Shogo Shimizu is an artist born in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan in 1993 and is one of the co-directors of 4649. Shimizu has used sculpture, drawing and a variety of other media to express his anxieties & delusions about urban life & technology with a science fiction imagination and a sense of humor based on references to underground youth culture.

Japanese, b. 1993 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.

Education

2016 BFA, Tama Art University

Solo and two-person exhibitions

2023

Patience Note II, No Gallery, New York City

2022

Tokyo Art Book Fair 2022, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo

2021

Disassembled Self, Shogo Shimizu and Calvin Miceli-Nelson, 4649, Tokyo

2020

Unlimited Dream Liability Company, MX Gallery, NY (as Tsutomu Shimomura)

2019

Patience Note, Emotional Life, Corner Printing KG, Tokyo
Patience Note, 4649, Tokyo

2018

Masaya Chiba and Shogo Shimizu, Stake House Doskoi (XYZ Collective), Tokyo

2017

standees, Workstation, Tokyo

2015

zit, Workstation, Tokyo

2013

CI, Strange Store, Tokyo

2012

iam… , Strange Store, Tokyo

Group exhibitions

2023

June Art Fair, Basel - 4649
NADA New York - No Gallery
Agnés B. Galerie Boutique, Tokyo
Hikarie Contemporary Art Eye Vol.16, Hikarie 8, Tokyo

2022

Artist Running Festival Kyoto, VOU, Kyoto
Onsen Confidential, 4649, Tokyo
COPE, No Galley, NY

2019

4649-5963, Mumei, Tokyo
Haiku, Stake House Doskoi, Tokyo

2018

NADA Miami 2018, Ice Palace Studio, FL
Justice, Vienna
Outdoor Sculpture Project Sagamihara, Kanuma Park, Sagamihara 2018 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
4649, Tokyo (as Tsutomu Shimomura)

2017

KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo

Publications

2018

Patience Note, 4649

Curatorial projects

2017 - present, 4649, Tokyo 2015 - 2017, Workstation, Tokyo