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Hideyuki Shoji
Chelsea College of Art And Design (BA fine art / 2009)
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Profile

HIDEYUKI SHOJI

1978 Born in Yamagata, JAPAN

Lives and work in UK

Hideyuki Shoji is a Japanese artist who works and lives in London. He was born in Yamagata Japan and he started his carrier of artist as a printmaking artist after graduated the Master degree at Yamagata University in Japan. He studied abroad to England and graduated from the Chelsea College of Art and Design with a BA (Hons).

 A recurring theme in Hideyuki’s work involves curiosity in and observation of everyday life. To make the everyday apparent, his work makes an absurd alteration to an object before putting it back into an everyday life situation.

 Hideyuki’s works often dealt with print and sculpture: using commonplace materials and suggesting alternative points of view within a social situation. To further exploit the realm of the unnoticed and overlooked within the complexities of everyday life, his work has become more performative recently. The works are no longer purely sculptural. He intervenes in a social structure with a performative activity, highlighting through a funny situation the otherwise everyday.

 

EDUCATION

2009 Chelsea College of Art and Design, BA Fine Art　(Hon), UAL, UK
2004 Yamagata University, MA Education of Art and Design, JAPAN   

2002 Yamagata University, Education of Art and Design, JAPAN

Exhibitions

GROUP EXHIBITION
 
2012 Berlin Art Fes, Galerie DEN, Berlin, Germany
 
2011 Tronto Art Fes 2011, Luc sculpture, Toronto, Canada

2011 Signature Art Award 2011 Degree Art, London, UK

2011 Gross Berlin 2011, MRIZIA FROZEN, Berlin, Germany

2011 Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Crypt gallery, London, UK

2010 Dreams Exhibition 2010, Shoreditch Townhall, London, UK

2009 Universtiy of the Arts London,Chelsea College degree show, London, UK

2005 Session 2005, Shinjo Community Centre, SHINJO, JAPAN
2005 Session 2005, Art Centre Cube, IWATE, JAPAN
2003 Group Show, Alternative space "Sango", Yamagata, JAPAN
2003 Contemporary Art week, Sendai, JAPAN
2003 PRINTS21, Tokyo, JAPAN
2002 Environment and City Art Exhibition, Nigata, JAPAN
2002 Cultural life Exhibition, Kumamoto, JAPAN

2002 YOSHIWARA JIRYO AWARD Exhibition,　Osaka, JAPAN

Interview

What is your favourite film of all time?

Innocence

What music are you currently listening to and why?

Teddy picker- arctic monkys-

I don't know the reason I just like it.

Which living artists do you most admire and why?

I can not tell you who is the most but I like some artists who makes  me to think and also entertains me when I encounter thier works, such as Martin Walde, Robine Rohde, Iichiro Tanaka, Shiro Masuyama and Meiro Koizumi.

Which deceased artist do you most admire and why?

John Cage. His 4'33" is the best conceptural art for me.

Which exhibition that you have visited made the greatest impact on you and why?

Laughing in a Foreign Language 2008 Hayward gallery

I was really impressed by the exhibition.

Because, the show makes me to realise I have similar point of view in my work.

Laughter emarges in my art works in many ways and I believe the laughter is the important element one of the important element of my work, so it's still explored in my current practices.

What is the question you get asked most frequently about your work and how do you answer it?

Q. "Why fish?"

A. Actually, fish is not mean a lot to me but it is a part of my life at the morment.

I make a trivial object or an common action in my life to something defferent which make people to rethink about thier relation of it.

What / who inspired you to be an artist?

My dearest tutors in Japan and England who I have met and learnt

Can you tell us about where you make your art and what if any the significance of this location is?

Palace Wharf Studio ACAVA

This is one of the best location of art studio in London(Hammersmith/ next to Thams Liver)

I can make art works among other professional artists in this studio. It means a lot to me.

What do you like most about being an artist?

To be an artist gives me chance to meet a lot of people who are very interesting and impressive.

What is your greatest achievement as an artist to date?

I have won the People's Choice Award in The Signature Art Award 2011.

My performance based work has been tweeted on Saatchi online recently.

What are your plans for the coming year?

I'll join a group exhibition at Berlin from 3rd Feb 2012. To keep making new art works and to try finding more oppotunity to show my work all over the world.