fixed categorizations of man/woman, USA/Japan, and perpetrator/victim. Curating Shimada is active as a curator in Japan and internationally. With her longtime collaborator BuBu, she co-curated the controversial exhibition How to Use Women’s Body at Ota Fine Arts in 2000, which displayed the works of seven female and one male artists’ attempts to reclaim their bodies in their artwork. She curated Nakajima Yoshio Syndrome in 2015 at Atsukobarouh gallery in Shibuya, Tokyo, as well as From Nirvana to Catastrophe at Ota Fine Arts in 2017, for which she wrote and edited the exhibition catalogues. Shimada also curated the Bigakkō portion of the “Anti-Academy” exhibit at the John Hansard Gallery at the University of Southampton in 2013, an exhibition that examined the ideas, processes, and legacies of radical education models in the 1960s in Japan, the U.S. and Denmark. Exhibition History Selected solo exhibitions: "Being a Japanese Comfort Woman" street performance (2012), London/Tokyo Bones in Tansu - Family Secrets (2007) - Travelling Exhibition: University of Philippines (Manila), Chiang Mai University Art Museum (Chiang Mai, Thailand), Cemeti Art House (Yogkyakarta, Indonesia), and Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen. Escape from 'Oneself' (2001), Centre A, Vancouver, Canada Kyoto Seika University Gallery (2000), Kyoto Asia/Pacific Studies Institute, New York, University, New York A Space Gallery (1997), Toronto John Batten Gallery (1997), Hong Kong Hiraya Gallery (1997), Manila Keio University Art Centre (1996), Tokyo Ota Fine Arts (1996, 1998, 2002), Tokyo Selected group exhibitions: Felt Experience (2007), Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern, Ireland Conceal/Confess (2007), Chiang mai University Art Museum, Thailand Doll House (2007), Shanghai Xuhui Art Museum, Shanghai Sex Arbeit (2006) NGBK Shanghai Mapping the Body (2006), NRLA Festival, Tramway, Glasgow Fantastic Asia (2005), Songkuk Museum, Seoul Life, actually (2005), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Borderline Cases (2004), A.R.T. gallery, Toronto Trans-Okinawa (2003), Highway, Los Angeles City-net Asia (2003), Seoul City of art Museum, Seoul Seoul-Asia Art Now (2003), Maronier Art Centre, Seoul, Korea Attitude (2002), Kumatoto Cisty Museum of Contemporary Art, Kumamoto Empathy (2002), Fujikawa Gallery, Osaka East Asian Women and Herstories, Seoul Women's Center, Seoul, Korea There, Gwangju Biennale project 2, Gwangju, Korea Spirits (2001), workshops and theatre performance with Theatreworks, Singapore Sex and Consumerism (2001), Brighton University, Aberythowyth Art Centre, Wales and other venues in the UK Yume no Ato (2000), Haus am Waldsee Berlin, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden Dark Mirrors from Japan (2000), De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam Windows-inside, outside (1999), Gwanju City Art Museum,