
Isozaki Arata Incubation Process/Joint Core System 1962 / 2011
Mixed media, 122 x 243 x 350cm
ABOUT
Born in Oita, 1931. Graduated with a degree from the University of Tokyo School of Engineering Architecture Department. He created Arata Isozaki & Associates in 1963, and it exists to this day. Beginning with his work in the 1960’s such as the Oita Prefectural Library, when he was based mostly in Oita City, from the 1990’s onward he has expanded his activity around the world to include Barcelona, Holland, Krakov, Okayama, Kyoto, La Coruña, Yamaguchi, Berlin, and then in this century the Middle East, China and Central Asia. More than any other architect, his work reveals in its very construction a collision with politics, society and culture, and a deployment of personal thought and space that transcends ideological boundaries. Because he demonstrates the potential of those primal areas through his manner of construction, he has come to have a huge impact on other areas of knowledge as well. Through his critical writing, and as a judge at architecture competitions, he has also played an immense role in bringing to realization the concepts of radical architects around the world. His more than half a century of work includes philosophy, visual art, design, music, films, and plays, and he is always going beyond the framework of architecture to raise questions that transcend eras and borders.
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Isozaki Arata
Born in 1931 in Oita, Japan
Lives and works in Okinawa, Japan
– Education –
1950-1954 Department of Architecture in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, Japan
– Selected Solo Exhibitions –
2019 Arata Isozaki: Derivation of Art Tower Mito, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
2019 Arata Isozaki: Third Space, Oita Art Museum, Oita, Japan
2019 Arata Isozaki at the Kankai Pavilion, Hara Museum ARC Kankai Pavilion, Gunma, Japan
2018 Arata Isozaki Public Architecture, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
2017 Primordial Line, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Arata Isozaki Museum Architecture, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
2014 ISOZAKI Arata: 12 x 5 =60, WATARI-UM, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Labyrinth in Motion, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2013 ISOZAKI Arata: SOLARIS, NTT Inter Communication Center [ICC], Tokyo, Japan
2012 Arata Isozaki The Global, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
2011 PROCESS, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2010 Arata Isozaki Built and Unbuilt Architecture, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
2009 Arata Isozaki-Starting from Ruins, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
2009 Arata Isozaki-Prints, Marugame Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
2008 Arata Isozaki-7 Invitations 2008
2008 Seven Villas, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
2008 Seven Art Galleries, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
2008 Seven Curations, Hara Museum ARC, Japan
– Selected Group Exhibitions –
Okamoto Taro x Architecture, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Japan
2020 Beyond Japan, Yoshiro and Yoshio Taniguchi Museum of Architecture, Kanazawa, Japan
2019 Multiples, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo
2019 Impossible Architecture, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2019 1968: Art in the Turbulent Age, Shizuoka City Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
2018 Arata Isozaki Talk + Exhibition, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
2018 1968: Art in the Turbulent Age, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
2018 Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of Its Transformation, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Night Fever. Design und Clubkultur 1960, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
2017 Florence Biennale 2017: eARTh – Creativity & Sustainability, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy
2017 Architectures Japonaises à Paris 1867-2017, Pavillion de l’Arsenal, Paris, France
2017 Architecture on Paper: Architectural Drawings of Japan 1970s – 1990s, National Archives of Modern Architecture, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Tokyo, Japan
2017 Japan-ness. Architecture and Urbanism in Japan since 1945, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
2017 CONTEMPORARY RUINS, KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany(Upcoming)
2017 Summer Exhibition 2017, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2017 Invisible Architecture: 1960s’ and 1970s’ Italian and Japanese architect movement analysis and contemporary debate, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, Italy
2016 Suzhou Documents,Suzhou Art Museum and other venues in Suzhou, Suzhou, China
2016 The Emergence of Contemporary: Avant-Garde Art in Japan 1950-1970, Paço Imperial, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
2016 Ah, Shinjuku!: the City as Spectacle, Waseda University Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum,Tokyo, Japan
2015 Group Show, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Legendary Houses in Postwar Japan / PROVOCATIVE / INTROSPECTIVE, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
2014 JAPAN ARCHITECTS 1945-2010, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
2014 1974: A turning Point in Postwar Japanese Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
2014 Legendary Houses in Postwar Japan / PROVOCATIVE / INTROSPECTIVE, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2013 METABOLISM: The City of the FUTURE, Chun Shang Creative Hub, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 Yoko Ono Half-A-Window Show A Retrospective, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
2012 Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde, The Museum of Modern Art New York, USA
2012 Traces of Centuries & Future Steps, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
2011 METABOLISM: The City of the FUTURE, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2011 POSTMODERNISM: STYLE AND SUBVERSION 1970-1990, Victoria and Alber Museum, London, UK
2010 CITY2.0-Theory of Evolution by WEB Generation, EYE OF GYRE, Tokyo, Japan
EXHIBITIONS AT MISA SHIN GALLERY
Primordial Line
ISOZAKI Arata
May 18 – July 8, 2017
Group Show
FRANCIS Shingo, IBA Yasuko, ISOZAKI Arata, MIYAWAKI Aiko, SAITO Yoshishige
May 29 – Jul 18, 2015
Labyrinth in Motion
ISOZAKI Arata
Jan 24 – Mar 8, 2014
PROCESS
ISOZAKI Arata
Sep 9 – Oct 29, 2011