EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
2026
A Machine as Complex as the World Itself, Korskirken, Bergen Assembly, NO (11/9)
Loophole, working from home, London (22/8-12/9)
Short Circuit, Pachinko Oslo, NO
Collective Divination and Filmmaking Workshop w/ Sun Park, Queer East, ICA London, UK
水托邦 Hydrotopia w/ Jamie Man, International Film Festival Rotterdam, NL
2025
Celestial Palpitations w/ Jamie Man, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, Brighton, UK
VHS/DTV, TACO!, London, UK
Celestial Palpitations w/ Jamie Man, Courtisane Festival, Ghent, BE
Celestial Palpitations w/ Jamie Man, Cafe Oto, London, UK
Instant, Somers Gallery, London, UK
2024
Earthwork, Spanners, London, UK
Remains, Greatorex Street, London, UK
mmm, Mal Seh’n Kino / SCHAUT! Exhibition Space, Nippon Connection, Frankfurt, DE
films. Domestic/Intimate, Feb gallery Tokyo, JP
2023
Z/I/N/E, WHITEHOUSE, Tokyo, JP
Monographs showcase, Oldham Theatre, the National Archives of Singapore, SG
to move without friction, SET Woolwich, London, UK
Sunscreen, Lux, London, UK
Between Different States, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, UK
I was baptised in Fortnite, Antwerp Mansion, Manchester, UK
2022
Blind Vision, Treptow Ateliers, Berlin, DE
FAYD DIGITAL Issue 002 lexis/axis, online
NAE Open, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
2021
Gunma Biennale for Young Artists, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, JP
sensitivity, Gallery rusu, Tokyo, JP
2020
Visions in the Nunnery, Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
PARADISE HOUR, PARADISE AIR, Chiba, JP
Non-museum for Contemporary Art, Gewandhaus Site, Dresden, DE
2019
Video Art Forum, Maha Al Mansour, Dammam, SAU
2018
Campus Genius Award Exhibition, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, JP
2016
The Annual Juried Student Exhibition, Padnos Art Gallery, Grand Valley State University, MI, US
Kemi (duo show with Keziah Philipps) Padnos Art Gallery, Grand Valley State University, MI, US
SCREENINGS
2026
Selected 16, CAST, Heston, Cornwall (Date TBC)
Selected 16, Fabrica Gallery, Brighton (1/10)
Selected 16, Towner Eastbourne (26/9)
Selected 16, Offline, Glasgow (18/9)
Selected 16, G39, Cardiff (12/9)
Selected 16, Watershed with Spikes Island, Bristol (3/9)
Selected 16, Broadway with Nottingham Contemporary (2/9)
Monographs, 282 Workshop, Hanoi & Ném Space, Ho Chi Minh City, VN
Selected 16, Barbican, London, UK
PARADISE: films by Chiemi Shimada, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
2025
Cartographies of the Dark | KöX e. V., Düsseldorf, DE
Yamagata Documentary Dojo, Senshu University, Tokyo, JP
Open City Documentary Festival, Barbican, London, UK
Courtisane Festival, Ghent, BE
Grandma's Grammar, Sapieha Palace, Vilnius, LT
Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, One Bangkok Forum, TH
2024
Analogue Short Film Screening: BIPOC Folks Vol 2, not/nowhere, London, UK
AFIAS | SMIF Spain Moving Images Festival, Madrid, ES
Light Matter Film Festival, Kino Palais, Buenos Aires, AR
Oneiric Kitchen (WIP), Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, UK
Open City Documentary Festival, London, UK
Monographs, San Art Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, VN
Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, London, UK
AV Tales, London, UK
Minikino, Bali, ID
2023
Forum Film Dokumenter Jogjakarta, ID
Dharamshala International Film Festival, McLeod Ganj, Himachal Pradesh, IN
Arkipel - Jakarta International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival, ID
Chichester International Film Festival, UK
Cinema Rediscovered, Watershed, Bristol, UK
Cinema Ritrovato, Auditorium – DAMSLab, Bologna, IT
Essay Film Festival, ICA, London, UK
Otonari san Short Film Festival, SOOO dramatic!, Tokyo, JP
2022
Film Free and Easy, Primary, Nottingham, UK
Centro de Cine Costa Rica, San José, CR
Cineteca Nacional México, Mexico City, MX
Babfilmfest, Matchstick Piehouse, London, UK
Nippon Connection, Frankfurt, DE
Girls in Film Festival Baesianz presents: short films from Asian diaspora, House of Vans, London, UK
aCinema, WI, US (streaming)
Brunswick Underground Film Festival, AU
Slow Forward #4, Indeks, Bandung, ID (streaming)
2021
Videograms Film programme "Desire-Love", Skalvijos kino centras, Vilnius, LT
Wathann Film Festival, Yangon, MM
Typography Center for Contemporary Art, Krasnodar, RU
Garage Screen, Moscow, RU
Minikino Film Week: Bali International Short Film Festival, ID
Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, RU
Sixteen Journal, Paris, FR (streaming)
Dream, Dreaming, Dreamt, Winnipeg, CA (streaming)
Place M Film Festival, Tokyo, JP
hungry eyes festival, Giessen, DE
2020
Linea d’Ombra Festival, Salerno, IT
dresdner schmalfilmtage, Dresden, DE
Vdrome (streaming)
SeaShorts Film Festival, MY
Minikino Film Week: Bali International Short Film Festival, ID
Japanese Film Festival Nippon Connection, Frankfurt, DE
Form No Form (streaming)
Aswan International Women Film Festival, EG
London Short Film Festival, UK
2019
Place M Film Festival, Tokyo, JP
V Festival de Video nodoCCS, Barcelona, ES
Unforeseen International Experimental Film Festival, Belgrade, RS
Nagaoka Geijutsu Koujichu (長岡芸術工事中), Niigata, JP
System of Care Season at Deptford Cinema, London, UK
San Sebastián International Film Festival, ES
Japanese Avant-garde and Experimental Film Festival, London, UK
Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, Nagoya & Kyoto, JP
Open City Documentary Festival, London, UK
Wilden: Mekas, Menken, Rindland, and Shimada at Wolf Kino, Berlin, DE
Sheffield Doc/Fest, UK
Japanese Film Festival Nippon Connection, Frankfurt, DE
European Media Art Festival: EMAF, Osnabrück, DE
2018
Playback Festival at ICA, London, UK
2017
Up-and-coming International Film Festival Hannover, DE
Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK
REC Film Festival, Berlin, DE
2016
Stop Play Record programme screening at ICA, London, UK
Chiaroscuro International Film Series at Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, MI, US
AWARDS, COMMISSIONS, RESIDENCIES
2024 Developing your Creative Practice, Arts Council England, UK
2023 Connections Through Culture Grant, British Council, UK
2022 Monographs Film Commission, Asian Film Archive, SG
Primary Residency Prize, NAE Open 2022, Nottingham, UK
2021 Yamagata Documentary Dojo, JP (online residency)
2020 Matsudo “QOL” Residency Award, PARADISE AIR, Chiba, JP
Lokalen Foundation Residency, Lichtenvoorde, NL
2019 Best UK Short Film Award Nominee, Open City Documentary Festival, London, UK
2018 Excellence Award in Art Category, Student Campus Genius Contest, Tokyo, JP
2015 Stop Play Record commission, ICA & Kingston University in partnership with Arts Council England, London, UK
EDUCATION
2022 - 2024 School of the Damned
2022 - 2023 LUX Critical Forum, LUX, London, UK
2017 - 2019 MA Experimental Film (Distinction), Kingston School of Art, London, UK
2015 - 2016 Exchange Study, Grand Valley State University, MI, US
2013 - 2017 BA (Hons) Filmmaking (First-Class), Kingston School of Art, London, UK
APPRENTICESHIPS
2019
Post-production assistant for Alia Syed
Assistant for Ben Rivers
TALKS
2020
London Short Film Festival Industry Panel: Articulating Diaspora at Rich Mix, London, UK
2019
Filmmakers’ Workshop at MetFilm School, Japanese Avant-garde and Experimental Film Festival, London, UK
Artist Talk at Kingston University, London, UK
INTERVIEWS, REVIEW
Interview about the making of "Chiyo" introduced by Peter Taylor on Vdrome
"Chiyo" Review by Phil Coldiron
Interview on Asian Movie Pulse
"Chiyo" Review on Asian Movie Pulse
Japanese experimental documentary now（A brief mention about "Chiyo"）
Aspiring filmmakers at Kingston University given chance to step into the spotlight through Channel 4 programme Random Acts
