Artist Legacy and Estate Planning Clinic Keynote Address: July 14, 2021

The Center for Art Law’s newly launched Artist Legacy and Estate Planning Clinic had its inaugural session with an evening of low-cost consultations with attorneys, tax experts, and other arts professionals with experience in estate and legacy planning.

The Keynote Address was on Legacy and Estate Planning by Yayoi Shionoiri.

About our speaker:

Yayoi Shionoiri serves as Executive Director to the Estate of Chris Burden and the Studio of Nancy Rubins, where she is responsible for stewarding Burden’s art historical legacy and promoting Rubins’s artistic practice. She also serves as U.S. Alliance Partner to City Lights Law, a Japanese law firm that represents creators, innovators, and artists, and as an Outside Board Director to Startbahn, an art technology company that is attempting to bring greater reliability to transactions in the art ecosystem. From 2015 to 2019, Yayoi served as General Counsel and Head of Asia Strategy to Artsy, responsible for all legal matters of the company’s global operations, advising on corporate transactions, intellectual property issues, technology start-up management and operations, and digital media strategy. From 2011 to 2015, Yayoi was the Associate General Counsel of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, providing legal services for matters including exhibitions and non-profit operations. From 2008 to 2011, she served as Legal Advisor to Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami, managing his contract negotiations and worldwide intellectual property rights. She received her A.B. from Harvard University (2000), her J.D. from Cornell Law School (2003), and her M.A. from Columbia University in Modern Art (2010). As an US-Japan Leadership Program Fellow and an Asia Society Asia 21 Young Leader, she actively contributes to the ongoing development of cultural collaborations and political ties across nations. She serves as an Advisory Panelist to the Serpentine Gallery’s Legal Lab. Instagram: @yayoi_shionoiri