

| 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 |
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Sleeping is like death
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ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
Through April 16, 2023
The solo show “Invisible Line” by Chiharu Shiota has opened at the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Denmark. The artist shows six large scale installations allowing the audience to dive into her distinctive universes.
Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Through February 12, 2023
As part of the group exhibition JAPAN. BODY_PERFORM_LIVE at PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, the new installation Empty Body by Chiahru Shiota will be exhibited through February 12, 2023. The exhibition investigates the Japanese contemporary art of the 2000s, focusing on how bodies and performances are connected to society, environment, materiality and technology.
Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Germany
Through October 8, 2023
Chiharu Shiota has designed an installation made of interwoven threads especially for her new solo exhibition “Silent Words” at Schauwerk Sindelfingen in Germany. The installation with the same name fills the space with letters floating from a centered desk and chair into the sky, stretching over black ropes. The letters expand into the space like a universe of thoughts and emotions, but no one can hear them.
Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, Bangkok
From October 22, 2022 to February 13, 2023
As part of the Bangkok Art Biennale, Chiharu Shiota is exhibiting her installation Eye of the Storm until February 13, 2023.
Beppu Project, Oita, Japan
Through October 16, 2022
Chiharu Shiota’s work is currently displayed in her new exhibition, Circulating Memories, in Oita at Beppu Project, Japan.
Aichi Arts Center, Japan
From July 30 to October 10, 2022
Specimen Room used to be a room for anatomical specimens when this was a nursing school, works by Shiota Chiharu made of glass, thread, and wire are being exhibited along with specimens that remain in their glass cases.
Manifesta 14, Kosovo
From July 22 to October 30, 2022
For this installation, Shiota has chosen to work with red yarn, a colour she associates with blood, the body and human relationships. Into the vast entanglement of her “three-dimensional drawing”, the artist has woven personal stories of birth, childhood, family and country, religion, love and death. Each was written by someone from Kosovo.
Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet, Paris
From March 16, 2022 to June 6, 2022
For its 14th Carte blanche to contemporary art, the Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet invites Chiharu Shiota. For her first solo exhibition in a museum in France, the artist addresses the shores of this new anxiety, that of the Covid era. With her threads, Chiharu Shiota weaves an inextricable protective network around a daily life that has become tiny; this scale, which is new in her work, refers to her experience, to the experience of all of us, of isolation in our homes.