Shiori HORIE

Shiori Horie was born in France in 1992. Following graduation from Tokyo Gakugei University Senior High School in 2010, Horie entered Tama Art University specializing in Nihonga painting, and graduated in 2014. In the same year, she held her inaugural solo exhibition at Kashima Arts and exhibited her works at ART FAIR TOKYO 2015 in a solo presentation by the gallery. In 2015, Horie was awarded the Gotoh Cultural Award, Fine Arts Division, and was nominated for the 6th Kaii Higashiyama Memorial Award for the Nikkei Nihonga Grand Prize. With a grant from the Gotoh Cultural Award, Horie spent a year in Paris in 2016. In 2020, the artist received the 6TH SETAGAYA ART AWARD “HISHOU” and in March 2021, held a solo exhibition at the Setagaya Museum as a part of the 6th SETAGAYA ART AWARD “HISHOU” Memorial Exhibitions.

In the spring of the same year, Horie held solo exhibitions at √K Contemporary and Kashima Arts as part of the 26th Gotoh Memorial Cultural Award Exhibition: An Overseas Training Program Achievement Showcase. In 2021, Horie received the VOCA  (Vision of Contemporary Art) 2022's VOCA Honorable Mention Award and the Takashimaya Culture Foundation's 32nd Takashimaya Art Award. In 2022, the artist published her work anthology, "Shiori Horie A Breath Away" (Shogakukan), and held her solo exhibition, "[Associated Exhibition] HORIE Shiori: Toward the Unreachable" at The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura & Hayama KAMAKURA ANNEX. The following year, Horie's works were presented at the Okawa Museum of Art for a special display as part of the commemorative exhibition, "Fifty Drawings by Shunsuke Matsumoto". In addition to her many exhibitions and awards, the artist's essays have been published in numerous magazines and her works have graced the covers of esteemed books such as Yoko Hiramatsu's Chichi no Bisco (Shogakukan, 2021) and 5 volumes of the Japanese translation of Jules Verne, The Collected Voyages Extraordinaires (Inscript). The artist also produced the cover and illustrations for Yoko Tawada's The Emissary (Kodansha, 2014).

√K Artist page |　https://root-k.jp/artists/shiorihorie/

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