Ushio Shinohara (Japanese, b.1932) is a Contemporary artist associated with the Neo-Dada movement. Born in Tokyo to two artist parents, a tanka poet and a painter, Shinohara moved to the United States in 1969 where he has lived ever since. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions worldwide and numerous prestigious group shows, such as the 2015 landmark exhibit International Pop at the Walker Art Center. His work has been exhibited by the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, among others.
He is perhaps best known for his “boxing paintings,” created by dipping boxing gloves in paint and punching a prepared surface of canvas or paper in a performance wherein the resulting painting is the relic of that performance. In 2013, an Academy Award-nominated documentary about Shinohara and his wife, Noriko, was released, titled Cutie and the Boxer.
