Shinji Turner-Yamamoto

Shinji Turner-Yamamoto (born in 1965) is a U.S.-based visual artist, from Osaka, Japan.

Shinji Turner-Yamamoto is a Japanese born U.S.-based artist known for paintings, sculptures, and site-specific art installations employing elemental materials such as trees, fossils, and minerals, creating profound viewer connections with nature. He works with identifiable imagery to encourage humanity to encounter the essential in nature and time in new and unexpected ways and is committed to using historic and natural elements in his work as meditations on the environment.

His Global Tree Project explores a poetic reunion with nature, making visible bonds and similarities between plant life and humanity, emphasizing ecological wisdom and the interconnectedness of all life. Shinji Turner-Yamamoto: Global Tree Project published by DAMIANI, fall 2012, documents 11 projects worldwide realized in a ruined folly on a cliff overlooking the Celtic Sea, an 8th century Kiyomizu Temple Sutra Hall, a garden in New Delhi, the Mongolian Gobi Desert, and abandoned architectural landmarks in the American Midwest.[1]

Biography

Shinji Turner-Yamamoto was born in Osaka, Japan. He studied at Kyoto City University of Arts, and, sponsored by the Italian government, at it:Accademia di belle arti di Bologna, where he lived for eleven years. His recent projects are About Trees, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland, and Sidereal Silence, a 2016 solo exhibition for the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery in the Aronoff Center for the Arts selected by the National Endowment for the Arts to receive an "Art Works/Visual Arts" category grant. His work has also been the subject of solo shows at it:Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA; and the Ippaku-tei Teahouse, Embassy of Japan, Washington, DC. Recent and current projects include Land Art Mongolia; Hanging Garden, Deconsecrated Holy Cross Church and Monastery, Cincinnati, OH; Disappearancesnbsp: An Eternal Journey, SiTE:LAB at an abandoned industrial building, Grand Rapids, MI, which received the 2011 ArtPrize International Juried Award. Most recent and upcoming projects/exhibitions are a commissioned site-specific Global Tree Project: ISTANBUL installation in the historic ruin of the abandoned Yahudi Yetimhanesi (Jewish Orphanage), Ortaköy, Istanbul, Turkey; a residency at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH, for an interdisciplinary collaborative project with the faculties of Ecology, Anthropology, Ecopsychology, Geology, Fine Arts; SAPAR Contemporary, New York, NY.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.turneryamamoto.net/
  2. ↑ http://www.turneryamamoto.net/
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