BIO (Full CV - Mar 2024)

Born in 1977 in Fukushima, Japan.
Became a naturalized United States citizen in 2019.
Changed the last name after the marriage in 2023. (formerly Arakawa)
Currently lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.

Previously in: Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, Switzerland (2023), Tate Modern, London (2021), Honolulu Biennial (2019), Liverpool Biennial (2018), Sculpture Project Münster (2017), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2017), Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (2017), The 9th Berlin Biennale, Germany (2016), Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany (2015), Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2014), The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland (2014), Whitney Biennial, New York (2014), Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, USA (2013), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2013), Guggenheim Museum, New York (2013), The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013), Pavilion of Georgia, the 55th Venice Biennial, Italy (2013), 30th São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2012), Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France (2011), Yokohama Triennial (2008), Performa, New York (2007), Echigo-Tsumari Triennial (2006).

RECENT SOLO SHOWS

2024, National Art Center, Tokyo (upcoming)
2024, Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf
2023, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2023, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, Switzerland
2022, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles, CA
2021, Artists Space, New York, NY
2021, Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London
2019, Cc Foundation, Shanghai, China

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024, “Factory of Tomorrow”, Centre for Heritage, Arts & Textile (CHAT), Hong Kong
2024, The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
2023, “The Cosmo Within”, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
2023, “HOPE”, Museion Bozen, Bolzano, Italy
2022, “A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzanning, Meza-9”, David Zwirner, NY
2021, “Post-Capital: Art and the Economics of the Digital Age”, curated by Michelle Cotton, Mudam Luxembourg
2020, “MaytoDay”, Asia Cultural Center, Gwangju, South Korea, with Inza Lim
2019, “En Plein Air”, High Line Art, NY, with Dan Poston and Forrest Nash
2019, “Honolulu Biennial: TO MAKE WRONG/RIGHT/NOW”, Honolulu, HI

RECENT PERFORMANCES

2024, “Factory of Tomorrow”, Centre for Heritage, Arts & Textile (CHAT), Hong Kong
2024, The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
2023, REDCAT, Los Angeles, as FXR
2022, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Los Angeles
2021, Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London, UK
2021, Artists Space, New York, NY
2019, Artists Space, New York, NY

RECENT PRESS

2023, Peacock, Leila, “The Many Fathers of Success: Ei Arakawa”, spikeartmagazine.com
2023, Griffin, Jonathan, “Ei Arakawa Invites You to Join In”, Frieze Magazine (Issue 233, March 2023), London, UK, p. 68 - 75
2022, Valinsky, Rachel, “A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzaning, Meza-9”, Art-agenda (Sep 23, 2022)
2021, Quack, Gregor, Artforum International (January/February 2021), NY, p. 181
2020, Demircan, Saim, “Ei Arakawa Asks How Much Performance Art is Worth”, Frieze.com
2019, Ammirati, Domenick, “You Better WeWork”, Artforum.com
2018, Müschen, Alida, Texte Zur Kunst (Issue No. 112, December 2018), Berlin, Germany
2018, Wood, Catherine, Performance in Contemporary Art, London, UK, p 8-10, 27, 156
2018, Roben, Scott, “Ei Arakawa’s Astrology of Performance Art”, Frieze Magazine (Issue 197, September 2018), London, UK, p. 175
2017, Maerkle, Andrew, Interview, ARTiT
2017, Kimura, Eriko, Interview, Bijyutsu Techo (May 2017), Tokyo, Japan
2016, Yago, Dena, “Art Production & Homelessness”, Texte Zur Kunst (Issue No. 102, June 2016), Berlin, Germany, p. 178 – 181
2016, Blagojević, Boško, Artforum International (Summer 2016), NY, p. 399

PUBLICATION

2021, “Performance People”, edited by Eva Birkenstock, published by Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Germany; Artists Space, NY; and Koenig Books, London

PUBLIC COLLECTION (Recent to Old)

LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
The Museum of Modern Art, NY
Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
MAK Museum, Vienna, Austria, with Nikolas Gambaroff
Serralves, Porto, Portugal
The Museum of Modern Art, NY, as DAS INSTITUT/UNITED BROTHERS
The Museum of Modern Art, NY, a performer for Nora Schultz
The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland, with Gela Patashuri and Sergei Tcherepnin
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA, with Henning Bohl
The Museum of Modern Art, NY (Paris & Wizard)
Kadist Foundation, Paris, France, with Sergei Tcherepnin
The Museum of Modern Art, NY, with Nikolas Gambaroff
Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy, as DAS INSTITUT/UNITED BROTHERS
The Museum of Modern Art, NY, as Grand Openings
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL, USA, with Nikolas Gambaroff

EDUCATION

2004 – 2006, M.F.A. in Film/Video, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2005 – 2006, Studio Program, Whitney Museum of American Arts Independent Study Program, NY
2000 – 2004, B.F.A. Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, NY

RECENT TEACHING

2022 - present, The Graduate Art, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2022, MFA UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2021, MFA Fine Arts, School of Visual Art, NY
2019, Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg Austria, with Sarah Chow
2019, CSAV - Artists Research Laboratory, Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy
2018 - 2019, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Boston, MA
2018 -2019, MFA Fine Arts, School of Visual Art, NY
2018, Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg Austria, with Christian Naujoks

RECENT LECTURES & WORKSHOPS

2023, Kyoto City University of Art, Kyoto, Japan
2023, Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto, Japan
2022, MFA Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2022, Nagoya University of the Arts, Aichi, Japan
2021, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Munich, Germany
2021, Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria
2017, Akademie für Gestaltung der HWK Münster, Münster, Germany, with Gela Patashuri
2017, Hochschule für blidende Künste Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2016, University of Applied Art, Vienna, Austria
2016, UCLA BFA & MFA, Los Angeles, CA
2016, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2015, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden, with Karl Holmqvist
2015, Parsons Fine Arts, NY
2015, Rutgers MFA, New Jersey, USA
2014, Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy, with Sergei Tcherepnin
2014, The Academy of Fine Art Oslo, Norway
2014, The Academy of Fine Art, Munich, Germany
2014, The Art Education Department at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

SELECTED AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2018, Dunhuang Foundation, Dunhuang, China
2015, The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Tokyo, Japan
2014, Villa Romana Fellowship 2014, Florence, Italy, with Sergei Tcherepnin
2012, Grant on Theater/Performance Art, Foundation of Contemporary Arts, NY
2011, International Creator Residency Program, Tokyo Wonder Site (Institute of Contemporary Arts and International Cultural Exchange), Tokyo, Japan
2010, Visual Art Grant, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, NY
2009, DAAD Artist-in-Residency, Berlin, Germany
2009, Artists’ Fellowship (Interdisciplinary Work), New York Foundation for the Arts, NY