Born in Dalian, former Manchukuo in 1913. She received calligraphy lessons from her father from childhood and became an independent calligrapher at the age of 23. However, Shinoda’s original characters were not accepted in the calligraphy world of the time, and she eventually began to gravitate toward abstract expression. After the war, at the age of 43, Shinoda traveled alone to the United States to witness the rise of Abstract Expressionism, and the form of Shinoda’s work rapidly approached its current form. Three solo exhibitions at Betty Parsons Gallery in New York in 1965, 1968, and 1977 ensured Shinoda’s international reputation. Her works are in the collections of the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, and other leading museums around the world.

Untitled (1965) was painted at a time when Shinoda was solidifying her artistic foundation after returning to Japan, and it shows the new form she had acquired after living in the United States. Some of the thick lines on the paper, while maintaining a sense of tension as lines, compose a plane and create a space unique to Shinoda’s work.