SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2012 An American Knockoff, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City,
Missouri
2011 Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, Kansas
Stanford University, Cantor Arts Center, Palo Alto,
California
2010 Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City,
Missouri
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City,
Missouri
Printmaking Museum of Douro, Alijo, Portugal
Flomenhaft Gallery, New York City, New York
Oklahoma State University, Gardiner Art Gallery, Stillwater,
Oklahoma
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2009 Morikami Museum (40 year retrospective), Delray Beach,
Florida
Musee d’art de Joliette, Joliette, Quebec, Canada
Bergamot Station, Track 16, Santa Monica, California
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Bictoria, B.C., Canada
2008 Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
2007 Spencer Art Museum, (42 year print retrospective),
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
2006 Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, Georgia
Roger Shimomura's paintings, prints, and theatre pieces address sociopolitical issues of Asian America and have often been inspired by diaries kept by his late immigrant grandmother for 56 years of her life.
Shimomura received his B.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle, and his M.F.A. from Syracuse University, New York. He has had over 125 solo exhibitions of paintings and prints, as well as presented his experimental theater pieces at such venues as the Franklin Furnace, New York City, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. He is the recipient of more than 30 grants, of which 4 are National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in Painting and Performance Art.
Shimomura has been a visiting artist and lectured on his work at more than 200 universities, art schools, and museums across the country. In 1999, the Seattle Urban League designated a scholarship in his name that has been awarded annually to a Seattle resident pursuing a career in art. In 2002, the College Art Association presented him with the “Artist Award for Most Distinguished Body of Work,” for his 4 year, 12-museum national tour of the painting exhibition, “An American Diary.” The following year, he delivered the keynote address at the 91st annual meeting of CAA in New York City.
In 2006, he was accorded the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the School of Arts & Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle. A past winner of the Kansas Governor’s Arts Award, in 2008, he was designated the first Kansas Master Artist and the same year was honored by the Asian American Arts Alliance, N.Y.C. as "Exceptional People in Fashion, Food & the Arts."
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I was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, a city where ethnic diversity is standard fare; however, for the last forty years, I have lived in the Midwest, where the Asian American presence is still somewhat of a rarity.
Since living in Kansas, I have found it to be routine to be asked what part of Japan I am from, or how long I have lived in this country. Just as common, subtle references continue to connect me to stereotypical “oriental” traits, both physical and behavioral.
Far too many American-born citizens of Asian descent continue to be thought of as only “American knockoffs.” This latest series of paintings is an attempt to ameliorate the outrage of these misconceptions by depicting myself battling those stereotypes or, in tongue-in-cheek fashion, becoming those very same stereotypes.
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2011 Byron Cohen Gallery
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