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Shinohara Ushio

Shinohara Ushio (Born 1932) is active/lives in New York / Japan.  Shinohara Ushio is known for Neo Dada Japanese painting, performance, large-scale sculpture.

Japanese born and living in New York City from the 1969s, Shinohara Ushio is a painter, sculptor and performance artist whose works "from the early 60s to the present are almost uniformly raucous and bawdy" (Kopkos) and make little attempt to discriminate between ugly and pretty. 

His reputation was that of the enfant terrible of Japan's art world at that time. I n Tokyo in the late 1950s, Ushio, who had studied had the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and who rebelled against its conservatism, was a Neo-Dada organizer.  He had a Mohawk hairdo and participated in performance events that reflected post-war Japanese culture, which was much focused on American life.  As a result, Ushio reflected the life of both countries in his artwork with subjects such as cowboys and geishas, and he lived cross-culturally, traveling often between the continents.

In Tokyo in 1960 and then revived in the 1990s, he did 'boxing paintings' by using boxin   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10365 characters.]  Artist bio

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