Artists Represented -- Taiga Chiba

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Biography:

Born in Shizuoka, Japan
Immigrated to Canada on 1981
Moved to Edmontion on 2000
Resident of Vancouver, B.C., since 2002

Education
1982-1986	Master of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Studio Arts Program, Quebec, Canada
1970-1974	Bacheelor of Arts, Musashino Art University, Plastic Arts Program, Tokyo, Japan
1968-1970	Atelier Furan Art School. Major in Drawing and Colour Composition, Tokyo, Japan
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions:
2006	Plants, Creatures and Other Animals with Miuh Yang - Art Beatus, Vancouver, Canada
2006	Return, Two Person Show – Malaspina Printmakers Society Gallery, Vancouver
2006	Made In India with Tomoyo Ihaya – Dundarave Print Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2005	Duet, Monotype Works Collaboration with Eunjin Kim - Dundarave Print Gallery, Vancouver
2004	Dry Cold, Humid Hot, Windy Rainy – Dundarave Print Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2003	Existence, Art Beatus, Vancouver, Canada
2002	Ancestors; sumi-e paintings - Kitchen Gallery, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
2000	Water Cosmology - Snap Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
2000	Two Person Show with Tomoyo Ihaya - Gallery Haoto, Shizuoka, Japan
1997	Monotypes in Bharat Bhavan - ABN-AMRO Bank and Sarala's Art Cneter, Madras, India
1995	Baffin Island to Brazil: Paintings, Prints & Collage - Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada Yuba Series, Paintings - Yuba Art Studio, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1994	Recent Prints, Paintings & Drawings - Queen Elizabeth Theatre Gallery, Vancouver, canada Fox Shrine, Recent Prints - grunt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Yume, Recent Paintings & Drawings - Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver, Canada
1993	Yago, Enamel Paintings - Dr. Vigari Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1992	La Vida Talavera, Watercolour Paintings - Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Canada
1991	Recent Prints - Dundarave Print Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Sumi-e Paintings and Prints - Gateway Theatre Gallery, Richmond, Canada
1990	Recent Prints - Dundarave Print Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1985	Shintoh Festival - Installation, Bourget Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
1984	Recent Paintings and Prints - Bourget Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
International Juried Group Exhibition
2006	7th Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Print-Art, Bhopal, India
2003	International Print Trienial 2003 - Krakow, Poland International Print & Drawing Exhibition - Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
2001	Biennale International d’Estampe Contemporaine de Trois Rivieres – la Maison de la Culture de Trois Riveres, La Galerie d’art du Parc Quebec, Canada Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition – Campus Center Gallery, Hilo and Maui Arts and Cultural Center, Kahului, Hawaii, USA
2000	Intergrafia – World Award Winners Gallery, Katowice, Poland International Print Triennial 2000 – Cracow, Poland 5th Sapporo International Print Biennale – Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan 9th International Biennial Print & Drawing Exhibition: R.O.C. – Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1999	International Print Biennial Varna ’99 – Art Gallery of Varna, Bulgaria 12^th German International Exhibition of Graphic Art – Stadtsaal, Frechen, Germany 23^rd International Biennial of Grpahic Art – Museum of Modern Art International Centre of Graphic Art, Jakopic Gallery, Tivoli Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia 4^th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints – Ino Cho Paper Museum, Kochi, Japan Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition – Campus Centre Gallery, Hilo, Hawaii
1998	5^th Biennial of Graphic Art Beograd ’98 – The Cvijeta Zuzoric Art Pavillion, Beograd, Yugoslavia 11^th Tallinn Print Triennial – Tallinn, Estonia 4^th Sapporo International Print Biennale – Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
1997	2^nd International Triennial of Graphic Art, Bitola ’97 – Republic of Macedonia 4^th Bharat Bhavan International Biennial of Prints – Bhopal, India International Print Triennial ’97 – Cracow, Poland
1996	10^th Seoul International Print Biennale ’96 – Korea 11. Deutsche Internationale Grafik Triennale 1996 – Stadtsaal, Frechen, Germany
1995	1 st Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennial – Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan 1 st International Triennial of Graphic Arts – Gallery of the Union of Bulgarian Artists, Shipka 6, Sophia, Bulgaria Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition – Campus Centre Gallery, Hilo, Hawaii, USA
1994	9^th Seoul International Print Biennale – I1 Min Cultural Centre, Seoul, Korea International Print Triennial, Krakow ’94 – Galeria BWA, Krakow, Poland
1993	6^th International Biennial Print & Drawing Exhibit – Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 2^nd Sapporo International Print Biennale – Event Hall, Marui Imai, Inc., Sapporo, Japan
1991	5^th International Biennial Print Exhibit – Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 4th Biennial Exhibition of prints in Wakayama – Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2004	Tis The Season, 4 Person Show – Art Beatus, Vancouver, Canada
2003	Toronto International Art Fair 2003, Toronto, Canada The Great Canadian Printmaking Competition - Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, Canada Celebrating 20 years of Printmaking - Capilano College Art Institute – Gallery at Ceperley House, Burnaby, Canada Art Chicago 2003, Chicago, USA
2002	From the Archives: 20years of SNAP shop prints Curated by Karen Dugas, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, Canada Recollection Reconnection, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2001	First Folio - Capilano College Art Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada Collected Works - Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1994	Public Art & Art About Public Issues, Installation, – Artropolis ’93, Vancouver, Canada
1992	Kaleidoscope, 6 person Exhibition, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Canada
1991	Medicine Hat Print Show – Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
1990	Monotypes – Patrick Doheny Fine Art, Vancouver, Canada
1987	Twelve Nikkei Artists – Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver, Canada
1985	Tous l’ art du Monde 1985 – La Galerie UQAM, Montreal, Canada
1984	Graphex 9 – Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford, Canada
1982	The Garden, Installation – Bourget Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Awards and Grants:
2005	British Columbia Arts Council Project Assistance for Visual Artists Program ($5000)
2003	Ampornpisit Award – International print and Drawing Exhibition, Silpakorn University, Thailand
2003	Second Prize - The Great Canadian Print Competition, Toronto, Canada
2002	Projects Visual Arts Grant and Purchase Prize - Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton, Alberta
2005, 04, 02, 00	Travel Grant - The Canada Council
1999, 97, 95	Purchase Awards - Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition, Hilo, Hawaii
1998	Shirley Eastcott Memorial Scholarship, Capilano College Art Institute, North Vancouver, BC Sponsor's Prize - The 4 th Sappporo International Print Biennale, Sapporo, Japan
1995	Art Museum Award - the 1 st Tokyo International Mini-Print Triiennale, Tokyo, Japan
Collection: Marie Eccles Caine Art Museum, Utah State University, USA Ernst & Young Collection, Toronto, Canada Krakow International Print Triennial, Poland University of Alberta Print Library, Edmontion, Canada Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton, Canada Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmontion, Canada J.R. Hokkaido Railway Company, Sapporo, Japan. State of Hawaii, Art in Public Places Relocatable Works Collection. Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Canada Council Art Bank. Richmond Art Gallery.Canada Communautes Culturelles et de l'Immigration du Quebec.Canada Private Collections in Canada, USA, Brazil and Japan. Artist Statement Since I was a child, I have been interested in encountering something unknown. Looking for a large red crawfish in a clear water stream running in front of our house was the fascination in my early childhood. After graduation from Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Japan, I started a period of "One Thousand Days" of art creation. I also gave myself a task of studying conversational Spanish, English and French Studies everyday with text books and cassette tapes for the same period of time, in order to travel around the globe and eventually live somewhere in a foreign land as an artist. About two hundred and fifty days later, I discovered my way of searching the unknown it was an unpremeditated one-line drawing, which took me on a journey to develop my own way of drawing and painting. In 1981, I immigrated to Canada. I went to English School for nine months in Toronto, then French School for seven months in Montreal. In the meantime thinking in Japanese, my mother tongue, slowed down. Getting to learn new languages and their cultures took a long time and I am still learning 20 years later. As most immigrants feel that they don't have the comprehensive language knowledge in either language in comparison to the same age group of people in both societies, I feel I am about ten years behind in a brain development in both languages. However, I can communicate in three languages, and I have used these gained skills and experiences when I was in an artist in residence in a foreign country: Thailand (2002), India (1997), Brazil (1995), and Mexico (1992). I want to continue pursuing an artist in residence program in a foreign land. I am planning to work in a studio "Tailler De Rufino Tamayo" in Oaxaca, Southern Mexico in January and February 2003. The large Japanese Calligraphic Brush has been my favorite tool to paint on rice paper since a Japanese Master Calligrapher gave it to me in 1977. One day last summer, I found an intriguing shape on a paper towel in my studio. It was under the rice paper I was painting on as a blotter. The image transferred through the thin rice paper. I started to practice this method and the results were similar to paleontological images of the fossils of ancient life in the Cambrian Sea. I would like to continue this method by putting the works on wood: panels together side by side like a traditional Japanese scroll painting. I am interested in a creating an environment of ancient life as seen in The Burgess Shale in field, B.C. For further information, please contact: Canada: tel: (1) 604.688.2633, fax: (1) 604.688.2685