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Yukako Shibata

Born 1972, Otaru, Hokkaido · Painting, sculpture and installation

Yukako Shibata (born 1972, Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan) is an artist who has lived in London since 1993 and whose work, a hybrid of painting, sculpture and installation, uses colour and reflected light to question how we perceive them.

In the collection

About the artist

Yukako Shibata was born in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan, in 1972 (Ben Uri Research Unit; Artsy) and has lived and worked in London since 1993 (Yukako Shibata). She took a BA in Fine Art at the City & Guilds of London Art School (1995 to 1998), a postgraduate diploma at Byam Shaw School of Art and an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art (2002 to 2005) (Yukako Shibata, CV).

She describes her work as a hybrid of sculpture, painting and installation, built on colour, light and reflection: some painted surfaces are hidden so that only their reflected colour is seen (Yukako Shibata). Her solo exhibitions include Luminescence at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in London (2008), Colour Shadow at the Lightgallery in London (2013) and Ethereal at Gallery MoMo in Tokyo (2014) (Yukako Shibata, CV), her first solo show in Japan (Time Out Tokyo).

Her work is in collections including the Royal College of Art Collection, the Tim Sayer Collection (bequeathed to The Hepworth Wakefield), Doris Lockhart Saatchi and Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank (Yukako Shibata). For the arts and mental health charity Hospital Rooms she made De-escalation Room (2019) at Bluebird House (Hospital Rooms), an adolescent mental health unit in Southampton (Yukako Shibata, CV).

Sources

  1. Yukako Shibata, BIO
  2. Yukako Shibata, CV
  3. Ben Uri Research Unit, Yukako Shibata
  4. Artsy, Yukako Shibata
  5. Time Out Tokyo, Yukako Shibata: Ethereal
  6. Hospital Rooms, Yukako Shibata
  7. Hospital Rooms, Bluebird House Gallery
A room in the Joseph Clark Collection hung salon-style: framed paintings, drawings and photographs cover two white walls, with sculptures on a teak sideboard and a white plinth below.
Installation view of the Joseph Clark Collection, including works by Zhang Enli, Tamsin Relly, Glenn Ligon, Louise Bourgeois, Ray Parker, Phyllida Barlow, Bengt Rosenström, Antonio Tarsis, Hugo Glendinning, Tim A Shaw, France-Lise McGurn, Mia Chaplin, Fabian Peake and Yukako Shibata.

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