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to New York City. Arriving in the Big Apple from Tokyo in 2011 despite speaking little English and having few connections, he has called the city home ever since. Self-taught in art, Shibuya has long admired Japanese conceptual artist On Kawara since he saw his date paintings [the Today series] at New York’s Dia Beacon museum consisting of the date he executed the work in white letters and numbers set against a solid monochrome background. When he completed each canvas, he added newspaper clippings from that day in the storage box where he kept the artwork. Shibuya quickly became obsessed with Kawara’s practise of capturing time and sought a pure creative outlet for himself rather than satisfying the needs of customers through his graphic design work. In 2016, he embarked on daily paintings of Japanese katakana characters representing each day of the week, a routine that brought him peace of mind, which he continued religiously over a period of four years and led to his first gallery exhibition in New York City at +81 Gallery. As a graphic designer and founder of design studio Placeholder, Shibuya was behind products like the Biodegradable Bamboo Bag – a sustainable bamboo-fibre alternative to the common single-use plastic takeaway, which ties to the Japanese mottainai concept of avoiding waste, or that every object has purpose and meaning – and had brands such as Apple, Cartier, Revlon and the New York City Ballet as clients. He has since given up his graphic design career to focus solely on his art rather than to realise the vision of others. For him, the goal nonetheless remains unchanged: to visually communicate a message without having to explain it. The only difference now is that the client is himself.
BLACK RAIN, Friday, 6 August 2021, this painting is a collaboration with Craig Costello, the New York City artist known as Krink. 6 August 1945 was the day the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb, beyond immediately killing 80,000 people, poisoned the atmosphere with radiation, which would then come back to Earth and kill many more people with radioactive “black rain.” Image courtesy of the artist
[L-R] Sho Shibuya 2023 acrylic on newspaper at the Unit London Gallery. Biden Beats Trump, Sunday, 8 November 2020, after days of anxious waiting and vote tallying, the New York Times joins television networks in announcing that Joe Biden is the next President of the United States. Images courtesy of the artist
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