Shiota studied at the Seika University in Kyoto and at various schools in Germany. While in Germany, she studied with Marina Abramović.
Venice biennale 2015 chiharu shiota japan pavilion
Work
Shiota's oeuvre links various aspects of art performances and installation practices. Mostly renown for her vast, room-spanning webs of threads or hoses, she links abstract networks with concrete everyday objects such as keys, windows, dresses, shoes, boats and suitcases. Besides installation works, she frequently collaborates with choreographers and composers such as Toshio Hosokawa, Sasha Waltz and Stefan Goldmann for opera, concert and dance projects.
Awards and nominations
2014
Selected by The Japan Foundation to represent Japan at the 56th Venice Bienniale
2008 :
The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Art
Encouragement Prize for New Artists, Japan
Sakuya Kono Hana Prize, Osaka City, Japan
2005 : Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunka-cho), Japan
2004 : Arbeitsstipendium Bildende Kunst der Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung, Kultur, Berlin
2003 : Pola Art Foundation
2002 :
Philip Morris K.K Art Award 2002
Akademie Schloss Solitude, scholarship
Exhibitions
2017
Where are we going?, Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche, Paris
2015
The key in the hand, Japanese Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia
In the beginning was..., Fundació Sorigué, Lleida, Catalonia
2014 :
Cartas de agradecimientos, Spai d´Art Contemporani de Castelló
"Small Room", galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Earth and Blood, NF Galeria, Madrid
2013 : "House", galerie Daniel Templon, Brussels
2012 :
Infinity, galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Where Are We Going?, Marugame Inokuma-Genichiro Institute of Modern Art (MIMOCA), Marugame, Kagawa, Japan
Chiharu Shiota. Sincronizando hilos y rizomas, NF Galeria, Madrid
2011 : Home of memory, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
2010 :Trauma, NF Galeria, Madrid
2009 :
Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Flowing Water, Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
A long day, Rotwand Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Unconscious Anxiety, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France
2008:
Waiting, Gallery Goff + Rosenthal, New York, USA
Zustand des Seins / State of Being, CentrePasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland
Breath of the Spirit, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Solo show, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
2007 : From in silence / art complex, Kanagawa Arts Foundation, Kenmin Hall, Kanagawa, Japan
2006 : Dialogue from DNA, Wildnis + Kunst, Sarrebruck, Germany
2005 :
During Sleep, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
Raum, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
2004 :
Du côté de chez, église Sainte Marie Madeleine, Lille, France
Dialogue from DNA, Manggha, Centre of Japanese Art and Technology, Cracovie, Poland
In Silence, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2003 :
The Way Into Silence, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany
Dialogue from DNA, installation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Varsovie, Poland
2002 :
Uncertain Daily Life, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
In Silence, installation, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
Group exhibitions
2013 : Francis Bacon and the Existential Condition in Contemporary Art, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina - Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
2009 :
Hundred Stories about Love, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Walking in my Mind, Hayward Gallery, Londres, UK
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennal 2009, Niigata Prefecture, Echigo Tsumari, Japan
The World is Yours, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
3rd Moscow Biennale, Moscou, Russia
2008 :
Trans Figurative, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Eurasia. Geographic cross-overs in art, MART (Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto), Rovereto, Italy
Heathquake, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
Platform, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Drawn in the Clouds, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland
2007 :
Fiction for the Real, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Body Sings of Life, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan
Thermocline. New Asian Waves, ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe, Germany
2006 :
Absolutely Private: On Photography from 2000 to the Present, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo - Berlin / Berlin - Tokyo, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Enjoyable House, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
Fever Variations, 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006, Gwangju City, Corée du Sud
Affinity of the Jomon and the Contemporary, Aomori Museum of Art; Aomori, Japan