ARAI Shin-ichi (b.1959)

1978-83 Tokyo Metropolitan University,B.A.
1981-87 Bigakko Art School,majored in intaglio prints
1990-91 Musashio Art University,M.F.A. give up School
1992-94 Teaching at Nyumba ya Sanaa Art school ,Zanzibar,Tanzania

Selected performances

1982 "sound"&"voice"&"language"
1983 "Heavenly injection afternoon"Akagi Electric(+SAEGUSA Yukio etc)
1984 "Flirting gristle 2"+TANAKA Toshi
1986 "for Basement of Keio Univ." Kroitzfeld Jakob (+KUWAHARA Masahiko +TANIKAWA Mari)
1987 "for Basement of A-Mike, NYC "The Force of job sites= FJ (+SAEGUSA)
1988 "Sun flower, Hiroshima, Not for Deadly Emperor" +SONODA Satoshi
1989 "The shit for Emperor funeral"+SONODA
1990 "Infant minds" (+KUWAHARA, TANAKA,SAEGUSA, YANAKA Masanori)
1991 "for The wanderer with his shadow" FJ(+SAEGUSA+TANIKAWA)
1995 "50years after losing the war", "A imagination from end of life" FJ(+SAEGUSA)
1996 "The labor of dream, The dream of labor" Happy-Lucky Stories (+SAEGUSA +TANIKAWA+SUZUKI Takeo)
1997-98 "Tribe conflict--Majority vs. Minority "
1998 "The 9th Korea-Japan Dance Festival in Seoul"
1999 "Nippon/Japan International Performance Art Festival"
1999 "Happy Japan! Happy family!"
2000 "Happy Japan! "

Solo Exhibitions

1983 Gallery KIREI,Toyama
1984 Independent Gallery,Tokyo
1985 Tamura Gallery,Tokyo Iteza,Kyoto
1986 Gallery Yo,Tokyo
1989 Gallery PRISM,Sendai
    Takamura Gallery,Tokyo
1990 Tamura Gallery,Tokyo
1991 Maki+Tamura Gallery,Tokyo
   Kirin Plaza Osaka, Osaka
1997 "Wanderer and His shadow" on the streets of Ginza, Kabuto-cho and Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo

Selcted Group Shows

1983 "Artrans-Gigmenta 83" AXIS Gallery,Tokyo
    "Black Noise" Kaneko Art G1 Gallery,Tokyo
1987 "Group Show" Students' Gallery of S.V.A.,NYC
1990 "The 5th Pusan Biennial" Pusan cultural center Gallery,South Korea
1992 "Japan south Alps Open Air Exhibition" Omachi,Japan
1993 "Plural Signature" Sagacho Exhibit Space,Tokyo


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