Shinji Turner-Yamamoto

Shinji Turner-Yamamoto (born in 1965) is a US-based environmental artist, from Osaka, Japan.

Shinji Turner-Yamamoto’s site-specific art installations worldwide include Ireland, Finland, Italy, Japan, India, Mongolia, and the USA. His Global Tree Project is an international art initiative that seeks to open and affirm connections between audiences and the natural world. He works with identifiable imagery to encourage humanity to encounter aspects of nature in new and unexpected ways and is committed to using historic and natural elements in his work as meditations on the environment.

Biography

Shinji Turner-Yamamoto was born in Osaka, Japan. He studied at Kyoto City University of Arts, and, sponsored by the Italian government, at it:Accademia di belle arti di Bologna, where he lived for eleven years. His work has been the subject of solo shows at the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland; it:Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy; and the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.

Site-specific installations include Holy Cross Church and Monastery, Cincinnati, OH; Gobi Desert, Mongolia; Ippaku-tei Teahouse, Embassy of Japan, Washington, DC; Roches Tower, Cork, Ireland; Palazzo Ducale, Genoa / Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy; Kiyomizu Temple Sutra Hall / Saigyo-an Teahouse, Kyoto, Japan; Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi / Navdanya's Bija Vidyapeeth, Dehradun, India; Les Subsistances, Lyon, France.

His work has been featured in such publications as The Washington Post, La Repubblica, Orientations Magazine, My Green City (Gestalten 2011), CSPA - The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, DIAOSU - National Sculpture Magazine of China. Prizes include 2011 ArtPrize International Juried Award; 2011 Gold Leaf Award, International Society of Arboriculture; 2003 UNESCO-ASCHBERG Bursaries for Artists; 2000 Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes; first prize, 2000 Targetti Light Art Collection.

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