Yuko Shiraishi

Yuko Shiraishi had her first one person exhibition at the Edward Totah Gallery in London in 1988. Since then she has shown her paintings and installations at galleries and museums worldwide including the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Germany (2007), Leeds City Art Gallery and Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork (2003), Museum Wiesbaden, Germany (2002), Tate St Ives (1999) and the Ernst Museum, Budapest (1998). Her most recent gallery exhibitions include Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York (2006), Annely Juda Fine Art, London (2009) and Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel (2010).

Between 2001 and 2004 Shiraishi worked in collaboration with architects Allies and Morrison as internal and external colour advisor on the BBC buildings, White City, London. From 2005 she worked on several major architectural commissions in Japan, Germany and London. In 2008 she curated the Kyoto Art Walk at Njojo Castel, Kiyomizudera Temple, Tofukuji Temple in Kyoto, Japan.

At Art Unlimited during the Basel art fair in 2010 she showed her installation Space Elevator Tea House which was first shown with Annely Juda Fine Art, London in 2009.

Yuko Shiraishi lives and works in London.