Shigeo Arikawa
Shigeo Arikawa (1982) was born in Tokyo and graduated from the Department of Musical Creativity and the Environment at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2006. He produces films, video installations and photographic works. His works aim to question the meaning of ‘seeing’ by deliberately interrupting and agitating the human act of trying to understand and give meaning to what we see. His films have been screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Hong Kong International Film Festival and the Vancouver International Film Festival, among others. His works have been shown at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art’s ’30th Anniversary Exhibition: The Seven Lamps of The Art Museum’ (2019) and ‘Koganecho Bazaar 2017’, as well as in residencies at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in the Netherlands and the Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (ACAC). Lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
In 2023 Shigeo collaborated with Framer Framed, hosting workshops with students from the Montessori Lyceum Oostpoort (MLO). The result of the workshops is part of the group exhibition How I feel is not your problem, period. at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo.
