1941年ニューヨークに生まれ。1962年バーナード・カレッジを卒業。ブルックリン美術館アート・スクールより絵画研究奨学金を受ける。著書に『Word Rain(or A Discursive Introduction to the Intimate Philosophical Investigations of G,R,E,T,A,G,A,R,B,O, It Says) 』(69年)、『Intend』(73年)、『What the President Will Say and Do!!』(84年)、『Helen Keller or Arakawa』(94年)。『ヘレン・ケラーまたは荒川修作』(2010年)。
Chronology
1941 | Born November 7 in New York |
1962 | Graduated from Barnard College, |
1963 | Began collaborating with Arakawa on the research project The Mechanism of Meaning |
1987 | Founded with Arakawa Reversible Destiny Foundation (formerly Containers of Mind Foundation) |
2014 | Died in New York on January 8 |
Awards
1997 | College Art Association’s Artist Award for Exhibition of the Year/Distinguished Body of Work, Presentation or Performance Award |
1998 | The highest award in the Rainbow Town Urban Design Competition goes to the Arakawa/Gins Chinju no Mori/Sensorium City (Tokyo Bay) |
2003 | Shiju Housho – Medal with Purple Ribbon Nihon Gendai Geijutsu Shinko Sho – Award for innovation in Japanese contemporary art from Japan Arts Foundation |
Conferences
2005 | “Arakawa and Gins: Architecture and Philosophy,” University of Paris X-Nanterre |
2008 | “Reversible Destiny Declaration of the Right Not to Die: Second International Arakawa +Gins Architecture + Philosophy Conference/Congress,” University of Pennsylvania, Slought Foundation |
2010 | AG3: The Third International Arakawa and Gins: Architecture and Philosophy Conference, Griffith University, Australia |
Selected Solo Exhibitions with Arakawa
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 with Arakawa
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 |