Chie Shimizu was born in Japan in 1971. She earned her BFA in metal crafts from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1993 and her MFA in sculpture from New York Academy of Art in 2001. She has had several shows of both metal works and oil paintings in Tokyo and Kanagawa, Japan. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues in New York, including Island Weiss Gallery, Mark Miller Gallery, Dillon Gallery, Booth Gallery and Fresh Window Gallery. Shimizu’s work has also been included in private collections worldwide, from the United States to Germany, Turkey, Israel, Peru and Japan. She currently lives and works in Queens, New York.