Shingo FRANCIS
Born 1969 in Santa Monica, California, USA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA

Education
1992

B.F.A. Pitzer College, Claremont CA, USA

2017

M.F.A. ART Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, USA

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022(upcoming) MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan2019

Subtle Impressions, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
Kaleidoscope: moments in time, Sam Francis Gallery at Crossroads School, Santa
Monica, USA

2018

PAINTING, LA ARTCORE, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Color and Shadow, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, USA

2017

Interference-New Paintings, GALERIE PARIS, Yokohama, Japan2016

Silent Presence, Space bm, Seoul, Korea

2015

Helios, LAX: Los Angeles World Airports, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Silent Colors in Moving Light, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan

2014

Vast and Vivid, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, JapanA Moment in Time and Space, SPACE NIO ART GALLERY, NIKKEI Inc. Head Office, Tokyo,Japan

Transcendence: a deeper sense of color, Yokohama College of Art & Design,Yokohama, Japan2013

Liquid Pop: pop and abstraction, KOKI ARTS, Tokyo, Japan
Across the Line: A Voyage Into the Void, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan
Kaleidoscope, Lobby Gallery organized by The Durst Organization and Chashama, NewYork, USA

2012

New Public Art Installation, 100 Wall Street, New York, USA
Bound for Eternity, The Bogart Salon, New York, USA

2011

Veils: a dialogue with the abyss, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan2010

Hoop Art, Casa Del Mar Hotel, Santa Monica, CA, USA

2009

Bound for Eternity, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA, USA
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The depth of Silence, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan
2008

Blue’s Silence: ashes in darkness, Hino Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Solo Project, ARCO Art fair (Curated by Tsutomu Mizusawa), Madrid, Spain

Blue’s Silence: inner silence, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan
New Horizons, Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery at Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC,USA
2006

Exploring the Horizon: a new light, Hino Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Blue`s Silence: brighter shade of blue, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan

2004

Blue’s Silence, Hino Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1999

Generations, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland

1998

Deep in the Dark, Hatch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1996

Between the Dark and Light, Hatch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions
2021

paintings, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

2020

Drawings, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
Shining Star: perception of light, GALERIE PARIS, Yokohama, Japan
Light/Space, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

2019

CONTEMPORARY MODERNISM, Show Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Summer Destination, Schmalfuss Berlin Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin, Germany
The Hue, Kylin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Artropocene: iBiennale MMXIX, Y Center for Visual Arts, Honolulu, HI, USA
Santa Monica: Now & Then, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

2018

Triennale Grenchen, Grenchen, Switzerland
LIMINIMAL, JAUS, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Layers of Nature: beyond the line, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano, JapanUnited, Schmalfuss Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin, Germany
Now You See it, Now You Don’t, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA, USA

2017

Shingo Francis X Julio Rondo, Atelier Berning Rondo, Berlin, Germany
Abracadabra of Drawing, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba, Japan

2016

Limitation and creation of imagination, Sezon Art Gallery Tokyo, Japan
Chromatic Passages, Japan Foundation LA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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15th Annual 21st Century Exhibition, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan2015

Helios, Los Angeles World Airports Terminal3, Los Angeles, CA, USAGroup Show, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, JapanThe Joshua Treenial, Joshua Tree, CA, USA
The 20th JAA Art Exhibition of Japanese and Japanese American Artists in New York,JAA, New York, USA

Parabola Gallery Tominokoji, Kyoto, Japan
Creative in Common, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA
2014

THE MIRROR: Hold the Mirror up to nature, Nagoya Shoko Kaikan, Ginza, Tokyo, JapanMIXED UP!, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Rockaway! , Fort Tilden, Rockaway Beach, New York, USA
De-install! BankART Hammerhead Studio, Yokohama, Japan
Placing Memory, Smith Andersen North, San Anselmo, California, USA
2013

Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland

Black and Blue, JAUS, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Working it Out, The Painting Center, New York, USA
Stronger than Fear is Hope, Schmalfuss Berlin Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin,Germany
2012

The Unseen Relationship: Form and Abstraction, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum ofArt, Japan

New World, Hahn Spielplatz, Seoul, Korea
Unknown Surface, Ayumi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan2011

A Space for Eternity, Bankart Life III, Shinko Pier, Yokohama, Japan
Art as Expression of Being, Checkpoint Ilgen, Berlin, Germany
Places, Stephan Stoyonav Gallery, New York, USA
Gateway Japan, Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance, CA, USA

2010

2010 Elements of Nature, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LI, USA
Mirrors of Continuous Change, Taekwang Industries Ltd, Heungkuk Life Building,Seoul, Korea

Ties over time: an exhibition at the residence of the U.S. ambassador to Japan, Tokyo,Japan

Across Dimensions, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, USA
New 21st Century Exhibit vol. 9, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan2009

Happy Hour!!, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, USA
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Threshold, Ueno Town Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Tsuzuki Art Project 2009, Yokohama Museum of History, Yokohama, Japan

Double Façade, Koganecho Bazaar Community, Yokohama, JapanOn the Shoulders of Davids, JAUS, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Archive, Shinwa Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Spin Off, Koganecho Area Management Center, Yokohama, JapanYokohama Creativecity Center, YCC, Yokohama, Japan

Double Façade, Zaim, Yokohama, Japan
2008

Red, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
Love to Party, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
To be looked at, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
daily life, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan

2007

ArtXDance, Azamino Civic Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Land[c]scape (curated by Eric Shiner) , Onishi Gallery, New York, USA
Four Handed Lift, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, USA
Cabinet of Curious Ties, The Lab Gallery, New York, USA
Vitamin W:Wonder Factor , City Without Walls, Newark, NJ, USA
Shingo Francis X Asae Soya, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
New 21st Century Exhibit, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan

2006

GENSE Art Exhibition 2006, Zenkyoan Kenninji Temple, Kyoto, Japan
Gift the Store, Wacoal Art center, Tokyo, JapanA Message from the Stars 2006, Mizutaki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Cuatro (curated by Kaon Jeff Baysa) , Sumi New York, USA

Chimaera, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, USA2005

Speak Easy, Up Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Take Art Collection, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Exhibit, Gallery Sennenike , Yokohama, Japan

Field of Now 2005, Gallery Center Building, Tokyo, Japan
2004

The Peekskill Project, Peekskill, New York, USA
Take Art Collection, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan
Group Show, Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, CA, USA

Fresh Paint: Skeptics Touch Here, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts, New York, USA
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Spiral Independent Creators festival, Spiral, Tokyo, JapanTokyo Global Art 2004, Chongro Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2003

4th Annual Winter Auction, D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Take Art Collection, Spiral, Tokyo, JapanTokyo Global Art 2003 , O Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Spiral Independent Creators Festival, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan
Red on Red , Red Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design Savannah, Georgia

2001

Open House Exhibition, Garner Tullis, New York, USA

2000

Studio Artists, Garner Tullis, New York, USA
Millennium Project, D5 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

1999

The Painting Aesthetic, Long Fine Art, New York, USA
12 L.A. Artists, Coagula Art Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1998

Santa Monica Auctions, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Art Freeze, Simon Shade Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USAThree from the Hatch, Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, USA
1997

Selected Artists, Hatch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1996

Hybernal, Venice Studio Art, Venice, CA, USA

1994

Lawrence Ferlinghetti and friends, Minna Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

1993

Alumni Art Exhibit, Sam Francis Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USAGroup Show, Minna Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

1992

Senior Exhibit, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, USA

Curatorial Projects
2014

Mixed Up!, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan2013

Celestial Dome, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Liquid Pop: pop and abstraction, Koki Arts, Tokyo, Japan

2008

Red, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
Yokohama Boogie: under the influence (co-curated with Kaon Jeff Baysa) ZAIM,Yokohama, Japan

Happy Hour, Hatch Art Project, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
Boundaries, Hatch Art Projects, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
Reject, The Hatch, Culver City, CA, USA

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Award2003

Fumio Nanjo Award (Deputy Director of Mori Museum, Tokyo)

Residencies
2014

Artist in Residence, Koganecho Studio, Yokohama, Japan

2013

Artist in Residence, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan

2012

MARMA Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2010

Governors Island Swing Space, New York, USA

2009

Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA, USA

2006

Art Omi International Art Center, Ghent, New York, USA

Selected Public Collections
JP Morgan Chase Bank, USA
Banco de Espana, Madrid, Spain
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
Shinshindo Kyoto, Japan
Mori building Co.,Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Liora Manne, New York, USA
Nezu Collection Tokyo, Japan
Ebhard Kornfeld Collection, Switzerland
Koichi Ushioda Collection, Japan
Cherrie Chinnanga, New York, USA
Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Japan

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