Arakawa at opening of Mistakes of Forming Blank (Forming Space), Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, 1985
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1960
Another Graveyard, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1961
Arakawa Syusaku, Mudo Gallery, Tokyo*
1963
Arakawa, Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, Germany
1964
Arakawa, Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, Germany
Arakawa: Dieagrams, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Peintures de Arakawa, Galerie Aujourd’hui, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Arakawa, Zuni Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
1965
Arakawa, Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, Germany
Shusaku Arakawa, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Arakawa, Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan, Italy*
Arakawa: Studio 3, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
1966
Arakawa: For Instance, Instant, Dwan Gallery, New York, USA
Arakawa, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Arakawa, Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, Germany
Arakawa, Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Arakawa, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands*
1967
Shusaku Arakawa, Bilder und Zeichnungen, Kunst- und Museumsverein, Wuppertal-Barmen, Germany
Shusaku Arakawa, Galerie Seyfried, Munich, Germany
Arakawa, Galleria Schwarz, Milan, Italy*
Arakawa, Dwan Gallery, New York, USA
1968
Arakawa, Galerie Lauter, Mannheim, Germany
1969
Arakawa, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Arakawa, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan*
Arakawa, Galleria Schwarz, Milan, Italy*
Arakawa, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan*
Decisive Evidence: Arakawa, Dwan Gallery, New York, USA
1970
Arakawa: Peintures recentes, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France*
Shusaku Arakawa, Onnasch Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Shusaku Arakawa, Japanese Pavilion, XXXV Venice Biennale, Italy*
Arakawa, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (toured)
Shusaku Arakawa, Hannover Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany)*
1971
Arakawa, Harcus-Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Arakawa, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Arakawa, Onnasch Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Arakawa – Grafik, Galerie Aronowitsch, Stockholm, Sweden
Arakawa, Galeria Schwarz, Milan, Italy*
Arakawa, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, UK
Mechanismus der Bedeutung, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (toured: Kunsthalle Hamburg; Kunsthalle Bern; Nationalgalerie Berlin; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany)*
1972
Arakawa: 12 Zeichnungen, Galerie van de Loo, Munich, Germany*
Arakawa, Galerie Art in Progress, Zurich, Switzerland
Arakawa: From the Mechanism of Meaning, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
1973
Arakawa, Galleria La Bertesca, Genoa, Italy
Arakawa, John C Stoller & Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Arakawa, Daytons Gallery 12, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Arakawa, Fendrick Gallery, Washington D.C., USA
Arakawa: Paintings and Drawings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1974
Arakawa, Galleria L’Uomo e L’Arte, Milano and Bergamo, Italy
Arakawa, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, USA
Arakawa, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Arakawa: Recent Prints, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
A Forgettance (Exhaustion and Exhumed), Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
Arakawa, Galerie Art in Progress, Munich, Germany
Arakawa, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
1975
Arakawa, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Arakawa, Pasquale Trisorio, Naples, Italy
Arakawa, Galerie Aronowitsch, Stockholm, Sweden
Shusaku Arakawa, Paula Becker-Modersohn Haus, Bremen, Germany
Arakawa, Grafikk, Sonja Henie-Onstad Kunstzentrum, Oslo, Norway
Arakawa, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium
Arakawa, Galerie Art in Progress, Düsseldorf, Germany
Arakawa, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Arakawa, Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1976
Arakawa: Obra gràfica, Galeria 42, Barcelona, Spain
Arakawa Prints 1965-1975, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Arakawa, Rubicon Gallery, Los Altos, California, USA
Arakawa: Selected Prints 1965-1976, Dorothy Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Shusaku Arakawa, I.C.C. Antwerp, Belgium
Arakawa: A Decade of Prints 1965-1975, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Arakawa Prints, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Arakawa: The signified or If, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
Arakawa, Multiples, Inc., New York, USA
Arakawa, Galerie Art in Progress, Munich, Germany
1977
Arakawa, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia
Arakawa, Valeur Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Le Signifié ou Si, Galerie Maeght, Paris, France*
Arakawa Graphics, University of Wisconsin Art History Gallery, Milwaukee, USA
Arakawa, Galerie Art in Progress, Düsseldorf, Germany
Arakawa, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf (Traveled: Nationalgalerie Berlin; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Johanneum, Graz; Stadtische Kunstsammlungen, Ludwigshafen, Germany)*
1978
Complete Prints, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan*
Arakawa, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Arakawa: Recent Paintings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
1979
Arakawa Prints, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
Arakawa: 1961-65, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
Arakawa: Recent Paintings, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
Arakawa, Multiples Inc. Gallery, New York, USA
Arakawa, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan*
Arakawa Prints, Fuji TV Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Arakawa Print Works 1965-1979, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe (toured: to Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Japan)*
Arakawa: The Mechanism of Meaning, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Arakawa: Oil Paintings 1, 2, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan
Arakawa, The Mechanism of Meaning: Thirty-six drawings from the Collection of Shirley and Miles Fiterman, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA*
1980
Arakawa: New York, John C. Stoller & Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Arakawa: Paintings-Drawings, Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Arakawa, Galerie Maeght, Zurich, Switzerland*
Arakawa: Original Posters 1966-1979, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan
Arakawa: New Prints 1979-1980, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan
Arakawa: Recent Prints, Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1981
Arakawa: Aspects of Blank, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Uptown Gallery, New York, USA
Early Works, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Downtown Gallery, New York, USA
Arakawa: Bilder und Zeichnungen 1962-1981, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (Toured: Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany)*
Arakawa, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA*
Arakawa: Recent Prints, Dorothy Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Arakawa: Recent Prints, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
Arakawa: New Prints 1980-1981, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya
1982
Arakawa: Five Oil Paintings, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan
Arakawa, Peintures Récentes, Galerie Maeght, Paris, France*
Aspect of Blank, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Arakawa Prints, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Complete Prints, Tokushima Cultural Center, Tokushima, Japan
Arakawa, Matrix 72, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Prints of Arakawa, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Japan
1983
Atmospheric Resemblances (A Life of Blank), Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
Shusaku Arakawa, Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy
Arakawa: The Mechanism of Meaning, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA
Arakawa: Print Works 1965-1983, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art,
Arakawa: Space as Intention, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (toured: Miyagi Museum of Art; N-1 Studio, Nagoya, Japan)*
1984
Arakawa, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy*
Arakawa: New Prints, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan
Arakawa, The Mechanism of Meaning: Thirty-six drawings from the Collection
of Shirley and Miles Fiterman, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada
Arakawa 1966-1969, Inoue Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Arakawa: Recent Painting and Drawings, N-1 Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Arakawa: Print Works, Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Arakawa: Recent Drawings, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA*
1985
Mistakes of Blank (Forming Space), Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
Arakawa, Arnold Herstand Gallery, New York, USA
Arakawa, Galleria Blu, Milan, Italy
1986
Arakawa: Paintings to Read, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan*
Arakawa: Paintings and Drawings, Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Ohio, USA
Arakawa, Shuzo Takiguchi: The Desire of the Diagram, Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan*
1987
Arakawa: Prints, Von Straaten Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Arakawa: The Fiction of Place, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
Arakawa, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
1988
Arakawa: Early Works 1961-62 at New York, Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan*
The Mechanism of Meaning, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo (toured: The Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Takanawa, Nagano, Japan)*
Arakawa: Recent Paintings, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan*
Arakawa: Maateriality, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
Arakawa, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium*
Arakawa, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan
1989
Critical Relations, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
1990
The Exhibition of Shusaku Arakawa -To Atsushi Miyakawa, Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Japan*
Arakawa, The Process in Question, Joseloff Gallery, West Hartford, Connecticut*
Arakawa, daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany*
Complete Prints of Shusaku Arakawa, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
Paintings for Closed Eyes, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
1991
Arakawa: Untitled, Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan*
Constructing the Perceiver - Arakawa: Experimental Works, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (toured: The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Matsuzukaya Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan)*
1992
Arakawa: Recent Prints, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan
Arakawa, Busche Galerie, Cologne, Germany
1993
Arakawa, Busche Galerie, Berlin, Germany
1994
Arakawa: Drawings 1961-74, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan*
1995
Arakawa Raum, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
1997
Arakawa: Early Drawings & Paintings, 1960-1963, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
1999
Drawing from The Mechanism of Meaning, Saison Art Program gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2005
Analyzing the Art of Arakawa Shusaku, The Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
2008
Shusaku Arakawa: The Works at Mudo Gallery in 1961, Gallery Art Unlimited, Tokyo, Japan*
Shusaku Arakawa: Print Works, Gifu Collection of Modern Arts, Gifu, Japan
2009
Shusaku Arakawa: Diagrams, Gifu Collection of Modern Arts, Gifu, Japan
Sawashima Collection: Shusaku Arakawa, Kyokusyou Bijutsukan, Gifu, Japan
2010
Funeral Bioengineering to Not to Die – Early Works by Arakawa Shusaku, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan*
Homage to Arakawa from The Mechanism of Meaning I, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Japan
2011
Homage to Arakawa from The Mechanism of Meaning II, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Japan
Homage to Arakawa III, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Japan
2012
The Meaning of “Mistake” by Arakawa, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya
Shusaku Arakawa &, The Museum of Fine Arts, GIFU, Gifu, Japan
2013
Shusaku Arakawa: Portrait of a Thought, Gifu Collection of Modern Arts, Gifu, Japan
2014
Trajectory of Shusaku Arakawa: Beyond the Reversible Destiny, Aizuyaichi Museum, Tokyo, Japan*
MOMAS Collection II - Viewing as if Reading: Shusaku Arakawa’s Paintings, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Saitama, Japan
2017
Arakawa – Six Paintings, Gagosian, New York, USA
Shusaku Arakawa - 17 Works, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy*
2019
Arakawa: Diagrams for the Imagination, Gagosian, New York, USA*
Selected Group Exhibitions
1958
Tenth Yomiuri Independants, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan*
1959
Eleventh Yomiuri Independants, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan*
1960
Twelfth Yomiuri Independants, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan*
First Neo Dadaism Organizers, Ginza Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Second Neo Dadaism Organizers, Masunobu Yoshimura's studio, Tokyo, Japan
First Group Modern Sculpture Exhibition, Kanagawa Museum, Japan
Third Neo Dadaism Organizers, Hibiya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1961
Thirteenth Yomiuri Independants, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
Adventure in Today's Art of Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Second Group Modern Sculpture Exhibition, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1963
Boxing Match, Gordon Gallery on Fifth Avenue, New York, USA
Gallery Artists, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
1964
Young Seven, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan*
Boxes, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Contemporary Trends of Japanese Painting and Sculpture, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Seven New Artists, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York, USA
Gallery Artists, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
The Painter and the Photograph, the University Art Gallery, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA (toured: the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Bloomington Museum of Art, Indiana University; The Art Gallery, The State University of Iowa; Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California)*
1965
Twelfth Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA*
The New Japanese Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, USA (toured: Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska; the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Milwaukee Art Center, Wisconsin)*
Gallery Artists, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Contemporary Trends of Japanese Painting and Sculpture, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Exhibition of Japanese Artists Abroad: Europe and America, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan*
Gallery Artists, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
1966
Seventh Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan*
Tradition und Gegenwart, Stadtisches Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany*
Modern Art of Japan, Galleria del Cavallino, Venice, Italy*
1967
The New Japanese Painting and Sculpture, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (toured: Milwaukee, Art Center, Wisconsin)*
DGNY at DGLA, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Ninth Annual Tokyo Biennale 1967, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, (toured: Kyoto Municipal Art Museum; Takamatsu Municipal Museum of Art; Yahata Museum, Kitakyushu; Sasebo Central Community Center, Sasebo; Nagasaki Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagasaki; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan)*
Language to Be Looked at and/or Things to Be Read, Dwan Gallery, New York, USA
Towards a Cold Poetic Image, Galleria Schwartz, Milan, Italy*
Group Exhibition, Wide White Space, Antwerp, Belgium
Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA *
An International Selection, The Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, USA
Group Exhibition, Wide White Space, Antwerp, Belgium
Pictures To Be Read, Poetry To Be Seen, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA *
Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art Carnegie Institute, Pennsylvania, USA *
1968
Group Exhibition, Wide White Space, Antwerp, Belgium
Three Blind Mice: die collecties: Visser, Peeters, Becht, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (toured: Sint Pietersabdij, Ghent, Belgium)*
Eighth Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan*
Language II, Dwan Gallery, New York, USA
Linee della ricerca contemporanea: dall'informale alle nuove strutture, XXXIV Biennale di Venezia, Central Pavillion, Venice, Italy*
Documenta 4, Kassel, Germany*
Prospect '68, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany*
Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1969
Ars 69 Helsinki. International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, The Art Museum of Atheneum, Helsinki, (toured: the Museum of Modern Art, Tampere, Finland)*
Painting and Sculpture Today 1969, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana*
Ninth Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan*
Language III, Dwan Gallery, New York, USA
Contemporary Art/Dialogue between the East and the West, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan*
Pop Art, Hayward Gallery, London, England*
Plane und projekte als Kunst/Plans and Projects as Art, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland*
Preview 1970, Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Galleria Schwarz at Macy's Herald Square Ninth Floor, Macy's Herald Square, New York, USA *
National 1970 Drawing Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, USA *
1970
Language IV, Dwan Gallery, New York, USA
Contemporary Art from the Institute's Collections, The Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, USA
3. Salon International de Galeries Pilotes, Artists and Discoveries of "Our Time", Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland*
New Multiple Art, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Gallery Artists, Dwan Gallery, New York, USA
Contemporary Trends, Expo ’70 Museum of Fine Arts, Osaka, Japan*
1971
Situation Concepts, Galerie nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria*
Tenth Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo (toured: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Aichi Civic Center, Nagoya; Miyazaki Prefectural Museum; Sasebo Chuo-Kominkan; Fukuoka Prefectural Cultural Center, Japan)*
Last Exhibition, Dwan Gallery, New York, USA
Arte de Sistemas, Museo de Arte Moderno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina*
ROSC '71, The Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, Ireland*
1972
Painting and Sculpture Today,1972, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, USA *
Actualité d’un Bilan, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France*
Szene Berlin Mai '72, Wurttemberg Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany* (toured: Gallery House, London, UK)
1973
Drawings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA *
Hommage à Picasso, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany*
30 International Kunstler in Berlin/Gaste des DAAD, Städtische Museum, Bonn, Germany
1974
Drawings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA *
Word Works, Art Gallery, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, California, USA *
Japan. Tradition und Gegenwart, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany*
Painting and Sculpture Today 1974, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, USA; (toured: Contemporary Art Center and Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio)*
Projekt '74. Kunst bleibt Kunst-Asperkte internationaler Kunst am Anfang der 70er Jahre, Kunsthalle-Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany*
Fourth British International Print Biennale, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, UK*
New Accessions USA, 1974, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado*
Japan pa Louisiana, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaeck, Denmark*
Small Paintings Show, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Nineteenth National Print Exhibition, the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA *
1975
Nineteenth National Print Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, California, USA *
Drawings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA *
7e Festival International de la Peinture, Château-Musée Grimaldi, Haut de Cagnes, Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France
A View of Japanese Contemporary Art, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Word Image Number, Sarah Lawrence Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, USA *
Pittsburgh Corporations Collect: Inaugural Exhibition of the Heinz Galleries, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA *
Twentieth-Century Japanese Printmakers: Ikeda, Arakawa, Noda, Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA
Selection of 20th Century Art ’75 Minami, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan*
1976
Handgeschribene Zeichnungen, Galerie Art in Progress, Munich, Germany*
The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America 1876-1976, Hirshhorn Musuem and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., USA *
Possibilities for Collectors, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Illinois, USA
New York in Europa, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Berlin, (toured: Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany)*
From Foreign Shores: Three Centuries of Art by Foreign-Born American Masters, the Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA *
Thirty Years of American Printmaking, the Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA *
Herbert Distel, The Museum of Drawers, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland*
Stiftung Ludwig Köln 1976, Ludwig Donation, der Museen de Stadt Köln, Cologne, Germany
1977
Thirty-fifth Exhibition: Drawings of the Seventies, The Art Institute of Chicago, Society for Contemporary Art, Illinois, USA
Words: A Look at the Use of Language in Art 1967-1977, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown, New York, USA *
Painting and Drawing Exhibition, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Words at Liberty, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA*
Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany*
A view of a Decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA*
The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America 1876-1976, The Balch Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA *
1978
Three Generations: Studies in Collage, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Von Arakawa bis Warhol, Grafik aus des USA, aus der Sammlung Rischner, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria*
Graphicstudio, U.S.F.: An Experiment in Art and Education, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA *
Art About Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
14-7 artistes américains 7 artistes européens, Casino de Deauville, Hall et Galerie Dorée, Deauville, France*
Four Contemporary Painters, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA*
1979
L’Univers d’Aimé Maeght, Maison de la Culture de Rennes, Rennes, France
Words. Gerbrauch der Sprache in der Kunst wahrend des letzten Jahrzehntes, Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany* (toured: Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy)
An Exhibition of Selected Acquisitions, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
1980
Printed Art: A view of Two Decades, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA*
Lettres et Chiffres/Schrift im bild, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland*
Possibilities for Collectors III, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Illinois, USA
Images. Objects. Ideas. Arakawa. Richard Artschwager. Sol LeWitt, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, State University of New York, Old Westbury, New York, USA
Japanese Prints, Tochigi Prefectual Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi-ken, Japan*
Artist and Printer, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
1981
Words as Images, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA *
Artist and Printer, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, USA *
American Prints and Printmaking 1956-1981, Pratt Graphics Center, New York, , USA *
New Dimensions in Drawing 1950-1980, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
Twenty-Second National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA *
The 1960s: A Decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan*
1982
Artist and Printer: Printmaking as a Collaborative Process, Pratt Graphic Center, New York, USA (toured: Guild Hall, East Hampton)
The 1960s: A Decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan*
Big Prints, Art Gallery, Southhampton, UK (toured: to Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Central Museum and Art Gallery, Dudley; Arts Centre, Aberystwyth; Cooper Gallery, Barnsley; Art Gallery, Wolverhampton)*
L’Univers d’Aimé et Marguerite Maeght, Foundation Maeght, Saint-Paul, France*
1983
1984 - A Preview, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA *
National Midyear Exhibition - 1983, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, New York, USA *
Director's Choice, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Illinois, USA *
Twentieth Century Acquisitions, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
The Modern American Poster, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, (toured: The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan)*
Trends of Japanese Art in the 1960s, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan*
Japanese Art in the Guggenheim Museum Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
1984
Écritures dans la peinture, Villa Arson, Nice, France*
Japanese Contemporary Paintings 1960-80, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Takasaki, Japan*
1985 Fifty Artists, Fifty Printers, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA *
Selections from the William J. Hopkins Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA
American Painting and Sculpture: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA *
Forty Years in Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan*
Reconstructions: Avante Garde Art in Japan, 1945-1965, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK (toured: The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh)*
1986
The Frederick R. Weisman Foundation Collection of Art, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan (toured: ICA Nagoya, Nagoya; Navio Museum of Art, Osaka; Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama)*
Selection from the Twentieth Century Collections, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, USA
Beuys zu Ehren, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany*
Der Traum vom Raum, Albrecht Durer Gesellschaft, Nuremberg, Germany*
Japon des Avantegardes 1910-1970, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France*
1987
Von Arakawa bis Winzer, Städtisches Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany*
1988
Gran Pavese. The Flag Project. Gran Pavese Foundation, Rotterdam, The Netherlands*
Marcel Duchamp und die Avantgarde seit 1950, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany*
Arakawa, Alfred Jensen, Sol LeWitt, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, USA *
Modes of Address: Language in Art Since 1960, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, USA *
Tama Vivant '88. Six Wonders of Modern Art: The Model of the World, Seed Hall, Shibuya, Japan*
Clockwork. Timepieces by Artists, Architects, and Industrial Designers, MIT Visual Art Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Balkon mit Facher, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany*
1989
Form; Being; Absence, Griffin McGear Gallery, New York, USA *
Balkon mit Facher, Du Mont Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany*
Arakawa/Kudo/Kusama/Shiraga/Tanaka, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium*
1990
Innovation and Tradition, Twentieth-Century Japanese Prints, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Art and Vision: From Japanese Modern Art, Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi, Japan*
Language in Art, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA *
1991
Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida, USA
Conceptualism-Post Conceptualism: The 1960s to the 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA *
Collaborations in Contemporary Art: Graphicstudio U.S.F., Tampa Museum of Art, USA (toured: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida)*
Graphicstudio: Contemporary Art from the Collaborative Workshop at the University of South Florida, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC*
Virginia Dwan, Galerie Montaigne, Paris, France*
1992
Yvon Lambert Collectionne, Musée d’Art Moderne, Lille, France*
Bestände Onnasch, Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany*
Words, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea*
1993
Japanese Anti-Art: Now and Then, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan*
Introduction to the Twentieth Century Art II: Object and Concept, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan*
Masterprinter Masterpieces: Contemporary Prints from Topaz Edition, The Museum of Art and Science, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA .
Looking at Seeing and Reading, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, The University of New South Wales, Paddington, Australia*
Gli Artisti della Blu,1957-1993, Galleria Blu, Milan, Italy
Art in Flux III: Neo-Dada Witnessed, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan*
Wall Works: Wall Installations in Editions, Edition Schellman, Cologne, Germany*
1994
Cross and Square: Grids, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan*
Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan (toured: Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA)*
When the Body Becomes Art: The Organs and Body as Object, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan*
Memento Mori: Visions of Death ca. 1500-1994, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo (toured: Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan)*
1995
Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo (toured: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan)*
Calas-arven, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humbelbaek, Denmark
Twenty-five Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA *
1996
1964: A Turning Point in Japanese Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan*
Master Works from the Collaborative Workshop, Graphicstudio, U.S.F., Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA .
Symbolized Signifier, Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida, USA *
Spiritual Fragment: Drawing Letters in Art, Hakodate Museum of Art, Japan
1998
Neo-Dada Japan 1958-1998: Arte Isozaki and the Artists of “White House”, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan*
Graphic Studio: El Campo Expandido de la Grafica, Casa de Moneda, Bogotá, Colombia*
Making it Visible – Graphic Elements in 20th Century Art, National Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan*
1999
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA *
2000
Global Art Rheinland 2000, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany*
Japanese Art in the 20th Century, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan*
Homage to Taro Okamato from Seven Artists, Taro Okamato Museum of Art, Kawasaki*
2001
Poetry Plastique, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA *
Cross-roads Incroci: Arte Contemporanea dalla Collezione Tonelli, Castello Colonna di Gennazzano, Italy*
Through a Collector’s Eye: Japanese Art after 1945, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma; Museum of Art, Ehime, Japan*
Die Sammlung Ingrid and Willi Kemp, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany*
2003
Les années 70: L’art en cause, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France*
2006
Vermillion Editions Limited: A History and Catalogue 1977-1992, Minneapolis Museum of Arts, Minnesota, USA *
2009
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA *
2008
Drawing Review: 37 Years of Works on Paper, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
2010
Mirror Mirror: Then and Now, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia*
2011
Conceptual Tendencies 1960s to Today, Works from the Daimler Art Collection, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany*
2013
Une Histoire des Lignes – Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France*
2014
Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy*
2015
No Museum, No Life? Art-Museum Encyclopedia to Come – From the Collections of the National Museums of Art, The National Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan*
Eureka, Pace, New York, USA
2016
Ecce Homo: The Human Images in Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan*
Artists in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Fuji Xerox Print Collection, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan*
American Art’s Power: Masterpieces of Iwaki City Art Museum, Japan*
Encounters and Resonances: Masterpieces from the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art; Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan (touring)*
Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA (toured: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California)*
2017
Multiple Modernisms, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
2018
Invisible Cities: Architecture of Line, Waddington Custot, London, UK.*
A Colossal World: Japanese Artists and New York, 1950s-Present, WhiteBox, New York, USA
A Luta Continua - Sylvio Perlstein Collection, Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA*
American Masters 1940-1980, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra*
ARAKAWA and MADELINE GINS
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1990
Building Sensoriums 1973-1990, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
1995
Reversible Destiny Houses, Busche Galerie, Berlin, Germany
1997
Reversible Destiny - Arakawa/Gins, Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York*
1998
The City as the Art Form of the Next Millennium, NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo*
1999
Arakawa/Gins: Site of Reversible Destiny, The Museum of Modern Art, GIFU, Gifu
2004
Arakawa+Gins: Architecture Against Death, Nagoya University of Arts, Art & Design Center, Nagoya
2010
Arakawa+Gins: Reversible Destiny Projects, Kyoto Institute of Technology Museum and Archives, Kyoto
Art Today 2010: Shusaku Arakawa + Madeline Gins, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano
2012
Arakawa+Gins Reversible Destiny to be continued, Gallery Art Unlimited, Tokyo
2016
Explorations of Arakawa + Gins, Gallery Art Unlimited, Tokyo
2018
Arakawa and Madeline Gins: Eternal Gradient, Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Columbia University, New York (touring to the Graham Foundation, Chicago, 2019)
Selected Group Exhibitions
1990
L'Art renouvelle de la Ville: L'Art Contemporain et Urbanisme en France. Art Renewing the City: Contemporary Art and Urbanism in France, Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki (toured: National Museum of Art, Osaka; Youth Cultural Center, Sendai; Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan)*
1999
In the Midst of Things, Bournville, Birmingham, UK*
2013
Health, The New Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2017
Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness, MAC Belfast, UK; (toured: Dundee Contemporary Arts; Bury Art Gallery and Museum, UK)*
2018
The Future Starts Here, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (touring to ArkDes, Stolkholm, Sweden, 2019)*
2019
Impossible Architecture, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Saitama, Japan
Constructions
1994
Ubiquitous Site* Nagi’s Ryoanji*, Architectural Body, Nagi MOCA, Nagi, Japan
1995
Site of Reversible Destiny, Yoro, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
1997
Reversible Destiny Office, Yoro, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
2005
External Gene House, Nagoya, Japan
2005
Reversible Destiny Lofts Mitaka – In Memory of Helen Keller, Tokyo, Japan
2008
Bioscleave House (Life Extending Villa), East Hampton, New York, USA
2013
Biotopological Scale Juggling Escalator, New York, USA