Chikako Yamashiro (山城 知佳å , Yamashiro Chikako, born 1976) is
a Japanese filmmaker and video artist. Her works in photography, video
and performance create visual investigations into the history,
politics and culture of her homeland Okinawa. Particularly salient are
themes related to the terrible civilian casualties incurred on the
ground in Okinawa during World War II and the on-going troubles
surrounding the U.S. military presence in Okinawa. Since 2019 she is
Associate Professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts.Chikako
Yamashiro was born and raised in Okinawa. In 1999 she received her
bachelor's degree in Oil painting from the Okinawa Prefectural
University of Arts, went on to study at the Surrey Institute of Art &
Design, U.K. In 2020 she completed the Graduate Course at the
Environmental Design, Graduate School of Formative Arts at the Okinawa
Prefectural University of Arts.Chikako Yamashiro's recent exhibitions
include: From Generation to Generation: Inherited Memory and
Contemporary Art (2016â€"17, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San
Francisco/USA), SEVEN JAPANESE ROOMS (2016â€"17, Fondazione
Carispezia, La Spezia/Italy), 2016 Aichi Triennale (2016, the former
Meiji-ya Sakae Building, Aichi), the 8th Asian Pacific Triennial of
Contemporary Art (2015â€"16, Queensland Art Gallery /Gallery of Modern
Art, Brisbane/Australia), East Asia Feminism: FANTasia (2015, Seoul
Museum of Art, Seoul/Korea), MAM Project 018:Chikako Yamashiro (2012,
Mori Art Museum Gallery 1, Tokyo). Selected publications include:
Circulating World: The Art of Chikako Yamashiro(2016, Yumiko
ChibaAssociates), Chikako Yamashiro (2012, Yumiko Chiba
Associates).She won the 2017 Asian Art Award.
a Japanese filmmaker and video artist. Her works in photography, video
and performance create visual investigations into the history,
politics and culture of her homeland Okinawa. Particularly salient are
themes related to the terrible civilian casualties incurred on the
ground in Okinawa during World War II and the on-going troubles
surrounding the U.S. military presence in Okinawa. Since 2019 she is
Associate Professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts.Chikako
Yamashiro was born and raised in Okinawa. In 1999 she received her
bachelor's degree in Oil painting from the Okinawa Prefectural
University of Arts, went on to study at the Surrey Institute of Art &
Design, U.K. In 2020 she completed the Graduate Course at the
Environmental Design, Graduate School of Formative Arts at the Okinawa
Prefectural University of Arts.Chikako Yamashiro's recent exhibitions
include: From Generation to Generation: Inherited Memory and
Contemporary Art (2016â€"17, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San
Francisco/USA), SEVEN JAPANESE ROOMS (2016â€"17, Fondazione
Carispezia, La Spezia/Italy), 2016 Aichi Triennale (2016, the former
Meiji-ya Sakae Building, Aichi), the 8th Asian Pacific Triennial of
Contemporary Art (2015â€"16, Queensland Art Gallery /Gallery of Modern
Art, Brisbane/Australia), East Asia Feminism: FANTasia (2015, Seoul
Museum of Art, Seoul/Korea), MAM Project 018:Chikako Yamashiro (2012,
Mori Art Museum Gallery 1, Tokyo). Selected publications include:
Circulating World: The Art of Chikako Yamashiro(2016, Yumiko
ChibaAssociates), Chikako Yamashiro (2012, Yumiko Chiba
Associates).She won the 2017 Asian Art Award.
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