Born 1969, Kobe, Japan. Shimabuku is an artist who collects unusual encounters. Inspired by the International Situationist walking tours, he studied in Osaka and in San Francisco before travelling in the different harbours of the world. The artist experiments all kinds of interaction with living beings to transgress the stereotypical limits of physics and the imaginary, producing many performance projects, installation works as well as web projects (Moon Rabbit of the Dia Center of the Arts.) Major projects include, Octopus Road Project (1991), Octopus and the Pigeon (1993), When the Sky was Sea (2005), all installation videos or performance works. His participation in international exhibitions range from the 2001 Yokohama Triennale, 2003 Venice Biennale to group exhibitions in the Pompidou Center, Paris and the Hayward Gallery, London, while his recent work, How to live together of 2006 was exhibited in the 27th Sao Paolo Biennale. Shimabuku currently lives in Berlin.

1969年出生于日本的神户港市，島袋道造是一个搜集特殊冲突的艺术家。受到国际徒步旅行的启发，在沿着世界各个海港旅行之前，他先后在日本大阪和旧金山学习。島袋道造对与其他生物之间的各种互动进行试验，进而超越刻板的物理和想象的界限，产生很多表演作品、装置作品以及网络作品（在Dia艺术中心展览的《月野兔》。）主要的作品包括《章鱼公路》（1991），《章鱼和鸽子》（1993），《当天空变成大海》（2005），以及所有装置录像或表演作品。他参加的国际展览包括2001横滨国际当代艺术三年展，2003威尼斯双年展蓬皮杜中心的群展，巴黎和海达威画廊，英国，同时他2006年的近作《如何共同生存》在27届圣保罗双年展展出。島袋道造目前生活在柏林。