Biography

Shin Ono

Born in Sendai, Japan in 1965. Lives in NY since 1998. 

Awards

2025    Received the New Talent Award by ProfiFoto/Canon/WhiteWall/Hahnemühle

2025    “Miki and Yoko” received a Juror’s Pick in the LensCulture Portrait Awards 2025

2025    “Kaskawulsh Glacier” received Honorable Mention of One Shot Photo Contest

2025    “Rock at the bottom of glacier” received Nominee of One Shot Photo Contest

2025    Chico Review Attendee, Montana, USA

2024    Selected as photographer-in-residence at Paseo Park, capturing local people on the 34th Avenue, Paseo Park, with 4x5 film camera

2019    KYOTOGRAPIE Reviewer’s Select, Kyoto, Japan

2008    Received Honorable Mention of PX3 (Prix de la Photographie Paris) 2008 Competition

1986    “Polaroid School Photo Contest”, Group Exhibition at Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Exhibitions / Photographic and Mixed Media

2026    "Paseo Park Portraits", group open air exhibition at Paseo Park (34th Ave between 69th Street and Junction Blvd).

2025    The International Photography Hall of Fame’s virtual exhibition, Vision and Viewpoint. 

2025    “Jinenjo” Mini Photo Exhibition at Tai Museum, Ibaraki, Japan                   

2025    “Pigeons” was selected for the Dreams and Imagined Realities Exhibition at PhotoPlace, Vermont, USA

2024    “FACE TO FACE” Photo Exhibition at niwa-coya gallery cafe, Tokyo, Japan        

2022    “2 Men Show” Photo Exhibition with His Father Miki, at space en, Sendai, Japan

2022    “FACE TO FACE - Dialog Without Words” Photo Exhibition at Kamigyo Town Cultivating Fair, Nishijin Textile Hall, Kyoto, Japan

2010    “ONE CASE”, charity auction and Group Show at Milk Gallery, New York

2005    “FOTORELIEF”, Charity Auction and Group Show at Milk Gallery, New York

2000    “TIDE”, Solo Exhibition at Gubbio, New York

1997    “EYES”, Solo Exhibition at Kinaco, Tokyo, Japan

1992    “Summit”, Solo Exhibition at AKUAKU, Tsukuba, Japan

1991    “Summit” was awarded a Solo Exhibition, marking the inaugural Photographic Exhibition at Guardian Garden in Tokyo, Japan.

1988    “erg – between photography and sculpture”, Group Exhibition

1987    “Shizuoka Photo and Image Forum ‘87” Group Exhibition at Shizuoka City Hall, Shizuoka, Japan

1987    “Thin Desire” Solo Exhibition at AKUAKU, Tsukuba, Japan

1986    “15 Contemporary Photographic Expressions” Group Exhibition at University of Tsukuba Gallery, Tsukuba, Japan

1986    “WAPI•GEROMA•BAPA”, Group Exhibition at Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1985    “Three Men Exhibition”, at University of Tsukuba Gallery, Tsukuba, Japan 

Performance Art

1995    “Take a walk with Slug-Man” Tukishima and Sangenjaya, Tokyo, Japan

1990    “Take a walk with Aircraft-Man” Meiji-Jingu Shrine to Akasaka-mitsuke, Tokyo, Japan

1989    “6 P.M. to 2 A.M.” AKUAKU, Tsukuba, Japan

1987    “Per-humance”, Group show at University of Tsukuba Gallery, Tsukuba, Japan

1983     “• mm Film Movie”, at AMS Studio, Sendai, Japan

Video Art

1990    “Pandemonium”, Video installation at “Imagination of Machine”, at THE B, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

1988    “THE END” and “Picnic Cable TV Sampler” are selected to be on the international Video Magazine, “INFRMENTAL 8”

• Live Video Installation in dance performance, “La Gola di Grotta”, at Telepsycall, Tokyo, Japan
• “Picnic Cable TV”, Weekly Cable TV program, Tsukuba, Japan

Education 1983-1990             Plastic Art and Mixed Media at the Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan