NaoKo TakaHashi (高橋 尚子, born 1973 in Niigata, Japan) is a London based artist.
Her works include performances and installations[1] that highlight the ambiguities and confusions of national and individual identities played out through language, focusing on issues of dislocation, re-location and representation in a multi-cultural, multi-lingual society.
Solo exhibitions include Stubbornly Persistent Illusion Chapter 1: Red Planet [2] and An Exploration of Perforated Space in Four Segments of Words both at IMT Gallery, London, in 2013 and 2010 respectively,[3] and A Tale of Two States at the Al Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem and the Al-Kahf Gallery, International Centre of Bethlehem, Palestine between 2008 and 2009.
In 2001, whilst studying at the Slade School of Fine Art, she was shortlisted for the Beck's Futures Student Film & Video Awards.
[11][12] In 2011, she was working on a musical project with Terry Kirkbride called the Marbles Jackson.