ARAKAWA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1960 | Another Graveyard, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo |
1961 | Arakawa Syusaku, Mudo Gallery, Tokyo* |
1963 | Arakawa, Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, Germany |
1964 | Arakawa, Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, Germany Arakawa: Dieagrams, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA Peintures de Arakawa, Galerie Aujourd’hui, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels Arakawa, Zuni Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA |
1965 | Arakawa, Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, Germany Shusaku Arakawa, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Arakawa, Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan, Italy* Arakawa: Studio 3, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany |
1966 | Arakawa: For Instance, Instant, Dwan Gallery, New York, USA Arakawa, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, California Arakawa, Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, Germany Arakawa, Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium Arakawa, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands* |
1967 | Shusaku Arakawa, Bilder und Zeichnungen, Kunst- und Museumsverein, Wuppertal-Barmen, Germany Shusaku Arakawa, Galerie Seyfried, Munich, Germany Arakawa, Galleria Schwarz, Milan, Italy* Arakawa, Dwan Gallery, New York, USA |
1968 | Arakawa, Galerie Lauter, Mannheim, Germany |
1969 | Arakawa, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Arakawa, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan* Arakawa, Galleria Schwarz, Milan, Italy* Decisive Evidence: Arakawa, Dwan Gallery, New York, USA |
1970 | Arakawa: Peintures recentes, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France* Shusaku Arakawa, Onnasch Galerie, Berlin, Germany Shusaku Arakawa, Japanese Pavilion, XXXV Venice Biennale, Italy* Arakawa, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (toured) Shusaku Arakawa, Hannover Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany)* |
1971 | Arakawa, Harcus-Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Arakawa, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Arakawa, Onnasch Galerie, Cologne, Germany Arakawa – Grafik, Galerie Aronowitsch, Stockholm, Sweden Arakawa, Galeria Schwarz, Milan, Italy* Arakawa, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, UK Mechanismus der Bedeutung, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (toured: Kunsthalle Hamburg; Kunsthalle Bern; Nationalgalerie Berlin; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany)* |
1972 | Arakawa: 12 Zeichnungen, Galerie van de Loo, Munich, Germany* Arakawa, Galerie Art in Progress, Zurich, Switzerland Arakawa: From the Mechanism of Meaning, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA |
1973 | Arakawa, Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa, Italy Arakawa, John C Stoller & Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Arakawa, Daytons Gallery 12, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Arakawa, Fendrick Gallery, Washington D.C., USA Arakawa: Paintings and Drawings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA |
1974 | Arakawa, Galleria L’Uomo e L’Arte, Milano and Bergamo, Italy Arakawa, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, USA Arakawa, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA Arakawa: Recent Prints, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA A Forgettance (Exhaustion and Exhumed), Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA Arakawa, Galerie Art in Progress, Munich, Germany Arakawa, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
1975 | Arakawa, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Arakawa, Pasquale Trisorio, Naples, Italy Arakawa, Galerie Aronowitsch, Stockholm, Sweden Shusaku Arakawa, Paula Becker-Modersohn Haus, Bremen, Germany Arakawa, Grafikk, Sonja Henie-Onstad Kunstzentrum, Oslo, Norway Arakawa, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium Arakawa, Galerie Art in Progress, Düsseldorf, Germany Arakawa, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Arakawa, Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
1976 | Arakawa: Obra gràfica, Galeria 42, Barcelona, Spain Arakawa Prints 1965-1975, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Arakawa, Rubicon Gallery, Los Altos, California, USA Arakawa: Selected Prints 1965-1976, Dorothy Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA Shusaku Arakawa, I.C.C. Antwerp, Belgium Arakawa: A Decade of Prints 1965-1975, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA Arakawa Prints, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Arakawa: The signified or If, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA Arakawa, Multiples, Inc., New York, USA Arakawa, Galerie Art in Progress, Munich, Germany |
1977 | Arakawa, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia Arakawa, Valeur Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Le Signifié ou Si, Galerie Maeght, Paris, France* Arakawa Graphics, University of Wisconsin Art History Gallery, Milwaukee, USA Arakawa, Galerie Art in Progress, Düsseldorf, Germany Arakawa, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf (Traveled: Nationalgalerie Berlin; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Johanneum, Graz; Stadtische Kunstsammlungen, Ludwigshafen, Germany)* |
1978 | Complete Prints, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan* Arakawa, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Arakawa: Recent Paintings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA |
1979 | Arakawa Prints, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA Arakawa: 1961-65, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA Arakawa: Recent Paintings, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA Arakawa, Multiples Inc. Gallery, New York, USA Arakawa, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan* Arakawa Prints, Fuji TV Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Arakawa Print Works 1965-1979, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe (toured: to Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Japan)* Arakawa: The Mechanism of Meaning, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan Arakawa: Oil Paintings 1, 2, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan Arakawa, The Mechanism of Meaning: Thirty-six drawings from the Collection of Shirley and Miles Fiterman, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA* |
1980 | Arakawa: New York, John C. Stoller & Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Arakawa: Paintings-Drawings, Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida, USA Arakawa, Galerie Maeght, Zurich, Switzerland* Arakawa: Original Posters 1966-1979, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan Arakawa: New Prints 1979-1980, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan Arakawa: Recent Prints, Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA |
1981 | Arakawa: Aspects of Blank, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Uptown Gallery, New York, USA Early Works, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Downtown Gallery, New York, USA Arakawa: Bilder und Zeichnungen 1962-1981, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (Toured: Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany)* Arakawa, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA* Arakawa: Recent Prints, Dorothy Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA Arakawa: Recent Prints, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA Arakawa: New Prints 1980-1981, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya |
1982 | Arakawa: Five Oil Paintings, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan Arakawa, Peintures Récentes, Galerie Maeght, Paris, France* Aspect of Blank, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Arakawa Prints, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA Complete Prints, Tokushima Cultural Center, Tokushima, Japan Arakawa, Matrix 72, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Prints of Arakawa, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Japan |
1983 | Atmospheric Resemblances (A Life of Blank), Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA Shusaku Arakawa, Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy Arakawa: The Mechanism of Meaning, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA Arakawa: Print Works 1965-1983, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Arakawa: Space as Intention, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (toured: Miyagi Museum of Art; N-1 Studio, Nagoya, Japan)* |
1984 | Arakawa, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy* Arakawa: New Prints, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan Arakawa, The Mechanism of Meaning: Thirty-six drawings from the Collection of Shirley and Miles Fiterman, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada Arakawa 1966-1969, Inoue Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Arakawa: Recent Painting and Drawings, N-1 Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Arakawa: Print Works, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Arakawa: Recent Drawings, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA* |
1985 | Mistakes of Blank (Forming Space), Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA Arakawa, Arnold Herstand Gallery, New York, USA Arakawa, Galleria Blu, Milan, Italy |
1986 | Arakawa: Paintings to Read, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan* Arakawa: Paintings and Drawings, Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Ohio, USA Arakawa, Shuzo Takiguchi: The Desire of the Diagram, Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan* |
1987 | Arakawa: Prints, Von Straaten Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA Arakawa: The Fiction of Place, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA Arakawa, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France |
1988 | Arakawa: Early Works 1961-62 at New York, Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan* The Mechanism of Meaning, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo (toured: The Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Takanawa, Nagano, Japan)* Arakawa: Recent Paintings, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan* Arakawa: Maateriality, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA Arakawa, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium* Arakawa, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan |
1989 | Critical Relations, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA |
1990 | The Exhibition of Shusaku Arakawa -To Atsushi Miyakawa, Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Japan* Arakawa, The Process in Question, Joseloff Gallery, West Hartford, Connecticut* Arakawa, daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany* Complete Prints of Shusaku Arakawa, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan Paintings for Closed Eyes, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA |
1991 | Arakawa: Untitled, Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan* Constructing the Perceiver – Arakawa: Experimental Works, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (toured: The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Matsuzukaya Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan)* |
1992 | Arakawa: Recent Prints, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan Arakawa, Busche Galerie, Cologne, Germany |
1993 | Arakawa, Busche Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
1994 | Arakawa: Drawings 1961-74, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan* |
1995 | Arakawa Raum, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany |
1997 | Arakawa: Early Drawings & Paintings, 1960-1963, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA |
1999 | Drawing from The Mechanism of Meaning, Saison Art Program gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
2005 | Analyzing the Art of Arakawa Shusaku, The Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan |
2008 | Shusaku Arakawa: The Works at Mudo Gallery in 1961, Gallery Art Unlimited, Tokyo, Japan* Shusaku Arakawa: Print Works, Gifu Collection of Modern Arts, Gifu, Japan |
2009 | Shusaku Arakawa: Diagrams, Gifu Collection of Modern Arts, Gifu, Japan Sawashima Collection: Shusaku Arakawa, Kyokusyou Bijutsukan, Gifu, Japan |
2010 | Funeral Bioengineering to Not to Die – Early Works by Arakawa Shusaku, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan* Homage to Arakawa from The Mechanism of Meaning I, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Japan |
2011 | Homage to Arakawa from The Mechanism of Meaning II, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Japan Homage to Arakawa III, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Japan |
2012 | The Meaning of “Mistake” by Arakawa, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya Shusaku Arakawa &, The Museum of Fine Arts, GIFU, Gifu, Japan |
2013 | Shusaku Arakawa: Portrait of a Thought, Gifu Collection of Modern Arts, Gifu, Japan |
2014 | Trajectory of Shusaku Arakawa: Beyond the Reversible Destiny, Aizuyaichi Museum, Tokyo, Japan* MOMAS Collection II – Viewing as if Reading: Shusaku Arakawa’s Paintings, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Saitama, Japan |
2017 | Arakawa – Six Paintings, Gagosian, New York, USA Shusaku Arakawa – 17 Works, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy* |
2019 | Arakawa: Diagrams for the Imagination, Gagosian, New York, USA* Shusaku Arakawa, Gifu Collection of Modern Arts, Gifu, Japan |
2021 | ARAKAWA: Waiting Voices, Gagosian, Basel |
2022 | Arakawa: A LINE IS A CRACK, Gifu Collection of Modern Arts, Gifu, Japan |
2023 | The Mechanism of Meaning: Arakawa and Madeline Gins Shall we go just a little farther away?, SEZON MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Karuizawa, Japan Shusaku Arakawa “Reading Cylinders”, Gifu Collection of Modern Arts, Gifu, Japan Arakawa: A Line is A Crack, Castelli Gallery, New York, USA |
Selected Group Exhibitions
1958 | Tenth Yomiuri Independants, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan* |
1959 | Eleventh Yomiuri Independants, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan* |
1960 | Twelfth Yomiuri Independants, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan* First Neo Dadaism Organizers, Ginza Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Second Neo Dadaism Organizers, Masunobu Yoshimura’s studio, Tokyo, Japan First Group Modern Sculpture Exhibition, Kanagawa Museum, Japan Third Neo Dadaism Organizers, Hibiya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
1961 | Thirteenth Yomiuri Independants, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan Adventure in Today’s Art of Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Second Group Modern Sculpture Exhibition, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan |
1963 | Boxing Match, Gordon Gallery on Fifth Avenue, New York, USA Gallery Artists, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA |
1964 | Young Seven, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan* Boxes, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA Contemporary Trends of Japanese Painting and Sculpture, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan Seven New Artists, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York, USA Gallery Artists, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA The Painter and the Photograph, the University Art Gallery, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA (toured: the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Bloomington Museum of Art, Indiana University; The Art Gallery, The State University of Iowa; Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California)* |
1965 | Twelfth Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA* The New Japanese Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, USA (toured: Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska; the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Milwaukee Art Center, Wisconsin)* Gallery Artists, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA Contemporary Trends of Japanese Painting and Sculpture, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan Exhibition of Japanese Artists Abroad: Europe and America, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan* Gallery Artists, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA |
1966 | Seventh Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan* Tradition und Gegenwart, Stadtisches Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany* Modern Art of Japan, Galleria del Cavallino, Venice, Italy* |
1967 | The New Japanese Painting and Sculpture, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (toured: Milwaukee, Art Center, Wisconsin)* DGNY at DGLA, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Ninth Annual Tokyo Biennale 1967, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, (toured: Kyoto Municipal Art Museum; Takamatsu Municipal Museum of Art; Yahata Museum, Kitakyushu; Sasebo Central Community Center, Sasebo; Nagasaki Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagasaki; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan)* Language to Be Looked at and/or Things to Be Read, Dwan Gallery, New York, USA Towards a Cold Poetic Image, Galleria Schwartz, Milan, Italy* Group Exhibition, Wide White Space, Antwerp, Belgium Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA * An International Selection, The Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, USA Group Exhibition, Wide White Space, Antwerp, Belgium Pictures To Be Read, Poetry To Be Seen, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA * Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art Carnegie Institute, Pennsylvania, USA * |
1968 | Group Exhibition, Wide White Space, Antwerp, Belgium Three Blind Mice: die collecties: Visser, Peeters, Becht, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (toured: Sint Pietersabdij, Ghent, Belgium)* Eighth Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan* Language II, Dwan Gallery, New York, USA Linee della ricerca contemporanea: dall’informale alle nuove strutture, XXXIV Biennale di Venezia, Central Pavillion, Venice, Italy* Documenta 4, Kassel, Germany* Prospect ’68, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany* Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
1969 | Ars 69 Helsinki. International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, The Art Museum of Atheneum, Helsinki, (toured: the Museum of Modern Art, Tampere, Finland)* Painting and Sculpture Today 1969, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana* Ninth Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan* Language III, Dwan Gallery, New York, USA Contemporary Art/Dialogue between the East and the West, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan* Pop Art, Hayward Gallery, London, England* Plane und projekte als Kunst/Plans and Projects as Art, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland* Preview 1970, Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Galleria Schwarz at Macy’s Herald Square Ninth Floor, Macy’s Herald Square, New York, USA * National 1970 Drawing Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, USA * |
1970 | Language IV, Dwan Gallery, New York, USA Contemporary Art from the Institute’s Collections, The Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, USA 3. Salon International de Galeries Pilotes, Artists and Discoveries of “Our Time”, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland* New Multiple Art, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK Gallery Artists, Dwan Gallery, New York, USA Contemporary Trends, Expo ’70 Museum of Fine Arts, Osaka, Japan* |
1971 | Situation Concepts, Galerie nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria* Tenth Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo (toured: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Aichi Civic Center, Nagoya; Miyazaki Prefectural Museum; Sasebo Chuo-Kominkan; Fukuoka Prefectural Cultural Center, Japan)* Last Exhibition, Dwan Gallery, New York, USA Arte de Sistemas, Museo de Arte Moderno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina* ROSC ’71, The Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, Ireland* |
1972 | Painting and Sculpture Today,1972, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, USA * Actualité d’un Bilan, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France* Szene Berlin Mai ’72, Wurttemberg Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany* (toured: Gallery House, London, UK) |
1973 | Drawings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA * Hommage à Picasso, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany* 30 International Kunstler in Berlin/Gaste des DAAD, Städtische Museum, Bonn, Germany |
1974 | Drawings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA * Word Works, Art Gallery, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, California, USA * Japan. Tradition und Gegenwart, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany* Painting and Sculpture Today 1974, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, USA; (toured: Contemporary Art Center and Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio)* Projekt ’74. Kunst bleibt Kunst-Asperkte internationaler Kunst am Anfang der 70er Jahre, Kunsthalle-Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany* Fourth British International Print Biennale, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, UK* New Accessions USA, 1974, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado* Japan pa Louisiana, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaeck, Denmark* Small Paintings Show, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA Nineteenth National Print Exhibition, the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA * |
1975 | Nineteenth National Print Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, California, USA * Drawings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA * 7e Festival International de la Peinture, Château-Musée Grimaldi, Haut de Cagnes, Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France A View of Japanese Contemporary Art, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan Word Image Number, Sarah Lawrence Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, USA * Pittsburgh Corporations Collect: Inaugural Exhibition of the Heinz Galleries, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA * Twentieth-Century Japanese Printmakers: Ikeda, Arakawa, Noda, Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA Selection of 20th Century Art ’75 Minami, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan* |
1976 | Handgeschribene Zeichnungen, Galerie Art in Progress, Munich, Germany* The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America 1876-1976, Hirshhorn Musuem and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., USA * Possibilities for Collectors, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Illinois, USA New York in Europa, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Berlin, (toured: Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany)* From Foreign Shores: Three Centuries of Art by Foreign-Born American Masters, the Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA * Thirty Years of American Printmaking, the Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA * Herbert Distel, The Museum of Drawers, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland* Stiftung Ludwig Köln 1976, Ludwig Donation, der Museen de Stadt Köln, Cologne, Germany |
1977 | Thirty-fifth Exhibition: Drawings of the Seventies, The Art Institute of Chicago, Society for Contemporary Art, Illinois, USA Words: A Look at the Use of Language in Art 1967-1977, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown, New York, USA * Painting and Drawing Exhibition, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA Words at Liberty, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA* Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany* A view of a Decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA* The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America 1876-1976, The Balch Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA * |
1978 | Three Generations: Studies in Collage, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA Von Arakawa bis Warhol, Grafik aus des USA, aus der Sammlung Rischner, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria* Graphicstudio, U.S.F.: An Experiment in Art and Education, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA * Art About Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 14-7 artistes américains 7 artistes européens, Casino de Deauville, Hall et Galerie Dorée, Deauville, France* Four Contemporary Painters, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA* |
1979 | L’Univers d’Aimé Maeght, Maison de la Culture de Rennes, Rennes, France Words. Gerbrauch der Sprache in der Kunst wahrend des letzten Jahrzehntes, Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany* (toured: Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy) An Exhibition of Selected Acquisitions, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA |
1980 | Printed Art: A view of Two Decades, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA* Lettres et Chiffres/Schrift im bild, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland* Possibilities for Collectors III, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Illinois, USA Images. Objects. Ideas. Arakawa. Richard Artschwager. Sol LeWitt, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, State University of New York, Old Westbury, New York, USA Japanese Prints, Tochigi Prefectual Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi-ken, Japan* Artist and Printer, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
1981 | Words as Images, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA * Artist and Printer, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, USA * American Prints and Printmaking 1956-1981, Pratt Graphics Center, New York, , USA * New Dimensions in Drawing 1950-1980, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA Twenty-Second National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA * The 1960s: A Decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan* |
1982 | Artist and Printer: Printmaking as a Collaborative Process, Pratt Graphic Center, New York, USA (toured: Guild Hall, East Hampton) The 1960s: A Decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan* Big Prints, Art Gallery, Southhampton, UK (toured: to Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Central Museum and Art Gallery, Dudley; Arts Centre, Aberystwyth; Cooper Gallery, Barnsley; Art Gallery, Wolverhampton)* L’Univers d’Aimé et Marguerite Maeght, Foundation Maeght, Saint-Paul, France* |
1983 | 1984 – A Preview, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA * National Midyear Exhibition – 1983, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, New York, USA * Director’s Choice, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Illinois, USA * Twentieth Century Acquisitions, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA The Modern American Poster, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, (toured: The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan)* Trends of Japanese Art in the 1960s, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan* Japanese Art in the Guggenheim Museum Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA |
1984 | Écritures dans la peinture, Villa Arson, Nice, France* Japanese Contemporary Paintings 1960-80, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Takasaki, Japan* |
1985 | Fifty Artists, Fifty Printers, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA * Selections from the William J. Hopkins Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA American Painting and Sculpture: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA * Forty Years in Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan* Reconstructions: Avante Garde Art in Japan, 1945-1965, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK (toured: The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh)* |
1986 | The Frederick R. Weisman Foundation Collection of Art, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan (toured: ICA Nagoya, Nagoya; Navio Museum of Art, Osaka; Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama)* Selection from the Twentieth Century Collections, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, USA Beuys zu Ehren, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany* Der Traum vom Raum, Albrecht Durer Gesellschaft, Nuremberg, Germany* Japon des Avantegardes 1910-1970, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France* |
1987 | Von Arakawa bis Winzer, Städtisches Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany* |
1988 | Gran Pavese. The Flag Project. Gran Pavese Foundation, Rotterdam, The Netherlands* Marcel Duchamp und die Avantgarde seit 1950, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany* Arakawa, Alfred Jensen, Sol LeWitt, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, USA * Modes of Address: Language in Art Since 1960, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, USA * Tama Vivant ’88. Six Wonders of Modern Art: The Model of the World, Seed Hall, Shibuya, Japan* Clockwork. Timepieces by Artists, Architects, and Industrial Designers, MIT Visual Art Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts Balkon mit Facher, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany* |
1989 | Form; Being; Absence, Griffin McGear Gallery, New York, USA * Balkon mit Facher, Du Mont Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany* Arakawa/Kudo/Kusama/Shiraga/Tanaka, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium* |
1990 | Innovation and Tradition, Twentieth-Century Japanese Prints, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio Art and Vision: From Japanese Modern Art, Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan* Language in Art, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA* |
1991 | Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida, USA Conceptualism-Post Conceptualism: The 1960s to the 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA * Collaborations in Contemporary Art: Graphicstudio U.S.F., Tampa Museum of Art, USA (toured: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida)* Graphicstudio: Contemporary Art from the Collaborative Workshop at the University of South Florida, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC* Virginia Dwan, Galerie Montaigne, Paris, France* |
1992 | Yvon Lambert Collectionne, Musée d’Art Moderne, Lille, France* Bestände Onnasch, Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany* Words, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea* |
1993 | Japanese Anti-Art: Now and Then, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan* Introduction to the Twentieth Century Art II: Object and Concept, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan* Masterprinter Masterpieces: Contemporary Prints from Topaz Edition, The Museum of Art and Science, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA . Looking at Seeing and Reading, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, The University of New South Wales, Paddington, Australia* Gli Artisti della Blu, 1957-1993, Galleria Blu, Milan, Italy Art in Flux III: Neo-Dada Witnessed, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan* Wall Works: Wall Installations in Editions, Edition Schellman, Cologne, Germany* |
1994 | Cross and Square: Grids, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan* Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan (toured: Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA)* When the Body Becomes Art: The Organs and Body as Object, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan* Memento Mori: Visions of Death ca. 1500-1994, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo (toured: Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan)* |
1995 | Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo (toured: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan)* Calas-arven, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humbelbaek, Denmark Twenty-five Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA * |
1996 | 1964: A Turning Point in Japanese Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan* Master Works from the Collaborative Workshop, Graphicstudio, U.S.F., Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA . Symbolized Signifier, Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida, USA * Spiritual Fragment: Drawing Letters in Art, Hakodate Museum of Art, Japan |
1998 | Neo-Dada Japan 1958-1998: Arte Isozaki and the Artists of “White House”, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan* Graphic Studio: El Campo Expandido de la Grafica, Casa de Moneda, Bogotá, Colombia* Making it Visible – Graphic Elements in 20th Century Art, National Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan* |
1999 | Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA * |
2000 | Global Art Rheinland 2000, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany* Japanese Art in the 20th Century, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan* Homage to Taro Okamato from Seven Artists, Taro Okamato Museum of Art, Kawasaki* |
2001 | Poetry Plastique, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA* Cross-roads Incroci: Arte Contemporanea dalla Collezione Tonelli, Castello Colonna di Gennazzano, Italy* Through a Collector’s Eye: Japanese Art after 1945, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma; Museum of Art, Ehime, Japan* Die Sammlung Ingrid and Willi Kemp, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany* |
2003 | Les années 70: L’art en cause, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France* |
2006 | Vermillion Editions Limited: A History and Catalogue 1977-1992, Minneapolis Museum of Arts, Minnesota, USA * |
2009 | The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA * |
2008 | Drawing Review: 37 Years of Works on Paper, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA |
2010 | Mirror Mirror: Then and Now, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia* |
2011 | Conceptual Tendencies 1960s to Today, Works from the Daimler Art Collection, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany* |
2013 | Une Histoire des Lignes – Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France* |
2014 | Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy* |
2015 | No Museum, No Life? Art-Museum Encyclopedia to Come – From the Collections of the National Museums of Art, The National Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan* Eureka, Pace, New York, USA |
2016 | Ecce Homo: The Human Images in Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan* Artists in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Fuji Xerox Print Collection, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan* American Art’s Power: Masterpieces of Iwaki City Art Museum, Japan* Encounters and Resonances: Masterpieces from the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art; Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan (touring)* Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA (toured: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California)* |
2017 | Multiple Modernisms, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, USA |
2018 | Invisible Cities: Architecture of Line, Waddington Custot, London, UK.* A Colossal World: Japanese Artists and New York, 1950s-Present, WhiteBox, New York, USA A Luta Continua – Sylvio Perlstein Collection, Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA* American Masters 1940-1980, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra* |
2019 | 1963 – Boxing Match, Revisited, Castelli Gallery, New York, USA |
ARAKAWA AND GINS
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1990 | Building Sensoriums 1973-1990, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York |
1995 | Reversible Destiny Houses, Busche Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
1997 | Reversible Destiny – Arakawa/Gins, Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York* |
1998 | The City as the Art Form of the Next Millennium, NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo* |
1999 | Arakawa/Gins: Site of Reversible Destiny, The Museum of Modern Art, GIFU, Gifu |
2004 | Arakawa+Gins: Architecture Against Death, Nagoya University of Arts, Art & Design Center, Nagoya |
2010 | Arakawa+Gins: Reversible Destiny Projects, Kyoto Institute of Technology Museum and Archives, Kyoto Art Today 2010: Shusaku Arakawa + Madeline Gins, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano |
2012 | Arakawa+Gins Reversible Destiny to be continued, Gallery Art Unlimited, Tokyo |
2016 | Explorations of Arakawa + Gins, Gallery Art Unlimited, Tokyo |
2018 | Arakawa and Madeline Gins: Eternal Gradient, Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Columbia University, New York (touring to the Graham Foundation, Chicago, 2019) |
Selected Group Exhibitions
1990 | L’Art renouvelle de la Ville: L’Art Contemporain et Urbanisme en France. Art Renewing the City: Contemporary Art and Urbanism in France, Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki (toured: National Museum of Art, Osaka; Youth Cultural Center, Sendai; Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan)* |
1999 | In the Midst of Things, Bournville, Birmingham, UK* |
2013 | Health, The New Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
2017 | Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness, MAC Belfast, UK; (toured: Dundee Contemporary Arts; Bury Art Gallery and Museum, UK)* |
2018 | The Future Starts Here, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (touring to ArkDes, Stolkholm, Sweden, 2019)* |
2019 | Impossible Architecture, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Saitama, Japan |
Constructions
1994 | Ubiquitous Site • Nagi’s Ryoanji • Architectural Body, Nagi MOCA, Nagi, Japan |
1995 | Site of Reversible Destiny, Yoro, Gifu Prefecture, Japan |
1997 | Reversible Destiny Office, Yoro, Gifu Prefecture, Japan |
2005 | External Gene House, Nagoya, Japan |
2005 | Reversible Destiny Lofts Mitaka – In Memory of Helen Keller, Tokyo, Japan |
2008 | Bioscleave House (Life Extending Villa), East Hampton, New York, USA |
2013 | Biotopological Scale Juggling Escalator, New York, USA |