Roger Shimomura
Roger Shimomura’s paintings, prints, and theatre pieces address sociopolitical issues of ethnicity. He was born in Seattle, Washington and spent two early years of his childhood in Minidoka, Idaho, one of 10 concentration camps for Japanese Americans during WWII. He has had over 130 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.
Shimomura 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 2003 he was a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painting Award. Shimomura began teaching at the University of Kansas in 1969. In 2004 he retired from teaching and started the Shimomura Faculty Research Support Fund, an endowment to foster faculty research in the Department of Art.
Shimomura is in the permanent collections of over 90 museums nation wide including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of American Art …
Roger Shimomura’s paintings, prints, and theatre pieces address sociopolitical issues of ethnicity. He was born in Seattle, Washington and spent two early years of his childhood in Minidoka, Idaho, one of 10 concentration camps for Japanese Americans during WWII. He has had over 130 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.
Shimomura 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 2003 he was a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painting Award. Shimomura began teaching at the University of Kansas in 1969. In 2004 he retired from teaching and started the Shimomura Faculty Research Support Fund, an endowment to foster faculty research in the Department of Art.
Shimomura is in the permanent collections of over 90 museums nation wide including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian. His personal papers and letters are being collected by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
Courtesy of the Artist
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Denver Art Museum, Denver
Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Flomenhaft Gallery, New York
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
