Malika Kishino studied Law in Kyoto (diploma in 1994). In 1995, she studied composition with Yoshihisa Taira (École Normale de Musique, Paris), Robert Pascal (Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse, Lyon) and Philippe Leroux (IRCAM, Paris).

She has received grants from the major studios for electroacoustic music including GRAME (Lyon), SWR Experimentalstudio (Freiburg), ZKM Karlsruhe and the Groupe de recherches musicales (INA-GRM, Paris). Furthermore, she has received numerous prizes and awards including First Prize in the concours of Groupe de Recherche Appliquée en Musique Electroacoustique (GRAME) and Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain in 2006, a fellowship to Academy Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart in 2008-09, a fellowship from the Landesregierung Nordrhein-Westfalen (2010-11), and an artist’s residency in Schreyahn /Germany in 2011. She is nominated for Akutagawa Music prize 2018 in Japan with her orchestra piece Shades of Ochre.

She receives commissions and is programmed in festivals such as Présences, Musica Festival, the Biennale Music en scène in Lyon, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Bayerische Rundfunk, RBB, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, the Ultima Festival in Oslo, the Ultraschall Festival in Berlin, Venezia Biennale Musica. His music is performed by ensembles and orchestras such as the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Bochumer Symphoniker, Chorwerk Ruhr, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de Lyon, NHK-Symphony Orchestra Tokyo,Tokyo, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Asko-Schönberg, Oslo Symphoniette… conducted by Pascal Rophé, Daniel Kawka, Lukas Vis, Christian Eggen, Jean-Michaël Lavoie, Bas Wiegers, Florian Helgath, Lawrence Renes, Yoichi Sugiyama. In 2014, her portrait CD Irisation was published by the Wergo label and Deutscher Musikrat. Her works are published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni in Milan.