清水総二

Soji Shimizu

1983年三重県生まれ。
東京造形大学グラフィックデザイン専攻を中退後、筑波大学芸術専門学群卒業。
清水総二は、「ペインティング」や「展覧会」の形式や慣習、マナーに興味を持ち、それらを解体したり置き換えたりすることを実践し、自分が何を選択し、どのような態度やあり方をするのかを考えている。この興味をもとに、主にペインティングやオブジェ、テキスト、インスタレーションとして作品を展開する。
2018年よりドイツ、ベルリン在住。

Born in Mie, Japan in 1983. After leaving the graphic design major at the Tokyo Zokei University, Soji Shimizu received a BFA in art from the University of Tsukuba. Shimizu is interested in the forms, conventions, and manners of ‘painting’ and ‘exhibition’, and in the practice of deconstructing and replacing them, he considers what he choose to do and what his attitudes and ways of being is. He builds on this interest to develop his work primarily as paintings, photographs, objects, texts and installations. He lives and works in Berlin since 2018.

Selected solo and duo shows
2021 Rear Window, Rathenau Hallen, Berlin (solo)
2018 Doublethinkwise, Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Tokyo (solo)
2015 Soji Shimizu - Setagaya Art Award, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo (solo)
2014 Midnight Experiment, no name space, Tokyo (solo)
2014 cross dissolve, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo (duo with Nobuo Yoda)
2011 Press, Gallery K, Tokyo (solo)
2010 Landscape, Galerie Moineau, Tokyo (duo with Yoo Hyun)

Selected group shows
2021 Shadow Came Before The Sun, Curated by Othergrounds, Kunstquartier Bethanien Projektraum, Berlin
2021 First International Festival of Manuports, Kohta, Helsinki, Finland
2021 The 22nd Triennale Grenchen, Grenchen, Switzerland
2021 New Currents, Curated by Emily Dickinson, BBA Gallery, Berlin
2020 Down by the River, Rathenau Hallen, Berlin
2019 Boo, Projektraum 145, Berlin
2019 GlogauAIR Residency Program, Berlin
2017 Tradition Créatricé - Cultural Festival in the Forest 2017, Kyoto University of Art & Design, Tokyo
2017 The Violent Silence of A New Beginning, Curated by Studio Khana for Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt
2016 Bebop, XYZ collective, Tokyo
2015 Itch, Midori.so, Tokyo
2015 Tokyo Wonder Wall 2015, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
2014 Group Show, Gallery Soko, Hokkaido, Japan
2013 Arafudo Art Annual 2013, Tsuchiyu - Onsen, Fukushima, Japan
2013 Asuka Art Village, Complex of Man’yo Culture, Nara, Japan
2012 Warehouse Project, Yokohama, Japan
2012 Radio Show, Daikanyama Art Street - Not Authority, But Art., Midori.so, Tokyo
2012 BankART AIR Program, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan
2011 Nakanojo Biennale 2011, Nakanojo, Gunma, Japan
2011 Art Student Exhibition, Ise Cultural Foundation, New York, United States of America
2009 Wonder Seeds 2009, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo

Curation
2021 Cancelled Order, Rathenau Hallen, Berlin
2015 Itch, Midori.so, Tokyo (Co-curation with Nobuo Yoda)

Award and Grant
2017 Selected for ‘Emerging 2018’, Tokyo Arts and Space, Tokyo
2014 Awarded the Setagaya Art Award, Setagaya City / Setagaya Arts Foundation, Japan
2012 Awarded the Alumni Association’s Prize, University of Tsukuba, Japan
2011 Japan Arts Foundation Scholarship