Keiko Mukaide

Keiko Mukaide (; born 1954 in Tokyo) is a Japanese artist who lives and works Fife on the Scottish coast. She was an early winner of a Creative Scotland award and was shortlisted for the 1998 Jerwood Prize for glass.

Education Mukaide studied communication design at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Japan, and received a master's degree in glass at the Royal College of Art in London. She was awarded a research fellowship from the Edinburgh College of Art.

Artistic Style Her art work employs a number of glass making techniques, casting and fusing glass in a kiln, manipulating glass in a blowing studio and gluing shards of dichroic glass to wire nets.

In 2007, Mukaide collaborated with Si Applied Ltd. on Cutting Edge, a 90 m stainless steel sculpture in Sheaf Square, Sheffield, UK. The piece was commissioned by the Sheffield City Council as part of their "Heart of the City" project, a 10-year improvement of a pedestrian route in the city. Cutting Edge received the joint Marsh Award for Public Sculpture in 2008.

Exhibitions and collections Memory of Place, York St Mary's , 2007-8 Light of the North, Tate St Ives, 2006