Painting
More Little White Lies
100 Little White Lies
Great American Muse
Earlier Works
Prints
Prices subject to change as editions sell out
About
Exhibitions
Great American Muse: Recent Paintings, November 5 - December 24, 2015
An American Knockoff: Paintings, August 22 - September 28, 2013
Paintings, February 18 – March 27, 2010
Minidoka on my Mind: Recent Paintings, November 15 - December 29, 2007
Mistaken Identities: Suite of Six Lithographs, September 1 - October 1, 2005
Stereotypes and Admonitions, March 4 - 27, 2004
Paintings and Assemblages, December 7 - 30, 2001
Paintings, June 6 - 30, 1996
Yellow No Same, July 2 - August 2, 1992
Paintings, April 4 - 28, 1991
Paintings, February 4 - 28, 1988
Paintings, March 1 - 29, 1985
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Born 1939 in Seattle, resides in Lawrence, KS
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.
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March 5, 2024
International Examiner
Roger Shimomura's 'More Little White Lies' upsets expectations and worldviews in 100 very small paintings
by Susan PlattFebruary 21, 2024
Hyperallergic
Japanese-American Artists Revisit the Painful Legacy of WWII
by Machiko HaradaJanuary 4, 2021
Seattle Met
Artist Roger Shimomura Talks ’100 Little White Lies’
by Stefan MilneJanuary 16, 2021
International Examiner
A stream of consciousness that occupied artist Roger Shimomura while in quarantine throughout the year 2020 emerges in "100 ‘Little White Lies'"
by Susan KunimatsuJuly 28, 2015
Seattle Times
“Bright colors and ugly stereotypes meld in 'American Knockoff'“
by Gary FaiganNovember 15, 2014
USA Today
“Oregon exhibit evokes childhood internment for Takei”
by Tom Mayhall RastrellSeptember 4, 2013
International Examiner
“Roger Shimomura Fights Back in 'An American Knockoff'“
by Susan KunimatsuAugust 22, 2013
The Seattle Star
“Roger Shimomura: Not Merely a Knock-Off”
by Omar WilleySeptember 11, 2009
Seattle Times
“Yellow Terror' art collection: Satire both bright and bitter”
by Michael UpchurchSeptember 17, 2009
The Stranger
“What Are You, Yellow? War Breaks Out at the Wing Luke Asian Museum“
by Jen GravesMarch 11, 2004
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“Shimomura explores racism in all its guises -- from the racist's POV”
by Regina HackettMarch 13, 2004
Northwest Asian Weekly
“Reminiscing about racism: Roger Shimomura's art can be uncomfortable but life-changing”
by Chris S. Nishiwaki
Acrylic on canvas
12 x 12 inches
$2,000