Japanese, 20th century, male.
Active in the USA since 1961.
Born 6 July 1936, in Nagoya (Aichi Prefecture).
Painter.
Conceptual Art.
Neo-Dadaist Organisers group.
Shusaku Arakawa studied medicine and mathematics at Tokyo University (1954-1958) and art at Musashino Art University, Tokyo. He began his career in the 1960s when he concerned himself with the representation of impossible space, which corresponded to Marcel Duchamp’s scientific interest in the fourth dimension. In 1960 he was involved in anti-art and Neo-Dadaism in Tokyo and produced his first happenings....
