Ryo Shiotani

Ryo SHIOTANI was born on November 12, 1975, in Tokyo. According to his mother, even as a child he was very good at colored-pencil drawings. He was at Meiji Gakuin Junior and Senior High School. While in the Junior High, he belonged to the art club, when his teacher found his outstanding painting talent in him. He went on to Musashino Art University to study oil paintings seriously and enhance his own skills. While still in college, little was known about him in art gallery circles, when it was very happy that we were one of the first galleries which found him excellently talented in oil paintings. Two years after graduating from university, he held a big solo exhibit in one of the department store at Ginza, which was an unprecedented news in Japanese art world at that time. Since then he has held many big solo exhibitions all over Japan. His works and his way of painting have been introduced on the leading art magazines many times, getting much attention, and he also made a guest appearance on the popular TV Art Program in 2016. In June, 2017 he issued “The Works of Ryo Shiotani”, the first edition of his own selection of paintings which was published by Kyuryudo Co., Ltd., the biggest art publisher in Japan, while as that publication memorial, his solo exhibition was held at Bunkamura Gallery in Shibuya, Tokyo.

Profile

1975 Born in Kanda, Tokyo.
1998 Graduates from the Department of Painting, Musashino Art University.
Show for the first time in the 52nd Nikikai Exhibition, and receives the Encouragement Prize (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art)
2002 Solo Exhibition (Matsuzakaya Ginza)
2003 Becomes a member of the Japan Artists Association.
WAYS Exhibition 　Akira Mizuno × Ryo Shiotani　(Hanada Gallery in Ginza)
2004 Netherlands Art Award Exhibition, Press Kit Prize (Former City Hall, Kerkrade, The Neitherlands)
2006 LIONCEAUX Gendai Yoga no Eisaitachi (Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi, shows in the exhibition annually until 2015)
2007 Inivited to show in the Maeda Kanji Award Exhibition (Kurayoshi Museum, Takashimaya, Nihonbashi)
2008 Solo exhibition: Tranquil Light(Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi)
2011 Art of Our time　(Tokyo Art Club)
The beauty of being (Hoki Museum)
2012 DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow (The National Art Center, Tokyo)
2017 Solo exhibition (Bunkamura Museum)
The Works of Ryo Shiotani published by Kyuryudo