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Setsuko Chiba is a Japanese poet, artist, poetry reading art performer, mixed media artist and award-winning artist. She graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo.

After making her debut in the mid-1990s in the East Village of New York, USA, she moved to Paris, France, where she was released by the French record label Spalax with French musician, Jean-François Pauvros, as a Japanese-English and French-language poet and artist. She is the first Japanese poet to release a CD of poetry readings in Japanese, English and French for the European market.[1] Through a series of live performances in Japan and abroad, she has raised poetry reading to a total art form and paved the way for a new generation of artist poets through her artistic stage work, which is distinctly different from so-called poetry recitations, as a star icon in the world of poetry reading. [1][2]

After graduating from Aoyama Gakuin University, worked as a journalist in the Mainichi Newspaper's special edition editorial department, an essayist and in other writing jobs. She also worked in photography and modelling for the photographers and international fashion magazines. [1] Setsuko Icon / POETGRAPHOLLIA which is the collaboration of literature and photograph, with a photographer, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, had been exhibited in Japanese leading galleries and showed in many magazines including an international fashion magazine in Milan, eye style international magazine.

Since the late 1990s, she has lived in Shirakawa City, Fukushima Prefecture, and has been active as an artist, especially after the Great East Japan Earthquake of 11 March 2011 and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, creating and presenting conceptual photographic tools and installation contemporary art works on the theme of 'Resilience and Renaissance of the Heart'. [1][2]

In 2021, she was selected as one of 52 poets from 52 countries to have her poems published in Global Insides-vaccine, a poetry collection published by an American publisher. One-third of the proceeds from the sale of the book of poems were donated to healthcare workers and the needy in the US Corona disaster, which was the worst at the time. [1][2][3][4]

In 2022, she was selected as a Shortlisted Artist from a total of 2000 entries worldwide in the 'Alpine Arts Foundation International Competition Visual Art Prize' in the UK. [1][2]

5. ↑I saw Setsuko Chiba perform and present her poetry in Paris almost 20 years ago, and discovered her ability as an artist. [1]

6. ↑The magazine was liked by the then editor-in-chief, Christina Frasca, and was featured in the main gravure for two consecutive seasons, which was unusual for the fashion industry.

She has a style that stands out in the current Japanese poetry reading world (extract from the website 'artist')[1]. She has a style that stands out in the current Japanese poetry reading world (extract from the website 'artist')[1].

↑2014 Oct-Nov - Gallery shimizu "Setsuko Icon / POETGRAPHOLLIA / Planet Angel", collaboration with poet Setsuko Chiba.

↑Setsuko Chiba is a poet, artist and poetry-reading art performer with a diverse range of artistic activities around the world. [1]

↑"Your work heals lives and gives hope. We all need to look up to the sky and let our courage spring forth. I urge you to continue this work. Everyone needs hope." [1]

Global Insides-vaccine [1].

Nightmare Garden

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Setsuko Chiba - Cloud 9 in the 7th Heaven [1]. installlife.hitois.net/ Setsuko Icon / POETGRAPHOLLIA Setsuko Chiba Facebook [2]. The Utsukushima sky that gave hope to the people of Paris Setsuko Chiba (poet, artist and poetry performer)[3]. Japan Search Nightmare Garden of Setsuko Chiba Poetry & reading Collection: Japanese National Diet Library