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Nobu SIRAISI (Nobu'yuki Shiraishi)
Born 1934 in Nishinomiya, Japan, raised in Tokyo since age five in Meguro
Yakumo Primary School
Toritsudai-fuzoku Koukou (High school attached to Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo Geidai) (1954-58), studied with Toyoichi Yamamoto, Shiro Kayama, Naoteru Ueno, Itsuji Yoshikawa, Seijiro Masui et al.
Art Students League of New York (1958-61)Winthrop Earle Scholarship
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Summer 1959 on full scholarship)
Graduate division, Hunter College, City University of New York, studied with Ad Reinhardt, Tony Smith, Dr. Howard Davis, Dr. William Hinkle (1965-70); (history of mediaeval and Renaissance art; studio art)
Museum of Modern Art, work for sculpture garden (1959-60)
Assistant Supervisor, Japanese Government exhibit for 1960 World Trade Fair, Lincoln Colosseum, NYC, meeting Gen'ichiro Inokuma, who was the chief design consultant (1960)
Work for The Japanese Imperial-household Music group (Kyûtei Gagaku), the historic first performances abroad in New York, Boston and Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. (1959)
Assistant to Isamu Noguchi (1959, 1960-62)
Assistant to Louise Nevelson (summer 1960)
Landscape design for I.M.Pei and Associates (1961)
Marriage (1961), New York City
Permanent Resident of USA (1962)
Consultant, Exhibition of Japanese Folk Toys at Brooklyn Museum (1962)
Birth of First Son (1962)
Assistant Art Director, Studio Manager, Gilbert Adv. Agency (1963-72)
Fellowship, Yaddo residence (Fall 1963)
Guest Lectures, Hunter College, Queens College (1964)
Visiting London, Oxford, Salisbury, Bath, Putney, Stonehenge, Avesbury; Paris, Rhims; Firenze, Rome, Milano (1964)
Birth of Second Son (1965)
Instructor, School of Visual Arts (1966/67)
2000 mile driving trip: starting at Paris: Chartre, Vezelay, Dijon, Beaune, Lｙon, Geneve, Lake Como, Padua, Napoli, Capua, Pisa, Firenze; Antibe, Nice, Saint-Tropez, Aix-Provence, Avignon, Sainte-Marie-de-la-Maire, Paris (1969)
Teaching art, Jamaica Arts Center (1973-82)
Schola Antiqua Plainchant and Polyphony performance at the dedication seremony of Fuentiduena Apse at The Cloisters, New York (1973)
Recording of "Plainchant & Polyphony from Mediaeval Germany" as a member of Schola Antiqua, for Nonsuch Record, at St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, New York (1974)
Coordinator, curator, Exhibition of Children's Art, including those from Tblisi, Georgia, USSR, at Jamaica Arts Center Gallery, Queens, NYC (1976)
Judge, Flushing Art League Exhibition, Queens (1976)
Art Direction for the official New York City Subway Map of MTA under Mike Hertz Associates (1977?-79)
Judge, PAL Art Exhibition, NYC (1979, 1980)
Teaching painting, Encore-at-St. Malachy's, NYC (Initially as an Outreach Program of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) (1979 - present)
Visiting England and Scotland: London, Oxford, Salisbury, Divezes, Stonehenge, Wells, Glastonbury, Bath; Tintern Abby; Hereford, Aymestrey, Ingleton, Brantwood at Coniston Water (Lake District), Hadrian Wall; Edingburg, Glasgow; Holy Island (Lindesfarne ms), Durham, Felixkirk, Rievaulx Abby, York Minster, Leeds, Devizes, Royal Tunbridge Wells, London (1982)
Teaching painting, Park Slope Senior Center, Brooklyn, NYC (1982 - present)
Visiting Jerusalem and Masada (1993)
Visiting Athen, Delphi; Herakrion, Knossos, Fodere (El Greco's birth place); Milano (1998)
Visiting elder son's family in Madagascar (1999)
Visiting and staying at Eiheiji temple for the 800 year aniversary of the birth of the founder Dogen; Izumo, Hagi, Fukuoka (2000)
Vienna (2002)
Berlin; then to the pilgrimage in honour of J.S. Bach: Leipzig, Weimer, Erfurt, Eisenach, Wartburg (2003)
45th Geidai reunion, Tokyo (2003)
50th Geidai reunion, Tokyo; Trip to Shikoku, visiting Isamu Noguchi Studio Museum, Mure, Takamatsu; Zentsuji in homage to Kukai; Guen'ichiro Inokuma Museum, Marugame; Higashiyama Kaii Museum, Sakaide (2008)
Annual Art Festival, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo Geidai), First Prize (1956)
Residenceship, The International House, New York (1959)
New England Exhibition, Silvermine, Conn., Irma Geiger award (1959)
Pablo Casals Festival Art Exhibit, San Juan, P.R. (1959)
Annual Exhibition, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Second Prize (1959)
Art Exhibition, Ethical Culture Society, New York, N.Y. (1960)
Art Exhibition, Ethical Culture Society, Brooklyn, N.Y.
New Directions Gallery, New York, N. Y., First Prize (1960)
Gordon's Fifth Avenue Gallery, New York, N.Y., two-man show (1963)
Fellowship, Yaddo reidence (Fall 1963)
Art-in-Profile, Channel 4, NBC TV, interviewed by Nat Hentoff (1963)
Community Museum of Brooklyn, two-person show (1974)
Jamaica Arts Center Gallery, group show (1977)
Federal Court House, Foley Square, group show (1981)
Kenkeleba Gallery, group show (1986)
Consulate General of Peru, New York, group show (2005)
United Nations Assembry Hall Building, group show (2005)
New York Pubjic Library, Yorkville Branch at 79th Street (2005)
Whitney Center, Hamden, Connecticut (2008)
Works in private collections in Japan, Europe and U.S.A.
http://www.nobusiraisi.com
Born 1934 in Nishinomiya, Japan, raised in Tokyo since age five in Meguro
Yakumo Primary School
Toritsudai-fuzoku Koukou (High school attached to Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo Geidai) (1954-58), studied with Toyoichi Yamamoto, Shiro Kayama, Naoteru Ueno, Itsuji Yoshikawa, Seijiro Masui et al.
Art Students League of New York (1958-61)Winthrop Earle Scholarship
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Summer 1959 on full scholarship)
Graduate division, Hunter College, City University of New York, studied with Ad Reinhardt, Tony Smith, Dr. Howard Davis, Dr. William Hinkle (1965-70); (history of mediaeval and Renaissance art; studio art)
Museum of Modern Art, work for sculpture garden (1959-60)
Assistant Supervisor, Japanese Government exhibit for 1960 World Trade Fair, Lincoln Colosseum, NYC, meeting Gen'ichiro Inokuma, who was the chief design consultant (1960)
Work for The Japanese Imperial-household Music group (Kyûtei Gagaku), the historic first performances abroad in New York, Boston and Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. (1959)
Assistant to Isamu Noguchi (1959, 1960-62)
Assistant to Louise Nevelson (summer 1960)
Landscape design for I.M.Pei and Associates (1961)
Marriage (1961), New York City
Permanent Resident of USA (1962)
Consultant, Exhibition of Japanese Folk Toys at Brooklyn Museum (1962)
Birth of First Son (1962)
Assistant Art Director, Studio Manager, Gilbert Adv. Agency (1963-72)
Fellowship, Yaddo residence (Fall 1963)
Guest Lectures, Hunter College, Queens College (1964)
Visiting London, Oxford, Salisbury, Bath, Putney, Stonehenge, Avesbury; Paris, Rhims; Firenze, Rome, Milano (1964)
Birth of Second Son (1965)
Instructor, School of Visual Arts (1966/67)
2000 mile driving trip: starting at Paris: Chartre, Vezelay, Dijon, Beaune, Lｙon, Geneve, Lake Como, Padua, Napoli, Capua, Pisa, Firenze; Antibe, Nice, Saint-Tropez, Aix-Provence, Avignon, Sainte-Marie-de-la-Maire, Paris (1969)
Teaching art, Jamaica Arts Center (1973-82)
Schola Antiqua Plainchant and Polyphony performance at the dedication seremony of Fuentiduena Apse at The Cloisters, New York (1973)
Recording of "Plainchant & Polyphony from Mediaeval Germany" as a member of Schola Antiqua, for Nonsuch Record, at St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, New York (1974)
Coordinator, curator, Exhibition of Children's Art, including those from Tblisi, Georgia, USSR, at Jamaica Arts Center Gallery, Queens, NYC (1976)
Judge, Flushing Art League Exhibition, Queens (1976)
Art Direction for the official New York City Subway Map of MTA under Mike Hertz Associates (1977?-79)
Judge, PAL Art Exhibition, NYC (1979, 1980)
Teaching painting, Encore-at-St. Malachy's, NYC (Initially as an Outreach Program of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) (1979 - present)
Visiting England and Scotland: London, Oxford, Salisbury, Divezes, Stonehenge, Wells, Glastonbury, Bath; Tintern Abby; Hereford, Aymestrey, Ingleton, Brantwood at Coniston Water (Lake District), Hadrian Wall; Edingburg, Glasgow; Holy Island (Lindesfarne ms), Durham, Felixkirk, Rievaulx Abby, York Minster, Leeds, Devizes, Royal Tunbridge Wells, London (1982)
Teaching painting, Park Slope Senior Center, Brooklyn, NYC (1982 - present)
Visiting Jerusalem and Masada (1993)
Visiting Athen, Delphi; Herakrion, Knossos, Fodere (El Greco's birth place); Milano (1998)
Visiting elder son's family in Madagascar (1999)
Visiting and staying at Eiheiji temple for the 800 year aniversary of the birth of the founder Dogen; Izumo, Hagi, Fukuoka (2000)
Vienna (2002)
Berlin; then to the pilgrimage in honour of J.S. Bach: Leipzig, Weimer, Erfurt, Eisenach, Wartburg (2003)
45th Geidai reunion, Tokyo (2003)
50th Geidai reunion, Tokyo; Trip to Shikoku, visiting Isamu Noguchi Studio Museum, Mure, Takamatsu; Zentsuji in homage to Kukai; Guen'ichiro Inokuma Museum, Marugame; Higashiyama Kaii Museum, Sakaide (2008)
Annual Art Festival, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo Geidai), First Prize (1956)
Residenceship, The International House, New York (1959)
New England Exhibition, Silvermine, Conn., Irma Geiger award (1959)
Pablo Casals Festival Art Exhibit, San Juan, P.R. (1959)
Annual Exhibition, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Second Prize (1959)
Art Exhibition, Ethical Culture Society, New York, N.Y. (1960)
Art Exhibition, Ethical Culture Society, Brooklyn, N.Y.
New Directions Gallery, New York, N. Y., First Prize (1960)
Gordon's Fifth Avenue Gallery, New York, N.Y., two-man show (1963)
Fellowship, Yaddo reidence (Fall 1963)
Art-in-Profile, Channel 4, NBC TV, interviewed by Nat Hentoff (1963)
Community Museum of Brooklyn, two-person show (1974)
Jamaica Arts Center Gallery, group show (1977)
Federal Court House, Foley Square, group show (1981)
Kenkeleba Gallery, group show (1986)
Consulate General of Peru, New York, group show (2005)
United Nations Assembry Hall Building, group show (2005)
New York Pubjic Library, Yorkville Branch at 79th Street (2005)
Whitney Center, Hamden, Connecticut (2008)
Works in private collections in Japan, Europe and U.S.A.
http://www.nobusiraisi.com
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