12 Facts About Shino Watabe

Shino Watabe is a Japanese artist who has lived and worked in Mexico permanently since 1990.

Shino Watabe has had numerous individual and collective exhibitions in Mexico, more recently working with a group of Mexican and Japanese female artists called Flor de Maguey.

Shino Watabe studied from 1985 to 1988 at the preparatory school affiliated with the Women's University of Fine Arts.

Shino Watabe has studied under Jesus Martinez, Pedro Ascencio and Gilberto Aceves Navarro.

Shino Watabe has lived in Mexico City since coming to study, speaking Spanish fluently since shortly after her arrival.

Shino Watabe is one of many Japanese artists who have come to Mexico because of the culture the opportunities it affords them.

Shino Watabe's work was featured in 1997 in the Trabajo Social magazine published by UNAM.

Shino Watabe belongs to a group of Japanese and Mexican female artists in Mexico City called the Flor de Maguey which has sculptors Beatrix Lazo, Keiko Toda, painters Shoko Sumi and Midori Suzuki and engravers Patricia Medillin and Sumi Hamano.

At this exhibition, Shino Watabe's contribution was fifteen works related to the 2011 Japanese earthquake.

Shino Watabe's work is mostly autobiographical, strongly influenced by figurative art.

Shino Watabe relates a story that when she was a child, she would take stones from the bottom of a river, which shined as they were wet.

Shino Watabe has found the same effect with words, profound as she thinks them but less important once said.