Japan
Shirt
97×145.5cm
oil on canvas

1971 Born in Tokyo
1998 Graduated from Deparment of Oil Painting, Tama Art University
2000 Completed Graduate School of Fine Arts and Design, Tama Art University
　　「Project N 03 IMANO Shoko」, Tokyo Opara City Art Gallery
2001 Group Exhibition 「Spinning! 02」, SAISON Museum of Modern Art, SAISON Art Program Gallery, Tokyo
2003 Became an assistant of Oil Painting Laboratory, Tama Art University
2004 Bunkamura ART SHOW 「LANDING」, Bunkamura Gallery, Tokyo
2008 「border」, Bridge Art Fair 08, New York
2008 Studied in Roma, Italy, at the Coming Artists Overseas Study Program of Cultural Affairs Agency
2009 One-man show, HIRO GALLERY　(06 and 08)
2010 One-man show, ART FAIR TOKYO from HIRO GALLERY

Shoko Imano is an artist who pursues “border” as his own theme. The “borders” include the boundaries between self and others, body and spirit, skin and outside and so on. He stayed in Roma, Italy, at the Coming Artists Overseas Study Program of Cultural Affairs Agency from 2008 to 2009. His paintings are layered again and again so the surface of the skin has gentle and enfolding ambience.