| 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
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| 1998 | Shigeko Kubota, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
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| 1996 | Shigeko Kubota, Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York
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| 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 |