Yoshiko Shimada
1959

Born in Tokyo

1982

Completed Scripps College, Ca. U.S.A. (B.A. in Humanities)

2011

Ph.D candidate, Art, Design, Architecture department, Kingston University, London

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012"Being a Japanese Comfort Woman" street performance, London/Tokyo

2009"Bones in Tansu – Family Secrets" Stanley Picker Gallery, London"Bones in Tansu – Family Secrets" Print Studio, Hamilton, Canada

2008"Bones in Tansu – Family Secrets" Christina Wilson Gallery, Copenhagen

2007"Bones in Tansu – Family Secrets" Chiang Mai University Art Museum, Chiang Mai"Bones in Tansu – Family Secrets" Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta

2006"Bones in Tansu – Family Secrets" University of Philippines, Manila

2002"Yoshiko Shimada" Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo

2001"Yoshiko Shimada" Centre A, Centre for Asian Contemporary Art, Vancouver

2000"Yoshiko Shimada" Kyoto Seika University Gallery, Kyoto

1999"Yoshiko Shimada" Asia/Pacific Studies Institute, New York University, New York1998

"Yoshiko Shimada" Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo

1997"Yoshiko Shimada" Hiraya Gallery, Manila,"Yoshiko Shimada" John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
"Yoshiko Shimada" A Space Gallery, Toronto

1996"Yoshiko Shimada" Keio University Art Center, Tokyo

1995"Yoshiko Shimada" Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo"Yoshiko Shimada" Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

Selected Group Exhibitions
2022“Flame” Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan“Cherry Blossom Party” eitoeiko, Tokyo, Japan

2021“Spirit Labor: Duration, Difficulty, and Affect” Garage Museum of Contemporary Art,
Moscow, Russia"Non-Freedom of Expression Exhibition Kansai" L-Osaka, Osaka, Japan“Punctum: Diffused Reflection of Feminism” BONUS TRACK, Tokyo, Japan2020

Non-Freedom of Expression Exhibition pre-event panel session What is hidden in AitoriThe pitfalls of Dialogue and Neutral " KAGURAZAKA SESSION HOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
Non-Freedom of Expression Exhibition: A Long Trail for Liberation" MOCA Taipei,Taiwan, China

"TUJ Art+Feminism 2020 Panel Talk - Writing Ourselves into History" Temple
University, Japan Campus, Tokyo, Japan
2019“Japan Unlimited” Q21 MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria“Present Progressive” Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan2018“Be there” Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan

2016“primal lines” Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan

2012"Art, Performance and Activism in Contemporary Japan" Pump House, London

2010"Louder than Bombs" Stanley Picker Gallery, London

2009"Open performance festival" 798 Art Zone, Beijing"Slogan" Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo

2007"Felt Experience" Catalyst Arts, Belfast"Doll House" Shanghai Xuhui Art Museum, Shanghai

2006"Mapping the Body NRLA Festival" Tramway, Glasgow"Sex Arbeit" NGBK, Berlin

2005"Life, actually" Tokyo Metropolitan Musum of Contermporary Art,Tokyo "Fantastic Asia"
Songkuk Museum, Seoul

2004"Borderline Cases" A.R.T. gallery, Tokyo

2003"Seoul-Asia Art Now" Maronier Art Center, Seoul"City-net Asia" Seoul City Art Museum, Seoul"Trans-Okinawa" Highways, Los Angeles

2002"There, Gwangju Biennale project 2" Gwangju, Korea"East Asian Women and Her stories" Seoul Women's Center, Seoul"Empathy" Fujikawa Gallery, Osaka"Attitude 2002" Kumamoto City Museum of Contemporary Art, Kumamoto

2001"Sex and Consumerism" Brighton University, Aberythtowyth Art Center, Wales, etc, U.K.
"The spirits play" Battle Box/ Victoria Theatre, Singapore

2000"Dark Mirrors from Japan" De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam"Yume no Ato" Haus am Waldsee Berlin, Berlin / Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, BadenBaden

1999"Windows-inside, outside" Gwangju City Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea

1997"Lord of the Rim-in herself, for herself" Hsing-chong Culture Center, Taiwan"Flexible Co-existence" Art Tower Mito, Mito

1996

"Gender, beyond memories" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo

1995"Age of Anxiety" Powerplant, TorontoPublic Collections
New York Public Library, New YorkTokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Keio University Art Center, Tokyo
Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto
City University of New York, New York