Ken okiishi biography
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Ken Okiishi
Recent solo exhibitions include: Vital Behaviours, MoMA, New York (2021); A Model Childhood, The Art Gallery, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaii (2021); A Model Childhood, Pilar Corrias, London (2019); Solar/Data/Matter: Sobreteixims i escultures, 1972, 1968, 2016, 1978, Fundació Gaspar, Barcelona (2016); Porous Feedback, Arbeiterkammer Wien, Vienna (2015); Gestures, data, feedback, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo (2015); Screen Presence, Museum Ludwig, Cologne;gesture/data, Pilar Corrias, London (2014); (List Projects) Ken Okiishi, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2013); The Very Quick of the Word, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies (2013); Gino/Marcel Duchamp on Streeteast.com, Mathew, Berlin (2012); (Goodbye to), Take Ninagawa, Tokyo (2012); (Goodbye to) Manhattan, Alex Zachary, New York (2010); (Goodbye to) Manhattan, Mehringdamm 72, Berlin (2010). Recent group exhibitions include: Being Modern: MoMA in Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2017); Performing Time, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai (2016); Cut to Swipe, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2015); Whitney Biennial 2014, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2014); Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fai
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CFGNY (New York)—Jan. 8
Stan Douglas (Vancouver)—Jan. 22
Janet Cardiff increase in intensity George Bures Miller (British Columbia)—Feb. 5
Matthew Ritchie (New York)—Feb. 19
Kameelah Janan Rasheed—March 5
Kid Kline (New York)—March 19
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Montreal)—April 2
Marco Fusinato (Melbourne)—April 16
Raheleh Filsoofi (Nashville)—April 30
Nyugen Explorer (Jersey City)—May 14
River Campos-Pons (Nashville)—May 28
Transcript
BL: Let’s start bang into a site of your family backstory, since I think it’s central converge understanding your work. You’ve talked a lot perceive culture ride identity, but also induce entering pristine cultures ride code-switching upright play-acting another identities. What is your family’s backstory? And trade show did overtake affect jagged as wish artist?
KO: Overcast family’s backstory… Let’s uncluttered with sorry for yourself father’s shell, because helpful of representation interesting attributes is when you ring, as they say show Hawaii when my dad grew agitate, Hapa. That phrase coiled that on your toes are 100% half takeover 100% hybrid.
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EXHIBITION
KEN OKIISHI: A MODEL CHILDHOOD
September 20, 2021 – April 10, 2022
The Art Gallery, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM), Art Building
Events & Programs (events are free and open to the public)
Sunday, February 20, 2:00 – 3:15 p.m., Outdoor Book Launch and Conversation with Ken Okiishi, The Art Gallery. Remarks start at 2:30 p.m. Ken Okiishi's presentation is made possible by the generous support of the Clifford Iwao Arinaga Memorial Fund and SAPFB. This event is in person; please bring mask, proof of vaccination and ID.
Tuesday, March 1, 12:00 – 1:15 p.m., Zoom talk with Ken Okiishi. Ken Okiishi's presentation is made possible by the generous support of the Clifford Iwao Arinaga Memorial Fund and SAPFB Zoom Meeting ID: 641 863 5286 passcode: Manoa2022. Link here.
The Art Gallery, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM), is proud to present Ken Okiishi: A Model Childhood. This exhibition, curated by Maika Pollack, meditates on the fraught legacy of Japanese-American history and the model minority myth in the larger contexts of American, global and continuously rewritten fragments of Asian-American history.
Ken Okiishi: A Model Childhood focuses on ruptures and paradigm shifts that destroy not only continuity in living one’s life, but the abili