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Shinsuke Minegishi


Biography
1970
Born in Tokyo, Japan
Currently lives and works in Vancouver, Canada

Education
2008
Wood Block Lithography, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
2005
ImagOn Photo Intaglio with Catherine Stewart, Malaspina Printmakers Society, Vancouver, Canada
1995-98
Graduated in Fine Art with a major in Studio, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada
1996
Alternative printmaking technique, studied under Seishi Ozaku, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
1993-94
Fine Art Study, College of the Sequoias, Visalia, California, USA


Inventory Catalogue

Solo Exhibitions
2024
"Three Decades of Printmaking: Shinsuke Minegishi Retrospective Exhibition", Visual Space Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2023
"Shinsuke Minegishi Exhibition of Prints - sky, stars, and a girl who wanted to be a bird", Galerie Malle, Tokyo, Japan

"Shinsuke Minegishi - A Retrospective of Collaboration: poet + artist / books + prints / mother + son", Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2022
"Furthermore, another morning...", Striped House Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2018
"forging a path", Striped House Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2017
"the journey", GALLERIE Malle, Tokyo, Japan

"Shinsuke Minegishi: recurring cycles", Vernon Public Art Gallery, Vernon, Canada
2016
Shinsuke Minegishi Exhibition. Art Zone Kaguraoka, Kyoto, Japan

"recurring cycles", Striped House Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

"Fragility to Resurrection", Open Studio Print Sales Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2014
"resurrection", Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Shinsuke Minegishi Exhibition of Prints, "resurrection", Striped House Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013
Shinsuke Minegishi Solo Exhibition, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
2012
Shinsuke Minegishi "memory of an existence", Striped House Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2011
Shinsuke Minegishi Exhibition of Prints, "in a box", GALLERIE Malle, Tokyo, Japan
2010
"Transfer and Transformation", Print Exhibition by Shinsuke Minegishi, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Shinsuke Minegishi - Print Exhibition, Nostalgia, Gallery OM, Shin-Yokohama, Japan
2009
"Tamaki ‍• Inochi (Cycle of Life)", Striped House Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2008
"circles, targets, elements", Malaspina Printmakers Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2007
"Memory within Cells", Gallery OM, Shin-Yokohama, Japan
2006
SHINSUKE MINEGISHI, An Exhibition of Wood Engraving, Prints & Limited Edition Books, Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers, Seattle, WA, USA
2005
Works by Ann McCall and Shinsuke Minegishi, Malaspina Printmakers Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2002
Shinsuke Minegishi Prints Exhibition, Gallery OM, Shin-Yokohama, Japan
1998
"Origin of Nature", Community Arts Council of Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada
1997
"Watashi-no-Kamiwa", Gallery EVE, Tokyo, Japan
1996
Relief and Intaglio Prints, Dundarave Print Workshop Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
"Connection - Regional Artists Group Show", Dundarave Print Workshop Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2022
"Print Exhibition: Shinsuke Minegishi & David MacWilliam", Visual Space Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2020
"World of Lines: Shinsuke Minegishi & Jorge Martinez Garcia", Visual Space Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2019
"CONNECTION Tsunagari: An Exhibition of Prints and Sculptures by Seiji Kuwabara and Shinsuke Minegishi", Visual Space Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2018
"IMPRESSIONS", Tir na nog Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2017
2/Editions Toronto Art Book Fair, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada

"Woodcut Effect - Contemporary wood prints from Japan and Lithuania", Janina Monkute Marks Museum, Kėdainiai Klaipeda Culture Communication Center, Klaipeda, and and Vilnius city Town Hall, Vilnius, Lithuania
2016
"Season’s Greetings Exhibition", Burnaby Art Gallery, Canada

"Summer Salon", Open Studio, Toronto, Canada

"Summer Group Exhibition", Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

"Eddition Tools: Digital - Traditional Printmaking", Project Space Gallery, SUNY Oneonta Fine Arts Gallery, Oneonta, NY, USA
2015
"Process/Expression: Prints/Impressions", Langley Centennial Museum, Langley, Canada

"Art Toronto 2015", Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada

"Ichiyo-Kai Tokyo Exhibition", Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

"The Japantique Odyssey", Tokyo Prince Hotel, Tokyo, Japan

"Practice: Creative Work by Emily Carr University Shop + Studio Technicians", Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada
2014
"Art Toronto 2014", Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
2013
"Winterlude", Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Art Toronto, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada

Open Studio's 100 Prints, Palais Royale, Toronto, Canada
2012
"Art Toronto 2012 - the 13th Toronto Art Fair", Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada

"TECHNICAL surfaces: creative work by emily carr university technicians", Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada
2010
PrintHouse OM 35th Anniversary, Workshop OM Members' Print Exhibition, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan

"In Edition: A 20 Year Malaspina Printmakers’ Retrospective", Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, Canada
2009
Faculty Show ‘09, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada

Traversing Spaces: A Group Show Featuring Karen Curry, Nancy Fox, Shinsuke Minegishi, Print Sales Gallery, Open Studio, Toronto, Canada

The 150th Anniversary of the Opening of the Port of Yokohama International Print Exchange Exhibition, Yokohama Creative City Center, Yokohama, Japan
2008
"Print Parallels: a Collaboration of Two Print Studios", Kayo Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, and CityScape Community Art Space, North Vancouver, Canada
2007
"Kuradashi", Saint Paul Gallery, Maebashi, Japan

Prints Tokyo 2007 (International Print Exhibition Tokyo 2007), hosted by Japan Print Association, Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan

"text form material meaning, summer institute on book arts", Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr Institue of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada

"Re-Identification", Trilateral Print Exchange Exhibition, Het Stadshuis, City Hall of Utrecht, Centrum Beeldende Kunsten Utrecht, Het Gebouw Leidsche Rijn, World Art Delft, and Galerie Werfkade 16, Netherlands

Curriculum, Contemporary Pieces by Leading Educators of Printmaking, Malaspina Printmakers Society Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2006
"The Relief Print", Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada

The Continuing Studies Faculty Show, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Mezzanine Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

"all sorts", An Exhibition of Emily Carr Faculty, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada

"Re-Identification", Trilateral Print Exchange Exhibition, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, Malaspina Vancouver, Capilano College, North Vancouver, and Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, Canada

"30x30: New Directions in Printmaking", Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
2005
"Re-Identification", The Trilateral Print Exchange Exhibition 2005 JAPAN, Gallery OM in Shin-Yokohama, Celest Gallery in Yokohama, Saint Paul Gallery in Maebashi, J Trip Art Gallery in Shibuya, Inomachi Japanese Paper Museum in Kochi, and Nagasaki Peace Museum in Nagasaki, Japan
2004
"THE ART OF PRINTMAKING", Omega Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

"Under Pressure", CityScape Community Art Space, North Vancouver, Canada
2003
"CULTURE artificial conditions", curated by Debra Dedyluk, Window • Gallery • Space, Stride Gallery, Calgary, Canada

"THINK PRINT RELATE", Gallery 83, Vancouver, Canada

Year of Japan-Japan Arts Fest, UBC Asian Centre Auditorium, Vancouver, Canada
2002
"pacific printers", SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
2001
Malaspina Printmakers Society Prints Exhibition, Gallery OM, Shin-Yokohama, Japan

Asian Heritage Show, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Canada

Awards and Invitational Exhibitions
2016
ART ZONE KAGURAOKA PRIZE, The 7th Kyoto International Woodprint Association Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
2015
INVITATION, ThinkSmall8, the 8th biennial international miniature invitational exhibition. Artspace, Richmond, Virginia, USA
2013
ENCOURAGEMENT PRIZE, The Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition, Hall of Awa Japanese Paper Museum, Tokushima, Japan

INVITED, CT-International Print Biennale, Centre 3 for pint and media arts, Hamilton, Canada

INVITED, ThinkSmall7, the 7th biennale international miniature invitational exhibition, Artspace, Richmond, Virginia, USA
2012
INVITED, CT-International Print Biennale, Taller Cultural, Santiago de Cuba
2011
Prize of Excellence, The 3rd Tokyo Screen Print Biennale, Japan Artists Association Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

McClain’s PRIZE. The 6th The Kyoto International Woodprint Association Exhibition
2007
INVITED, THINKSMALL4! Fourth Biennial International Miniature Invitational Exhibition, Artspace and art6, Richmond, Virginia, USA

INVITED, Donetsk International Charity Exhibition Auction of Works of Modern Artists “Art for the City”, Museum of Modern Arts in Donetsk, Donetsk, Ukraine
2005
HONORARY MENTION, THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL MINI-PRINT BIENNIAL CLUJ-2005, National Museum of Art, Cluj, Romania

INVITED, Think Small 3! Third Biennial International Miniature Invitational, Artspace and art6, Richmond, Virginia, USA

INVITED, INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION OF TAIWAN INTERNATIONAL MINI-PRINT, organized by the Institute of Fine Arts of the National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
2004
JUROR’S AWARD and PURCHASE AWARD, Sixty Square Inches 14th Biennial Small Print Exhibition, The Robert L. Ringel Gallery and the Stewart Center Gallery at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
2003
GRANT PRIZE, The 4th Kyoto International Woodprint Association Exhibition, Kyoto City Museum, Kyoto, Japan
2002
INVITED, The International Small Engraving Salon Carbunari 2002 (the fourth edition), Florean Musesum, Romania
2001
INVITED, The International Small Engraving Salon Carbunari 2002 (the third edition), Florean Museum, Romania
2000
HONORABLE MENTION, The 4th Latin American Exhibition and the 1st International Exhibition of Miniprint in Rosario 2000, The Bermardino Rivadavia Cultural Center, Rosario, Argentina

FIRST PRIZE AWARD, The First Biennial International Miniprint Exhibition, Dundarave Print Workshop, Gallery and New Leaf Editions, Vancouver, Canada

INVITED, The 1st Cheju International Print Art Festival, Gallery of Cheju Student Culture Center and Sogwipo City Kidang Museum, Cheju, Korea
1999
INVITED, The first edition of the INTERNATIONAL SMALL ENGRAVINGSALON Carbunar, Organized by the Florean Museum, Romania
1997
AWARD OF MERIT, The First Annual Art of the Book Exhibition Contest, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver

Grants and Scholarships
2010
The Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grants
2002
The Canada Council for the Arts, Visual Arts-Creation/Production Grants to Professional Artists Program

Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grants
1997
Scholarship, Malaspina Printmakers Society, Vancouver, Canada

Collections
Emily Carr University of Art + Design Library, Canada
Vernon Public Art Gallery, Canada
Langley Centennial Museum, Canada
The Bank of Montreal, Canada
National Bank of Canada, Canada
The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in Ottawa, Canada
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
Sakima Art Museum, Japan
Penrose Library, University of Denver, USA
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, USA
The Arthur Jaffe Collection at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, USA
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Burnaby Art Gallery, Canada
Pepperdine University, USA
Merril Collection, Toronto Public Library, Canada
Permanent Collection of the National Taiwan Normal University Art Gallery, Taiwan
University of California, San Diego, USA
Purdue University Galleries, USA
Vancouver Public Library – Special Collections, Canada
University of British Columbia, Canada
University of California, Los Angles, USA
University of Alberta, Canada
McGill University, Canada
University of Iowa, USA
Silpakorn University, Thailand
The British Library, England
Kyoto International Woodprint Association, Japan
Florean Museum, Romania
Art Gallery SUNCE, Yugoslavia
Contemporary Graphic Fund from "Octavian Goga" Cluj County Library, Special Collections Department, Romania
Malaspina Printmakers Society, Canada