The artist’s globe-trotting exhibition touches down in North America

Beginning September 26, 2026, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts puts Chiharu Shiota's work on display in her largest solo exhibition to date, The Soul Trembles.

Chiharu Shiota’s art installation, The Moment the Snow Melts, is on display at MUDEC – Museo delle Culture di Milano until September 20th, 2026. 

Blood red is the omnipresent color of Chiharu Shiota’s mid-career survey, Two Home Countries.

Acclaimed artist transforms yarn, objects, and space into an immersive meditation on belonging.

In Threads of Life, Chiharu Shiota delivers a spectacular and truly immersive experience.

This major monographic exhibition of the Japanese artist’s is a wide-ranging, complex, expressively powerful exhibition that traces back over all of Shiota’s production, through drawings, photographs, sculptures and some of her most famous environmental and monumental installations.

Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles is the largest solo exhibition to date of Berlin-based Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota. Since its premiere at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, in 2019, it has travelled to eight other venues around the world and will be coming to Montreal in the fall of 2026—mark your calendars!

In the past year alone, Chiharu Shiota has staged exhibitions in several countries around the world, including Austria, China, Hong Kong, Italy, and Turkey. But even as 2025 wraps up, the Japanese artist is showing no signs of slowing down. Now, Shiota’s innovative, web-like work has landed in New York for her second-ever solo show in the city.

In her first institutional exhibition in New York, the artist transforms Japan Society into a vast emotional landscape where memory and longing intertwine.

A deftly woven net of red string envelopes viewers at Chiharu Shiota’s first New York museum show, at the Japan Society. The site-specific installation, which is studded with sheets of loose papers replicating excerpts from the diaries of Japanese soldiers from World War II, is one of two pieces the institution commissioned for “Chiharu Shiota: Two Home Countries.”

The artist has had museum solo shows on three continents this year alone—but her outing at Japan Society was her first in New York.