Shinjiro Okamoto
1933
2020

Born in Tokyo, Japan
Passed away in Tokyo, Japan

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020
2011
2008
2001
1998
1991
1987
1981
1979
1978
1974
1966
1965
1964
1963
1962
1956

The Pioneer of Japanese Pop Art, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Beijing, China
Shinjiro Okamoto: The Big Bomb at 25:00, Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Shinjiro Okamoto’s Panoramic Humor Universe — The Philosophy of Humor
1950-2001, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Beijing
Roly-poly Cherry Blossom Laughing Show — Moon and Flower, Ikeda Museum of
20th Century Art, Shizuoka, JapanThe Laughing Panorama Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan
Laughing Sketch, Gallery Taiki, Tokyo, Japan
Kosai Gallery, Tokyo, JapanThe Painting Laughs: The Exhibition of Shinjiro Okamoto – Tokyo Shonen, Niigata
City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
The World of Shinjiro Okamoto: Records of 25 Years, Ikeda Museum of 20th Century
Art, Shizuoka, JapanMy Sword Fighting Experience, Ao Gallery, Tokyo and Anri Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Betty Boop’s Country, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Insect World, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Ten Indians, Sato Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Sacred Landscape, Mudo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kunugi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kunugi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2007

Earth Attack, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
Parody and Intertextuality: Visual Culture in Japan Around the 1970s, Tokyo Station
Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Permanent Collection Exhibition, Takamatsu Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
International Pop, Walker Art Center, Minnesota, USA
MOT Collection, Part 1: Our Ninety Years: 1923-2013; Part 2: Chronicle 1966- |Expanded Vision, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Awakening – Where Are We Standing? – Earth, Memory and Resurrection, Aichi Triennial 2013, Aichi, JapanTrajectory of Yoshio Murakami, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan
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Art Front 25 Years — With The Artists, Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art, Shizuoka,Japan
Contemporary Poetry and Color, Japan Contemporary Poetry and Literature Center,Iwate, Japan
Picasso and Japan, Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, JapanThe Power of Fantasy: From the Modern and Contemporary Art of Japan, The
Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan
Varieties of Human Form, Kintetsu Art Museum, Osaka, Japan
Landscape of the Heart-Naive Art Exhibition, Seibu Art Museum, Tokyo, JapanLieca International Drawing Biennial (Purchase Prize), Belgrade Modern Art Museum, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Ryu Modern Art Exhibition, Sakaide Civic Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
83 Contemporary Japanese Painters, Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Paintings, 83 Artists, New Delhi National Museum of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
40 Years of Modern Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Humor in Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, JapanJapanese Contemporary Paintings, 1960-1970, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Trend of Contemporary Art Ⅱ, 1960s — Beginning of Diversification, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, JapanA Panorama of Contemporary Art in Japan — Oil Painting, The Museum of ModernArt, Toyama, Japan
Illustration Today, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo /Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
Inaugural Exhibition Part 1 - A Scene of Contemporary Japanese Art, The Miyagi
Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan
Shonen Senki, 81 Museum, Tokyo, JapanThe Pop Wave, Gallery Humanité, Nagoya, JapanThe 1960s — A Decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, JapanForm and Rhetoric, Sato Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1980 Japanese Prints, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
Shimizu Kusuo and Artists, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
British International Print Biennial (Lunt Humphrey Prize for joint work made with
Go Yayanagi), Bradford, UK
Contemporary Print Exhibition, College Women’s Association Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Ljubljana Print Biennial, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
Still-Life Today, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
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Yellow Machine and Green Times Exhibition, Science and Technology Center,Tokyo, Japan
Modern Print Exhibition, College Women’s Association of Japan, Tokyo, JapanTokyo International Figurative Art Biennial, Tokyu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo,Japan
Contemporary Japanese Print Exhibition, College Women’s Association of Japan,
Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Print Exhibition, College Women’s Association of Japan,
Tokyo, Japan
Developments of Contemporary Japanese Art Changes in Figurative Expression,
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo,Japan
Contemporary Japanese Print Exhibition, College Women’s Association of Japan,
Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Print Exhibition, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama,Japan
Modern Art Festival, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
100 Artists Today, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Japan
Human Documents, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo,Japan
Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo,Japan
Environmental Game Council Exhibition, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Mutual Influences between Japanese and Western Art, The National Museum ofModern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Art in Wonderland, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Japan Art Festival, Houston, Texas, USA
Japan International Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, JapanWar Exhibition, Nippon Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo,Japan
New Generation of Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo,JapanWar Exhibition, Nippon Gallery, Tokyo, JapanMy Sword-fighting Experiences, Hello, Space Man!, Yoshida Gallery, Tokyo, JapanNew Japanese Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Seven Deaths, Tsubaki Modern Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
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1962
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1957
1956

Tokyo Biennial, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
15 Contemporary Japanese Artists, Zurich City Art Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
Artists Today 1964, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, JapanContemporary Trend of Japanese Paintings and Sculptures, The National Museum ofModern Art, Kyoto, Japan
International Young Artists Pan-Europe and Japan Exhibition, Seibu Department
Store, Tokyo, JapanThe Museum of Contemporary Art Nagaoka Prize Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan
World Modern Art Exhibition, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Young Seven Exhibition, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Shell Art Award, Shirokiya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
Shell Art Award, Shirokiya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
Artists Exhibition, Shinjuku Daiichi Gallery, Tokyo, JapanThe 2nd Seisaku Kaigi Exhibition, Bunshun Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Asian Youth Art Exhibition, Toyoko Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
Eureka Poetry Painting Exhibition, Gallery Hiroshi, Tokyo, Japan
Niki Society Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Shinjiro Okamoto, Tsuyako Goto Joint Exhibition, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, JapanThe 1st Seisaku Kaigi Exhibition, Hibiya Gallery, Tokyo, JapanThe 9th Nihon Independent Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum,Tokyo,JapanThe 8th Yomiuri Independent Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum,Tokyo,Japan (Participated in all subsequent annual Yomiuri Independent Exhibitions)

Accolades
1969
1963
1962
1956

Frontier Prize
Shell Art AwardAward for Excellence, Niki Society Exhibition
Shell Art Award
Shirataki Prize

Selected Public Collections
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art (Kobe, Japan), Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art (Shizuoka,Japan), Miyagi Museum of Art (Miyagi, Japan), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Ibiza, Spain), Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade (Belgrade, Serbia), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo(Tokyo, Japan), Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama (Kanagawa, Japan), Museum ofModern Art, Saitama (Saitama, Japan), Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama (Wakayama, Japan),National Museum of Art, Osaka (Osaka, Japan), National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Tokyo,Japan), Niigata City Art Museum (Niigata, Japan), Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art (Ni4 of 5

igata, Japan), Takamatsu City Museum of Art (Kagawa, Japan), Tochigi Prefectural Museum (Utsunomiya, Japan), Tokushima Modern Art Museum (Tokushima, Japan)

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