Chiharu Shiota
Heir to Ana Mendieta and to a whole generation of feminist artists of the early 1970s, Chiharu Shiota works with her body as a space of intervention, creating performances that address connections to the earth, the past, and memory.
Known for her installations made primarily with wool, her interwoven structures generate a mixture of repulsion and dreamlike attraction, while reactivating memory and evoking both the existence of a philosophical form and its absence.
The presence and absence of the artist’s own body is the guiding thread of her work and becomes the means through which she articulates her confrontation with the problem of defining artistic practice: the art object and the public, the interior and the exterior.
In her working philosophy, the authentic artwork is created only when expectations tied to known artistic forms of expression are abandoned in favor of a perception of things that emerges without attributed meanings.
She has held solo exhibitions at Hayward Gallery; Mori Art Museum; Grand Palais; La Maison Rouge; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), among others. She represented Japan at the 56th edition of the Venice Biennale.
Her work is included in the collections of Centre Pompidou; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma; Sammlung Hoffmann; and Fundació Sorigué, among others.
Chiharu Shiota – Portfolio 2025
Chiharu Shiota
Connected to the Universe
2026
Thread on canvas
29.5 x 40 cm
Exhibition:
2026 – Chiharu Shiota. Exposing an Inner Universe. NF/NIEVES FERNANDEZ
Chiharu Shiota
Cell
2025
Glass and metal wire
22,5 x 18,5 x 13,5 cm
Exhibition:
2025 – Chiharu Shiota. My House is your House. Azkuna Zentroa Alhóndiga Bilbao
Chiharu Shiota
Red Line XVI
2012
Oil and pastel on paper
150 x 100 cm
Exhibition:
2024 – Each Person, a Universe. Chiharu Shiota. Fundació Tàpies, Barcelona
Chiharu Shiota
Endless Line [CS/C 241109]
2024
Metal frame, suitcases and thread
160 x 140 cm
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