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Born in Osaka,
Japan,
Shinji Turner-Yamamoto studied fresco at the Kyoto City University
of Arts. Sponsored by the Italian government, he studied at the Fine
Arts Academy in Bologna,
where he lived for eleven years. His prizes include the 1999-2000
Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes and 2000 first prize
from the international Targetti Light Art Collection. His work is
in public and private collections in Switzerland,
Finland,
India, Japan,
Italy, and the
United States.
Site-specific installations include Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa
Croce, Genoa, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Roches Tower, Cork, Ireland,
the Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi and Navdanya's Bija Vidyapeeth,
Dehradun, India for UNESCO-ASCHBERG Bursaries for Artists, Kiyomizu
Temple and Saigyo-an, Kyoto. Recent exhibitions include Kyoto Art
Walk, an international invitational in Kyoto's temples and Nijo Castle
which he curated, the Crawford
Municipal Art
Gallery, Cork,
Ireland, MUAR,
Moscow,
the Chelsea Art Museum, New York, Shigeko Bork MU Project, and Ippaku-tei
Teahouse, Embassy of Japan, Washington, DC.
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