Greg Kucera Gallery is very pleased to announce our fourteenth exhibition of work by Roger Shimomura. Titled More Little White Lies, this exhibition is a sequel to his 2021 gallery exhibition 100 Little White Lies. Again presenting a suite of 12 inch square acrylic paintings, these all made in 2022, the paintings juxtapose such disparate images as the artist’s self-portrait, Disney characters, riffs on masterpiece paintings by Lichtenstein and Warhol’s portraits of celebrities, and scenes from Camp Minidoka, where the artist and his family were imprisoned during World War II. The paintings are at times poignant, satirical, playful and full of outrage. Images of the past intermingle with the immediate present as contemporary artworks hang on the walls of internment barracks, Marilyn Monroe dons the face coverings of a pandemic response, or the silhouette of the artist as a boy renders Camp Minidoka to a canvas.

BIOGRAPHY

Shimomura received a B.A. degree from the University of Washington, Seattle, and an M.F.A. from Syracuse University, New York. He has had over 150 solo exhibitions of paintings and prints, as well as presented his experimental theater pieces at such venues as the Franklin Furnace, New York City, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. He is the recipient of more than 30 grants, including 4 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in Painting and Performance Art. Shimomura is in the permanent collections of over 100 museums nation wide including the Smithsonian Institute, DC, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. His personal papers and letters are being collected by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.