YUKO SHIRAISHI

1956 Born Tokyo
1974-76 Lived in Vancouver, Canada
1978-81 Chelsea School of Art, BA
1981-82 Chelsea School of Art, MA

Lives and works in London

SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

1988 Edward Totah Gallery, London
1989 Shigeru Yokota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm, Sweden
Edward Totah Gallery, London
Artsite, Bath

1991 Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth
1992 Shigeru Yokota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Edward Totah Gallery, London

1994 Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm, Sweden
1996 Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Focus, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia

1997 Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm, Sweden
Shigeru Yokota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Juxtaposition, Annely Juda Fine Art, London

1998 Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary
1999 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, USA
As Dark as Light, Tate Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall

2000 Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm, Sweden

2001 Assemble - Disperse, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Shigeru Yokota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2002 Infinite Line, Die unendliche Linie, Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
Episode, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, University of
Warwick, Coventry

2003 Episode, travelled to Leeds City Art Gallery
Yuko Shiraishi – There and Back, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork
Tuesday is cerise, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle

2005 Temperature: Installation, Project and Painting, Annely Juda Fine Art, London

ONE PERSON PROJECTS

2001- FIH: Field Institute Hombroich (with Tadashi Kawamata, Katsuhito Nishikawa), Stiftung Insel Hombroich Museum, Neuss, Germany

2001-2004 BBC White City Project (with Allies & Morrison), London
2005 Jiundou Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
Swimmingpool (with Mie Miyamoto, Jonathan More-Coldcut),
Stiftung Insel Hombroich Museum, Neuss, Germany

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1980 New Contemporaries, ICA, London
1988 The Presence of Painting: Aspects of British Abstraction 1957-88,
Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield Hatton Arts Gallery, Newcastle, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

1990 Künstlerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts, Museum Wiesbaden, Germany, Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm, Sweden
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

1991 Double Take, American Japan Art Association, New York, USA
1992 Geteilte Bilder - Das Diptychon in der neuen Kunst, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
A Sense of Purpose, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield

1993 Moving into view - Recent British Paintings, Arts Council Touring Exhibition
Zwei Energien, Haus für Konstruktive und Konkrete Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Contemporary Art, Courtauld Institute, London

1994 Unveiled, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester
Jerwood Painting Prize 1994, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Royal Academy of Arts, London

1995 New Painting, Arts Council touring Exhibition
Pretext Heteronyms, Clink Street, curated by Rear Window

1996 New Paintings from the Arts Council Collection, Bath Museum
1997 Pretext Heteronyms, San Michele, Rome,, Italy, Haus Bill, Zumikon, Zurich, Switzerland
1998 Clear and Saturated, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Immerzeit, Forum Konkrete Kunst Galerie am Fischmarkt, Erfurt, Germany

1999 Geometrie als Gestalt, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Vendégjáték, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Hungary

2000 Blue: Borrowed and New, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
Grau ist nicht Grau, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland

2001 Nu Konstruktiv Tendens - efter 20ar, Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens,
Stockholm, Sweden2002 Colour - A Life of Its Own, Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary

2003 Index on Colour, Leeds City Art Gallery
Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland

2004 Art Scope Daimler Chrysler Japan, Daimler Chrysler, Berlin, Germany APRIORI, Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen, Venice, Italy, Mainz, Germany

2005 Swimmingpool (with Mie Miyamoto, Jonathan More-Coldcut),
FIH, Stifung Insel Hombroich Museum, Neuss, Germany

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Arts Council of Great Britain
British Council, London
British Government Collection, London
British Museum, London
Contemporary Art Society, London
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Graves City Art Gallery, Sheffield
Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Max Bill - George Vantongerloo, Zumikon, Switzerland
McCrory Corporation, New York, USA
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Ohara Museum, Kurashiki, Japan
Weishaupt Forum, Ulm, Germany

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

1988 Sarah Kent, Time Out, May
James Burr, Apollo, May
'The Presence of Painting', catalogue essay by Michael Tooby, Arts Council Touring Exhibition
'Aspects of British Abstraction 1957-1988', Mappin Art Gallery,
Sheffield
Marina Vaizey, The Sunday Times, 11 December
1989 catalogue essay by Yuko Shiraishi, Tieerhuys Galerij, Belgium
'Abstract Connection', William Packer, The Financial Times, August
'Yuko Shiraishi', catalogue essay by Michel Tooby, Shigeru Gallery, Tokyo
1990 Fumio Nanjyo, Flash Art International, March / April
'Yuko Shiraishi', catalogue essay by Margaret Garlake,
Edward Totah Gallery, London
Robert MacDonald, Time Out, May
Mel Gooding, Art Monthly, July / August
Sacha Craddock, The Guardian, 10 October
'Künstlerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts, catalogue essay by Sister Wendy Beckett, Museum Wiesbaden
1991 'Double Take Japan-America', catalogue essay by Michael Tooby and Akira Tatehata, Art Association, New York
1992 Janet Koplos, Art in America, May
'Geteilte Bilder - Das Diptychon in der neuen Kunst, catalogue essay by Gerhard Finckh, Museum Folkwang, Essen Angelika Storm-Rusche, Neue Zeit, Berlin, 2 April
'A sense of purpose', catalogue essay by Michael Tooby, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
Sue Hubbard, Time Out, November
1993 'Yuko Shiraishi', catalogue essay by Mel Gooding, Gallery Kasahara, Osaka
'Moving into View - Recent British painting', catalogue essay by Sacha Craddock, Arts Council, London
'Zwei Energien', catalogue essay by Thomas A. Clark;
'Japan Aspekte eines Landes und einer Gesellschaft' by Margit
Weinberg-Staber, Haus für Konstruktive und Konkrete Kunst, Zurich
William Packer, Financial Times, 14 May
Nicoletta Locarnini, Arte, June
'Junge Kunst Sammeln 93', catalogue essay by Heinrich Klotz,
Daimler Benz, Stuttgart
1994 Lucinda Bredin, Sunday Telegraph, 12 June
Geraldine Norman, Independent on Sunday, 31 July
Martin Gayford, Sunday Telegraph, 21 August
William Packer, Financial Times, 10 September
John McEwen, Sunday Telegraph, 18 September
John Windsor, Independent on Sunday, 18 September
William Packer, Financial Times, 24 September
Martin Gayford, Modern Painters, Autumn
1995 Sister Wendy Beckett, Meditations of Silence, published by Dorling Kindersley
Sarah Kent, Time Out, 22-29 November
Sue Hubbard, New Statement and Society, December
1996 Monograph Yuko Shiraishi, Cantz'sche Verlag, Germany: 'Harmony That Puts Order into contradiction' by Dr Volker Rattemayer; 'Natural Selection' by Waldemar Januszcak; 'A Thin Irregular Yellow Line' by Thomas A. Clark; 'Torrential Rain' by Yuko Shiraishi
Sabine Weder Arlitt, 'Gedehnte Einsichten', Tages-Anzeiger Zuritip, Zurich, 31 May
Sibylle Omlin, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 23 July
Heinz Norbert Jocks, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung,
24 October
Antje Klose, Rheinsche Post, 26 October
Linda Rohr-Bongard, Impulse, November
'Focus', catalogue essay by Richard Grayson: '"Not quite" Some works by Yuko Shiraishi', 'Focus', catalogue essay by Yuko Shiraishi, Experimental Art Foundation, Australia
1997 Linda Maria Walker, Broadsheet, Vol.26 Autumn, Australia
'Pretext Heteronymous', catalogue essay by Achille Bonito Oliva, Juliet Steyu and Stella Santacatterina
'Juxtapositions', catalogue essay by Caoímhin Mac Giolla Leith,
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Michael Muridsany, Le Figaro, 1 October
Sacha Craddock, The Times, 18 November
Sue Hubbard, Time Out, 10 - 17 October
1998 'Abstraction and Melancholy', catalogue essay by Ildiko D. Udvary
'Yuko Shiraishi', catalogue essay by Norbert Lynton, Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary
'Clear and Saturated', catalogue essay by Yuko Shiraishi for Arti et
Amicitiae, Amsterdam
1999 'As Dark as Light', catalogue interview with Michael Tooby, Tate St Ives, Cornwall
'Geometrie als Gestalt', catalogue essay by Fritz Jacobi, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, 1 June
Andrew Lambirth, RA Magazine, Summer
Charles Darwent, The Sunday Independent, 6 June
Camilla Blechen, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 14 June
Ossian Ward, The Art Newspaper, July - August
Valerie Reardon, Art Monthly, July - August
Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times, 28 July
Sue Hubbard, Contemporary Visual Arts, Summer - Autumn
John McEwen, The Sunday Telegraph, 8 August
Ennio Puchard, Lanedi, 9 August
William Packer, Financial Times, 10 August
Katie Tokus, Evening Herald, 14 August
Janet Koplos, Art in America, October
2000 Marion Benz, Basler Zeitung, 22 - 28 June
2001 'Assemble – Disperse', 'Globalisation, Identity, Culture, Art and A World of My Own', catalogue essay by Yuko Shiraishi, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Mark Wilsher, What's On, 20-30 May
Martin Coomer, Time Out, 23-30 May
'Towards the forest of colour and regeneration', catalogue essay by Takeshi Sakurai, Gallery Kasahara, Tokyo
2002 Yuko Shiraishi, ‘FIH - Field Institute Hombroich, Germany’,
Landscape & Art, Number 25
'Colour - A life of its own', catalogue essay by Livia Paldi, Mucsarnok, Budapest
'Die unendliche Linie, The Infinite Line’, catalogue essay by Volker Rattemeyer, Renate Petzinger, Katja Blomberg, Museum Wiesbaden
'Episode', catalogue essays by Sarah Shalgosky, Helen Legg and Nigel Walsh, 'Free Will' by Yuko Shiraishi, 'Whispered Asides: The paintings of Yuko Shiraishi' by Marco Livingstone, 'Painting and Photography' by Andrew Benjamin
Karen Write, Modern Painters, Winter 2002
Rose Aiden, Vogue, Nov 02
2003 Mark Ewart, The Irish Times, April 28
Nicola Jackson, ‘Building The BBC: A return to Form’ by BBC
'Tuesday is cerise', 'Making Space', catalogue essay by Richard Grayson
2004 ‘Was ist Kunst?' by Angela Thomas-Schmid, Du June
2005 Manfred Eichel, Zeitraum