Kishio Suga brings together a representative group of the artist’s sculptures, dating from the 1960s to the mid-1990s, that probe the slippages between knowing and thinking. Works culled from Dia’s holdings are complemented by key loans, together unsettling habitual expectations about the inherent qualities of materials including concrete, motor oil, paraffin wax, metal, and stone in serial, mutually upholding, and at times precarious arrangements. Inflected anew by the architectural parameters of the site in which they are displayed, each of Suga’s sculptures stages a carefully framed incoherence. In conjunction with the exhibition, the artist’s mystery film Being and Murder (1999) will be screened for the first time outside of Japan.

Kishio Suga is curated by Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, curator and co–department head, with Min Sun Jeon, assistant curator.

All exhibitions at Dia are made possible by the Economou Exhibition Fund.

Kishio Suga was born in Morioka, Japan, in 1944 and currently lives and works in northern Japan. 

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