

| Birth | Born in 1972 in Osaka, Japan |
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| Residence | Lives and works in Berlin, Germany |
| Education | 2011 - California College of the Arts (Guest Professor) 2010 – 13 Kyoto Seika University (Guest Professor) 1993 – 03 Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany 1997 – 99 Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, Germany 1993 – 94 exchange semester at The Australian National University School of Art, Canberra, Australia 1992 – 96 Kyoto Seika University, Japan |
| 2026 | The Soul Trembles, Musée des beaux-arts, Montréal, Canada |
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| Threads of life, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom | |
| Return to Earth, Gana Art Center, Seoul, South Korea | |
| Silent Emptines, Red Brick Museum, Beijing, China | |
| Home Less Home, ICA Watershed, Boston, USA | |
| In the Light, Museum für Kunst + Geschichte, Fribourg, Switzerland | |
| My House is your House, Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao, Spain |
| 2026 | Kaihō: Japanese Women Artists after 1945, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg Summer Show, TEMPLON, Brussels, Belgium Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy, Art Science Museum, Sigapore |
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| 2024 | High Five, Fondation Opale, Lens, Switzerland The Extended Line, Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan How Did You Come into the World?, Hirosaki Museum Contemporary Art, Aomori, Japan |
| 2023 | KAFKA: 1924, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany |
| Number, Schloß Tarasp, Switzerland | |
| Kyoto Seika University 55th Anniversary Exhibition : FATHOM, Kyoto Seija University Gallery Terra-S, Kyoto, Japan | |
| Nuqta, interactive Toninstallation, Chiharu Shiota und TRANSIENT Interdisciplinary Research Ensemble, Jeremias Schwarzer, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany |
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| Raumschiff Hubertusburg. Ein Schloss im Wandel, Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann, Schloss Hubertusburg, Wermsdorf, Germany |
| 2026 | Mudec Museo delle Culture di Milano, Milano, Italy |
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| 2024 | Idomeneo, re di Creta, stage design dramma per musica by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; directed and choreographed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui in co-production with Dutch National Opera Amsterdam and Théâtres de la ville de Luxembourg dancers from the Ballet du Grand Théâtre and Eastman Grand Théaâtre de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 2023 | Carmen Rhapsody, scénographie Institut Culturel Japonais, Cologne, Germany |
| 2022 | Nuqta – The beginning, stage design TRANSIENT Interdisciplinary Research Ensemble Konzept and artistic direction by Jermias Schwarzer (Recorder), Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 2018 | Götterdämmerung, stage design with Anna Myga Kasten Opera by Richard Wagner, directed by Daniel Karasek, production by Theater Kiel, Opernhaus Kiel, Germany |
| 2017 | Siegfried, stage design Opera by Richard Wagner, directed by Daniel Karasek, production by Theater Kiel, Opernhaus Kiel, Germany |
| 2016 | Das Wintermärchen, stage design, play by William Shakespeare (The Winter’s Tale), directed by Daniel Karasek, production by Theater Kiel, Schauspielhaus Kiel, Germany alif::split in the wall - a musical exhibition space, installation, artistic direction by Jeremias Schwarzer, production by Zafraan Ensemble, bastille musique, Sebastian Solte Radialsystem V, Berlin, Germany |
| 2019 | The Kyoto Prefecture Akebono Award Academy of Fine Arts Prize of the Simone Foundation and Cino Del Duca 4th BVlGARI Rolla Award (Japan) |
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| 2018 | The 11th Bacon Prize 2018, the A.R.T. foundation (Japan) |
| 2012 | The Audience Choice, at the First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art (Ukraine) |
| 2009 | Distinguished Service Medal, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan Docks Art Fair – Prix de la culture Montblanc, Lyon, France |
| 2008 | Encouragement award for the new artists of the Ministry of Culture, Japan Award Sakuya Kono Hana, Osaka, Japan |
| 2005 | Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunka-cho), Japan |
| 2004 | Arbeitsstipendium Bildende Kunst Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin, Germany |
| 2026 | Rückblicke / Flashbacks, published by Hatje Cantz Editions and Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland |
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| 2024 | Chiharu Shiota, Collection Milestones : At the Heart of Creation, SKIRA éditions |
| 2024 | Chiharu Shiota, Collection Milestones : At the Heart of Creation, SKIRA edition. |
| 2022 | Chiharu Shiota, The Invisible Line, published by ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark |
| Carte Blanche à Chiharu Shiota, Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet, RMN – Grand Palais editions, Paris | |
| Chiharu Shiota, Multiple Realities, published by Frederiksberg Muserne, Denmark | |
| 2021 | The Soul Trembles, Mori Art Museum Editions, Tokyo, Japan |
| Centre Pompidou, Paris, France | |
| Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia | |
| Centre PasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland | |
| Detached, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia | |
| Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan | |
| Jupiter Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China | |
| Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland |
How Cover Artist Chiharu Shiota Weaves Memory into Monumental Insallations
Eliza Jordan
"She rips your heart out": This Japanese artist's fiery red installation swallows this S.F. museum
Tony Bravo
This Spring's Must-See Contemporary Art Exhibitions, In London And Beyond
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How Chiharu Shiota weaves a web of memory and history, thread by thread
Sarah Cascone
Notions of home and windblown rootlessness tumble together at ICA's Watershed
Murray Whyte
Silent Emptiness: Japanese Artist Chiharu Shiota at Red Brick
From a horror writers convention to roof top dancing, 30 can't-miss arts events
Don Aucoin, Murray Whyte, Kate Tuttle, Karen Campbell and David Weininger
La laine, c'est "in" : trois expositions ou le textile est a l'honneur a decouvrir a Paris
La vie sur un fil
Chiharu Shiota Fair tanguer le Grand Palais, a Paris
Chiharu Shiota, The Soul Trembles, une exposition au Grand Palais
Valérie Guédot
L'artiste et performeuse japonaise signe l'étiquette de Château Mouton Rothschild 2021
Sous la peau de Chiharu Shiota
Chiharu Shiota: Memory Under the Skin
Le fil rouge de la mémoire
Au musée Guimet, carte blanche aux tissage de l'artiste Chiharu Shiota
Web-Spinning Artist Chiharu Shiota Creates Moving And Haunting Installations
L'attrape rêve de Chiharu Shiota
Sleeping is like death
Venise 2015
A global 'parliament of forms'
Venise inondée d'art contemporain
Une Biennale de Venise placée sous le signe de la nature
Biennale de venise, l'Asie en force
56th Venice Biennale review - more of a glum trudge then an exhilarating adventure
First look at the pavillons: seven national presentations of note in the Giardini
Chiharu Shiota
12 pavillons à ne pas manquer
Les voyages de Chiharu Shiota
Dans les filets de Chiharu Shiota
KIEL OPERA HOUSE, VIENNE
Saturday January 25, 2014, 5 pm is the premiere of the opera ‘Tristan und Isolde’, directed by Daniel Karasek at Oper Kiel.
Additional performances in 2014: February 02, March 03 and 23, April 18, May 24, June 09
Artist Talk at Kunsthalle zu Kiel
In addition, an artist talk will take place together with opera director Daniel Karasek:
Sunday, January 26, 3 pm at Kunsthalle zu Kiel (Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Düsternbrooker Weg 1, 24105 Kiel).
The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
From January 17th to March 30st 2014 Chiharu Shiota frequently uses found objects within her sculptural installations, particularly those that resonate with personal and emotional histories. Doors and windows from demolished and derelict buildings, clothing, shoes, old furniture and vintage suitcases are frequent motifs within her work. Such objects evoke powerful and emotive human stories of journeys, of migration, of love and loss. (…)
CARREE SAINT-ANNE, ESPACE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN, MONTPELLIER
From october 04st to November 17th 2013 Reprenant le projet de la Maison Rouge et de la Sucrière, Chiharu Shiota nous propose, pour le Carré Sainte-Anne de Montpellier « After the dream 2013 » : une réalisation spécifique à l’architecture du lieu et à son identité, en utilisant le plafond et les piliers comme structures d’environnement immersif. Cinq très longues robes blanches pendues au plafond, entre les piliers, dans tout l’espace. Un fil noir emprisonne les robes dans un tissage complexe évoquant des nids de chenilles ou plus encore des toiles d’araignées.(…)
The Mattress Factory Art Museum, Pittsburgh, USA
From September 12th 2013 to May 31st 2014 The site-specific installation of new works by Shiota will fill the eight rooms in the building at 516 Sampsonia Way—a 19th-century row home with a storied past—which is suited to the artist’s work. Its interior is cosmetically untouched; the raw condition of the building lends itself well to reflections on the past and the conjuring of memories. Learn more about 516 Sampsonia Way from former tenant Richard Morris. (…)
The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
From Sunday 7th July to Monday 23th September 2013 Our next exhibition will feature new works by Chiharu Shiota, an artist who is the focus of attention in art circles all over the world. Born in Osaka, Chiharu Shiota is currently based in Berlin, Germany. Deemed a young artistic master with artworks of epic proportions, she actively creates new works in various countries, and her next move constantly attracts much attention. Her roots lie in Kochi’s Ogata Town (current Kuroshio Town)—her parents’ hometown—and her memories of the many childhood summers spent here were the catalyst for her creation of art. (…)
Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain
From October 23th 2012 to March 30th 2013 Shiota’s installations produce their own spaces, where hundreds of invisible threads that bond us to things can be seen. In these domestic scenarios she proposes, threads become bridges between a bride’s dress and the absent subject, a piano, suitcases and a mirror. In her work, these threads are veins with tears, fear for abyss, life and death; threads that are plots of particular and universal stories, interweaving like the inverted roots of a tree, just like a rhizome through multiple branches that hold up the relationship between I and the world. (…)
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
From October 5th 2012 to January 24th 2013
Francis Bacon and the Existential Condition in Contemporary Art, an exhibition co-curated by Franziska Nori (Director of the CCC Strozzina) and Barbara Dawson (Director of the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane), will be presenting work by contemporary artists who exam today’s existential state of societal mind. Their work explores the kind of questions man asks himself in his relationship with his own interior being, his body and the outside world.
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