- Names
- 嶋本昭三
- SHIMAMOTO Shōzō (index name)
- Shimamoto Shōzō (display name)
- 嶋本昭三 (Japanese display name)
- しまもと しょうぞう (transliterated hiragana)
- Date of birth
- 1928-01-22
- Birth place
- Osaka Prefecture
- Date of death
- 2013-01-25
- Death place
- Nishinomiya City, Hyōgo Prefecture
- Gender
- Male
- Fields of activity
- Painting
- Performance Art
- 2009
- “Shimamoto Shōzō Ōraru Hisutorī (Oral History). 2008-08-21.” Oral History Archives of Japanese Art. Last modified 2009-06-01. http://www.oralarthistory.org/archives/shimamoto_shozo/interview_01.php
- 2019
- Tokyo Bunkazai Kenkyūjo (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties). “Shimamoto Shōzō.” Nihon Bijutsu Nenkan Shosai Bukkosha Kiji. Last modified 2019-06-06. (in Japanese). https://www.tobunken.go.jp/materials/bukko/236736.html
日本美術年鑑 / Year Book of Japanese Art
「嶋本昭三」『日本美術年鑑』平成26年版(449頁)画家・現代美術家で具体美術協会の主要メンバーでもあった嶋本昭三は1月25日、急性心不全のため兵庫県西宮市の病院で死去した。享年85。 1928(昭和3)年1月22日、大阪に生まれる。関西学院大学文学部在学中に、新制作協会の大住閑子と出会ったことをきっかけに絵を描き始める。大住の上京後は、同会の増田雅子に学ぶ。47年、増田の紹介により、画家吉原治良の門下となる。関西学院大学を卒業する50年頃、新聞紙...
Wikipedia
Shozo Shimamoto (嶋本 昭三, Shimamoto Shōzō, January 22, 1928 – January 25, 2013) was a Japanese artist. He was a co-founder (along with Jirō Yoshihara) of the avant garde Gutai group formed in the 1950s, and his works are in museum collections such as those of the Tate Gallery and the Tate Modern (in both London and Liverpool) and the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in Kobe, Japan. New York Times art critic Roberta Smith [1] has noted him as one of the most daring and independent experimentalists of the postwar international art scene in the 1950s. Internationally today he is especially noted for his work in the \"mail art\" genre, of which he was a pioneer. In 1997 his mail art works were shown in the solo exhibition \"Shozo Shimamoto's Gutai & A.U.\" in the 'E-mail Art Archives' of Guy Bleus, Center for Visual Arts, Hasselt, Belgium.
- 2023-05-11