Shigeko Kubota

Shigeko Kubota was born in Niigata, Japan in 1937. From 1960 she studied sculpture at the Tokyo University of Education. Through her friendship with the pop singer Yoko Ono, she came into contact with the «fluxus» movement in 1963. She met Nam June Paik in the same year, and moved to New York in 1964, where she met other «fluxus» artists. Here, she studied at New York University (1965–66), at the New School for Social Research and (1966–67) and at the Art School of the Brooklyn Museum (1967–68). Among many other prizes and awards, Kubota has received a DAAD stipend to work in Berlin (1979) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1987). She lives in New York.

(source: Heinrich Klotz (ed.), Contemporary Art, exhib. cat., Museum for Contemporary Art/Center of Art and Media, Karlsruhe, 1997, p. 308.)