Artist Shimpei YOSHIDA

Artist Shimpei YOSHIDA

OVERVIEW

Shimpei YOSHIDA Shimpei Yoshida

Working primarily with painting, the artist is currently based in Tokyo. Prompted by the experience surrounding the death of his grandmother, he began a portrait series that marked a turning point in his practice. In 2018, he participated in an artist-in-residence program at the artist-run space FRISE in Hamburg, Germany. Engaging with themes such as existence and absence, and memory and forgetting, his work questions the fragility and significance of what is difficult to perceive, what has been forgotten, and what remains invisible—within a contemporary society that often assumes everything that is "seen" can be shared universally with others.


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BIOGRAPHY

1992Born in Nara
2014Graduated from Kyoto University of Arts (former Kyoto University of Art and Design), Western painting course

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019There was a silent night on my side (FRISE/Hamburg, Germany)
2021That star at night is closer than you think - That star at night is closer than you think (keiokairai gallery/Kyoto)
2021Blick der Imagination (Mikiko Sato Gallery/Hamburg, Germany)
2022For example, it is the wind against your cheek - For example, it is the wind against your cheek (GALLERY crossing/Gifu)
2022An unforgettable room (YOD gallery/Osaka)
2022unreadable letter (myheirloom/Tokyo)
2023Absence of bedroom (GALLERY crossing/Gifu)
2024Our silence (Kyoto Okazaki Tsutaya/Kyoto)
2024My husband (hide gallery/Tokyo)
2025The Poetics of Silence (City Museum Mannheim/Germany)
2025The Living Room (LURF GALLERY/Tokyo)
2026A House for a House (GALLERY crossing/Gifu)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023imperceptible portraits (Chiso Gallery/Kyoto)
2023The absent room (TARTCH得然藝術/Taiwan)
2024TRANSIENT ENCOUNTER (GALLERY crossing/Gifu)
2024Group exhibition (Taka Ishii Gallery/Maebashi)

RESIDENCIES.

2018FRISE (Hamburg, Germany)

ART FAIRS

2022Art Miami 2022 (YOD Gallery/Miami)
2025Kiaf SEOUL 2025 (hide gallery/Korea)

EXHIBITIONS

GROUP EXHIBITION

IMAGINATION

2026.3.13 FRI. - 4.5 SUN.

ARTFAIR

ART FAIR TOKYO 2026

2026.3.13 FRI. - 3.15 SUN.