Taro Shonida is a self-taught artist who originally trained in Japanese landscape gardening before pursuing a visual arts career. This interest in nature and humanity’s relationship to different habitats still fuels his practice. Working across a range of media such as kinetic sculpture, cyanotypes and oil paintings, Shonida uses these materials to trace the ever evolving and porous dynamics between planet earth and mankind. Shinoda is keen to think and work across disciplines, cosmology, physics and philosophy are all crucial ingredients for example within his research. He cites the great polymath Richard Buckminster Fuller as a pivotal influence upon his artistic approach. Fuller labelled our planet as “spaceship earth”, and Shonida similarly uses his visual art practice as a vehicle to explore the countless adventures that take place within our natural world. The works have an infectious sense of curiosity and playfulness about them, with Shonida rendering outlines of mountains, stars or foliage in washes of ink or in ladened oil brushstrokes. Sensitive and magnetic, Shonida’s works manage to strike right at the core of ecology’s innate beauty and power.

Tokyo

The Biennale of Sydney

Sydney

Istanbul Biennial

Istanbul

Busan Biennial

Busan

Yokohama Triennale

Yokohama

Misa Shin Gallery

Paris

Galerie Frank Elbaz

Ota Fine Arts

Taka Ishii Gallery

Gallery Side 2

Berlin

Gropius Bau

Rome

Macro

Mori Art Museum

San Francisco

Yerba Buena Center For The Arts

Amsterdam

De Appel

Auckland

Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tāmaki

Fondation Louis Vuitton

Corbans Estate Arts Centre

Taro Shinoda

Katsura 14

Katsura 11

The Sun and Mount Fuji and Steve Reich #3

The Sun and Mount Fuji and Steve Reich #1