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Biography

SHIMURAbros is a duo consisting of Yuka Shimura (born in 1976; holds a B.A. from Tama Art University and a M.A. from University of the Arts London: Central St Martins) and her brother Kentaro (born in 1979; 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 worldwide at the National Arts Center in Tokyo, the National University of Singapore’s Centre for the Arts, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Bard Galleries in New York, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts Australia and Viennas Museums Quartier. On an arts grant from Pola Art Foundation, SHIMURAbros relocated to Berlin in 2014 where they are currently researchers at the studio of Olafur Eliasson.

Prizes / Nominations

2023

ACC( Asian Cultural Council) Japan Grant

Panelists Visual Art/ Tomoko Yabumae (Curator, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum) ,Kenichi Kondo (Senior Curator, Mori Art Museum) ,Kota Suzuki (Curator, Pola Museum of Art)

2021

the thirtieth commission work for the Aichi Arts Center and the Aichi Prefectural Art Museum

2017

Future Greats, ArtReview

2016

Kabinett Sector, Art Basel Hong Kong

Artist-in-Residence: The NTU CCA Singapore (Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore)

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

 

Solo Exhibitions

2023

"Specious Rainbow "Tokyo Gallery + BTAP

2020

"Evacuation",Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo

2019

"SHIMURAbros Film Without Film”, organized by Pola Art Foundation, Atrium Gallery, Pola Museum of Art

2018

"SHIMURAbros” Solo Exhibition, BTAP, Beijing, China

2018

" Seeing is Believing, Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo

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

2023

" Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City" Aya Fujioka, An Jun, and SHIMURAbros

2023

" 37x Dubai" artists: Leo Villareal, Justin Weiler, SHIMURAbros, Ivona Tau, Zach Lieberman, Peter Gronquist, Martin Grasser, Krista Kim, Pierre Pauze, François Morellet, Jason Ting, Hans Hartung, Luco Cormerais, Andy Warhol, Juno Shen, Diaa Allam, Artur Weber, David Ariew

2023

" Night is the Shadow of the Earth" Ten Art Space and Wind H Art Centre. curated by Xn Office (Penny Dan Xu and Ni Youyu).

2023

Cai Guo-Qiang, Park Seo-Bo, Jiro Takamatsu, Kishio Suga, SHIMURAbros Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo

2022

" Time Tunnel" Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Hifa Curator: Dr. Etty Glass Gissis Tatsuo Miyajima, Yuki Onodera, Davish Ben Moshe Meirav, Yasui Nakaji, SHIMURAbros

2021

" SUSHI" A World in a Grain of Sand (curated by Xn Office), TokyoGallery+BTAP, Tokyo

2019

" Migration: Speaking Nearby" Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, KoreaSculpture Projects Ping Yao, Ping Yao City (Old Diesel Engine Plant),China Projekt des Goethe-Instituts in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Asia Culture Center und dem Asia Culture Institute Curator: Shabbir Hussain Mustafa (Singapur/Sri Lanka)

2018

" The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2018" Curated by Tasaka Hiroko, Keiko Okamura, TOKYO PHOTOGRAPHIC ART MUSEUM, Tokyo

2017

" ‘’The Making of an Institution’’ 
Curated by Ute Meta Bauer, Founding Director, Anna Lovecchio, and Anca Rujoiu, NTU CCA(Centre for Contemporary Art ) Singapore, Singapore 

"THE FILAMENT AND THE BULB" - The Case of the Osmanthus Flower Jelly Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Bard Galleries
Curated by Lian Ladia

" Art Basel Hong Kong 2017-Kabinet Sector", Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong

2016

" “Being and Inking – Documenting Contemporary Ink Art (2001-2016)” curated by Pi Daojian, RMCA, Guangzhou, China 

"Time Garden", Film Sector, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Art Basel Hong Kong
Curated by Li Zhenhua

" A Figment of Film, ADM Gallery", A Figment of Film, ADM Gallery, Singapore
Curated by Michelle Ho

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
Curated by Tomoko Yabumae, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tsukasa Ikegami, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Michelle Ho, Singapore Art Museum, and Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, NUS Museum.

"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

Screening / Broadcasting

2023

"Chasing the Light" Singapore Art Museum (SAM), The symposium co-organising SAM with the Asia Research,Curator: Kenneth Tay

2022

"Butterfly Upon a Wheel" Aichi Arts Center and the Aichi Prefectural Art Museum

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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