JULIANE SHIBATA

Juliane is a ceramic artist and educator based in Northfield, MN. Her work is informed by the Japanese concept of mujō (mutability and impermanence) as well as the Pattern & Decoration movement. Juliane celebrates the beauty she finds in the artifacts of mundane labor by emphasizing the material aspects of fabrication.

Juliane received her MFA from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She was awarded a 2021 McKnight Artist Fellowship for Ceramic Artists and three Artist Initiative grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Her installations have been commissioned by, among others, Abbott Northwestern Hospital and the Four Seasons Hotel Minneapolis. Works of hers belong to the permanent collections of Northern Arizona University’s Art Museum, the Brown-Forman Corporation, the Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, and the Francis Greenburger Collection.