Megumi Shauna Arai (b. 1989) lives and works in New York City. She is interested in many things, including points of encounter, practices of embodiment, enfolding and unfolding aesthetics and the material and immaterial as interconnected. She has an interdisciplinary BA in Sociology, Embodiment Studies, Political Science and Mysticism from the CUNY Unique and Individualized Studies Program. She will be an artist in residence at COMMONS/OPPES in Chiba, Japan this fall. Her next solo show opens at KOKI ARTS in Tokyo, Japan in November, 2025. Recent exhibitions include Immanent Infinite, Object & Thing (2025); Group Shop Show, Bridget Donahue Gallery (2024); Summer Arrangement: Object & Thing at LongHouse (2023); Object & Thing at Madoo (2022); At The Noyes House: Blum & Poe, Mendes Wood DM and Object & Thing (2020); Lore: Reimagined, Wing Luke Museum (2018) and Midst, Jacob Lawrence Gallery (2018). Recent residencies include Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Library; Headlands Center for the Arts and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Pedagogical collaborations include Field Meridians, an art-based urban ecology curriculum creating tools for resilience through social practice in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, The Museum of Modern Art public programs and The Mothership, an eco-feminist art and ecology center in Tangier, Morocco.

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