| 1962 Born in Kyoto, Japan 1986 Graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, BA 1988 Completed MFA at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts 1993-2007 Lived in New York 2007- Living in Tokyo |
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Solo Exhibitions 1987 "Mio Shirai", Kaneko Art GI, Tokyo 1988 "Mio Shirai Exhibition", Kobayashi Gallery, Tokyo 1988 "Shirai Mio", Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo  1989 "Mio Shirai", Hillside Gallery, Tokyo 1989 "Mio Shirai", Gallery Kyoni, Tokyo 1990 "Mio Shirai", Hillside Gallery, Tokyo 1990 "Mio Shirai", Hals Gallery, Tokyo 1991 "Mio Shirai", Hillside Gallery, Tokyo 1991 "Mio Shirai", Concept Space, Shibukawa, Gunma 1992 "Mio Shirai", SOKO Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo 1993 "Mio Shirai: Sight and Metaphor", Itoki Ginza New Office Gallery, Tokyo 1993 "Mio Shirai", Hillside Gallery, Tokyo 1994 "Mio Shirai: ill seen ill said", East West Cultural Studies, New York 1994 "Mio Shirai", Memory's Gallery, Nagoya 1996 "One Day One Show", Gallery 360 Degrees, Tokyo 1996 Red Mill Gallery, Vermont 1996-97 "Texture Girl", Modern Culture, New York 1998 Hillside Gallery, Tokyo 2003 "Mio Shirai: Joie de vivre", Hillside Gallery, Tokyo 2005 "Mio Shirai: New Kingdom", chashama, New York 2006 "Mio Shirai: Finding Shangri-La", Art Front Gallery, Tokyo 2008 Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK 2009 "Unknown Binding", BankART NYK, Yokohama 2009 "Forever Afternoon", exhibition in Japan, BankART NYK, Yokohama 2011 "Magic Carpet Ride", Gallery Cocon, Tokyo |
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Group Exhibitions 1986 "Fujiyama Geisha", Kyoto University of Arts, Kyoto and Daiko Electric Ligting Labo, Tokyo 1987 "Fujiyama Geisha", Daiko Electric Lighting Labo, Tokyo and Osaka International Center, Osaka 1988 "Open The Gate", Tokyo National University of Fine Arts 1989 "Art Today 1989", The Museum of Modern Art Takanawa, Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan 1989 "Summer Art Festival in Hakushu", Yamanashi 1990 "Shibukawa Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture '90", Gumma 1990 "Hillside Documents", Hillside Gallery, Tokyo 1990 "Triangulation of Modernism", Gallery Furukawa, Tokyo 1990 "The 26th 'Artists Today' Exhibition: Trias", Yokohama Citizens' Gallery, Yokohama 1990 "Crossing '90", Kaneko Art GI, Tokyo 1991 "The 7th Triennale India 1991", New Delhi 1991 "The Silent Passion: Seven Artists from Japan", Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya 1991 "Future Chronicle", Memory's Gallery, Nagoya 1991 "Take Art Collection", Spiral Garden, Tokyo 1991 "Three Artists Show", Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo 1992 "Haruki Collection", SOKO Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo 1992 "1st Habitart Exhibition: Making Room-space as material", Pacifico Yokohama, Kanagawa 1992 "Jeniffer Bolande, Mio Shirai, Marie-Theres Huber, Silvia Gertsch, Pipilotti Rist", Shedhalle, ....................Zurich, Switzerland 1993 "00 collaboration", Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo 1993 "Bolande, Dopitova, Rist, Shirai", The Muncipal Museum, Prague, Czecho 1993 "Exchange 2", Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland 1993 "Nomad", Temporary Kunsthalle, Munich, Germany 1993 "Drawing Exhibition", Hillside Gallery, Tokyo 1993 "Oro d'autore: Giappone e Stati d'Uniti d'America", Basilica Inferiore di San Francesco, Arezzo, Italy 1994 "Watched While Sleeping", Hillside Gallery, Tokyo 1994 "Let The Artists Live!", Exit Art and The First World, New York 1994 "Kunst Heimat Kunst", Künstlerhaus Graz, Austria 1994 "Double Booking"", Gallery 360 Degrees, Tokyo 1995 "The 6th Fukui International Video Biennale", Fukui 1995 "6. Triennale der Kleinplastick 1995: Europa - Ostasien", Süudwest LB Forum, Stuttgart, Germany 1996 "Inside of Works, Outside of Works", Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo 1996 "Socie", Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo 1996 "On Camp / Off Base", Tokyo Big Site, Tokyo 1996 "Resurrecting Memories", Dojunkai Daikanyama Apartment, Tokyo 1996 "REQUIEM-Koji Enokura and 33 Artists", Saito Memorial Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art, ....................Kawaguchi, Saitama 1996-97 "Images of Woman in Japanese Contemporary art 1930's-90's", The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo 1997 "Travel Sized", City Collage New York 1998 "Global Housewarming", First Floor Gallery, Melbourne 2000 "Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial 2000", Nigata 2000 "3 + 1: Oki, Shirai, Matsuyama and Takezaki", Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo 2001 "The Art of Collecting", Flint Institute of Art, Michigan 2003 Jack the Pelican Presents, New York 2003 "Night of 1000 Drawings", Artists' Space, New York 2004 "Art / Room", Hillside Gallery, Tokyo 2005 "chashama Exhibition: The Artist in residence of 40 Worth Street", New York 2006 "Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006", Niigata 2006 Le Salon Violet, New York 2007 "Restaurant 1929 Food and Contemporary Art Part 3", BankART 1929, Yokohama 2007 "Explosion", BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama 2007 "Hillside Gallery: For New Start", Hillside Forum, Tokyo 2008 "Restaurant 1929 Food and Contemporary Art Part 4", BankART 1929, Yokohama 2008"Artists File 2008: The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art", The National Art Center, Tokyo 2008 "BankART Life 2", Yokohama 2009 "Belrin Tokyo Communication Art", Higure 17-15, Tokyo 2009 "The 1st Tokorozawa Biennial of Contemporary Art: Siding Railroad", Saitama 2009 "explosion shirt", explosion tokyo, Tokyo 2010 "'full course' Food and Contemporary Art Part 6", Honcho Experimental Gallery, Yokohama 2010 "Unstern! / Sinistre", Galerie Omotesando + MUSEE F, Tokyo 2010 "City Beats + Live Explosions", BankART NYK hall, Yokohama 2010 "To- Be Tokyo+Berlin Communication Art 2010", Freien Museum Berlin, Germany 2011 "Shin Minatomura: A Small City for the Future", Shinko Pier, Yokohama 2011 "Unknown", Ayumi Gallery, Tokyo 2011 "Keisuke Yamaguchi / Mio Shirai", Kaneko Art Tokyo, Tokyo 2011 "Teenage Spirit", explosion tokyo viewing room, Tokyo 2011 "Akihiko Takami memorial exhibition", MUSEE F + Omotesando Gallery, Tokyo 2012 "Progressive Maria", Waseda Scott Hall Gallery, Tokyo 2011 "Unknown Voice", Yukobo Art Space, Tokyo 2011 "Matsushiro Contemporary Art Festival", Matsushiro-han bunbu school, Nagano 2011 "Unknown Life", Ayumi Gallery, Tokyo |
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Awards and Fellowships 1993 Asian Cultural Council Fellowship Grant, New York 1996 Freeman Foundation Fellowship, Vermont 1998 Pola Art Foundation, Tokyo 2004 chashama Project Studio Program Residency, New York 2006 chashama Visual Arts Studio Award, New York 2008 UK-Japan 2008 Artist in Residence, Sunderland University, UK |
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Permanent Artworks 1994 Faret Tachikawa, Tokyo 1995 Yume Messe Miyagi, Sendai 1995 Uno City, Okayama 1996 Ebisu Garden Place, Tokyo 1997 Tokai Bank Guest House, Tokyo 1999 Kobe Wakinohama Art Project, Kobe 2000 Echigo Tsumari, Niigata 2004 JR Sapporo Tower, Sapporo |
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