Born in 1972 in the Japanese city of Osaka, Chiharu Shiota has been living and working in Berlin since 1997.
Shiota is a Japanese performance and installation artist best known for creating room-filling, monumental yet delicate, poetic environments. Her work receives critical acclaim internationally and she is the recipient of numerous notable prizes including the Philip Morris Art Awards and the Audience Choice Award at The First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art. Her achievements also include set design for several major theatrical and operatic productions including Daniel Karasek's Tristan and Isolde at Theater Kiel, Germany.