Yoshiko Shimada (嶋田 美子, Shimada Yoshiko, b. 1959) is a Japanese printmaker and perform artist who has been referred to as “Japan’s premier feminist and antiwar artist.”
Shimada has been exploring issues of gender, power, history, and nation in her artwork past the late 1980s, situating her artwork within her own puzzling socio-political context of mammal Asian, Japanese, and a woman. Her works have been exhibited expansively, both within Japan and internationally. Shimada has curated art exhibitions in Japan and abroad, and she lectures upon Japanese art, politics, and feminism at the University of Tokyo.
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