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SHIMURAbros is a sister-brother duo comprising Yuka Shimura, who was born in 1976 and holds a bachelor’s degree from Tama Art University and a master’s degree from University of the Arts London: Central St Martins, and her brother Kentaro, who was born in 1979 and holds a degree in Imaging Art from Tokyo Polytechnic University. After receiving an Excellence Award in the Art Division of the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival, hosted by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs, the pair went onto have their works shown at Festival de Cannes and the Berlinale Festival and exhibited by art galleries in Japan and overseas. In recent years the works of SHIMURAbros have been exhibited at the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, and the duo has taken part in the residence program at the National University of Singapore’s Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA). In 2017, ArtReview Asia magazine named SHIMURAbros as a “future great”. SHIMURAbros relocated to Berlin in 2014 on a research grant from the Pola Art Foundation, where they are currently resident as researchers at the studio of Olafur Eliasson. Recently, the duo was chosen to create the thirtieth commission work for the Aichi Arts Center and the Aichi Prefectural Art Museum, which resulted in Butterfly Upon a Wheel (2022), a series of video works that considers the ongoing issue of refugees, starting with Sugihara Chiune, the diplomat who famously issued ‘visas for life’ during WWII.

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WORKS

Title
Specious Rainbow-Infinite
Year
2023
Material
Optical glass, wood, plexiglass, inkjet print
Size
122 x 124 x 9.8 cm
Title
FILM WITHOUT FILM - Un Chien Andalou"Face to Face"
Year
2021
Material
84 x 68 x 15 cm (with frame)
Size
Maraging steels, pigment print and frame
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Title
Evacuation
Year
2020
Materail
Film installation, Single-channel video, deck chairs, Video: Color, Sound
Size
Dimensions variable, 20ʹ45ʺ
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Title
Evacuation
Photograph
Sarah Kim, Courtesy of the Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea, 2019
Title
TRACE – ROAD – Wall Street
Year
2019
Material
Enamel and acrylic paint, Pigment, Wood, Recycled tire, Special sight controlled film, Iron and acrylic(Frame)
Size
122 x 85 x 70 cm
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Title
TRACE – SKY - Floating Clouds 11 (edition 2)
Year
2018
Material
Mirror, optical glass, electrical wire, wood
Size
48 x 48 x 15 cm
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Title
Half Moon, Daylight, Clouds
Year
2018
Material
Brass, optical glass, iron
Size
(h)164.2 x 72.4 x 144.4 cm
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Title
TRACE – SKY - Floating Clouds 01 (edition size 2)
Year
2018
Material
Mirror, optical glass, electrical wire, wood, steel
Size
150 x 150 x 23 cm
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Title
Focus Chart 7 (Edition size 2)
Year
2018
Material
Panel, inkjet print, pencil, metal, paper
Size
110 x 110 cm
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Title
TRACE – SKY - TOKYO STORY 09 (edition size 2)
Year
2015-17
Material
Mirror, optical glass, electrical wire, wood
Size
84 x 84 x 17 cm
Title
ROAD MOVIE ROAD TO SINGAPORE
Year
2013
Material:
Video installation
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Title
X-Ray Train
Year
2007-9
Material
Image (Black and white/ X-RAY CT) special liquid crystal film, iron, wire, PC, projector
Size
Dimension variable
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Title
SEKILALA (edition 15)
Year
2006-8
Material
3 screen installation, 3 players infinitely create story by 26 sequences, Image (color/ super 16mm), Sound (3-tracks)
Size
Time: infinity / Dimension Variable
Title
FILM WITHOUT FILM - Creative Geography (Ed. 5)
Year
2010
Material
Maraging steels, acrylic pedestal
Size(Approx)
3.5 x 1.8 x 2.4 cm each (Set of 5)
Size(Acrylic pedestal)
13 x 53 x 4 cm
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Title
EICON / RED RIDING HOOD 16th C (Edition size 5)
Year
2011
Material
LCD, control board, Japanese lacquer, acrylic glass
Size
24 x 24 x 6.5 cm (1 hour 48 min / color)
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EXHIBITIONS

Tokyo

Group Exhibition

2023/7/8–7/22

Tokyo

SHIMURAbros  Specious Rainbow

2023/1/14–2/18

Tokyo

Kenji Sugiyama, Mitsukuni Takimoto, Saya Irie, SHIMURAbros, Szelit Cheung, Ni Youyu, Wu Qiang, Yao Peng, Yun Yongye, Gregory Halili, Shahpour Pouyan  SUSHI – A World in a Grain of Sand

2021/7/24–9/4

Tokyo

SHIMURAbros Evacuation

2020/3/7–3/31

Beijing

SHIMURAbros

2018/5/15–6/30

Tokyo

SHIMURA/bros Tokyo Story

2015/10/24–12/5

Beijing

Neo-Mōrōism

2014/10/12–11/30

NEWS

SHIMURAbros

Kasoku Suru Visionーthe cube of a
Dates: December 2 (sat), 2023 – January 28 (sun), 2024
Venue: Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City

Art Fair Tokyo 2023

Dates: March 10 (fri) – 12 (sun), 2023

Location: Tokyo International Forum, Hall E

Stand: S010
Artists: Takahiro Kondo, Ayako Someya, Isao Sugiyama, SHIMURAbros, Hiroyuki Matsuura

SHIMURAbros

Time Tunnel – Japan and the Jews
Dates: September 16 (fri),2022 – April 22 (sat), 2023
Venue: Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art (Haifa, Israel)

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Butterfly Upon a Wheel
Event: 26th Art Film Festival | Aichi Arts Center
Dates: August 26 (fri) – September 13 (tue), 2022 (closed on Mondays)
Venue: Art Space A, Aichi Arts Center 12F (Nagoya, Japan)
→ First Screening & Artist Talk: JST 19:00, August 23 (tue), 2022
※ Organized by Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art

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CROSSTALK
Gallery Weekend Beijing Main Sector Special Exhibition
Dates: June 24 (fri) – July 3 (sun), 2022 
Venue: 798 Art Center (Beijing, China)

Art Basel | Hong Kong

Dates: May 25 (sat) – 26 (sun), 2022
Location: Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
Booth: 1B35
Artist: Susumu Koshimizu, Yoshio Sekine, Kishio Suga, Sesson Uno, SHIMURAbros, Park Seo-Bo and Lee Jin Woo

Isao Sugiyama, SHIMURAbros

Art Walk Yurakucho
Dates: March 4 (fri) – 21 (mon), 2022
Location: Marunouchi Naka-dori (Tokyo)

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CADAN ROPPONGI presented by Audi
Dates: October 22 (thu) – November 3 (wed), 2021
Location: Roppongi Hills Hills café/Space

NAFI 2020

Nanjing Art Fair International
Dates: November 26 (thu) – 29 (sun), 2020
Location: Nanjing International Expo Center, Hall 4
Artist: Xu Bing, Song Dong, He Yun Chang, Kishin Shinoyama, Shim Moon-Seup, SHIMURAbros, Yan Lei