- Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 1960: Twelfth Yomiuri Indépendant Exhibition - Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 1961: Thirteenth Yomiuri Indépendant Exhibition - Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 1967: Drawing: Recent Acquisitions - The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 1967: Pictures to Be Read, Poetry to Be Seen - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA 1968: Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture - Museum of Art Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 1968: Documenta IV - Kassel, Germany 1970: Language IV - Dwan Gallery, New York, New York, USA 1976: The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America 1876 - 1976 - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA 1976: Thirty Years of American Printmaking - Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA 1977: Documenta VI - Kassel, Germany 1983: Twentieth Century Acquisitions - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA 2009: The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860 - 1989 - Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA 2019: American Masters 1940 - 1980 - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Select Arakawa and Gins Exhibitions 1990: Building Sensoriums 1973 - 1990 - Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA 1997: Reversible Destiny - Arakawa/Gins - Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA 2004: Arakawa + Gins: Architecture Against Death - Nagoya University of Arts, Art & Design Center, Nagoya, Japan 2010: Arakawa + Gins: Reversible Destiny Projects - Kyoto Institute of Technology Museum and Archives, Kyoto, Japan 2018: Arakawa and Madeline Gins: Eternal Gradient - Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Columbia University, New York Retrospectives 2019: Arakawa: Diagrams for the Imagination - Gagosian, New York, USA Awards and recognition Arakawa served as a representative of Japan in the XXXV Venice Biennale (1970), and was a participant in the German-based contemporary art exhibitions Documenta IV (1968) and Documenta VI (1977). Additionally, Arakawa was the recipient of multiple awards and honors: 1986: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, French Government 1987 - 1988: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 1988 - 1989: Belgian Critics' Prize 1997: College Art Association's Artist Award for Exhibition of the Year/Distinguished Body of Work, Presentation or Performance Award 1998: Highest award in the Rainbow Town Urban Design Competition 2003: Shijo Housho - Medal with Purple Ribbon 2003: Nihon Gendai Shinko Sho - Award for Innovation in Japanese Contemporary Art from Japan Arts Foundation 2010: The Order of the Rising Sun - Gold Rays with