Draft:Kumiko Shimizu

Kumiko Shimizu (born 1948 in Osaka ) is a Japanese artist and urban designer known for participating in The Other Story, the first British retrospective exhibition of modernism by British artists of color.

Early life and education
In 1975, Shimizu moved to London to become a secretary and learn English. She started studying modern art at City Lit, having been introduced to the field by a friend.

This led to her studying for an undergraduate degree in fine art at the University of Reading from 1978 to 1982.

She went on to study for an MSc in urban design at The Bartlett School of Architecture (part of UCL) from 2001 to 2003. Her tutor was Colin Fournier. Fournier said "[Shimizu] is unique in that, unlike the majority of students who come from an architectural background, she is the only student I have had, in the last five or six years, who came from a fine arts background".

In 2017 and 2018 she studied for an LLB at Birkbeck University.

Work
Shimizu's mediums have included rubbish, paint, and murals.

In 1982 - her graduation year - she decorated 200 trees for her project Kunst in Wald (German for Art in the Forest) as part of a residency in Osnabrück. In 1989, she decorated the façade of Manchester City Art Gallery. Also in 1989, she participated in the notable Other Story exhibition in the Hayward Gallery and Camden Art Centre in London. Her work was displayed on the exterior walls of the Hayward Gallery, and was described as "environmental".

In 2008, her project Angry House took place at the Design Museum in London. In 2011, it ran again in Eleven Spitalfields, a gallery run by Whitechapel Gallery in Spitalfields, East London. In 2015, the project was described as "a preliminary manifesto for emotional architecture" and "a new method of architecture, not computer-generated but man-generated. Collaborated by Prof Colin Fournier and Kumiko Shimizu." It went on to inspire the project Creative House by Stephanie Wong at Tate Britain, which involved participants making their own stress balls and discussing their emotions in response to the Women In Revolt! exhibition.