Opening weekend : September 13 - 14, 2008 from 12-6pm

"Contemporary art can challenge, inspire and inform. It shouldn’t be confined to just museums and galleries, By bringing art to where the people live their daily lives, we hope to connect with as wide an audience as possible" -- Livia Straus, President and co-founder of the Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art.

The Peekskill Project, a citywide site-specific exhibition of cutting-edge contemporary art, was launched in 2004 with the goal of bringing contemporary art out of the museum and into the community. The public arts festival presents a wide variety of painting, sculpture, photography, installations, video and performance art by national and international artists selected by a juried committee of renowned curators. Work by over 100 artists are selected from an elite curatorial committee which are sited in storefronts, parks, and in vacant lofts and lots around our city

The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art will launch the fourth annual Peekskill Project 08, beginning the weekend of September 13 - 14, 2008 from 12-6pm with selected works and performances on display until November 23.

Read the Press Release

WORKING SPACE 08: Artists employing a wide variety of media, from AAI's Rotating Studio Program, Fall 2007 and Spring 2008.

"All creative people are empowered by an inheritance from the past, a gift that can only be repaid by dedicating a portion of our present labors toward the future" Created Commons, Lewis Hyde.

To reaffirm our commitment to this vibrant and historically significant multicultural neighborhood, AAI sponsors the Lower East Side Rotating Studio artist residency Program with artists chosen by a panel of outside artists, curators, and arts professionals. The artists selected are presented here in Working Space 08.

Reception: Saturday, September 6, 2008 4-6pm

part of Howl! Festival 2008

Cuchifritos Gallery & Project Space Located at The Essex Street Market, south end entrance between Delancey and Rivington.

Exhibition on view August 2 - September 20, 2008. Open Monday through Saturday 12:00 noon to 5:30pm. Closed Sundays.

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With the world going ‘green’ and curiosity converging on the impact of human consumption and squander, Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma is initiating a conversation through art about the environmental impact of today’s society. The exhibition entitled, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things, will explore the new world of object reassignment, presenting creative repurposed or ‘upcycled’ objects that both stretch the imagination and suggest how to reduce the impact on the environment.  From repurposed puzzle pieces on wallpaper to oversized photographs showing the massive disposal of cell phones, this exhibition makes the audience pause in a moment of awe and personal reflection. This inaugural exhibition is a part of Price Tower Arts Center’s new Triennial exhibition series, appropriately dubbed 3-logy (pronounced trilogy), which will examine international contemporary artwork produced or manufactured in the last three years.

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Opening reception: Thursday, July 10, 6-8 pm

A New York Flavors Ice Cream performance tonight only at the opening of a show called "Cool" at the George Adams Gallery in Chelsea. I will be serving a new New York Flavored Ice Cream "34th St Herald Square" (kimuchi !). -- miwa

The opening Thursday July 10th from 6-8pm.

George Adams Gallery

525 West 26th Street
First Floor
New York, New York 10001

Opening reception: July 11th 6 - 9PM

The second show is called "Five Elements" at Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art in Williamsburg. It is a group sculpture show and I am showing two glass domes with PETs inside. The opening is on Friday July 11 at 6:00pm, but I can't be there because I am leaving for a week in the snowy mountains !! -- Miwa

Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art

293 Grand Street, Brooklyn NY 11211

Hi all Miwa and I have been invited to participate in the annual kite making day at Socrates. We'll be showing everyone how to make the shopping bag kites. The goal is to get as many shopping bags into the sky as possible to come on down!

From the Press Release:

Long Island City, NY (March 10, 2008) : Socrates Sculpture Park and The Noguchi Museum are proud to present the sixth annual kite making workshop and flying event. This free hands-on workshop will take place at Socrates Sculpture Park and welcomes children of all ages to participate. This year, children and their families will find an excellent new use for plastic bags by transforming this durable, and light weight material into beautiful recycled kites! Kite designs are provided by artists Miwa Koizumi and Marco Scoffier who will draw inspiration from the Park's fantastic view of the Manhattan skyline. Participants will have the opportunity to build and decorate their kites, then fly them in the Park. (more)

Press

• The New York Times: Apr. 25 Weekend Arts
• Time Out New York: Apr. 24-30, About Town

Our page about the Kite Project

Miwa is presenting a new installation of her PET Project in a group show at Socrates Sculpture Park

The opening day is Sunday May 4th

A group exhibition interpreting and responding to the motivations, goals, realities, politics, and practices of recycling

May 4 - August 3, 2008
Opening Reception: Sunday, May 4 / 2-6 PM at
Socrates Sculpture Park 

Artists:

Jonathan Allen                         
The Canary Project (Annie Murdock, Ed Morris, Jussara Lee)    
Tony Feher                    
Lars Fisk                        
Miwa Koizumi                   
Rainy Lehrman                   
Carole Frances Lung           
Julian Montague               
Macrae Semans
Austin Shull
Courtney Smith
Shinique Smith
Jade Townsend & Michael Petersen
Paul Villinski
Letha Wilson
Randy Wray

Miwa will be creating a few new flavors for her NY Flavors Ice Cream Stand during this festival of all things food and performance. There are rumors of a possible Lower East Side (lox and bagels) ice cream creation.

Echoing the experience of a New York street scene, we present a variety of smells, sounds, and sights, co-existing and competing for attention. Familiar objects, from ice cream to cookbooks, are presented in new and unexpected ways. As street vendors offer exotic twists on common products, screenings of artists' food films and a display of artists' cookbooks complete the carnival atmosphere.

Tickets include admission to Experimental Cuisine Collective panel on Mon April 14th @ 4PM or to Food/Art Roundtable on Tue April 15th @ 6PM

Miwa has been granted a residency at the Artists Alliance / Alianza de Artistas, in the Lower East Side. If you are in the neighborhood please stop by for a studio visit.

One of Miwa's PET Project aquariums is included in a group show called Fragiles, put together by Die Gestalten which was on display at Design Miami.

UPDATE: the Fragiles show is traveling all over the world. It was up for several weeks in Belgium at the Gallery 113 from February to March 2008. It will soon be installed in Dubai at the new Dubai International Financial Centre in November 2008

There will be a book release party for the book Fragiles at the Salone del Mobile in Milan on April 18th at Spazzio Rosanna Orlandi from 6 - 9 PM

Opening Night performance of NY Flavors Ice Cream Stand

"SuperSpa" was presented as part of Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York at the Japan Society this Fall.

"SuperSpa" is Miwa's spa/food performance. which pokes fun at the American culture of "zen" spa treatments, herbal/organic transformations and professional wrestling.

Opening Sunday May 6th, 2007 2-6pm

We are participating in Shipwreck, Flux Factory's project at Socrates Sculpture Park this summer.

FLUX FACTORY

Jean Barberis, Mikey Barringer, Jason David Brown, Paul Burn, Daupo, Andrea Dezso, Kerry Downey, Ellie Ga, Christy Gast, Stefany Anne Golberg, Chris Hackett, Aya Kakeda, Miwa Koizumi, Ruby Kwon, Fabienne Lasserre, Marie Lorenz, Eleanor Lovinsky, Brian Matthews, Morgan Meis, Ian Montgomery, Nick Normal, Adrian Owen, Douglas Paulson, Annie Reichert, Duke Reilly, Anthony Rhoads, Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria, Ksenya Samarskaya, Marco Scoffier, David Felix Sutcliffe

Miwa is in a two person show called "My Country" at the Hungarian Cultural Center in SOHO. She has created a new installation called "My ritual : Wishing Factory". There will be a food performance for the closing party on April 13th.

Opening reception Feb. 15th 6-9pm
Gallery hours Mon-Fri 9-5pm or weekends by appointment
447 Broadway (near Canal St.)
5th floor
Manhattan, NYC
212 750 4450
www.culturehungary.org

Part of the group show Volume at 3rd Ward

Miwa has been invited to show a new series of PETs which she created (with new and improved heating tools !) this summer . She has also made an aquarium for the PETs which will be on display. And she will be showing some new large format photographs of the PETs (one of which is above).

Opening reception Friday Oct. 13 6-9pm
Gallery hours Thurs-Sun 1-7pm or by appointment
126a Front Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718.222 1054
www.spring3d.net
F train to York St. One block to Front St.

On a beautiful, sunny and windy Sunday Oct. 15th as part of the DUMBO Arts Festival, Miwa and Marco will be making and flying kites made from shopping bags in the Brooklyn Bridge Park (number 2 on the map). Against the astounding backdrop of lower Manhattan, we will be harnessing the power of the wind to send shopping bags into the atmosphere. We will be in the park from 1-4pm (weather permitting). There are many interesting things going on around DUMBO this weekend so come on down.

When: Sunday Oct. 15 1-4pm
Brooklyn Bridge Park
DUMBO
F train to York St. 3 blocks to the Park.
number 2 on the Festival map