Shizuka Hariu

Awards 

2022 Winner of the 1st Kisaku Ito Theatre Design Encouragement Prize for Super Angels

2022 Winner of the Bronze Medal at the World Stage Design 2022 Calgary, category Set Design, for Dystopian Dream (out of approximately 800 designers)

2022 Winner of the Bronze Medal of Japan Space Design 2022, entertainment category for Super Angels (out of 800 designers)

2022 The Kisaku Ito Memorial Award for Opera for Super Angels

2020 Yoshio Sagawa Opera Award, Tokyo for Written on Skin

2019 Yoshio Sagawa Opera Award, Production Written On Skin

2019 The best in UK performance design talent opening display at V&A, Dystopian Dream 

2019 The Guardian, The best 12 New Stage Designers in UK

The Best 10 opera productions, Written on Skin, Suntory Hall, Japan by Ongaku no Tomo

2017 Bronze medal for World Stage Design, Solid Traces

2015 Selected to be part of New National Exhibition Make/Believe 2011-2015, SBTD and V&A, London, UK

2015 The best in UK performance design talent opening display at V&A, Clus/Crowd, Sensing Spaces

2015 Representing UK Team, New National Exhibition, PQ2015, Prague, Czech Republic

2015 D&AD Design Award, Sensing Spaces

German Design Award, Sensing Spaces

Pola Art Foundation Award

Tokyo Design Award

Nominations

2022 The World Stage Design Calgary, Canada, Site Design for Bells for Peace

2013 Finalist in World Stage Design 2013 for Shizuka Hariu’s Scenography Works, Cardiff, UK

Nominated four times for the Kisaku Ito Theatre Design Award in Japan; 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018.


Shizuka is an interdisciplinary designer between scenography and architecture. Her scenography describes the relationship between concrete and imaginary space, based on her acute understanding of architectural environments.


Super Angels
Creative art director Shizuka Hariu and video by WEiRDCORE deserve credit for all the visual splendours…This was a true multimedia event bringing together a plethora of visual and aural stimuli – all largely very engaging, and pushing the boundaries of opera as a contemporary, cutting-edge art form.
— Yukiko Kishinami for Opera Now
Super Angels
”a strikiing white stage backed by two huge, curving icebergs ( designed by Shizuka Hariu)”

— The Sunday Times
Dystopian Dream - Sadler’s Wells
With Eva Stone’s vocals, animated screenings by Nick Hillel, costumes by Hussein Chalayan, lighting by Natasha Chivers and Shizuka Hariu’s set design, “Dystopian Dream” will be an astonishing visual spectacle, a pleasure for the eyes as well as for the ears...
— Paperjam.lu

Gallery


2024

Production

Company

Dark with Excessive Bright The Royal Ballet, London, UK, Chor. Robert Binet
Elektra Unbound NT Gent, Ghent, Belgium, Dir. Luanda Casella
Dekalog New National Theatre Tokyo, Dir. OGAWA Eriko / KAMIMURA Satoshi

2023

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Sputnik Sweetheart Arcola Theatre, London, UK, Dir. Melly Still

2022

Production

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Giortes Rokka Festival 2022 Crete, Greece

2021

Production

Company

Opera Super Angels - World Premiere New National Theatre Tokyo, Japan, Dir. Eriko Ogawa, Maestro. Kazushi Ono
Tsunagu Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Chor. Koike Mimoza

2020

Production

Company

Dark with Excessive Bright Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Chor. Robert Binet

2019

Production

Company

Bells for Peace | Yoko Ono - World Premiere Manchester International Festival, Event Dir. Emily Lim
Written on Skin Suntory Hall Festival, Tokyo, Japan, Santoury Hall, Director of Music & Maestro Kazushi Ono
New World Ballet am Rhein, Dusseldorf, Germany, Chor. Robert Binet

2017

Production

Company

Dystopian Dream Sadler’s Wells, London, UK, Chors. Nitin Sawhney, Wang & Ramirez
Medea Bristol Old Vic, Dir. George Mann
Dream Catcher Charleroi Danse, Charleroi, Belgium, Dir. Thierry De Mey
Shiver Me Timbers The Word, North Shield, UK
Void Skin Isabel Marant, Kobe, Japan