GROUP EXHIBTIONS (SELECTION)
2023
Narrative Threads: Fiber Art Today, group show, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Kyoto Seika University 55th Anniversary Exhibition: FATHOM – Shiota Chiharu, Kanazawa Sumi, Soh Souen, Kyoto Seika University Gallery Terra-S, Kyoto
Numbers, Schloß Tarasp, Switzerland
Franz Kafka: 1924, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
2022
JAPAN. BODY_PERFORM_LIVE, PAC Padiglione dÀrte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
BAB 2022 Chaos:Calm, Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand
Still Alive, Aichi 2022 (Aichi Triennale), Aichi, Japan
Manifesta 14, Prishtina, Kosovo
nuqta, Interaktive Toninstallation, Chiharu Shiota und TRANSIENT Interdisciplinary Research Ensemble, Jeremias Schwarzer, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf
Raumschiff Hubertusburg. Ein Schloss im Wandel, Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann, Schloss Hubertusburg, Wermsdorf, Germany
Blickwechsel: Chiharu Shiota und das Wechselspiel von Innen und Außen, Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann, Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden, Germany
Renoir, Monet, Gauguin - Images of a Floating World. The Kojiro Matsukata and Karl Ernst Osthaus collections, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2021
Kunst & Hallen. Kunstsinn über Mauern Hinweg. Die Kunsthalle Rostock in den Reinbeckhallen, Reinbeckhallen, Berlin, Germany
Corpus Domini. From the glorified body to the ruins of the soul, Palazzo Reale, Milano
Adam, Eva und die Schlange - Werke aus der Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany
Oku-Noto Triennale 2020+, Suzu, Japan
Lightness and Being, K11, Shanghai, China
STILL ALIVE. Werke aus der Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann, Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
The 13th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Gwangju, South Korea
2020
OH! MY CITY, Paradise Art Space, Incheon, South Korea
The Consciousness Flows Within, Asia University Museum of Modern Art, Taichung, Taiwan
Körper. Blicke. Macht. – Eine Kulturgeschichte des Bades, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden - Baden, Germany
Where We Now Stand – In Order to Map the Future [2], 21st Centruy Museum, Kanazawa, Japan
Voyage Voyages, Mucem, Marseille, France
2019
2019 Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art - Boundless Encounters, Hangzhou, China
The Dark Side – Chi ha paura del buio?, Musja, Rome, Italy
Nine Journeys Through Time, YUZ Museum, Shanghai, China
From the Paper to the Wall, Galerie Templon, Brussels, Belgium
Who opens up the world?, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Setouchi Art Triennale 2019, venue: Teshima, Japan
Globe as a Palette; Contemporary Art from The Taguchi Art Collection, Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art;
Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido; Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido; Sapporo Art Museum, Japan [touring exhibition]
And Berlin Will Always Need You, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
Honolulu Biennial 2019 – Make Wrong / Right / Now , Honolulu, Hawaii
100 Jahre Revolution - Berlin 1918/19, Kulturprojekte, Berlin, Germany
2018
Whatever happened to my grandmother's doggy?, Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milan, Italy
Persona Grata, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Musée National de l'Immigration, Paris, France
Valletta 2018 European Capital of Culture: Constellation Malta, Valletta, Malta
57. Oktobarski Salon: The Marvellous Cacophony, Belgrade, Serbia
Water and Land – Niigata Art Festival 2018, Niigata, Japan
De fils ou de fibres, CAC Meymac, Meymac, France
Doodle & Disegno, Blain|Southern, Berlin, Germany
Welcome to the Labyrinth - Artistic Deception, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
Höhenrausch 2018 – The Other Shore, OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz, Austria
Tissage, Tressage, Villa Datris, L'Isle sur la Sorgues, France
Nine Journeys Through Time. Alcantara and Art in the Apartment of the Prince, Palazzo Reale Milano, Milan, Italy
Das letzte Bild. Anischten vom Tod in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany
Travelers: Stepping into the Unknown, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2017
The Riddle of Art: Takahashi Collection, Sizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
JIWA – Jakarta Bienniale 2017, Jakarta, Indonesia
The Raft – Art is (not) Lonely, MuZEE, Oostende, Belgium
In good times and in bad. How to operate, Museum für neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
Suzu 2017 Oku-Noto Triennale, Suzu, Ishikawa, Japan
About the Relations with People When Affection is Involved, Klein Collection, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
OpenArt Biennale, Örebro, Sweden
A Summer in Le Havre: 500th Anniversary of Le Havre, Le Havre, France
The Other Side, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
20th anniversary pop-up show: Have a Nice Time, Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Domodossola, Italy
Body Media II, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Socle du Monde Biennale 2017, Herning, Denmark
Pafos2017 European Capital of Culture: Open Air Factory, Pafos, Cyprus
Kairos Castle. The Art of the Moment, Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Lennik, Belgium
Daniel Templon Portrait d'une galerie, Bernard Magrez Institut Culturel, Bordeaux, France >>
2016
Piranesi | Shiota: Prisons of the Imagination, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Spider's Thread - Spinning images of Japanese Beauty, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
From here until Eternity, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
Melbourne Festival, Melbourne, Australia
Collection 2 – Diary, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
20th Biennale of Sydney: The Future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed, Sydney, Australia
In your heart | In your city, KØS, Museum for Art in the Public Space, Køge, Denmark
2015
East Asia Feminism: FANTasia, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea; Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou, China [touring exhibition]
No hablaremos de Picasso, María José Jove Foundation, La Coruña, Spain
Le Fil Rouge, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2014
Progress and Hygiene, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Busan Biennale 2014: Inhabiting the World, Busan, South Korea
State of Being, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Bilbao, Spain
The Pink Gaze, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna Palazzo Collicola - GCAM, Spoleto & Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”, Rome, Italy
JapanArtToday, Kunsthaus Interlaken, Switzerland
Go-Betweens: The World Seen Through Children, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Adventure in Art, Masterpiece of the National Museum of Art, Osaka, the Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Qal'at Al Bahrain through the Ages, Qal'at Al Bahrain, Manama, Bahrain
Threads, Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, Netherlands
Konstruktives Widersprechen, Kunstwerk Sammlung Klein, Nussdorf, Germany
2013
16th DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow Exhibition, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
To Be Or Not To Be. Portrait Today, Munich Modern, Munich, Germany
Everyone Carries a Room Inside, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
Tisser des liens, Pavillon Vendome, Aix en Provence, France
Matrix. Textiles in Art and Applied Arts from Gustav Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Mindfulness! Takahashi Collection, touring exhibition, Sapporo Art Park, Sapporo, Kirishima Art-Hall, Kagoshima, Japan; Nagoya City Art Museum (2014), Nagoya, Japan
Red Queen, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia
The Pulse of Time, Future Perfect, Singapore
2012
Vernetzt, OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz, Austria
Traces of Time: Francis Bacon and Existential Conditioning in Contemporary Art, Centro di Cultura Contemporaneo Strozzina Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
Sky over my Head, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum; Okinawa Prefecture Art Museum; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts (2013); Mie Prefectural Art Museum (2013), Japan [touring exhibition]
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine
2011
Lost in Lace, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Ainsi soit-il, Collection Antoine de Galbert, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France
City-Net Asia 2011, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Experimenta Utopia, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia
Inner Voices, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Biennale internationale d'art contemporain de Melle: Habiter la terre, du battement de cœur à l'emportement du monde, Melle, France
Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, Japan Society Gallery, New York, USA
2010
Identity Theft, Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Domodossola, Italy
On & On, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Walk the Line, Kunstverein APEX pro art e.V. Göttingen, Germany
Mediations Biennale: Beyond Mediations, Poznan, Poland
Experience #1–The Aura, Christophe Gaillard Pop-up Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Aichi Triennale 2010: Arts and Cities, Nagoya, Japan
Setouchi International Art Festival: 100-Day Art and Sea Adventure, Teshima, Japan
Tsubaki-kai 2010 Trans-Figurative, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
In Transit, Rotwand Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
On Bathing, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
HomeLessHome, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
2009
3rd Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art: Against Exclusion, Moscow, Russia
The World is Yours, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009, Niigata Prefecture, Echigo-Tsumari, Japan
Walking in My Mind, Hayward Gallery London, UK
Hundred Stories about Love, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Tsubaki-kai 2009 Trans-Figurative, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Cherchez la femme, NF / Nieves Fernández, Madrid, Spain
2008
Drawn in the Clouds, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finnland
Kanazawa Art Platform 2008, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Torstrasse 166: Das Haus der Vorstellung, Berlin, Germany
HeartQuake, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
Eurasia: Geographic Crossovers in Art, MART–Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento and Rovereto, Italy
Kunsträume Schloss Friedberg, Museum Friedberg, Friedberg, Germany
Tsubaki-kai 2008 Trans-Figurative, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves, ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany
Thread, Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
The Body Sings of Life, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan
Fiction for the Real, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
2006
PI Performance & Intermedia Festival, Szczecin-Swinoujscie, Poland
Streaming Poesy - Orte des Verwilderns, Wildnis+Kunst, Saarbrücken, Germany
Art and Object: Affinity of the Jomon and the Contemporary, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomari, Japan
6th Gwangju Biennale 2006: Fever Variations, Gwangju, South Korea
Enjoyable House, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
Berlin-Tokyo / Tokyo-Berlin. Die Kunst zweier Städte, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Absolutely Private. Contemporary Photography, Vol. 4 On Photography in the Zero Decade: from 2000 to the present, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2005
The 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2005: Parallel Realities – Asian Art Now, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Fairy Tales Forever – Homage to H.C. Andersen, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Imbenge-Dreamhouse, Durban Cultural and Documentation Centre, Durban, South Africa; In Transit 06, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (2006) [touring exhibition]
Dreaming Now, The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
2004
Senatsstipendiaten Bildende Kunst 2004: Bettina Carl und Chiharu Shiota, Kunstbank, Berlin, Germany
The Joy of My Dreams, First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, Seville, Spain
Embroidered Action, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel
Shining Beauty, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Lille 2004 – European Capital of Culture: Du côté de chez…, Lille, France
2003
Walking on Art – Installation auf dem Fußboden, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany
20 Jahre Kunst in der Zehntscheuer – Eine Bilanz, Kulturverein Zehntscheuer e.V., Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany
The Female Landscape – Thunder of the Worlds, Institut franco-japonais de Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
First Steps: Emerging Artists from Japan, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
2002
Rest in Space, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (2003) [touring exhibition]
A Need For Realism, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Miss You, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
Another World–Twelve Bedroom Stories, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
De Waan. Manifestatie kunst en psychiatrie, Stichting Odapark: Centrum voor hedendaagse kunst, Venray, Netherlands
Art in Transition II – Some Kind of Dream, Contemporary Art Museum of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC, USA
2001
Kunst und Kur / arte e benessere, Kunsthaus Meran, Merano, Italy
Marking the Territory, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art: Mega-Wave – Towards a New Synthesis, Yokohama, Japan
Festival International EXIT, Maison des Arts Creteil, Paris, France; International Festival VIA, Théâtre du Manège, Maubeuge, France [touring exhibition]
Translated Acts: Performance and Body Art from East Asia, 1990-2001, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA; Museo de Arte Alvar y Carmen de Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico (2002) [touring exhibition]
Duitsland: Die Welt aus deutscher Sicht, Stichting Odapark: Centrum voor hedendaagse kunst, Venray, Netherlands
2000
Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Yume no Ato – Was vom Traum blieb … Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Japan, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany [touring exhibition]
Strange Home, Historisches Museum and Kestner Museum, Hanover, Germany
Continental Shift. Eine Reise zwischen Kulturen, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands; Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Netherlands; Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporaine Liège, Belgium [touring exhibition]
Heimat Kunst - Kulturelle Vielfalt in Deutschland, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; Kulturverein Zehntscheuer, Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany (2001) [touring exhibition]