Profile
Shinichi Ono lives and works in Los Angeles.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Master of Fine Art, Digital Media/New Genre, Claremont Graduate University, 2006
Bachelor of Fine Art, Sculpture, CSU Long Beach, 2004
Associate of Art, Santa Monica College, 2000
Group Show
2010 Mass Emergence, Angels Gate Cultural Center
2009 Switch, collaboration with Kio Griffith & Mika Soma, as Kushami, Cafe Balcony
2008 Field Trip, collaboration with Kio Griffith & Mika Soma, as Kushami, Spring Art Collective
2008 Last Overhung, Concrete Walls Gallery
2008 knock, knock!, collaboration with Kio Griffith & Mika Soma, as Kushami, Gallery Rasen
2008 Earthworks 01, Shojin Restaurant
2007 Contemporary Landscapes, curated by Tal Yizrael, Millard Sheets Center for The Arts
2006 Mirror Mirror, Concrete Walls Gallery
2006 Super/Sonic, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery
2005 Reheated: 2nd Year student show, Claremont Graduate University
2005 Greater MFA Exhibition, CSU Long Beach
2005 Fresh: 1st year student show, Claremont Graduate University
2004 Eclectica, Basswerk
2004 Sunday Best, Gatov Gallery, CSU Long Beach
2003 Stained Dreamscapes, Werby Gallery, CSU Long Beach
2003 Sculpture Show, Werby Gallery, CSU Long Beach
2001 Liquid Gandhi, Upstairs Gallery, Los Angeles
2001 Upstairs Gallery, Los Angeles
2001 Manipulation, Trade City, Santa Monica
1999 Art Student Exhibition, Santa Monica College
1998 Axis Mundi, Santa Monica College
Solo Show
2006 Reflection, MFA Thesis Exhibition, East Galley, Claremont Graduate University
2004 Digital, Spatial, Temporal, BFA Exhibition, Gallery Five, CSU Long Beach
2000 Mentor Student Exhibition, Santa Monica College
Award and Fellowship
2006 Pricira Fernandez Award in Art
2004-6 Claremont Graduate University, Tuition Fellowship
2004-6 Claremont Graduate University, Minority Fellowship
1999 Santa Monica College Mentor Program
1999 Santa Monica College Art Department: National Art Association Award
Professional Experience
Editor for Animation Buffet, MAK Center, 2008
Video Editor, Technical Consultant, Freewaves Festival, 2008
Technical Consultant, Freewaves Festival, 2006
Artist Statement
I work with various media, including digital prints, video installations, and performances. Many of my pieces have a minimal palette because I am interested in the structures and systems that underlie images. I limit images because they are not as important as the space they reside in. Images depend on the social codes and myths of the space. They are a medium.
Video enables us to experience time differently. The subject matter is not as important as when changes occur in it. Emotional impact is enhanced by the contrast between stillness and movement. Simplicity keeps elements separate from each other. I achieve complexity by producing the resonances in the space by juxtaposing various temporalities and narratives. In this regard, I associate my artwork with polyphonic music.
I focus on the experience of art rather than on its status as an object. Objects cannot bear the meaning given to them. The meaning changes depending on where, when, and how the objects establish a relationship with viewers. It keeps changing. My works generate meanings in specific time-spaces.
My job as an artist is to find a way to crack the myth we take for granted and to generate a new myth that grows organically so that viewers are able to perceive what has been hidden from them and pursue, in great depth, the forest of signification. We stand in a forest surrounded by trees. But it will not take long to realize that maybe we are trees. We are myths.
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