Shintaro Nakaoka

Shintaro Nakaoka

Shintaro Nakaoka

1957 Born in Ogaki, Gifu, Japan

1980 Graduated from Department of Sculpture of Tama Art University

1988 Awarded Aji Town Manager Prize at the 1st Festival of Stone Village

1989 Awarded Education Ministers Prize for Sculpture Promenade at the 4th National

Cultural Festival  Saitama’89;   Awarded Fine Work Prize at Sculpture Exhibition in Rocco Island;  Awarded Excellent Work Prize at Yokohama Biennale’89.

1900 Awarded Excellent Work Prize at the 3rd Rodin Grand Prix Exhibition;   Awarded Citizen′s Prize at The 2nd Kurashiki Street Corner Sculpture Exhibition.

1991 Awarded The Utsukushi-ga-hara  Open Air Museum Prize at The 7th Henry Moore Grand Prix Exhibition;   Awarded Sma-Rikyu Park Prize at The 14th Modern Japanese Sculpture Exhibition;  Awarded Excellent Work Prize at The 6h Real Sculpture Exhibition of Great Prize in Kobe;   Awarded Excelent Work Prize at Yokohama Biennale91.

1992 Awarded Silver Prize at Kajima Sculpture Contest;  Awarded Excellent Work Prize at the 4th Rodin Grand Prix Exhibition

1994 Awarded Excellent Work Prize at the 6th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture  the Chiba Prefecture Museum.

1996 Awarded Kobe City Planning Bureau Prize and Civic Prize at the 8th Real Sculpture Exhibition of Great Prize in Kobe.

1997 Went to Portugal at the delegated artist of the Minister of Culture of Japan ’98.

1999 Awarded Great Prize at Asago 2001 0pen― Air Sculpture Exhibition in Tataragi’ 99

2000 Lectured at Port University/Deparment  of Fine Art

2002 Awarded Fine Work Prize at The 7th Trienal Exhibition of Arts in Makuarazaki.

2003 Awarded Citizen’s Prize at the 4th  Annual Sakura Sculpture Competition in lkawa; 

Awarded lnvitation Prize at the 6th International Stone Sculpture Symposium.

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

1985 Gallery Yamaguchi  Tokyo

1987 Kyoni Gallery/Tokyo;  Transport Park in Urayasu/Chiba

1988 Sinjuku Sanseido Hall Tokyo;  Yonago NHK Hall  Tottori

1990 Kyoni Gallery/Tokyo

1991 Plus Minus Gallery/Tokyo

1992 Art Box, Yokohama

1993 KirinPlaza Osaka, Osaka

1994 Kirin Beer Village, Yokohama; Takashimaya, Tokyo

1995 Kuze Gallery, Gifu; Sekigahara Marble Craft, Gifu

1996 Mabllzakaya, Nagoya

1997 Kuze Gallery,Gifu

1999 Gallery Seiho, Tokyo; Centro Cultural Emmerico Nunes, Sines; Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil; Camara Municipal de Portalegre, Portalegre

2000 Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil; Casa Tait, Camara Municipal do Porto, Porto

2002 Gallery Kuze, Gifu; Gallery F, Gifu; Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil

2003 Taruishuku  Nagahmaya, Gifu

2005 Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil

2006 Museu-de- Pedra- do Município- de‐Cantanhede

2007 Biwako Hotel Guratie

2010 Kuze Gallery, Gifu; Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil

2013 São Mamede Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

 

Group Exhibitions

 

1985 International Environment Art Symposium’85 in Tsukuba, Ibaraki; Open- Air Contemporary Art Exhibition in Gifu,Gifu

1986 ESSE Sculpture Exhibition, Tokyo; Tokorozawa Open- Air Art Festival, Saitama

1987 ESSE Sculpture Exhibition, Tokyo

1988 The 1st Festival of Stone Village/Kagawa; The 3rd Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture, The Chiba Prefecture Museum

1989 The Space; Material; Tension; Vacancy in Japanese Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama; Japanese Ways, Western Means, The Queensland  Art Gallery, Australia;

Real Sculpture Exhibition of Great Prize in Kobe, Kobe; The 13th Modern Japanese Sculpture, Exhibition, Ube; The 4th National Cultural Festival Saitama’89 Saitama Sculpture Exhibition in Rocco Island, Kobe; Yokohama Biennale’89, Yokohama

1990 The 3rd Rodin Grand Prix Exhibition, The Utsukushi-ga-hara Open-Air Museum, The 2rd Kurashiki Street Corner Sculpture Exhibition,  Okayama, Odawara Castle Open-Air Sculpture Kanagawa; The 10 th Hara Annual, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art,  Tokyo

1991 The 7 th Henry Moore Grand Prix Exhibition, The Utsukushi-ga-hara open Air Museum; The 14 th Modern Japanese Sculpture  Exhibition,  Ube; The 6th Real Sculpture Exhibition of Great Prize in Kobe, Kobe; Yokohama Biennale’91,  Yokohama; Art Are Fun, Hara Museum Arc, Gunma

1992 Index of City Contemporary Sculpture  and Environment,  Tokyo; Kajima Sculpture Contest, Tokyo; The 22nd  Modern Japanese Arts  Exhibition, Tokyo,  Kyoto, Fukuoka;  The 4th Rodin Grand Prix Exhibition, The Utsukushi‐ga-hara Open- Air Museum

1993 The 15t Modern Japanese Sculpture Exhibition, Ube; Toyamura lnternational Sculpture Biennale’93, Hokkaido

1994 The 6 th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture, The Chiba Prefecture Museum

Yokohama Modern Art Exhibition, Shanghai; Humming Dale Shibusawa, Kanagawa

1995 600 Seoul International Art Festival, Seoul; Art Festival” Creating Kyoto”, Kyoto; The

16 th Modern Japanese Sculpture Exhibition, Ube

 

1996 The 8 th Real Sculpture Exhibition of Great Prize in Kobe, Kobe

1997 “Da Cruz de Cristo ao Sol Nascente”

1998 Quatro Artistas Japoneses vivendo em Portugal, Antiks- Design, Lisbon; “Inside/OutSide”  Japanese  contemporary  Sculpture  by Eight Artists, The Niigata

Prefecture Museum of  Modern Art

1999 Asago 2001 0pen‐ Air Sculpture Exhibition in Tataragi’99, Hyogo; Exposição de Escultura, Camara Municipal de Portalegre, Portalegre

2000 The 15th Kurashiki Street Corner Sculpture Exhibition,  Kurashiki; Awaji International Stone Art Contest, Hyogo; Exposição de Pintura Portuguesa e Escultura Contemporânea, Antiks-Design, Lisboa

2002 The 6th Oita Asia Sculpture Exhibition, Oita; The 7th Trienal Exhibition of Arts in Makurazaki, Kagoshima; Gunma  Open Space  Art Competition 2002, Gunma

Exposição de Pintura Portuguesa e Escultura Contemporânea, Antiks-Design, Lisboa

2003 The 4 th Annual Sakura Sculpture Competition Ikawa, Akita; Inertes com Vida, Antiks-Design, Lisboa

2004 The 7th Oita Asia Sculpture Exhibition, Oita

2005 “Para VOLKER”, Centro Cultural de São Lourenço, Almancil

2007 The 8th Trienal Exhibition of Arts in Makurazaki, Kagoshima

 

Symposiums

 

1987 Iwate, Iwate

1988 Yonago, Tottori

1991 Mure, kagawa

1992 Niijima, Tokyo

2000 Maia, Portugal

2001 Alpalhão, Portugal

2003 Nishiharima, Hyogo; Aji Kagawa

2005 Cantanhede, Portugal

2010 Toukamachi, Nligata

 

Museum  Collections

 

Hara Museum Arc

The Ustukushi-ga-hara Open― Air Museum

The Chiba Prefecture  Museum

The Niigata Prefecture Museum of Modern  Art

The Tomioka City Museum

 

 

 

 

Public Collections

 

Tokyo‐Ootaku;  Tokyo- komae;  Tokyo-Niijima ; Gifu‐Ogaki

Kagawa-Takamatu;  Hyougo-Asago;  Akita- Ikawa;  Sizuoka- Itou

lwate‐Iwatecho;  Yamaguchi‐Ube;  Tiba-Urayasu;  Kanagawa-Odawara

Siga-kusatu;  Okayama- Kurasiki;  Hyougo- Koube;  Kanagawa-Hadano

Hyougo-Takarazuka;  Hyougo- Tikusa;  Nagano-Tokura;  Nagano-Nagano

Hyougo-Fujiage;  Fukui‐ Fukui;  Kagosima-Makurazaki;  Kagawa‐ Mure

Osaka-Moriguchi;  Kanagawa- Yokohama;  Tottori‐ Yonago; Niigata-Toukamachi;

 

Portugal-Sines;  Portugal- Nisa; Portugal-Cantanhede; Portugal-Maia; Portugal‐Lisbon

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