PROFILE: SHOJIRO KATO

Given Name SHOJIRO Family Name KATO Born 1954 / Tokyo, Japan Education 1978 M.F.A. in Japanese style painting, Graduate School of Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan 1976 B.F.A. in Japanese style painting, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan One Man Show 2004 Recent Paintings / Numthong Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 2003 Mind Forest / Akko Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 2002 Cat in Tokyo / Akko Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 2001 Moon People in Phuket / Art & Culture Gallery, Phuket, Thailand Moon People 1991-2000 / Japan Cultural Center, Bangkok, Thailand 1999 Moon People -8-/ O Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1997 ARK -2- / Gallery Ark, Yokohama, Japan 1996 ARK / Gallery Ark , Yokohama, Japan Bear -2- / Gallery?Olym, Tokyo, Japan Moon People -7- / Ginza Gallery House, Tokyo, Japan 1995 Bear / Gallery Q-S, Tokyo, Japan Moon People -6- / Ginza Gallery House, Tokyo, Japan? 1994 Moon People -5- / Taichung City Cultural Center, Taichung, Taiwan 1993 Moon People -4- / Gallery K, Tokyo, Japan 1992 Moon People -3- / Gallery K, Tokyo, Japan 1991 Moon People -2- / Sotetsu Gallery, Yokohama, Japan Moon People / Cast Iron Gallery, New York, USA Selected Group Show 2004 New Images 2004 / Gallery Hibiki, Tokyo, Japan ORIENT in ASEAN -Prayer for Peace- / ASEAN Center, Tokyo, Japan Today's Figurative Paintings 2004 / Asahi Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan WILLIAMSBURG SALON 2004 / W.A.H.Center, New York, USA 2003 ORIENT in Jakarta / Japan Cultural Center, Jakarta, Indonesia ORIENT -Color & Shape- 2003 / Moteki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Three men show -Contemporary Paintings from Asia- / with Vasan Sitthiket & Le Thanh Thu, O Gallery, Tokyo, Japan WILLIAMSBURG SALON 2003 / W.A.H.Center, New york, USA 2002 ORIENT -Color & Shape-?2002 Moteki?Gallery / Tokyo, Japan Today's Figurative Paintings 2002 / Asahi Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2001 ORIENT -Color & Shape-?2001 / Ginza Art Plaza, Tokyo, Japan Today's Figurative Paintings 2001 / Asahi Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2000 Two persons show -Two Developments of Japanese style painting- with Michiko Iseki / Inoue Gallery, Tokyo, Japan ORIENT -Color & Shape-?2000 / Ginza Art Plaza, Tokyo, Japan Japan -Korea Contact Art Exhibition / Cheju Cultural Center, Cheju, Korea Today's Figurative Paintings 2000 / Asahi Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1999 ORIENT -Color & Shape- 1999 / Ginza Art Plaza, Tokyo, Japan Japan -Korea Contact Art Exhibition / Kanagawa Prefecture Gallery, Yokohama, Japan Today's Figurative Paintings 1999 / Asahi Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1998 Today's Great Painters in Japan / Shanghai City Art Museum,Shanghai, The People's Republic of China Vietnam International Art Exhibition? / Ho Chi Minh City Art Museum, Ho Chi Minh , Vietnam Wind of Asia ? / Ginza Gallery House, Tokyo, Japan Japan -Korea Contact Art Exhibition / Seoul Shinmun Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1997 Yasuda Art Foundation Contemporary Art Exhibition / Yasuda Art Foundation Togo Seiji Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan The 40th Yasui Prize Exhibition / Season Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan What is Japanese style painting ? / Ginza Gallery House, Tokyo, Japan 1996 Thai Asian Modern Art Exhibition / Sindhon Building, bangkok, Thailand 1995 Shanghai Asian Modern Art Exhibition / Shanghai?City Art Museum, Shanghai, The People's Republic of China 1994 Vietnam International Art Exhibition / Ho Chi Minh City Art Museum, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam Wind of Asia / Chibagin Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1992 China-Japan?International?Contact Art Exhibition / National History Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Japan-Korea-China Contemporary Art Exhibition / Lotte Art Museum, Seoul, Korea 1991 The 2nd Japan-Korea-China Asian Modern Art Exhibition / Korean Cultural Center, Tokyo, Japan 1990 Hong Kong Asian Modern Art Exhibition / Hong Kong Cultural Center, Hong Kong Three person show -Three Developments of Japanese style painting- with John Volmer & Yumiko Tanaka / Sairin Gallery, Yokohama, Japan Japan-Korea-China Asian Modern Art Exhibition / Korean Cultural Center, Tokyo, Japan 1989 China-Japan International Contact Art Exhibition / Kaosiung Cultural Center, Kaosiung, Taiwan Awards 2001 Grand Prize in the 23rd Japan-Seiko Art Exhibition 1997 Invited to the 40th Yasui Prize Exhibition 1996 Yasuda Art Foundation Prize in the 32nd Asian Modern Art Exhibition Second Grand Prize in the 30th Kanagawa-ken Exhibition 1994 Grand Prize in the 30th Asian Modern Art Exhibition 1992 Japan-Asian Airline Prize in the 28th Asian Modern Art Exhibition 1991 Ueno no Mori Art Museum Prize in the 27th Asian Modern Art Exhibition 1990 Prize in the 26th Asia Modern art Exhibition 1990 The Artist Friendship Association of Asia Prize in the 26th Asian Modern Art Exhibition 1989 New Artist Prize in the 25th Asian Modern Art Exhibition "The more one pursues the possibility of the paintings, the more the definition of the paintings are broken and then, one leaves the world of the paintings. But I believe the paintings can touch and heal our hearts through the body, like a human-being.." (Kato Shojiro) "Japanese style painting" is coined by the inflow of Western painting after the period of isolation 130 years ago to distinguish Japanese traditional painting from Western painting. Historically, "Japanese style painting" can be defined as a unique painting developed in Japan, which originally came from China. The painting is drawn basically with Indian ink, shells, powdered mineral pigments, clay, gold leaves, glues, etc. It might be a primitive way but it can be the system for mutual sympathy between nature and human-beings. Although Mr.Kato's style is based on Japanese style painting, his pursuit of painting is beyond both Japanese style and Western style. His paintings have simple structure but have impact and hidden power at the same time. The motif seems to be a human being but there is no face, no character. He avoids to express the feeling directly, but tries to make the viewer's image concrete through the reality created by the contrast between the body and the color. Click for photo release at www.thaipr.net

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