Setsuko Chiba

Setsuko Chiba is a poet, artist, author, performer and unique cloud artist who creates art using clouds as a visual poetic language to explore the cosmos of life. After graduating from university in Tokyo, she worked in New York and Paris, establishing her world of theatrical and contemporary artistic performance poetry in Tokyo. Meanwhile, she has exhibited her visual art, weaving together literature and art, at invited exhibitions and art festivals in Japan and abroad. She has won one poetry award, five as an artist nationally, and has been shortlisted for UK 2022 and twice finalist for USA 2023. Both nationally and internationally she has modelled and written for fashion and art magazines, and contributed to books. Two trilingual poetry CDs with music were released in Tokyo and Paris. Four books have been published. Special programmes about her were broadcast on television.