Susumu Shingu, sculptor and painter, was born in Osaka, Japan in 1937. He lives and works in Sanda, Hyogo, Japan and Paris.

Graduated from Tokyo University of Arts with a major in oil painting in 1960, he was awarded scholarship by Italian government to study in Rome. He studied oil painting under Franco Gentilini at Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma from 1960 to 1962. Shingu’s style transformed from painting to three-dimensional work and then to kinetic sculptures in his six years stay in Rome.

He returned to Japan in 1966. He had his one-man shows in Osaka and Tokyo and won the Ube Open-Air Art Museum prize. In 1968 he was chosen as one of eight sculptors to exhibit works at EXPO '70 Osaka.

He had his first trip to the United States in 1969 and was invited to teach at Harvard University by Mirco Basardella, the dean of the art department at that time. Shingu was Visiting Artist at Carpenter Center for the Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1971 to 1972.

In 1973 the first monograph, Shingu, was published by Harry N. Abrams, N.Y. He won the 4th Isoya Yoshida Prize and prizes from National Museum of Art, Osaka, and Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art in 1979.
He won Yokohama Biennale '86 Sculpture Exhibition grand prize and 18th Japan Grand Prix of Art in 1986.
In 1987 he had a traveling outdoor exhibition, "Windcircus," exhibited in: market place in Bremen, Germany, Parc de l'Espanya Industrial in Barcelona, Spain, Villa Demidoff - Parco di Pratolino in Florence, Italy, and Mukkula Camping Site in Lahti, Finland.
From 1988 to 1989 he exhibited "Windcircus" in the United States: World Trade Center in New York, Heritage State Park in Fall River, Massachusetts, Grant Park in Chicago, Esplanade in Boston and Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles.

He had his one-man show at Loggia della Mercanzia, Genoa, Italy in 1991.
In 1992 his wind-sculpture “Columbus’s Wind” was installed at the port of Genoa.
He had his first outdoor spectacle show, "Kippis and His Friends," at Aono Dam Park, Sanda in 1994.
In 1995 his sculpture “Locus of Rain” was installed at Lingotto, Turin.
His second spectacle show, "Cat's Cradle of the Stars," was performed at Saitama Arts Theater and the monograph, Shingu-Message from Nature, was published by Abbeville Press, N.Y. in 1997.
He exhibited in "Champs de la Sculpture 2000" on Champs Elysées Avenue in Paris in 1999.

From 2000 to 2001 he had a traveling outdoor exhibition, "Wind Caravan," starting from the rice paddies in Sanda, Hyogo, Japan. The exhibition traveled to Motukorea Island in Auckland, New Zealand, Inari, Finland, Tamdaght, Morocco, Undur Dov, Mongolia and Cumbuco, Ceará, Brazil.
He won the Mainichi Art Award for the activities of Wind Caravan and the Medal with Purple Ribbon for his artistic activities in 2002.
He won the grand prize at the 20th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture Show in 2003.
In 2004 his sculpture “Cloud of Light” was installed at Il Sole 24 Ore in Milan.
Monograph, Shingu, was published by Edition Cercle d’Art, Paris, and he had his one-man show, "Sculptures du respir," at Galerie Jeanne-Bucher, Paris in 2006.