| 2025 |
Liminal in hand: paper curls like the form of clay, 5.gallery, Santa Fe, USA |
| 2024 |
Test/Taste Spring, Art Gallery Azamino, Yokohama, JPN |
| 2023 |
Form Poem, 5.gallery, Santa Fe, USA |
| 2022 |
the night falls and the day breaks, 5.gallery, Santa Fe, USA |
| 2021 |
Meeting and Greeting Like Shadows, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo |
| 2020 |
Attitude and State of Mind (Open Studio Exhibition), Forde Visser Archive Southwest, Santa Fe, USA |
| 2018 |
Reminiscent of long gone by, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2017 |
束の間の、つなぎのようなもの - That is, like a brief moment to be filled, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne |
| 2016 |
ここがどこなのか_ where it is here_どうでもいいことさ_it does not matter_どうやって来たのか_how I have got here_忘れられるかな_can I forget, Sutton Gallery Project Space, Melbourne |
| 2015 |
Mokudoku-目読, Hagiso Art, Tokyo |
| 2014 |
Destancing for Opening, Perimeter, Melbourne |
| 2013 |
Pensé en ir de alguna manera - Somehow I thought I'd go, Museo Taller Erasto Cortes, Puebla, Mexico |
| 2013 |
understanding of misunderstanding, SLOPE, Tokyo |
| 2010 |
Tsumurumitsumeru-BEHOLD, Youkobo ART SPACE, Tokyo |
| 2009 |
Miru Milieu -See Site-, Sutton Gallery Project Space, Melbourne |
| 2009 |
Platform for Performance, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2009 |
Waves in the Sea, White Street Project, Frankston |
| 2008 |
Oscillating landscape, West Space, Melbourne & The Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane |
| 2008 |
Feet through, Conical, Melbourne, Melbourne |
| 2006 |
A summer daydream, Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2026 |
Creativity in many forms, Plaza North Gallery x Tokyo University of the Arts, Saitama, JPN |
| 2025 |
Sushi Shisu, co-curated by Yuko Mohri and Naoya Ito, Astoria Bar and Barn, Ibaraki, JPN |
| 2025 |
To Make Living, 5.Gallery, Santa Fe, USA |
| 2025 |
The World to Come, co-curated by Dr. Elizabeth Presa, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, JPN & George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, AUS |
| 2024 |
Geidai Next 2024 - Tokyo University of the Arts, Yamanote Line Museum Ueno Station Galerie, Tokyo, JPN |
| 2023 |
Who live for a day and expire, 5.Gallery, Santa Fe, USA |
| 2022 |
Megacosm, curated by Cūrā8, Project8.gallery, Melbourne, AUS |
| 2022 |
Signals, curated by Drawing Tube, NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo, JPN |
| 2018 |
geography of space, archaeology of time, with Izabela Pluta, curated by Allison Holland, Australian Centre for Photography Project Space Gallery, Sydney |
| 2018 |
The 6th Bus Editions Exhibition, Bus Projects, Melbourne |
| 2018 |
postscript/追伸, with Stephen Palmer, Boxcopy, Brisbane |
| 2018 |
2018 CCP Fundraiser: the Art of Collecting, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne |
| 2017 |
unJapan, curated by Philip Brophy, KANZAN Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2017 |
Deep Surface, curated by Adrien Allen, Five Walls Projects, Footscray |
| 2017 |
未来への視座 Vision For Future [17] [noise], gallery TEN, Tokyo / Artspace Mooni, Morioka |
| 2017 |
Shadow Worlds, Creative Arts Gallery, University of Wollongong, Wollongong |
| 2017 |
9 x 5 NOW, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2017 |
ALIEN/S, curated by Kiron Robinson for PLAY2 (BLINDSIDE Satelite Project), Federation Square, Melbourne |
| 2017 |
Phantasmagoria, Bogong Center for Sound Culture, Bogong |
| 2016 |
CCP Salon 2016, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne |
| 2015 |
Vision For Future [15] [element], gallery TEN, Tokyo / Artspace Mooni, Morioka |
| 2014 |
Topologies of Sexual Difference, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2013 |
BankART Artist in Residence OPEN STUDIO 2013, BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama |
| 2013 |
Finalist presentation for Kawaguchi City New Artists Award, Kawaguchi City Art Gallery ATLIA |
| 2012 |
Living Everyday by Art, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo |
| 2010-2012 |
Immanent Landscape, West Space, 2010 / Oyama City Kurumaya Museum, 2011 / Japan Foundation Gallery Sydney, 2012 |
| 2011 |
Galaxy Garden, Sutton Gallery Project Space, Melbourne |
| 2011 |
Tree Line, Level ARI, Brisbane |
| 2009 |
Eco Living Festival, Avoca Project, Avoca & Sustainable Fusion Reactions, Ballarat University, Ballarat |
| 2009 |
Peripheral, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne |
| 2007 |
Polar, VCA Margaret Laurence Gallery, Melbourne |
2020 Dec. -2021 Feb. |
Youkobo Art Space Residency, Tokyo |
2019 Mar. -2020 Feb. |
The Forde Visser Archive South West, Santa Fe, USA |
| 2017 |
Bundanon Trust (Bundanon, NSW), Australia |
| 2016 |
Bogong Centre for Sound Culture, supported Residency (Bogong), Australia |
| 2014-15 |
Aplus Studio Residency program (Warabi), Saitama |
| 2013 |
Arquetopia Residency program (Puebla), Mexico |
| 2013 |
BankART Studio Residency, BankART NYK, Yokohama |
| 2010 |
Youkobo Art Space Gallery Residency, Tokyo |
| 2009 |
University of Ballarat Art Residency in association with AVOCA project, coordinated by Jill Orr and Lyndal Jones, Australia |
| 2022 |
“Excavating an Immanent Future”, Obfuscation& Delineation; Navigating the Boundaries of Australian Contemporary Phography, Ben Hosking and Jack Cannon, eds., Tokyo, 2022, 10-17 |
| 2022 |
“Signals #21”, Signals, Drawing Tube ed., Tokyo: Drawing Tube, 2022, 72-75 |
| 2021 |
「とらえられない/とらわれない海女とアーティスト(exhibition review」Tokyo Art Beat Online, March 2021 |
| 2020 |
“In Praise of Darkness,” Forde Visser Archive online Newsletter, June Issue, 2020 |
| 2017 |
"Understanding of Misunderstanding: Embodying the Untranslatable in Art,” The International Journal of the Image, Issue 2 - Volume 8, LA: The Image_ Common ground research network, 2017, 57-67 |
| 2015 |
“About Microresidence ‘MESHWORK,” Voices from artist, Microresidence Network Website, 2015 |
| 2016 |
The Untranslatable, a Poetic Place, in the exhibition catalogue, ここがどこなのか_ where it is here_どうでもいいことさ_it does not matter_どうやって来たのか_how I have got here_忘れられるかな_can I forget |
| 2013 |
‘Port Journeys and Art’, Port Journeys: Melbourne–Yokohama,Yokohama: Zou-no-Hana Terrace, 2013, 12 |
| 2011 |
“The place where Immanent Landscape is,” Utako Shindo and Hanae Nakao, eds., Immanent Landscape, Oyama: Oyama City Kurumaya Museum of Art, 2011, 10-13 |
| 2011 |
Immanent Landscape (exhibition catalogue), Oyama: Oyama City Kurumaya Museum of Art |
| 2010 |
“Feet through: Artistic Practice between Space and Place,” Intersections, issue.23, eds. Vera Mackies and Mark Pendleton, Australian National University, 2010 |
| 2024 |
“Art and Life’s vessel, poetry and abstraction - after Agnes Martin”, co-lectured with Naha Kanie, Azamino College, Yokohama City Gallery Azamino, JPN |
| 2020 |
「アグネス・マーティンの芸術実践における 「Innocence」の概念について——映像作品《ガブリエル》(1976)の再解釈を通して」、第2回表象文化論学会オンライン研究フォーラム |
| 2020 |
Subtle shades draw an opening path: the poetic work of Agnes Martin’s art, St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, USA |
| 2019 |
Artist Talks: Winter Edition, (organized by ‘Artist Talks’/Nick West), Good Heavens British Bar Tokyo, Tokyo |
| 2017 |
Transference in art, Japanese Studies Association of Australia Conference 2017, Wollongong, Australia |
| 2016 |
Shadowlight, 2016, Australia Society for Continental Philosophy Conference, Melbourne |
| 2016 |
The Untranslatable, a Poetic Place, PhD Completion seminar, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne |
| 2016 |
On 'Architecture in Translation: worlds to words’, at monthly public forum PROCESS, Loop Bar, Melbourne |
| 2015 |
The Second University Tokyo Workshop on Philosophy of Perception, Tokyo |
| 2015 |
The Translation and Intercultural Research Seminar Series, Monash University, Melbourne |
| 2014 |
The Topologies of Sexual Difference Luce Irigaray Circle Conference, Melbourne |
| 2014 |
The 5th International Image Conference, Berlin |
| 2014 |
VCA/MCM (the University of Melbourne) Post Graduate Symposium, Melbourne |
| 2021 |
Agency of Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, COVID-19 resilient fund |
| 2018-2019 |
Japanese fellow, Japan-United States Exchange Friendship Program in the Arts |
| 2018-2019 |
Agency of Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan, Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists |
| 2016 |
The Australian Artists' Grant, National Association For The Visual Arts |
| 2016 |
Best Landscape Award, Center for Contemporary Photography Salon 2016 |
| 2013 |
Australian Postgraduate Award |
| 2013 |
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico, Scholarship for Art Creation |
| 2013 |
Shortlisted for Kawaguchi City New Artists Awards (Japan) |
| 2011 |
Australia-Japan Foundations Funding for Immanent Landscape Project |
| 2010 |
City of Melbournes Art Project Grant & Arts Victorias Presentation Grant |
| 2009 |
Finalist for Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship |
| 2008 |
Japan Foundation Sydney, Local Grants |
| 2007-2008 |
Melbourne International Fee Remission Scholarships (MIFRS) |
| 2006 |
Athenaeum Club Visual Award (acquisition) |
| Yuhko Kawakita |
'Clay and Ceramics in Utako Shindo’s Art', Room for Future Memories Online, June 12, 2022 |
| John Yau |
'Shadow Play and the Art of Utako Shindo,' Hyperallergic, April 6, 2022 |
| Linda Swanson |
'Youkobo Art Space: Overlapping Tendencies,' Openhouse Magazine Online, June 2021 |
| 中尾英恵 |
'1本の線の中に内在するもの'、Meeting and Greeting Like Shadows 展特設ウェブ、2021 |
| Linda Swanson |
'Bending Over Shadows: lengthening and lingering the line,' Meeting and Greeting Like Shadows 展特設ウェブサイト、2021 |
| Linda Swanson |
'Attitude,' Forde Visser Archive Newsletter, June Issue, 2020 |
| Melissa Miles & Robin Gester |
'CROSS-CULTURAL (MIS)UNDERSTANDINGS: INDEPENDENT PHOTOGRAPHY SINCE THE 1980s' in Pacific Exposures -photography and the Australia-Japan Relationship, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 2018, pp191 |
| Kathleen Linn |
'Geography of Space, Archaeology of Time, Izabela Pluta & Utako Shindo', Art+Australia Online (Discussions / Discursions), Dec 2018 |
| Angela Connor |
'Interview with Utako Shindo’, online publication Fierce Latitude, May 2017 |
| Dan Rule |
'Poetic gestures reward the patient audience’review in The Age Newspaper, 01/04/16, Melbourne |
| Dr. Katsuhiko Suganuma |
'Art of [dis]-articulation', exhibition catalogue, Sutton Project, 2016, Melbourne |
| Dr. Yoko Akama |
‘Attuning to MA(between-ness) in designing’, The 13th Participatory Design Conference Vol.2, ACM: New York, 2014, pp.21-24 |
| Julie Davies & Alex Lizkalla |
retrospective publication, Hosting: Ocular Lab Inc. 2003-2010, 2012, Melbourne |
| Paul Nolan |
Immanent Landscape, Arts Hub, 31/03/2012 |
| Dan Rule |
Artists Scour an Immanent Landscape, Broadsheet, 30/03/2012 |
| Ren Fukuzumi |
Immanent Landscape, DNP Museum Information Japan artscape, 14/10/2011 |
| Hanae Nakao |
The expanding Immanent Landscape, exhibition catalogue Immanent Landscape, September 2011 |
| Hisako Hara |
The people who created an Immanent Landscape, exhibition catalogue Immanent Landscape, September 2011 |
| Dan Rule |
The Galaxy Garden, The Age, 14/05/2011 & Immanent Landscape, The Age, A2 Issue, 28/08/2010 |
| Dimple Rajagle |
performance, un Magazine Issue 3.1 2009 |
| Din Heagney & Helen Hughes |
Interview: Lyndal Jones, Jill Orr, Utako Shindo, Bindi Cole & Ash Keating, un Magazine Issue 4.1 2009 |
| Gordon Craig |
untitled, Queensland Centre for Photography Exhibition Catalogue, July 2008 |
| Frances Johnson |
Diorama Disquiet, The Age, 06/06/08 |
| Vera Mackie |
Secret Skies, Shared Skies, exhibition catalogue Oscillating Landscape, May 2008 |
| 2026- |
Adjunct lecturer: Oil Painting course, Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art, Kyoto Seika University |
| 2025- |
Adjunct lecturer: Liberal Arts Subjects, Graduate School, Joshibi University of Art and Design |
| 2024-2025 |
Guest lecturer: Printmaking course, Graduate School of Arts, Doctoral Course, Kyoto City University of the Arts |
| 2024-2025 |
Adjunct Tutor and Instructor: Global Art Practices, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts |
| 2023- |
Adjunct lecturer: Advanced Topics in Contemporary Art, Global and Interdisciplinary Studies, Hosei University |
| 2022-2024 |
Adjunct Education and Research Assistant: Global Art Practices, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts |
| 2022-2023 |
Adjunct lecturer: the Concentration in Art and Culture, Joshibi University of Art and Design |
| 2018 |
Adjunct lecturer at Joshibi University of Art and Design, Tokyo |
| 2013 - |
Freelance Interprater and Translater for art related public talks and publications |
| 2011-2013 |
Assistant cordinator for Gallery and Residency Programs, Youkobo ART SPACE, Tokyo |
| 2011-2013 |
Coordinator for Port Journey Yokoham-Melbourne, ZOU-NO-HANA TERRACE (Yokohama) & West Space (Melbourne) |
| 2011 |
Assistant producer for Alexander Kershaws project Fantasticology Tokyo: Faults, Flesh and Flowers, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo |
| 2009 |
Assistant translator in preparation of Alex Rizkallas project for Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial 2009, Niigata |
| 2006 |
Interpreting artists talks and volunteering for Rapt! 20 Contemporary Artists from Japan, Melbourne |
| 2002-2008 |
Assisting Mizuma Gallery (Tokyo) 02 & 04, MEM Gallery (Osaka) 08, at Melbourne International Art Fair |