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Ei Arakawa

born in 1977 in Fukushima, Japan, lives and works in New York and Berlin
Villa Romana Fellow 2014 (with Sergei Tcherepnin)

Biography

2004-2006
MFA in Film/Video, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

2005-2006
Studio Program, Whitney Museum of American Arts Independent Study Program, New York

2000-2004
BFA Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York

Awards and Scholarships

2012
Grant on Theater/Performance Art, Foundation of Contemporary Arts, New York

2011
International Creator Residency Program, Tokyo Wonder Site (Institute of Contemporary Arts and International Cultural Exchange), Tokio

2010
Visual Art Grant, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York

2009
DAAD Artist-in-Residency, Berlin Kunstzeitraum, Ottmann GmbH & Co Südhausbau KG and PIN. Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne, München
Artists' Fellowship (Interdisciplinary Work), New York Foundation for the Arts, New York

2008
The Altoids Award

2008
New Museum, New York

Ei Arakawa and Sergei Tcherepnin, Looking at Listening (2011),
performance in the Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokio

Ei Arakawa and Sergei Tcherepnin & Aki Takahashi, Owls’ Ear Trap (detail / 2013),
various materials (copper, ink-jet print, vintage clocks), dimensions variable, Set of 3

Solo Exhibitions

2012
Bodycard Testimonials, mit Nikolas Gambaroff, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles

2011
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokio, with Sergei Tcherepnin
CAC Brétigny, curated by Pierre Bal-Branc, Paris, with Gela Patashuri and Sergei Tcherepnin
DAAD Gallery, Berlin, with JXXXA HFBK HH and Yuki Kimura

2010
Casco – The Office for Art, Design, and Theory, Utrecht, with Mari Mukai, Gela Patashuri and Sergei Tcherepnin
Galerie Neu, Berlin

2009
Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, curated by Beatrix Ruf, with Nikolas Gambaroff, Nick Mauss and Nora Schultz
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, curated by Axel John Wieder, Stuttgart, with Sergei Tcherepnin
Sculpture Center, New York

2008
Franco Soffiantino Arte Contemporanea, Turin, with Henning Bohl and Nora Schultz


Group Exhibitions

2014
The Whitney Biennial 2014, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, with Carissa Rodriguez
LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX 2, nGbK – neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst, Berlin, with Sergei Tcherepnin

2013
Carnegie International 2013, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, with Henning Bohl, Roppongi
Crossing 2013, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, with Shimon Minamikawa
Kamikaze Loggia, Pavillion Georgia 55th International Art Exhibition, Biennale di Venezia, Venedig, with Gela Patashuri and Sergei Tcherepnin

2012
Bigger Splash, curated by Catherine Wood, Tate Modern, London
San Paolo Biennale 30, curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas, Tobi Maier, Casa Modernista, San Paolo, with Sergei Tcherepnin
VOLCANO EXTRAVAGANZA, curated by Milovan Farronato and Nick Mauss, Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli, IT
Ecstatic Alphabets / Heaps of Language, curated by Laura Hoptman, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, with Nikolas Gambaroff

2011
Halle Für Kunst Lüneburg, as UNITED BROTHERS, Le Printemps de Septembre, curated by Anne Pontegue, Toulouse
Group Affinity, Kunstverein München, Munich
That's The Way We Do It, kuratiert von Yilmaz Dziewior, Kunsthaus Bregenz
The Other Tradition, curated by Elena Filipovic, Wiels, Brussels, with Silke Otto-Knapp

2010
Greater New York 2010, MOMA, P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York

2008
Yokohama Triennale 2008, Kanagawa, JP