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Nobu SIRAISI
(Nobuyuki Shiraishi)

Biography

Born 1934 in Nishinomiya, Japan
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo Geidai) (1954-58)
Art Students League of New York (1958-60)
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1959) (full scholarship)
Graduate division, Hunter College, City University of New York, studied with Ad Reinhardt
Museum of Modern Art, work for sculpture garden (1959-60)
Assistant Supervisor, Japanese Government exhibit for 1960 World Trade Fair
Work for The Japanese Imperial-household Music group (Kyûtei Gagaku) performances
       in Boston and Washington, D.C. (1959)
Assistant to Isamu Noguchi (1959-1962)
Assistant to Louise Nevelson (summer 1960)
Landscape design for I.M.Pei and Associates (1961)
Fellowship, Yaddo residence (Fall 1963)
Teaching art, Jamaica Arts Center
Coordinator, curator, Exhibition of Children's Art, Jamaica Arts Center Gallery
Teaching painting, Encore-at-St.Malachy's, New York
Teaching painting, Park Slope Senior Center , Brooklyn

 

Exhibitions

Annual Art Festival, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo Geidai), First Prize
New England Exhibition, Silvermine, Conn., award
Pablo Casals Festival Art Exhibit, San Juan
Annual Exhibition, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Second Prize
Art Exhibition, Ethical Culture Society, New York, N.Y.
Art Exhibition, Ethical Culture Society, Brooklyn, N.Y.
New Directions Gallery, New York, N. Y., First Prize
Gordon's Fifth Avenue Gallery, New York, N.Y., two-man show
Art-in-Profile, Channel 4, NBC TV, interviewed by Nat Hentoff
Community Museum of Brooklyn, two-person show
Jamaica Arts Center Gallery group show
Federal Court House, Foley Square, group show
Kenkeleba Gallery, group show
Consulate General of Peru, New York, group show
United Nations Assembry Hall Building, group show

Works in private collections in Japan, Europe, and the U. S. A.

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