1937: Shigeko Kubota born in Maki, Japan, coast city, Niigata Prefecture.

-1960: receives B.A. from Tokyo University of education (currently called Tsukuba University).

-1961: teaches art at public junior high school in Shinagawa, Tokyo.

-1962: John Cage and David Tudor visit. Kubota attends concert, which triggers realization that her work could be accepted in New York.

-1963: through the connections of her aunt, Chiya Kuni, an established modern dancer, Kubota becomes acquainted with the artists of Group Ongaku, who were exploring avant-garde performance, music and visual art.
-through connections with Yoko Ono and Nam June Paik (who studied in Tokyo), members of Group Ongaku, including Kubota, send event scores they had written to George Maciunas.

-1963: holds first exhibition at Naiqua Gallery in Shinbashi, Tokyo, then a popular hangout for avant-garde artists. “Make a Floor of Love Letters”: Floor to ceiling pile of fragments of paper covered by white cloth topped with metal pipe sculptures (metal shakuhachis). Audience-members are supposed to climb up the mountain of paper-scraps.

-1964: Kobuta moves to New York after she fails to get critical response to her work

-mid-sixties: introduced by Ichiyanagi and Ono to George Maciunas, founder of Fluxus. Kubota becomes member of Fluxus movement, (“Vice president” and later “chairman” of Fluxus”) and friend of Maciunas. Participates in happenings and sees Maciunas nearly every day, helps him with whatever he needs help with.

-1965: translates and edits the printed matter of the Hi Red Center, another avant-garde art group in Japan, and brought the group to the attention of George Maciunas, who later tried to incorporate them into Fluxus.

1966: enrolls in the New School for Social Research where she met experimental musician David Behrman, who she later marries. Also works as a corresponding journalist and photographer for the Japan-based arts magazine, Bijutsu Techo.

-July 4, 1965: performs Vagina Painting at the Summer Perpetual Fluxus Festival. Paints in red ink with a brush affixed to her underwear.

-1965: Fluxus Napkins

-1966: Fluxus Pills

-1966: creates Fluxus advertisements that were never produced: surgical dummy, calendar playing cards

-1965-66: registers for classes at New York University in order to obtain student’s visa.

-1966-67: enrolls in New School for Social Research, New York, to obtain student visa, but does not attend classes. Meets avant-garde composer David Behrman who she later marries.

-1967: participates in Snow, former Fluxus member Carole Schneeman’s performance piece about the Vietnam war.

-1967-68: enrolls in Art School of the Brooklyn Museum

1967: sees Duchamp installation by Pontus Hulten at the Stockholm Museum.

-1967-69: marries avant-garde composer Davis Behrman.

-1968: meets Duchamp on airplane to Buffalo, waylaid to Rochester because of storm over Niagara Falls. Inspires later pieces (Niagara Falls, Meta-Marcel: Window of 1967-77)

-1968: attends John Cage’s reunion in Toronto in which he and Duchamp play on a chessboard with circuits designed to trigger and stop musicians. Photographs and video-records show. Duchamp dies a few months later.

-1970: moves to California, where Paik was teaching at the California Institute of the Arts.

-1970: book published of photographs taken at event Reunion, along with Cage text, and recording.

-1970: buys Sony portapak. Revolutionizes video by being so lightweight.

-1970: “Information” at The Museum of Modern Art, New York

-1972: videotape produced of Reunion and footage of Cage meditating, storytelling, Paik measuring his brainwaves, talking about Duchamp, and Kubota grieving at Duchamp’s grave.

-1971: Kubota and Paik move back to New York (at Kubota’s urging).

-1972: work shown at First Annual New York Video Festival, The Kitchen, New York

-1972-1973: after her trip to Europe, group of 4 multi-media multi-ethnic women artists (Kubota, Mary Lucier, Cecilia Sandoval, Charlotte Warren) form short-lived collective, Red, White, Yellow, and Black. The group held three multi-media concerts at the Kitchen

1974-83: acts as Video Curator of Anthology Film Archives, New York

-1975: Marcel Duchamp’s Grave premiers at The Kitchen

-1976: Duchampiana: Nude Descending a Staircase, Duchampiana: Marcel Duchamp’s Grave, Video Chess shown at the Rene Block Gallery, New York

-1977: documenta 6, Kassel German

-1977: marries Nam June Paik in New York

-1978: Shigeko Kubota Video Sculpture, Japan House Gallery, New York
Projects, Museum of Modern Art, New York

-1979: receives Rockefeller Fellowship

-1980: Daad Fellowship, Berlin
-Akadmie der Kunst, Berlin

-1981: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
San Fransisco Institute, San Francisco
Daad gallery, Berlin
Takanawa Museum, The Seibu Museum, Tokyo

-1982: Museum, Folk Wang Essen, Germany
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C.
Arts Center, Washington D.C.

-1983: Biennial, the Whitney Museum
University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Toyana Museum of Modern Art, Japan

-1984: Stedelijik Museum, Amsterdam

-1985: Museo Refino Tamayo, Mexico
Kulturhuset, Stockholm

-1986: Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany

-1987: documenta 8. Kassel
Spiral, Tokyo
Philadelphia Museum of Art

-1987: receives Guggenheim Fellowship

-1988:7th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Museum Ludwig Cologne
Whitney Museum of American Art
Equitable Center, New York

-1990: 8^th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Villa Comunale, Taomin, Sicily
Venice Biennial

-1991: Museum of the Moving Image, New York

-1992: Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

-1993: Lyon Biennial
Venice Biennial
The Walker Art Venter, Minneapolis
Munst Halle, Keil, Germany

-1994: Scream Against Sky, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Foundation Mudima, Milan

-1995: receives Maya Deren Award, American Film Institute
Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
Kawang ju Biennial, Korea
Venice Biennial
Whitney Museum of American Art

-1996: Museum of the Moving Image, New York

-1996: Kubota cares for Nam June Paik after he has a stroke that leaves him partially
paralyzed on his left side.

-1998: Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo

-2004: Osaka Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka, Japan

-2005: Yokohama Museum, Yokohama Japan

-Tochigii Museum, Japan

-2006: Nam June Paik dies on January 29 in Miami Beach, Florida.

-2007: Solo show at the Maya Stendhal gallery in New York, My Life With Nam June Paik