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Born in Osaka, Japan, Shinji Turner-Yamamoto studied fresco at the Kyoto City University of Arts. Sponsored by the Italian government, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna, where he lived for eleven years. His prizes include the 1999-2000 Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes and 2000 first prize from the international Targetti Light Art Collection. His work is in public and private collections in Switzerland, Finland, India, Japan, Italy, and the United States. Site-specific installations include Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genoa, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Roches Tower, Cork, Ireland, the Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi and Navdanya's Bija Vidyapeeth, Dehradun, India for UNESCO-ASCHBERG Bursaries for Artists, Kiyomizu Temple and Saigyo-an, Kyoto. Recent exhibitions include Kyoto Art Walk, an international invitational in Kyoto's temples and Nijo Castle which he curated, the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland, MUAR, Moscow, the Chelsea Art Museum, New York, and Ippaku-tei Teahouse, Embassy of Japan, Washington, DC. His Recent Global Tree Project, SLEEPING TREE, was realized through the Greater Reston Arts Center in 2008. The catalog documenting this project was published in 2009, coinciding with the release of a documentary film on the project by filmmaker Andrea Tree. Upcoming Tree Projects include installations in an abandoned 19th century church and at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA. |
