DAT Ltd., DESIGN and TECHNOLOGY "Sculpture Gallery

	Morio Shinoda One of the intellectual sculptors who pursues the relationship of tension between objects in unique metal art. Emeritus Professor of Tsukuba University. Born in Meguro, Tokyo Japan in 1931. Left the Aoyama Gauin University English literature course before graduation in 1954. On the National Industrial Arts Institute register until 1967. Submittd a sculpture composition for the Modern Art Exhibition. Studied at Chicago Art Collage between 1963 and 1964. First exhibited in the New Generation of Sculpture Exhibition '63, activily exhibiting for Japan International Art Exhibition and Modern Sculpture Exhibition in Ube-City etc.. Joined the '66 Biennial Exhibition in Venice and International Conference of casting sculpture in Kansas. Was awarded the 9th Kotaro Takamura Award 1966. The series, "Tension and Compression", is a representation of modern man-made living spaces. It grasps the anxious lifestyle living in the modern city. Attracted as an artist to the large scale of foreign countries. Teaches at the Houston Art Collage, the University of California, and others.

1931 1950-53 1952-67 1963-64 1966 1968-70 1970 1976 1976-77 1979-82	Born in Tokyo Finished English Literature. Literature Department, University of Aoyama Gakuin Design Studio Chief, National Industrial Arts Institute Special study at the Art Institute of Chicago Invited to the Forth International Sculpture Casting Conference, University of Kansas, as a lecturer Invited to University of California, Los Angeles as an associate professor in residence Invited to California State College of Los Angeles as a fall lecturer Invited to University of Colorado as an associate professor Invited to University of Minnesota as a visiting professor Invited to Tsukuba National University as an assistant professor - full time, and as a professor, currently
One Man Exhibition 1963 1967 1970 1972 1975 1981 1991 1992 1993 1994 1994	Guild Hall Gallery, Chicago Kiko Gallery, Houston "1.2 miles performance", Mojave desert, California Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo ('74 '76 '78 '82) Gallery Alfred Schmela, Dusseldorf ('79) Tokyo Art Center, Tokyo M.Gallery, Tokyo Yamagiwa Roppongi inspiration, Tokyo Sakura Gallery, Nagoya Sakura Gallery, Nagoya Roppongi Green Collection Gallery, Tokyo Roppongi Green Collection Gallery, Tokyo Tsukuba Museum, Ibaraki Pref. Suiryoku Hatsudensho Museum, Toyama Pref.
Group Exhibition 1963 1965-66 1967 1969 1973 1974 1981 1981-82 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1988 1991 1992 1994 1996	"New Generation of Japanese Sculptors" The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo "New Japanese Painting and Sculpture" The Museum of Modern Art, New York "1st Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture" The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura "International Sculpture Exhibition" Guggenheim Museum, New York "International Exhibition of Sculpture" Hakone Open-Air Museum ('75) "Participants in the Development of Postwar Japanese Art, Abstract and Non-Figurative" The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo "5th Open-door Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture", Ube-city "4th Teijiro Nakahara Prize", Asahikawa city "Exhibition of Japanese Art" Modern Art Museum of Dusseldorf, West Germany "Exhibition of Japanese Art" Museum of Modern Art, Louisiana, Denmark "Trends of 1960's - the dark and the light" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum "Development of Japanese Modern Sculpture" The Museum of modern Art, Kamakura "The 1st Shoebox International Sculpture Exhibition" Honolulu ('84,'88 and '91) "Contemporary Trend of Japanese Painting and Sculpture" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum "Contemporary Trend of Japanese Sculpture" The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama "Modern and Contemporary Japanese Sculpture Exhibition" The Yamaguchi Pref. Museum of Art "Toward the Museum of Tomorrow(II)-Image as Environment" The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe. "Contemporary Art in Japan - The Collection of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum" Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo "New pieces of the Museum collection - New acquisitions 1985 & 1986" The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo "Participants in the Formative Period of Abstract Sculpture 1945 - 1960 Exhibition" Nerima Ward Art Museum, Tokyo The 4th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition in the U.S.A. "The Contemporary Movement in Japan" The Toyama Contemporary Museum "Contemporary Art in Japan" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum "Small Sculpture in a Big Cosmos" Fukuyama Museum "Contemporary Artists Exhibition" in Ibaraki Prefecture.
AWARDS 1956 1965 1966 1973 1973 1975	Prize at Modern Art Exhibition, Tokyo Museum Prize at Modern Art Museum of Kamakura in First Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Ube-city Kotaro Takamura Sculpture Prize, highest sculpture award in Japan Museum Prize at Hakone Open-Air Museum 2nd Prize at 4th Teijiro Nakahara Prize Grand prize, Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture at Hakone Open-Air museum
Collections	The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura Museum of Modern Art, Louisiana, Denmark Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Japan Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Japan Schmela Gallery, West Germany Mr.William Lieberman, curator, Metropolitan Museum, New York Mrs.John D. Rockfeller III, New York Mr.Kenneth Schnitzer for the Houston Natural Gas Building Mr.Lawrence Marcus, Houston Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Marcos, Dallas, for Nieman Marcus Department Store Mr. and Mrs. Robert Straus, Houston Mr. and Mrs. Frank Freed, Houston, for Fine Art Museum of Houston Mr. and Mrs.Raymond Nasher, Dallas Mr. and Mrs. Sam Francis, Santa Monica Mr. Newhouse, New York Weisman's collection, Los Angeles Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Monuments	Tama Plaza Station by Tokyu Dentetsu Transportation Co., Japan IBM Building at Iigura, Tokyo, Japan Tokyo Metropolitan Government