Artist

Keisuke Shirota

Born 1975 in Kanagawa, Japan, Keisuke Shirota received his M.F.A from Tokyo University of The Arts, Department of Design in 2003. Shirota’s works combine photo snapshots with paintings, sometimes drawing fictional images beyond the borders of the photograph and sometimes erasing just the people captured in environmental photos by painting over them. 

Featured Works

Seashore
2021-2022
Photograph and oil on canvas board mounted on wood frame
55 x 71.5cm
Seashore / detail
2021-2022
Photograph and oil on canvas board mounted on wood frame
55 x 71.5cm
Cloudy sunset over the sea
2021-2022
Photograph and oil on canvas board mounted on wood frame
37 x 55cm
Cloudy sunset over the sea / detail
2021-2022
Photograph and oil on canvas board mounted on wood frame
37 x 55cm
Coastline (at dusk)
2021-2022
Photograph and oil on canvas board mounted on wood frame
44.5 x 42cm
Coastline (at dusk) / detail
2021-2022
Photograph and oil on canvas board mounted on wood frame
44.5 x 42cm
Landscape with the old train station building
2020
oil on photograph
30.2 x 44.7cm
Landscape with the old train station building / detail
2020
oil on photograph
30.2 x 44.7cm
Two people taking selfie (Nijubashi Bridge on Aug 15, 2018)
2020-2021
oil, enamel paint, newspaper photo clippings on canvas, panel
25 x 37cm
Two people taking selfie (Nijubashi Bridge on Aug 15, 2018) / detail
2020-2021
oil, enamel paint, newspaper photo clippings on canvas, panel
25 x 37cm
A family at Nijubashi Bridge (Aug 15, 2018)
2020
oil, enamel paint, newspaper photo clippings
on canvas, panel
37 x 25cm
A family at Nijubashi Bridge (Aug 15, 2018) / detail
2020
oil, enamel paint, newspaper photo clippings
on canvas, panel
37 x 25cm
Still life with a glass vase
2014
photograph, pastel on paper
45.5 x 38 cm

Artist’s Website

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1975
Born in Kanagawa prefecture

2001
B.F.A. Tokyo University of The Arts, Department of DESIGN

2003
M.F.A. Tokyo University of The Arts, Department of DESIGN



[Solo Exhibitions]

2024
Waves and Sea, Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo

2022
Out of the frame, Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo

2021
Over, Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo

2019-2020
PAINT, SEEING PHOTOS, Chigasaki City Museum of Art, Kanagawa

2013
Tracing/Background, Base Gallery, Tokyo

2010
Gallery Stefan Röpke, Cologne

2009
Base Gallery, Tokyo

2008
Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
Galería Arnés Röpke, Madrid

2006
Over Lap, Gallery SUN Contemporary, Seoul
Base Gallery, Tokyo

2004
A SENSE OF DISTANCE, Base Gallery, Tokyo



[Group Exhibitions]

2023
Group Show – Glen Baldridge | Holly Coulis | Alex Dodge | Keisuke Shirota, Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo

2022
Chigasaki City Museum of Art, Kanagawa
Group Show – Yoshio Shirakawa | Fuminao Suenaga | Keisuke Shirota | Shunsuke Kano | Sean Micka, Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo

2013
Shell Artists Selection, The National Art Center, Tokyo

2012
Photo Reference: Photographic Image in Contemporary Japanese Art Practices, The Cultural Center of Belgrade, Belgrade

2008
TOWARDS A GAME OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa

2007
Young Japanese Landscape, MOYA/Museum of Young Art, Vienna

2005
The Vision of Contemporary Art 2005, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

2004
Shell Art Award, Hillside Terrace, Tokyo


[Public Collection]
Chigasaki City Museum of Art

News

2023.11.12

Keisuke Shirota

2023.08.09

Keisuke Shirota – five

2023.08.01

Keisuke Shirota – “Recent Discovery” CADAN × ISETAN ART GALLERY

Gallery Exhibitions

Keisuke Shirota “Waves and Sea”

May 25 – June 23, 2024

Group Show
Glen Baldridge, Holly Coulis, Alex Dodge, Keisuke Shirota

May 13 – June 25, 2023

Keisuke Shirota “Out of the frame”

March 26 – April 24, 2022

Keisuke Shirota “Over”

January 8 – February 7, 2021