SHIGEKO KUBOTA
Education
1960 Tokyo University of Education, B.A. in Sculpture
1965 -66 New York University
1966-67 New School for Social Research, NY
1967-68 Art School of the Brooklyn Museum, NY
Grants and Awards
1998 Rockefeller Fellowship
1995 Maya Deren Award, American Film Institute
1988 NEA/Visual Arts
1987 Guggenheim Fellowship
1985 New York Foundation for the Arts
1984, 82, 80 New York State Council on the Arts Fellowships
1980, 78, 75 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships
1979 Rockefeller Fellowship DAAD Fellowship, Berlin, Germany
1977 1977 Indie Award, Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, NY
1978 1978 Creative Artists Public Service Program Grant, NY
Professional Experience
1984, 82, 81, 73 Video Artist in Residence, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1974-82 Video Curator of Anthology Film Archives
1974-83 Residence, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
1978 Teacher of Video Art, School of Visual Arts, NY
1964 Vice Chairman, Fluxus Organization, NY
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2000 Sexual Healing, Lance Fung Gallery, New York
1998 Shigeko Kubota, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
1996 Shigeko Kubota, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York ‘Duchampiana’ (1968-1995); Sculptures Video (1975-1995), Galerie de
Paris Video is Ghost of Yourself, Lance Fung Gallery, New York
1994 Shigeko Kubota Video Sculpture, Foundazione Mudimor, Milan
1993 Shigeko Kubota: Vidoe Skulptur, Künsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany Shigeko Kubota: ‘Duchampiana,’ Weisser Raum, Hamburg, Germany
1992 Shigeko Kubota Video Installation, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Shigeko Kubota video-sculptuur, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1991 Shigeko Kubota Video Sculpture, American Museum of the Moving Image Astoria, New York
1987 Piezo Electrico Gallery, New York
1986 Piezo Electrico Gallery, Venice, California SoHo-SoAp, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1985 The Kitchen, New York
1984 Shigeko Kubota: Marcel Duchamp Grave (Revived), The Kitchen, New York
1983 Shigeko Kubota: Video Sculpture, Japan House Gallery, New Meta-Marcel Window, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York
White Columns, New York Fondo del sol Visual Arts and Media Center, Washington, D.C. River, University Art Museum, Berkley, California
1982 Shigeko Kubota Video Sculpture, Museum Folkwang, Essen Shigeko Kubota Video Sculpture, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich
1981 Shigeko Kubota Video Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Atholl McBean Gallery, San Francisco Institute of Art, San Francisco
1980 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979 Three Mountains and Window, Aspen Center of the Visual Arts, Aspen, Colorado
1978 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Projects, Museum of Modern Art, NY
Shigeko Kubota Video Sculpture, Galerie René Block, West Berlin
Shigeko Kubota Video Sculpture, Japan House Gallery, New York
Biography-‘Duchampiana,’ Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1977 Shigeko Kubota Video Sculpture, René Block Art Gallery, New York Shigeko Kubota Video Sculpture, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
1976 Anthology Film Archives, New York Shigeko Kubota Video Sculpture, René Block Art Gallery, New York
Shigeko Kubota Video Sculpture, and/or Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1975 Video Installation, The Kitchen, New York Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1973 Wabash Transit Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1972 The Kitchen, New York
1964 Make of floor, of Waste paper & Love, Naigua Gallery, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2007 Notes On Utopia, Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York
2006 Tochigi Museum, Japan
2005 Duchamp Retrospective, Yokohama Museum, Japan
2004 Duchamp Retrospective, Osaka Museum, Japan
1996 Les Cases Conjuguées; en homage a Tenny Duchamp, Jeu de Paume, Paris
1995 Istanbul Biennale ’95, Turkey
Info-Art, Kawang ju Biennale ’95, Korea
Asiana, Palazzo Vendramin Collegi, Venice Biennale, Venice
Gazing Back: Shigeko Kubota and Mary Lucier, Whitney Museum of American Art
1994 Scream Against the Sky, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Traveled to Musée d’Art Contemporarain, Lyon, France
1993 Lyon BiennaleI, Musée d’Art Contemporarain, Lyon, France Passaggio ad Oriente, Venice Biennale, Venice
In the Spirit of Fluxus, The Walker Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1990 Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art. 8th Biennale of Sydney 1990, Sydney, Australia
1989 Video Skulptur: retrospektiv und aktuell 1963-1989. Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne. Traveled to Kongress Halle, West Berlin
1988 Australian Video Festival, Art Space, Sydney Australia
3rd Bonn Videonale, Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Cologne
Übrigens sterben immer die anderen: Marcel Duchamp und die Avantgarde siet 1950, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Video Art Expanded Forms, Whitney Museum of American Art at the Equitable Centre, New York
Interaction: Light, Sound, Motion/Technology and Art, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield Connecticut
1987 documenta 8, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany
Neighborhood Film/Video Project, International House of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
Japan ’87-TV Festival, Spiral Gallery Tokyo
Centennial Tribute Apropos of Marcel Duchamp, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
1986 The Window in Twentieth Century Art, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York Purchase, Purchase, New York. Traveled to Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
Bestehend-Lebend-Gegenwartig, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
The Other Television: Video by Artists, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Video: Installed II, New Langston Art Gallery, San Francisco
SoHo-Soap Rain Damage, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1985 TV Sculpture, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
Imagenes en Cajas, Museo Refino Tamayo, Mexic City
Video/Art/Video, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
1984 The Luminous Image, Stedelijik Museum, Amsterdam
Nackt in der Kunst, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, West Germany
Video: A Retrospective: Long Beach Museum of Art 1974-1984. Part I, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
Currents 5, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1983 1983 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
TIJD de Vierde Dimensie in de Kunst, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Traveled to Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen (1984)
Matrix/Berkeley, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Transformation, Focal Point Media Center, Seattle, Washington
At Home, Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (organized by the Long Beach Museum of Art), Los Angeles
First Art and Technology Festival, Toyama Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
1982 National Video Festival, American Art Institute at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
1981 Video Classics, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, New York
Marcel Duchamp Retrospective, Takanawa Museum, Karuizawa, Japan; traveled to The Seibu Museum New York, Anthology Film Archives,
group exhibition of videotapes
1980 Für Augen und Ohren: von der Spieluhr zum akustichem Environment:
Objeckte, Installation, Performances in der Akademie der Kunste, Akadmie der Kunste, West Berlin
Ecouter par les yeux: objets et environments sonores, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Video: entre l’art I la comunicacio, Series Informatives 2, Collegi D’Arquitectes/Institut Aleman, Barcelona
1979 Shigeko Kubota / Taka Iimura: New Video, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1978 Videoweeks Essen ’79, Museum Folkwang, Essen, West Germany
Couples, P.S.1, Institute for Art & Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York
Autobiography, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1977 documenta 6, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany
Video Installaciones, Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City
1976 Women’s Video Festival, Women’s Interart Center, New York
New York—Downtown Manhattan:Soho, Akademie der Kunste, West Berlin
1975 Video Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Art Now 1975, Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
Southland Video Anthology I, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
1974 Tokyo-New York Video Express, Tokyo Biennale, Tenjo-Sajikikan, Tokyo
Video Express, Tokyo Biennale, Tenjo-Sajikikan, Tokyo
Women in Film and Video, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
Open Circuits” The Future of Television, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Projekt ’74, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Video Celebration for John Cage, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; traveled to The Kitchen, New York and The Art Institute of Chicago
1973 Circuit: A Video International, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Second Annual Video Festival, The Kitchen, New York
Women’s Video Festival, University of Illinois-Circle Campus, Chicago
1972 First Annual New York Video Festival, The Kitchen, New York
White, Black, Red and Yellow, The Kitchen, New York
Ninth Annual Avant-Garde Festival, New York
Works from the Experimental Center, Binghamton, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
St. Jude Video Invitational, De Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California
Video Exhibition, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
1970 Information, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1962 Yomiuri Shinbun Independent Exhibition, Tokyo Municipal Museum, Tokyo