Seiji Shimoda
Individual
Roles
Artist, Curator, Educator, WriterBiography
Seiji Shimoda is one of Japan’s most active, well-known, and respected performance artists. He is a performer, a poet, an arts advocate, organizer, curator, and lecturer at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo. Since graduating Osaka City University in 1977, Shimoda’s work has been presented at over 100 international festivals, conferences and galleries, in more than 30 countries across western and central Europe, North and Central America, and throughout Asia. Shimoda is the Director of the Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF), established in 1993, and has presented the work of over 300 international and Asian performance artists from 45 countries around the world in two annual festivals that take place in several cities in Japan. Under Shimoda’s direction, NIPAF has become one of the most influential festivals in the global performance art community and is a sought after destination for performance artists from around the world. Shimoda also organizes tours under the umbrella of NIPAF to promote art exchange and dialogue about performance art to the US, Poland, Philippines, Germany, and Spain. In 2000, Shimoda was the first Asian artist to receive a prized Bessie Award (New York Dance and Performance). Shimoda’s own performance work is a combination of action poetry, performance, and movement, and employing simple objects like chopsticks, a chair, a table, and his physical body in unique ways.FADO, 2023
Collection
grunt gallery Programming Archive (Artist)Related program
On the Table (Artist)Related Archive, Library & Publication Objects
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