Shintaro Nakaoka
Shintaro Nakaoka
1957 Born in Ogaki, Gifu, Japan
1980 Graduated from Department of Sculpture of Tama Art University
1988 Awarded Aji Town Manager Prize at the 1st Festival of Stone Village
1989 Awarded Education Ministers Prize for Sculpture Promenade at the 4th National
Cultural Festival Saitama’89; Awarded Fine Work Prize at Sculpture Exhibition in Rocco Island; Awarded Excellent Work Prize at Yokohama Biennale’89.
1900 Awarded Excellent Work Prize at the 3rd Rodin Grand Prix Exhibition; Awarded Citizen′s Prize at The 2nd Kurashiki Street Corner Sculpture Exhibition.
1991 Awarded The Utsukushi-ga-hara Open Air Museum Prize at The 7th Henry Moore Grand Prix Exhibition; Awarded Sma-Rikyu Park Prize at The 14th Modern Japanese Sculpture Exhibition; Awarded Excellent Work Prize at The 6h Real Sculpture Exhibition of Great Prize in Kobe; Awarded Excelent Work Prize at Yokohama Biennale’ 91.
1992 Awarded Silver Prize at Kajima Sculpture Contest; Awarded Excellent Work Prize at the 4th Rodin Grand Prix Exhibition
1994 Awarded Excellent Work Prize at the 6th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture the Chiba Prefecture Museum.
1996 Awarded Kobe City Planning Bureau Prize and Civic Prize at the 8th Real Sculpture Exhibition of Great Prize in Kobe.
1997 Went to Portugal at the delegated artist of the Minister of Culture of Japan ’98.
1999 Awarded Great Prize at Asago 2001 0pen― Air Sculpture Exhibition in Tataragi’ 99
2000 Lectured at Port University/Deparment of Fine Art
2002 Awarded Fine Work Prize at The 7th Trienal Exhibition of Arts in Makuarazaki.
2003 Awarded Citizen’s Prize at the 4th Annual Sakura Sculpture Competition in lkawa;
Awarded lnvitation Prize at the 6th International Stone Sculpture Symposium.
Solo Exhibitions
1985 Gallery Yamaguchi Tokyo
1987 Kyoni Gallery/Tokyo; Transport Park in Urayasu/Chiba
1988 Sinjuku Sanseido Hall Tokyo; Yonago NHK Hall Tottori
1990 Kyoni Gallery/Tokyo
1991 Plus Minus Gallery/Tokyo
1992 Art Box, Yokohama
1993 KirinPlaza Osaka, Osaka
1994 Kirin Beer Village, Yokohama; Takashimaya, Tokyo
1995 Kuze Gallery, Gifu; Sekigahara Marble Craft, Gifu
1996 Mabllzakaya, Nagoya
1997 Kuze Gallery,Gifu
1999 Gallery Seiho, Tokyo; Centro Cultural Emmerico Nunes, Sines; Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil; Camara Municipal de Portalegre, Portalegre
2000 Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil; Casa Tait, Camara Municipal do Porto, Porto
2002 Gallery Kuze, Gifu; Gallery F, Gifu; Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil
2003 Taruishuku Nagahmaya, Gifu
2005 Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil
2006 Museu-de- Pedra- do Município- de‐Cantanhede
2007 Biwako Hotel Guratie
2010 Kuze Gallery, Gifu; Centro Cultural São Lourenço, Almancil
2013 São Mamede Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
Group Exhibitions
1985 International Environment Art Symposium’85 in Tsukuba, Ibaraki; Open- Air Contemporary Art Exhibition in Gifu,Gifu
1986 ESSE Sculpture Exhibition, Tokyo; Tokorozawa Open- Air Art Festival, Saitama
1987 ESSE Sculpture Exhibition, Tokyo
1988 The 1st Festival of Stone Village/Kagawa; The 3rd Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture, The Chiba Prefecture Museum
1989 The Space; Material; Tension; Vacancy in Japanese Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama; Japanese Ways, Western Means, The Queensland Art Gallery, Australia;
Real Sculpture Exhibition of Great Prize in Kobe, Kobe; The 13th Modern Japanese Sculpture, Exhibition, Ube; The 4th National Cultural Festival Saitama’89 Saitama Sculpture Exhibition in Rocco Island, Kobe; Yokohama Biennale’89, Yokohama
1990 The 3rd Rodin Grand Prix Exhibition, The Utsukushi-ga-hara Open-Air Museum, The 2rd Kurashiki Street Corner Sculpture Exhibition, Okayama, Odawara Castle Open-Air Sculpture Kanagawa; The 10 th Hara Annual, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
1991 The 7 th Henry Moore Grand Prix Exhibition, The Utsukushi-ga-hara open Air Museum; The 14 th Modern Japanese Sculpture Exhibition, Ube; The 6th Real Sculpture Exhibition of Great Prize in Kobe, Kobe; Yokohama Biennale’91, Yokohama; Art Are Fun, Hara Museum Arc, Gunma
1992 Index of City Contemporary Sculpture and Environment, Tokyo; Kajima Sculpture Contest, Tokyo; The 22nd Modern Japanese Arts Exhibition, Tokyo, Kyoto, Fukuoka; The 4th Rodin Grand Prix Exhibition, The Utsukushi‐ga-hara Open- Air Museum
1993 The 15t Modern Japanese Sculpture Exhibition, Ube; Toyamura lnternational Sculpture Biennale’93, Hokkaido
1994 The 6 th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture, The Chiba Prefecture Museum
Yokohama Modern Art Exhibition, Shanghai; Humming Dale Shibusawa, Kanagawa
1995 600 Seoul International Art Festival, Seoul; Art Festival” Creating Kyoto”, Kyoto; The
16 th Modern Japanese Sculpture Exhibition, Ube
1996 The 8 th Real Sculpture Exhibition of Great Prize in Kobe, Kobe
1997 “Da Cruz de Cristo ao Sol Nascente”
1998 Quatro Artistas Japoneses vivendo em Portugal, Antiks- Design, Lisbon; “Inside/OutSide” Japanese contemporary Sculpture by Eight Artists, The Niigata
Prefecture Museum of Modern Art
1999 Asago 2001 0pen‐ Air Sculpture Exhibition in Tataragi’99, Hyogo; Exposição de Escultura, Camara Municipal de Portalegre, Portalegre
2000 The 15th Kurashiki Street Corner Sculpture Exhibition, Kurashiki; Awaji International Stone Art Contest, Hyogo; Exposição de Pintura Portuguesa e Escultura Contemporânea, Antiks-Design, Lisboa
2002 The 6th Oita Asia Sculpture Exhibition, Oita; The 7th Trienal Exhibition of Arts in Makurazaki, Kagoshima; Gunma Open Space Art Competition 2002, Gunma
Exposição de Pintura Portuguesa e Escultura Contemporânea, Antiks-Design, Lisboa
2003 The 4 th Annual Sakura Sculpture Competition Ikawa, Akita; Inertes com Vida, Antiks-Design, Lisboa
2004 The 7th Oita Asia Sculpture Exhibition, Oita
2005 “Para VOLKER”, Centro Cultural de São Lourenço, Almancil
2007 The 8th Trienal Exhibition of Arts in Makurazaki, Kagoshima
Symposiums
1987 Iwate, Iwate
1988 Yonago, Tottori
1991 Mure, kagawa
1992 Niijima, Tokyo
2000 Maia, Portugal
2001 Alpalhão, Portugal
2003 Nishiharima, Hyogo; Aji Kagawa
2005 Cantanhede, Portugal
2010 Toukamachi, Nligata
Museum Collections
Hara Museum Arc
The Ustukushi-ga-hara Open― Air Museum
The Chiba Prefecture Museum
The Niigata Prefecture Museum of Modern Art
The Tomioka City Museum
Public Collections
Tokyo‐Ootaku; Tokyo- komae; Tokyo-Niijima ; Gifu‐Ogaki
Kagawa-Takamatu; Hyougo-Asago; Akita- Ikawa; Sizuoka- Itou
lwate‐Iwatecho; Yamaguchi‐Ube; Tiba-Urayasu; Kanagawa-Odawara
Siga-kusatu; Okayama- Kurasiki; Hyougo- Koube; Kanagawa-Hadano
Hyougo-Takarazuka; Hyougo- Tikusa; Nagano-Tokura; Nagano-Nagano
Hyougo-Fujiage; Fukui‐ Fukui; Kagosima-Makurazaki; Kagawa‐ Mure
Osaka-Moriguchi; Kanagawa- Yokohama; Tottori‐ Yonago; Niigata-Toukamachi;
Portugal-Sines; Portugal- Nisa; Portugal-Cantanhede; Portugal-Maia; Portugal‐Lisbon