Shigeko Kubota

Shigeko Kubota (Japanese久保 田 成 子, Shigeko Kubota, born in 1937 in Niigata Prefecture in Japan ) is a Japanese-American video artist.

Life

Kubota completed her studies in sculpture at the Tokyo University of Education with a Bachelor. In 1964 she went to New York and continued her studies at New York University and the New School for Social Research continued. Multimedia installations and videos make them their form of expression. In the 1960s, she was influenced by art, music and the theories of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. In 1964, she was Vice President of the Fluxus movement. Among the female members of the Fluxus include Yoko Ono and Mieko Shiomi.

In 1965, she points to the Perpetual Fluxus Festival in New York, the performance Vagina painting. The Vagina painting is seen as a female answer to drip painting and action painting, whose main representative was Jackson Pollock ( 1912-1956 ). Other artists who have experimented with expressive use of color, are Carolee Schneemann, Helen Almeida, Niki de Saint Phalle and Linda Bengli.

Until the 1970s, Shigeko Kubota calls all her videos Broken diary. Extensive travels have taken her to Europe, Korea, Japan, and the southwestern United States. In 1977 she married the musician and visual artist Nam June Paik ( 1932-2006 ).

Kubota taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection )

Group exhibitions ( selection)

Awards (selection)

  • German Academic Exchange Service scholarship to Berlin
  • National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
  • New York State Council on the Arts, Award
  • Guggenheim Fellowship
  • Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation
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