

| 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
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
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Dans les filets de Chiharu Shiota
Starting December 12, 2020
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 55 Cable Street, Wellington 6011, New Zealand
The web of time, an installation by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, is part of Te Papa’s permanent collection. This installation creates a vision of a night sky studded with constellations of numbers representing significant dates in history, both collective and personal.
From November 25, 2020 to February 23, 2021
The National Museum of Modern Art, 3-1 Kitanomaru-koen, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8322, Japan
The exhibition presents about 120 works by 33 artists from many different times and places, and a wide range of genres, including painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, sculpture, and video. The spectator is invited to question the way in which each work highlights the theme of sleeping.
From September 7, 2020 to March 11, 2021
Fondazione Merz, via Limone 24, 10141 Turin, Italy
PUSH THE LIMITS is a project that investigates how art takes itself to the limit to move the horizon of thinking, perception and speech ever further in order to introduce new elements. The guest artists take this opportunity to reaffirm the urgency of unleashing the infinity of possibles.
From June 18 to October 4, 2020
Paradise Art Space,186, Yeongjonghaeannam-ro 321-giln Jung-gu, Incheon, Korea
PARADISE ART SPACE’s newest exhibition, ‘OH! MY CITY’ explores the various ways to interpret period and space in the city. Featuring 5 artists with strong individual characteristics, this exhibition presents a novel perspective on how to look at a city space and a good chance to reinterpret ‘My City.’ Presenting artists are Anibal Catalan, duo-group, Elmgreen & Dragset, Baekyung Lee, Chiharu Shiota, and Pablo Valbuena.
CENTRO CULTURAL BANCO DO BRASIL, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL November 13, 2019 - January 27, 2020
Chiharu Shiota’s body of work is celebrated in the retrospective exhibition Linhas da Vida (Lifelines), on view this fall at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil – São Paulo.
The exhibition presents seminal works by the artist, including The Key in the Hand (2015) and the brand new work Além da Memória (2019), inspired by the diversity of the Brazilian people and the historical architecture of the CCBB-SP.
JAPAN HOUSE, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL November 13, 2019 - February 2, 2020
Until February 2020, Japan House – São Paulo is presenting Chiharu Shiota’s new work, Internal Line. Inspired by Japanese folklore, the work refer to the legend saying that a red thread tied to the finger of a newly born child runs from the heart to fingertips and intertwines with others’ thread, connecting them to each other.
ROYAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF BELGIUM, BRUSSELS, BELGIUMFrom 11/10/2019 to 09/02/2020
Presented in the Bernheim room, Me Somewhere Else (2018), a work of great visual strength, occupies a very special place in the artist’s production. Shiota talks about her fight against her illness, and the certainty that her mind will survive her body.
From September 7, 2019 to October 4, 2020
Muzeum Slaskie, Dobrowolskiego 1 40-205 Katowice, Poland
Talented Chiharu Shiota laid her artistic web entitled ‘Counting memories’ in a polish museum, in Katowice.
The immersive works gives a tangible perception of the universe, as the artist explains : “With this installation, I want to visualize the universe within this space. A massive cloud of intertwined lines fills the room; it floats above a collection of nine tables and chairs. The network holds hundreds of white numbers like stars in the night sky.”