Born 1932, Tokyo, Japan

Education:

Tokyo University of Fine Arts (Geidai)

           A principal figure of the eccentric Anti-Art faction, Shinohara sought to challenge the conventional notion of sculpture and painting. One of the founding members of the “Neo-Dada Organizers” (1960), he worked closely with more everyday objects, mass media, common junk and other symbols of modern society to reflect their anarchist ideology. His more Pop-based sensibility came to supersede this idiosyncratic conduct of the work; however, Shinohara has established himself as Japan’s foremost action painter after a performance in 1958 which ended with his destroying his canvas. In 1969 Shinohara moved to New York and has since exhibited his works extensively in the USA and Japan.

Selected Exhibitions:

1998    Neo-Dada Japan 1958-1998: Arata Isozaki and the Artists of the White House, Art Plaza, Oita,             Japan
1994    Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art,
            Yokohama, Japan/ Guggenheim SoHo, New York
1992    Ushio Shinohara, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1982    Ushio Shinohara, Japan House Gallery, New York