Chiharu Shiota: Two Home Countries

Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota makes her Bay Area debut with this major exhibition exploring themes of identity, belonging, and displacement through her signature large-scale fiber installations. Drawing from throughout her career, the show features monumental works like *Diary*, which transforms the museum's pavilion with thousands of red yarn strands suspended around handwritten accounts from Japanese soldiers and German civilians, and *Two Home Countries*, an immersive installation that visualizes the artist's experience of bicultural identity. Alongside sculptures, videos, and drawings, the exhibition reveals how Shiota transforms abstract emotional experiences—displacement, memory, and vulnerability—into tangible, visually arresting environments that speak to the increasingly universal experience of living between multiple homes, cultures, and identities.