Shigeaki  Iwai

born in Tokyo lives and works in Rotterdam
1983 -1988 Studied at Tokyo University of Fine Art and Music
1988 -1989 Studied at the Postgraduate Corse of Tokyo University of Fine Art and Music

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1998 "Dialogue" P3 art and environment, Tokyo
1997 "Dialogue" Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
1997 "Life Size" Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
1996 "DRAWINGS" Gallery White Art, Tokyo
1995 "Criterium 14" Contemporary Art Center ATM, Mito
1995 "Life Size" Gallery Q, Tokyo
1994 "100 Hummings" Plus Minus Gallery, Tokyo
1993 "small works" J2 Gallery, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions

2000 "Trading Spirit" Studioventicenque, Milano Italy
1999 "The 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art,Queensland
          Art Gallery,Brisbane,
1999 "The 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale" Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka
1998 "Sushi, tea, or me?" Command N, Tokyo
1997 "White Art Open" Gallery White Art, Tokyo
1996 "KLANG RAUM" Kunst Raum 34, Stuttgart
1996 "FKKPS" Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
1995 "The Age of Anxiety" The Power Plant, Toronto
1995 "Triennale Kleinplastik 6" SudwestLB Forum, Stuttgart
1994 "Tskui 94 - Out Door Exhibition" Tsukui
1993 "The Tuning of the World" The Nickle Art Museum, Calgary
1993 "Sound Garden 5" Striped House Museum of Art, Tokyo

Selected Work Shops and Performances

1998 "ARCUS" open studio and work shop, arcus studio, Moriya
1995 "Vision of Sound" work shop at Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
1994 "Hennery and aSound Artist" performance for J.Cage "Rolywholyover
         A Circus" Contemporary Art Center ATM, Mito
1994 "A Swimming Person" sound works for Tochoji Temple, Tokyo

*general information:

Shigeaki Iwai makes works investigating the self-referentiality of communication from a critical point of view. The basis of his work is to question and explore various significances and values in contemporary life. In recent years, his research into the situations of multi-culturalism resulted in art works in various media. Often he makes installations where the different media add different layers which interact and resonate to from complex constellations of meaning. At the moment, he is observing the multi-cultural situation in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. From the observations on phenomena in the mixed society, Shigeaki Iwai is formulating several new projects.

*as text for my project "self-introduction about names"

 "self-introduction about names"

My name is Iwai Shigeaki, I think my surname name "Iwai" came from the ancient clan in south part of Japan, and it means almost like "Rockwell" in English. It may not be so popular in my country.

My first name "Shigeaki" consists of two Chinese characters: first one means "success"; second one means "bright" or "sunny" in English. I was named by my parents.