Biography
Francis was born in Santa Monica, California in 1969. At the age of three he moved to Japan with his Japanese mother, and went to an international school in Tokyo until the age of thirteen. He subsequently moved back to California to live with his father during the academic year, spending the summer and winter breaks in Tokyo.
Shingo Francis is a painter, draftsman and photographer who employs a minimal and abstract approach to his work to explore color, time and expanse. He has a keen appreciation for how these elements shape our perceptions.
Francis received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Pitzer College in Claremont and a Master of Arts degree from ArtCenter College of Design, in Pasadena, California.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013
- 2012
- 2010
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022
- 2021
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2014
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
- 2010
- 2009
- 2008
- 2007
AWARDS
- 2003 Fumio Nanjo Award - Deputy Director of Mori Museum, Tokyo
RESIDENCIES
- 2014 Yokohama University of Art at Koganecho Studio, Japan BankART Residency - Japan
- 2013 BankART Residency - Japan
- 2010 BankART Residency - Germany
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
- Banco de Espana
- Ebhard Kornfeld Collection
- Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation
- JP Morgan Chase Bank
- Koichi Ushioda Collection
- Mori Building Co., Ltd.
- Nezu Collection Tokyo
- Shinshindo Kyoto
PUBLICATIONS
- Francis, Shingo, In and Out of the Void – Selected Works 2004-2 - 2015, Ribun Shuppan
- Ilgen, Fre, Artist? The Hypothesis of Bodiness - 2014, pp. 178-180
- Funami, Marin, Art: arts & culture created from Yokohama's unique past and present, Hanako, No.904 - August 9th 2007, pp. 66-67
- Dan Bischoff, A healthy dose of higher consciousness, The Sunday Ledger, Section Four - April 22nd 2007, p.5
