Shima Star

Shima Star is a Seattle-based interdisciplinary artist whose work engages with her personal narrative, social commentary, and transnational experience through color, form, and pattern. Born in South London, England, she draws from a multigenerational heritage that spans India, Africa, and Britain. Her practice incorporates visual traditions and symbolic layering to explore continuity, transformation, and historical context.

The first in her family to pursue formal arts education, Shima earned a distinction from the University of the Arts London. She has received public art commissions from the cities of Bellevue, Kent, and Kirkland in Washington State, and has collaborated with the Bellevue Arts Program and Shunpike’s Amazon Storefronts initiative. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows in London and Seattle, and in group exhibitions across London, Chicago, New York, Seattle, and Rhode Island. Shima’s work has also been featured in the Rutgers University Arts Magazine, Bellevue Arts Museum, and Amazon.