Multimedia artist Shigeyuki Kihara was the recipient of the 2003 Emerging Pacific Island Artist Award from the Creative New Zealand Arts Council. A practising artist since 2000, her work has been exhibited widely throughout New Zealand and internationally in commercial galleries and various public institutions. In 2004 she was selected for a group exhibition entitled Prospect 2004: New Art New Zealand; a survey of the current state of contemporary New Zealand art curated by the City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand. Her works are featured in public collections including those of the Guss Fisher Gallery at the University of Auckland, the Waikato Museum of Arts and History and Te Papa Tongarewa National Museum of New Zealand.

Kihara is also part of the multimedia performance collective the Pasifika Divas, and has performed with them at the 4th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, in 2002 and at the In Transit Performance Art Festival held at the Haus der kulteren der welt in Berlin, Germany in 2003.