[2025 Art SG] Kishio Suga

Kishio Suga is a Japanese artist known for pioneering site-specific installation art. He created ephemeral arrangements of natural and man-made materials in outdoor and indoor settings, gaining recognition for groundbreaking installations like "Parallel Strata" (1969) and "Soft Concrete" (1970). As part of the Mono-ha movement, he used unaltered natural and industrial materials to explore the interplay between elements, space, and materials. Since the mid-1980s, Suga has adapted his installations to new sites while maintaining their core concepts. His diverse practice includes assemblages, works on paper, and performances called "Activations." He is also a prolific writer, with novels, essays, and a screenplay to his name. Suga has had numerous solo exhibitions at international museums, most recently at Dia: Chelsea, New York, United States (2016–17), Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy (2016), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (2015). A re-creation of his iconic installation Law of Situation (1971) was presented at the 57th Venice Biennale, Italy (2017). Over the past four decades he has been featured in landmark exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; the Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, United States; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States; the Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy; and his work is included in many public and private collections.