Shigeki was born in Ibaraki, a suburb of Tokyo, Japan. Shigeki studied painting at Wako University in Tokyo. After graduation, Shigeki pursued his early career as a painter and had several solo and group shows in Japan, Korea and Thailand. In 1997, Shigeki was awarded a fellowship by the Japanese government and came to New York. Shigeki enrolled in the Hunter College MFA program where he studied photography with the late Prof. Mark Feldstein and Prof. Roy DeCarava. Shigeki also studied with Prof. Katharina Siverding at UDK in Berlin as an exchange student. Shigeki earned his MFA in 2005, and now lives and works in Brooklyn. Shigeki had his first one-person show in the US 2007 at Safe-T Gallery. Shigeki will be having his first one-person show of his photographs in Japan June 2008 at Tokyo Gallery.
Solo Exhibitions
Photography
2012 "Ground Bass - Everyday Life and Silence" Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo
2012 "Quiescent Metro" Yace Gallery / New York
2008 "Identical Light" Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo / Japan
2007 Safe - T - Gallery Brooklyn, New York
Painting
1997 Naruse MURATA gallery/ Tokyo,
1997 Gallery So/ Tokyo
1995 Gallery So, Tokyo
1994 Kawasaki SEIBU Art Salon, Kawasaki
1994 Gallery 219, Tokyo
1993 Kawasaki SEIBU Art Salon, Kawasaki
1991 Gallery GEN, Tokyo
1990 Nabis Gallery, Tokyo
1990 Gallery GEN, Tokyo
Group Exhibitions
Photography
2007 S-T-G V The Safe –T Gallery Fifth Anniversary Print and
Photographs Show/ Safe-T Gallery Brooklyn, NY
2007 Susan Eley’s October Show / Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
2007 A Certain Slant of Light / Rush Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Gordon Parks Juried Exhibition / Joyce Gordon Gallery / Oakland, CA
2007 OEDIFICE COMPLEX / Alfred Lowenherz Gallery
The Camera Club of New York, New York
2007 Darkroom Residents Exhibition / Alfred Lowenherz Gallery,
The Camera Club of New York, New York
2007 Barely There / Hewitt Gallery of Art at Marymount Manhattan
College, New York
2007 TPS15: The National Competition Texas Photographic Society,
Abilene Center for Contemporary Art, Abilene, TX
2007 Options Gallery, Odessa College, Odessa, TX
2006 TPS15: The National Competition Texas Photographic Society,
Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, TX
2002 15th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition,
Abercrombie Gallery, McNesses State University Lake Charles,
Louisiana (also in 2001)
Painting
1997 September Tune / Galeria Rasen, Tokyo
1997 Eleven Artists From Japan / Susan Dust Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
1994 New Mind Art Exhibition / Onward Gallery, Tokyo
1993 Korea - Japan Art Exchange / Hyonsan Gallery, Kwangju, Korea
1993 Kwangju, Tokyo and Jeju - from 26 to 36 / Kumho Museum,
Kwangiu, Korea
1993 Second Yuhosha - Ten (60th Anniversary of Education Foundation
of Wako Gakuen) / Nogizaka Gallery, Tokyo
1993 Kanagawa Art Annual / Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Yokohama
1993 Tomohide Kameyama, Lee Min, Shigeki Yoshida / Gallery So,
Tokyo (Also in 1994)
1992 Artists in Yokohama '92 / Yokohama Citizens' Gallery, Yokohama
1992 Street Gallery in Isesaki / Isesaki City, Gunma (also in 1993 and 94)
1991 Acrylart Exhibition / Meguro Art Museum, Tokyo
1991 Osaka Triennale / My Dome Osaka, Osaka
1989 Madowaku-no-Kaiga / Nabis Gallery, Tokyo
1989 Kyoto Art Exhibition / Kyoto Cultural Museum, Kyoto (also in 1991)
1989 Kawasaki Art Exhibition / Kawasaki Educational Culture Hall,
Kawasaki
1988 National University Print Exhibition,
Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo
1988 Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition /
Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Yokohama (also in 1989)
Public Collection
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA
FUNDACIÓ FOTO COLECTANIA, Barcelona, Spain
Can Cerrat International Art Center, Barcelona, Spain
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, USA
Hunter College of The City University of New York, NY, USA
Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo
Awards, Grants, Scholarships
2008 Can Serrat International Art Centre Residency Program Fellowship /
Barcelona,Spain
2008 Yaddo Residency Program Fellowship / Saratoga Springs, NY
2007 Santa Fe Art Institute Artist and Writer
Residency Program Fellowship. NM
2006 The Camera Club of New York, Studio Residency Program
2003 to 04 Hunter College Foreign Exchange Program –
Universität der Künste Berlin (Prof. Katharina Sieverding)
Berlin, Germany
2002 Hunter College The Esther Fish Perry Award
1997 to 98 Oversea Study Program Fellow,
Cultural Affairs (Bunkacho) of the Japanese Government
1989 to 90 Holbein Scholarship
1989 Kawasaki Art exhibition, Encouragement Prize
1988 National University Print Exhibition, Purchase Prize
