award of Art Division: Certificate from Minister of Education, Culture,Sports, Science and Technology

2008

YOKOHAMA Creative core areas competition 2008: Creative space@9001 BankART Bank Under 35, Yokohama, Kanagawa

2005

BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS, Berlin, Germany

2003

SUBEKARAKUSURUBEKARAZU (Ought to do or Ought not to do),Indie's Movies Festival Japan, No.7 Prize and No.1 Audience Prize in Yokohama

2002

Image Forum Festival, Young Perspective

2000

Chinbotsu: Sinker, 50 Minutes Screenplay Awards at Up Link Co., Tokyo

 

Screening / Broadcasting

2010

SEKILALA, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, International Short Film Festival, Moving Image Archive of Contemporary Art, Oberhausen, Germany

SEKILALA, sendai mediatheque, Miyagi

SEKILALA, PICA Screen Space, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia

2007

SEKILALA, Festival International du Film de Cannes SFC, Cannes, France

2006

SEKILALA, FAMU Fest, Czech; Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech

2005

Ought to do or Ought not to do, The 55th Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale Talent Campus, Berlin, Germany Ought to do or Ought not to do, CS, Broadcast on a national cable TV Network in Japan

2002

Amari-ni(45 minutes), Image Forum festival, Tokyo

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