THE TRIENNIAL 2025
Chiharu Shiota
Home Less Home, 2025
In her awe-inspiring installations, Chiharu Shiota (born 1972 in Osaka, Japan; lives and works in Berlin) foregrounds stories of migration, home, connection, memory, and consciousness. Using line in the form of string, Shiota creates immersive installations that underscore human connection and experience. For the ICA Watershed, Shiota will present two signature, large-scale installations that consider the ways humans collect memories and form connections as they move and travel: a site-specific iteration of Accumulation – Searching for the Destination (2014/2025) and a newly commissioned installation, Home Less Home (2025).
Featured as part of the Boston Public Art Triennial 2025, this exhibition, Chiharu Shiota’s first solo presentation in New England, amplifies the Watershed as a unique space for public art in Boston. In dialogue with the Triennial’s theme of Exchange, Shiota will invite East Boston residents and organizations to contribute objects and stories that will be integrated into her installations.
On view at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston from May 22 on September 1, 2025.
Tuesday - Sunday
11am - 5pm
ICA Watershed
256 Marginal St.
Boston, MA 02128
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Chiharu Shiota
b. 1972, based in Berlin
Chiharu Shiota (born 1972, Osaka, Japan) is a Berlin-based Japanese artist who has been working at the intersection of performance, sculpture, and large-scale installation since the 1990s. Shiota is internationally renowned for her large-scale installations, which she has exhibited globally, with recent solo presentations at the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (2024); Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain (2024); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2023); Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (2022); ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe (2021); Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington (2020); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2019); and Gropius Bau, Berlin (2019). Her work has also been included in numerous group shows and international exhibitions, including the 56th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale (2015) where Shiota represented Japan with her installation The Key in the Hand.