Chiei Ishida
Chiei Ishida is a Japanese artist based in Singapore. Her works are the portrayal of her daily life and surroundings usually involves botanical themes. By applying realist approach to this simple subject matter, she documents the memorable things and moments as if taking snapshots or writing a diary.
BORN
1978 Tokyo, Japan
EDUCATION
2014
Master of Arts, Art History and Curatorship Program with Honours,
Australian National University, Australia
2004
Master of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, USA
Major: Printmaking
2001
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Joshibi University of Art and Design, Japan
Major: Printmaking
AWARD, SCHOLARSHIP, FELLOWSHIP, MEMBERSHIP
2021
Best Acrylic Award, PleinAir Salon August competition
2015
Golden Key International Honour Society, Australian National University
2012
Endeavour Postgraduate Scholarship, Australia Awards Endeavour Scholarships and Fellowships, Australian Government
2003
Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fine Arts Fellowship, San Francisco Foundation
NOMINATION
2004
Headlands Center for the Arts, Graduate Artist Studio Awards, Sausalito, CA
SOLO EXHIBITION
2003
Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
"Make Arts Happen in Mama's Lives," Central Public Library, Singapore
2005
“Ghost of Little Boy,” National Japanese American Historical Society, San Francisco, CA
“Threshold,” Merced Cultural Center, Merced, CA
“Diorama,” Mission 17, San Francisco, CA
“Accumulated Allusions,“ San Pablo Art Gallery, San Pablo, CA
“Some Thing-out of nothing,” Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2004
“Issho / Together: Japanese American/Japanese National Artists in America 1941-present,” Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“APAture,” Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA
“Elevation,” Mission 17, San Francisco, CA
“San Francisco Art Institute-Master of Fine Arts Exhibition,” Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
“New California Masters,” Works/ San Jose, CA
“Close Calls,” Headlands Center for the Arts, Headlands, CA
“Labyrinth,” Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2003
“The Murphy’s Fellowship Award Exhibition,” San Francisco Art commissions Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Third Street Inside/Out,” Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
“Gene Carnival,” Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
“Continuing MFA Show,” Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2001
“Printmaking Graduate Show,” Seira Gallery, Tokyo
“Five Art University Exhibition,” Machida International Print Museum, Tokyo
“Metaphor of the Body,” Pepper’s Gallery, Tokyo
PRESS
2021
"Best of Category Awards," PleinAir Magazine, Volume 11 Issue 6, December 2021-January2022, p.71
"Appreciating Ato (Art)," Mama on Palette, July, https://www.mamaonpalette.com/blog/appreciating-ato-art
"This March holidays, cultivate creativity with your children through art," The Pride, March, http://pride.kindness.sg/march-holidays-creativity-children-art/
2005
Bee Cool-San Pablo News, June-July
Hokubei Mainichi, June
Artweek, June
2004
Kearny Street Workshop Newsletter Fall
2003
Artweek, October
ARTIST TALK
2021
"Every Mother Is A True Artist," National Public Library, Singapore