1979 Born in Tokyo
2004 B.A in sculpture, Tokyo Zokei University of Art
2005 Research student, Tokyo Zokei University of Art
2007 Master of Art, Tokyo Zokei University of Art

His work reveals unseen memories of a place by literally pulling them up from the ground, sensitively exposing memories of the earth. This body of art works “Memory of the ground” includes society’s memory of the earth, provoking viewers to contemplate the effect of humans on nature. Shotaro’s work contemplates the relationship of people and places, bringing this connection into everyday consciousness.

The act of lifting up the ground in Yoshino’s work embodies the evocation of ‘a social memory of a land’. The grounds he represents are the layers of time, and his works represent the accumulated memories which have become invisible as time goes by tenderly awakening them. His works which integrate a memory of a land explore the site-specific experience of a man with the engagement of its viewers.