H. Nell SHIINA has got identities of England and Japan, and is based in Paris and Kyoto, mainly working on sculpture and accompanying drawings and paintings.

He study physics and Western philosophy while majoring in art in England. Subsequently, he moved to Paris to learn fine art and design, and earned his degree while holding solo exhibitions.

The works are an inquiry concerning an anatomy and a philosophy with a skeptical approach, he deals with radical themes such as the essence of things and human existence, while also expressing the relationships between things that can be inferred from a self-referential aspect.

In recent years, he has studied Zen at a temple in Kyoto and has also held solo exhibitions at Komyoin temple. Through the gaze of people, he expresses in his dry-lacquer sculptures the blurring and interpenetration of the boundaries between opposing things, such as substance and essence, mass and vacuity, interiority and exteriority.