DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Shingo Yoshida

Shingo Yoshida (b. Tokyo, 1974) currently lives and works in Berlin. Yoshida considers the world his studio and therefore a place of constant creation. Travelling around the globe, he finds myths, legends, people and places which are easily over looked and matches them to his creative micro world. With an aesthetic gaze and the most fanciful understanding of life. Yoshida enacts as if he was playing Hide and Seek in the world alone: while hiding himself he seeks the hidden. Shingo Yoshida received his MA with highest honors from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art, Villa Arson in Nice France in 2004 and was the 2007 recipient Post-graduate diploma - Program La Seine of Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. He has completed residencies at Villa Arson Nice France - Centre National d'Art Contemporain 2013 and awarded the Fellowship of Overseas Study Programme for Artists by the Agency for Cultural Affairs by the Japanese Government 2013. Select exhibitions include 60th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany (2014); Villa Arson Nice Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France (2013); Arte tv Creative, France-Germany (2013); 66th Festival de Cannes court métrage, Cannes, France (2012); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo MAC, Santiago, Chile (2012); Maison de l’Amérique latine, Paris, France (2012); Based in Berlin, Berlin, Germany (2011); Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France (2007,2012); No Man’s Land (French Embassy,Tokyo (2009).