Prizes / Nominations
2017
Future Greats, ArtReview Asia
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
2019
"SHIMURAbros Film Without Film”, organized by Pola Art Foundation, Atrium Gallery, Pola Museum of Art
2018
"SHIMURAbros” Solo Exhibition, BTAP, Beijing, China
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
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