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Yamashiro Chikako

Born 1976 in Okinawa, graduated from the Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts in1999, and thereafter studied at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, U.K. Completed the Graduate Course at the Environmental Design, Graduate School of Formative Arts, the Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts in 2002.
Major exhibitions include solo show "Graveyard Festival" (WANAKIO 2002, Maejima Art Center, Okinawa), and such group shows as; "Okinawa Prismed 1872-2008" (The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2008), "Into the Atomic Sunshine in Okinawa" (Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, 2009), and "Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions: Searching Songs" (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2010), "Art, Performance & Activism in Contemporary Japan"（Pump House Gallery, London, 2012), and "Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012" (Fukuoka Asian Art Museum and others, 2012-13).

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