Noriko Steiner-Obata

Since moving to Switzerland, I have become more aware of my own cultural traditions. The experience of working in a Kimono atelier in Kyoto has also had a strong influence on my current creative work.
The dialogue between past and present, between East and West, is a recurring theme in my work.

• Born in Oita, Japan
• Learning at several art courses and self-educating of modeling, textile-art
  
• since 1986 in Switzerland
• 1978–1985  Parallel to studies learn and worked at Yuzen (Japanese traditional silk painting )  Kimono atelier in Kyoto, Japan
• 1980   Ritsumeikan university graduated (B.A.)
  

Award

•  2014  The 20th Max-Oscar-Arnold Prize for Contemporary Art Dolls,Germany
•                      “The best complete works of an established artist”