CV
Basic Information
Shoji Funakawa
Born in 1987 in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Based in Osaka, Japan. Currently living and working in Scotland and the UK as an overseas research fellow of the Pola Art Foundation, January 2026 - January 2027.
Grants / Awards
- 2025 - Pola Art Foundation Overseas Research Fellow, Japan
- 2022 - Kobe Culture Support Fund
- 2021 - ART LEAP
Residencies
- 2026-2027 - Research residency across Scotland and the UK through the Pola Art Foundation Overseas Research Fellowship
- 2026 - Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland, two weeks in March 2026
Solo Exhibitions
- 2024 - Shoji Funakawa Solo Exhibition, Kyoto Inter Change, Kyoto, Japan
- 2022 - Hey, _, KAVC, Kobe Art Village Center, Kobe, Japan
Group Exhibitions
- 2025 - Group Exhibition, BnA Alter Museum, Kyoto, Japan
- 2024 - Mashita Wind / 益田風, Minami Hida Art Discovery, Gifu, Japan
- 2024 - AWHOB: A Weather Haecceity Observation Bureau, Northern Alps Art Festival 2024, Omachi, Nagano, Japan
- 2023 - Weather twin, Fukeba Kaze, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
- 2021 - Weathering with Island, VOU, Kyoto, Japan
Performances
- 2024 - light year/weathering with Kazumichi Komatsu, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
- 2022 - Weathering with parking, Kunstverein St. Pauli, Hamburg, Germany
- 2021 - Weathering with heteronomy, Riga Performances Festival Starptelpa, Riga, Latvia
- 2017 - Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, Belgium
Long-term Projects / Current Research
- Futaomotejima, an uninhabited island in the Seto Inland Sea: ongoing research and making around tides, drift objects, seawater distillation, and sensory investigation
- 2026 - Weather lore, coastal ecologies, Gaelic meteorological vocabulary, seaweed, and sea-loch environments