Artist

Ushio Shinohara

Japanese, b. 1932

Ushio Shinohara is a Japanese artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Ushio Shinohara was born in Kōjimachi.

Ushio Shinohara, nicknamed “Gyū-chan”, is a Japanese contemporary painter, sculptor, and performance artist based in New York City. Best known for his vigorously painted, large-scale and dynamic Boxing Painting series, Shinohara makes use of embodied gestures, appropriation and assemblage, iconographies of mass culture and traditional arts, and vivid tones in his diverse, multidisciplinary practice.

Collections represented

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