Ken okiishi biography

Ken Okiishi (b. Ken Okiishi His works hover over and within relationships between matter and memory, perception and action, image-networks and media systems. He generates moments when language and images begin to fall apart, inciting glitches that illuminate spaces for the production of something other than what has already been.

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    Ken Okiishi (b. ) lives and works in New York. Ken Okiishi takes up and troubles the vocabulary of the media that he uses. His works hover over and within relationships between matter and memory, perception and action, image-networks and media systems.


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Ken Okiishi Biography. Ken Okiishi works in disparate media systems. His works hover over and within relationships between matter and memory, perception and action, image-networks and language-systems, technology and emotion.

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  • The Art Gallery, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM), is proud to present Ken Okiishi: A Model Childhood. This exhibition, curated by Maika Pollack, meditates on the fraught legacy of Japanese-American history and the model minority myth in the larger contexts of American, global and continuously rewritten fragments of Asian-American history.
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    Ken Okiishi (b, US) works across disparate media systems. His work hovers uncomfortably between matter and memory, perception and action, image-networks and language-systems, technology and emotion.


  • ken okiishi biography2 Ken Okiishi Biography. Ken Okiishi works in disparate media systems. His works hover over and within relationships between matter and memory, perception and action, image-networks and language-systems, technology and emotion.
  • ken okiishi biography4 Ken Okiishi (b. 1978) lives and works in New York. Ken Okiishi takes up and troubles the vocabulary of the media that he uses. His works hover over and within relationships between matter and memory, perception and action, image-networks and media systems.
  • Ken Okiishi | Whitney Museum of American Art Ken Okiishi: A Model Childhood is curated by Maika Pollack. Dr. Pollack is director and chief curator, John Young Museum of Art and University Galleries and assistant professor of curatorial studies and art history, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Artist Bio. Ken Okiishi (Born 1978 in Ames, Iowa. Lives and works in New York and Berlin.).
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    Born , Lives and works in New York. Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used To Be, (performance series curated by Sharon Hayes and Brook O’Harra) La Mama E.T.C., New York, US. : Children of the New Age (screening), Evas Arche und der Feminist, Berlin, Germany. KANTEN 観 展: The Limits of History,apexart, New York, US.

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  • Ken Okiishi* - Manifesta 13

    KEN OKIISHI Through March 5. Reena Spaulings, East Broadway, Manhattan; , I have now spent more time looking at Ken Okiishi’s iPhone photographs, which are included in the video Being and/or Time (), on view at Reena Spaulings, than I have with my own smartphone photographs — leading to a minor existential quandary.


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    Ken Okiishi’s work reveals a fascination with the translation and migration of meaning and material in a world gone digital. His recent series of hybrid works—neither strictly paintings nor exclusively videos—derive from his experience of viewing a large abstract painting by Joan Mitchell (–) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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  • Ken Okiishi, A Model Childhood (“family history video for insurance purposes” circa 2009), 2018 DVD, colour, silent 78 min Courtesy of the artist, Reena Spaulings Fine Art NY/LA, Pilar Corrias Londres and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo. Ken Okiishi, A Model Childhood, Honolulu, Hawaii, circa 1940, 2018 Inkjet print.
  • Born 1978 in Ames, IA Lives and Works in New York, NY and Berlin, Germany.
  • Ken Okiishi: A Model Childhood is curated by Maika Pollack. Dr. Pollack is director and chief curator, John Young Museum of Art and University Galleries and assistant professor of curatorial studies and art history, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Artist Bio Ken Okiishi (Born 1978 in Ames, Iowa. Lives and works in New York and Berlin.).