ASAMI SHOJI
b. 1988, JapanAsami SHOJI was born in 1988 in Fukushima, Japan. She obtained her MFA in printmaking from Tama Art University in Tokyo in 2012. She currently lives and works in Tokyo. Shoji’s work envisions lines, the contours of the creatures in her paintings, as a threshold that opens up dimensions characterized by their movements, rather than boundaries segregating the opposites. Instead of the border of the subject, bodies in Shoji’s work mark the flow of affections where Shoji opens up the place for permeability and connectedness to others and expands the sense of the body and the inside and outside. Painting not merely a visual image, Shoji expresses spontaneous and multilayered feelings in different surroundings against the backdrop of unprecedented mobility. The spatial experiences conjured by her paintings transcend the static realm, giving birth to a dynamic tableau where sensory perceptions intermingle and flow unrestrictedly and inviting the viewer into intricate narratives and perceptual explorations.
Her selected solo exhibitions include: “Moment of Flowers”, 2025, LINSEED, Shanghai (upcoming); “October, Much Ado About Nothing”, 2024, Semiose, Paris; “A Stranger’s Tales”, 2024, Independent Art Fair with LINSEED, New York; “a Gait Without Foot”, 2023, gallery21yo-j, Tokyo; “From Tbilisi with Love”, 2022-23, DECAMERON, Tokyo; “Tomorrow’s Unseen Mythologies”, 2021, gallery21yo-j, Tokyo; “Diagram of the Mud”, 2018, Cale, Tokyo; “During a Night”, 2017, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo. Her selected group exhibitions include: 2025, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (upcoming); “Elizabeth Glaessner, Asami Shoji, Oda Iselin Sonderland”, 2025, François Ghebaly, New York; “I See My Body In Your Eyes”, “2025, Frieze LA with LINSEED, Los Angeles; “PLURAL BODY/IES”, 2025, Tokyo Arts and Space, Tokyo; “MOT ANNUAL 2024: on the imagined terrain”, 2024, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo; “Hyakunengo Art Festival”, 2024, Hyakunengo Art Festival, Chiba Prefecture;“Onsen Confidential”, 2024, LINSEED, Tokyo; “Body, Love, Gender”, Curated by Kim Sunhee and Tsubaki Reiko, Gana Art Center, Seoul; “Gestures of Resistance”, 2023, LINSEED in collaboration with A.I., London; “50 seconds”, 2023, soda, Yebisu International Festival For Art & Alternative Visions 2023, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo; “Eyes of the wind Vol.1”, 2022, Obscura, Tbilisi; “The Way of Paintings”, 2022, SOMPO Museum of Art, Tokyo; “Tokyo Wonder Wall 2015”, 2015, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT), Tokyo; “The 18th Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art”, 2015, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kanagawa.
Text courtesy LINSEED Projects.
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