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Within a Region of Blank
1980 · lithograph and screenprint
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Shusaku Arakawa
Artist
WA-00106570
Representation
None documented
12
Institutional Exhibitions
3
Works in Collection
35
Assets Indexed
0
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
60%
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Authority Records (2)
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984
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Printed Art: A View of Two Decades
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1980
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Selections from the Art Lending Service
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978
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Rooms
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976–1977
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Prints: Acquisitions, 1973�1976
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976–1977
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Posters in the Penthouse
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974–1975
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Arakawa: Recent Prints
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974
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Recent Acquisitions V
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1970
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Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967
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Drawings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1966–1967
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The New Japanese Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1966–1967
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20 Drawings: New Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1966
Source Registry (2)
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
- Artsy (bulk)Tier 1 · Institutional85%
About
Why this artist matters now
Shūsaku Arakawa was a Japanese conceptual artist and architect. He had a personal and artistic partnership with the writer and artist Madeline Gins that spanned more than four decades in which they collaborated on a diverse range of visual mediums, including: painting & printmaking, experimental filmmaking, performance art, and architectural & landscape design.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago
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Artworks (3)
Artwork sources (2)
3 published of 34 catalogued · 17 with image
- Cleveland Museum of Art3 published
- + 1 more source · 31 catalogued, not yet published
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 3)
3 entries · 1 sources
- 1969 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1977 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1980 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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