Yoshio Shimozato

Yoshio Shimozato (下郷羊雄, Shimozato Yoshio; 8 December 1907 – 6 April 1981) was a Japanese painter and photographer associated with Japanese Surrealism and the avant-garde milieu in Nagoya. He was a member of the artists' group Shinzōkei and became one of the figures associated with the Nagoya Avant-Garde Club, which brought together painters, poets, and photographers in the late 1930s.

Shimozato's importance in the history of Japanese Surrealism is closely tied to the development of avant-garde photography in Nagoya. Scholarship describes the photographic offshoot that emerged after the dismantling of the Nagoya Avant-Garde Club in 1939 as reflecting his shift of focus from painting to photography. He is particularly associated with the 1940 photobook Mesemu zoku (Mesemb Genus, Collection of Surrealist Photographs), which he edited and for which he contributed a substantial portion of the photographs.