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

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 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

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

Read the Press Release

Our friend, the extremely talented and funky Elodie Blanchard helped to curate this show at Spring where all the works are 2D turned into 3D. Miwa will be showing an extravagantly long and golden "Electric Vine"

Opening reception Sunday May 21st 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.

An award winning townhouse in downtown Brooklyn (on of the first row of townhouses built in the 5 boroughs since the 1920's) is filled with Brooklyn based Artists and Designers, and Miwa's Plaster Liquid Crystal.

You can always see more of Plaster Liquid Crystal at BDDW

(from blockpartybrooklyn.com)

During BRKLYN Designs weekend shuttle buses will run from St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn and from Union Square in Manhattan to 267A State Street (Corner of Smith and State streets)

Friday May 12 - 2pm to 8pm
Saturday May 13 - 10am to 7pm
Sunday May 14 - 2pm to 6pm

May 20-23 2006
During the The International Contemporary Furniture Fair at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center Blockparty will be open at select times to be posted soon.

On the left, Miwa Koizumi's "Erectric Vines"
On the right Miwa's PETs and Marc-Antoine Dupont's "Vertical Motion" photograms on the wall

Miwa Koizumi's PETs on a black background

As part of the Firstop :: Williamsburg Design Weekend Miwa is installing the first gallery presentation of her PETs in New York! and showing a new lighting design called "Electric Vines" (white and sliver version).

KBP 235 South 1st at Roebling Street in Williamsburg.
Subway Bedford L
Opening Reception Friday, May 19, 6-8pm
show dates: May 18 - 28, 2006

Read the Press Release

Miwa has been developing products, currently a series of halogen pendant lamps for BDDW a Brooklyn based manufacturer of fine handmade furniture with a showroom in SOHO, Manhattan, NYC, NY.

Almost Something is an art show, which includes concerts and movie nights. It is easy to get lost in the imaginations of more than 20 artists including musicians, writers, film-makers and fakes. Critics have created 4 separate guide books with maps and an audio tour. These are your tools, they are all unreliable, sniffing out the fakes is up to you.

What the critics are saying about Almost Something:

Melting Pot: The work of nearly 20 artists has been melted into the fabric of the gallery space to the point where the gallery feels completely empty. Once the news was life becoming Art, today with Almost Something Art once again becomes life.

'Which tour guide would you prefer?', asks the art-hotty at the counter. "tour guide?" "prefer?" I am intrigued. Multiple tour guides have been written to lead me through very different versions of the same show. On closer inspection it seems that some projects appear in every guide, some in just a few, some in none at all. What is the Art? What am I really meant to see. I guess in the end I have to come up with the solution myself.

A la carte: Appearances aren't to be trusted and Almost Something is never quite what it seems. Offered a variety of perspectives, we, the viewers are asked to piece together the reality of this show to our own liking.

Come check out this show, there are special events every weekend, it is going to be awesome...

Miwa was invited to participate in a group show in Charleston, SC. She is showing her PET project and did a food performance.

Why not use industrial packaging to serve a fine dinner. As these three novelists are living in specially constructed containers for a month at Flux I thought they would appreciate the pun.

I made a bunch of creatures from water bottles. No materials fees. I don't depend on any suppliers, but hunt for the bottles myself, and turn my prey into these creatures.

I filmed another batch of video portraits, and hopefully figured out the compressions which make the videos watch-able on most computers. The whole 'conversation piece' part of the site has been updated with the better video files, so please let me know what you think.

This show, curated by Eric Shiner, brings together several artists who work with a specific material: metalwork, weaving, Miwa is showing her plaster work. Videos showing the creation process of each artist will be shown. Miwa has a great new way of presenting her video, on a hacked up laptop display! We are going to use this type of display a lot more in the future.

This was our latest collaborative project. We love working at Flux because they really allow us to experiment. We really pushed it with this one. Cellphone instruments!

see the description at Flux. or, of course our project page.

Flutter, is a new photo, video installation.

Miwa did a small food performance called 'Flakes' for the opening. She also the released of 72:44 an audio landscape CD

Miwa's air eating experience was at the entrance of this day long bacchanalia at Flux Factory.