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Shinichi Sawada Born 1982, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Lives and works in Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Collection ABCD, Paris Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland Halle Saint Piere, Paris
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Shinichi Sawada, Venus Over Manhattan, New York
2020 Shinichi Sawada, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany Innen-Leben/Inner Life: Shinichi Sawada, Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany
2017 Shinichi Sawada. Images from the Depths of the Mind, Outsider Art Museum in the Hermitage Amsterdam, Netherlands
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 SAWADA | KONTANI | SASAKI,, Sway Gallery, London The Doors of Perception, cur. Javier Tellez, Frieze Art Fair, New York Garden, Sargent’s Daughters and SHRINE, New York Thailand and Japan A: Figure of Unknown Beauty, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
2018 Clay Today, The Hole, New York Art Brut Japonais II, Halle Saint Pierre, Paris Process and Presence: Contemporary Disability Sculpture, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, August 20, 2021
2017 Komorebi, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
2016 Japan, Outsider Art Museum in the Hermitage Amsterdam, Netherlands Radical Craft: Alternative Ways of Making, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, United Kingdom
2014 Intuitive Folk, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, United Kingdom Japanese Outsiders, Bonnefantenmuseum Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands Art Brut Japan Schweiz, Museum im Lagerhaus, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2013 The Encyclopedic Palace, cur. Massimilioni Gioni, Venice Bienniale, Venice Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan, Wellcome Collection, London, United Kingdom
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2012 Hidden Beauty: Outsider Art from Japan, Het Dolhuys Museum of Psychiatry, Haarlem, Netherlands
2010 Art Brut Japonais, Halle Saint Pierre, Paris
2008 Japon, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 Shinichi Sawada, Neumarkt: Museum Lothar Fischer; Berlin: Georg Kolbe Museum, 2020
2019 Kobayashi, Mizue, “Shinichi Sawada,” Raw Vision, no. 102, June 2019
2018 Art Brut Japonais II, Paris: Halle Saint Pierre, 2018 Komorebi: Art Brut Japnoais, Nantes: Le Lieu Unique, 2018
2016 Maizels, John, ed. Outsider Art Sourcebook: International Guide to Art Brut and Outsider Art, Herts, United Kingdom: Raw Vision Ltd., 2016
2014 Art Brut—Japan—Schweiz, St. Gallen, Switzerland: Museum im Lagerhaus, 2014
2012 Outsider Art from Japan, Haarlem, Netherlands: Museum het Dolhuys, 2012
2010 Art Brut Japonais, Paris: Halle Saint Pierre, 2010
2008 Miyama, Eijiro, et. al. Art Brut from Japan, Lausanne, Switzerland: Collection de l’Art Brut and Gollion (Suisse), 2008
SELECTED PRESS
2021 Harris, Gareth, “Takashi Murakami organizes Outsider art sculpture show in vast New York space,” The Art Newspaper, June 9, 2021 Thackara, Tess, “Selling Tino Seghal’s Zoom call in an online viewing room: Art Basel’s Pioneers OVR reachs peak meta,” The Art Newspaper, March 25, 2021 Steinhauer, Jillian, “3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now: Shinichi Sawada,” The New York Times, March 10, 2021 Havis, Richard James, “The Outside Art of Autistic, Non-Verbal Sculptor Shinichi Sawada, Whose Bizarre Clay Creations ‘Speak for Themselves’,” South China Morning Post, March 4, 2021 Schultz, Abby, “Shinichi Sawada’s Mythical Ceramic Creatures at Venus Over Manhattan,” Barron’s, March 1, 2021 Coffman, Courtney, “The T List: Five Things We Recommend This Week,” The New York Times Style Magazine, February 25, 2021
2020 Gomez, Edward M., “Tokyo finds a home for ‘raw’ art,” Nikkei Asia, November 7, 2020
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2019 Baker, Tora, “Spiky ceramic creatures and demons, painstakingly crafted by hand,” Creative Boom, June 21, 2019
2018 Gómez, Edward M., “The 2018 Outsider Art Fair, a Preview,” Hyperallergic, January 13, 2018
2013 Wullschlager, Jackie, “A Picasso for the Facebook Age,” Financial Times, May 31, 2013 Ansalda, Carmen, “55th Venice Bienniale Part II: Il Palazzo Enciclopedico,” Ocula Magazine, June 25, 2013
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