Kamakura Gallery
1937–2015
Biography | |
| 1937 | Born in Niigata, Japan |
| 2015 | Died in June |
Selected One Person Exhibition | |
| 1998 | “Kubota Shigeko” January 19 - February 28, 1998 Kamakura Gallery, Ginza Tokyo |
| 1996 | Whitney Museum of American Art, “Shigeko Kubota,” June 19 - August 25, 1996 New York, New York |
| Lance Fung Gallery, “Video is Ghost of Yourself,” May 2-August 2, 1996 New York, New York | |
| DUCHAMPIANA (1968-1995) Sculptures Video (1975-1995) Shigeko Kubota a Teeny Galerie de Paris, Paris, France, February 9 - March 16,1996 | |
| Eric Fabre Gallery, February 1996, Paris, France | |
| 1994 | Fondazione Mudima, “Shigeko Kubota, Video as a Form of Spiritual Collision with the World,” Milano Italy |
| 1993 | Kunsthalle in Kiel, “Shigeko Kubota, Video Sculpture,” Kiel, Germany |
| Weisser Raum, “Shigeko Kubota, Video Sculpture,” Hamburg, Germany | |
| Ford Artistico, Eisfabrik, “Shigeko Kubota Video Sculpture,” Hannover, Germany | |
| 1992 | Stedelijk Museum, “Shigeko Kubota 1975-1992,” Amsterdam, Holland |
| Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, “Shigeko Kubota, Video Installation,” Retrospective, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 1991 | American Museum of the Moving Image, “Shigeko Kubota, Video Sculpture,” Retrospective, Astoria, New York |
| 1986 | Piezo Electric, Venice, California |
| New Langton Arts Gallery, San Francisco, California | |
| 1985 | The Kitchen, New York |
| 1984 | The Kitchen, Marcel Duchamp’s Grave (revived), New York |
| 1983 | White Columns, New York |
| Grey Art Gallery Window, New York University, New York | |
| The University Art Museum, Berkeley, California | |
| Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angels, California | |
| Fondo del Sol, Visual Art & Media Center, Washington D.C. | |
| 1982 | Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland |
| Folkwang Museum, Essen, West Germany | |
| 1981 | D.A.A.D. Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
| Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois | |
| Atholl McBean Gallery, San Francisco Institute of Art, San Francisco, California | |
| 1979 | Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen, Colorado |
| 1978 | Museum of Modern Art, “Projects,” New York, New York |
| Japan House Gallery, New York, New York | |
| Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada | |
| Everson Museum of Art Syracuse, New York | |
| 1977 | Rene Block Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1976 | Rene Block Gallery, New York, New York |
| and/or Gallery, Seattle, Washington | |
| 1975 | and/or Gallery, Seattle, Washington |
| Everson Museum of Art Syracuse, New York | |
| The Kitchen, New York, New York | |
| 1973 | Everson Museum of Art Syracuse, New York |
| 1973 | Wabash Transit Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois |
| 1972 | The Kitchen, New York, New York |
| 1964 | Naigua Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
Selected Group Exhibition | |
| 1996 | Jeu de Paume, Paris. “Les cases conjuguees” en hommage a Teeny Duchamp, March 5 - April 28, Paris, France |
| 1995 | Istanbul Biennale ’95, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Kwangju Biennale ’95, INFO-ART, September 19 - November 20, Kwangju, Korea | |
| Venice Biennale, Asiana, Contemporary Art From the Far East, Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, Venice, Italy | |
| “Collection in Context - Gazing Back: Shigeko Kubota and Mary Lucier,” July 7 - September 10, Lobby Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | |
| Scream Against the Sky,” San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art San Francisco” | |
| 1994 | “Duchamp’s Leg,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Lincoln Center, Set in Motion, New York | |
| Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, New York | |
| Yokohama Museum of Art, “Scream Against the Sky,” Yokohama, Japan | |
| 1993VIDEOFORES 8e Festival International d’Art Video Clermont Ferrand, France | |
| Mediale, “Feuer, Erde, Wasser, Luft,” Hamburg, Germany | |
| Lyon Biennial, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France | |
| Venice Biennial, “Passagio ad Oriente,” Venice, Italy | |
| Electronic Art/Philips 1993, Berlin, Germany | |
| Barbala Gladstone Gallery, “Matthew Barney, Shigeko Kubota, Bruce Nauman, Marcel Odenbach, Sierrick Sorin,” New York, New York | |
| Walker Art Center, “In the Spirit of Fluxus,” Minneapolis, Minnesota, traveled to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; | |
| The Wexner Center, Columbus Ohio; The San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco | |
| 1992 | The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan |
| 1991 | Artec 91, Nagoya, Japan |
| Baghoomian Gallery, “Social Sculpture,” New York | |
| 1990 | Sydney Biennale, Australia |
| Venice Biennale, Italy | |
| Taormina Arte, Sicily | |
| 1989 | Kongress Halle, Berlin, West Germany |
| Kolnischer Kunstverein und Dumonthalle, Cologne, West Germany. | |
| Video Skulptur Retrospektiv und Aktuell 1963-1989” | |
| 1988 | Art Space, Sydney, Australia, Australian Video Festival Japanisches Kulturinstitut, Bonn, West Germany, 3rd Videonale. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, West Germany “Ubrigens Sterben Immer Die |
| Anderen. Marcel Duchamp und Die Avantgarde Seit 1950” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York at the Equitable Center, New York, “Video Art Expanded Forms” Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York | |
| Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut | |
| “Inter-action: Light, Sound, Motion” | |
| 1987 | Documenta 8, Kassel, West Germany |
| Houston Contemporary Art Museum, “The Widow,” Houston, Texas | |
| Piezo Electric, New York, New York | |
| Spiral Gallery, Japan ’87 Video-TV Festival, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art, A Centennial Tribute Apropos of Marcel Duchamp (installation on Duchamp and Chess) | |
| Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | |
| International House of Philadelphia, Neighborhood Film/Video Project | |
| 1986 | Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana |
| Neuberger Museum, “The Window, Purchase, New York” | |
| Villa Stuck, Munich, West Germany | |
| 1985 | Hofstra Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, New York |
| Kulturhuset, The Stockholm Culture House, Sweden Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| Kunsthalle Mannheim, West Germany | |
| 1984 | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Societe des Expositions, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium | |
| Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin | |
| Sprengel Museum, Hanover, West Germany | |
| Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| 1983 | Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York |
| Palais de Beaux Art, Brussels, Belgium | |
| Toyama Museum of Modern Art, “Art and Technology,” Toyama, Japan | |
| Focal Point Media Center, “Transformations,” Seattle, Washington | |
| 1982 | National Video Festival, Kennedy Center Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. |
| 1981 | Takanawa Museum, Karuizawa, Japan |
| The Seibu Museum, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Anthology Film Archives, New York, New York | |
| The Bronx Museum “Video Classics,” Bronx, New York | |
| 1980 | Akademie der Kunste, “Fur Augen und Ohren,” Berlin Institut Aiemany de Barcelona, “Video Informative Series 2,” Barcelona, Spain |
| Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, “Ecouter par les Yeux,” France | |
| 1979 | Museum Folkwang, “Videoweeks Essen ’79,” Essen, West Germany |
| Whitney Museum of American Art, “Shigeko Kubota/Taka Iimura: New Video” (exhibition catalogue) | |
| 1978 | Art Gallery of Ontario, “Autobiography,” Toronto, Canada |
| Institute for Art & Urban Resources, P.S.1, Long Island City, New York “Couples” | |
| 1977 | Museum of Modern Art, New York “Projects Video VII” Documenta 6, Kassel, West Germany (exhibition catalogue) |
| Long Beach Museum of Art, California “Southland Video Anthology” (exhibition catalogue) | |
| Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| 1976 | Akadamie der Kunste, Berlin, “Soho-Berlin Festival” |
| 1975 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York “Projected Video” Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C., “Art Now 1975” |
| Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, “Video Art” (exhibition catalogue) | |
| 1974 | Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, “Video Celebration for John Cage” |
| Kolnischer Kunsteverein, Cologne, West Germany, “Projekt 74” | |
| Museum of Modern Art, “Open Circuits: The Future of Television,” New York, New York | |
| State University of New York at Buffalo, “Women in Film & Video” | |
| Tenjo-Daijiki-kan, “Tokyo-New York Video Express” Tokyo, Japan | |
| Tokyo Biennale, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 1973 | Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, “Circuit: A Video International” (video catalogue) |
| The Kitchen, New York, “First Annual NY Video Festival” | |
| The Kitchen, New York, “Yellow, Black, White, and Red” | |
| Ninth Annual Avant-Garde Festival, New York | |
| Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, “Video Exhibition” | |
| 1962 | Tokyo Municipal Museum, Japan, “Yomiuri Shimbun Independent Exhibition” |
Collection | |
| Hara Museum Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan / Gino di Maggio, Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy / Jorge Santiano Helft Fundacion San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina / The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York / The Museum of Modern Art. Toyama, Japan | |
Education | |
| 1960 | Tokyo University of Education, B.A. in Sculpture |
| 1965-66 | New York University |
| 1966-67 | New School for Social Research, New York |
| 1967-68 | Art School of the Brooklyn Museum, New York |
Grants and Awards | |
| 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 Fellowship, New York |
| 1980, 78, 75 | National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship |
| 1979 | Rockefeller Fellowship |
| D.A.A.D. Fellowship (Deustscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) Berlin, West Germany | |
| 1977 | “Indie” Award, Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, New York |
| 1975 | Creative Artists Public Service Program Grant, New York |
Professional Experience | |
| 1984, 82, 81, 73 | Video Artists in Residence, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois |
| 1974-82 | Video Curator of Anthology Film Archives |
| 1981 | Video Artist in Residence, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island |
| 1978 | Teacher of Video Art, School of Visual Arts, New York |
| 1964 | Vice Chairman, Fluxus Organization, New York |
久保田成子 略歴 | |
| 1937 | 新潟県生まれ |
| 2015 | 逝去 |
個展 | |
| 1998 | 久保田成子展 鎌倉画廊 東京 |