$400
Thunder in the Lake
SHIMADA, Yoshiko
Color intaglio printed from a torn two-part plate on Rives wove paper. Artist's proof. We suspect there is no edition for this print. The artist wa...
View full detailsYoshiko SHIMADA
Yoshiko Shimada (b. 1959) is a pioneering Japanese printmaker and performance artist whose daring work engages deeply with gender, imperialism, and memory.
She studied art at Scripps in California, later returning to Japan to learn etching under Mono-ha’s Yoshida Katsurō, and eventually earned a PhD in the U.K., expanding her thematic and research-based approach to art. The early work Thunder in the Lake (1981) is a color intaglio that predates Shimada’s activist print series. Its layered tonal drama and evocative title foreshadow her later examinations of tension, memory, and unresolved histories—even before she began her feminist and antiwar interventions in the 1990s. Shimada continues to teach and create across media, confronting silenced histories with uncompromising clarity.