Shingo Francis

Shingo Francis, "Bound for Eternity (red)", 2008, Gouache and acrylic on paper, 152 x 1700 cm
Shingo Francis, "Infinite Space (violet-turquoise)", 2015, Oil on linen, 194 x 162 cm / 76 x 64 in
Shingo Francis, "Matrix", 2018, Acrylic on canvas, 108 x 145 in / 276 x 367 cm
Shingo Francis, "Heart of the Blue Sun", 2022, Oil on canvas, 91 x 91 cm (35.8x35.8 in)

ABOUT

Born 1969 in Santa Monica, California. Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA and Kamakura, Japan. Francis explores the vast space and spirituality of painting through abstract expressions that consist of multiple layers of blue and deep monochrome color works. His major exhibitions include DIC Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art,(Chiba, 2012), Lobby Gallery, Durst Organization, (New York, 2013), Ichihara Lakeside Museum, (Chiba, 2017), Sezon Museum of Modern Art, (Nagano, 2018), Martin Museum of Art, (Waco, 2019). His works are in collections including JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, Banco de Espana, Frederick R. Weiseman Art Foundation, Mori Arts Center, and Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Oketa Collection, Tokyo American Club.

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Shingo Francis

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

2020　Shining Star: perception of light, GALERIE PARIS, Kanagawa, Japan
2019　Subtle Impressions, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2019　Kaleidoscope: moments in time, Sam Francis Gallery at Croosroads School, Santa Monica,CA
2018　PAINTING, LA ARTCORE, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2018　Color and Shadow, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2017　Interference-New Paintings, GALERIE PARIS, Yokohama, Japan
2017　Limitation and creation of imagination, Sezon Art Gallery Tokyo, Japan
2017　Silence presence’, Space bm, Seoul, Korea
2015　Helios at Los Angels International Airport,, LAX: Los Angeles World Airports, Los Angeles,CA, USA
2015　Silent Colors in Moving Light, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan
2014　Vast and Vivid, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2014　A Moment in Time and Space, SPACE NIO ART GALLERY, NIKKEI Inc. Head Office, Tokyo, Japan
2014　Transcendence: a deeper sense of color, Yokohama College of Art & Design, Yokohama, Japan
2013　Liquid Pop: pop and abstraction, KOKI ARTS, Tokyo, Japan
2013　Across the Line: A Voyage Into the Void, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan
2013　Kaleidoscope,Lobby Gallery organized by The Durst Organization and Chashama, New York, USA
2012　New Public Art Installation, 100 Wall Street, New York, USA
2012　Bound for Eternity, The Bogart Salon, New York, USA
2011　Veils: a dialogue with the abyss, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan
2010　Hoop Art, Casa Del Mar Hotel, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2009　Bound for Eternity, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA, USA
2009　The depth of Silence, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan
2008　Blue’s Silence: ashes in darkness, Hino Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008　Solo Project, ARCO Art fair (Curated by Tsutomu Mizusawa), Madrid, Spain
2008　Blue’s Silence: inner silence, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan
2008　New Horizons, Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery at Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC, USA

– Selected Group Exhibitions –

2020　LIGHT | SPACE, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2019　Miyuki Yokomizo x Shingo Francis, Lee & Bae, Busan, Korea
2019　Emergence: the art and incarnation of Space, Martin Museum of Art, Waco, Texas
2019　ART MACAO: Garden of Earthly Delight, Wynn Palace, Cotai Macau, China
2019　CONTEMPORARY MODERNISM, Show Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019　Summer Destination, SCHMALFUSS BERLIN Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin, Germany
2019　The Hue, Kylin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019　Artropocene: iBiennale MMXIX, Y Center for Visual Arts, Honolulu, HI
2019　Santa Monica: Now & Then, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2018　Group Show, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2018　Triennale Grenchen, Grenchen, Switzerland
2018　LIMINIMAL, JAUS, Los Angeles, CA
2018　LAYERS OF NATURE – Beyond the Line, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan
2018　United, Schmalfuss Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin, Germany
2018　Now You See it, Now You Don’t, Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA
2017　Shingo Francis X Julio Rondo, Atelier Berning Rondo, Berlin, Germany
2017　Abracadabra of drawing, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba, Japan
2016　Limitation and creation of imagination, Sezon Art Gallery Tokyo, Japan
2016　Chromatic Passages, Japan Foundation LA, Los Angels, CA, USA
2016　15th Annual 21st Century Exhibition, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan
2015　Helios, Los Angels World Airports Terminal3, Los Angels, CA, USA
2015　Group Show, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2015　The Joshua Treenial, Joshua Tree, CA, USA
2015　The 20th JAA Art Exhibition of Japanese and Japanese American Artists in New York, JAA, New York, USA
2015　Parabola Gallery Tominokoji, Kyoto, Japan
2015　Creative in Common, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA
2014　THE MIRROR: Hold the Mirror up to nature, Nagoya Shoko Kaikan, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
2014　MIXED UP!, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
2014　Rockaway!, Fort Tilden, Rockaway Beach, New York, USA
2014　De-install!, BankART Hammerhead Studio, Yokohama, Japan
2014　Placing Memory, Smith Andersen North, San Anselmo, California, USA
2013　Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland
2013　Black and Blue, JAUS, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2013　Working it Out,The Painting Center, New York, USA
2013　Stronger than Fear is HopeSchmalfuss, Berlin Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
2012　The Unseen Relationship: Form and Abstraction, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Japan
2012　New World, Hahn Spielplatz, Seoul, Korea
2012　Unknown Surface, Ayumi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2011　A Space for Eternity, Bankart Life III, Shinko Pier, Yokohama, Japan
2011　Art as Expression of Being, Checkpoint Ilgen, Berlin, Germany
2011　Places, Stephan Stoyonav Gallery, New York, USA
2011　Gateway Japan, Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance, USA
2010　Elements of Nature, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LI, USA
2010　Mirrors of Continuous Change, Taekwang Industries Ltd, Heungkuk Life Building, Seoul, Korea
2010　Ties over time: an exhibition at the residence of the U.S. ambassador to Japan, Tokyo, Japan
2010　Across Dimensions, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, USA
2010　New 21st Century Exhibit vol. 9, Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan
2009　Happy Hour!!, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York
2009　Threshold, Ueno Town Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2009　Tsuzuki Art Project 2009, Yokohama Museum of History, Yokohama, Japan
2009　Double Façade, Koganecho Bazaar Community, Yokohama, Japan
2009　On the Shoulders of Davids, JAUS, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2009　Archive, Shinwa Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2009　Spin Off, Koganecho Area Management Center, Yokohama, Japan
2009　Yokohama Creativecity Center, YCC, Yokohama, Japan
2009　Double Façade, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
2008　Red, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan
2008　Love to Party, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2008　To be looked at, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2008　daily life, ZAIM, Yokohama, Japan