Yayoi Shionoiri

Yayoi Shionoiri is an art lawyer who supports artists. She serves as Executive Director to the Estate of Chris Burden and the Studio of Nancy Rubins, responsible for stewarding Burden’s art historical legacy and promoting Rubins’s artistic practice. She is also US Alliance Partner to City Lights Law, a Japanese law firm that represents creators, innovators, and artists; an Outside Board Director to Startbahn, Inc., an art and blockchain company that seeks to bring greater reliability to art world transactions; and Legal Advisor to KLKTN, a startup fostering community among performers and their supporters through NFTs. Shionoiri has previously served as General Counsel to Artsy, Associate General Counsel of the Guggenheim Museum, and Legal Advisor to Takashi Murakami. She has degrees from Harvard University, Cornell Law School, and Columbia University. She also serves as a Board Director to the Asia Art Archive in America, and an Advisory Panelist at the Serpentine Gallery’s Legal Lab.

From Are NFTs Really a Wild West?, October 2022