My ancestors are Japanese and Jewish, and after ten years of travel and exploration, living around the world, I am growing roots in the clay soils of South West Portugal.
My creative practice is centred around the land, her myth, and her gifts – this takes shape as working with craft, food, and creating spaces and altar- installations. My devotion is to working with my hands and following the thread of aliveness and remembering that arises from raw material.
When not creating, I can be found being humbled by the land, furthering my knowledge how to create and sustain nourishing and regenerative systems, finding something fiddly to do with my hands, or more likely, lying in the sun and listening to the birds.
For bookings, commissions, licensing and collboration, please reach out at ky.shapiro@gmail.com –
I will get back to you as soon as I can.
selected clients & press
Mayor of London
Chinatown London
The Believer Magazine
Two Orchards Cider
Nordorff Robbins
The Preserve Journal
Sowing Seeds Magazine
Daikon Magazine
exhibitions and residencies
Chroma Flora, Estufa Fria, Lisboa Dec 2023
Dwellers, RVCA Gallery Tokyo March 2023
Works on Paper, Blue Shop Cottage, London Apr 2022
Life on Venus, The Tub, London Jan 2021
Heat and Relief, Vacant Gallery Aug 2020
Femme Fatale, Darkside collevtice July 2020
Serendipity Festival (Panaji) Feb 2020
Con Questi Occhi, La Controra, Puglia Nov 2019
Art Lover Ground, Feira Madrid March 2018