Ei Arakawa — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works11

Museum Acquisitions

MoMA

MCA Chicago

Serralves

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Phillips · Artsy

Study for "Blank", 1978

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Mixed media with graphite and colored pencil, on semi-transparent vellum to screenprinted red-dot patterned paper

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Taka Ishii Gallery · Artsy

Performance People (Baby IKKI, May 10, 1975, 9:20 PM, Chicago, IL, 2019

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LED strips on hand-dyed fabric, LED transmitters, power supplies, SD cards, metal, wire

MEYER*KAINER · Artsy

Installation titled "Cologne of the Maghreb (Bodyphilia Song)" based on a work (untitled, 1979/80) by the Cologne painter Michael Buthe (1944–1994)., 2016

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LED Installation, mixed media, sound Music: Composition: Hassan Hakmoun; Arrangement: David Louis Zuckermann; Songtext: Ei Arakawa & Dan Poston (Bambara: Hassan Hakmoun); Bambarasinging: 6:48 min; English singing: 7:24 min

Galerie Fons Welters · Artsy

Performance People (7360 Sukiyaki, December 17, 1973, 1800pm, Buffalo, NY), 2018

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LED strips on hand-dyed fabric, 2 LED transmitters, 10 power supplies, 2 SD cards, metal, wire

Taka Ishii Gallery · Artsy

Concrete Escort, 2013

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Color photograph

MEYER*KAINER · Artsy

Installation titled "Performance People (7630 Sukiyaki...)" visualizing the ‚birth'-chart of Tony Conrad’s performance "7630 Sukiyaki", December 17, 1973, 6PM, Buffalo, NY – the performance is being addressed as a “person”., 2018

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LED Installation, mixed media

Museum of Arts and Design · Artsy

Owls' Ear Trap, 2013

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Mixed media Copper, ink-jet print, vintage clocks

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Venice Diary Day 1: At the Giardini, Artists Refuse to Make Fascism Cozy

Henrike Naumann's posthumous installation at the German Pavilion, which retains its 1938 Nazi-era fascist architecture, refuses to make the space 'coz…

exhibitionsMay 5, 2026

kevin mcgarry reviews jason faragos even

Kevin McGarry reviews the debut issue of *Even*, a new print art journal launched by *Guardian* contributor Jason Farago during Frieze New York. Named…

reviewNov 17, 2025

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