The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art is the first large-scale museum in Japan after the death of Shigeko Kubota (1937-2015), who was born in Maki-cho, Nishikambara-gun, Niigata Prefecture (currently Nishikan-ku, Niigata City) and was active internationally. We will hold a solo exhibition. Known for his "video sculpture," which combines video and sculpture, Kubota is considered one of the pioneers of video art. However, her contribution to contemporary art has not been fully appreciated.

The purpose of this exhibition is to present a new image of a writer based on the latest research on Shigeko Kubota, who was active as a Japanese female artist based in the United States. Immediately after her death in 2015, the Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation was established in New York to protect and further develop its heritage. In this exhibition, in addition to the video sculptures restored by the Foundation, a large number of materials that will be released for the first time will be exhibited, including drawings and materials kept by the artist, as well as collections of domestic museums and borrowed items from the artist's bereaved family. To do.

What did you think and how did you pursue expression as a female writer who developed her own art on the world stage in the early days of the media called video? Starting with Niigata, this exhibition will take about a year to visit three museums nationwide, including the masterpiece "Duchampiana" series, video sculptures, video works, sketches and archive materials for them, Kubota. I will exhibit my work.