Kyoto Seika University
Shiota was born in Osaka. Her parents ran a business manufacturing fish boxes, producing a thousand wooden boxes a day. She wanted to be an artist since she was twelve. Although her parents didn't directly support her desire to be an artist and worried about her, she was able to formally study art. She studied at the Kyoto Seika University in Kyoto from 1992 to 1996, was an exchange student at Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, 1993-93 and a student at Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, from 1997 to 1999 and at Universität der Künste, Berlin, from 1999 to 2003. In an interview with Andrea Jahn, Shiota mentions that her first installation work was "Becoming Painting", which was created with red enamel paint she used on her body. "Taking part in "Becoming Painting" was indeed an act of liberation. It was my first physical piece of work, using my whole body, rather than a skillful artwork." In Berlin, she was a student of Rebecca Horn and in Braunschweig studied with Marina Abramović.