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1931 Born in Tokyo
1952

Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Minister Secretariat Public Relations Division (~54)

1954

Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Manufacture and Technology Institution,
Industrial Arts Examination Room (~67)

1953

Dropped out of Aoyama Gakuin University Second Literature Department, British andAmerican Literature Course

1963

Study abroad at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (~64)

1966

Houston Fine Art Museum art school lecturer (~68)

1968

California University Los Angeles School visiting scholar (~70)

1972Musashino Art University Part-time lecturer(~75)

1976

Colorado State University and Minnesota University visiting scholar (~77)

1979

University of Tsukuba ﬁne art professor (~94)

1994

Nagasaki University graduate school full-time professor (~96)

2001

International Sculpture Conference at Pittsburgh, U.S.A

2003

Kanazawa College of Art graduate school full-time professor (~2009)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1963'Solo Exhibition' | Guild-Hall Gallery, United States(Chicago)

1967'Solo Exhibition' | Kiko Gallery, United States(Houston)

1972'Solo Exhibition' | Natenshi Gallery, Tokyo

1991'Solo Exhibition' | M Gallery, Tokyo'Morio Shinoda Document' Exhibition | Yamagiwa Roppongi Inspiration, Tokyo1992'Part II New Works Show' | Sakura Gallery, Aichi(Nagoya)

1999'Solo Exhibition' | Matsuda Art, Tokyo(Ginza)

2001'Solo Exhibition' | F, United Kingdom (London)

2012'Solo Exhibition' | PANTOGRAPH, Kanagawa

2013'Grace of Gravity -The Essence of Suspended Forms-' | Okanoyama Museum of Art Nishiwaki, Hyogo

2014'Tension, Compression and Gravity' | Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Hyogo'WALL' | KOKI ARTS, Tokyo'Morio Shinoda Scultpure Show' | Art Space Rashinban, Tokyo

2016'Solo Exhibition' | Gallery Uchiyama, Tokyo

2018'Tension and Compression' | TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY, Osaka

2019'Morio Shinoda Scultpure Show' | Art Space Rashinban, Tokyo

2021'Shinoda Morio−Subconscious−' | Ryokuzan Museum, Nagano

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Selected Group Exhibitions
1960'1st Group Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition' | Seibu Department Store, Tokyo(*Exhibited until the 3rd)
'Group Contemporary Sculptureʼ formed with Tarō Okamoto, Tatsuhiro Yamaguchi, Takeshirōtō Mōri

1963

'Sculptureʼs New Generation Exhibition' | National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

1964'1st Nagaoka Contemporary Art Award Exhibition' | Niigata(Nagaoka)

1965'Organized by The Museum of Art New York "The New Japanese Painting and Sculpture" ' | MOMA,and others

1966'Exhibited as Japan representative at 33rd Venice Biennale | Italy(Venice)

1967'International Sculpture Exhibition' | National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

1970'1.2miles-Performance' | Mojave Desert, United States(California)

1973'Japanese Art Grand Prize Exhibition' | Isetan Department Store, Tokyo'Japan Exhibition' | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark(Copenhagen)

1976'Sydney Biennale Exhibition' | Australia(Sydney)

1981'The Evolution of Modern Sculpture in Japan' | The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura &Hayama, Kanagawa

1982

Exhibited at '1st International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition' and invited as international judge(The Art Museum and California State University at Long Beach, also toured 10 various Americanart museums)

1983'The 1960ʼs: The Starting Point For Diversiﬁcation' | Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo'A panorama of contemporary art in Japan-sculpture' | Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art andDesign, Toyama

1984

August 26th 'The Potential of Contemporary Sculpture: Panel Discussion with JJ.
Tinguely and Yoshiaki Tōno' | The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga

1991'Dynamics of Contemporary Japanese Art: 3D Modeling' | Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art andDesign, Toyama

1992'4th Fumio Asakura Award Commemoration 'Morio Shinoda Exhibition' | Matsuzakaya Ueno, Tokyo

2000'Bodily Sense Art Land” Sculpture Seen By Handʼ Exhibition Part II | Akita Senshu Museum of Art, Akita

2005'Group Exhibition | Gallery Oishi, Fukuoka

2006'Group Exhibition 'Vermeer Artist Exhibition' | Ishikawa(Kanazawa)'Group Exhibition 'North Biwako Contemporary Art Exhibition 2006' | Shiga(Nagahama)

2017

Morio Shinoda×Maywa Denki Exhibition 'FLOATING INDUSTRY' | AWAJI Cafe & Gallery, Tokyo

2018

Metal Fetish [Metal Modeling] | Nihonbashi Takashimaya 6F/X Art Gallery, Tokyo Awards

Awards
1956

Best Newcomer Award, 6th ʻModern Artʼ Exhibition

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1965

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Hayama Modern Art Museum Award, ʻUbe Outdoor Sculpture Art Museum ‒ 1st ʻContemporary
Japanese Sculptureʼ Exhibition

1966

Awarded the 9th Kōtarō Takamura Award,（for the ʻTension and Compressionʼ series)

1973

Outstanding Performance, 1st ʻSculpture Mori Art Museum Grand Prizeʼ Exhibition Outstanding
Performance, 4th Teijiro Nakahara Award

1975

Grand Prize, 2nd ʻSculpture Mori Art Museum Grand Prizeʼ Exhibition

1992

Awarded the Fumio Asakura Award

2000

Outstanding Sculpture Educator, by American International Sculpture Center

Installation Works
Tokyu Corporation ‒ Monument in front of Tama-Plaza Station
IBM Iikura Building ‒ Monument
Yokohama Nittariryokudō ‒ Monument
Monument in front of Ushiku Station
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building ‒ Monument
TEPIA Advanced Technology Gallery Center

Public Collections
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Tochigi Prefectural Museum
Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama
Hakone Open-Air Museum (Hakone)
Sezon Museum of Modern Art
Kanai Contemporary Art Museum (Kushiro)
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Takamatsu Municipal Museum
Tokushima Modern Art Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Sapporo Arts Mori Art Museum
Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture
Taitō Ward Arts and Historical Society
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark)Houston Texas Police Headquarters Building (America)
Mrs. Rockefeller III Collection (New York)
Houston Museum of Fine Arts (America)

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Neiman Marcus Department stores (Dallas)
Newhouse Collection (New York)
Frederick Wiseman Collection (Los Angeles)
William Lieberman Collection (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Alfred Schmela Collection (Dusseldorf)
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