Visiting Artist Talk: Yusuke Shibata

Gallery & Museum

Talk / Tour / Lecture

Richmond Art Gallery
7700 Minoru Gate

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Moderator: Makiko Hara, Co-Curator of Ongoing Pacific Crossings exhibition

Shibata’s practice—spanning video, photography, and performance interrogates the blurred space between truth and fabrication. Fresh from his recent projects in Tokyo and Oita, Shibata will discuss his “poetic yet interventionist” approach to artmaking. Yusuke is visiting Richmond to prepare for his upcoming exhibition: Ongoing Pacific Crossings this summer with the Ongoing Collective at the RAG. While in Richmond, he is researching Japanese-Canadian/Asian immigrant experience and the recent increase in Japanese students competing working holidays/English study programs in Canada.

Yusuke Shibata is based in Tokyo and participated Artist in Residency programs in Korea, Taiwan, Argentina and Canada. His recent exhibitions and projects include Encounter, Kaiko Beppu or Ongoing, at HOYOUJYO Ongoing, Oita, 2026, Daitaiya II at Salon de Zuppa, Tokyo, 2025, Koganecho Bazaar 2024, A Solitary Emotion, at Hachibankan, Kanagawa, 2024, New Authentic at ya-gins, Gunma, 2023, and PROMOTION, WORLD! at Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, 2020.

Yusuke Shibata’s Artist in Residency is co-organized with Ongoing Association and supported by Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation.

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This event is for Youth (Ages 13-18), Adult (Ages 18+) & 55+ (Ages 55 and over)

This is an accessible site.

This event is free.