Shimpei Takeda has lived and worked in New York City since 2002. Takeda has been working primarily as a visual artist with photography and video. His work has been shown internationally, including Essl Collection of Contemporary Art, Weisman Art Museum

Weisman Art Museum

The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum is an art museum located on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis. A teaching museum for the university since 1934, the museum is named for Frederick R. Weisman, and was designed by the renowned architect Frank Gehry...

, Austin Museum of Art

Austin Museum of Art

The Austin Museum of Art is Austin, Texas's primary community art museum, since it was established in 1961 as Laguna Gloria Art Museum. The museums roots date to 1943, when Clara Driscoll donated her 1916 lakeside estate in west Austin to be used "as a museum to bring pleasure in the appreciation...

, Schenectady Museum Suits-Bueche Planetarium and in experimental New York venues such as Issue Project Room

ISSUE Project Room

The ISSUE Project Room is a music venue in Brooklyn, New York founded in 2003 by Suzanne Fiol. Located in The Old American Can Factory in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, the venue supports a wide variety of contemporary performance, specializing in presenting experimental and avant-garde music...

, Diapason

Diapason

Diapason may refer to:* Diapason , a just interval in Pythagorean tuning* Diapason , a tonal grouping of the flue pipes of a pipe organ* Diapason , a French classical music magazine...

, Experimental Intermedia. and the Frying Pan.

In Takeda’s photography series, Crystal Scape, we are brought into fractal-like landscapes which he reveals through translucent crystals. As a result of time compression, and hardened by nature’s process, the texture, cracks, and planes found in them are exposed through his photographic process.

In 2004, Shimpei Takeda collaborated with 60x60

60x60

60x60 is a collection of 60 electroacoustic or acousmatic works from 60 different composers/artists, each work 60 seconds or less in duration. 60x60 project showcases sixty new works, each sixty seconds or less, by sixty composers in a continuous sixty minute concert, for a one-hour cross-section...