Noriko Shinohara: Herstory

		Noriko Shinohara
Shows	2007 2006 2005 1999 1994 1986	Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York Japan Society Gallery, New York September 27, 2007 - January 13, 2008 Curated by Eric C. Shiner Solo Print Exhibition, Almondine, New York. Solo Exhibition for prints, pastels, & watercolors at Gallery Now, Toyama, Japan New Prints 2005/Autumn from International Print Center New York, at Columbia College, Chicago Juried exhibition new prints 2005/Autumn, International Print Center New York "Transcending 9/11": folding books, etchings, pastels at Gallery Niigata Eya ("Snow Country Home of Arts") Etchings, pastels, oils at Galleria Grafica, Tokyo. Oil paintings, illustrations for novel, Sighs of New York, at Bokushin Gallery, Tokyo. Godzilla Immigrates to America, at the Cat Club, New York.
Group Shows	2003- 1981	click here for list
Collected By		Davis Museum & Cultural Center Wellesley College

Herstory...	1953	Born in Takaoka-city, Japan.
	1972	Graduates from Takaoka high school. Leaves for New York. Sublets Greenwich Village aparment from artist Kenzo Okada Enrolls at Art Students League.
	1973	Meets Ushio Shinohara, artist 21 years her senior. One week later moves into his loft, for which she starts paying the rent, giving up Greenwich Village apartment. Frequents SOHO bars neglecting ASL, which expells her. She enrolls at Pratt Graphics Center to get student visa. Becomes pregnant.
	1974	Gives birth to son, Alexander Kukai, causing her parents to cut off financial support, leaving her to face poverty for first time in her life.
	1977	Expelled from Pratt for non-payment of tuition, lives without visa.
	1979	Marries Ushio Shinohara one month after his first wife divorces him.
	1980	Gets Green Card.
	1981- 1991	Shows in Group Exhibitions [click here]
	1986	Moved to loft in DUMBO (Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass)
	1987	First visit to Bermuda gives her idea of writing.
	1988	Started the novella Kosodate Jigoku ("Hell of Raising a Child"), based on her experience raising not her son but her husband, in a Japanese News Paper “O.C.S.” published in New York. Continues for 3 years.
	1992	Son Alexander graduates from La Guardia High School of Music & Art, enrolls at Rhode Island School of Design
	1994	Publishes novella, Tameiki no New York ("Sighs of New York") based on "Hell of Raising a Child" [to see sample page, click here]
New Arts	1995	Begins study of etching with master teachers in Kyoto & Tokyo.
		Kyoto City Art University (etching) & Tokyo National Art University (etching but also aquatint & engraving).
	1996	Son Alexander graduates from RISD, returns home: three artists at work in one loft.
	1998	Produces husband's "Boxing Painting" performance at MAK, Vienna.
	1999	First show of new etchings & related pastels & oils at Galleria Grafica, Tokyo. Shows with 25 Artists Celebrate The Asian American Art Center 25th anniversary, New York.
	2000	Organizes husbands' Boxing Painting Performance, “ET L’ART SE MET AU MONDE PROLOGUE POUR LA BIENNALE,” Institut d'art contemporain - Frac Rhône-alpes / Nouveau musée, Villeurbanne. Organizes “Boxing Painting” in the group exhibition “Metamorphosis-Analyzing the paper” at the Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, Korea. Stakes out her own studio within the loft, declares independence.
	2003	Son gives Mother a daughter: Alexander marries an artist, Gaku: four artists working in one loft.
		Life of art in loft jeopardized by development, raising rents in DUMBO (Down Under Mahattan Bridge Overpass).

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