Kiriko Shirobayashi was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. In 1989 she began a BFA in Photography at Osaka University of Arts. In 1995 she moved to the United States. After graduating from the School of Visual Arts with a MFA in Photography and Related Media in 1999, she has lived and worked, mostly, in New York City.
She has been exhibiting her work in the U.S. and abroad including The Center for Photography at Woodstock, The Houston Center for Photography, New Arts Program, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Allentown Art Museum, Paula Cooper Gallery, The National Museum of Belarus (Minsk), and De Santos Gallery. She has received awards from GEN ART, and Trillium Press and has completed residencies at Foundation Valparaiso (Almeria, Spain), Art Farm (Marquette NE, U.S.A.), Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.), Headlands Center for the Arts, (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.), Santa Fe Art Institute ( Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.), MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, NH, U.S.A.) and ONOMA (Fiskars, Finland) to continue her projects. Some of the images from the series “Lines” were selected for the Photography 21 exhibition and for the 5th Pingyao International Festival in Pingyao, China.
She has also collaborated with a writer and made the book “KnitKnit: Profiles + Projects from Knitting's New Wave”. She photographed most of the book which came out September 2007 and has had a great reaction, and been written-up in many places, including the New York Times and People magazine. She is also having a solo show in Tokyo early 2008.
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