Noriko Shinohara

Noriko Shinohara (born 1953 in Takaoka, Japan) is a Japanese-American multi-disciplinary fine artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She is known for her semi-autobiographical drawing and printmaking series "Cutie & Bullie". She has had several international gallery and museum exhibitions including in Tokyo, New York City, Dallas, Kraków, Ottawa and more.

Shinohara and her husband, Ushio, are the subjects of a documentary film by Zachary Heinzerling called Cutie and the Boxer (2013).

Biography Shinohara moved to New York City at the age of 19, in the early 1970s, in order to study art at the Art Students League of New York. A few months after arriving in the city, she met the artist Ushio who was 21 years her senior. Within the next few years they were married and together they had a son born in 1974, Alexander Kūkai Shinohara.

The nickname "Cutie" started in 2002 at the age of 49, when Shinohara was wearing her hair in two braids and a young man on the street called out to her, "hey cutie". The nickname stuck after that event. In 2016, she held a solo exhibition at the Carleton University Art Gallery in Ottawa, Canada,