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. Recent exhibitions include Immanent Infinite, Object & Thing (2025); Group Shop Show, Bridget Donahue Gallery (2024); Summer Arrangement: Object & Thing at LongHouse (2023); The Third Kind, Management Gallery (2023); Object & Thing at Madoo: Megumi Shauna Arai and Frances Palmer (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 collaboration include Field Meridians, an art-based urban ecology curriculum creating tools for resilience through social practice in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Public Program for Another World Family Festival at The Museum of Modern Art and The Mothership, an eco-feminist art and ecology center in Tangier, Morocco.

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