About Hoshika

Hoshika brings to you a unique and warm world of creation, hand-made, designed and produced by Shiho K. Rice. In drawing, installation, jewelry, and more, she explores the surprise and beauty to be found in the process of creating new forms.

The name "Hoshika" helps explain her work. "Hoshika" comes from combining two Japanese words: Hoshi (stars) and Shika (deer). Stars are breathtaking. Beautiful and hopeful, they can also make us feel lonely and sad, sublime. Deer have an elegant form, while each part is pretty by itself. Deer are also cautious and sensitive animals. These natural elements became the themes of Hoshika's creation. In her work, she explores and develops the inner contours of this vast creative world.

In everything she creates, she hopes to share the joyfulness and hopefulness in human lives.

About Shiho

Shiho K. Rice was born and raised in Kanagawa, Japan. From a very young age she has been interested in observations and creating stories.

She moved to Canada by herself when she was 15. Looking at her family and country from the outside, she got to see their importance. At the same time, North American culture gave her the opportunity to express herself and her passions more directly. Starting in Canada, she began to paint and give life to her imagination.

Shiho moved to New York City in 2002, working as a student, a set designer, a dancer, a framer, and an artist, and currently resides in Washington D.C. She has exhibited her work in New York City and Tokyo, Japan.

She likes adventure both in her imagination and in real life. Like a magician who surprises and entertains, she enjoys creating, sharing her imagination with others. At the heart of her life and work there is an abiding love of surprise and the mystery of creating. She creates art to bring these powerful forces to life.

Please visit Shiho's website: http://shihorice.com!